Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William Henry
Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, Chicago, 1882. 
Cass County.

WILLIAM W. REDMAN, Postmaster, Ashland; was born in Logan County,
Ky. August 16, 1820, and was brought to Morgan County, Ill., when
five years of age.  At the age of seventeen years he moved with
his parents to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he assisted his
father upon his farm until he reached the age of twenty-one
years, at which time he began farming for himself, and remained
in Iowa until 1851, when he went to California, where he remained
about five years engaged in mining.  He then returned to
Jacksonville, Ill., where he remained three years.  In 1860 he
came to Ashland and engaged in the drug business, afterward
spending three years upon a farm; in 1871 he was appointed deputy
Postmaster, and in 1874 was made Postmaster, which office he
still holds.  He was married Oct. 7, 1845, to Miss Nancy J. 
Rucker, who was born in Kentucky, in 1825; she is the mother of
five children: Rabanus, Carrie C., Lester L., Lua, and an infant
not named, the two latter deceased.  Mrs. Redman was a daughter
of John Rucker, a native of Kentucky, deceased.  Solomon Redman,
the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky, in 1794; a
farmer by occupation; his death occurred in 1849.  His wife,
Rebecca Williams, was also a native of Kentucky, born in 1800,
died in 1870; she was the mother of nine children, of whom
William was the oldest.  Himself and wife are members of the M.E.
Church.  Politically he is a Republican.

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Logan-KY Morgan-IL Van Buren-IA CA