Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

OF GOSHEN TOWNSHIP. 561
of IInstings, Nebraslm ; Jaliies, of Tonlon ; William, of Goshen ; and
John, deceased, came wit11 tlle family in IS&@. There Irere born here
-Edwartl, of Goshen; Dnvitl, of kauelock, IR.; &Iichnel, cleceasetl;
Mary, a sisteia of the orcler of tlie I-Ioly Cross, Baltimore, Ntl.; IIenry,
of Ciosllen; (ieorge, casllie~. of the Escl~nnge B~ink, Toulon, and JOS~~J~~,
n~ho for some years \rorketl on the L\ie~c~s, IIO\V jlz Peo~ia ; Da~~itl served
in Co~~lpany 13, Tl~irty-serentll~ Illinois jTolunteer In-fantry, snbsequentlv
transferred to Davidson's Battery, ~aetmnsferred to Thi~tv-seven t11 n11;l
muste~etl out after three ye;ws' service. The father of t'llis 1mg-e nncl
populal* fa~nilv tlied M:~~acil 5, ISSI.
Ili'llin71~ jh~07al~. son of JIicllnel Nowlan, an oltl settler of this
count 5 ~: wllose histori is given above, J\~;LS horn at. Worcester, Mass.,
hug:.ust 4, 1837. 1Ie came to Illinois \\ritll his fatlle~ wllen three years
oltl, attentlet1 the coinlnon scllools 11ere, eu tered t11e ihi \-elai ty of
I\'otlae Dime at Soutli Bentl, Inti.. :ultl retl~rning, tool; all tllosc p;i~ts
in builtling up the scllool system antl te;icbinq, crctlittvl to 11im in the
chapter. on scllools, and the scl~ool historv of \Vro~ning, Toulon and
'1,:~fayette. In IS(i2 his nlarrii~ge ~vitll Miis ~lleu' B. I.,~nch. of Peoria
co~u~ty, Ill., was solellrnizetl. To the111 Francis E. ant1 ~;lln \\.ere borntlle
1;~tte~tlecensecl. He nraselected snnrejrol*of Stb;lrlco~untvin ISGO. as
s11o\s11 ill the political ilistory, :~ntl fillctl all these I)ositions"creditetl to
him in the l~isto~y of (+oslien townsllip. Ile ou-us 1G0 acres of L~nd
southeast of ~ula:ette, ~vhicll is fullv ilnl~roretl. His llome is always
open to teml~er;tnce, intelligence, their &rent associate, virtne. XO-
\vllert can genuine llospi tnlity tlispl~~y itself in a lr igller tleg~ee tllnll iu
liis fanlily clrcle.
1'1.i/to~tk~b (Ei.ur70,~) I'o~IL~I~o!~.
bo~n in F~ytnlrlin count\., Vt., in 1814;
dieti at Lafayette, Marc11 19, lSS4. She settletl in illinciia ill 1847.
/fI{jc'~7~ I'omei*oy, who tlietl at the close of the war, settled here
about 1S40. One of his so11s laesitles at West Jersey ancl t11c other in
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