Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Isham, M 1829 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

M. Isham, merchant, Mazon, is the fourth of a family of nine children, and was 
born June 7, 1829, in Chittenden County, Vt. When he was young, his parents, 
Gersham and Annie Isham, removed to St. Lawrence County, N. Y., where they 
lived until 1744, when they came to Illinois, and settled in Mazon Township, 
this county. Our subject was married, March 4, 1855, to Miss Ellen, daughter 
of George Jenkings, of Michigan. She was born September 13, 1834, and is the 
mother of six daughters - Rosa, born October 20, 1856, married to George W. 
Clow, March 19, 1876; Alice J., born March 14, 1858, married to Frank Myers, 
December 25, 1877; Nellie V., born February 22, 1860, married to John 
Wilkinson, March 8, 1881; Almyra, born May 22, 1863; Laura M. born March 6, 
1865; and Katie V., born April 17, 1869. Mr. Isham has a farm of eighty acres 
of improved land in Section 28, Mazon Township, worth $50 per acre. He is 
engaged in the general mercantile business in the village of Mazon, in which 
he resides. He is a Democrat.

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

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