Paull, Robert 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 860-861, Pleasant Township
Robert Paull was born in Va. Aug. 9, 1810; reared on a farm; arrived in this State Nov. 20, 1839; has been clerk in the County Clerk’s office and Justice of the Peace for many years, - the latte office ever since 1842; has been County Treasurer 5 years; married Harriet Bidwell Sept. 28, 1836, who was born in Vt. Oct. 9, 1817, and they have had 9 children, 7 of whom are living, - Frank, Mary, Estella, Sarah, Emma, Amelia and Mary; deceased - Ella and William.