Will County, Illinois - The whole text, 1878 (part 19 of 29)

GEORGE RANDOLPH DYER, retired; Joliet; was born in Rutland Qo., Vt., June 13, 1813 ; his father, Daniel Dyer, had a State reputation as a sheepraiser and substantial farmer ; he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war ; after the close of the war he was commissioned Major in the Massachusetts State Militia, and his commission, signed by Gov. John Hancock himself, is now in the possession of his son George R. ; the venerable and well-known Dr. Charles V. Dyer, of Chicago, was his brother ; his mother was a Miss Olin, of the popular Vermont family of that name. Capt. Dyer received an academic education in West Rutland, Academy, and at the age of 21, started West, and drove from Clarendon, Vt., to Chicago, 111., alone ; he resided in Chicago and Milwaukee till 1841 ; during this time, he helped organize the Territory of Wisconsin ; in 1838, he assisted in surveying -the Fox River, with a view to use the same as a feeder for the Illinois Canal ; in 1841, he came to Will Co. and engaged in farming and stock-raising; in his early life in Will Co. he was noted far and wide for his remarkable energy and success in life ; in 1856, he was elected Sheriff of the county, and after his term of office expired he returned to his farm, where he resided till the breaking-out of the war in 1861 ; when the first gun was fired, true to the blood of his patriotic ancestors, he, with his two sons, went into the war for the Union ; his oldest son was commissioned Captain when but 17, and served through many a well-fought battle ; he died Nov. 13, 1863, from disease contracted in the Southern swamps. During the last thirty-five years Will Co. has known Capt. Dyer as a citizen of note, not a little eccentric, witty,joIly as a companion, and satirical in the reproving of that which had not sense to recommend it. As a defender of the rights of man, he has always been distinguished, and he considered it no disgrace to be called an Abolitionist ; he joined hands with them in bringing this country to be what it is to-day. In bold activity and uncompromising devotion, Capt. George R. Dyer was the undisputed pioneer in Will Co. of that enthusiastic movement, as it was called by his friends, and fanatical movement, as it was called by his enemies, which ultimately struck the shackles from the American slave. He jvas married Jan. 8, 1841, to Miss Elizabeth H. Kimball, of Elgin, a lady of fine natural endowments and graceful manners, whose excellent sense, fine culture and domestic accomplishments eminently fitted her for a helpmate for a young man with a full head and an ^empty pocket ; the matured woman has more than fulfilled the fair promise of the young-bridd ; six children have been born to them, four of whom still survive - Belle E,., Daniel B., Lizzie L. and Ida May (now Mrs. A. A. Whiting). George D. died in 1863, and Susie Olin (Mrs. R. Schermerhorn) died in 1872.

D. G. EDGERLY, agent M. C. R. R. Joliet Cut-Ofi', Joliet ; was born in Perry, Genesee (now Wyoming Co.), N. Y., in 1831. At the early age of 5 years, he lost his father, a prominent merchant of the town. His mother subsequently married a wealthy farmer, and his life, to about the age of 16, was spent upon his stepfather's farm. On leaving home, he spent one year in a dry goods store in Warsaw ; he next went to Bufialo,and was employed as check clerk in the firm of Kimberly, Pease & Co. (late Pease & Beecher), forwarders of general merchandise. This firm owned and operated lines on the lakes and Erie C^nal. The formation of the American Transportation Co., in 1855, absorbed all the small ofl&ces and companies, and he next located at Dunkirk, N. Y., in the employ of the N. Y. & Erie R. R., under S. D. Caldwell, now chief manager of the Red Liais ; he served eight years as check clerk ; from Dunkirk he returned to Bufialo and was appointed assistant agent ; here he remained ten years. In January, 1873, he was placed in charge of the 33d station. New York City ; this position he held two years. In 1876, he engaged in business in Buffalo, but only continued a short time. In January, 1877, he came to his present position at Joliet. His tine business qualifications have won for him positions of honor and trust, that do not usually fall to men so early in life.

WILLIAM EVANS, foreman rollturning department, Joliet ; was born in England June 20, 1841 ; his family emigrated to America in 1846, and settled in Pennsylvania ; here his father engaged in iron-mining, and in the mining districts William passed his youth and early manhood ; in 1862, he went to his trade in Danville, Penn., working five years under the instruction of Charles D. Hunt ; in 1870 he came to Chicago, and was employed in the roll-turning department in the North Chicago Rolling-Mills ; here he remained one year ; in June, 1 87 1 , he came to Joliet and entered the employ of the Joliet Iron and Steel Co. ; here he has since resided, excepting a residence of about six months in Springfield in 1873, when these works shutdown. He was married in December 1864, to Mary E. Propst, a native of Pennsylvania ; has one child living - William D. ; three died^ - Phillip D., and two in infancy.

