Wrestler, W. L. 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
W. L. Wrestler, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 7; P. O., Marbletown; is a native Brown county, O., where he was born Feb. 13, 1825, his father, Henry Wrestler, was born in Pennsylvania, where he followed farming and there married Miss Lydia Rass, by whom he had a family of 5 children. W. L. being next to the youngest. He grew to manhood in Ohio and there married Sarah J., daughter of Samuel and Margaret Warner. Ten children have been born to them, 7 of whom are living: Lydia, Minerva V., Marcus, Sarah, Lafayette, George and Ida M. During the autumn of 1852 Mr. W. made his way to Illinois and located in Kerton township, on the property now owned by J. W. Linebaugh and the following year purchased 80 acres of his present farm which consists of 240 acres.