Farris, William 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 717, Isabel Township
William Farris, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 15; P. O., Duncan's Mills; was born May 4, 1819, in Missouri, son of John and Elizabeth Farris, natives of Virginia. The family first settled in Franklin Co., Ill., in 1821; in 1828 they came to Fulton county, and have lived here ever since. Mr. Farris has been Commissioner of Highways, Supervisor, Assessor, etc., in Isabel tp. He is yet unmarried, but has a nice farm.