WESTON, Henry

WESTON, BALDWIN, WATSON, WALKER

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 10:36:02

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

HENRY WESTON, farmer; P.O. De Witt; Mr. Weston was born in England in 1813; he came to the United States in 1835; he was one of the early settlers of McHenry Co., Ill, where he located in 1837. He came to De Witt in 1851; he resides just without the limits of the city, where he has a farm of 100 acres; he also owns another farm of 146 acres in De Witt Township. His first wife was Miss Sarah Baldwin, a native of England; she died April 3, 1840. His second wife was Elizabeth Watson, of English parentage; she died Dec. 9, 1870; he has two children by first marriage-John H., born in 1836, and Thomas, born in 1838; has
9 children by second marriage, seven of whom are living-Mary J., George E., James, Daniel, Ann, Amelia and William M. K. Three nieces of Mr. Weston-Ann, Mary Jane and Margaret Walker-reside with him; they came from England in 1868.