Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^Jk. ^i^e^t^m-i^ .OEL A. MATTESON, Governor f^!«« 1853-6, was born Aug. 8, 1808,,;;i ill Jefferson County, New York,to which place his father had re-moved from Vermont three yearsbefore. His father was a farmerin fair circumstances, but a com-mon English education was allthat his only son received. YoungJoel first tempted fortune as asmall tradesman in Prescott,Canada, before he was of returned from that place tohis home, entered an academy,taught school, visited the prin-cipal Eastern cities, improved a farm his father hadg
Portrait and biographical album of Sangamon County, Illinois . ^Jk. ^i^e^t^m-i^ .OEL A. MATTESON, Governor f^!«« 1853-6, was born Aug. 8, 1808,,;;i ill Jefferson County, New York,to which place his father had re-moved from Vermont three yearsbefore. His father was a farmerin fair circumstances, but a com-mon English education was allthat his only son received. YoungJoel first tempted fortune as asmall tradesman in Prescott,Canada, before he was of returned from that place tohis home, entered an academy,taught school, visited the prin-cipal Eastern cities, improved a farm his father hadgiven him, made a tour in the South, worked building railroads, experienced a storm on theGulf of Mexico, visited the gold diggings of NortheriiGeorgia, and returned via Nashville to St. Louis andtlirough Illinois to his fatliers home, when he mar-ried. In 1833, having sold his farm, he removed,with his wife and one child, to Illinois, and entereda claim on Government land near the head of AnSable River, in what is now Kendall County. Atthat time there
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