Crawford-Jasper County IL Archives Biographies.....Hopper, James 1821 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JAMES HOPPER, harness maker, Oblong, was born in Wayne County, Ind., September
21, 1821. His parents were natives of Virginia. His father, John Hopper, was
born in the year 1787 and died in 1823, when our subject was but two years old.
Our subject's mother, Sarah (Shortridge), was born in the year 1788 and died in
1852. The early part of our subject's life was spent in Wayne County, the place
of his birth. When, in 1833, at twelve years of age, he and his mother and
family emigrated to Hancock County, Ind., and there he devoted most of his time
to farming, although he spent his spare time in a blacksmith shop. In 1846, he
emigrated to Jasper County, Ill., and purchased a farm, and successfully engaged
in agricultural pursuits for twelve years, at which time, in 1858, he removed to
Willow Hill, of the same county, and engaged in blacksmithing. When after about
four years of success in that line of business, in 1862 he enlisted in Company
D, Ninety-eighth Illinois Volunteers, and was engaged in several battles,
namely: Frankfort, Ky., Murfreesboro, were the principle ones, besides quite a
number of skirmishes. He was discharged at Chicago on account of disability,
February 12, 1864, at which time he came back to his farm in Jasper County, and
engaged in the raising of grain and stock until the fall of 1878, at which time
he came to Oblong and engaged in harness-making. His stock invoices at about
$600. Mr. Hopper has been married twice, the first time in Hancock County, Ind.,
November 9, 1843, to Verlinda Walker, a native of Carolina. They had five
children, namely: George, John H. (deceased), Sarah Ann, Mary Jane and Susan
Louisa. His wife died December 11, 1869. He married again June 29, 1871, to
Rebecca Pearce.

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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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