Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882. Cass County.

LEVI DICK, farmer; P. O., Chandlerville; was born in 
Kentucky, Feb. l7, 1815, and is a son of Peter and 
Christiana (Shutt) Dick. Mr. Peter Dick was born in North 
Carolina, and emigrated to Sangamon County, Ill., with his 
family, as early as 1829, and in the following year settled 
in Cass County, upon the dreaded bottoms of the Sangamon; 
for in an early day the bottom lands were considered the 
most sickly, pestilential, and ague-shaking of all the 
country in this section of the State.  The subject of our 
sketch remained with his parents until he was twenty-three 
years of age; for he was a dutiful and obedient son, and 
did not desert his home and parents for two years after he 
arrived at his majority; he then left home to engage in 
business for himself, for he always cherished an inborn 
desire to do and to make for himself that which might be 
called his own, and by a rigid system of economy and 
untiring industry, he accumulated a handsome property, and 
has an enviable reputation as a farmer and a man of 
business integrity.  He now has a comfortable home and a 
finely improved farm of 380 acres.  In 1839 he married Miss 
Emmatere Leeper, who was born in 1815, and died in 1853, 
leaving three children as the result of their union, viz.: 
Amos, Robert and Martha.  In 1854 he was a second time 
married, to Ann Morgan, a native of Cass County, and born 
in 1830; she is the mother of two children, Cordelia and 
George. Mr. Dick, politically, holds to the principles of 
the Democratic party.  He has never aspired to official 
promotions, believing it to be more becoming and consistent 
to attend to the duties of his farm and family, than to 
enter the political ring and clamor for office. Mr. Dick 
has made many friends, and is widely known as, morally and 
socially, an estimable man.

Dick Shutt Leeper 
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KY NC Sangamon-IL