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Victor and Jasper Changelon, farmers, Clifton,
were both born in Belgium, and left that country in
company with their father and mother, they being both young, the year 1863.
They et once came west to this township and bought raw prairie land, which
through unremitting labor they have made into a beautiful and productive farm:
it is well improved and fixed up, the whole 230 acres being well ditched and
fenced, with good house and barn, large bearing orchard, and handsome shade
trees. Jasper married, in August, 1870, Miss Mary Constantin, and has a family
of two children. Victor is still unmarried, and continues to reside with his
brother.
Source : Beckwith, H. W. : History of Iroquois County : together with
Historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and
manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though,
for the most part, out-of-the-way sources; Chicago: H.H. Hill and Co., 1880,
c1879, 1219 pgs.