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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 Robert LLOYD 

[Surnames: BURSON, HENRY, HOLMES, LLOYD, RANDOLPH] 

LLOYD, ROBERT

    
A highly respected resident of Canton, Illinois, who carried on general farming in Joshua Twp. with successful results for many years, but in later life devoted himself exclusively to stock-raising, was born in Ontario, Canada, Feb. 23, 1839, a son of William and Sarah Secomsa (HOLMES), Lloyd, natives of England, the former born in London and the latter in Sheffield. William Lloyd, who was a farmer by occupation came with his parents from England to Canada when he was sixteen years of age, and Sarah Holmes accompanied her parents across the Atlantic at the age of four. Both families settled in Canada. There William Lloyd and Sarah Holmes were married in the course of time and their union has been blessed with twelve children. 
    
Robert Lloyd received his early mental training in the public schools of Ontario and remained on the paternal farm until he was about eighteen years of age. He then left Canada for the United States and in 1857 made his way to Henry County, IL, where he was employed as a farm hand for a few years. In 1865 he moved to Fulton County and settled upon a farm of eight acres in Joshua Twp. belonging to his wife. That was the family home until 1894 when Mr. Lloyd purchased of Frank RANDOLPH eighty acres adjoining, where he lived until his removal to Canton. Mr. Lloyd formerly raised a great many Norman horses, Durham cattle and Poland-China hogs, but toward the latter period of his active labors confined himself to breeding Duroc hogs. 
On Oct. 8, 1861, Robert Lloyd was united in marriage with Hannah M. BURSON, who was born in Walnut Grove, McDonough Co., IL, where in girlhood she enjoyed the advantages of the public schools. She is a daughter of Samuel and Mary (HENRY) Burson, natives of Pennsylvania. they settled in Illinois at an early day and were engaged in agricultural pursuits. Two children resulted from this union, namely:
William B. Lloyd and Robert C. Lloyd. The former is engaged in the commission business in Wichita, KS, and the latter is Superintendent of Soil Survey in the University of Illinois, for the State. 
    
In politics Mr. Lloyd is a Republican, He has rendered faithful and efficient public service, as Road Commissioner, School Treasurer, Collector, Assessor, etc. Religiously he is connected to the Congregational Church. Mr. Lloyd purchased his present neat and comfortable residence in Canton in the spring of 1906.