WILLIAM F AUXIER
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History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois, 1879, by Miller & Ruggles
Salt Creek Township
Page 843
WILLIAM F. AUXIER, farmer and stock-raiser; P. 0. Mason City; was born in Floyd Co., Ky., Jan. 26, 1834; from the age of 14 to 18 years, be followed boating on the Big Sandy and Ohio Rivers; all the schooling he received, he got in about three months, under immeasurable difficulties, though he is now a well-informed, self-educated man, having an excellent faculty of expressing and elucidating any subject, on any and all occasions ; in business, he has always been successful; in 1852, he came to Mason Co., and worked here and there farming and herding cattle for wages, until 1855; he then commenced on his own account, and in 1856, he took his first lot of fat cattle to New York City, being the first ever shipped by cars from Salt Creek Township. Oct. 25, 1859, he married Mary A. Denham ; she was born in Hamilton Co , Ohio, in 1839 ; they have three children: Emma, born March 20, 1861; Clark, Dec. 27, 1863; Cora, Dec. 15, 1865. He owns 400 acres of good land in Salt Creek Township.
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