From the book, Brethren In Northern Illinois and Wisconsin:
page 181
Forney, John 1815-1895
Born in Somerset County, Pa., April 25; married Eva Horner;
five children; married Elassanna Stahl; fourteen children. United
Church of Brethren, 1833; minister, 1856; elder, 1870. Came to
Polo, Ill., in the late fifties; to Fall City, Nebr., 1869. In
1873 he distributed food and clothing sent from Northern Illinois
for Nebraska and Kansa sufferers. In 1846 he became interested
in medicine, read medical books and long practiced medicine along
with his preaching. For a time lived between Lanark and Brookville.
Memorized great portions of the Bible, was a keen thinker and
had a personality all his own both in the pulpit and out of it.
Traveled and preached extensively in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri
after leaving Illinois.
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