Biography - John R. Conklin
JOHN R. CONKLIN, butcher, Galesburg, is the son of John and Maria (Richey)
Conklin both from Ohio. He was born in Muskingum co., O., Dec. 13, 1838; raised
on farm, educated in common schools, and has followed stock-raising and the meat
business; enlisted April, 1861, in Co. E., 20th Ill. Inf., served three years,
pro. Sergeant, then Major, and then was a member of Gen. Leggett's staff; was
married March 29, 1866, to Albina M. Pharis [the Illinois Statewide Marriage
Index lists a John R. Conklin marrying a Albina M. Phares in DeWitt County on
March 29, 1866]; is the parent of four sons, two living; of the Universalist
belief. Republican.
Contributed by Melissa Swartz, extracted from the 1878 History of Knox County,
Illinois published by Charles C. Chapman, page 666.
