Amrine, Ansel bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 418, Astoria Township
Ansel Amrine, farmer, sec. 6; P. O., Vermont. Ansel Amrine is a native of Fulton Co., where he was born in 1855. His father, Milton Amrine, a prominent man of Vermont, is well and favorably known. Ansel grew to manhood in McDonough and Fulton counties and received a good education. With the exception of a short residence in Texas, where he embarked in cattle speculation, he has made his home in Illinois. March 27, 1879, he was married to Miss Wyllie Hamer, daughter of Col. Thomas Hamer, of Vermont.