Piatt County IL Archives Biographies.....Amidon, Joseph 
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Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of DeWitt and Piatt Counties

AMIDON, Joseph P.; page 976
	Joseph P. Amidon, a resident of Bement is associated with the agricultural
interests of Piatt County, and is carrying on an active business as the
proprietor of various machines used in farming, which he operates of rthe enefit
of the farmers of this section of the country.  Mr. Amidon is a native of
Rensselaer County, N. Y., where he was born July 16, 1848.  He is the son of
Joseph P. and Wealthy A. (Wright) Amidon.  His father is still living.  His
mother died at Newton, Kan.  When he was four years old his parents came from
their old home to Grundy County, this State, whence they removed to Boone County
two years later.  They lived there four years and then came to Piatt County, and
cast in their lot among its pioneers.  Here our subject grew to a stalwart
manhood and has ever since made his home here.  He was reared on a farm and
under the instruction of his father, gained a good practical knowledge of
agriculture.  In 1880 he left the farm and established himself in his present
business which consists in the operation of a threshing machine, clover huller,
a corn sheller and a hay and straw baling machine.  He has two traction engines,
two separators, a Birdsell clover huller, one Western sheller, one Keystone
sheller, and one hay press.  Mr. Amidon employs from two to eight men the year
around and his services are in great demand among the farmers in all directions.
	The marriage of Mr. Amidon with Miss Julia Eldred, was celebrated in this
county January 1, 1876.  Mrs. Amidon is a native of Washington County, N. Y.,
born November 23, 1851.  She has been to our subject all that is implied in the
term of a true wife, and she is to their children a wise and tender mother.  She
is a daughter of Hiram and Harriet (Goodnough) Eldred.  Her mother died at White
Creek, Washington County, N. Y.  Her father is still living.  Mr. and Mrs.
Amidon have lost one child who died in infancy.  The names of their five
remaining children are Nellie M., Hattie S., Frank H., Fred J. and Cora B. 
These children are being carefully trained in good principles and to useful lives.
	Our subject is well-known in his community as a man who is alive to its every
interest and who is zealous in promoting all good causes.  He is a man of
exemplary habits, is exceedingly temperate and is active among the
Prohibitionists.  He and his estimable wife are among the foremost members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of which he has also served it faithfully as a
Class-Leader.  He is deeply interested in the 
Sunday-school and has been its Superintendent.


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