Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Somers, John W 1834 - 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

John W. Somers, druggist, was born in N. C. in 1834; removed to Champaign
county. Ill., in 1843 and was clerk of the courts for several years. He enlisted
in 1862 in the 76th Ill. Vol. as a private; was promoted to commissary sergeant,
then to first lieutenant, and regimental quarter-master; left the army in 1865,
and returned to Ill. He engaged in the drug business in 1867 at Urbana, and in
1879 removed to Onawa, and again engaged in the drug business. He was married in
1858 to Sarah J. Fitzgerald. They have one son and one daughter.

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