History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . theSacramento Valley, forty milesnorth of Myersville, during hisresidence in that state. In Sep-tember, 1857, he returned to Mar-shall county, Illinois, living nineyears in Winona, engaged in thegrocery trade. In 1866 he moved clark s hall. to Gilman, Iroquois county, and started a hardware store; in 1870removed his business to Loda, and in the spring of 187
History of Vermilion County, together with historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources . theSacramento Valley, forty milesnorth of Myersville, during hisresidence in that state. In Sep-tember, 1857, he returned to Mar-shall county, Illinois, living nineyears in Winona, engaged in thegrocery trade. In 1866 he moved clark s hall. to Gilman, Iroquois county, and started a hardware store; in 1870removed his business to Loda, and in the spring of 1872 to Hoopeston,then an enterprising town just starting. He has continued the samebusiness ever since, and now owns and occupies the finest merchandis-ing house in the northern part of Vermilion county. He is serving hissecond term as supervisor of Grant tcrwnship. He possesses good busi-ness qualifications, a firm character, unqualified integrity, and is highlyand universally respected. He was married on the 5th of September,1857, to Henrietta Filton. They have two living children : Lilie, bornon the 8th of May, 1864; Georgie, born on the 5th of May, Clark is a steadfast republican, at this time popularly termed 74:6 HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY. Johu S. Powell. Hoopeston, druggist, was born in Xew York cityon the 23d of February, 1840, and is the son of Edward and Harriet(Everett) Powell. At the age of twelve he was indentured to G. Wood, of Harlem, in the drug business, and placed underthe supervision of the doctors brother, James Wood, a thoroughpharmacist. He served an apprenticeship of five years, during whichtime he was required daily to learn a prescribed task and undergoexamination by the doctor. He became by this means a good Latinscholar. When seventeen he went into some of the leading drugstores in-the city, where he finished his professional education. In1860 he immigrated to Illinois, and on the 14th of April, 1861, volun-teered in Co.
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