History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

418 HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY
engaged continuously since. He devotes Ms attention to the raising
of grain and annually gathers good crops which find a ready
sale on the market. The buildings on the property, including a
substantial and attractive residence, were erected by him and
bear evidence of his prosperity.
In 1893, in Amboy, Mr. Dempsey was joined in wedlock to
Miss Mary Flannery, a daughter of John and Catherine (Gallery)
Flaunery, who were earh' pioneer settlers of Lee county. Both
are deceased and lied buried in Amboy, the father passing away on
the 23d of November, 1894, and the mother on the 14th of Janu-
ary, 1908. Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey have five children, as follows:
James P., Harold F., Edna, Viola and Charles, all of whom are
attending school.
INIr. Dempsey gives his political allegiance to the democracy
and has served in the capacity of township assessor for about two
years, making a creditable record in that connection. Fraternally
he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, while his
religious belief is that of the Catholic church. Having passed
all his life within the confines of Lee county, his record is well
known to the residents of this community, and in the fact that he
has gained widespread confidence and regard, trust and esteem,
lies liis truest and most enviable success.
N. H. SANDERS.
Lee county numbers among its most progressive and successful
native sons and among the men who have in later years been
prominent factors in promoting agricultural development, N. H.
Sanders, an extensive landowner in Bradford township, and one
of the leading stock dealers and shippers in this part of the state.
He was born in this county, June 5, 1882, and is a son of J. F.
Sandei's, of whom further mention is made elsewhere in this
work.
N. H. Sanders remained at home until he was twenty-three
years of age and then rented a farm, which he now occupies. With
chaiacteristic energy he carried forward the work of developing
this place along progressive and modern lines with the result that
he was soon able to purchase the pi'operty. It comprises two
hundi'cd and forty acres on section 4, Bradford township, and Mr.
Sanders makes his home upon it, while carrying forward the work