Coyner, J. B. 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 428, Astoria Township
J. B. Coyner, lumber dealer, located in this thriving town during the month of February, 1871. He is a native of Augusta, Va., and was born in the year 1842. His father, Harrison H. Coyner, was a Southern planter, and was a gentleman of considerable means before the war. The subject of this sketch obtained a liberal education. During the war and at the fall of Vicksburg he concluded to ??? his fortunes in the West, and accordingly in 1863 he came to Astoria. Here he engaged in contracting and building, and put up some of the best buildings in this section. In 1873 he purchased property from B. F. Linn and opened a lumber yeard where he has since carried on a large trade. In 1866 he was married to Miss Ella E., daughter of William Hettrick, of Astoria tp. Of this marriage 6 children were born, - Mary E., William, John W., Charles E., George H. and Olive Bell.