Trone, Adam S. 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 463, Astoria Township
Adam S. Trone, farmer and blacksmith, was born in York Co., Pa., April 16, 1834. His father, Adam Trone, was also a native of Pa., and a farmer and cooper by occupation; he married Miss Catharine Shultz, by whom he raised a family of 11 children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the seventh. He passed his youth and grew to mature years near the city of Hanover, where he learned the trade of blacksmith. In 1855 he came to Astoria, where he opened a blacksmith shop; in 1858 was united in marriage with Miss Jane, daughter of Jacob Swope, by whom he had 14 children. 10 of whom are living, - Levi, Emma, Charles, William, Lizzie, Anna, John, George, Jacob and Mary.
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