Source: History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Edited by: Charles Bent
Morrison, Illinois  1877

Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin
Tampico Area Historical Society
www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com

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Simeon Chaffee was born in Madison county, New York, in 1804. He married Polly, daughter of W. H. Cushman. He came to Portland in 1835, settling west of Spring Hill, on the Getty farm.