Jeremiah Andrews Felt
Jeremiah Andrews Felt was a school trustee, commissioner of the highways and farmer in Quincy, Illinois.
Life
[edit]He was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire in 1817, the son of Illinois pioneer and abolitionist Peter Felt and Polly Mary Fletcher, the daughter of a Revolutionary War veteran who wrote a memoir of his injury and captivity at age 16.[1]
He came with his father, mother and brothers and sisters to Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, alongside the Mississippi River, in June 1830.
He worked as a youngster, bringing hogs and wheat to Chicago.
He bought a farm near Melrose, Adams County, Illinois, in 1847, after he got married.
His son Peter Leach Felt was wounded at the Battle of Chickamaugaa in Tennessee and died in a hospital at Chattanooga on October 9, 1863. He is buried in Tennessee.[2]
In 1867, Felt sent his sons, William Winsor Felt and Winslow Leach Felt, with their brother George Washington Felt, to establish farms in North Central, Missouri, to the northwest of where the original Mendon would be laid out four years later in 1871.[3] They would accumulate 320 acres. Felt's youngest son Charles Davis Felt came in 1880 and sold land, with his brother, to establish the new town of Mendon along the railroad.
Jeremiah Felt died in 1906.
References
[edit]- ^ “Past and Present of the City of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois,” by William Herzog Collins.
- ^ Steve Raymond. In the Very Thickest of the Fight: The Civil War Service Of The 78Th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
- ^ Morris, John Emery. The Felt Genealogy: a record of the descendants of George Felt of Casco Bay. Hartford, Conn.: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1893.
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