Grundy-Kendall County IL Archives Biographies.....Minkler, T. R. January 12, 1832 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

T. R. MINKLER, agricultural implements, Morris, was born in New York, January 
12, 1832; son of Peter MINKLER, born in New York 1788., The latter moved to 
Illinois in 1833, with his family, and settled in Specie Grove, Kendall 
County, where he took a claim of between two hundred and three hundred acres; 
there he lived till just before the war. He then sold out and moved to Ogle 
County, where he again bought land, settled on it, and lived there till the 
time of his death, which occurred in 1881, in his ninety-third year. There 
were eight children, five boys, of whom our subject is the youngest, and three 
girls. The subject of this sketch was educated at the common schools of 
Kendall County, and spent his early life on the farm, which occupation he 
continued till 1860, since that time he has been engaged in the agricultural 
implement business, in Morris. For twenty-one years he acted as salesman in 
this business, and in the fall of 1881 opened an implement warehouse for 
himself, where he does a satisfactory business. August the 9th, 1863, our 
subject, while out on a hunting expedition with some friends from Chicago, 
accidentally left his gun go off, fearfully fracturing his right arm between 
the elbow and shoulder, rendering it necessary to have the same amputated near 
the shoulder, which was very successfully done. Mr. MINKLER was married first 
in Saratoga, Grundy County, in 1853, to Sarah A. CONKLIN, daughter of C. G. 
CONKLIN; she died in 1856. He was married the second time to Elizabeth 
CONKLIN, a sister of his first wife; she died in 1874. He has one son by his 
first wife - Henry - and five children by the second wife, viz., one son 
Horace, and four daughters - Larissa, Carrie, Hattie and Louise. Mr. MINKLER 
is a Democrat in politics.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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