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 850, Pleasant Township
John N. Chicken, furniture dealer and manufacturer, Ipava, is a
son of Daniel and Charlotte Chicken, and was born in Ohio May 4, 1840.
He began to learn his chosen trade at the age of 15, which he has
continued to follow since. He accompanied his father to this State in
1856 and settled in Astoria, where he began the cabinet business in
1858. He now keeps in hand a fine line of furniture and does a good
business. He belongs to the M. E. Church, in which he has been a
licensed exhorter for 15 years. He has been twice married, first time
Sept. 25, 1861; and again, Sept. 26, 1874, to Mary A. Moorhouse, a
native of New Jersey. They have two children, Vernon and Jessie. By his
former wife he had 5 children; Elmer, Mary, Sada, deceased, and Carrie
E.
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