Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Durstine, John E 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John E. Durstine, farmer, residing on section 34, Coloma Township, is the 
sixth child born to Martin and Mary A. (Harvey) Durstine, natives of 
Pennsylvania and devoted to agricultural life. They sold their old home and 
moved to Round Grove, this county, in 1853. The latter place they also sold 
and in 1870 purchased property at Morrison, which they occupied until 1874, 
when they rented it and changed their residence to Coleta, a small town 
northwest of Sterling, where the father died, in September, 1877 and the 
mother in September, 1884. The subiect of this sketch was born Dec. 5, 1842, 
received a common-school education, and when 17 years of age enlisted for the 
Union. At Stone River he was wounded through the thigh; was taken prisoner a 
short time and was paroled, and finally exchanged. Before he was wounded he 
was Orderly to Gen. E. N. Kirk; afterward, Orderly at the Medical Director's 
Office of the 14th Army Corps, the Army of the Cumberland. At the expiration 
of his three years' enlistment he was honorably discharged. He then came to 
Round Grove and worked at farming for a time, and next he attended the 
Illinois Soldiers' College at Fulton, this county, for two terms. He went then 
to Benton Co., Iowa, and, in company with his brother, purchased a farm of 193 
acres. Returning to Round Grove, he married Miss Emma Stone, a native of Ohio. 
Their two children are Warren E. and Ethel S. Mr. Durstine, after marriage, 
moved to his farm in Iowa, and after residing there two years he moved to 
Story County, same State, and occupied a farm there for three years; then five 
years at Round Grove again ; then six years on a farm he purchased about two 
miles north of the station; and finally sold that property and moved to the 
place he now occupies. Politically, Mr. Durstine is a Republican, and 
religiously he belongs to the Congregational Church, as does also Mrs. D. He 
is a Deacon and a Trustee in his Church. He is also Treasurer and Commissioner 
of Highways of his township. By the many removals and changes in life Mr. 
Durstine has made, he has generally ameliorated his condition and 
circumstances, and is now one of the leading men of Coloma.

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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