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| [From the Biographical Review of Hancock County, Illinois
Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Many Of The Prominent Citizens Of
To-day And Also Of The Past, (Chicago, Hobart Publishing Company, 1907). Page 264.] SAMUEL C. VINCENT Samuel C. Vincent, deceased, Came to Hancock county in 1844 and although he passed away in 1870 he is yet remembered by many of the older settlers who knew him and respected him as a man of genuine personal worth. He was born January 6, 1822, in West Avon, Livingston county, New York, and attended school in Erie county, that state, but was largely self educated. On the 8th of October, 1843, he wedded Mary J. Andrews, who was born in Connecticut in 1821. In the spring of 1844 they removed to La Harpe, where for about ten years Mr. Vincent was engaged in teaching school, soon after his arrival in this county; however, he purchased a tract of land to which he added at intervals until at his death he owned one hundred and sixty acres of land in the corporate limits of La Harpe. He died August 15, 1870, leaving a wife and six children. He was well known among the early settlers of this part of the county and his interests were closely allied with its progress and development. |