Christian H. Forney

FORNEY, PRINCE, BURNES

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:07:26

Christian H. Forney is numbered among the farmers of Dayton township. He was born in Tuscarwas county, Ohio, in 1822. When nineteen years of age he removed with his parents, Christian and Christina Forney, to Indiana, where they lived until their death. Mr. Forney moved to Illinois in 1854, onto a farm in Livingston county, near Pontiac. His residence in Butler county dates from July 3, 1856. He bought his present farm from William Mullin and James Blake.
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Mr. Forney has been twice married. His first wife was Rebecca Prince, a native of Champaign county, Ohio. His present wife was Miss Agnes Burnes, a native of England. She came to the United states when but five years of age, living in Ohio. Mr. Forney had three children by his first wife and has had six by his second, five of whom are living.
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He is one of the successful farmers of Butler county and is quite an extensive land owner, having five hundred and sixty acres in one body. In 1850 he took a trip across the plains to California and was absent about a year.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 583