Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Crossman, J. C.
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Virginia Perry vperry@midwest.net January 1999

Biography of J C CROSSMAN, Bureau County, Illinois

J. C. Crossman, Lamoille, was born January 29, 1830, in Draycott, 
Somersetshire, England. (See proceding sketch.)  Mr. Crossman came to 
the United States about 1850. He worked two years in Onondaga County, 
N. Y., where he was also married. In March 1852, he came to Lamoille, 
Ill., and after working one year, rented land and farmed. In 1855 he 
bought 160 acres of land, which he soon sold, and after renting another 
year bought 160 acres of William Hart, which he sold, and in 1857 went 
to New York State, and from there to England, where he visited his 
relatives, returning to Lamoille the following year. Here he first 
rented the place  which he afterward bought, and now owns 617 acres 
of land, on which he makes stock-raising a specialty. Our subject was 
married July 24, 1851 to Elizabeth Weeks, who was born December 23, 
1828, in England. Her parents, William and Ann (Dix) Weeks, were also 
natives of England. Mrs. Crossman is the mother of the following 
children who reached maturity: Mrs. Mary A. Hopps (deceased), Mrs. 
Sarah Williams, Eliza Crossman, Mrs. Fannie Dunbar, John F., Ollie, 
Alice, and Nellie Crossman. When Mr. Crossman came to this country 
he was poor in purse, but rich in will power and industry, hence his 
prosperity. He is a strong Republican, and takes an active part in 
politically matters, and also a deep interest in agriculture matters, 
and is President of the Agriculture Society of Bureau County.

http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/bureau/bios/c/crossman.txt