Bureau County, Illinois Historical and Biographical Sketches

This database provides historical and biographical sketches of Bureau County, Illinois. While your ancestors may not be included in the biographical portion of this work (because it only includes the most prominent individuals of the area), this database can still be of great worth to you. Historical works are great sources for learning about the time and place in which our ancestors lived. Also, much can be learned by reading about the lives of those who lived during the time of our ancestors. The historical information, combined with the biographical, can shed a great deal of light on what our ancestors' lives may have been like, and it may also help us place us our ancestors in a historical context.