Damon G. Tunnicliff was born in
Herkimer County, New York. At age fifteen, he went to live with his uncle in
Cleveland, and in 1849, he moved to
Vermont, Illinois to run a store for his cousin. After successfully
acting as his own attorney in trials for two traffic offenses there, he
read law at a firm in
Rushville, and was admitted to the bar in April 1853. He began practicing law in
Macomb, Illinois in 1854, and later that year he became an attorney for the
Northern Cross Railroad. He remained in that position for 47 years. He died in Macomb on December 20, 1901. ==Notes==