Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Harper, John B. 1813 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JUDGE JOHN B. HARPER, blacksmith, Palestine, to whom this sketch is devoted,
was born February 6, 1813, in Knox County, Ind. He is a son of James Harper,
born May 15, 1790, in Fayette County, Ky., who died December 1, 1829, in Knox
County, Ind. He was a brave soldier in the Indian war of 1812, participating in
the battle of Tippecanoe, where he received a shot in his leg; he carried the
bullet in it to his grave. He was married to Peggy Walker, born July 25, 1795,
in Mercer County, Ky.; died August 26, 1826, in Knox County, Ind. She was the
mother of seven children. Mr. James Harper's father, George Harper, was one of
the pioneers of Fayette County, Ky., participating in many of the terrible
contests of that country, well called the "dark and bloody ground." He was also
in the Revolutionary war; on account of that he received a grant of land in
Indiana, from the United States Government. After building a fort on it to
protect his family from the Indians, he settled there and commenced to farm,
stationing always one of his children with a horn on top of the tower in the
fort so as to be ready to give the alarm if the Indians should be near. Our
subject went to school in country log schoolhouses. He came to Palestine in
1830, where he learned the blacksmith trade, which he followed for thirty-six
years, when he commenced to farm. He was married, November 16, 1837, to Miss
Abigail Everingham, born November 19, 1820, in Ohio. Her father was a
millwright; her parents Enoch, and Triphena (Kitchell) Everingham, came from the
East. Mrs. Harper was the mother of six children-James E., Mary V., Rhoda A.,
Charles O., Lizzie Bell and Lucy J. Mr. Harper is one of the most prominent men
in the county. He has been honored with the office of Township Justice of the
Peace for ten years, and county magistrate for four years; has been School
Treasurer,  and from 1869 till 1877 has filled the honorable office of County
Judge to the entire satisfaction of the people. He and his family are ornaments
of our society. Mr. Harper, is identified with the Democratic party.

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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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