Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Christy, Samuel 1833 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co IL 1882

Samuel Christy, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Ireland November 5, 1833; 
is a son of James and Mary Graham Christy, the parents of eight children - 
Robert, Ellen, John, Joseph, Thomas, Samuel and one deceased. Mr. C. spent but 
three weeks in the schoolroom. In 1853, he came to New York City, where he 
engaged at weaving, and afterward in a dry goods factory. In 1860, he came to 
Kankakee County, Ill., where he rented a farm for nine years; in the meantime, 
he bought forty-three acres, and kept adding until he owned 125 acres in 
Kankakee County, which he sold in 1875, and bought forty acres in Grundy 
County, where he now lives. He was married, in 1856, to Sarah McConnell; they 
have no children. He is making a specialty of breeding Norman horses and fast 
stock, having at this time two fine stallions of the above named breed. When 
he settled in New York he had about $500, which, by frugality, has been 
increased until he ranks among those of excellent circumstances; he has reared 
two boys - Christopher and Michael Daily.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers, p87

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