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

WILLIAM DUVAL, farmer; P. O., Arenzville; was born in 
Beardstown, Jan. 25, 1837, and is a son of William H. and 
Elizabeth (Duvandach) Duval, natives of Hanover, Germany.  
William H. Duval was born in 1806; was a shoemaker, 
carpenter, and farmer; he died in August, 1880.  His wife 
was born in 1804; they had nine children.  The subject of 
this sketch received his education in Beardstown, worked at 
the printer's trade two years, and has since been a farmer 
in this county.  He married April 1, 1859, Mary Meier, a 
native of Prussia; and from this union the following 
children have been born: Hannah, William, John, Minnie, 
Edward, Henry, Emma, Louis and Lucy.  Mr. Duval has been 
School Director and Trustee for nine years; is a member of 
the Lutheran Church, and an adherent of the Republican 
party.

Duval Duvandach Meier
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Germany Prussia