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Source: Atlas Map of Fulton County, Illinois, 
Andreas, Lyter, and Co., Davenport, Iowa. 1871
(page 38)

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James C Willcoxen, the subject of this sketch, was born 1829, in Estell county, Kentucky, emigrated to Fulton county, Illinois, in the fall of 1830, with his father, and settled on section five, in Liverpool township. Followed farming up to 1848, since which time he has been engaged in various business pursuits. Mr. Willcoxen has been a very successful business man. In the springof 1869 he moved to Lewistown, and became a partner in the banking house of King, Turner, & Co., and, in the spring of 1871, converted it into a national bank. Mr. Willcoxen is now one of the directors, also a stockholder, of said bank; also, a member of the firm of Call & Willcoxen, hardware [?]eale, of Lewistown. 
    
Mr. Willcoxen was married to Miss Clarisa Putnam, the daughter of Harrison Putnam, native of Ohio on the 18th day of September, 1831, in Putnam township, Fulton county, Illinois. They have had to them six children -- four daughters and two sons -- all of whom are living. Mr. Willcoxen has no superior in Fulton county as a public- spirited and enterprising man. Very few enterprises are set on foot but he has a hand in them and is the moving power, and contributes largely to their success. He is deeply interested in the lumber business, having an interest in several mills. He also owns one-half of the Fulton House, at Lewistown, besides several largetracts of land, and in Liverpool township owns one of the finest farms in the county, which has the very best improvements, and is stocked with some of the finest blooded stock in this region of country, as will be seen by reference to the view of it in this work. Very few men would be missed more in Fulton county than James C. Willcoxen.