Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ex-penses attending his illness exhausted his hard-earned savings. He had to begin life anew, buthis old employer again gave him work, and alsooffered to permit him to attend school. The home farm was also improved and developedby Mr. Klor. He cleared the land, turned the firstfurrows thereon, planted crops and in the course oftime fertile fields were yielding abundant also cut and sold cordwood, disposing of threehundred cords alone in one winter. The moneythus obtained, amounting to nearly $4,000, heplaced in the bank
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ex-penses attending his illness exhausted his hard-earned savings. He had to begin life anew, buthis old employer again gave him work, and alsooffered to permit him to attend school. The home farm was also improved and developedby Mr. Klor. He cleared the land, turned the firstfurrows thereon, planted crops and in the course oftime fertile fields were yielding abundant also cut and sold cordwood, disposing of threehundred cords alone in one winter. The moneythus obtained, amounting to nearly $4,000, heplaced in the bank, but the bank broke and he onlyrealized about seventy cents on the dollar. It willthus be seen that Mr. Klor had his share of adver-sity, and he was not the only one dependent uponhis exertions for a livelihood, as the support of Irisparents devolved upon him. The Klor homestead,a view of which is shown on another page, is now theproperty of our subject, he having purchased theinterest of the otlier membeis of the family. It is K^Ft^.t-M^^^i^ ^= ^•~TIn~X^. RESIDENCE OF K LO R ,. SEC5 3G GARDN ER TP SANGAM ON CO. I LL.
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