Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Burleigh, J F 1824 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

J. F. Burleigh, farmer, P. O. Mazon, was born in Livingston County, N. Y., 
March 24, 1824, and took an academic course of study in his native State. He 
is a son of John and Sarah E. Burleigh, of New Hampshire. He was married in 
the State of New York, October 28, 1847 to Miss Hannah J. Maynard of Wayne 
County, N. Y. She was born February 5, 1826, and died August 9, 1854. They had 
two children - Willis C., born July 29, 1848, died February 28, 1850; and 
Ella, born June 26, 1854. August 27, 1856, our subject married Miss Susan D. 
Underwood, who was born March 27, 1831; by this union there were born four 
children - Arthur, born July 24, 1860; Alice G., June 4, 1862; Ida J., 
December 6, 1863; and Irving C., April 22, 1870. Mr. and Mrs. Burleigh and the 
two older children are members of the Congregational Church of Wauponsee 
Grove. Our subject owns a farm of 240 acres of improved land in Section 4, 
Mazon Township, worth $60 per acre. He is a Republican, and has been 
repeatedly elected to the offices of his township. He is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity. The two elder children were educated at the Cook County 
Normal Institute. John and Sarah (Fellows) Burleigh, parents of j. F., were 
married at Salisbury, N. H., December 14, 1810; he was born in New Hampshire 
April 26, 1789, and died in the State of New York May 27, 1866; she was born 
in New Hampshire December 4, 1794, and died in the State of New York July 18, 
1865. They raised a family of five children - John L., Catherine, Harriet, 
Joseph F. and Elizabeth A.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p62-3

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