This gentleman is now one of the prosperous farmers of East Galena Township, owning and living upon a fine place of 200 acres, which he owns on section 23, although he has been a resident of this county mainly since 1842. lie was horn in County Cornwall. England. Dec. 22, 1828. He comes of good old Cornish stock, his parents, William and Amelia (Michel) Sincock, both being natives of that county, who emigrated to this country in 1842, settling in Galena, where for some years he followed his calling as a miner, having learned that trade in England. The wife died when she was about sixty years of age; but her husband survived her many years, dying in the spring of 1888, when more than eighty years old.

Our subject took passage from the port of Falmouth, in England, for New York City; and on arriving in the latter place took the usual route to Chicago, and thence by wagon to Galena. He had learned the business of mining in his native land, and worked at it in this county for some eight years. August 10 he started for the copper mines in the Lake Superior region of Northern Michigan, and was there actively engaged in copper mining for five years, meeting with" considerable success. In June, 1855, he returned to Galena, and in August of the same year started for California, going by way of New York City and the Isthmus of Panama, and entering the Golden Gate late in the fall of 1855. His first experience in mining on the Pacific Slope was at Grass Valley, about four miles from Nevada City, in Nevada County, Cal., where he worked for eighteen months. Later he went to British Columbia, and worked at mining there for some time. He staid on the Pacific Coast until 1869, coming back overland, and by way of the Union Pacific Railroad, as far as it was then completed. Shortly after that he bought and settled upon his present farm.

Our subject was married in this township to Mrs. Mary A. Morris, widow of B. Morris, and daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Rouse) Lawrence She was born in Upper Canada in 1835, her parents both being natives of the same country, where they both died; the mother when her daughter was quite young, and the father at a ripe old age. After the death of her parents Mrs. Sincock was reared by strangers, and when twenty years of age was brought by an aunt to this country, ever after making her home in Jo Daviess County. She was well-reared and educated, and thoroughly trained in house-keeping: the latter fact being evident to anyone who enters her neatly kept home. By her marriage with Mr. Morris she became the mother of two children: Douglas, the son, is married to Maud Morse, and is living on a farm near End wood, in Lyons County, Iowa; Eldora is the wife of John Vincent, a dealer in marble in Galena, and a member of the firm of Ivey & Vincent. By her marriage with Mr. Sincock she is the mother of one child, May Belle, who is living with her parents. The life of Mr. Sincock has been one of hard labor, filled with adventure and experience, especially in mining, at which he became an adept many years ago. By an upright and consistent life he has earned and receives the respect of his fellow, men, and he is universally regarded as a thoroughly honest man and a loyal citizen. lie and his estimable wife are both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, politically, he is a Republican.

Transcribed by Christine Walters - Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess and Carroll Counties, Illinois (1889)