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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John P. RANSOM, Justice of the Peace and insurance agent, Wilmington; born in Herkimer Co., 
N. Y., Nov. 29, 1817; removed to Illinois in June, 1844, locating in what is now Richmond 
Twp., Mc Henry Co.; served as Assessor in that town in 1850; this was the first assessment 
made after the township organization, he followed farming until 1851; then engaged as 
millwright till 1862. Enlisted in Co. H, 95th IL V. I., Aug 13, 1862; commissioned Second 
Lieutenant in June, 1863, having command of the company in all the following engagements: 
Champion Hill, siege of Vicksburg, Red River campaign, Guntown, Miss., siege of Mobile and 
battle at Nashville; mustered out Aug. 22, 1865. Removed to Wilmington in 1868, and engaged 
in the grocery business; was elected Justice of the Peace in 1873; re-elected in 1877. 
Married in December, 1842, to Jane M. DENISON, who was born in Herkimer Co., N. Y.; she 
died in 1849; had two children by this union, one living - Mariah, widow of Eugene I. 
THOMAS; Ellen, wife of A. BROWN, died in June, 1866. He was again married in 1850 to 
Louisa A. STREETER; she was born in Ontario Co., N. Y.; had two children, one living - 
John C.; Martha died in 1855. Mr. R. is a member of Wilmington Lodge, No. 208, A., F. & 
A. M. and Will Lodge, No. 301, I. O. O. F.