Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Somers, Edward 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Edward Somers, farmer, section 27, Portland Township, cultivating the Youngs 
farm, which comprises 197 acres, is a son of Frank and Mary (Baker) Somers, 
and was born July 25, 1846, in Portland Township, this county. His father, a 
farmer, was a native of Pennsylvania. His parents came to this western country 
in 1836, and were therefore among the earliest settlers here. His mother died 
when he was very young, and his father again married, and now resides in 
Kansas. Of the four children of his mother three are living, namely: Sarah, 
who is the wife of Edward Ott, a farmer in Kansas; Peter, a farmer. The 
subject of this sketch is the oldest of the children, and remained at his 
parental home until he was 18 years of age, when he was employed by the month, 
and then took a rented farm, which he cultivated for a time. In 1882 he bought 
a farm of 120 acres in Portland Township, kept it a year, and then sold and 
rented his present farm of 197 acres. He was married in Loraine Township, 
Henry Co., Ill., May 5, 1867, to Miss Nancy Bollen, daughter of Thomas and 
Lydia Bollen. She was born in that township in August, 1850. They have seven 
children: Cora, Frederick, Frank, John, Bernard, Lutitia and Hattie.

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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