History of Macon County, Illinois.  With Illustrations Descriptive Of 
Its Scenery, and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and 
Pioneers.  Published by Brink, McDonough & Co., Phildelphia, 1880.  
Reproduced through efforts of The Decatur Genealogical Society, 1972. 
pp. 160-161 [Unknown County].

A. C. EDGAR, who has been supervisor of Niatic township since the spring 
of 1876, is a native of Cass County, Illinois, and was born on the 
twelvth of May, 1845.  On his father's side, his ancestors were Irish.  
His grandfather emigrated from Ireland to America, and his father, 
George Edgar, was born in Kentucky.  He finally moved from Kentucky to 
Illinois, and settled in Schuyler county, where his father married 
Elizabeth Hall, who was also a native of the state of Kentucky.  In 
1849, at the discovery of gold in California, his father went to the new 
gold regions, and was absent sixteen years, when he returned to 
Illinois, where he died.  A. C. Edgar was the next to the youngest of a 
family of four children.  His boyhood was spent in Cass and Schuyler 
counties, his mother moving with her family to Schuyler county and 
living there several years, and then returning to Cass county.  He 
attended school only to a limited extent.  For most of his education he 
was obliged to rely on his own efforts, picking up his knowledge as best 
he could.  The family were in limited circumstances, and from early 
childhood he was obliged to work to help gain a support for the family.  
On the third of September, 1868, he married Julia Cook of Cass County.  
In the spring of 1869 he moved to Macon county, and with money he had 
earned in Cass county, purchased eighty acres of land in section twenty-
eight, of township seventeen, range one west.  He moved on this tract 
and began improving it, and has since been engaged in farming in Niatic 
township.  He is now the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land, 
part of which lies in the adjoining section twenty-seven.  The death of 
his first wife occurred in January, 1875.  His second marriage took 
place in February, 1878, to Eliza Ford, who was born in the State of 
Arkansas.  Her father, Elias Ford, was a Kentuckian by birth.  He has 
had five children of whom three, Horace, Nevada and Effie May, are now 
living.  The youngest child is by his present marriage.  One child, 
Travis, died at the age of seven years, and another, Alonzo, by his 
first wife, died in infancy.  In his politics he has always been a 
democrat, and in general elections has always been consistent in the 
support of the democratic ticket.  He cast his first vote for President 
for Horatio Seymour in 1868.  He is a man who is much respected for his 
honesty and integrity, and the people of Niatic township have elected 
him several times to different positions.  He was first elected a member 
of the board of supervisors in 1876, and has since been re-elected to 
that office every successive year.  He has filled the position to the 
satisfaction of the citizens of his part of the county, and has retained 
the confidence of the community.  Mr. Edgar is a self-made man.  He 
began at the lowest round of the ladder, and what he has accomplished is 
the result of his own industry and energy.

Cook Edgar Ford Seymour
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AR CA Cass-IL Ireland Niatic-Macon-IL Schuyler-IL

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