Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . mbents of the last named office whenthe township was organized. HORROCKS, Abraham, a retired farmer livingin Bardolph, Macomb Township, McDonoughCounty, 111., was born in Lancashire. England,July 5, 1832, a son of Thomas and Ellen (Kay)Horrocks, natives of England. GrandfatherHorrocks was also of English nativity. In boy-hood. Mr. Horrocks attended school in his nativecountry. He came to the United States in 1855,and located in Pottsville, Pa., where he was em-ployed four years at mining coal. At the endof that period he came to Colchester, McDon-ough
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . mbents of the last named office whenthe township was organized. HORROCKS, Abraham, a retired farmer livingin Bardolph, Macomb Township, McDonoughCounty, 111., was born in Lancashire. England,July 5, 1832, a son of Thomas and Ellen (Kay)Horrocks, natives of England. GrandfatherHorrocks was also of English nativity. In boy-hood. Mr. Horrocks attended school in his nativecountry. He came to the United States in 1855,and located in Pottsville, Pa., where he was em-ployed four years at mining coal. At the endof that period he came to Colchester, McDon-ough County, III., where he worked at coal min-ing and brick making. In 1874 he started abrick manufacturing plant at Bardolph. which heoperated until 1893, and then sold to EdwardChandler, who lost it by fire within a fewmonths after its jjurchase. Long before the saleof the brick-yard, Mr. Horrocks had bought afarm, to which he moved in 1893. remainingthere until February, 1904, when he returnedto Bardolph to live in retirement. In 1883
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