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

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A. B. Thomas was born at Mount Desert, Maine, on the 3d day of March, 1812, and came to Farmington in 1837. He was a carpenter by trade. He married the daughter of Deacon Henry Hart, who was born in Goshen, Connecticut, in 1813, and emigrated with her parents to Farmington in 1835. 
    
Mr. Thomas cast his first vote for the side of liberty for James G. Burney, who was a candidate for president in 1840, which was the first and only vote cast for him in the county. He has had at his house, at one time, fourteen negroes, whom he conducted safely on beyond the track of their masters. 
    
Mr. T. is one of the finest farmers in the county. He has five hundred acres of land, with splendid improvements and well stocked, all of which is due to good management and great energy.