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THOMAS PISELL, farmer; P. O. Normal; one of the pioneers of McLean Co.; was born in Somerset Co., Penn., in 1814, and was taken to Richland Co., Ohio, by parents, where he was raised; he has followed agricultural pursuits thus far through life; he came to McLean Co., Ill., in 1852, locating at Twin Grove, and, in 1855, he located on the farm where he now lives; at the time of settling, the country was comparatively new, and the trials and hardships of a pioneer life are yet fresh in his memory; but he has succeeded in accumulating a good property; he owns a fine farm of 104 acres, the best watered farm of the county, there being an artesian well hear his residence which furnishes an inexhaustible quantity of fine water. He married Miss Margaret Morrill, of Richland Co., Ohio, in September, 1836; they have raised a family of nine, six of whom are still living—four boys and two girls.