Source: History of Whiteside County, Illinois - Edited by Charles Bent, 1877
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin, Tampico Area Historical Society www.tampicohistoricalsociety.citymax.com

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ROBERT MEAD was a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and came to Portland in 1837. He was unmarried, and died in 1848 at the age of forty-eight years.