The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . is class was numbered Josiah San-dusky, who for many years was actively and])roninently engaged in agricultural pur-suits. He was a man whose business recordwas unassailable because he did not take ad-\antage of the necessities of his fellow men,but in the legitimate chamiels of tradegained the competence which his efforts. Mr. Sandusky was born in Carrolltownshi]), this county, on the iith of Se])-tember, 1837, a son of Abraham and The Sodowsky family wasfounded in .America by James Sodowsky, aPolish exi
The past and present of Vermilion County, Illinois .. . is class was numbered Josiah San-dusky, who for many years was actively and])roninently engaged in agricultural pur-suits. He was a man whose business recordwas unassailable because he did not take ad-\antage of the necessities of his fellow men,but in the legitimate chamiels of tradegained the competence which his efforts. Mr. Sandusky was born in Carrolltownshi]), this county, on the iith of Se])-tember, 1837, a son of Abraham and The Sodowsky family wasfounded in .America by James Sodowsky, aPolish exile of noble birth, proud spirit andlofty patriotism. When his love of liliertycould no longer tolerate the despotic ruleof Russia, he became the leader in a rebel-linn against the czar, and when defeated, butnot subdued, he came to America—theland of the free and the home of the he married the sister of Governor In-sli]i. of the colony of Virginia, and amongtheir descendants was Harvey Sodowsky, abrother of the subject of this review. In. ^JOSIAH C^AMP,! iC|/ THE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 259 the course of years representatives of thefamily changed the spelHng of the name, in-cluding the brothers of dur sul)ject. Twoof these brothers, William and -\brahamSandusky, are now prominent farmers andistockmen of Carroll township, Vermilioncounty. Harvey Sodowsky, however, re-tained the ancestral spelling of the familyname. The spirit which led James Sodowsky,the emigrant, lirst to fight for liberty andthen come to .America has been manifest inhis descendants throughout succeedinggenerations. It was sh(nvn by the Sodow-skys who fought for the liberty of the colo-nists of the new world, and how their heartsmust hri\e rejiiiced at the glorious outcomeof the struggle; it was again shown I>y gal-lant soldiers of the name in the war of1812: and in the subjugation of the westernwilderness they bore a part. Daniel Booneopened the gates of Kentucky and soon hewas followed into the d
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