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 | | Richard S. Black, an intelligent, progressive and highly esteemed citizen of Mound Station, Illinois, and a representing one of the best families of Schuyler county, was born in Woodstock township, this county, May 28, 1832. |
 | | The climate there not agreeing with him, he returned to Mound Station, and entered the mercantile business, which he successfully continued for five years. |
 | | From: "Biographical Review of Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois 1892", by Biographical Review Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois; page 616-7; a reprinted by Stevens Publishing Co., Astoria, Ill., 1971, is sold by the Schuyler County Historical Society, Rushville, Illinois. |
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