Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Birdsall, Henry L 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Henry L. Birdsall, farmer, section 4, Hopkins Township, is a son of James and 
Lydia (De Germo) Birdsall, natives of New York State, who came to Whiteside 
County in the spring of 1845, settling in Sterling Township, where they lived 
until their death. They had five children, named Edmund N., Elias D., Henry 
L., George A. and Harriet. The subject of this sketch was born in Mendon, 
Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept. n, 1834. He received a common-school education and 
came when he was ten years old, with his father, to this county, where he has 
since lived, engaged in farming. He first bought a farm on section 8, Hopkins 
Township, where he settled and lived about eight years, when he sold and 
bought 147 acres on section 4, where he at present resides. He has erected 
fine buildings on his farm, and most of his land is in a state of good 
cultivation. He was married first in Carroll Co., Ill., Nov. 19, 1857, to Mary 
A. Flemming, a native of Indiana. They have had one child, Clara J., who is 
now the wife of Henry Stevens, and resides in Stephenson Co., Ill. Mrs. B. 
died in Hopkins Township, Jan. 28, 1863, and Mr. Birdsall was again married 
March 15, 1864, in Monroe Co., N. Y. to Joanna Wood, daughter of Robert and 
Ann (Moran) Wood, natives of Ireland, who married and settled in Rochester, N. 
Y. Mr. Wood was a member of the 140th N. Y. Vol. Inf., and died in the army, 
in the fall of 1863; Mrs. Wood died Dec. 18, 1883, in Mendon, Monroe Co., N. 
Y. They had a family of eight children, namely, John, Mary A., Joanna, Thomas, 
Frank, Margaret and Anna; one died in infancy. Mrs. B. was born in Monroe Co, 
N. Y., Nov. 3, 1843. Mr. and Mrs. B. are the parents of four children: Alonzo 
G., Loren E., Estella and Harry L. Mr. Birdsall has been School Director and 
Overseer of Highways. In politics he is identified with the National party. As 
a prominent citizen of Whiteside County, and one who has been intimately 
identified with the best interests and growth of the county, we take pleasure 
in placing the portrait of Mr. Birdsall in this Album. Coming to the county 
when a mere boy, he has grown and developed in all that goes to make a 
representative citizen of this splendid portion of the great Prairie State. As 
a fitting companion picture we place beside his that of his estimable wife. 
These pictures were made from photographs taken in 1885.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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