Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Markeson, Ammi Manuel 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Markeson, Ammi Manuel – One of the large land owners and enterprising business 
men of Seneca, Ill., is Ammi Manuel Markeson, president of the Seneca Grain, 
Lumber and Supply Company, and a citizen whose career has been filled with 
noteworthy achievements.  He has spent his entire life in this locality, and 
has won success and position through the medium of his own unaided efforts.  
Mr. Markeson was born in Miller Township, La Salle County, Ill., November 19, 
1865, and is a son of Andrew and Sarah (Larson) Markeson.  Andrew Markeson and 
his wife were both born at Stavanger, Norway, he coming to Ottawa, Ill., in 
1854, and she two years earlier.  He started to work as a farm hand, and after 
marriage the young couple settled on a farm in Miller Township, La Salle 
County, which they rented until 1862.  In that year Mr. Markeson purchased a 
farm of eighty acres, cleared and developed it, erected substantial buildings 
and made numerous improvements.  A man of industry, enterprise and high 
ability, he invested his capital in land, and at the time of his death, in 
1908, when eighty-one years of age, was the owner of 375 acres, all in Grundy 
County with the exception of eighty acres, located just across the line in La 
Salle County.  The mother, who was born in 1823, still survives, and makes her 
home with her son.  The children born to Andrew and Sarah (Larson) Markeson 
were as follows:  Bessie, Mrs. Daniel Danielson, of Miller Township, La Salle 
County; and Ammi Manuel.

Ammi M. Markeson received his education in the public schools of Morris and 
the normal college at Geneseo, and was reared a farmer, remaining at home and 
assisting his father until his marriage in 1888, at which time he removed to 
one of his father’s farms, located in Nettle Creek Township, and there he 
carried on operations as a renter until he purchased 130 acres of land.  
There, in addition to general farming, he made a specialty of raising Poland-
China hogs and Percheron horses, as well as doing a large business in grain.  
He resided on this farm until the death of his wife, September 9, 1909, at 
which time he moved to the old homestead farm, which was left him by his 
father’s will.  He is now the owner of 415 acres of valuable land located in 
Grundy and La Salle counties, which he rents out, his attention now being 
confined to the raising of Percheron horses and to the duties devolving upon 
him as president and member of the board of directors of the Seneca Grain, 
Lumber and Supply Company.  He is accounted one of the substantial men of his 
community, where his long connection with affairs of importance have made him 
a well known figure in agricultural and commercial circles.  A Republican in 
his political view, he has served eight years as Township Clerk, has also 
acted as Road Commissioner, and for five years has been a member of the Board 
of Supervisors of Grundy County, of which he has been chairman for two years 
of this period.  With his family, he attends the Lutheran Stavanger Church.

On February 22, 1888, Mr. Markeson was married to Miss Hannah Johnson, who was 
born at Stavanger, Norway, daughter of Thomas and Dora Johnson, who on 
emigrating to the United States first located in Fillmore County, Minn., and 
later moved to South Dakota, where they now reside.  Mr. and Mrs. Markeson met 
in La Salle County, where she was making a visit to her sisters.  They became 
the parents of three children:  SeDell, Lillian and Bernice, all living with 
their father.

pages 859-860

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

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