Hon. Richard Wellington Townshend, son of Samuel H. and Catharine O. Townshend, was born in Prince George County, Maryland, April 30, 1840; educated in Washington, D. C., where he was a page in the House of Representatives in 1857-8, and moved to Illinois in March, 1858. In that year he clerked in the Post Office at Cairo; in 1859 and 1860, taught school; in 1857, he began the study of law at Washington, D. C.; was licensed to practice while studying under Hon. S. S. Marshall, at McLeansboro, Illinois; in 1862, was elected Clerk of the Circuit Court of Hamilton County, serving from 1863 to 1868, when he was elected State's Attorney for the Twelfth Circuit, and moved to Shawneetown in 1873, where he has since practiced law.
Contributed 2022 Apr 23 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1876 Altas of the State of Illinois, page 244.
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