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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



DRYER, JOHN, was born Dec. 13, 1783, in Great Barrington, Mass. He was married May 14, 1808, in New York, to Cynthia Stevens, who was born March 4, 1793, in Vermont. They had two children in New York, and in 1819 came to Sangamon county, Ill., settling six miles from where Springfield now stands, where they had one child, and moved to Springfield about 1825. Of their children--

LAVINIA M., born Dec. 22, 1812, in New York, married in Sangamon county June, 1830, to Hugh M. Armstrong. See his name.

ALMIRA, born April, 1815, in New York, married in Springfield, in 1836, to E. Geo. Johns.

JANE A., born Aug. 15, 1820, in Sangamon county, was married Sept., 1838, in Massachusetts, to William Cone, and reside three miles west of Springfield.

John Dryer was engaged in wool carding, and was the first man in the county to cultivate a nursery and introduce fruit trees. He died July 3, 1854, and his widow resides in Springfield now--1876--in her eighty-fourth year.



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