Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Shirley, Reuben F 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Reuben F. Shirley, retired farmer, and a resident of Rock Falls, was born Aug. 
21, 1820, in Connersville, Fayette Co., Ind., and was the youngest son of 
eight children in the family of John and Elizabeth (Danner) Shirley, his 
father a native of Virginia and his mother of Pennsylvania. Receiving a 
limited school education, and remaining with his parents until 22 years of 
age, he bought a farm in Marshall Co., Ind., containing 170 acres, and 
occupied it from 1843 to 1864; he then sold it, and came to Lee County, this 
State, buying 240 acres of land, which he cultivated three years; selling 
this, he purchased an 80-acre farm in this county, on the Dixon road, and 
resided there from 1867 to 1876. He then sold this place to his son, Samuel, 
and came to Rock Falls, and purchased a half block in Arey's Addition, 
erecting a residence thereon, which he now occupies. Politically, Mr. Shirley 
is Democratic. He is a self-made man, ready at all times to lend a helping 
hand for the good of society. He was married June 2, 1842, to Jane Thompson, 
also a native of Indiana. They have had six children, four of whom are now 
living and married, namely: Samuel T., who married Alice V. Worthington; 
Meredith A., who married Sarah L. Densmore; Sarah E., who married Charles E. 
Payson, and Nancy A., who married J. H. Meckling.

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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