GEORGE ERHARD, Joliet, whose portrait appears in this work, was born May 7, 1807, in the town of Middlestray, Province of Milrickstuart, Lower Frank, Wurtzberg, kingdom of Bavaria ; he emigrated to America in June, 1832, with his mother and two sisters, and first went to Detroit, Mich., where in August of same year his mother died of cholera; in October, .1833, he moved to Chicago, and April 26, 1836, came to Joliet with his brother-in-law, John Belz. In 1838, they returned to Chicago, and married two sisters, Louisa and Veronica Periolet ; Louisa, the wife of Mr. Erhard, was born in the town of Highfelt, in Alsace, near Strasbourg, in France ; she emigrated to Chicago, with her two brothers and sister, in 1834. Mr. Erhard returned to Joliet, and having formed a copartnership with John Belz, built a large brewery on Bluff street, West Side, Joliet, being very successful until the depreciation of wildcat money caused them to close their business. He had nine children, five living - George C, born Nov. 22, 1838, now carrying on an agricultural and seed store in Joliet; Eaiily, born Nov. 11, 1842, wife of J. C. Adler, of Joliet ; Joseph, now farming in Troy Tp., Will Co. ; Louisa and Lawrence ; his four younger children are dead, and are buried in the West Side German burying-ground, in Joliet. He and his brotherin-law, John Belz, were the first German settlers in this cfiunty, and George C, the eldest son of Mr. Erhard, was the first German male child born in Will Co.

COL. JOHN B. FITHIAN, of the firm of Pithian & Avery, attorneys at law, Joljet ; was born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Oct. 26, 1849 ; he is a son of Dr. William E. Pithian, a physician and Presbyterian clergyman ; in 1857, the family removed to Iowa and resided in different parts of the State until 1862, when his father took charge of the Sanitary Department at Helsna, Ark.,' and afterward was appointed Medical Inspector of the Department of the Tennessee ; during that time John B. was Chief Clerk at Helena, and in 1863, reported to the Sanitary Department at Vicksburg, and was present during the siege of that place ; after the war, he came to Illinois and followed the newspaper business at various points until 1873 ; he then came to Joliet, and was employed in various capacities in the Illinois State Penetentiary until the spring of 1876 ; in the mean time he had been improving his spare time in studying law in the offices of Munn& Munn, and C. B. Garnsey, Esq., of Joliet; he was admitted to practice in September, 1876, and in September, 1877, formed a partnership with E. D. Avery, which still continues. He was one of the organizers of the Citizens' Corps, and on the organization of the 10th Battalion I. N. G-., was appointed Adjutant under Lt. Col. Parsons; in July, 1877, he resigned, but on the breaking-out of the Braidwood disturbances, he enlisted as a private, and served during the riot ; on the organization of the 12th Battalion, Oct. 15, 1877, he was elected Major, and on the 9th of February, 1878, was promoted to the rank of Leiut. Colonel, which position he still holds. He was married Jan. 18, 1878, to Miss Edna E. Whittaker, of Carlinville, 111.

JOHN J. FLACK (deceased), formerly of Joliet, whose portrait appears in thiswork, was born on May 10, 1799, in Washington Co., N. Y. He married Dec. 24, 1818, Miss Elizabeth Nelson, who was born in same county Dec. 15, 1799. In 1819, he moved from Washington Co. to Essex Co., N. Y., and was largely engaged in farming and the manufacture of lumber and iron, also a large dealer in horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. He was also for many years an officer of the court. Mr. Flack having in the year 1844, purchased large tracts of land in the State of Illinois, moved his family to Joliet in 1845, and became very largely engaged in farming and stock-raising ; he also was interested in property, both in Chicago and Joliet. He was an officer of the court in Will Co., and Joliet also, for many years. He died Sept. 25, 1876, aged 80 years, 5

