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 913, Vermont Township
Rhodes Dilworth, retired farmer, etc., was born in Chester Co.,
Pa., in 1800, the second child of Caleb and Ann Dilworth; at 13 he
moved to Ohio and learned the miller’s trade; became proprietor of a
mill and a steamboat; came to Vermont in 1837; followed farming three
years; in company with Wm. Felton, built a grist-mill in Vermont; in
1848 sold out and went into the shipping business at Browning; burned
out in 1855, since which time he has been comparatively out of
business. He married Rebecca Falk and they had 8 children, but 2 of
whom are living: Sarah, who married Joab Mershon, and Lydia, now the
wife of Dr. Clevinger.
