Rounds, Joseph 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 960, Woodland Township
Joseph Rounds, farmer, sec. 1; P. O., Summum; was born in Brown Co., O., in 1815; he lived in Ohio many years, and while a resident he was united in married to Miss Sarah Brook, by whom he had 8 children - 7 are living. Mr. Rounds settled in Fulton Co. 25 years ago.