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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 43)

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John Shipton.--- John Shipton, the father of J. R. Shipton, the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1789, and continued to live there until the year 1868, when he died. John Shipton was the father of ten children -- five sons and five daughters, all still living. Eight are married and two single. J. R. Shipton was the fifth child. He was born in the year 1828, and lived with his father until he was eighteen years old, when he served two years as an apprentice to house joinering, after which he pursued the business about four years. In the year 1853, J. R. Shipton married Miss Elizabeth Rathrock, on November 3d, and lived one year in his native state. In the spring of 1855 he left Pennsylvania and went to Indiana, lived there one year, and in the spring of 1856 removed to Fulton county, Illinois, and in 1857 he settled on section 18, in Barnadotte township, where he still lives. He has been engaged in farming and raising stock. P.[sic] R. Shipton is a man of great enterprise and a number one farmer. He is a good horticulturist, and succeeds well in all he undertakes. He has held about all the local offices of his township, and is a man that is much appreciated in his community.