0. FOX, dealer in clothing, hats, caps and gents furnishing goods, Joliet ; has ibeen a citizen of Will Co. for the past twenty-three years ; he was born in Stanstead, Province of Quebec, Aug. 21, 1828 ; when he was about 15 years of age, he left home, and going to Boston, Mass., engaged as clerk in a mercantile house ; about six years later he went to New York City, where he remained the same length of time ; he came West in 1855, locating in Joliet, where he has been in business ever since ; first in the book and stationery business for some nine years ; then five yearsasaconj tractor, employing the convict labor in the Penitentiary in the manufacturer of cigars ; in 1868, he engaged in his present business. He keeps a full supply of goods in his line at prices to suit the times ; in addition to this business, he has for the past three years carried on a Penitentiary contract in manufacturing cigars. He wds married June 16, 1858, to Miss Anna J. White, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has four children living - Jennie A., Jessie B., Allie A. and Mamie J. Mr. Fox resides in a beautiful residence, one of the finest in Joliet, located on the bluffs overlooking the city. This was erected by him in 1874, and is an ornament to the city and a credit to its builder. i VALENTINE FAHRNER, M. D., I physician, Joliet ; was born in Marienbad, a watering-place of Bohemia, Dec. 9, 1803; he was educated at the Gymnasium of Egra, after which he pursued his professional studies at the University of Prague, where he graduated and received the degree of M. D. in 1833. He began practice in his native town, where he continued until 1854 ; he then came to this country, and located in Chicago; in 1868, he returned to Bohemia, remaining one year, and on coming again to the United States, spent two years in Mokena, III, coming to Joliet in 1871. He was married in 1842, to

Miss Maria Anna Tauber, of Teschau, Bohemia ; she died May 28, 1873, leaving two children - John and Anna Catherine (now Mrs. Henry Lehner, of Troy Township. John Fahrner, son of the above, was born in Marienbad, Bohemia, Feb, 11, 1 854, and came with his father's family to this country, and has continued with them ever since. He received his preparatory education in the school of the Benedictine Fathers in Chicago, after which he attended medical lectures in the University of Prague in Bohemia, and has since continued his professional studies under the instruction of his father, with whom he is associated in practice.

JOSEPH FRIEDRICH, farmer and stock-raiser ; P. 0. Joliet ; was born in Biul, Weisserberg, near Strasbourg, Alsace, April 25, 1820 ; he was raised to the business of stock-raising and farming, and in 1840, came to the United States ; he spent about three months at work near Buffalo, N. Y.; going from there to Chicago, and shortly afterward coming to Joliet ; he worked for awhile on the.dam at I his place, and in the spring following went to Lookport, and was employed for about five months on the Canal ; thence, in the fall, to Chicago. The following summer, he located in Naperville, 111., and resided there till he settled in' Joliet in May, 1847, except a short time spent in the South ; in the spring of 1848, he purchased his present farm adjoining. the city, where he owns seventy-six acres of land. He was married Fob. 17, 1845, to Miss Sarah Weis, a native of Germany and has eight children - Joseph E., now in business in Joliet, Charles, Oswell J., Frank E., William, Sarah, Josephine and Annie.

W. D. FAY, photograph artist, Joliet ; was born in Northampton Co., Penn., May 23, 1827 ; he entered upon the business of photographing at the age of 20 years, previously to which he had followed the trade of a tailor ; he continued the photograph business in his native State until 1860, when he removed to Joliet, where he has resided to the present time ; he is the oldest photographer in Joliet, and one of the oldest in the State. He held the office of Street Commissioner one year, and in 1869, was elected City Treasurer, holding the office two years ; he is at present Township School Treasurer, to which he was elected in June, 1877. He was married in 1858, to Miss Catharine R. WaldroB, of Harford, Penn., and has two children - Alpha A. and Winnifred W.

JAMES H. FERRISS, P. 0. Joliet; of Nelson, Ferriss & Co., proprietors of the Joliet Morning News ; was born near Oswego, Kendall Co., 111. He is a son of Wm. H. Ferriss, formerly of Clinton Co., N. Y. His mother was Eliza M. Brown, formerly of Erie Co., Penn. The subject of this sketch became a resident of Bristol Station, 111., where he received a common school education ; at the age of 10 years he entered a store - half saloon and half grocery - -and tended bar till he was 14 years of age, when he was seized with a spiritual, or no-spirit-at>all turn, and joined the Good Templars. He afterward attended a commercial college, run a butchershop, lived three years as a Kansas squatter, followed the live-stock trade, and was one of the proprietors of the Yorkville Neios during the Peter Cooper campaign. He also reported for the Joliet Sun, in an obscure capacity, in 1874, and with three others launched the Phoenix newspaper enterprise, in Will Co., on Jan. 1, 1877. In October, the same year, he, with his present associates, purchased the Morning News, and since then has pursued a steady and consistent course. During all his eventful career, he has never been mar. ried, had any bones broken, or had his life insured, but lives on in hopefulness, etc.

