Bisby, Levi 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 420, Astoria Township
Levi Bisby, farmer, sec. 17; P. O., Astoria. Levi Bisby is a native of Maryland, where he was born in 1835. Of his parents but little is now remembered, as they passed away many years ago. Levi, while an infant, was adopted by a family that lived in Ohio, and there he remained until he had attained his tenth year, when he accompanied his guardian, Andrew Fry, to Astoria township. Young Bisby had the advantages of a good common-school education and grew to mature years of manhood upon a farm. In 1860 he was married to a daughter of John Aten, Miss Nancy A., who has become the mother of 9 children, - Bell, Emma A., Sarah, Ella, Ettie, Lucetta, Alta M. and John W. and an infant.