Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Mail, John F. 1846 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  JOHN F. MAIL, farmer, P. O. Robinson, was born June 16, 1846, in La Motte
Township. His father was Frederich Mail, born April 15, 1803, in Knox County,
Ind.; he died February 8, 1873. He was married September 18, 1828, to Louisa H.
McGahey, born February 2, 1806; she died December 9, 1865, and is the mother of
four children. Her father, David McGahey, represented Lawrence and Crawford
Counties in the Senate of 1832-33, which sat at Vandalia, Ill. Frederick Mail's
father was born in Germantown, Penn., and his father, who came from Germany
about 1754, and who spelled his name Mehl, got his naturalization papers in
1761, under King George, against whom he fought afterward in the Revolutionary
war. Mr. J. F. Mail was educated in Palestine, and at the Union Christian
College in Merom; he clerked two years in Palestine, farmed afterward, and was
married, November 17, 1868, to Miss Ella M Murrell, born September 2, 1847, in
Clinton County, Ohio. She is a daughter of Alexander and Amanda (Penquite)
Murrell; her grandmother's maiden name was Jane Cummings. Mrs. Mail is the
mother of four children, Frederich M., born October 4, 1869; Elmer B., born
April 28, 1871; Bessie Leota, born December 20, 1872, she died September 13,
1873; and Medford B., born January 2, 1874. Mr. Mail is an intelligent,
wide-awake farmer; a member of the Presbyterian Church, and has been 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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