Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Thum, Henry 1848 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

Henry Thum, farmer, P. O. Morris, was born July 9, 1848, in Chautauqua County, 
N. Y., and was the son of Melchart and Oret (Clark) Thum; he was born in 
Herkimer County, N. Y., December 31, 1804, and died in Wauponsee Township 
August 29, 1872. The subject's mother, Oret Thum, was born in Ellery, 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y., August 16, 1817, and is now living with her son Henry. 
The parents of Henry Thum settled in Grundy County, Saratoga Township, when he 
was nine years old; here they remained four years, when they moved into 
Wauponsee Township, and, in 1864, purchased a farm of eighty acres, which the 
subject now owns and lives upon. He was married, December 27, 1876, to Mrs. 
Jennie Wagner, of Pennsylvania. She was born July 6, 1849, and is the daughter 
of Samuel and Nancy Miller, the former born December 10, 1820, died June 11, 
1878; the latter was born in 1823, and died April 17, 1856. Miss Ella C. Thum, 
sister of Henry Thum, and a member of his family, was born in Chautauqua 
County, N. Y., May 26, 1854. Mr. and Mrs. Thum are the parents of two 
children - Laura A., born October 21, 1877, and George H., born January 3, 
1879.

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

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