Biographical Sketches of Loup City
R. C. HARDIN,
County, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Sherman County, located
in St. Paul, Howard Co., in 1873, and taught school five years. Then located
on a homestead near Cedarville, in southwest part of Sherman County, and
since farmed. Elected County Superintendent Sherman County November, 1881.
Owns 240 acres of land, with eighty acres under cultivation, Section 34,
Town 14, Range 16. Born in Mercer County,. Ill., April 16, 1841; lived
in native State until he came to Nebraska. Enlisted in August, 1861, in
Company A, Third Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry. Participated in
battles of Belmont, Mo., Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills,
siege of Vicksburg, Atlanta. Jonesboro, Nashville, Kenston and Goldsboro.
Mustered out in Springfield, Ill., July 13, 1865. Married, in Illinois,
1864, to Miss Mary L. Furry, of Ohio. Had six children--George E., Ada
L., Charles W., Mary J. (Horace C., deceased) and Celia E. He is a member
of Mercer, Ill., Lodge, No. 210, A., F. & A. M. Also member of M. E.
Church and local pastor of same of his place.