People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — Burget & Penn. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Burget & Penn.

This firm is doing much for the substantial benefit of Jasper county by bringing here from their old homes in Illinois and elsewhere, men with means, who purchase and improve the only partially developed rich lands of this locality. The members of the firm are J. W. Burget and

This gentleman came from Douglas county, Illinois. March 15, 1895; he is forty- two years old and has been a farmer all his life; has had no other official preferment than that of supervisor of his township for a period of four years. He has had extensive experience both in farming and stock raising. He owns a farm of 120 acres in Illinois, and also 240 acres in Barkley township this county, purchased of Robert Randle.

jJ. T. Penn, both experienced [farmers and practical business men, who have the confidence of all who know them. Their real estate office is situated in the Leopold block over the Star and Crescent store, where they will accord all parties interested in real estate deals the utmost courtesy.

Mr. Penn is a native of Illinois, having been born in Coles county 1858. His boyhood was spent in West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. At nineteen he began life for himself and- went to Douglas county, 111., where he worked upon a farm for seven years, when he married. Since then he has been farming for himself and engaged in the livery business until he came to Rensselaer in 1894, now being a partner in the real estate firm of Burget & Penn.

J. W. BURGET.

J. T. PENN.

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