Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Sholes, Orin 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Orin Sholes, resident at Morrison, formerly a farmer and merchant, was born 
June 19, 1808, at a place now known as Chipman's Point, in Vermont, and 
included within the township of Orwell, which was set off from Rutland County 
to Addison County some years since. It was formerly Sholes Point, and is 
located about two miles south of the old fort, Ticonderoga, in Essex Co., N. 
Y. (The outline of Lake Champlain at this point is such that a portion lies 
due south of the fort.) His father, Joseph Sholes, was born June 17, 1771, and 
married Ann Hull, who was born Sept. 23, 1768. Both parents were born in 
Connecticut. Of their six children, Mr. Sholes is the only survivor. His 
mother was within sight of New London, Conn., when it was taken by Arnold, and 
her brother, who was in the fortifications, perished, with others, only one 
person escaping with his life. Mr. Sholes was reared on a farm and was engaged 
in agriculture until 1841, when he went to North Ferrisburg, Addison Co., 
Vermont, and opened a mercantile enterprise, which he continued to manage 13 
years. In November, 1854, he came West and located at Unionville, Union Grove 
Township, where he engaged in trade in hardware, tinware, etc., operating at 
that point until 1860. In that year he bought 160 acres of land in the 
township of Union Grove, located on section 29, where he pursued his 
agricultural projects until 1871, when he leased the farm and removed to 
Morrison.   He owns his residence, a dwelling adjoining and three lots 
connected therewith, besides several acres lying north of the village in the 
township of Mt. Pleasant, he also owns 320 acres in Dakota. Mr. Sholes was 
first married Oct. 10, 1830, in Orwell, Vt., to Caroline Wicker. They had 11 
children, of whom seven, are still living, and they were born in the following 
order: Lucy P. (Savage); Louisa (Steer); Chipman W. resides in Lincoln, Neb., 
but owns and runs a cattle ranch in the Indian Territory; Watson W., a 
stockman in Fredonia, Kan.; Joseph, a farmer in Nebraska; Royce, a tinner in 
Fredonia, Kan.; Charlotte is now the wife of Eugene Steer, of Pierre, Dak.; 
Joseph and Rollin C. were soldiers in the Civil War, and enlisted in the 
Eighth Ill. Cav. The latter died while in the military service of the United 
States. Mr. Sholes' wife died at Hinesburg, Vt. He was a second time married 
in Lyndon Township, March 20, 1857, to Mrs. Mary J. Loomis. She was born Oct. 
1, 1825, in Lewis Co., N. Y., and by her first marriage had three children— 
Alice, Sue A. and Bert Loomis. The older daughter is the wife of A. W. Hull, a 
railroad conductor in Minnesota. The son is a merchant in Hannibal, Mo.

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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