Curless, Edmund 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 752, Kerton Township
Edmund Curless. This gentleman resides upon sec. 30, and gets his mail at Marbletown. He was born in Brown Co., O. in 1831; at the age of 15, accompanied his parents, Joseph and Lucy Curless, to Illinois and located in Woodland tp., this county. When President Lincoln called his troops to suppress the Rebellion, Edmund enlisted in Co. I., 85th Ill. Inf. and participated in many battles. He went out as private and was promoted to Orderly Sergeant and afterwards to First Lieutenant. At the close of the war he was discharged and returned to Fulton Co. He had previously married Mary Newton, daughter of Dr. Newton, deceased. There are 7 children living of this marriage: Olive and Florence, twins, Flora, Oscar, Edmund, Elizabeth and Lilly.
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