ADDISON K. SILLS was born in Crittenden County, Ky., January 14, 1855, and is the son of Benjamin D. and Catherine (Stewart) Sills, both natives of Kentucky, and respectively born in IS27 and 1833. Addison attended his first school in a lo(, house, in Ballard County, when five years of age, and about this time his father died; his mother then moved to Metropolis, Ill., and thence to this county, Addison attending, school at both places. At the early age of ten, he began working out on farms, studying, during all his spare hours, and was finally granted a license September 28, 1872, to teach in the public schools. He taught at various places, and in the winter of 1874 came to Monon and engaged in teaching. October 17, 1875, he married Lavinia C. Ramsey, who has borne him three children-Maud, Ethel and Lyman, all now deceased. During his spare hours, he also studied law, and was admitted to the bar in June, 1875. In 1878, he started a drug store in his own two-story building, and conducted it until 1882, when he sold. Mr. Sills is a Mason and a Knight of Pythias, has served as a Justice of the Peace, and in politics is a Republican ; his wife is a member of the Baptist Church, which he also attends.

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