Crater, Joshua 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 508, Bernadotte Township
Joshua Crater, farmer, sec. 17; P. O., Bernadotte; the son of Philip and Elizabeth Crater (both of whom died in this county), was born in Chester county, Penn., May 6, 1818, from which place he removed to Mason Co., Ill.; from there to this county in 1851; was educated in Penn. and married Catherine Knerr, of that State in 1840; nine children have been born to this union, eight of whom are living. Mr. C. and wife are members of the Lutheran Church. He is a blacksmith by trade, but of late has turned his attention very successfully to farming. Republican.
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