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

F.G.I. RATCLIFF, baker, Beardstown; is a native of 
Staffordshire, England; born March 5, 1823. At the age of 
eighteen he began learning the baker's trade, in Newcastle, 
Eng., to which he served an apprenticeship of three and a 
half years. He worked at his trade at Liverpool, and at 
other places till 1849, when he came to this country, 
worked a short time in Troy, N.Y., afterward worked at 
Andover, Henry County, Ills., about six months, then went 
to New Orleans, La., then to Baton Rouge, where he was 
pastry cook in a hotel four years. In 1854, he opened a 
bakery in Rock Island, Ills., which he carried on there 
three years, then came to Beardstown, where he has since 
carried on the bakery business, doing the principal 
wholesale trade of the town; he is assisted by his two 
sons, Richard and Thomas. Mr. Ratcliff is also proprietor 
of a barber shop; he cooked the first meal served in the 
Park House, and held the position of cook there till 1863, 
when he paid a visit to his native country. In Mobile, 
Ala., in 1852, he married Rebecca Morrow, who has borne him 
ten children, five of whom are living.

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