Robert Greenlee and Sarah Corman

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Husband Robert Greenlee ¹

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           Born: 18 May 1830 - Woodcock, Crawford Co, PA 1
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           Died: 23 Jul 1893 - Bloomington, McLean Co, IL 1
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         Father: William Greenlee (1797-1876/1878) 1 2
         Mother: Margaret Townley (1805-1852) 1 2

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       Marriage: 27 Mar 1858 - Bloomington, McLean Co, IL 1

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Wife Sarah Corman ¹

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           Born: 1 Jan 1829 - Nicholasville, Jessamine Co, KY 1
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         Father: Abraham Corman (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth Grow (      -      ) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Greenlee

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He obtained his early education at the little country school located near Woodcock, Pennsylvania. His father operated a saw mill and shipped the lumber down French Creek to Franklin, thence into the Allegheny river to Pittsburg, and Robert's early life was spent as a creek and river pilot for his father. In 1855 he determined to try his fortune in the west and lived in southern Illinois for six months, then located at Bloomington, where he commenced the building and contracting business in which he continued until his death. The first sixteen years he was in partnership with Mr. H. A. Miner, but after that carried on the business alone. He had little to start with, having but one hundred dollars and a few articles which his wife brought from her home to commence housekeeping, but with energy and good business qualities, he soon became prosperous and one of the leading contractors and builders in the city. Some of the finest residences and public buildings were erected by him, among them the Court House and McKean County Jail. In 1887 he went to California, being attracted by the building boom there at that time, and remained eighteen months. His last contract, on which he was engaged at the time of his death, was the building of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Shirley, Illinois.

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Notes: Marriage

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Their children:
1. Frances Amelia, born August 28, 1859; married A. A. Hoffman.
2. Ella Louvena, born October 6, 1862.
3. Theodore Tyler, born November 4, 1864.
4. John Wesley, born April 23, 1866.
5. Ulysses Logan, born September 8, 1867; married September 16, 1897, Nellie Irene Sanders.
6. Cora Estelle, born December 14, 1872.

1 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 38.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 1156.