Childs, George 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 888, Union Township
George Childs, farmer, sec. 13; P. O., Avon. Mr. C. was born in Canton, this county, May 6, ’32, and is the son of Nathaniel B. and Jane (Hall) Childs. He was educated in Canton; celebrated the 4th of July, 1856, by marrying Margaret A. Cane, who was born near Canton in ’38. They have had born to them 8 children, 6 of whom are living. Mr. C. has never seen the soil of any other State, and is now 47 years old. His father was in the dry-goods and distillery business with General Stillman in Canton previous to the Black Hawk war; also built Troy, on Cedar creek, and in early days used coon-skins as a legal tender.