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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Israel V. CATTRON 

[Surnames: ALCOTT, BOHANNON, BUTLER, CATTRON, SHEPHERD] 

CATTRON, ISRAEL V. 

    
Of the three sons of that fine old pioneer, Hezekiah Cattron, Israel V. the youngest, is one of the most prominent and prosperous agriculturalists of Young Hickory Twp., where have dwelt those bearing his name ever since 1837. 
    
Mr. Cattron is maintaining the family reputation for thoroughness of labor and uniformity of success on his farm in Sect.35, where he is engaged in stock-raising on a large scale and annually produces many head of Shorthorn cattle and Poland China hogs. He owns in all 400 acres, cultivating all but 160 acres which are managed by a tenant. In improvements he has kept pace with the changes that have been evolved by agricultural science during the past quarter of a century. He has a comfortable and well-furnished home, well-constructed barns and out buildings, modern fences and plenty of shade trees, shrubbery, flowers and other aids to refined and progressive rural existence. 
    
Mr. Cattron was born in the township which is now his home Sept. 15, 1846, a son of Hezekiah and Rachel (ALCOTT) Cattron and grandson of Valentine Cattron and Frances (BOHANNON) Cattron, the latter natives of Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. Until his twenty-fifty year, Mr. Cattron lived on his father's farm in Young Hickory Twp., when he began operating a farm on his own account in Joshua Twp., which he continued fifteen years. In 1884 he moved to his present farm in Young Hickory Twp., where he bought 160 acres, adding thereto until he owned 400 acres. 
    
Mr. Cattron's marriage to Jennie BUTLER, of Pennsylvania, occurred Feb 20, 1874, and of this union there have been four children:
Henry, Mary, Adella, and Edna. Mrs. Cattron died in 1890, and on Apr. 15, 1897, Mr. Cattron married as his second wife, Elizabeth SHEPHERD of Lewistown, and is now living in retirement in the village of Fairview. Mr. Cattron is independent in politics, casting his vote for the man he thinks best qualified to promote the public welfare. He is a high-minded agreeable gentleman, using his wealth to the best possible advantage and contributing in character and attainment to the stability and prosperity of the community.