Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Kendall, Elisha 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  ELISHA KENDALL, farmer, P. O. Grand Glade, is an enterprising farmer. He was
born in Shelby County, Ind. He was reared there, and his chances for an
education was limited to subscription schools, would attend about four months in
the year until nineteen years of age, at which time commenced working out by the
month in Davis County, Iowa; worked there one year. During this time, his father
removed to Lucas County, Iowa, and he (subject) as soon as his father came,
joined him and farmed with him one year, at which time he (subject) came back to
Shelby County, Ind., and worked by the month one year. On July 7, 1853, he was
married to Mary B. Elkins, daughter of Judge Elkins. She was a native of
Randolph County, Ind. In the same year, 1853, they removed to Lucas County,
Iowa, and engaged in farming on a piece of land of 120 acres given him (subject)
by his father, and after four years of successful farming, went back to Shelby
County, Ind., in the fall of 1857. In the meantime, he had traded his farm in
Iowa for land in Crawford County, Ill., Oblong Township. They remained in
Indiana one year, when, in the fall of 1858, came to Crawford County and built a
house on his land and commenced improving the land. He has forty acres in
cultivation and eighty acres of timber land, and has ever since been
successfully engaged in the raising of  grain and stock, with exception of the
time he was serving in defense of our country's liberties. He enlisted August 9,
1862, in Company D, Ninety-eighth Illinois  Volunteer Infantry, but was mounted
after two or three months' service. He was in several battles, namely: Hoover's
Gap, Chickamauga, Shelbyville, Buzzard Roost, Mission Ridge, Selma, besides
several other skirmishes. During the time he was in the army, his wife was at
home on a farm almost in a wilderness, with three little children. They have had
 five children, namely: Sarah M., who died in Iowa from the bite of a
rattlesnake, which, in her play, she had picked up on the ground; Theodore P.,
is a well-educated man and a professional school teacher, has had seven years'
experience in teaching; Victoria, deceased, died in 1859; William E., is a
superior, talented young man, he commenced teaching school when sixteen years
old; Mary Annette, deceased, died October 25, 1862. Our subject has never taken
much part in political matters, but his wife was a great politician, and a
favorite of the Republican 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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