History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 421
trates his attention upon tlie breeding of liigh-grade stock. He
has met with a gratifying measure of success and is known as one
of the representative stockmen of his locality.
In Lee Center, on the 2Gth of iSeptember, 1900, Mr. Emmons
married Miss Lena Keller, a daughter of Frank and DeUa
(Avery) Keller, the former for many years a well known farmer
in Lee county and now a resident of Amboy. His wife has passed
away and is buried in Prairie Repose cemetery. Mr. and Mrs.
Enmions have two children, Gertrude and Helen, who are attend-
ing school.
Mr. Emmons is a republican in his political beliefs and inter-
ested in the progress of the community, although his attention is
concentrated upon his business affairs, in which he has met with a
success which is the natural result of his constant labor and intelligent
management.
ELHANAN D. CHANDLER.
Elhanan D. Chandler, who has remained. a resident of Lee
county during the past fifty-seven years, is well known and highly
esteemed as one of its representative and successful agricultur-
ists, owning a farm of one hundred and forty-six acres on section
9, East Grove township. His birth occurred in Union county,
Ohio, in 1838, his parents being Winthrop and Lucy (Hammond)
Chandler, both of whom are deceased and lie buried in the Walnut
cemetery of Bureau county, Illinois. The father passed away
in the year 1861, while the mother was called to her final rest
in 1865.'
Elhanan D. Chandler acquired his education in the schools of
his native state and when twenty years of age put aside his text-
books and turned his attention to the buying and selling of cattle,
also being engaged in farming on his own account for three years.
On the expiration of that period he came into possession of a farm
of one hundred and forty-six acres on section 9, East Grove township,
in Lee county, the operation of which has claimed his time
and energies continuously since. In addition to the cultivation
of cereals he also devotes considerable attention to live stock,
keeping about five horses, sixteen head of cattle and fourteen
hogs. The residence and other buildings on the place were erected
by him, and as the years have gone by he has won a gratifying