JAMES R. FLANDERS, attorney at law, firm of Hagar & Flanders, Joliet; was born Aug. 27, 1846, in Plainfield, Will Co., 111., and is a son of Jason and Lucy Flanders. He attended the pubhc schools of Plainfield, and the Northwestern College, located at Plainfield, until May, 1864, working on a farm during vacations. On the 10th of May, 1864, he enlisted in Company C, 132d I. V. I., serving until Oct. 17, 1864. After his discharge from the army, he returned to school, and remained in school until the spring of 1867; he then entered the law office of Randall & Fuller, in Joliet, and read law until Oct. 1867 ; he then taught school in Henry Co., 111., until the spring of 1868 ; read law during the summer, and the following winter, again taught school at the same place. During the summer of 1869, he continued his law studies, and in September of that year, entered the Law Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he graduated in March, 1871. He was admitted to the bar in Michigan, April 4, 1871, and to the bar of Illinois, June 20, 1871, and immediately began practice in Joliet. He was elected City Attorney of Joliet in the spring of 1873, and re-elected in the spring of 1874, and again elected in the spring of 1 876. In November, 1876, he was elected State's Attorney of Will County, which office he still holds. He was married to Miss Sarah A. Arnold, April 10, 1877.

JAMES G-OODSPEED, publisher and proprietor of the Joliet Republican, Joliet ; was born in Tioga Co., Penn., Dec. 3, 1836 ; he came to Joliet in 1859 ; he was educated at Alfred University, N. Y., and after leaving college entered the law office of Goodspeed & McKobert in Joliet ; he was admitted to the bar in 1861, and continued in practice until 1869, when he purchased the Joliet Republican, which he has continued to publish to the present time. The Republican is the oldest Republican newspaper in the Seventh Congressional District, and has a larger circulation than any other paper published in the district ; it is issued both as a weekly and semi-weekly, and has a circulation of fully 1,800. Mr. Goodspeed was appointed Postmaster in 1871, and still holds the office.

C. B. GARNSEY (Garnsey & Knox), attorney at law, Joliet ; was born in Livingston Co., N. Y., Oct. 25, 1842; he was educated at the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and in 1859 came to Will Co., spending a year or more in Wilmington ; in 1861, he entered the law department of the Chicago University, graduating July 1, 1862. On the 30th of the same month, he enlisted in Co. A, 100th 111. V. I.; was soon afterward transferred to the noncommissioned staff as Commissary Sergeant of the regiment, and served as such during the war, being with his regiment from the time it left home, until its muster out in July, 1865, when he returned to Joliet, and entered upon the practice of his - profession. He was appointed Master in Chancery in 1867, and served four years, resigning in 1871. He is at present Corporation Counsel for the city of Joliet, to I

W. D. GARDNER, steel-blower, Joliet ; was born in Portage Co., Ohio, in 1847; his life was that of a farmer's son until he was 22 years of age ; his father-in-law, A. S. Dunning, was for a number of years superintendent of the converting department of the Cleveland Rolling-Mills, and when in the employ of the same company in 1868 he came to Chicago. Mr. Gardner accompanied him, and engaged in the manufacture of steel for the Union Rolling- Mills Company ; in December, 1872, his father-in-law took the same position in the works at Joliet, where he remained till 1 877. Mr. Gardner came at the same time, and has remained ever since. He was married Dec. 27, 1868, to Anna B. Dunning, a native of Ohio ; has one daughter - Emma. He is recognized as one well qualified for the very responsible position he occupies.

WM. GRINTON, Jr., real estate and loans, Joliet ; was born in the Province of Ontario March 17, 1844, but came to Plainfield, Will Co., with his parents when less than a year old, and, therefore, can almost be said to be a native of Will Co. ; he is a son of William Grinton, a prominent citizen of the county, the founder of the village of Grinton, in Troy Tp., and the builder of the Grinton Mill, one of the old landmarks. Mr. Grinton came to Joliet in 1853 ; was educated in the public schools of the city and at the Lake Forest Academy, 111., and after leaving school followed the grocery business in Joliet for two years ; he afterward spent a short time in the commission business in St. Louis ; he was also engaged for two years in the grocery business in Morris, 111., returning in 1868 to Joliet, and engaging in his present business ; on the organization of the Stone City Bank he became Cashier, and held that position the first two years. He was married March 24, 1864, to Miss Anna Stevens, daughter of the late Robert Stevens, one of the early settlers of Will Co. ; their children are Robert W., Anna L., Jessie and Orace.

