...came from England in 1638, and settled in Hingham, Mass., but subsequently removed to Bridgewater. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native town, and like most farmer's boys, labored on the farm in Bummer and attending school...

...His father's name was Warren C. Nichols, and he reared young Orson on a farm up to the age mentioned. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native county, and, in 1854, left there and came West to Will county, Illinois, where he remained...

...Seevers was a native of Virginia, and his wife of Indiana. He came to this county about the year 1846. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Oskaloosa and at Oskaloosa College. When twenty-one years of age he entered the law office of Hon....

...Edward P., a well-known physician, was the originator and proprietor of the celebrated remedy known as u Clark Johnson's Indian Blood Syrup," and died in New...Three years later he determined to try his fortunes 534 535 in the young and growing State of Michigan, and removed to Sturgis, St. Joseph County. There...

...discharge, signed by Washington, and now possessed by a member of the family, is a treasured memorial. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools, and at the age of sixteen, with a characteristic self-reliant spirit, set out to make his own way in...

...boys and three girls, of whom four survive, viz.: William B., James, Mrs. Susana Graham and Jesse. The subject of this sketch received his education, in the public schools of Newgarden, and afterward accepted a clerkship in a store in which capacity he continued until 1862...

...having died from the effects of a wound received on the battlefield. Mr. Foster received his early education in the public schools of the city of New York, and subsequently was graduated from the Columbia college law school in 1873, with the degree of LL.B. While...

...carried on for several years, his office and shop being located where the new county jail now stands. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Indianapolis, but when still a youth began working at the carpenter's trade, which he continued...

...of the Plymouth Colony. The names of his parents were David Armstrong, who married Mahalia Lovering. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of his native city. He was a member of the "Old H.iwes Grammer School." His school life was closed...

...institution ranked second only to the National Academy. Captain Partridge died at Norwich, Jan. 17, 1854. The subject of this sketch received his education in the public schools of Norwich, from private instruction, and at Bristol College, Penn. In 1859 he went to Illinois where...