Biography of
John Cantril

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     JOHN CANTRIL. The farming interests of Bond county, Illinois, are in the hands of skilled agriculturists, the majority of whom have made the cultivation of the soil their life work. Born on farms and taught from childhood the work of the farmer, they are ably fitted to carry on their operations and to get the best possible results from their land. One of the representative men of Greenville township, who has followed agricultural pursuits all of his life, is John Cantril, who was born in Bond county, Illinois, September 29, 1860, a son of David and Rebecca (Greene) Cantril.

       David Cantril was born in Indiana, and came to Illinois about 1857, settling near Stubblefield, Boone county, where he worked on various farms, traveling all over the southwestern part of the county. In 1858 or 1859 he was married to Miss Rebecca Greene, daughter of Andreas Greene, a Bond county agriculturist, and to this union there were born three children, namely: John, Emma, who died in 1880, and George who died at the age of two years. After his marriage, David Cantril purchased 100 acres of land and developed a fine farm, but August 16, 1866, he died of cholera, his mother and nephew also passing away of that dread disease within three days. About two years later Mr. Cantril’s widow was married to Casper Ulmer, by whom she had three P. 1707 children, and until 1875 lived on the farm by the brick church, but in the year mentioned she and her husband moved to town, where Wallace Ulmer was born, and there she died in 1897.