Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Quackenbush, Peter A 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Peter A. Quackenbush, section 10, Mt. Pleasant Township, has been a farmer in 
Whiteside County since 1856. He was born June 25, 1828, in Montgomery Co., N. 
Y. His parents, Peter P. and Magdalene (Speaker) Quackenbush, were also born 
in the Empire State. Mr. Quackenbush of this sketch had one sister, Margaret 
A., who was his senior in birth. In his native State he was principally 
interested in mercantile pursuits, and in February of the year named as that 
in which he removed to Whiteside County, he located in the township of Mt. 
Pleasant. His first farm consisted of 75 acres of land, which he purchased, 
and on which he located, putting into effective operation the purposes of his 
change of location and calling. He has added by subsequent purchase, and is 
now the proprietor of a valuable farm of 160 acres of land, which is all under 
tillage. Mr. Quackenbush is identified politically with the Republican party. 
He was first married Dec. 12,1850, in Montgomery Co., N. Y., to Harriet 
Becker. She was born in the Empire State and accompanied her husband to 
Illinois. She died Aug. 11, 1861, in the township of Mt. Pleasant. Mr. 
Quackenbush was united in marriage Jan. 9, 1862, to Harriet Drum, at Sterling. 
To them four children have been born, who are named Maggie M., Ainsley, 
Estella and Edward D. The mother was born Aug. 21, 1841, in Schoharie Co., N. 
Y. Her parents, John and Margaret (Becker) Drum, were born in New York, and 
they had 11 children, named Mary, Julia, Martha, Delevan, George, Melissa, 
Harriet, Lucy, Clarissa, Ellen and Nancy.

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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