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

JUDGE SYLVESTER EMMONS, deceased, was born in Hunterdon 
County, N.J., Feb. 28, 1808.  In 1831, he went to 
Philadelphia, Pa., where he studied law; was admitted to 
the bar in Hancock County, Ill., in May, 1843; and in 1844, 
became editor of an anti-Mormon paper, called the Nauvoo 
Expositor, only one number of which was published, when the 
press was destroyed.  He came to Beardstown in 1844, and 
conducted the Beardstown Gazette until 1852.  He served as 
Circuit Clerk of this county nine years; was appointed 
Postmaster of Beardstown, in 1849; was Mayor of Beardstown 
two terms; was Master in Chancery of this county several 
terms, and was Police Magistrate and Justice of the Peace 
here, for many years.  He was originally an old line Whig, 
afterward a Republican.  In 1847, he married Elizabeth 
Miller, sister of E. B. Miller, and from this union four 
children were born: Alice, Arthur, and two others, who died 
in infancy.  Judge Emmons died Nov. 15, 1881.  He was a 
member of the Methodist Church.

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