Early Residents of Rook's Creek, Illinois

ALGEO, Samuel, b. May 1836 in County Donegal, Ireland, farmer, 1888, 1878

ARNETT, Simeon, b. Aug. 13, 1814 in Washington Co., Va., farmer, 1888

ASKEW, Charles,  b. Aug. 29, 1875, educator, 1898 photo and bio

ASKEW, Jonathan, b. Aug. 23, 1835 in Northamptonshire, England, farmer 1878

ATTIG, John, b. Nov. 19, 1859, farmer 1888

AYGARN, Christopher L., b. Sept. 4,1850 in Norway, farmer, stock raiser, 1888

BENNETT, George E., b. Nov. 9, 1848, farmer (father, Thomas S.) 1878

BLAKE, Daniel, b. Dec. 16, 1838, stock farmer, 1888, 1878

BLUE, Mrs. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 19, 1831, mar. Benjamin Hinton Blue, farming, 1888

BRECKENRIDGE, Samuel C. b. Nov. 29, 1842, Twp. Assessor, civil war vet. 1888

BRINKMANN, Simon, b. Oct. 24, 1839, farmer, 1888

BROOKS, Andrew J., b. March 12, 1850, farmer 1888

BROWN, Lucas H., b. Sept. 1857, farmer, stock raising, 1888

CAIRNS, Mary, b. March 13, 1829, wife of Michael Kennedy Cairns, b. Jan. 4, 1826, d. April 10, 1883, farmers, 1888

CAIRNS, Samuel I., b. Aug. 10, 1852, farmer, 1888

CAVANAGH, Thomas, b. July 8, 1853, farmer, stock farmer, 1888

CROW, William, b. May 24, 1838, farm, stock, grain, 1888

DURFLINGER, Abram, b. June 12, 1832, farmer, stock raiser, 1888

EARP, Samuel, b. May 31, 1829 farmer, stock raiser, 1888, 1878, 1898 photo

EISELE, Rudolph, b. April 17, 1828, German farmer, 1888

EISENHOWER, James W., b. Nov. 8, 1835 farmer and merchant clerk, 1888

EWING, John, b. Sept. 29, 1820, merchant, 1898 bio and photo

FROBISCH, Mrs. Elizabeth (Komer), b. Nov. 14, 1824, wife of John M., 1888

GRAY, George B., b. Oct. 3, 1834, farmer, stock raiser and dealer, 1888, 1878

GREENE, George E., b. Nov. 13, 1853, farmer, 1888

HOSKINS, Clayton, b. Feb. 29, 1848, farmer, 1888

IPSON, Louis M., b. Oct. 17, 1853 in Bornholm Island, Denmark, farmer,1888

JACOBS, Anton G., b. Jan. 10, 1845, German farmer, 1888

JACOBSON, Peter, b. Feb. 22, 1836 in Denmark, farmer, 1888

JASPERSON, Peter, b. May 29, 1837, farmer, 1888

JOHNSON, John, b. Feb. 14, 1804 in Ontario County, NY, farmer 1878

JOHNSON, Stephen A., b. Sept. 14, 1843, farmer, stock raiser,Civil War, 1888, 1878

KIDDER, Thomas C., B. Feb. 9, 1850, farmer, 1888

LEGG, C. E., b. Nov. 8, 1856, Agent, mgr. State Reform School Shoe Factory, 1888

MARKS, John D., b. July 2, 1813, Farmer, stock raiser, 1888

McINTOSH, Alexander, b. June 19, 1821, farmer, stock raiser, 1888

McMILLAN, Andrew S., b. Jan. 8, 1848, farmer, 1888

MITCHELL, Newton, b. Jan. 22, 1824 in Norway, farmer,

MORRIS, Joseph Harrison, b. March 16, 1848, farmer 1888

NASER, John, b. Oct. 12, 1841,Civil War Veteran, farmer, 1888

NEIFING, Matthias, b. Jan. 4, 1816 in Germany, farmer, 1878

PIERCE, Ernest F., b. abt. 1853, Graymont postmaster, freight, ticket and express agent, telegraph operator 1888 1898, bio, photo

ROBERTS, James L., b. Aug. 31, 1847, dealer in merchandise, grain buyer & shipper, 1888

RYERSON, Thomas, b. 1834 in Stavanger. Norway, farmer, 1878

SALZMAN, Christoph, b. Jan. 23 1835, farmer 1888

SAXTON, Giles D., b. Aug. 26, 1834, farmer 1888

SHELTON, C. E. b. May 3, 1833 in Conn. Farmer, 1878

SIDLE, James D., b. May 3, 1850, hotel-keeper, asst. grain buyer 1888

SPENCE, Thomas M., b. Nov. 26, 1846, farmer, stock grower, 1888

SPRINGER, Uriah, b. May 7, 1838, general merchandise, 1898 bio, photo

STEPHENSON, John E., b. Jan. 16, 1845, farmer 1888

TALBOT, Nathan, b. April 15, 1858, farmer, 1888

TUTTLE, Lincoln Hamlin, b. Sept. 6, 1860, farmer and school teacher, 1888

WARNER, Rudolph, b. Nov. 18, 1844 in Germany, farmer, 1888

WERTZ, Charles W., b. July 16, 1826, farmer, 1898 bio, photo

WHALEN, Edward, b. Oct. 12, 1847 in County Carlow Ireland, farmer,1888

WHALEN, Thomas, b. Feb. 8, 1845 in Wexford County, Ireland, farmer 1888

ZINN, Dr. Julian W., b. July 30, 1862, physician  1898 bio and photo