Source: Portrait & Biographical Album of Whiteside County, IL
Originally published 1885 Chapman Bros., Chicago, IL

Transcribed by: Becky Jones

Page 273

Richard Alldritt, general farmer, resident on section 20, Clyde Township, was born Jan. 4, 1819, in Staffordshire, England, and is the son of Thomas and Ann Alldritt, an account of whose lives may be found in the sketch of W. Alldritt in another portion of this work.

He is the fifth son and fifth child of his parents, who had 12 children, and he was six years of age when they came with their family to America, landing at the port of Boston. Two years later they went to Lowell, Mass., where the father died about four years later. He was a manufacturer of earthenware in his native country. Mr. Alldritt lived in Massachusetts until 1844, when he came West, and settled in Clyde Township, where he entered a claim of 200 acres of land on which he interested himself vigorously in establishing a home. The entire township was chiefly in an unsettled condition. He is still a resident on the place of which he holds 163 acres, and chiefly under the plow.

He was married Dec. 31, 1848, in Unionville, in Whiteside County, to Orrilla, daughter of Elisha and Clarissa (Wilber) Bosley. Her parents were born respectively in Pennsylvania and Vermont, and after their marriage they settled in Trumbull Co., Ohio, where her father followed the profession of a millwright for many years, and where Mrs. Alldritt was born in Farmington, April 9, 1828. She was in early womanhood when her parents settled in Whiteside Co., Ill. She became the mother of nine children, three of whom are deceased. Emma is the wife of Julius Elftman, and resides in Canton, Minnesota. Her husband is a preacher in the M. E. Church. Albert married Anna Heacock, and is a stock-buyer at Friendville, Neb. and Alonzo E. is a butcher by calling. Henry and Orrilla, and Frank also, live at home. The mother died March 21, 1875. Lucy died aged six years. Edward died at the age of 18 months.

Mr. Alldritt is a member of the Wesleyan Church, his wife belonged to the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican in political connection, and has been Poor Master and Road Commissioner.