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A. M. STRINGFIELD. farmer and stock-raiser: P. O. Randolph; was born near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Oct. 14, 1809, and lived in Tennessee about one year; when, with his parents, he went to Huntsville, Ala., where he lived until the fall of 1819; when, with his parents, he came to Illinois, and lived one season in White Co.; then moved to Sangamon Co., where he lived about one year; while there his father died; in the spring of 1823, he, his brother and brother-in-law, came to Randolph Grove, and he and his brother improved a farm for their mother, which she settled on in the fall of 1823; and, in March, 1824, Miss Temperance Stringfield and John W. Taylor were married; this was the first marriage in what is now McLean Co.; they lived there until 1826, when Mrs. Stringfield and her children — Severe, A. M. and Virginia, went to Galena Ill., where they carried on a wagon-shop, and ran teams, which they continued for two years,, during which, Mrs. Stringfield died. In the fall, A. M. returned to Randolph Grove, and engaged in farming on the place he helped to improve for his mother; in November, 1831, he took cattle to Galena, and in February, 1832, he settled on his present place. March 25, of the same year, he married Miss Amelia Hand, a native of Ohio; her parents settled near the east side of the Grove in 1824; they had eight children, seven living — Thomas C., Jesse P., George H., John H., Barbria H., Elizabeth V. and Mary E. In 1831, he was elected an officer in the 39th Regiment Illinois Militia, being Captain of Co. B. He has been Justice of the Peace for eight years, Supervisor of this township (two first terms after county organization), and has served about four years since. Though he has given land to his children, he retains 300 acres, for himself and wife. Mr. Stringfield was one of the early settlers of this county, and his early days are full of amusing and thrilling scenes and incidents among the Indians and wild animals; he carries the scars of several wolf-bites—a full account of which, together with his adventures with the Indians, would fill an ordinary book.