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Subject: [INCLINTO-L] LANE,HARLAN,HAMILTON
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:28:24 EST

WILLIS A. LANE, brother of Beverly W. Lane, was born in Clinton county, Ind.,
on the twenty-fourth day of January, 1820, and grew to manhood near where he
is now living. His education, acquired in the common schools, is of a
practical nature, and his contact with men in subsequent years, together with
his business relations, has given him a practical knowledge such as schools
and colleges fail to impart. His life work has been agriculture, in the true
dignity and devotion of which he firmly believes, and in his chosen calling he
is the peer of any resident of the community in which he lives. Mr. Lane has a
well-improved and fertile farm of 110 acres, upon which are many valuable
improvements, including a modern residence and barn, complete in their
appointments, and the improved condition of his premises bespeaks the
successful farmer and gentleman of taste.
Mr. Lane was united in marriage June 15, 1874, to Mary C. Harlan, daughter of
George and Silence (Hamilton) Harlan, the father a farmer of Piatt county,
Ill. This union has been blessed with the birth of the following children,
given in the order of their ages: Jessie, deceased at the age of six years;
Walter H., Nellie and George H. Mr. Lane is a progressive citizen in all the
term implies; he stands unreservedly for public improvements of all kinds, and
takes more than ordinary interest in the cause of education, the general
dissemination of which he believes to be one of the effective means of
arresting many of the evils extant and elevating the country to a higher plane
of moral excellence. He is sparing no pains in the education of his children,
all of whom will be given the advantages of full courses of study in higher
institutions of learning, and, at the same time, he is by no means neglectful
of their higher natures, the influence of his life being decidedly religious
in its tendency. He is an earnest worker in the Methodist church, holds the
positions of steward, trustee and class leader, and, for some years, has been
the efficient superintendent of the Sunday-school. Politically, he is a
republican, but not an office-seeker, although he has frequently been
solicited by his many friends and fellow-citizens to accept positions of
trust.
Transcribed by Chris Brown from page 766 of "A Portrait And Biographical
Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," published in 1895 by A.W. Bowen &
Co. Chicago.

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