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C. L. CANINE,  farmer, Waveland, was born in Montgomery county, Indiana, Feb. 22, 1827, and is the son of Ralph and Margaret (Warman) Canine.  The father was born in Pennsylvania Dec. 3, 1789, and married in Shelby county, Kentucky, in 1809, and the mother was born Nov. 18, 1780.  They removed to Montgomery county, Indiana, in 1825, and settled in Brown township, where they lived till their death, the father dying Sept. 27, 1879, and the mother Nov. 5, 1863.  The subject of this sketch has been a resident of the county all his life, and has been an humble tiller of the soil.  Nov. 5, 1845, he married Miss K. Montgomery, daughter of James Montgomery.  She was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, Dec. 17, 1827.  The issue of this happy marriage is four sons and four daughters: Marion M., Edney L., Annie E., William Rice, Eva J., Walter B., Lula A., Cornelius L.; and two deceased, Mary C. and Sylva.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 347

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J. C. CANINE,

Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 358

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J. J. CANINE, farmer, Waveland, was born in Brown township, Montgomery county, Indiana, Sept. 11, 1833.  He is the son of Ralph and Margaret (Warman) Canine, who came to the county in 1826.  The subject of this sketch now lives on the farm where his father settled.  In 1854 J. J. Canine married Miss Sarah J. Foster, daughter of Robert and Susan Jones Foster.  She was born in this county Feb. 18, 1834.  They have one child living, Mary M. W.; and two deceased, Robert S. and one in infancy.  Mr. Canine is the owner of a fine farm of 279 acres with good improvements.  He has been a member of the Old School Baptist church since 1854.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 353

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J. R. CANINE, farmer, Waveland, is the son of John and Huldah (C. Long) Canine, and was born in Brown township, Montgomery county, in 1832.  His father at the age of fourteen moved from Shelby county, Kentucky, with his parents, and settled in Brown township in 1826, and assisted his father in clearing up a farm in the woods.  When seventeen years of age he joined the Old School Baptist church, and remained a faithful member until his death, May 1, 1875.  Dec. 2, 1830, John Canine married Huldah C. Long, daughter of James and Nancy Long, and settled on Sec. 29.  Three children were born: James R. (the subject of this sketch), and two died in infancy.  Dec. 13, 1853, James R. married Elizabeth Proctor, daughter of Mulenburgh and Sarah S. Proctor, and have had five children: Rilah F. J. born Apr. 25, 1856, and died Jan. 17, 1863; John H. was born Apr. 15, 1864; Huldah A. was born Oct. 7, 1866, and died Feb. 8, 1870; Lucinda E. B. was born July 4, 1869, and died Dec. 20, 1871; and Jesse W., was born Nov. 25, 1871.  Mr. Canine’s mother and father died in 1875.  Huldah C., daughter of James and Nancy Laws-Long, became Mrs. John Canine in 1830.  Her father, in the spring of 1822, began clearing a farm on See. 21, now added to Parke county.  From a large oak tree in Brown township he so cured clapboards to cover his cabin home, that being the first tree cut in the township for building purposes.  He became a member a of the Old School Baptist church at the age of eighteen, and was a faithful member till his death. His wife died February 1866.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 352

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WILLIAM CANINE, woolen mills, Waveland, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, Dec. 25, 1815, and came to Montgomery county, Kentucky, Dec. 25, 1815, and came to Montgomery county in 1825.  In 1846 he bought the old Deer grist-mill, and has been connected in that and the woolen-mill and dry-goods business almost constantly, and is now superintending the woolen-mill in connection with Joel Deer, the firm being Canine & Deer.  He served as township trustee of his township for six years, and a devoted member of the Old School Baptist church for many years.  In 1845 he married Martha J. Ellis, of Shelby county, Kentucky, by whom he has three children: Mary A., John C. and Thomas.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 347

Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois - Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 354

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MRS. FRANCIS C. COPE, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 19, 1811.  Her mother and father were members of the United Brethren church, and he was in the war of 1812.  In 1817 they moved to Montgomery county, Ohio.  She was married and came to this county in 1829.  Her husband was S. W. Cope; he died Sept. 9, 1869.  Mr. Cope was a farmer, a Lutheran, a republican, and one of the early settlers in this county.  He was a good citizen and an honest, hardworking man.  Both of his grandfathers were captains in the revolutionary war.  Mrs. Cope is a Christian lady and very liberal and benevolent.  In 1875 she contributed $1,200 for building the United Brethren church near where she lives.  She has about 300 acres and lives near the city.
Source:  History of Montgomery County, Illinois Part 2 - Publ. 1881 - Page 161 - 162