SINCLAIR, HARRY WATSON. - It requires a thorough knowledge of farming in all its many details to be a successful agriculturist. There are men engaged in tilling the soil in Cass County who appreciate this fact and have taken a deep interest in their work and through their success are doing much to make this locality a center of agriculture. One of these men is Harry Watson Sinclair of Virginia.

Harry W. Sinclair was born in Champaign County, Ill., July 10, 1883, a son of John N. and Eliza (Stout) Sinclair. While he was still an infant, Mr. Sinclair's parents moved to Chandlerville, Cass County, and in 1888 located at Virginia, so that the lad enjoyed the advantages of excellent schools. When he was fifteen years old, he began to be self-supporting, securing work in a country store, and in 1906 he embarked in a grocery business at Virginia, in partnership with J. C. Baily. This association continued with profit to both until 1912, when Mr. Sinclair sold his interest to his partner, and moved to the farm of Marquis L. Crum in Virginia Precinct, where, during the following years, he has been engaged in general farming and stock raising, feeding the greater part of his grain. His success along these lines has been of such a nature as to mark him a man well fitted for agricultural pursuits, and he is correctly numbered among the leaders of his county.

On September 12, 1912, Mr. Sinclair was married by Rev. Loyd, of Virginia, Ill., to Rena Frances Crum, born November 14, 1888, in Virginia Precinct, a daughter of Marquis L. and Frances (Stubblefield) Crum. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair have one son, Marquis Crum, who was born July 22, 1913. Mr. Sinclair is a Presbyterian while his wife is a Methodist. In politics he is a Democrat, while fraternally he belongs to Masonic Lodge No. 544 of Virginia, and to the Knights of Pythias No. 551 of the same city. Mrs. Sinclair is a member of the Eastern Star.