ROBERT H. SATTLEY, JR. , a farmer in Rochester, was born in Sangamon county, September 18, 1837, the son of Robert Sattley, Sen., who was born in the vicinity of Vergennes, Vermont, October 27, 1788. He and his brother Archibald went with the family of Mrs. Lovina Hawley, a widow lady with two daughters and three sons to White county, near Carmi, Illinois, in the fall of 1818. He was there married in February 1819, to Eliza Hawley, who was born March 7, 1801, near Vergennes, Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Sattley moved to what now is Sangamon county in June, 1819, and settled about a half mile north of where Rochester now stands, and then moved to the place where he lived until his death, March 27, 1842. His mother died June 13, 1800. The subject of this sketch received a common school education in Rochester township and was raised on a farm. He was married November 7, 186-, to Margaret J. Green, who was born in Virginia, May 10, 1839, the daughter of George M. and Mary (Miller) Green, who were natives of Virginia, and now of Sangamon county, Illinois, where her father now resides. Her mother died in 1879. They have had four children, two of which, Robert and Ralph, died in infancy, and Mary E., Emma J. and Louann A. yet living. He is now the owner of two hundred acres of fine farming land, which is under a good state of cultivation and worth $50 per acre. In politics. Mr. Sattley is a Republican.