Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Wakeman, Luman 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Luman Wakeman, farmer on section 18, Montmorency Township, is a son of David 
and Helen (Waltermire) Wakeman, who were natives respectively of Connecticut 
and New York State. Mr. David Wakeman died at his home in Dutchess Co., N. Y., 
April 28, 1833, and his widow afterward married Hiram Witherwax, and they came 
to Whiteside County in 1866, settling in Hume Township, where she died April 
4, 1881. They had five children—George, Clarissa, David, Sarah and Luman. Mr. 
Wakeman, the subject of this sketch, was born in Red Hook, Dutchess Co., N. 
Y., Feb. 27, 1831, and was about two years of age when his father died; 
consequently he was very young when he started out in the perilous voyage of 
life for himself. At the age of 14 years he was apprenticed to learn the 
saddlery trade, to which he applied himself for something over two years. Up 
to this time his school education was very limited, owing mainly to feeble 
health. From the same cause, and partly from choice, he abandoned the trade 
that had been chosen for him, and sought outdoor employment on the farm. After 
being thus engaged about 14 years, he purchased the farm which he now 
occupies, and upon which he permanently located in 1858; he had previously 
spent a short time in this county, and also in Winnebago County and Iowa. In 
Winnebago County he followed farming about three years and was married. From 
the age of 20 to 24 he was engaged in the lumber woods and in a saw-mill, and 
also for a time had charge of the engine. In 1858 he purchased 80 acres where 
he lives, erected good farm buildings and subsequently added other land by 
purchase, so that he is now the proprietor of 225 acres, all of which is in 
cultivation. In his political action, Mr. Wakeman is independent; in religion 
he is a member of the Congregational Church, and in the community he enjoys a 
high social standing. Officially, he has held many positions of trust. Mr. 
Wakeman was first married in Yates Co., N. Y., March 16, 1852, to Sarah A. 
Bradbury, a native of that State, and they had one child, David L. His second 
marriage occurred in Guilford, Winnebago Co, Ill., Sept. 19, 1859, to Mrs. 
Emily A., daughter of Hiram and Nancy (Boss) Cunningham, and widow of Peter 
Christie, who died in Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., Nov. 15, 1856. By her 
first marriage there were three children,—Orson, Katie and Henry. The first 
named died Jan. 8, 1885, when 32 years of age, and Katie died March 2r, 1856. 
Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham were natives of Oneida Co., N. Y., moved to Jefferson 
Co., Wis., thence to Winnebago Co., Ill., and finally to Delaware Co., Iowa, 
where Mr. C. died, Nov. 18, 1868. Mrs. C. survives. They had a family of nine 
children,—Edwin, Emily A., Benjamin, Horace, Henry, Freeman, Marshall, Guy and 
Putnam. Mrs. Wakeman was born in Oswego Co., N. Y., Jan. 20, 1831, and by her 
present marriage there are three children,—Emma A., Aetna D. and Edwin M.

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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