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WAYNE CO., IL

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

LAMARD TWP

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RICHARDSON, ALEXANDER., farmer in Lamard Township and dealer in grain and implements at Fairfield, Wayne Co., IL, was born in Midlothian, Scotland, January 2, 1828. His parents, Alexander Richardson and Mary Frier, were both born in Scotland, followed the pursuit of farming. and his mother still lives there and is now in her eighty-third year. His father died in Scotland in 1881, in his eighty-seventh year. To these parents were born eight children, Alexander being the oldest. He grew to manhood and was educated in his native county, and was there married, June 2, 1851, to Miss Mary Bruce. She was born October 16, 1834, in Scotland. Immediately after marriage, they embarked for America on the sailing vessel "Harmonia," landing in New York July 10, 1851. They located in Plainfield, N. J., till the fall of 1852, when they came to Wayne County, Ill. Since that date Mr. Richardson has been a resident of Lamard Township, engaged in farming, and owns eighty acres of land, with his family residence, one and a fourth miles northwest of Fairfield.

For the past fifteen years he has operated in the grain market and conducted the implement business in Fairfield.

In politics, he is Democratic, and cast his first Presidential vote for Stephen A. Douglas. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., and both he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.