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RICHARD BREESE, dealer in grain and stock (firm of Boies & Breese,) Gridley is a native of Cambridgeshire, England, and was born Aug. 24, 1822. He was raised to agricultural pursuits, and followed farming in England to 1852, when, on the 11th of October, he started for the United States. He settled near Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, where he lived until 1857; he then came to Illinois and purchased a farm in Livingston Co. He continued farming with good success until 1869, when he removed to Gridley and engaged with W. H. Boies in the grain stock and agricultural implement business. While in Livingston Co. he served as Trustee three years, and three years as Commissioner of Highways. He was one of the Trustees of Gridley from 1876 to 1879, and also School Director three years. Mr. Breese is one of the most substantial citizens of Gridley; has been successful in business, and owns, with Mr. Boies, 900 acres of land lying in Livingston and McLean Counties. He was married at the age of 22 to Miss Mary A. Miller, of Cambridgeshire, England; she, however, lived but about three years, and, at her death, left two children, one of whom is living — Eliza, now Mrs. C. H. Neuhauser, of Gridley. Mr. Breese was married again, in January, 1831, to Mrs. Sarah Richardson, of Huntingdonshire England.