Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 483 former was Mciinded at Uniontown, Ky., nnfl diedin Evansville, Ind. tliree weeks later. Both hadbeen taken prisoners, but Francis made his was also a soldier, Ijelonging to a regi-ment of one hundred day men. ^AMES LESTER. Perhaps no better typeof tiie best agricultural class can be found^^ in this county than the gentleman whose(^^// portrait appears on tiie opposite page. Heis quite an old settler here, having made his en-,trance into the county with his brother and motherin 1
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM. 483 former was Mciinded at Uniontown, Ky., nnfl diedin Evansville, Ind. tliree weeks later. Both hadbeen taken prisoners, but Francis made his was also a soldier, Ijelonging to a regi-ment of one hundred day men. ^AMES LESTER. Perhaps no better typeof tiie best agricultural class can be found^^ in this county than the gentleman whose(^^// portrait appears on tiie opposite page. Heis quite an old settler here, having made his en-,trance into the county with his brother and motherin 1843, and during all the years that have passedsince that event lias gained the commendation ofhis acquaintances by his uprightness of life, wisehabits and inlelligence. His home is on section 34,Williams Township, and his estate comprises onehundred and seventy broad and fertile acres, uponwhich many ini|)rovements have been made, suchas fit it for the dwelling place of an intelligent andrefined family. Of his landed possessions one hun-dred and sixty acres
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