in Brooklyn, N. Y., where lie lived until the year 1869, when he came West and engaged in the shoe business at Marshalltown, Iowa, for one year; then returning to New York in 1870, where he remained six years, he again engaged in the manufacture of shoes ; he emigrated West and to Joliet in 1876, where he has continued to work at the shoe business until the present time ; has been foreman of the treeing, packing and shipping department since March, 1877. He married Aug. 2, 1877, to Miss AUie Vanderhoff, daughter of Levi VanderhofF, of Joliet ; they are the parents of one daughter, born Sept. 18, 1878.

school, Northamptonshire ; served two years as assistant commercial traveler in London and vicinity; in 1844, came to Brooklyn, N. Y., and learned the shoe business in all its details ; he then visited England, and, upon returning, traveled through the Eastern States, and worked in some of the Eastern factories. In 1852, he married Miss Margaret Ann i Granger, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and traveled one year through the Eastern States as salesman, returning then to the shoe manufacture as foreman of a feshionable custom business ; then traveled again three years as salesman, when he again returned to factory life, first as cutter, then as foreman and superintendent, in which capacity he is now engaged, and has been for the past twenty years. His first wife died m 1870, leaving five children - Albert H. (now foreman in the shoe department, who married Miss Allie Vanderhofi', of Joliet, and has one daughter - Carrie H., now Mrs. William Henderson, of Brooklyn, N-. Y.), Ida E., William and John (who died in 1871). In 1872, Mr. G. married Miss Harriet A. Bazin, daughter of John H. Bazin, Esq., and removed to Joliet in 1874 with his family, excepting Carrie. The factory under his direction was the first ever started to make exclusively fine shoes with convict labor. Mr. Green has been a frequent contributor to the shoe trade journals of the country for many years, in 1872, furnishing one hundred and eighty columns, many of the articles being republished in the trade journals of England, France and Germany.

ALEXANDER GROSS, general superintendent of the stone-cutting department Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet ; born in Baden, Germany, Jan. 26, 1834, where he lived until 20 years of age, learning and working at the trade of stone-cutting in his father's quarries ; he emigrated to America in 1854, landing in New York July 26, and came to Chicago the following September, engaging at his trade for two months, when he went to Macon Co. and worked at farming for four months; returning to Chicago, he again engaged at his trade until the panic of 1857, when he came to Joliet, and after working one year as foreman of the stone cutting department of the Illinois State Penitentiary, he was appointed general superintendent, in 1858, which position he has filled with credit since that date, a period of twenty years. Mr. . Gross married in February, 1868, Margaret Vebel ; she was born in Prussia; they are the parents of five children, three living, viz., Laura, Theodore, Rosetta; the deceased are Albert and Amelia.

JOHN GREENWOOD, farmer. Sec. 25; P- 0. Joliet; born in Herefordshire, England, Sept. 29, 1813; came to this country when 18 years of age, living in New York State eight years, following farming ; removed to Will Co., 111., in 1840, where he has continued the occupation of farming ; he owns 240 acres of land, worth $60 per acre. Married Mary Ann Brown, of New York State, June 1, 1836 ; they had thirteen children by this union - George, born Aug 5,1838; Mary, May 11, 1840; John W., June 27, 1842, deceased ; Harvey B., Dec. 26,1844, deceased; William, Nov. 27, 1846; Jane, April 11, 1848, deceased; Llewellyn, November, 1850, deceased; Bennett, Oct 23, 1-852, deceased ; Sarah, April 11, 1854, deceased; John Fletcher, Sept. 2, 1856, deceased ; and three children who died in infancy. Mrs. Greenwood died Aug. 27, 1874. Mr. Greenwood married for his second wife Sarah A. Houston on Jan. 23, 1875 ; she was born in Huron Co., Ohio ; they have one child by this union - Charles Albert, born April 7, 1877. Mr. Greenwood has held the office of School Director for more than twenty years.

