Ralph Atherton was a native of Massachusetts, born April 1, 1804. Ralph went to Pennsylvania in 1828, locating in Luzerne County, where he married Maria Sine, a native of New Jersey. Ralph Atherton was a shoemaker by trade and served an apprenticeship of seven years. He opened up a store and engaged in the boot and shoe business for several years in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1843 he came to DeKalb County, Illinois and entered a tract of two hundred acres. Locating on his claim he built a log house, in which he lived for eight years while improving the farm. During the winter he worked at his trade, and carried on quite an extensive business, making boots and shoes for the people in the surrounding country. The old log house gave place to a more modern frame building after eight years, and there he reared his family. After the death of his wife, he went to Kansas and resided with a son two or three years, then returned to Illinois and spent his last years, dying at the residence of a daughter in Lee County, September 6, 1890, at the age of eighty-six years.
Ralph Atherton was a native of Massachusetts, born April 1, 1804. Ralph went to Pennsylvania in 1828, locating in Luzerne County, where he married Maria Sine, a native of New Jersey. Ralph Atherton was a shoemaker by trade and served an apprenticeship of seven years. He opened up a store and engaged in the boot and shoe business for several years in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In 1843 he came to DeKalb County, Illinois and entered a tract of two hundred acres. Locating on his claim he built a log house, in which he lived for eight years while improving the farm. During the winter he worked at his trade, and carried on quite an extensive business, making boots and shoes for the people in the surrounding country. The old log house gave place to a more modern frame building after eight years, and there he reared his family. After the death of his wife, he went to Kansas and resided with a son two or three years, then returned to Illinois and spent his last years, dying at the residence of a daughter in Lee County, September 6, 1890, at the age of eighty-six years.
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