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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

Victor and Jasper Changelon, farmers, Clifton, were both born in Belgium, and left that country in company with their father and mother, they being both young, the year 1863. They et once came west to this township and bought raw prairie land, which through unremitting labor they have made into a beautiful and productive farm: it is well improved and fixed up, the whole 230 acres being well ditched and fenced, with good house and barn, large bearing orchard, and handsome shade trees. Jasper married, in August, 1870, Miss Mary Constantin, and has a family of two children. Victor is still unmarried, and continues to reside with his brother.

Source : Beckwith, H. W. : History of Iroquois County : together with Historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources; Chicago: H.H. Hill and Co., 1880, c1879, 1219 pgs.