STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Transcribed by Larry Fearneyhough
Page 121
Scott county is a natural home of small fruits. The yield is abundant and the quality perfect. In the small fruit industry Alonzo Dill is at present engaged. He was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania August 3, 1847. When he was four years of age his parents left the Keystone state and came to Illinois and settled in Scott county. Our subject was reared and educated in this county, and July 13, 1862, when he was only sixteen years old, enlisted in company D, 129th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served as drummer boy and soldier until the close of the war. He was with Sherman in the campaign at Atlanta; his famous march to the sea, then up through the Carolinas and Virginia. He was discharged at Washington, D.C., in 1865, and finally mustered out of the service a little later at Chicago. After the close of the war he came back to Winchester and took up the business of painting in all its branches. He became an expert in the art of painting and decorating and by his energy and ambition reached the top notch in his profession.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Eliza Goodyear and they have reared a family of three children, two boys and one girl - Cora, married Harry Benson, and is now dead; Elmer and Herbert. At present Dr. Dill is devoting his attention to the small fruit and market gardening business, and is making a decided success of it. He has traveled considerable and has been in sixteen different state capitals and many of the large cities of the country. He is a pleasant gentleman and has a good word for everybody.