Leu, Emanuel, I 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 955, Woodland Township
Emanuel Leu, farmer, sec. 8; P. O., Summum. The gentleman from whom this sketch is obtained is a native of Penn., where he was born in the year 1826; his father, David Leu, was also born in Penn., where he followed the occupation of a shoemaker, and where he was married to Miss Elizabeth Sennett. In 1853 Emanuel was united in marriage to Mrs. Caroline Give, a daughter of Franklin Give, by whom he has 10 children, - Emeline, Jane, Matilda, Emanuel, Ida, Franklin, Catherine, John, Michael and Edmund. On the 14th of February, 1866, Mr. L. settled in Fulton county, Woodland tp.