. The biographical record of De Kalb County, Illinois. atter liorn near Saratoga,New Sork, and a daughter of Henfy Lin-coln, who participated in the taking ofFort Ticonderoga. Epaphroditus Stileswas a large farmer and merchant, who hadstudied law and engaged to some extent inl(3cal practice. For many years he was ajustice of the peace and held other officialpositions. He died when our subject wasbut five years of age. His father, SamuelStiles, who was of Scotch and English de-scent, served in the I^e\olutionary war andlost a leg in the sersice. He lived to be avery old man. Of the seven childr
. The biographical record of De Kalb County, Illinois. atter liorn near Saratoga,New Sork, and a daughter of Henfy Lin-coln, who participated in the taking ofFort Ticonderoga. Epaphroditus Stileswas a large farmer and merchant, who hadstudied law and engaged to some extent inl(3cal practice. For many years he was ajustice of the peace and held other officialpositions. He died when our subject wasbut five years of age. His father, SamuelStiles, who was of Scotch and English de-scent, served in the I^e\olutionary war andlost a leg in the sersice. He lived to be avery old man. Of the seven children of theparents of our subject, two only are li\ing,Samuel H. and E\\/.n. wife of J. H. \\ood,of Salem, Oregon. Samuel H. Stiles was reared in his nativecounty,and attended the subscription schoolsat a time when the school-house was built oflogs, with puncheon fioor and were hardly up to the grade nowrequired and usuallv received a salary of butten dollars per month. At the age of fifteenhe began life for himself, workintj a farm on. SAMUEL H. STILES.
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