Source: History of Whiteside County, IL, edited by Charles Bent, Morrison, IL  1877
Transcribed by: Denise McLoughlin, Tampico Area Historical Society
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ALDEN TULLER was born in Harford, Connecticut, in 1812. He came to Illinois first in 1833, and settled in Joliet, Will county, where he remained until May, 1835, when he came to Portland, and made a claimadjoining Spring Hill. He lived in Porland until about 1854, when he moved to Prophetstown and purchased a farm on Jackson street, upon which henow resides. He married Miss Harriet M. FULLER in 1837. Their children have been: Alber, who married Miss Nellie WHITCRAFT, and lives in Kansas; Helen, who married Charles HUMMESTON, and is now dead; Ernest and Wilbur, who live in Prophetstown and Agnes, now dead.