ROBERT DONOVAN, farmer and stock raiser; P. O. Mason City; born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, Oct. 21, 1822; he was raised in Champaign Co., and came to Illinois and located in Mason Co., in 1848, at which time there were not upward of fifteen families in this township. In 1852, he with his brothers purchased 1,000 acres of land, to which they afterward added, until they owned in partnership 2,800 acres, and after continuing in partnership twenty-eight years, made a division of the land, and Robert now owns for his share 480 acres, and lives upon the place where he has lived since 1859. In 1856 he married Caroline Laughery; her parents located in Logan Co., about the year 1821; she died in 1873. In 1877, he was united in marriage with Mary Colon, a native of New York. Mr. Donovan was the father of four children by his first wife and one by his present.



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