Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Wilkinson, Andrew 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Andrew Wilkinson, retired farmer and formerly one of the largest land owners 
in the county, and at present residing at Prophetstown, is a son of James and 
Samantha (Field) Wilkinson, and was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Jan. 3, 1836. 
His father was a farmer and a native of the same county, and was born Jan. 5, 
1814. His mother was born April 14, 1814. The former died April 7, 1874, and 
the latter Aug. 21, 1882. When a young man of 24 years of age, in 1860, Andrew 
came West to find a wider field to work in and to join with the enterprising 
men in building up the great prairie State. He came to Whiteside County and 
located in Prophets town Township. The following autumn his father and mother 
with the other members of the family—one son and three daughters—joined him. 
They soon began to buy land in this section, and accumulated until at one time 
they owned 2,016 acres of fine farming land on the Rock River bottom. Shortly 
after their arrival here, the bought 40 acres of land in Prophetstown 
Township, and subsequently 120 in Tampico Township, and afterward 889 in Hume, 
and at subsequent purchases in the latter township 597 acres. They accumulated 
all this land before selling any. A number of years after the above named 
purchases, they bought two farms in Lyndon Township, one of 140 acres and the 
other of 416. Andrew still owns 565 acres in Hume Township and one and a half 
acres in Prophetstown city. While farming they raised large numbers of hogs 
and cattle, doing their own shipping. He now owns 183 head of cattle and 25 
horses. The members of his father's family were born in the following order: 
Andrew, the subject of this sketch; Alonzo, now living at Sterling; Ann Eliza, 
wife of George D. Wiard, a farmer near Ypsilanti, Mich.; Annett, wife of J. M. 
V. Sanderson, of Moline, Ill.; Sophronia, wife of C. H. Field, in the American 
Express office, Chicago. Those deceased are Margaret Jane and Jay. The former 
died Sept. 16, 1871, and the latter April 18, 1873. The subject of this sketch 
was married Jan. 1, 1857, in Oneida Co., N. Y., to Miss Sarah E., daughter of 
Coonrad and Sally House. She was born in Oneida County Dec. 2, 1837. To them 
have been born two children,—Irwin G., who is a farmer in Hume Township, and 
Eva J., wife of Henry Clark, of Prophetstown. Mrs. Wilkinson died in Tampico 
Township, Feb. 23, 1866. Mr. W. was again married, March 11, 1879, this time 
to Mary M. Quigley, who was born in Lancaster Co., Pa., Sept. 10, 1836. Mr. W. 
retired from the farm, where he had been eminently successful, in January, 
1883, and has since resided at Prophetstown. He is a Mason and a member of the 
Order of Modern Woodmen of America. As a truly representative citizen of 
Whiteside County, we present a portrait of Mr. Wilkinson in this volume.

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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