Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Bales, D. M. 1825 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  D. M. BALES, Sheriff of county, Robinson. The subject of this sketch was born
in Monroe County, Ind., December 1, 1825, and was brought up principally in
Lawrence County, Ind., on a farm. His educational facilities were limited, and
comprised the ordinary schools of the neighborhood, which in that day were
rather poor. He removed to Crawford County, Ill., and located about four miles
southwest of Robinson. He purchased a tract of wild land, comprising 160 acres
of prairie and forty acres of timber. He built a cabin on it, into which he
moved on the 31st day of December, and the first year put into cultivation sixty
acres of ground-forty acres of it in corn, which matured well and in good time.
He improved his farm and put it in fine condition, and in 1864 sold it for
$4,000. He bought another farm, and continued farming and milling, having
purchased a steam saw mill, and bought and sold several farms, until the present
time. He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and has the strongest faith in his politics and his religion. In 1882,
he was elected Sheriff of the county, which office he now holds. He has held the
office of Justice of the Peace and Supervisor of his township (Martin); the
latter he held for two terms. He was married in Lawrence County, Ind., to Miss
Hannah Henderson, who died of spotted fever January 24, 1872, at which time he
lost three members of his family within a month. Of a family of ten children,
eight survive, viz.: Sarah J., Mary E., Andrew J., Martha, Ellen, Euphemia,
William T., and David M. Dead-Charles N. and James L. He was married a second
time in this county in 1875, to Sarah Winger, by whom he has one child-A. A. Bales.

Additional Comments:
Extracted From:

HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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