SAMUEL B. PASSMORE, farmer, P. O. Whipple, was born in West Nottingham Township, Chester Co., Penn., December 27, 1827. He is the son of John W. and Deborah (Brown) Passmore, both natives of Chester County, Penn., he born October 31, 1802, and died in his native county June 26, 1848; and she born January 12, 1801, and is still living. The parents were farmers, and had four children. The mother is now residing in Rising Sun, Cecil Co., MD. She visited her son in 1881, coming and returning by herself. Our subject received a district-school education, and worked on his father's farm till the age of twenty-one, when he began life for himself as a farmer. He was married, in New Garden Township, Chester Co., Penn., March 28, 1850 to Hannah M. Jackson, born in the same county March 19, 1829. She is the daughter of Joshua and Sarah C. (Cook) Jackson, both natives of Chester County, Penn. Her father was a physician, born in 1793, and died February 2, 1842. Her mother was born in 1794, and died September 17, 1850. Our subject left his native state and moved with his family to Bureau County, Ill., where he lived until 1870, when he came to this county, locating on his present place, in Wright Township, having purchased the land the year previous. His farm now consists of 320 acres of land, in a good state of cultivation. It is situated in the east half of Section 21, Township 75, Range 38.

Mr. & Mrs. Passmore have ten children--Amos C., born March 12, 1851; Ella D. (Mrs. Lipp), born September 17, 1852; Orlando C., born August 6, 1854; Ida A. (Mrs. Morris), born July 8, 1856; Elwood L., born January 13, 1858; Anna M. (Mrs. Nolta), born September 8, 1859; Ellis P., born July 29, 1860; William T., born July 8, 1863; Emma L., born January 6, 1866; and Lincoln G., born December 22, 1867. Our subject has been Town Trustee, and also a member of the School Board. He and his wife are member of the Society of Friends. He is an A.H.T.A., and in politics a Republican.