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MARION McCORMICK, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. McLean; was born March 3, 1834, in Brown Co., Ohio; lived there until 1850; and then moved to Tazewell Co., Ill., and in 1856 bought a farm of eighty acres in Boyington Township; he sold this farm in 1863, and moved to Mount Hope Township, McLean Co., buying 160 acres, and now owns 240 acres of beautiful land. He was married Jan. 29, 1861, to Belinda C. Longworth, who was born in Morgan Co., Ohio, Dec. 26, 1834; they have two children — Louie M., born Nov. 27, 1862, and Isaac C., March 8, 1871, and died March 16, 1871; Frank Moore, a little boy of seven years, has been their household pet since three months old, and, as near as may be, is considered one of their own family. Mr. McCormick enlisted under Capt. Colt in the volunteer infantry, at Delavan, Ill., in August, 1862; was mustered into the service the same month, and served seven months in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was discharged on account of physical disability. Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, and daughter Louie, are members of the M. E. Church, in McLean.