Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bump, Leander
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Leander BUMP, farmer, Sec. 15: P. O. Lockport; was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., May 7, 1809; 
his parents moved to Crawford Co., Penn., when he was 6 years of age, and after remaining 
there some four years, went to Chautanqua Co., N. Y., and after remaining twelve or fourteen 
years, moved West in the fall of 1834, and settled in Will Co., in this township, on the 
farm he and his brother Jefferson now reside on. His father, Jacob, died Aug. 12, 1849, and 
his mother, Lydia, ApriI 16, 1852; they were among the first settlers in this county, and 
with their families passed through the many hardships and trials of a pioneer's life. He 
married Miss Elizabeth Lucy DIXON, of Milton, Mowbray, Leicestershire, Eng., in Homer Twp., 
April 13, 1859; she was born Sept. 1, 1839; they have four children - Walter James, born 
Sept. 4, 1860; Florence Ann, born Dec. 16. 1863, and died May 15, 1876; Lydia Jane, born 
Sept. 25, 1867, and George Jacob, born July 17, 1869.


Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.