JOHN W. HART, stock dealer, Auburn, Illinois, was born in Morgan county, Illinois, on the 21st day of October, 1843. Son of Millington Hart and Mary A. Majors, natives of Kentucky, whose parents emigrated to the country when mere children, and located in Morgan county, where his father followed farming, and remained there until his death, which occurred in 1846. Mother died December 25, 1879. The family consisted of four children - three boys and one girl - mother keeping her family together after his father's death. His mother married Mr. George W. Wimmer, one of the early pioneers of the county. The sons remained with their mother a few years, when they started out for themselves, when nineteen years of age. The subject of this sketch embarked in school teaching, which he followed for six years, when he was employed by the Chicago & Alton Railroad as agent, for a couple of years, and afterward for one year clerked in a store, for Wineman & Williams. Here he met and afterward married Miss Hattie Beechley, whose parents came from Dayton, Ohio. She was born near Dayton, Ohio, in 1853. The fruits of this marriage were three children, two of whom are living. Louisa Earl died when thirteen months old, Arthur Albert and Sterling Perry still living. In 1870, embarked in the lumber trade, which he made a success, and sold out March 9, 1881, since which time has been dealing in stock; member of the Masonic fraternity, Lodge 354, of Auburn. Mr. H. is a native of this State; his father died when he was three years old, leaving him a poor boy, but by close attention to business has accumulated a fine property and home.