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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 46)

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Morgan Heaton was born June 7th, 1805, in Greene county, Pennsylvania, and emigrated to Ohio in 1814, when a mere boy, walking all the way and carrying a rifle upon his shoulder. He came to Fulton county, Illinois, in 1837, settled in Farmington, and engaged in selling goods for eleven years, and then started the first drug store in the county. 
    
Mr. Heaten[sic?] is a great admirer of a good gun, and can tell one as soon as his eye drops upon it, and is passionately fond of hunting. 
    
Mr. H. has been, as he says, a life-long democrat, and never voted any other ticket. His first vote was cast for General Jackson. He is a member of no church. His store is never open after nine o'clock at night, and is always open at day-light. 
    
Mr. H. now has in his possession the first dinner pot that he bought, which was in 1825, and also has the first cream pitcher he ever saw, which was bought by his grandmother at Hagerstown, Maryland, when it was a trading post. It has been in use for one hundred and forty years.