Source Information

Ancestry.com. Christian County, Illinois Biographical Record [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data: Portrait and Biographical Record of Christian County, Illinois. Chicago, IL, USA: Lake City Publishing, 1893.

About Christian County, Illinois Biographical Record

This database contains a portrait and biographical record of the prominent and representative citizens of Christian County, Illinois along with biographical sketches and portraits of all the governors of the state of Illinois and presidents of the United States, up to 1893 (the date of publishing). This database would be of great worth to researchers with ancestors from this area in Illinois. Even though your ancestors may not have been prominent enough to make it into this biographical record, much can be learned by reading about the lives of others who lived during the time of your ancestors. For, as stated in the preface of this work, "the history of a country is best told in a record of the lives of its people."