Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Sadler, John 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Sadler, John. - More than forty years have passed since John Sadler first came 
to Grundy County, Ill., and during all that period he has been known as one of 
this section's most reliable and successful agriculturists. At this time he is 
living a somewhat retired life, having turned over the burden of activities to 
younger hands and shoulders, but he still maintains an interest in all that 
affects the welfare of the community in which he has resided so long and to 
which he gave the best years of his life. Mr. Sadler is a native of Eastern 
Canada, and was born in October, 1837, a son of John and Ann (Mason) Sadler, 
natives of the North of Ireland. They moved to Canada about the year 1820, and 
there spent the remainder of their lives in agricultural pursuits.  Of their 
six children, John was the youngest.

John Sadler was given ordinary educational advantages and continued to reside 
with his parents in their Canadian home until he reached the age of sixteen 
years, at which time he went to Vermont. One year later he came West and 
settled in Grundy County, where he rented land until 1872, and in that year 
purchased an unimproved tract of eighty acres of land in Vienna Township. To 
the developing and cultivation of this property he gave the rest of his active 
years, and through industry, perseverance and well-directed effort was 
successful in making one of the finest farms of its size in this part of the 
State.  Since 1910 he has lived somewhat retired, the land now being under the 
capable management of his son, Harry, who has inherited many of his father's 
sterling traits of character.

In the spring of 1861, John Sadler was united in marriage with Miss Matilda 
Hamilton, also a native of Canada, and they have had children as follows: 
Anna, who married Robert Hamilton, and is now deceased; Susan, also deceased, 
who was the wife of George Baker; Cora, who married William Bradford, and 
resides in Mazon, Ill.; George, a resident of Colorado; Thomas, who is 
deceased; and Harry, the manager of the home place, who married Miss Bowman. 
The mother of these children died in August, 1908, in the faith of the 
Episcopal Church, to which Mr. Sadler also belongs. He is prominent in 
Masonry, having numerous friends in the Verona Lodge, and in his political 
views is independent.

pages 896-897

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

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