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Source: Portrait & Biographical Album, Whiteside Co., IL
Originally published 1885 - Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL  
Reproduced on CD - Purchased CD from "Old Glory Accents"

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Below that, I have typed the surnames included in the Index and highlighted the ones that have been transcribed on site. You can click on the highlighted names to go directly to the Bio.

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RELATED LINK: Whiteside County Historical Information
                         Whiteside Co. Bios - 1877
                         Whiteside Co. Bios - 1900
                         Whiteside Co. Bios - 1908
See TABLE OF CONTENTS for Whiteside info
Off-site link:  GENEALOGY Trails/Whiteside Biographies

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A

John Abbey, Asa Abbott, Horace Abbott, George Adair, Charles F. Adams, George B. Adams, Robert Adams, Wm. Aitken, Samuel Albertson, Rufus Aldrich, Dr. V.H. Alexander, Richard Alldritt;William Alldritt, Albert B. Allen, Francis M. Allen; George F. Allen; George W. Allen; Oren W. Allen; William H. Allen; Peter Andreas, William Annan, Richard Arey, Lewis C. Arnett, David B. Arrell, Dennis Austin,Hiram Austin;Mark R. Averill, John Avery, John P. Aylsworth

B

Cornelius Bachellor, J. P. Badgley, Jonas H. Baer, Martin Baer (aka:Bare); Jacob Bailey, Baird, Levi D. Baldwin,Orson G. Baldwin,Sherman G. Baldwin, Robert G. Barber, Barnum, Barnes, Theodore S Barrett, Bassett, Bastian, Henry F. Batcheller, Bayliss, Rev. Oliver Beach, Bechtel, Becker, Beckwith, Bell, Benjamin Belt, Joseph Benner, E. S. Bentley, Richard Beswick, Thomas Beswick; William Beswick, Frederick Beuzeville, Beveridge, Bey, Henry Birdsall, Bissell, M. W. Blaisdell, Lyman Blake, John H. Bley, Blue, Isaac Body, Warren Bond, Bonebrake,James H. Booth,Adoniram Judson Booth, William C. Booth, William A. Booth,Edmund Bowman, Boyd, Bracken, Brauer, Levi Bressler, A.S.Brewer,Harlan Brewer, Hezekiah Brink,  Wm R. Brightman, Broadhead, L. Edwin Brookfield, Pardon Allen Brooks, Herbert E. Brown, Willis L.Brown, Eleary C. Brown, Brown, James Bryant, William Bryant, Bryning, Buell, Bull, Rufus Bullock, Joseph W. Bump, H.D. Burch, Thomas J.Burch, Robert L. Burchell, Benj.Burgess Jr, Thomas Burke, Burkholder, James M. Burr, Burridge, Burroughs,  Henry Bush, Martin L. Bush, Bushman, Butler, William Butman, Butzer

C

William Cadwell, George R. Cady, Carlin, F. W. Carman, Michael Carney, Carolus, Capt. Christopher C. Carpenter,Robert M. Carr, Cavert, Champion, Horace H. Chapin, Milo Chapin,  Carter, Chester,Bradford C. Church, Jr.;  Bradford C. Church, Sr.; ,F.B Clark, Clark, Edward Cleaveland,J. Cleaveland,George W. Clendenen M.D.; Nelon Cleveland, W. R. Cobb, Cochran, Coe, Colbert,Ralph B Colcord, William H.Colcord, Coles, Collins, Conboy, Courtright, David Cowan, Henry Cramer, Crandall, Crook, Crouch, William Crum, Cullom, Wm. Culbertson, Culver, Cunningham, Currie, Currier, Curry

D

Dade, Daggett, Daly, Daniel, Burell V Daniels, Daveler, Frank Davis, Davis, De Bey, Demming, John F. Demmon, R.B. Denison, Denison Deut, Derbyshire, Devore, Deyo Dickinson, Dickson, Diehl, Dieterle, Dill, Dillon, Dimmick, Henry C.Donaldson; Donaldson, John Downs, Drew, Richard Drury, Duncan, Dunmore, Durstine, Dyer

