Source: The Biographical Record of Whiteside County, Illinois
Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1900

Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin
Tampico Area Historical Society
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Ralph Y. Breed, a well-known grain dealer of Erie, is an important factor in business circles and his popularity is well deserved, as in him are embraced the characteristics of an unbending integrity, unabated energy and industry that never flags. He is a leading business man of the village, and as a public-spirited citizen is thoroughly interested in whatever tends to promote the moral, intellectual and material welfare of the community.

A native of Illinois, Mr. Breed was born in Schuyler county, November 5, 1861, and is a son of Dr. S. P. and Alzine (Powers) Breed. In their family were seven children, but three are now deceased, those living being Lena May; Lizze R., wife of Edward Sisler, of Lincholn, Nebraska, Luella and Ralph Y. The parents are still living and now make their home in Princeton, Illinois.

During his boybood and youth our subject remained at home with his parents, and on the 25th of November, 1885, he was united in mariage with Miss Nellie M. Sapp, by whom he has three children, namely: Clifford, De Ette and Carrie Belle. Mr. Breed lived in Princeton until after his marriage and then located on a farm in Bureau county, near that city, where he engaged in farming and stock raising with marked success until the spring of 1896, when he removed to Erie. Here he purchased the grain business of Arthur McLedan, and has since successfully carried on the same. He is an enterprising, wide-awake business man of known reliability, and is a progressive citizen. In politics he is a stanch Republican, and before coming to this county held several township offices, while during his residence in Erie he has acceptably served as village trustee. Fraternally, he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias.