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 655, Farmers' Township
Sylvanus B. Corey, saddle and harness-maker, Table Grove, was
born June 25, 1835, in Maine; family lived in Bangor until he was 12
years old, when they removed to Newburyport, Mass.; there they remained
until the spring of '55, when he came to Chicago, and the following
fall to Canton, where he has mostly resided until July, 1879, when he
located in Table Grove. Here he established a saddle and harness shop,
in which business he has been engaged ever since he was 18 years old.
He was married April 4, 1857, to Sallie McBain, by whom he has had 2
children: only Frank E. is living. Mr. Corey served in the late war in
Co. F, 88th I.V.I., and participated in nearly all the leading
battlesof the department of the Cumberland; was discharged in June,
'65. He is building up a fine trade in Table Grove.