E

Charles W. Early, Eastman , J. Murray Eaton, Ebersole, Echelbarger,Noble F. Eddy, Lorenzo D. Eddy, Edwards, Ellithorp, Ely, Edwin A. Emmons, James Entwhistle, Epla, SolomonEshleman, Ewing

F

Fadden, Omar E Fanning, Farnum, Solomon Farwell, Fellows, Alfred W. Fenton, John Ferguson, B. Ferris, Albert Ferris, Field, John Fieldsend, Fife, Gilbert Finkle, George W. Fitch, Isaac Fletcher, Flock, Fluck, Ford, Charles Foster, George Foy, Francis, Frank, Frary, Fraser, Freek, French, Henry B.Frey, Fuller

G

Thomas Galt, Garwick, Capt. A. M. George, Gerdes, Gibbs, Giddings, Gifford, Gladhill, Glass, A.J. Glassburn, A.T. Glassburn, J.W. Glassburn,Goff, Golder, Willard A. Goodenough, Gould, Graham, Grater, Graves, John S. Green, Greenawalt, Greene, Gridley, Griffin, HenryGrinnold, David B. Grove, Elam R. Grubb, Nehemiah Grubb, Samuel Grubb, David, John, and William Gsell

H

Hadaway, Peter Hagan, Hageman, Hagey, Hall, Hamilton, Hammelman, Hand, Hannah, Hannis, Hansen, Hanson, T. A. Hardin, Hardy, Harpham, Wm. H.Harrison, Francis M. Harrison, Hayes, John Hazard, Heath, Jacob Hein, Hellerstedt, Helm, Henry E. Helms, John H. Helms (listed as "Helm" in index), Hempstead, Henwood, Hewitt, John P. Hey, Hiddleson, Higley, Hill, Hiner, Hodges, Holcomb, Holleran, Daniel Hollinshead, Holt, George S.Hoover, James P. Hopkins; Jason Hopkins, Adam Horlacher; Godfried Horlacher, Horner, Henry E. Horning, Hotchkiss, Levi Houghton, Houseman, Howe,Frederick B. Hubbard,Dr. N. W. Hubbard;  Hubbart, Huffman, Hugamin,John B. Hughes, Hughes, Amos A.Hulett, Hull, Humaston, Russell Hunt, Huntington, Hurlbert, Hurless, Hutton

I

Wooster  Ives

J

Jackson, Jos.Jacobs, Alpha E.Jacobs, James, Jamison, James Jemison, Jennings, John, Jesse Johnson, Jones

K

Kauffman, Kearns, Dr. J. Frank Keefer; Samuel Keefer, Harry F. Kellum, Ephraim Kempster, John H. Kempster, William Kempster, Henry M. Kennedy; John Kent, William Kennedy;   Marcellus Kidder, Kilgour, Kimball, King, Kingery, Kingsbury, Kitchen, Kide, Knapp, William H. Knox, Kreider

L

Samuel M. Ladd, Lancaster, Landis, Samuel Landis, Samuel A. Langdon, Silas Langdon, Langford, Jabez Lathe, Lawton, Elias D. Le Fevre, Jacob F. Leonard, Daniel Lipe, Litzrodt, Lockhart, Logan, Long, John B. Loomis, Loomis, Noah S. Loux, Wm.Love, William Lovett, Lundy, Lusk, Nicholas Lutyens, James Lynch, Marcus Lyon

M

Mackay, Mallory, Mannion, Marcy, Disberry J. Markee, J. M. Martin, Marzi, John Mason, Mathew, Mathews, Matteson, William Maxfield, Maxson, Maxwell, May, McCauley, McClelland, JamesMcCoy; McCoy, McCray, James McCue, McCune, McDearman, McFadden, McGrath McGregor, Jotham McKee, John McKenzie, Capt. John MacKenzie, La Fayette McKenzie, Nathan L. McKenzie, William R. McKenzie,  McLane, David McMillan, John F.McNaughton, McNeill, McWhorter, Meade, Meins, Millikan, Henry K. Mellinger,Addison Melvin, Wm. Mensch, Miller, Thomas Milnes, Abraham D. Mitchell, Morrill, Morse, Mosher, Moss, Moyers, Munz, Murray, Murphy, Jacob Myers

N

Naniga, Eli Nash, Edward H. Nevitt,Nevitt*, James W. Newcomer, Philip Nice, Daniel Nicenwanger, Niles, Norrish, James A.Nowlen, M. D.

