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Mrs Mary J Van Landschoot is engaged in the business of a merchant in the village of Atkinson. She was born in Indiana, in 1848. She became the wife of Ambrose Bernard Van Landschoot, April 7, 1869. He was a native of Belgian and was born March 6, 1821. He died Nov. 1, 1883, of inflammatory rheumatism. At the time of his death he was engaged in the management of the business which has been continued by his widow since his demise. He contracted the disease which was the final cause of his death while a soldier in the Union service. He was a soldier for four years, and during that period was several times confined in the hospital by the same disorder.
He was not only a graduate of the highest institution of learning in Belgium, the College of Ste. Neclonis but he was also especially well read in history and versed in the Belgic, English, French, Greek and Latin languages.
Mrs. Van Landschoot is the daughter of john Verner Vincent and Anna Catharine (Hall) Holliet. Her father was born in Hanover, Germany, Feb. 15, 1818. The wife and mother was born in the same country, Dec, 17, 1812, and died Dec. 7, 1882, at Geneseo, Ill.. Their marriage occurred in Richmond, Ind., Feb. 13, 1839, and they were the parents of eight children, viz Mary C., Lucinda S., James G., Mary Jane, Mary Josephine, Henry, Eliza and Maria Theresa. Mrs. Van Landschoot is a Catholic in religious belief, as were also all the family except her mother, who was a Lutheran.

Source : (collective work) : Portrait and biographical album of Henry County, Illinois : containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Illinois, and of the presidents of the United States : also containing a history of the county, from its earliest settlement to the present time.; Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1885, 837 pgs.