Lee County Biography

Sylvanus Helmershausen / Hausen
China Township


Sylvanus Hausen was born in Maine in 1825. In 1840 he accompanied his parents to Lee county and grew to manhood under the parental roof in China Township. He chose farming as his life occupation and has been uniformly successful in that industry and is now one of the leading farmers and stock raisers of China Township.

December 20, 1859, he married Sabrina I., daughter of David and Harriet (Lobdell) Fellows of Boone County and to them five children have been born: Ida C, Charles F, Lillian A, Grace E, and Mary E. In political convictions Mr. Hausen is a democrat.

Contributed by Georgea Clinton from the 1904 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois History of Lee County, p788

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