Curless, M. L. 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 946, Woodland Township
M. L. Curless was born in Ohio Dec., 1835; in 1846 he accompanied his parents to Ill., locating in Woodland Twp., where a farm of 160 acres was purchased; enlisted as First Lieutenant in Co. G, 85th Reg., Ill. Inf., and became a participant in many noted battles; resigned his commission in 1863, owing to ill health. Prior to the Rebellion he had married, in Schuyler Co., Ill., Armintha McDaniel, of Ohio; there were born of this marriage 6 children: Frank, John Edward, Thaddeus, Lincoln, Annabelle and Gertrude Isabelle. Mr. C. owns 320 acres of land in high cultivation.
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