Durham, Edward H.

Born: 1820 Maryland

Flourished: 1841 to 1863 Illinois

Edward R. Durham acquired at least 250 acres of land in Tazewell and Woodford counties between 1841 and 1850. In the latter year, Durham was a farmer living in the household of John Durham in Tazewell County. He served as a township supervisor in that county in 1852 and again from 1854 through 1855. In 1860 was employed as an upholsterer and was living in John Durham’s household in Peoria. Three years later he held the office of collector. Durham registered for the draft in Fifth Congressional District in 1863, but there is no further evidence that he served in the Civil War.

Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Tazewell County, 818:107; Woodford County, 59:55, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Tazewell County, IL, 89; History of Tazewell County Illinois (Chicago: Chas. C. Chapman, 1879), 430; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Ward 1, Peoria, Peoria County, IL, 56; Omi Earl Root, comp., Root’s Peoria City Directory, for the year 1863 (Peoria, IL: N. C. Nason, 1863), 73; U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010).