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Joseph R. Lear (Brown County, IL, farmer )

b. 1835-01-05

Brown County, Illinois, farmer. Pennsylvania native. Son of John Lear and Mariah Lear. Married to Casander Lear. Father of Celesta Lear and James J. Lear. Student in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, in 1850. Farmer in Cooperstown, Illinois, in 1860. Employed William Irvin as a farmer in Cooperstown in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Pennsylvania, Bedford County, Broad Top, p. 267A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Brown County, Cooperstown, p. 737.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Brown County, Cooperstown, p. 21B.

"Joseph Richardson Lear (1835-1911)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11293558, accessed August 19, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11293558.

Citation

Lear, Joseph R.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204515 (November 12, 2026).

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