Piper, Israel S.

Born: 1819-XX-XX Kentucky

Died: 1892-XX-XX Canton, Illinois

Israel S. Piper was a merchant. In September 1845 in Fulton County, Illinois, he married Zerilda A. Boyd, with whom he eventually had at least six children. In 1850 he worked as a merchant in Canton, Illinois and owned $4,300 in real estate. Piper was partners with Solomon Shoup in a mercantile and pork-dealing firm in Canton. By 1860, he owned nearly $50,000 in real and personal property. During the Civil War he served as a director and secretary of the Jacksonville and Savanna Railroad.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Fulton County, 7 September 1845, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Canton, Fulton County, IL, 155; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Canton, Fulton County, IL, 13; History of Fulton County Illinois (Peoria, IL: Chas. C. Chapman, 1879), 1007; U.S. Census Office, Ninth Census of the United States (1870), Ward 1, Canton, Fulton County, IL, 6; Alonzo M. Swan, Canton: Its Pioneers and History, A Contribution to the History of Fulton County (Canton, IL: n.p., 1871), 114-15; Gravestone, Greenwood Cemetery, Canton, IL.