Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Hiddleson, Rufus K 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Rufus K. Hiddleson, resident at Unionville, where he is living in retirement, 
has been a citizen of Whiteside County since 1850. His father and mother, John 
and Mary (Pimm) Hiddleson, were natives of Pennsylvania,, and came in 1865 to 
this county, where they passed the remainder of their lives. The mother, who 
was born in 1786, died April 19, 1866, in the township of Mt. Pleasant. The 
father, who was born in 1789, died Oct. 25, 1875. Edwin M., Rufus K., Jane S., 
Wm. P., Rebecca, John A., Joseph H., Lydia A. and Mary E. were the names of 
their children. Mr. Hiddleson was born Jan. 19, 1813, in Chester Co., Pa., and 
he lived in that State until his removal to Whiteside County, obtaining there 
a common-school education and laboring as a farmer. On coming to Illinois, he 
located in the township of Mt. Pleasant, where he became an extensive 
landholder, owning 440 acres of the variety of land which gives Whiteside 
County its prestige, located on one of the creeks which traverses the 
township. He has disposed of the major portion to relieve himself of the cares 
of extensive business connections in his advancing years, and is at present 
the owner of about 122 acres of land in Whiteside County. He also owns 160 
acres of land in Mitchell Co., Kan. In political sentiment he is a Republican. 
He has held the office of Justice of the Peace four years and also has 
officiated in other township offices. He was first married March 12, 1836, in 
Lycoming Co., Pa., to Caroline Converse, and they became the parents of three 
children,—Sarah E., Lydia J. and William P. The wife and mother was born in 
the State of Vermont, and died in March, 1883, in Mt. Pleasant Township. Mr. 
Hiddleson was again married Aug. 28, 1883, in Grundy Co., Iowa, to Mrs. 
Charlotte (Dening) Long. Mrs. Hiddleson was born June n, 1832, in England, 
where she grew to womanhood and was married to Simeon Long, who died there 
June 9, 1877. By her first marriage she had four children,—Ellen A., Emily M., 
Daniel D. and Charles. In 1882 she came with her children to the United States 
and located in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Hiddleson are members of the Protestant 
Methodist Church. The portrait of Mr. Hiddleson which appears on a preceding 
page is made from a likeness 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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