Biography - Erastus Child
ERASTUS CHILD. He is the son of Charles T. and Clarissa Child of Connecticut,
and was born 4 Oct 1817 in Exeter, NY. His early life was spent on a farm.
Thinking to become a public speaker he entered Oneida Institute, NY in 1838,
graduating in 1841. That not proving satisfactory and after teaching school for
a long time, he settled down as a mechanic, still clinging in some form to books
and the press. He has been a regular newspaper correspondent for twelve years.
He was the Oneida correspondent for the Galesburg Republican from the first and
since for the Republican-Register. He also deals in the Simmons' Sash supporter.
He was married on 29 April 1846 to Rachel Foster of Whitestown, NY. Of their
children, Sarah E. is now the wife of F. B. Webb, Bedford, IA; Charles F. met
his death by scalding when young, and Julia I. is with her parents. He came to
Oneida in 1855, was a radical Abolitionist, and is now a Republican. P.O.
Oneida.
Contributed by Joan Achille, extracted from the 1878 History of Knox County,
Illinois published by Charles C. Chapman.
