Gorham, R. S. 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 888-889, Union Township
R. S. Gorham, farmer, son of F. S. and Parna (Sullivan) Gorham, was born Nov. 2, 1833, in Alleghany Co., N. Y., His parents first removed with him to Onondaga Co., N. Y., thence to this county in 1837, where he received a common-school education; attended the first school that was taught in Ellisville, which was in 1840. His father died in Ellisville in 1847. Mr. G. was married June 4, 1868, to Harriet Sweet, daughter of G. S. Sweet, who lives with his daughter. Mrs. G. was born in Erie Co., Pa. They are the parents of 5 children. In 1852 Mr. Gorham went “overland” to California, and returned by water in 1866. P. O., Avon.