Feaman, Jacob

Born: 1792-XX-XX Virginia

Feaman moved to Randolph County, Illinois and worked as a hatter some time before 1830. In 1836, he purchased 40 acres of land in neighboring Jackson County. Feaman represented Randolph County in the Illinois Senate from 1840 to 1844. In 1844, he served as a juror in a U.S. Circuit Court case where Abraham Lincoln worked as the defendant's attorney. Feaman was register of the General Land Office in Kaskaskia from 1845 to May, 1850. From 1849 to 1854, Feaman purchased numerous tracts of land in Randolph and Washington counties. In 1860, Feaman was living in Kaskaskia, Illinois.

Combined History of Randolph, Monroe and Perry Counties, Illinois (Philadelphia: J. L. Mc Donough, 1883), 117, 124; U.S. Census Office, Fifth Census of the United States (1830), Randolph County, IL, 130; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Jackson County, 31:66; Randolph County, 16:67, 32:92, 126; Washington County, 32:188, 238, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Sixth Census of the United States (1840), Randolph County, IL, 210; Beebee Brothers v. Whitney & Norwood, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://www.lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=140359; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 208, 210; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Randolph County, IL, 328; Gravestone, Garrison Hill Cemetery, Randolph County, IL; Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1845 (Washington, DC: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845), 213; Register of all Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the Thirtieth September, 1847 (Washington, DC: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1847), 30; Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1887), 8:178.