Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Melvin, Addison S 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Addison S. Melvin, merchant on Third Street, Sterling, was born Sept. 22, 
1828, in Geauga Co., Ohio. His parents, Alonzo and Roenna (Lyman) Melvin, were 
natives of Massachusetts and descendants of the old Puritan stock. They came 
to Ohio when young, married in 1819, and had nine sons and four daughters, all 
of whom excepting one son lived to be grown; the son died when four years and 
six months old. Addison remained with his parents until 22 years of age, 
passing his youth on the farm, at the district school and two years (17 to 19 
years old) at the Western Reserve Teachers' Seminary at Kirkland, Ohio. He 
then taught school one season, but, his health failing, he returned to farm 
labor in New York State. Two years afterward he went to Southern Indiana, 
where he followed carpentering for nine years. He came from there to Sterling 
and engaged in coopering, employing 2 men, and continued in the same line for 
16 years; then, in 1882, he started in the grocery business, under the firm 
name of Melvin & Son, and is now prosecuting a successful trade in that line. 
Mr. Melvin was married Sept. 7, 1856, to Miss Cordelia McKinney, a native of 
New York, and they have had five children, three of whom are still living: 
Arthur N., Addison S., Jr., and Alonzo D. Arthur married Gussie Roberts, of 
Lyndon, Ill., March 16, 1882. In political matters Mr. Melvin is a Republican, 
and in religious he is connected with the Congregational Church, as is also 
Mrs. M.

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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