Dennis Rouse

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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Dennis Rouse, Catlin, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Scioto county, Ohio, on the 14th of February, 1828, and came to Vermilion county in 1832 with his parents, and first settled two and one-half miles east of Danville, his parents dying when he was quite young. He started without anything, and at the present is the owner of a fine farm of seven hundred and twenty acres, within eight miles of Danville, which is the result of his own labor. On the 29th of October, 1850, Mr. Rouse was married to Miss Louisa Olehy, a native of Scioto county, Ohio, born on the 20th of December, 1834. By their marriage they have three children: Reazon, Lillie J. and Dennis A. One child died -- Emma.