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Biography of John C. Teats
JOHN C. TEATS OF Sterling Township, Whiteside Co IL
History of Whiteside County Bent/Wilson 1877John C. Teats was born in Aurora, Erie county, New York, September 8, 1822, and came to Whiteside county in 1836, settling first in Portland, where he remained six years, and then moved to Erie, and afterwards to Lyndon. In 1855 he came to Sterling, and has resided there since that time. Mr. Teats married Miss Clymena A. Pratt, daughter of John C. Pratt, in June, 1845. There was one child by this marriage, Alice, born April 4, 1846, who married William Emmitt, and lives in Harmon, Lee county. Mrs. Teats died in Jan 1847, and in February, 1853, Mr. Teats married Miss Ellen Coburn. The children by this marriage are: Dora, born August 4, 1857; Mabel, born Septem 6, 1860; and Clymena, born February 16, 1867. They are all living at home. . Mr. Teats followed farming until 1850, when he became a dentist, and afterwards a photographer. In 1866 he discontinued the latter business, and entered into Fire Insurance business, which he has followed since. He has been Assessor of the township of Sterling, and for four years past City Clerk of the city of Sterling. For the past eight years he has also been policeman Sterling, part of the time as regular policeman of the city, and part as merchant police. His brother William, and three sisters, came to Whiteside with him. William, and two of the sisters, are dead. The remaining sister is now Mrs. Harvey Sage, and lives in Pekin, Illinois; her first husband was William Farrington, of Lyndon.
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