The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . J. C. MRS. J. C. STEARNS. THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD S89 jam H. resides at Yankton, South H. resides in Sioux City, Iowa. Al-fred L. resides in Muncie, IlHnois. SarahE. is the wife of Wilham H. Littell and re-sides in Fithian, Ilhnois. The history of the Stearns family is in-teresting, fomiing part, as it does, of theannals of early days in the settlement of thiscountry. Seneca Stearns was a son of Mel-ville Stearns, a native of was a son of David Stearns, who wasalso born in that state. The ancestors w
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . J. C. MRS. J. C. STEARNS. THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD S89 jam H. resides at Yankton, South H. resides in Sioux City, Iowa. Al-fred L. resides in Muncie, IlHnois. SarahE. is the wife of Wilham H. Littell and re-sides in Fithian, Ilhnois. The history of the Stearns family is in-teresting, fomiing part, as it does, of theannals of early days in the settlement of thiscountry. Seneca Stearns was a son of Mel-ville Stearns, a native of was a son of David Stearns, who wasalso born in that state. The ancestors whoestablished the Stearns family in Americacame from England in 1632 and settled inMassachusetts, three brothers coming to theUnited States at that time. The grandfa-ther of our subject,, in company with his fa-ther, started from Olean, New York, on theAlleghany river near the Pennsylvania line,on a raft, in 1815. They proceeded downthe Ohio river and settled in Clinton coun-ty, Ohio, where they lived and died. Sen-eca Steams was one of a family of twobrothers and on
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