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COLVIN, THOMAS D.,  Postmaster and merchant, Cisne, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born February 12, 1840, a son of Amos and Elizabeth (Holden) Colvin, both Ohioans by birth. The father was a son of Thomas Colvin, and was a farmer by occupation.

The mother is now living in Jeffersonville, this county, aged seventy years. Her father, Charles Holden, served in the war of 1812. The parents of our subject were blessed with ten children, of whom there are seven living —Andrew J., Ann Doan, Thomas D., Solomon B., Cyrus, HannahSimmons and George W.

At the age of thirteen years, our subject came with his parents to Richland County, III., where he lived until 1872, engaged principally in farming.

In September, 1861, he enlisted in the Sixty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Company I. The regiment's sharpshooters were commanded by Col. Burke. Mr. Colvin served out his three years of enlistment, but re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, and served until the close of the war. He was engaged throughout the Western campaign, and was with Sherman in his famous march to the sea.

He opened up in the mercantile business at Calhoun, Ill., and in 1872 came to Cisne, moving his stock of goods with him, and he has since continued in the same business, and has also had charge of the post office at this point for abort eight years.

Mr. Colvin married Elma Comstock, a daughter of Isaac Comstock, who came from Ohio, and located in 1864, in Richland County, this State. The union has been blessed with seven children, of whom three are living—Charles H., Georgie M. and Aden P.

Subject is a member of the A., F. & A. M., Johnsonville Lodge, No. 713. Politically, is a Republican.