Horace Annis was born in Orange county, New York, in 1816. He came to Illinois in 1837, and located in Chicago, where he remained until 1839, when he came to Prophetstown, He was a blacksmith by trade, and worked at the business while a resident there. From 1854 until 1859 he was connected with the Plow Factory at the village, and afterwards moved to Colorado, and then to Montana, having been Probate Judge in both Territories He married Mrs. Portia Nichols in 1840, The children of this marriage have been: Mary, wjfe of Harmon Cleveland, living in California; Keene, wife of Lewis J. P. Merill living in Lyons, Iowa; Julia, wife of Hamden Sturevant, living in Prophetstown; and Paul, living in Montana.
Bent & Wilson History of Whiteside County
