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

Henry May, farmer, section 35,  Hopkins Township, has lived in Whiteside 
County since the autumn of 1854, when he came hither with his wife and two 
children; and, associated with his brother, bought 167 acres on the section on 
which his homestead has since been established. He is the owner of 70 acres of 
land, chiefly under tillage. He is a Democrat in political choice and 
relations. Mr. May was born Oct. 19, 1815, in Massachusetts. He spent his 
youthful years in obtaining a common-school education, and passed the time 
intervening between that age and his majority in acquiring a knowledge of 
carriage-making and the trade of wheelwright. He followed these occupations 
until 1840, when he began running an omnibus line between Roxbury and Boston, 
in which he was interested four years. In January, 1851, he went to 
California, making the route there by way of the isthmus of Panama. He engaged 
in mining in the Golden State, and was occupied in that business three years, 
meeting partial success. He returned to Massachusetts in the spring of 1854; 
and in the fall came to Illinois. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Martha 
Jane Currier Nov. 27, 1846, in Methuen, Mass. She was born Feb. 20, 1822, in 
that place, and is the daughter of John and Harriet (Burr) Currier. Her 
parents lived and died in the State of Massachusetts. She is the oldest of 
their six children, and her brothers and sisters were named Eunice B., John 
M., Jonathan G., Ada B. and Cynthia E. The children of Mr. and Mrs. May have 
been four in number, and they were born in the following order: Mary H., 
Esther E., William A. and Henry C. Esther died Oct. 14, 1853, when about three 
years of age. Mary married Delos Olds and lives at Como. Mr. and Mrs. May are 
members of the Congregational Church.

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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