Bogue, Jesse 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 907-908, Vermont Township
Jesse Bogue, merchant, was the first white child born in Pleasant tp. His father, John Bogue, was born in N. C. in 1875 {incorrect date, not possible}; at the age of 16 he settled in Ohio, where he afterward married Mary Ann Easley, daughter of Daniel Easley, of Virginia, by whom he had 11 children; 10 are living at the present time. The family arrived on Ipava Prairie in the spring of 1831 and pre-empted 1/4 sec. of land. Here he built a cabin, obtaining help from Lewistown; three years afterward he moved into Vermont tp., where he built the first saw-mill. He died in 1876. Mrs. B. died in 1871. Jesse, the 9th child, went to school in a log school-house on the ground which is now the Public Square in Vermont, his first teacher being Lewis Kelly. In 1855 he married Rebecca Cox, of Fulton Co.; in 1856 he built a steam saw-mill on Otter creek, in Vermont tp., where he continued until 1864, when he built a first-class grist-mill in Vermont, of which he is still proprietor. In 1876 he started a grocery on Main street, and has good success.