Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Wolfersperger, John 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

John Wolfersperger, retired farmer, residing at Sterling, was born in Lebanon 
Co., Pa., Oct. 14, 1820, his parents being John and Margaret E. (Trautman) 
Wolfersperger, natives of the same State. Remaining at home until 31 years of 
age, he came to Jordan Township, this county, and bought a saw-mill and 100 
acres of land, where he remained three and a half years. In the fall of 1853 
he entered 240 acres, in the same township; in the following spring he entered 
80 acres more; and in the fall of 1854 he moved upon this tract, aggregating 
at the time 320 acres. He resided upon that place until 1883, when he went to 
Kansas and spent a winter there to attend the tract of 960 acres of land which 
he had bought in 1873. In 1884 he returned to Sterling and purchased a 
residence, which he now occupies. He has, since his first purchases of land, 
bought and sold real estate, so that he is now the proprietor of a total 
amount of 720 acres in Jordan Township, and 1,600 acres in Prairie Co., Ark. 
In his political principles, Mr. W. is a Democrat. He and his family attend 
the Lutheran Church. He was married Oct. 20, 1844, to Lydia A. Kapp, a native 
of the Keystone State, and they now have four children living,—Henry F., 
Aaron, Cassie and Margaret. Henry F. married Tillie Duefflinger, and they live 
in Kansas, with a family of six children,— John, Dan, Lydia, Maggie, Maud and 
Bent. Aaron married Anna Hendricks, and they have two children,—Lelia and John 
J. Cassie married William Seidel and they reside in Kansas. Margaret married 
W. W. Davis, and they have one son,—John Davis.

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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