The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . -ter of John and Elizabeth Boyd, both ofwhom are natives of Ohio and therespent their entire lives. Lnto Mr. andMrs. John have been born fi\e children:Alice M., who died in childhood; GeorgeElbert, who died in Indian Territory in1881 ; Alice Elizabeth, who died at the ageof two years: Caroline who has remainedat home with her parents, and largely re-lieves her mother in affairs of the house-hold ; and Alice Anna, the wife of HenryJohnson, also deceased. After his marriage Mr. Johns took uphis abode in Coshocton, where he remaineduntil
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . -ter of John and Elizabeth Boyd, both ofwhom are natives of Ohio and therespent their entire lives. Lnto Mr. andMrs. John have been born fi\e children:Alice M., who died in childhood; GeorgeElbert, who died in Indian Territory in1881 ; Alice Elizabeth, who died at the ageof two years: Caroline who has remainedat home with her parents, and largely re-lieves her mother in affairs of the house-hold ; and Alice Anna, the wife of HenryJohnson, also deceased. After his marriage Mr. Johns took uphis abode in Coshocton, where he remaineduntil 1853 when hoping to more rapidly ac-quire success amid the mines of Californiahe made his way to the Pacific coast andwas there engaged in mining until his return eastward he settled in Dan-ville where he has since made his a number of years he was engaged inthe coal business and then for several yearsoperated a stone quarry near the city. Hisbusiness brought to him prosperity and yearby year he added to his capital until at length. SENECA STEARNS. LISHAIY GF t:;e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 593 with a comfortable cempetence lie retiredto private life. In politics he is an earnestRepublican, but has never sought office. ^, his wife and daughter are all mem-bers of the Kimber Methodist church ofDan\ille. The}- ha\e a pleasant home at X(.).432 Bryan a\enue, where they have residedsince locating in the city more than a thirdof a century ago. Mr. Johns always com-manded the confidence of his patrons be-cause he was ever fair and honorable in hisbusiness dealings, and his incorruptible in-tegrity has been a salient feature in his career. ?« t» HEXSON VINSON. • Henson \inson is a representative ofone of the old families of Vermilion coun-ty, whose history is inseparably interwovenwith the records of this portion of the was the seventh child in the family ofHenson and Abigail (McDowell) Vinsonand was born April 16, 1837, in P
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