Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Reardon, James 1834 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

James Reardon, farmer, P. O. Wauponsee, is a native of Franklin County, N. Y., 
born March 11, 1834, son of William and Catharine Reardon, who were born in 
Ireland; his father died in Morris, this county, and his mother, Catharine 
(Curtis) Reardon, died in Au Sable Township, this county. Subject came with 
his parents to Illinois in 1851. They settled in Grundy County and remained 
until their death. Mr. Reardon received the elements of an English education 
principally in York State; he was married, November 12, 1856, in Grundy County 
to Miss Sarah A. Cryder, daughter of Israel and Elizabeth Cryder; she was born 
in Pennsylvania November 13, 1837. Mr. Reardon began life for himself in the 
town of Au Sable, where he lived about eight years; he then sold his farm and 
removed to Saratoga Township, where he followed farming for one year, when he 
sold out and moved to Morris where he resided three years. Since then he has 
lived in Vienna Township, where he has a farm of eighty acres of improved land 
in Section 2, his residence being ten miles southwest from Morris, and one 
mile west from Wauponsee Station. He engages in general farming on his place 
which is valued at $60 per acre. He is a supporter of the Republican party.

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

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