I include the bio of Francis Marion Agnew from his 50th wedding anniversary article to establish that Allen was the father of Francis Marion. there is no indication that they were related to the Agnew family in Monroe or Mason County, Illinois.
Daily Free Press
20 January 1913
Dr. F. M. Agnew, the youngest son of Allen and Eleanor (Sutton) Agnew, was born November 21, 1840, in Symmes, near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grew up and was educated in the common schools of the day.
His father, like Columbus, was a wool-carder and the boy assisted in this until a flood of the Little Miami river destroyed the factory. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school in Indiana, near where Lincoln lived at Gentryville. Later he because a medical student at Prairie du Rocher in Randolph county, Illinois, in the office of his brother, A. B. Agnew. He also taught a term of school on the "Point" midway between the former town of Kaskaskia and one term at Knoxville on the Wabash, near Vincennes, foing from there to Rush Medical College in the winter of 1860 and '61.
I include the bio of Francis Marion Agnew from his 50th wedding anniversary article to establish that Allen was the father of Francis Marion. there is no indication that they were related to the Agnew family in Monroe or Mason County, Illinois.
Daily Free Press
20 January 1913
Dr. F. M. Agnew, the youngest son of Allen and Eleanor (Sutton) Agnew, was born November 21, 1840, in Symmes, near Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grew up and was educated in the common schools of the day.
His father, like Columbus, was a wool-carder and the boy assisted in this until a flood of the Little Miami river destroyed the factory. At the age of seventeen he began teaching school in Indiana, near where Lincoln lived at Gentryville. Later he because a medical student at Prairie du Rocher in Randolph county, Illinois, in the office of his brother, A. B. Agnew. He also taught a term of school on the "Point" midway between the former town of Kaskaskia and one term at Knoxville on the Wabash, near Vincennes, foing from there to Rush Medical College in the winter of 1860 and '61.
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