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 943-944, Woodland Township
John Bloomfield, agriculturist; was born in Butler Co., O., Jan.
9, 1807; his father died when he (John) was but 7 months old; learned
the wagon-maker’s trade under an older brother, Joseph Bloomfield; in
November, 1830, he married Mary Fawcett, of Butler Co.; in 1837 he
journeyed to Illinois; near Sharpe’s Landing, in Schuyler Co., he lived
11 months, when he bought a farm in Woodland tp.; in process of time he
acquired 280 acres, heavily timbered, however, which he improved; he
was twice married; by the first marriage he had 7 children, 5 of whom
grew to mature years; Emily, who married Jesse Mead and resides in
Lewistown; Ira J., a lawyer, who married Kate I. Young and resides in
Bloomington; was Brigadier General in the late war; Henry T., who
married Mrs. Nancy Shields, and died at Nashville in the army; Levi,
who married Hilpa Younker, of Ohio, and resides in Colorado; Mary, who
married Scott Hughes, and resides in this tp. Mrs. B. died Oct. 29,
1852. Sept. 14, 1854, Mr. B. married Margaret Littlejohn, relict of
Abram Littlejohn and daughter of Edward Littlejohn, of Va., and they
have 3 sons and 2 daughters: Mary, who married Lewis Anderson and lives
in Kansas; Louisa J., who married Solomon Still, residing in this tp.;
James, who married Nancy Paten, and now resides at Duncan City; John,
who married Nancy A. Thompson and resides in Schuyler county; has 3
children, - Abram, a school-teacher, and residing on the homestead, as
also Lot, who married Rosanna Eley, in this tp., and Peter, who also
resides on the homestead, comprising 160 acres of well improved land.
The residence was erected in 1856. Mr. B. was one of the three
commissioners who laid off this county into townships and named them.
