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

WILLIAM H. McCORMICK, distiller, Beardstown; was born in 
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 24, 1838, and received his 
education in his native city.  At fourteen years of age he 
began working as train boy, and at other employments, and 
at the age of nineteen became conductor of a train running 
between Indianapolis, Ind., and Cincinnati, O., remaining 
in that position, on that road, till 1873, with the 
exception of four years, which he spent in Tennessee.  He 
went to that State in 1863, and was employed as conductor 
on the Nashville and Northwestern Railroads till 1866, when 
he returned to Indianapolis, and was employed by the 
company he had formerly worked for as conductor, running 
between Cincinnati, O., and Lafayette, Ind., until 1873.  
In that year he retired from railroading, and devoted his 
attention to the livery business, in Lafayette, Ind., till 
1870, when he sold out and removed to Beardstown.  He then 
again engaged in his former occupation of conductor, on the 
Springfield division of the O. & M. Railroad, until the 
spring of 1880, when he engaged in the distilling business 
in Beardstown.  In 1858, he married Emma A. Brown, of 
Indianapolis, Ind.

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