A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
From The History of Ogle County, Illinois, H. F. Kett, 1878 - Illinois, p. 728: Elizabeth M. Barnum, residence, southeast corner Main and South streets, Creston; she was born November 27, 1815, in Rush, Northumberland Co., Pennsylvania, daughter of Ralph and Mary Ann Housewert Mettler, who came to Illinois, near Rockford, in 1840; her father died in 1841; her mother died May 27, 1876, in Creston, aged 80 years; Mrs. Barnum first married Huron Lewis in New York ; came to Kendall Co., Illinois in 1842; Mr. Lewis died there in 1850: they had six children—Louisa Ann, now Mrs. Albert Lewis; Wilmot Young, dead; Sarah Elizabeth, now Mrs. Lewis W. Young; Laura Edna, dead; Henry W. and Baton H., who died South in the late war; remarried November 19, 1855, in New Milford, Winnebago County, Illinois, to Anson Barnum, who was born in Danbury, Connecticut, March 6, 1807, settling in Rockford in 1836; was one of the first settlers there; was County Clerk from 1838 to 1840; Sheriff from 1844 to 1846; came to Creston in the Fall of 1855; opened the first store here; was Town Assessor and Justice of the Peace several years, and Assistant United States Revenue Assessor; was elected County Judge in 1869; died in Oregon Sept. 5, 1873; they had one child— Charles H. Barnum, born in Creston (Illinois) March 21, 1857, who is now attending the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois. Judge Barnum took a lively interest in the material prosperity of the town, and did much toward building up the large trade it enjoyed.
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