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
Wm. Dilworth, deceased, was born in Chester county, Pa., in
1794; came to Ohio in 1814, where he was a merchant and was married; in
1837 he came and settled first in Vermont tp., following the mercantile
business until 1842, and then until 1847 he followed flat-boating to
New Orleans. He died in 1863 and was buried in Vermont cemetery.
