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648 BIOGRAPHY AND RERTINISCENCES<br />
tory of Toulon township, which embr,zces the history of the town of<br />
Wyoming, very many pages are devoted to former ant1 pioneers<br />
of Valley township.<br />
Joseyh Anclerson, son of John and Iiannal~ (Davis) Anderson, mas<br />
born in Butler county, 0.: March IS, 1827, to whicl~ state his fi~ther<br />
relnorecl from his native Pennsylvania. Aboat 1821 John ina~rietl<br />
Miss Davis, of Ohio, and for the ten follo~ving years made his l~onle<br />
there. The family lnovecl to Tazeiyell county, Ill., in 1831, and there<br />
were known among the leading farmers until 1851, wl~en John Anclerson<br />
retired, selling the fa;l111. Sixteen years later Mr. Anderson, Sr.,<br />
died in Incliana in his eighty-second year ; his ~ vido~~~ resicling wit1h the<br />
children until her cleatb, in 1880, at her son's home in hey eighty-tllircl<br />
year. Of their thirteen children seven are living. Joseph Antlerson,<br />
the fiftli child in orcler of seniority, resided ~vit~ll his p;wents on the<br />
farm until twenty-one years of age. At this time he iuxrrietl Miss<br />
Susanna McGinness, of Peoria county, remained t~vo years ill Tazen~ell<br />
county, then moved to the fi~rm in Peoria county, \17llere for twentvfire<br />
years they made their home, prior to their removal to Stark count$.<br />
Here he built a lnodern residence for his ho111e and an elevator For tile<br />
a wain trade which he established, together with other buildings, accorndishing<br />
as much to bnild up Stark village as any other one man.<br />
kolitically he is Repn blican, in society matters, holds ;L high place in<br />
Ocld Fellows circles. His wife is a &ember of the Congregational<br />
church and prominent wherever woman's ~vorlr is called for. Of their<br />
eleven children, George W. is cleceasecl ; Jarnes W., conductor on<br />
C. I. R. R.; Mary J., in Kansas ; E'ranli M., in Starli ; Sarah E., deceasetl ;<br />
John H., engineer at Rocli Island ; Lewis W., Robert C., antl Ulvssus<br />
L., in Iowa ; Nathan A., here ; and Ed 117arcl E., deceasetl. U. L. ~Yltlerson<br />
is yircl-master of the Centml Iowa Railroutl at Keithsburg, Ill.<br />
Mr. Anderson is now about sixty years old. IIe was an infant pioneer<br />
of Ohio and came to the military tract of <strong>Illinois</strong> ~7l1ile it was a \vili(erness,<br />
so that in two states he has passed throng11 the pioneer period,<br />
and appears today to be a Inan of forty rather than sixty sunmlelas.<br />
Idleness has not brought him this loolc of yout1-1, for in every part he has<br />
talien, whether on the farm, in the grain ivarel~ouse, oia 1uml)er yard. he<br />
has been a worker. Wit11 Mrs. Antlerson his 11oine at Stark is<br />
zt model one.<br />
Marynret ( CyowleZl) Brctilt. ( I~istow~ of I% Ck c~se.)<br />
William Atkhlson, son of Williann and Jane (T,am beltl) Atk inson,<br />
mas born in England, BIarch 14, 18.35. IIis father mas born there,<br />
May 24, 1796. On February 4, 1826, ire \\-as united in marriage wit11<br />
Miss Jane, daughter of James and Mary Lanr bert, the latter born July<br />
23, -1804. Several years after their ~nnrriage they emigrated to<br />
America and settlccl at Philaclelphia, Pa., ~vl~ere 31;. Atltinson was<br />
booklieeper for a large wool purchasing firnl. Several years were<br />
spent in various parts of the East and in 1853, l ~e and two of his sons<br />
came to <strong>Illinois</strong> to prepare a home for the family, ~vllo followed them<br />
hither in 1854, nlaking a ho~ne in RIars11:~Il county for tl~ree years.<br />
Having purchasetl eighty acres on section three, Valley township, they<br />
came while the place was mild, unbroken p~airie. On February of
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