Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Scotchbrook, Edward ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines http://www.rootsweb.com/~archreg/vols/00003.html#0000719 January 31, 2008, 1:08 am Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885 Edward Scotchbrook is a farmer of Mt. Pleasant Township, resident on section 31. He is a citizen of the United States by adoption, having been born Dec. 8, 1827, in Lincolnshire, England, where he grew to man­hood and was engaged in farming until 1851, when he emigrated to the United States. He first located in Tompkins Co., N. Y. In July, 1852, he came to Whiteside County, and in the autumn following he bought 40 acres of land in Fenton Township. He obtained employment as a farm assistant in Lyndon Township, where he worked by the month until the spring of 1854, when he rented the farm known as the Gibbs place, which he managed a year. He then bought 100 acres of land in the township of Prophetstown, where he was engaged in agriculture two years. In 1856 he exchanged his property for another farm in the same township, on which he was the resident proprietor eight years. In 1864 he sold the place and bought the Patterson farm near the village of Lyndon, which he held eight years. In 1872 he sold it and bought 294 acres in Mt. Pleasant Township, which is situated on sections 31 and 32. On this place he established his home­stead. The entire acreage is practically under tillage, and the proprietor stocks his place on an average with 75 head of cattle and eight horses, and he fattens about 50 hogs annually. Politically, Mr. Scotchbrook has been an adherent of the Republican party since he became in fact a citizen of the United States until the spring of 1884, when he joined the ranks of the independents. The parents of Mr. Scotchbrook, John and Charlotte (Taylor) Scotchbrook, came from Lincolnshire, England, to the United States in 1853. They located in Whiteside County, where they both died. The date of the decease of the former was in July, 1872. The latter died May 6, 1882. They had three children,—Mary A., Edward and Elizabeth. Mr. Scotchbrook was married in Lyndon Township, March 27, 1854, to Mary A. Pope. Of their union five children have been born,—Mary E., George P., Willard A., John T. and Sadie E. The mother was born Dec. 25, 1830, in Lincolnshire, England. Her parents, Abraham and Sarah Crampton Pope, were natives of the English shire where their daughter was born, and whence they emigrated to the United States in 1853. They came to Whiteside County and located in the township of Lyndon. In 1874 they made another removal, to the western borders of the continent, to Vancouver's Island. The mother died there, Dec. 11, 1878. Their children were named Mary A., Betsey, Thomas, Sarah, Louisa, Eliza, Emma and Aaron. 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/whiteside/bios/scotchbr2111nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 3.4 Kb