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John Albert Christopher |
 | | Christopher is a native of Jersey County, Illinois, born August 10, 1861, and grew up on the farm of his parents, his education being acquired in the rural schools. |
 | | His father was James W. Christopher, who was a native of Ohio and an early settler of Illinois, and spent his life as a farmer, although he did not live to acquire prosperity, dying when forty-five years old, during the '70s. |
 | | Christopher took a timber claim at the same time that he entered his homestead, these comprising the south half of section 11, township 33, range 39, and after he had been here for fifteen years he began to acquire more land. |
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