SOLOMON BADGER
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History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois, 1879, by Miller & Ruggles
Mason City Township
Page 786
SOLOMON M. BADGER, County Superintendent of Schools, Mason City; born in Perry Co., Ind., Nov. 2, 1840; at 19 years of age, he engaged in school-teaching during fall and winter and attending the higher grades of school during the spring and summer terms for a period of five years; in the fall of 1864, he came to Illinois and located in Crane Creek Township, Mason Co., where he taught school six months. Upon the 13th of August, 1865, he was united in marriage with Mary S. Morgan; she was born in Sangamon Co. and raised in Mason Co.; they have four children by this union: William S., Claude L., Henry A. and Marine R. Upon the marriage of Mr. Badger, he returned to Indiana, and, after teaching several months, returned to Mason City in 1866, and for three years was Principal of the schools of this place; he continued teaching in different schools in the county until 1872, when he was appointed by the Board of Supervisors as County Superintendent of Schools, and, in November following, was elected to the above office for a term of four years, and re-elected again in 1877 for the same length of time; he has also held the office of City Clerk of Mason City some five years, and Township Collector two years.
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