Alvin Hannum (1821 - 1887)

Born 22 Jun 1821 in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia A. (Boyce) Hannum — married 1849 in Ogle County, Illinois, USA

Descendants

Died 30 Sep 1887 at age 66 in Stillman Valley, Ogle, Illinois, USA

Biography

HANNUM ALVIN, Farmer; Sec. 22; P. O. Paine's Point; born in Hampshire Co., Mass., June 22, 1821; married Lydia A. Boyce in this Co. in 1849; she was born in Washington Co., N. Y., March 22, 1824; they have three children, Mattie, born May 22, 1852; Henry, March 11, 1855; Walter E., Aug. 2, 1856; came to this Co. in 1832 with his father, Julius Hannum, and settled in Buffalo Grove, where he lived for some years, when he purchased his present estate; has 200 acres; Chicago was the nearest market place, and he hauled the lumber from Chicago that was put in his first dwelling; has a tooth of a Mastodon that weighs four pounds, found near his farm; went to Cal. in 1851 and returned in 1852; Mr. H.'s father, William Boyce, was one of the earliest settlers.

Sources

• The History of Ogle County, Illinois, Containing A History of the County---Its Cities, Towns, Etc., A Biographical Directory of Its Citizens, War Records of Its Volunteers in the Late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, PORTRAITS OF EARLY SETTLERS AND PROMINENT MEN, History of the Northwest, History of Illinois, Map of Ogle County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, Etc., ILLUSTRATED, Chicago, H. F. Kett & Co., Times Building, 1878, p. 826.