Weston, Edwin 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 758, Kerton Township
Edwin Weston, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Staffordshire, Eng., in 1832. His father, Robert Weston, was a game-keeper, who married Jane Adams, and they were the parents of 9 children, the youngest of whom is Edwin. They emigrated to America in 1846 and settled 100 miles below Niagara Falls. In a few months they came to Isabel township, this county, Mrs. W. dying in Chicago en route. Edwin soon learned to take care of himself, and in June, 1853, he married Margaret, a daughter of Geo. Cooper, of Ohio. Mr. W. has now a home of his own on sec. 6, and has been Assessor and Road Commissioner. Democrat. P. O., Otto.