Rodman, 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 862, Pleasant Township
J. M. Rodman, station agent and operator, Ipava, is a son of Samuel and Mary R., born in Penn. Aug. 30, 1844; came to this State in 1865, settling in Adams Co.; came to Ipava in 1869; clerked in dry-goods store; was switchman at depot; commenced as telegraph operator in 1866; has been Village Trustee; in 1864 married Mary Hormick, who also was born in Pennsylvania; Minnie R. is their only child, born, June 12, 1865.