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LILIE BROTHERS, cigar manufacturers, Chenoa, have been engaged in business here since 1875; they are both natives of Germany; Adolph Lilie, the elder, was born in Hanover Aug. 17, 1845; he came to this country in 1866, and, after spending one year in New Jersey, came West to Chicago, from which place he went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he remained about six months; he then returned to Chicago and clerked about two years in a wholesale wine house, after which, he learned cigar making, and followed it until his removal to Chenoa in 1875. He was married Aug. 27, 1873, to Miss Fannie Bode of Chicago, a native of Saxony, Germany, and has three children — Harry, Walter and Adolph. The younger brother, Henry Lilie, was born in Hanover, Nov. 19, 1851; came to the United States in 1868; learned his present trade in Mattison, Cook Co., Ill., and remained there until 1875, when he came to Chenoa; Lilie Brothers are the only manufacturers of cigars in the place, and make all grades of cigars, the finest Havanas as well as the more common grades.