W. A. Church

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

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W. A. Church, Catlin, farmer, was born in Catlin township, Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 13th of July, 1833, and has never been out of the county over a month at a time. He was married in 1853 to Miss Hester A. Douglass, who was born on the 7th of October, 1834, in Vermilion county. They have three sons and two daughters: Sarah D., wife of J. Acree; William J., Laura A., wife of L. Busby; Thos. W. and Charles S. Mr. Church owns a fine farm of three hundred

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and thirty-five acres, with good improvements, most of which he has made himself.