Extract from "Transactions of The McLean County Historical Society - 1899"
"Almon Bingham Ives was born in Chatauqua County, N. Y. in 1816. He was one of the early pioneers of Kendall County, Ill., where in 1836, he improved a "claim" farm, almost exactly where is now the town of Plano. Owing to ill health he gave up farming and in 1847 was one of the first students of the Chicago Law School. He practiced at the bar of Kendall County for years and moved with his family to Bloomington from Oswego, in June 1853 only one month after the Illinois Central Railroad was completed to Bloomington. He was actively employed as a land lawyer, having secured important decisions from the Supreme Court at Washington and he was engaged in many of Bloomington's most important business enterprises. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1872. When the present court house was voted for in 1868 he was chairman of the board, and on a tie vote, gave the decisive ballot in favor of the new building.
He was one of the first directors of the railroad, now known as the Lake Erie and Western, and was for many years identified with Bloomington's political and business interests. In politics he was a Republican and was the first man in McLean County to take steps to call a Republican meeting for the organization of voters in 1854 and was secretary of that meeting. He died in 1887." Almon married to Sarah T. Ervin in 1835.
He married Lucinda Barber on 3 March 1855 in McLean County, Ill.
"Almon Bingham Ives was born in Chatauqua County, N. Y. in 1816. He was one of the early pioneers of Kendall County, Ill., where in 1836, he improved a "claim" farm, almost exactly where is now the town of Plano. Owing to ill health he gave up farming and in 1847 was one of the first students of the Chicago Law School. He practiced at the bar of Kendall County for years and moved with his family to Bloomington from Oswego, in June 1853 only one month after the Illinois Central Railroad was completed to Bloomington. He was actively employed as a land lawyer, having secured important decisions from the Supreme Court at Washington and he was engaged in many of Bloomington's most important business enterprises. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1872. When the present court house was voted for in 1868 he was chairman of the board, and on a tie vote, gave the decisive ballot in favor of the new building.
He was one of the first directors of the railroad, now known as the Lake Erie and Western, and was for many years identified with Bloomington's political and business interests. In politics he was a Republican and was the first man in McLean County to take steps to call a Republican meeting for the organization of voters in 1854 and was secretary of that meeting. He died in 1887." Almon married to Sarah T. Ervin in 1835.
He married Lucinda Barber on 3 March 1855 in McLean County, Ill.
Extract from "Transactions of The McLean County Historical Society - 1899"
"Almon Bingham Ives was born in Chatauqua County, N. Y. in 1816. He was one of the early pioneers of Kendall County, Ill., where in 1836, he improved a "claim" farm, almost exactly where is now the town of Plano. Owing to ill health he gave up farming and in 1847 was one of the first students of the Chicago Law School. He practiced at the bar of Kendall County for years and moved with his family to Bloomington from Oswego, in June 1853 only one month after the Illinois Central Railroad was completed to Bloomington. He was actively employed as a land lawyer, having secured important decisions from the Supreme Court at Washington and he was engaged in many of Bloomington's most important business enterprises. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1872. When the present court house was voted for in 1868 he was chairman of the board, and on a tie vote, gave the decisive ballot in favor of the new building.
He was one of the first directors of the railroad, now known as the Lake Erie and Western, and was for many years identified with Bloomington's political and business interests. In politics he was a Republican and was the first man in McLean County to take steps to call a Republican meeting for the organization of voters in 1854 and was secretary of that meeting. He died in 1887." Almon married to Sarah T. Ervin in 1835.
He married Lucinda Barber on 3 March 1855 in McLean County, Ill.
"Almon Bingham Ives was born in Chatauqua County, N. Y. in 1816. He was one of the early pioneers of Kendall County, Ill., where in 1836, he improved a "claim" farm, almost exactly where is now the town of Plano. Owing to ill health he gave up farming and in 1847 was one of the first students of the Chicago Law School. He practiced at the bar of Kendall County for years and moved with his family to Bloomington from Oswego, in June 1853 only one month after the Illinois Central Railroad was completed to Bloomington. He was actively employed as a land lawyer, having secured important decisions from the Supreme Court at Washington and he was engaged in many of Bloomington's most important business enterprises. He was a member of the Board of Supervisors from 1864 to 1872. When the present court house was voted for in 1868 he was chairman of the board, and on a tie vote, gave the decisive ballot in favor of the new building.
He was one of the first directors of the railroad, now known as the Lake Erie and Western, and was for many years identified with Bloomington's political and business interests. In politics he was a Republican and was the first man in McLean County to take steps to call a Republican meeting for the organization of voters in 1854 and was secretary of that meeting. He died in 1887." Almon married to Sarah T. Ervin in 1835.
He married Lucinda Barber on 3 March 1855 in McLean County, Ill.
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