Source: History of Whiteside County, IL, edited by Charles Bent, Morrison, IL 1877
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin, Tampico Area Historical Society www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com

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Robert WOODSIDE was a native of Erie county, Pennsylvania, and born in 1812. He came to Portland in 1837. He married Miss Lucy CROOK in 1842. There were no children. Mr. WOODSIDE died in 1873.