Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Mathew, Thomas 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Thomas Mathew has been a resident in the township of Hopkins since 1836. In 
this year he is recorded among the pioneer settlers of the township to which 
he came one year after the first permanent resident took up his abode here. He 
owns 525 acres of land in the township, and 500 acres are under good 
improvements, and well furnished with excellent and necessary buildings. He 
first purchased 80 acres of land, on which he operated two years, and sold it 
in 1838, buying 80 acres on the section where he has resided since, and which 
forms the nucleus of his present large estate. He was born in Scotland, where 
his parents, Thomas and Margaret (Thompson) Mathew, were born, lived and died. 
Their children, seven in number, were born in the following order: Andrew, 
Robert, Thomas, Margaret, Euphemia, Elizabeth, Agnes and Jane. Mr. Mathew's 
birth occurred July 15, 1808. He came from Scotland to the United States in 
1835, and passed his first year on the soil of the New World in the State of 
Vermont, whence he came to Illinois. He was married Nov. 28, 1862, in Hopkins 
Township, to Margaret, daughter of William and Jeannette Mathew, and widow of 
Reuben Dumire. By her first husband she became the mother of four children,—
Jeannette, Mary C., William T. and Reuben. The children born of the second 
marriage are named Thomas and Robert. The mother died Sept. 25, 1865. Mr. 
Mathew was a second time married July 9, 1868, in Hopkins Township, to Anna B. 
Thompson. She was born Feb. 28, 1849, in Scotland. Jeannie B., William A., 
Robert A. and Elizabeth G. are the names of the children of which she became 
the mother. Mr. Mathew is again a widower, his wife having died July 7, 1876. 
In his political connection Mr. M. is a Republican, and he has held various 
official positions; and, being a prominent and representative citizen, as well 
as one of the oldest pioneers of the county, his portrait, on a preceding 
page, will naturally be expected in this connection by the reading public.

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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