Hi Listers, I am forwarding this from another mailing list I belong to as it pertains to Fulton Co.Il. Hope this is helpful to someone on our list. Please contact Neb.Roots or the submitter for other details... Tina >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: NEBRRoots-D Digest V03 #21 >Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 23:00:48 -0700 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Martin-Rott" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:38 PM Subject: [NYOnonda] BREED-passing along a bio FYI >--=======54E05CC4======= >Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-6E726450; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >I am not related to the gentleman in the below bio--I happened upon it >while transcribing bios for the Bureau Co ILGenWeb Project site (of which I >am the coordinator). I do not have any additional info, but am passing >this along in case someone on the list may need it. If the CC for Onondaga >would like to post it on that county's site, be my guest. I may have a >couple of others coming as well as Bureau Co IL is the home of the "other" >Manlius...named after the one in Onondaga Co NY. > > >Source: History of Bureau County Illinois, H. C. Bradsby, Chicago World >Publishing 1885 > >BREED, Dr. Simon Peter > >Dr. Simon Peter Breed, Wyanet. In the possession of William J. Breed, >of Raynham, Mass., are records stating that A. D. >1100 a colony of Breeds emigrated from Germany to Sussex County, England, >and there founded a town called Breed, >which bears that name to the present day. From this colony of Breeds >sprang Allyn Breed, of 1601, who came to >America and settled in Lynn, Mass., in 1630, and became the sole progenitor >of the Breed family in America. One of his >great-grandsons, Ebenezer Breed, is noted for being the owner of Breed's >Hill, where was fought the battle of Bunker >Hill. > >Dr. S. P. Breed, the subject of this sketch, was born in Manlius, Onondaga >Co., N. Y., February 1, 1819, and is the son of >the late James Breed. In his possession are records by which he can trace >his lineage back through his grandfather, >Gershom Breed, of 1755; Allen Beard, of 1714, who settled in Stonington, >Conn., and therefore called the Stonington >branch of the family; thence through, John Breed, of 1663, Allen Breed, of >1626, and Allyn Breed, of 1601, who settled in >Lynn in 1630. > >Simon Peter Breed was taken by his parents to Cicero, Onondaga County, in >1820, and there on the farm he was reared >till he was seventeen years of age, except one year when the family had >returned to Manlius. When seventeen he >removed with his parents to Hannibal, Oswego County, and there four years >more of his life were spent upon the farm, >in a sawmill, at the carpenter's bench and in the school room. When >nineteen years of age he began life's work for >himself, having made an arrangement with his father for his time. In 1839 >he went to Manlius, where he attended the >old Manlius Academy for some time, and also taught three terms of school. > >May 11, 1843, he started from Oswego, N. Y. for the West, and landed June >11, at his uncle's house near Vermont, Fulton >Co., Ill., where his first business was teaching at $13 per month. He >continued teaching for three terms, and in 1844 >began the study of medicine in Vermont. In the winter of 1846-47 he >attended his first course of lectures at St. Louis, >Mo., in the Medical Department of the Missouri State University. In the >spring of 1847 he began the practice of medicine >in Schuyler County, Ill., and there continued for eighteen years. However, >in the winter of 1856-57 he went to >Philadelphia, and attended the Medical Department and graduated from the >Pennsylvania University. He then >continued in his practice in Schuyler County, where he was widely known and >eminently successful. > >In 1865 Dr. Breed removed to Princeton, and in the fall of the same year >took part in organizing a district medical >society, and was its first delegate to the State Medical Society, and >through a report read there was first introduced to >the literary medical world, and since that time has contributed many >articles to medical journals, full of interest and >value to the profession, but of which our limited space will allow no >further mention, only to say that they were >characterized by many of the leading physicians in this and other States as >able and exhaustive. In a centennial >address before the International medical Congress at Philadelphia, in 1876, >H. I. Bowditch, M. D., President, of the >Massachusetts State Board of Health, speaks of Dr. Breed as one of his >valuable correspondents. In the publish >transactions of the nineteenth annual meeting of the Illinois State Medical >Society are given a number of pages taken >from his report on Practical Medicine. > >Not only had Dr. Breed been an able contributor upon medicine, but his >ready pen has not been slow to record his >thoughts upon other topics, including those on temperance, a tour through >Kansas in 1869, woman's crusade, etc., the >mere mention of which will call them to the minds of many of the leading >citizens of the county. In early life the Doctor >was an abolitionist, and cast one of the two first votes in Vermont, Fulton >County, for James G. Birney, the candidate of >the Liberty party in 1844. He is now a stanch Republican, and in 1870 he >wrote articles against many of the Republicans, >who bolted the regular nominee for Congress, after submitting their claims >at the primary election. > >December 25, 1848, Dr. Breed was united in marriage to Miss Alzina S. >Powers, of McDonough County, Ill. She was born >in Essex, Vt., in 1827, but came to McDonough County in 1833. Her father, >Isaac Powers, was a farmer; she was >educated in the district schools and at the female seminary of >Jacksonville, Ill. She is the mother of seven children, >three of whom died before they were seven years of age. The living are: >Lena May, a school teacher; Lizzie Rachel, >wife of Charles E. Sisler, who resides near Lincoln, Neb.; Luella and Ralph >at home. They were educated in the >Princeton High School. > >In later years Dr. Breed has lived in quiet retirement on Center Grove >farm. This farm of 200 acres lies in Wyanet >Township, and was settled in 1836 and when Dr. Breed purchased it in 1870 >was very much run down, but he has added >many valuable improvements to it, and has made it a model farm. > >Although not a member of any church, order or fraternity, he is opposed to >none provided they bear the test of being a >benefit to mankind. He has always been a friend to the poor and especially >during the war, he not only assisted the >families of the soldiers by his services as a physician, but his purse was >ever open to them, and many kindly words of >sympathy did he write to those in the field. > _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail