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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 47)

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David Luperi--- Jacob Luper was the lather of David Luper, and was born in Pennsylvania, in 1792. He lived there until the year 1834, when he moved to Ohio, and settled in Huron county, where he died in 1852. He was the father of seven children -- four sons and three daughters, all living, two in Oregon and five in Illinois. David Luper was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, and lived there until 1834. He then moved to Ohio, and lived there three years, and then moved to Illinois and settled on section 16, in Lee township, where lie still resides. In the year 1842 he married Miss Lois Curtis, daughter of Enos 
    
Curtis. Mr. Luper has always farmed since his first settlement in Illinois. He is a man who has always worked hard, and has prospered very well. He thinks the times quite good and brisk now, to what they were when he first came to this state. He says he has sold good pork for $1.50 per hundred, and wheat for twenty-five cents per bushel, half cash and the balance in trade. He used to be very glad to get work at twelve dollars per month, and had to pay thirty-seven cents per yard for calico, to make a dress for his wife. Mr. Luper is a very sociable man, and enjoys chatting about old times and the first settling of the country. We don't know of any man who enjoys life better than Mr. Luper. He loves his family and all his neighbors. He is one of the good farmers and heavy stock raisers of Lee township, and is highly respected. He is the. father of six children -- two sons and four daughters, all living; three are married and three are at home.