S ROBERTSON
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History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois, 1879, by Miller & Ruggles
Mason City Township
Page 796

S ROBERTSON; retired farmer, Mason City. Among the settlers of Mason Co, of 1851, we find the gentleman whose name heads this sketch; he was born April 7, 1818, in Kentucky; in the fall of 1836, he located in Morgan Co, Ill and followed farming until 1851, when he sold his farm, and followed teaming and farming near Havana, until 1854, when he purchased eighty acres of his present place, and, in 1858, located upon the spot where he now lives, just outside the limits of the corporation of Mason City, which he has watched spring from the prairie, until it is now a city of upward of 2,000 inhabitants, and reaches the boundary of his farm; he now owns upward of 400 acres, in Mason and Tazewell Cos, and by his hard labor and correct business habits, has become one of the large landholders and successful farmers of Mason Co. His marriage with Martha L Jones was celebrated Dec 10, 1848; she was born in Virginia March 5, 1831. They were the parents of five children, of whom three are now living--George S, born Oct 28, 1852; William, Dec 26, 1864, and Nancy A, October 17, 1866; of the deceased, one died in infancy, the other, Eliza B, was born Aug 1, 1857, and died Oct 25, 1863.



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