Pennsylvania Families

His immigration information:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, at ancestry.com.
Source Citation: Year: 1864; Arrival: New York, United States;
Microfilm serial: M237; Microfilm roll: M237_241; Line: 24; List number:
518.

Arrival Date: 9 Jun 1864
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: England
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Ship Name: Connecticut
Port of Arrival: New York

Billups, Jesse, 25, male, farmer
Billups, Mary Ann, 27
Billups, Richard, 4, child
Billups, Sarah Louisa, 8 mo., infant
Billups, Sarah Ann, 18, spinster

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His US censuses:
1870 Census Fox River Precinct, White County, Illinois
Series: M593 Roll: 289 Page: 383
[indexed as Belleps at HeritageQuestOnline.com

Billips, Jesse, 30, miller, born in England, citizen, real estate worth $300, personal estate of $4000
Mary, 31, born in England
Richard, 10, born in England
Sarah, 4, born in Indiana
Ann, 2, born in Indiana

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1880 United States Census, Gunnison City, Gunnison, Colorado
Series T9, Roll 0090, Page 127A

J. S. BILLIPS Self M Male W 39 ENG Laborer ENG ENG
Mary BILLIPS Wife M Female W 42 ENG Keeping House ENG ENG
S. E. BILLIPS Dau S Female W 14 IN At Home ENG ENG
A. L. BILLIPS Dau S Female W 12 IN At Home ENG ENG
Martha BILLIPS Dau S Female W 6 IL ENG ENG

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1900 Cascade Township, Cascade Co., Montana
Series T623, Roll 909, Page 51

Billups, Jesse C., 61, born Nov 1839, ENG, arr 1864, nat. citizen
married, but on his own

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1910; Census Place: Soldier Creek, Cascade, Montana; Roll T624_830; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 42

Jessie C Billups 71, farmer, cattle? farm?
Mary A Billups 73
married for 51 yrs, 8 children, 3 alive

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1920;Census Place: Soldier Creek, Cascade, Montana; Roll T625_968; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 45
David A Thomas 26, head, MT VT IN, farm manager
Edith P Thomas 19, wife, MT PA PA
Elizabeth Thomas 54, mother IN ENG ENG
Mary N Billups 82, grandmother, arr 1864, nat 1870, ENG ENG ENG

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Jesse Billups biography, from Progressive Men of the State of Montana, Illustrated, (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1901 or 1902).
As of 12 Feb 2006, digital image of page 1491 at:
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JESSE C. BILLUPS has bent every effort to the attaining of success, and
while he has had numerous misfortunes and many obstacles to overcome, he
has not faltered in his course and reward has not been denied him , for
he is today one of the prosperous farmers and stockraisers of Cascade
County. Mr. Billups is a native of Huntingdonshire, England, where he
was born November 16, 1839, the son of Richard and Sarah Billups,
natives of the "tight little isle," where the father was a farmer. He
died there in 1851, his wife surviving him by several years, when she
too passed away.

Jesse C. Billups secured a fair common-school education, but as he was
only twelve years of age at the time of his father's death he found it
was incumbent upon him to aid in supporting his widowed mother. He
engaged in farm work until 1864, when he immigrated to the United
States, believing that better opportunities here awaited the young man
not afraid of honest toil and who was honorable and straightforward in
his methods. Locating at Centreville, Ind., he was there engaged in work
in the engineering department of a flouring mill

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until 1867, when he became identified with the sawmilling industry. In
1874, he removed to Carm, White county, Ill., and engaged in farming and
raising swine, devoting particular attention to the latter branch of the
business. In 1878 he went to Kansas and in the following year to
Gunnison, Colo., where he again became identified with the sawmilling
business. In 1883 he set forth to look up a favorable location for
permanent residence, going through to Seattle, Wash., and thence to
British Columbia. In the fall of the same year he went to the Big Bend
country and thence to Moscow, Idaho, where he was for a time employed in
a sawmill, going thence to the famous Coeur d'Alene mining district. In
1866 [sic. Did they mean 1886?] Mr. Billups went to Helena, Mont., and
thence to the Prickly Pear valley, where he once more engaged in sawmill
work, and was so employed until July 20, 1887, when he located on his
present ranch, eighteen miles southeast of Cascade. This ranch
originally comprised 640 acres, supposed to be homestead land, but it
eventually transpired that the tract was railroad land, and on this
account it became necessary for him to purchase it, which he did for
$1440. In 1893 Mr. Billups added to his tract a homestead claim of 160
acres. Here he has sucessfully continued in the cattleraising business,
but devoting some attention to the sawmill business. His property is now
held at a valuation of $8000, and this is a very gratifying showing in
view of the fact that when Mr. Billups came to Montana he had
practically no financial resources. He is now recognized as one of the
representative stockmen of this locality, and is held in high esteem by
all who know him.

In politics he renders allegiance to the Republican party. On March 1,
1859, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Billups to Miss Mary Ann Peck,
who was born in England, the daughter of John and Sarah Peck, likewise
natives of England, the father having been a farmer by occupation. His
death occurred in 1882, and his widow passed away two years later. Their
religious faith was that of the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs.
Billups became the parents of eight children, only three of whom are
living, Sarah E., Anna L. and Mattie E. Those deceased are Richard A.,
Jesse C., Jr., Martha, Sarah L., and Jesse C., II.