Biography of Thomas T Birkbeck
Source History of Jo Daviess County -- 1904

BIRKBECK,  THOMAS T. , farmer and mine operator, Council Hill 
Township, Jo Daviess County, was born in Millbrig, Jo Daviess 
County, Ill., in 1837. His father, Samuel Birkbeck, who was a 
native of England, after coming to the United States spent 
some time in Pennsylvania, and located at Millbrig, Vinegar 
Hill Township, in 1837. The following year he removed to the 
farm adjoining where Thomas T. Birkbeck now lives, and there 
died in 1881. Mr. Birkbeck, the subject of this sketch, was 
elected Supervisor in 1903, and has been Commissioner of 
Highways for five years. For a number of years he has served 
on the School Board. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of
Benjamin Lethleam, of Council Hill. To them have been born 
six children: Samuel, who is a physician at Gratiot, Wis.; 
Camilla, the wife of Thomas Graham, of Vinegar Hill; Sarah, 
who is living at the paternal home; Benjamin, Principal of 
the high school at Ladysmith, Wis.; Thomas A., living at home, 
and Ella, the wife of George Graham, of Vinegar Hill. 


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