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

LEWIS F. SANDERS, real estate and insurance, Beardstown; 
was born in Loudoun County, Va., July 23, 1809; son of 
Britton and Mary (Gill) Sanders, natives of Virginia, and 
parents of ten children-nine sons and one daughter, Lewis 
F. being the seventh sons. Britton Sanders was a farmer by 
occupation. Lewis F., engaged from 1832 to 1835 as a dry 
goods clerk in Washington, D.C., and in July of the latter 
year, came to Jacksonville, Ill., and soon after engaged 
with Dr. Henry H. Hall, as a clerk in his store and carried 
on business on his own account, till 1839; in 1838 he was 
appointed postmaster of Virginia. In 1839, he moved to 
Stevenson, now Rock Island, Illinois, and engaged in 
merchandising there till 1841; then moved to St. Louis, 
Mo., where he remained till the spring on 1843, when he 
came to Beardstown. He was appointed Deputy Circuit Clerk; 
also acted as Deputy County Clerk; was afterward elected 
County Clerk, which office he held eight years; and has 
held the office of Police Magistrate many years. In 1859, 
he engaged in the insurance business, and in addition kept 
a general store for a few years. In 1863, he was appointed 
Assistant U.S. Revenue Assessor for the 9th District of 
Illinois, which position he held till 1865; and has since 
been engaged in the insurance business. In 1839, he married 
Ellen Clendenen, of Morgan County, Ill., daughter of John 
Clendenen, of Harford County, Md.; they have had five 
children, two of whom are deceased. Mr. Sanders was 
formerly a Whig, now a Republican.

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