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CAREY, B. W., farmer and stock-dealer, owns 400 acres of land, P. O. Shenandoah; born in Canada West, June 25, 1830. Brought up and educated in that country, following the occupation of a farmer. In the spring of 1869 he came to Page county, settling in Washington township. Three years afterward he moved with his family to Galesburg, Illinois, his object being to educate his children. The advantages presented by Galesburg were eagerly improved by them for the three following years, when he moved back to Page and settled in the then youthful town of Shenandoah, of which he has since been a continuous and honored resident. He was married to Miss Jane C. Whiting, a native of Ireland, February 20, 1855. They are the parents of seven children: Lydia J. (now Mrs. B. C. Welty), Catherine C., John, Richard W., George, Alice and Mabel. Mr. Cary is one of the heaviest stock-dealers in the county, and a man who has been closely identified with all the business interests of his adopted city. He has contributed to its prosperity, coming to it when it was in its extreme youth, and while looking sharply after his own interests, has not been unfaithful to those of a public nature. He is a man esteemed highly among his fellow-townsmen, a strenuous advocate of, and firm friend to, higher education, and of sterling worth.