Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ELEVENTH PRESIDENT. 55. e^X AMES K. POLK, the eleventhliiiPresident of the United States,IjI was born in Mecklenburg Co.,N. C.,Nov. 2, 1795. His par-ents were Samuel and Jane(Knox) Polk, the former a sonof Col. Thomas Polk, who locatedat the above place, as one of thefirst pioneers, in 1735. In the year 1006, with his wifeand children, and soon after fol-lowed by most of the members ofthe Polk famly, Samuel Polk emi-grated some two or three hundredmiles farther west, to the rich valleyof the Duck River. Here in themids
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . ELEVENTH PRESIDENT. 55. e^X AMES K. POLK, the eleventhliiiPresident of the United States,IjI was born in Mecklenburg Co.,N. C.,Nov. 2, 1795. His par-ents were Samuel and Jane(Knox) Polk, the former a sonof Col. Thomas Polk, who locatedat the above place, as one of thefirst pioneers, in 1735. In the year 1006, with his wifeand children, and soon after fol-lowed by most of the members ofthe Polk famly, Samuel Polk emi-grated some two or three hundredmiles farther west, to the rich valleyof the Duck River. Here in themidst of the wilderness, in a regionwhich was subsequently called Mau-ry Co., they reared their log huts,and established their homes. In thehard toil of a new farm in the wil-derness, James K. Polk spent theearly years of his childhood andyouth. His father, adding tlie pur-suit of a surveyor to that of a farmer, gradually increased in wealth until lie became one of the leading men of the region. Hismother was a superior woman, of strong commonsense and earnest piety. Very early in life, James devel
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