Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ears teacher in the district schoolsof the county, and whose son and granddaughterare engaged in the same profession, in OgleCounty in 1908. A weavers loom is now in operation andturns out a good quality of rag carpet. Thelatest industry of Daysville now in progress isthat of clam catching. A camp of fishermen islocated at the river and hundreds of tons of theshells are piled there. A fish wagon makesweekly trips through the countiy selling freshfish. Among other settlers of the region were Lor-enzo Bissell. who came from Canada in 1840, andwho still resid
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . ears teacher in the district schoolsof the county, and whose son and granddaughterare engaged in the same profession, in OgleCounty in 1908. A weavers loom is now in operation andturns out a good quality of rag carpet. Thelatest industry of Daysville now in progress isthat of clam catching. A camp of fishermen islocated at the river and hundreds of tons of theshells are piled there. A fish wagon makesweekly trips through the countiy selling freshfish. Among other settlers of the region were Lor-enzo Bissell. who came from Canada in 1840, andwho still resides with his wife and a son anddaughter upon his farm near Lighthouse; MosesBissell, his brother, who came in 1847, and whodied recently at his home in Oregon, where hiswife and daughter Florence are now living;Thomas Stewart, a stanch Presbyterian, whowith his brothers, John and William Stewart,came to this region from County Tyrone, Thomas Stewart died in 1006 in Sacramento,Cal., where his widow, Margaret Snyder Stewart,. HISTORY OF OGLE COUNTY. 803 is now living. David H. Wilson, who resides apart of tlie year upon liis laud near Liglitliouse,and a part of the year at Cleveland, Ohio, wherelie at one time filled a position in couuectiou withthe Internal Revenue Department, and is one ofthe stockholders of the Ogle County Bank, atOregon, is the only remaining descendant of afamily of early settlers in this region. For sometime during the life of Mr. Hemenway, Mr. Wil-son was in charge of the Hemenway Place, whichis situated in Nashua Township, and is now theheart of the Sinnissippi Farm. Daniel and Will-iam T. Williams are enterprising farmers livingin the vicinity of Daysvllle, and are members ofa family well-known among the early residents ofthe township, the head of the family, GeorgeWilliams, having come to this region fromCounty Cork, Ireland. Near here also, is home of the artist A. D. Reed. (See penand ink sketch of the DriscoU Boulder). In this n
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