Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Black, Isaac C.
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Biography for Isaac C. Black, Bureau County, Illinois

Isaac C. Black, Arlington, was born September 22, 1832, in Plumstead 
Township, Bucks Co., Penn.  He is a son of Isaac and Cynthia (Carver) 
Black, who were natives of the same place and were the parents of nine 
children, viz.: Sophia, William, Catharine, Anna, Levi, Isaac C., Ezra, 
Abraham and Jesse Black.  Of these Abraham was killed in the battle of 
the Wilderness.  Only our subject and his brother William Black, who is 
a farmer in Ohio Township, came to Bureau County.  Isaac C. Black was 
reared in his native county, where he worked at saw-milling and 
carpentering till August 3, 1854, when he came to West Grove, now 
Arlington, where he helped to build the first business place in the 
town.    After following his trade several years he farmed about three 
years and then went into the grain business.  In 1865 he commenced 
business in the elevator built by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad Company.  The next year he worked for S. C. Gray, in the new 
elevator and was there for fourteen years.  In 1882, after working two 
years at his trade, he took an interest in the firm of J. H. Dole & Co., 
commission men, and now has charge of both elevators.  Mr. Black was 
married July 8, 1858, to Mariah H. Simpson, a daughter of James and 
Lydia (Pickelheimer) Simpson.  They were the parents of eleven children, 
who are all living.  Mrs. Black is the mother of the following children;  
Anna, deceased; Mrs Ada D. Miller; Millie R.,  deceased, Louis L., 
deceased; Joseph R.,  and Bertha I., deceased.  The grandparents of Mrs. 
Black were Joshua and Sarah (Rose) Simpson.  Religiously Mrs. Black is 
connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Black is an Ancient 
I. O. O. F., politically a Republican, and the eldest male resident in 
Arlington.

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