Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Overholser, John M 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John M. Overholser, general farmer, section 9, Genesee Township, was born Jan. 
19, 1854. He is the son of Martin and Barbara (Arford) Overholser, of whom an 
account is given in connection with that of Christian Overholser. The subject 
of this personal record was reared and educated in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, where 
he was born. He was employed on his father's farm until he had passed his 20th 
birthday, and until the removal of the family to Illinois. They located on 
section 9, where the son entered into the work of improving a new farm in 
which he was engaged until he established himself as the independent head of a 
family. He formed a matrimonial alliance with Lydia, daughter of Jacob and 
Anna (Overholser) Crom, in Wysox, Carroll Co., Ill. Her parents were natives 
of Pennsylvania, and were brought up in Harrison Co., Ohio. After their 
marriage they went to Sandusky County, and afterward to Wood County, in the 
same State. Mrs. Overholser was born there, April 18, 1835. She was 19 years 
of age when her father made a transfer of his family and business relations, 
to Carroll Co., Ill. To her and her husband five children have been born: 
Elizabeth A. is the wife of W. C. Vinson, of Coleta; they have one child, 
Myrtle. Martin married Anna M. Dull, and lives at home; Clara J. married 
Howard Hawkins, of Clyde Township, and they have one child, Orvil, by name; 
Becca and James C. are the two youngest children. Mr. Overholser is the owner 
of 117 acres of land, which he purchased after his marriage, and he has 
devoted the greater part of his time and energies to its improvement. He has 
erected creditable farm buildings. In political faith and adherence he is a 
Republican. He belongs to the United Brethren Church, of which his wife is 
also a member.

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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