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DRESSER, R. W., farmer, S. 1; P. O. Warren; owns 125 acres of land, valued at $30 per acre; he was born May 28, 1814, in Windsor Co., Vt.; in the fall of 1834, he left home with an elder brother; went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked with his brother at the carpenter and joiner’s trade; in the spring of 1836, he went to St. Louis, and remained till the fall, then moved to Farmington, Van Buren Co., continuing to work at his trade; in 1840, he entered 320 acres of land in Sections 2 and 3 in the township where he now resides. Feb. 5, 1842, he married Fanny H. Page of Lee Co.; she was born Dec. 1, 1821, in Franklin Co., Mass.; the spring following, he located on his land; in the spring of 1847, he sold out, went to St. Louis, and worked at his trade during the summer, his wife stopping at her father’s; in the spring of 1848, moved to Farmington; in the spring of 1849, he again purchased a farm in Van Buren Tp., now owned by Clark Knapp, and in the spring of 1856, came on his present farm. Has served his township as Trustee; was elected once as Justice of the Peace, but declined to serve; he was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant by Gov. Lucas, at the time of the Missouri Boundary difficulty; his wife’s father settled in this county in 1837; he also was a pioneer; her mother died March 19, 1851, and her father died March 14, 1854; they came of a long-lived race; her mother’s father, Israel Baggs, is yet living in Massachusetts with his youngest daughter, who is 70 years old; he was born in April, 1777, and is consequently nearly 102 years old, still retaining his mental faculties, as well as physical powers, to a remarkable degree; the children of R. W. and F. H. Dresser are Thos. W., born Sept. 22, 1850; and Warren, Feb. 7, 1854; lost four — one infant son, Mary E., Celia E. and Charles. Members of the M. E. Church; Republican.