Illinois: History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. Cass County. JOHN GORE, for nine years a resident of Virginia, is a native of Taylorsville, Ky., and was born Jan. 14, 1834. His father, Rector Gore, was a farmer by occupation, a native of the same State, and was born in the year 1809. He married Miss Amanda, daughter of David and Susan (Willet) Graff, also natives of Kentucky. Mrs. Gore died in the year 1834, having borne three children, viz.: Joshua, now a farmer of Menard County, this State, Evaline, who died when small, and our subject, the youngest. Mr. Gore survived until 1859. John, being an infant when his mother died, was consigned to the care and protection of his grandparents, the Graffs, and they, in that same year (1834), came to Illinois, and settled on a farm in Morgan county. He remained with them until he had reached years of discretion, and was able to care for himself. He attended the common schools of their neighborhood, and later, the Illinois College at Jacksonville; graduated from that institution in 1854, and received the degree of B.S. He commenced teaching school at sixteen years of age, and followed it, as a profession, for about twenty-five years, in the counties of Morgan, Adams and Cass. As an instructor he has been successful, to the extent of having acquired some means, which he has mostly invested in Cass County farming land, and was called by the people to serve as the Superintendent of the Public Schools of Cass county in 1872, for four years, or one term. March 22d, 1859, he married Miss Mattie Easum, daughter of Charles and Margaret (Swope) Easum, he of Maryland, she of Kentucky. They came to Illinois in 1854, and located on a farm in Adams county; raised a family of ten children, of whom Mrs. Gore was the second born. Mr. Easum died Aug. 21, 1871, and Mrs. Easum Jan. 8, 1865. Mr. Gore has recently become proprietor of the City Hotel, which he conducts with the same degree of success that has thus far characterized his life. He and Mrs. Gore are members of the Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Gore is a member of the I.O.O.F., Virginia Lodge. Gore Willet Graff Easum Swope = KY Menard-IL Morgan-IL Adams-IL MD