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RICHARDS, GUY C., farmer and stock raiser, Sec. 36, P.O. Kane. ‘Guy Richards, who ranks among the more opulent farmers of Jersey County, was born in Broome County, in the State of New York, on the 2d day of November, 1820. Daniel Richards, father of our subject, was a native of Connecticut. Subsequently, in mature years, he moved to Massachusetts, where he formed the acquaintance of and married Miss Ruth Ticknor, a relative of the well-known publisher of that name. Of this marriage seventeen children were born, thirteen of whom grew to maturity. We have only space to follow in detail the life career of the subject of this sketch. He was in his fourth year when his parents emigrated to the west, settling in Morgan County, near the present city of Jacksonville, where the head of the family became moderately successful. About the year 1837, he moved to Greene County, where he resided for a number of years, and subsequently died in Morgan County. Guy passed his boyhood in Morgan County, and accompanied the old folks to Greene, where he became employed upon the old homestead for a number of years. In 1843, he was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Pope, a daughter of Samuel Pope, of Ohio. Like nearly all who began life in an early day in the west, Mr. Richards was poor, but he displayed rare energy and soon began to prosper, and at this writing is the owner of some 600 acres in the counties of Greene and Jersey, and also in Harrison County, Missouri, and Sedgwick County, Kansas. Of the marriage above referred to, six children were born, all of whom are living, and whose names are Mary, Erastus P., Christopher G., Jacob L., Hannah, and George M.