Dilworth, Ezra 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 912-913, Vermont Township
Ezra Dilworth. During the spring of 1868 Ezra Dilworth and Emer added to the attractiveness of Vermont in the erection of the two-story brick business house on Main st., now owned and occupied by Ezra Dilworth as a hardware store and agricultural wareroom. Later they erected another, which adds beauty to Main st. As far back as 1854 Messrs. E. & E. Dilworth began business in a small way, - purchasing a small one-story frame building 16x30. This store was stocked with goods from St. Louis. The new firm, through well directed energy, business tact and honesty, soon gained for them a trade, and step by step they have climbed far beyond the lowest rundle of the ladder, carrying as large a line of first-class goods as any similar firm in the county.