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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 51)

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James Lovell was the father of James Lovell, jr., and was born in the state of Virginia, about the year 1780, and lived there until 1815, when he moved to Ohio, and lived there until 1832, when he moved to Indiana and lived there three years, when he moved to Illinois, and settled in Pleasant township, Fulton county. About 1860 Mr. Lovell retired from the busy cares of life, and spent his remaining days among his kind-hearted children until 1861, when he died. 
    
James Lovell, jr., was born in the state of Virginia, in the year 1809, and lived with his father until 1831, when he married Miss Jane Linn, the daughter of Solomon Linn, and moved to Ohio, and lived there three years, and then moved to Fulton county, Illinois, in 1834; and in 1837, he settled on section 8, in Pleasant township, where he has resided ever since, engaged in farming and raising stock. 
    
Mr. Lovell has been married three times, and is the father of fourteen children, ten sons and four daughters -- twelve now living -- two dead, five married; the rest at home. 
    
Mr. Lovell is a man that has always been blessed with good health and a powerful strong constitution, and has done a powerful amount of hard labor. When he arrived in Illinois he had but $8, and was out of breadstuff; he loaned four dollars to one of his neighbors, to buy flour with, and bought flour for his own family with the other four dollars. And so he has always lived toward his neighbors -- ever ready to divide. He labored at breaking prairie, clearing land, and whatever he could get to do, for about two years, and averaged about eight dollars per month‹half money and half trade. Venison was plenty then, and he was a good shot, and kept his family well supplied with meat. 
    
Mr. Lovell, through his own exertions, has succeeded in life until he has become one of the wealthy men of Fulton county; and there is no man that has more warm friends than Mr. Lovell has, wherever he is known.