Danner, John 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 853, Pleasant Township
John Danner, farmer and stock-raiser, sec. 29; owns 268 acres of land, and a dwelling which cost $2,000; was born in York county, Pa., April 5, 39; his mother died when he was small, and his father emigrated with him to this State in 1850; in 1860 he married Matilda Trone, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1841, and they are the parents of 6 chldren, 4 of whom are living, - Jesse, Joseph, George, Charles; deceased, - Littie and Willie.
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