Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hume, Eber F ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 13, 2006, 6:09 pm Author: History of Grundy County, 1914 Hume, Eber F. – Morris has a number of substantial retired farmers in its midst, all of whom have honorably earned their present prosperity by years of earnest and steady work. One of these representative men of Grundy County, who is serving as a Rural Route mail carrier, is Eber F. Hume, who was born in Wauponsee Township, January 12, 1862, a son of Hampden and Rosetta (Hulse) Hume, natives of Ohio. They came to Wauponsee Township in the early forties from New York State, where Hampden Hume had previously lived for some years, and he still makes his home in that township, living upon his farm of 360 acres. The children of this couple were: Edward, who lives at Plano, Ill.; Eber F.; Nettie, who accidentally died in a fire when three years old; Frederick, who lives at Leon, Iowa; Albert, who lives in Wauponsee Township; Hampden, who lives in the same township; and Altha, who is Mrs. Charles Moon, of Wauponsee Township. Eber F. Hume was brought up on his father’s farm and attended the district schools of his neighborhood. He lived at home until 1887, when he rented his father-in-law’s farm in Wauponsee Township, and conducted it for five years, when he moved to a 160-acre farm in the same township upon which he resided until 1904, when he moved to Morris, where he built his modern residence and has since occupied it. He owns two properties in Morris, and owns 100 acres, and his wife 160 acres in Grundy County. On January 13, 1887, Mr. Hume married Nettie M. Cook, born at Morris, a daughter of David and Jane (Claypool) Cook, natives of Pennsylvania and Wauponsee Township, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Hume are the parents of three children: Jennie Cook, and Etta Mae, both of whom are living, and Millard Eber, who died at the age of three and one-half years. Mr. Hume is a Presbyterian. His fraternal affiliations are with the Masons in which he is a Knight Templar, and with the Modern Woodmen of America, both of Morris. For two years he served as collector of Wauponsee Township, being elected on the Republican ticket, and was as conscientious in the performance of his public duties as he was efficient as a farmer, winning for himself many warm personal friends. pages 833-834 Additional Comments: Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. Publishers; 1914 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/hume825nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb