In 1822, DAVID WOOLLEY left his home in New York with his family, and came west some 300 miles by team, to the Allegheny, thence down that river and the Ohio to the Mississippi in a flatboat. He located on section 21, under the bluff of this township, to which he brought his family. He is a native of the hills of Washington county, N.Y., and was united in marriage, in that place, with Laura Hodge, also a native of the same county. Mr. Woolley was a mill-wright by trade, and followed that business somewhat in this part of the country. He and his wife were the parents of 13 children, eight of whom are living. Mr. Woolley lived on the place where he located, although absent at times on business, until his death, in Aug., 1860. His wife died in Macoupin county, at the resident of her daughter.