Landis, J. M. 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 856, Pleasant Township
J. M. Landis, of the firm of Martin & Landis, grocers, Ipava, was born in Va., Sept. 26, 1843; attended college 2 years; came to this State in 1855, spent 3 years in McLean Co., then 8 years in Ohio, then 3 years in Iowa, and in 1876 settled in Ipava, where he followed fruit-packing 2 years; but in 1877 he commenced the grocery business, which he has since continued. He edited the Ashland Union 4 years, and the Dallas County (Iowa) News 2 years; has been Town Clerk and member of Town Board; is a R. A. Mason; married Miss Pancoast in Va., Mar. 10, 1868, who was a native of Ohio, born in 1841; have had 3 children, 2 living, - Sada A., born Jan. 15, 1871; Margaret, July 7, 1873; James W.