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JAMES BONNETT, farmer and stock-raiser, Sec. 35; P. O. Le Roy; born in Knox Co., Ohio, March 8, 1834; here he followed farming until 17 years of age, when he emigrated to Illinois and located in Empire Township, McLean Co., in 1851; he is a son of John Bonnett, whose sketch appears in this work; the goods of the Bonnett family were shipped to Sandusky city, then down the canal to Covington, from which place they were drawn by three ox-teams of two yoke each, to Illinois, the subject of this sketch driving one of the teams; he afterward, with an older brother, returned to Covington for salt with two ox-teams, loading back with twelve barrels, drawn by two yoke, the other nineteen barrels drawn by four yoke of oxen, the salt selling for $5 per barrel. Mr. Bonnett has always lived, upon the old place upon which his parents first located in 1851, and where he has 500 acres of land upon which he has good farm-buildings; he now has 500 sheep, 60 head of cattle, 100 hogs and some horses, and is largely engaged in raising, feeding and shipping stock. He was united in marriage with Sarah Rinehart, April 2, 1862; she was born in Knox Co., Ohio, July 21, 1836; they have four children now living by this union, viz.: Oscar, born March 13, 1864; Robert, born Aug. 3, 1866; John Yontz, born Sept. 16, 1873, and Fannie, born Feb. 9, 1877.