Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . animproved tract of land in Griggsville Town-ship, Pike County, and is successfully pur-suing the vocation of a farmer. The homefarm consists of one hundred and forty acres onsection 36, and Mr. Bickerdike also owns onehundred and eighty acres in Flint and eighty inNewburg Township. His entire landed estate iswell improved, well stocked with good breeds ofdomestic animals and such farm implements andmachines as are necessary, and furnished with allneedful buildings. Mr. Bickerdike has spent themost of his active life i
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . animproved tract of land in Griggsville Town-ship, Pike County, and is successfully pur-suing the vocation of a farmer. The homefarm consists of one hundred and forty acres onsection 36, and Mr. Bickerdike also owns onehundred and eighty acres in Flint and eighty inNewburg Township. His entire landed estate iswell improved, well stocked with good breeds ofdomestic animals and such farm implements andmachines as are necessary, and furnished with allneedful buildings. Mr. Bickerdike has spent themost of his active life in the township and has fromboyhood been accustomed to farm work and ex-tremely successful therein. The natal day of our subject was August 18,1835, and his birthplace the vicinity of Leeds,Yorkshire, England. His father, John Bickeniike,Sr., was born in the same shire and came of goodold English stock. The mother of our subject,formerly Hannah Briggs, was also horn and rearedin Yorkshire and began her wedded life on a farmthere. John Bickerdike, Sr., set sail from Liver-. fl ^
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