HIstorical Atlas of FOrd Co IL 1884
Submitted By Becky Rittenhouse
Pg 9
County Treasurer
John P. Day, Nov 1859-65
John P. Day Mar 1866-69
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Samuel L. Day 1859-61
Ibid pg 13
Samuel L. Day came with his father's family to Ford Co then
Vermillion in 1853. His recollection is that the voting
place for all of Ford and part of Vermillion was then at
Marysville. His father went there to vote. At the time of
their arrival, there were no houses beteen Trickel Grove
and Ten Mile Grove.
Ibid pg 57
An incident worthy of notice, and one that will long be
remembered in that locality; and incident that varied the
humdrum monotony of everyday life, and fixed the beginning
of a new era in that neighborhood, was the marriage of one
of the pupils Miss Barbara Stoner to N. B. Day, one of the
leading citizens of the young but enterprising city of Paxton.
(NOTE: no date given)
Ibid pg 58
A small schoolhouse was built about 1859 in Paxton, and
Miss Jennie Lyon, Now Mrs. Samuel L. Day, was the first
teacher.
Ibid pg 69
The Day Family
The Day Family settled on Section 18. They comprised
Samuel Day, the father, Peggy, the mother and
children- John P. Samuel, N.B. Day and Cordelia,
wife of James Hock. Samuel Day was a native of Kentucky.
He died in 1858. He married Peggy Purviance in 1821.
She was also a native of KY and is still living with her
daughter, Mrs. James Hock, at the ripe age of eighty-six years.
They had nine children, only four now living. They came
from Preble Co OH to this state. Samuel came here in 1854.
He has been twice married; first to Susanah Swisher, who
died in 1858. He married Miss Jennie Lyons for his second
wife in 1861. Samuel Day was the first Circuit Clerk and
Recorder of Ford Co. John P. Day was born in 1824.
He settled in Patton in 1857. In 1845 he married
Malinda Swisher, a native of Southern Indiana. He
served as County Treasurer several terms. John P.
and Samuel Day are in company, engaged in the real
estate and loan business in Paxton. N. B. Day was born
in Preble Co OH, and settled in Patton in 1854.
The Day family first lived on the farm now owned by
B. Q. Cherry. N. B. Day married Barbara, daughter of
Daniel C. Stoner, an old pioneer of this county.
Mr. Day is now living in Paxton, and is the present
Supervisor of the township.
Cordelia is the wife of Mr. James Hock, a resident
to Paxton, and one of the oldest settlers of the township.
They were married in 1858....
The Day brothers are all men of much more than ordinary
ability, as the success in life and the number of positions
of responsiblity and trust which they have all been called
till, bear ample testimony. They have all succeeded well,
and have pleasant homes in Paxton, where are known as
among the substantial and reliable men of Ford County.
Ibid pg 83
Business Directory
Paxton
John P. Day, Real Estate Agent and Farmer
N.B. Day, Supervisor of Patton Township
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