Hoyle, John II 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 659, Farmers' Township
John Hoyle, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 8; P. O., Table Grove. In 1845 John Hoyle, sr., with his family settled in Harris tp., where he remained four years, when he removed to Farmers’ township, and here resided for twenty-two years. In 1871 he removed to Adams county, Iowa, where he died Aug. 3, 1878. Our subject, John Hoyle, was born in England, April 7, 1826, and was brought to New York when but eighteen months old. A part of his education was obtained in an old log school-house in Ohio, and a part in Steubenville, Ohio. Mr. Hoyle is a leading farmer and stock-raiser in Farmers’ tp., and owns 400 acres of well improved land. He was married, in April 1848, to Lucinda Walters, by whom he has had 13 children: 8 are living, and 4 married. Mrs. Hoyle’s father, William Walters, was a soldier in the Black Hawk war.