J. N. Saylor, a farmer, located on section 19, Cherry Valley township, has resided in Winnebago county for more than six decades, having taken up his abode here in 1843. He was born in Tompkins county, New York, April 20, 1818.
Source: Charles A. Church, Past and Present of the City of Rockford and Winnebago County County, Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1905), p. 597.