Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

HENRY B. DESOLLAR, dealer in agricultural implements, 
Beardstown; was born in London, England, February 11, 1820.  
His father, who was of French parentage, was born in 
Amsterdam, Holland.  Mr. DeSollar came to America in 1834, 
and located at Brantford, Upper Canada, and when fifteen 
years of age was apprenticed to the carriage and wagon-
making trade, at which he served three years.  He served in 
the militia in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, for six 
months.  In 1838, he moved to Akron, Ohio, where he worked 
at his trade as journeyman nine months; then started a shop 
of his own in South Akron; afterward moved to Hartford, O., 
where he ran a shop for eighteen months.  In July, 1842, he 
came to Bethel, Morgan County, Ill., where he carried on 
business for some years.  In 1848, he came to Beardstown, 
bought a shop, an carried on the manufacture of carriages 
and wagons, until 1868, when he turned his shop into 
warerooms for agricultural implements, and has since 
engaged in the implement business.  In Akron, O., in 1839, 
he married Christina Clemens, who died in Bethel, Ill., in 
1847, leaving three children.  In 1849, in Beardstown, he 
married Miss Cook, and from this second marriage four 
children have been born.

DeSollar Clemens Cook
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