Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Battey, O. W.
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Virginia Perry vperry@midwest.net January 1999

Biography for O. W. Battey, Bureau County, Illinois

O. W. Battey, Tiskilwa, was born June 15, 1823, in Foster, Providence, 
R. I.  He is a son of Sampson Battey (see the preceding sketch).  Our 
subject received a common school education in Connecticut, where his 
entire life was spent on the farm. He came to Illinois with his parents, 
and lived several years in Peoria and LaSalle Counties.  In 1854 he came 
to Tiskilwa, where he was appointed station agent on the Chicago, Rock 
Island & Pacific Railroad, which position he has filled ever since, and 
is know as the oldest and most trusted agent on the route.  For the last 
twenty years he has also been engaged in the grain and lumber business.  
He was married March 18, 1851, in Dubuque, Iowa, to Pauline A. Walker, 
who was born February 1, 1825, in Vermont.  Her parents were Asa and 
Elizabeth (Mathewson) Walker.  She is the mother of three children; 
Galen S., Losada L. and Owen W.  Mrs. Battey is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. Battey has filled town and school 
offices.  He has taken a lively interest in political affairs, and has 
supported the Republican party.  He was formerly a warm supporter of the 
famous underground railroad, which had done so much to break the 
shackels of slavery in the land of the free.

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