A. N. Tolliver, the well known County Judge of Clay county, Illinois, is a native of the same, having been born October 12, 1870, the son of John H. Tolliver, who was a native of Lawrence county, Indiana, and who came to Clay county, Illinois, when a young man. He has spent most of his life engaged in farming, but he has been in the drug business at Ingraham, this state, for many years. Isom Tolliver, the judge’s grandfather, was also a native of Indiana. who came to Clay county, Illinois, being among the first settlers here. He died in 1874. The judge’s mother was Margaret Sanchner, whose people were from Tennessee. She passed to her rest in November, 1905. [an excerpt]
