Amrine, Milton 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 906, Vermont Township
Milton Amrine, merchant, of the firm of Amrine, Nelson & Co., settled in Fulton Co. in 1845. He was born in W. Va. in 1833. His father, Frederick Amrine, was a native of Pa., was shoemaker, then millwright, distiller and merchant, and accumulated property very rapidly. While in Va. he married Nancy Shepard, of Maryland, by whom he had 7 children. From 1835 to 1850 the family resided in Illinois, mostly in Woodford Co. In 1850 Mr. Frederick Amrine started for California, but death overtook him at Ft. Bridger, near Salt Lake City. Milton married Roxana Litchfield, daughter of Chauncey L., and they have had 10 children, 9 of whom are living, - Mahlon, Martha N., Ansel, Clover, Lucy, Ida, May, Charley and Roscoe. In 1850 Mr. A. went to California, the following year he returned home and since then has followed farming, except that for the last two years he has been in the mercantile business.