O

Oakley, Odlin, Oglesby, Edwin Old, Ezekiel Olds, Ezekiel Olds, Warren Olds, Olmstead, Louis Oltmanns, Osborne, David C. Overholser

P

Paddock, Page, John M Palmer, William P. Palmer, Parish, Hiram Parker, Parkhurst, Parmenter, Parnham, Patrick, Patterson, Wm. Pearson, Capt. Havilah Pease, Peckham, Almer Perault, Rev. George W. Perry, Peters, Peterson, James Pettigrew, Charles B. Peugh, James L.Peugh, Phelps, Phinney, Pierce, Pinney Pittman, Aaron Pope, Henry D Pond,  Stephen Pond, Pott, Potter, Powell, Powers, Pratt Preston, David G Proctor

Q

Quackenbush

R

William Ramsay, Mrs. Emma Randolph, Redline, Reecher, (Mrs. Dr.) Cinda T. Reed; Dr. Daniel Reed; William H. Reed; Reed, Joseph C. Reeves, Remage, Renner, Rew, Draper B.Reynolds, Linus C. Reynolds, Draper B. Richmond, Riley, Ripley, Ritchie, Robertson, Frank H. Robinson, George M. Robinson, Dr. R. E. Robinson, Samuel W. Robinson, Wesley Robinson, Roe, Rogers, Rosenkrans, Ross, Round, Rood, C. F. Royer, Russell, Rutt, Martin Ryerson

S

Henry R. Sampson, Sands, Sanford, George S. Sardam, Schryver, Schutt, Scotchbrook, Walter H. Scott, Col. Ebenezer Seely, Seger, Seidel, George Seyller, Shannon, Sheldon, Stephen Sherwood, Charles Shirk, Miles B. Shirk, Reuben Shirley, Shuler, Sholes, Sides, Slaymaker, Slick, Slocumb, Chester S.Sly, Jacob Smaltz, A. C. Smith; Alfred Smith; Hiram P. Smith;  Phillip H. Smith, Snavely, John  Snyder, Joseph Snyder, Joseph C. Snyder, Edward Somers, Sox, Spafford, Mathias Spang, Spear, Daniel P. Spears Spangler, Spinka, Orlando Sprague, Cornelius Springer, James Stapleton, Simon Stapleton, Ripley Stauffer, Herman Sterling, Stern, Stevens, James Stewart, Giles A. Stilson, Stocking, Richard Storer, Byron Stowe, Alanson Stowell, Street, Samuel Strock, John Stuart, Sturtevant, Sturtz, Cloys Summers; Ephraim Summers, Oscar Summers;  Sweet, Sykes

T

Taber, Talbott, Talcott, William Taylor, Taylor, Osro W.Terpenning, Terwilliger,Richard Thompson, Frank B.Thomas, Wm. Thompson,Thompson*,  Timmerman, WilliamTopping, Tracy, Cornelius Trowbridge, Tuller, William F. Twining, Twitchell, Twombly, John Tyler, Edward Tyne, William Tyson

U

Ulmer, Eli Upton, Utley

V

Van Antwerp, Van Demark, Peter Van Nest, Van Osdol, Vennum

W

Wa-bo-kies-shiek,Wm. Wahl, Frederick Wahl, Wakeman, Robert Wallace, Charles Ward, Ware, Abraham S. Weaver,  John Weaver, Wells, James A. Wessel, J. A. West, Emil Westphal, Wetherbee, David R Wetzel; Lewis Wetzel, Wetzell, Andrew J. Wheelock, Samuel L. Wheelock, Whitcomb, John W. White, William T. Whitmore, Andrew Wilkinson,Winfield S.Wilkinson, Williams, Griffin W.Wilson, Wilt, Wink, James M. Winters, Witmer, Wolf, Wolfersperger, Wood, Woodruff, Woods, Milton Woodward, Woodworth, Edwin A. Worrell, Worthington, Wynn, T. Wylie

Y

Yager, Yates, Young

Z

Zendt, Wesley V. Zimmerman;  Zook