Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Bonebrake, Benjamin 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Benjamin Bonebrake, resident at Unionville, has passed his life as a mechanic. 
He is a son of Frederick and Catherine (La Rose) Bonebrake, the former a 
native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of North Carolina. After their marriage 
they located in Ohio, where they were subsequently resident until their death. 
Their children were named Anna, Levi, Benjamin and Sarah. Mr. Bonebrake was 
born May 22, 1817, in Preble Co., Ohio. He passed his youth in the acquisition 
of his education and as a farm assistant, at home. At the age of 20 years he 
obtained the control of his own time, and he fulfilled a predetermined 
resolution to learn the trade of carpenter and joiner, in which he passed 44 
years. On becoming master of his trade, he located in Butler Co., Ohio, where 
he operated eight years. In the spring of 1856 he came to Whiteside County and 
rented a farm in Mt. Pleasant Township. After a short trial of agricultural 
life he went to Morrison, and in the spring of 1861 settled permanently at 
Unionville. He is the owner of 40 acres of land in Union Grove Township. In 
political preference Mr. Bonebrake is a Republican, and he has been active in 
several local official positions. He has served 12 years as School Trustee, 
and as Collector six years. He is a member of Union Grove Lodge, No. 257, I. 
O. O. F. He belongs to the Protestant Methodist Church, of which his wife is 
also a member. His marriage to Susan White occurred in Preble Co., Ohio, in 
September, 1841. She was born in Vermont and died Feb. 28, 1858, in Mt. 
Pleasant Township, leaving two children,—Carrie and La Rose. Feb. 28, 1861, he 
was again married to Mrs. Harriet A. (Trye) Baker. She was born Aug. 13, 1825, 
in Sheffield, England, and is the daughter of William and Sarah (Carter) Trye, 
and widow of William R. Baker, by whom she had four children, named Charles 
W., Olive, Warren and Ida M. Mr. Baker died June 14, 1859. He was the oldest 
son of Jacob Baker, a prominent pioneer citizen of Whiteside County, of whom a 
personal record appears on another page.

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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