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- -Moved to Illinois in 1845 with 7 other wagons to travel west in the wagon train.
-First settled his family in Knoxville, Knox Co., Illinois and opened a grocery store. In the spring of 1847 he bought the farm in Dimmick Township (3 1/2 miles north of Peru, Il.). He also purchased 80 acres of land in Putnam Co. (SW of Peru). He built a saw mill, 3 houses, and barns on the Putnam Co. land. He owned this land til his death.
-Hermon Nissley changed his name to Harmon and dropped a "S" in Nissley. (source: Estella E. Todd papers)
-History of La Salle Co., IL; 1886, Volume 2, pg. 724-725: : "Jacob L. Nisley is a son of one of the pioneers of La Salle County. His father, Harmon Nisley, was born in Franklin Co., Pa., Feb. 14, 1797, a descendant of a Holland family that came to America many years before the Revolution, his grandfather serving in that struggle, in the American army. Harmon Nisley married Elizabeth Whitmer and in 1846 moved with his family to Illinois, and lived a year in Knox County, looking, in the meantime, for a place to locate, and decided on Peru, and in the spring of 1847 settled on a farm three and a half miles north of that village on which he lived till his death in 1870, at the age of seventy-three years. His wife survived till Feb. 27, 1884, and died at the age of seventy-six years. He was a man of strong religious principles and an upright, honest citizen. His family consisted of seven children--David, who died in 1847, aged twenty-one years; Peter, now in California; Nancy, wife of Noah Hackman, of Peru; Samuel, died in 1881, aged forty-seven years; Mary, wife of Brown Munro, of Dimmick Township; Jacob L., and Josiah, of Colorado. Jacob L. Nisley was born in Pennsylvania, in 1839, and lived in La Salle County, Ill., since eight years of age. In 1864 he moved to Mendota. In 1867 he was elected Superintendent of Streets, a position he has held eighteen years. In politics he was a Republican. He married Isabella A. Rife, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1845, a daughter of Henry & Catherine Rife, who settled in Dimmick Township, La Salle Co., Ill., in 1853, where they lived till 1883 when they moved to Nebraska where the father died July 21, 1885, aged eighty-two years, and the mother still lives. Their children are six in number--three, Mrs. Sarah Huck, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Rhea, and Mrs Nisley live in Mendota Township; and three, Ephraim, Samuel L. and Mrs. Lydia R. Grimm, live in Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Nisley have four children--Edgar P., Susie B., George W. and Mabel L.
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1797 - 1870 (72 years)
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