Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Feeland, Jacob B 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Feeland, Jacob B. – A farmer and reliable citizen of Nettle Creek Township, 
comes of good Norse stock and was born in Greenfield Township, Grundy County, 
in December 1873, a son of John and Bertha Feeland who were natives of 
Norway.  They came to the United States from Norway after their marriage, and 
located in Grundy County in 1871, buying a farm in Greenfield Township, on 
which the mother died when Jacob B. Feeland was a week old.  The father later 
married (second) Anna Likness, born in Norway, and lived until 1908, when he 
passed away.

Jacob B. Feeland was taken by an uncle, Arent Thompson, when his mother died.  
In 1877 Mr. Thompson went to Nebraska, where he spent ten years, and then 
moved to Center County, that same State, where he died in 1905.  Mr. Feeland 
remained with this uncle until he attained his majority, receiving his 
educational training in the common schools of Nebraska.  When he was twenty-
one years old he returned to Grundy County, and worked by the month in Nettle 
Creek Township for four or five years, and then began farming for himself.  He 
now owns a two-thirds interest in his present farm, upon which he has lived 
since 1902, and he generally operates a good deal of additional land.  In 
February, 1897, Mr. Feeland married Mary L. Likness, born in Nettle Creek 
Township, a daughter of Austin and Anna Likness, the former who is deceased, 
but the latter is residing with Mr. Feeland.  Mr. and Mrs. Feeland are the 
parents of the following children:  Birdie, Lillie, Lulu, and Willie.  Mr. 
Feeland is a Lutheran, and politically is a Republican, but he has never cared 
for public office.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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