FRANK HAVILAND, proprietor of livery, sale and hoarding stable, Joliet ; was born in Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. Y., March 15, 1842. Early in 1862, he enlisted in the 109th N. Y. Vols., and was appointed a Sergeant in Company A ; he served in the Army of the Potomac, and participated in all the engagements of that army until the battle of Petersburg, where he was wonnded June 17, 1864 ; he received three wounds, one in the left hand, by a fragment of a shell, which carried away one of his fingers, and at the same time two wounds in the right leg ; on his recovery, he was sent on detached duty to Annapolis, Md., where he remained till his discharge in August, 1865, just previous to which he received an unsolicited and unexpected commission as First Lieutenant. He came to Joliet in the fall of 1865, and the pext spring engaged in his present business ; he has served one year as City Marshal and one term as a member of the Board of Aldermen of Joliet. He was married Dec. 3, 1874, to Miss Merrion Millar, of the town of Troy, WUl Co., 111.

H. HENRY HAYEN, blacksmith, Joliet; born in Germany in 1845, where he lived untU 21 years of age, where he learned and worked at the trade of blacksmith until he emigrated to America, landing in New York, Oct. 29, 1866; came directly to Joliet, Will Co., 111., and engaged in blacksmithing, wagonmaking and general repairing, and manufacturing all kinds of stonecutters' and marble- workers' tools, which business he has since successfully followed. He was married July 16, 1872, and has two children now living, viz., Francis and Mary. Mr. Hayen owns his place of business and residence located at No. 91 Bluff street, which he has made by his own hard labor.

EDWARD C. HAGAR, attorney at law (firm of Hagar & Flanders), Joliet ; was born in Plainfield, Will Co., 111., April 19, 1846 ; he is the son of Jonathan and Catharine (Goodhue) Hagar ; his father came from Cleveland, Ohio, and settled in Plainfield in 1835 ; he was the first merchant in that town ; his mother is a daughter of Deacon Ezra Goodhue, and came to Plainfield with her fathers's family in 1834. Mr. Hagar was educated at the Northwestern Evangelical College in his native town, graduatina: in 1867 ; in 1870, he entered the Law Departinent of the University of Michigan, completing his course and graduating in the spring of 1872 ; he was admitted to the bar in Michigan in April, 1872, and by the Supreme Court of Illinois in June of the same year. In November, 1872, he was elected State's Attorney, and in December following, he formed a law partnership with James R. Flanders, which still continues ; he held the office of State's Attorney four years. He was married March . 24, 1875, to Miss Hattie C. Gager, a native of Warren, Ohio, and has one child - Elmer G.

H. HOWK, retired merchant and miller, Joliet ; the subject of this sketch was born in Watertown, Jcfierson Co., N. Y., Feb. 23, 1806 ; in his early life he engaged extensively in lumbering in his native State ; in 1851, he came west, and located in Joliet, and in connection with Joel A. Matteson, afterward Governor of the State, took a contract on the R. I. &P. R. R., extending from Blue Island to within ten miles of Joliet; they graded and put in the culverts a distance of thirty-four miles. His son subsequently built a store-room on the West Side, near the lock, and engaged in supplying boats on the Canal. Mr. Howk built the Joliet Mills, on the lock, with six runs of stone, and in company with Mr. Hyde, his nephew, and now sole proprietor, operated them seven years ; he contracted all the machinery in Watertown, N. Y. ; since retiring from the mill, he has not been actively engaged in business pursuits, but is leading a quiet, retired life, enjoying the fruits of honest toil and the competency gained by a well-directed and wellspent early manhood.

H. D. HIGINBOTHAM, deceased, formerly of Joliet, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Worcester, Otsego Co., N. Y., Jan. 10,1806; he was brought up upon a farm, and had such advantages of education as were offered at the district school of his neighborhood ; his father's ancestors were English, and settled in Barbadoes in the early settlement of the American Colonies ; his grandfather lived in Rhode Island, and married a Miss Lippit, of Providence ; he followed the sea for some time, as captain of a whaler from Newport ;.

Charles Higinbotham, the father of H. D., was horn in Rhode Island, and came to Otsego Co., N. Y., with his parents, about the year 1800 ; he married Miss Gertrude Dumont, of Westford, N. Y. ; from this marriage the subject of this sketch was born, and in 1831 , married Miss RebecoaWheeler, of Westford, N. Y. ; she was born in Canaan, Columbia Co., N. Y. ; soon after their marriage they moved to Oneida, N. Y. ; there he engaged in the blacksmith business, and in June, 1834, moved to lUinois, and settled on Hickory Creek, in the now town of Joliet, and purchased a farm of 160 acres: here he engaged in farming and blaoksmithing, and was very successful in his business; in 1854, and for some time after, he was engaged in a saw-raill and planing-mill, at what is now called the Red Mills of Hickory Creek. Here on Hickory Creek all their children were born, except Albert H., the eldest, who was born in New Lenox, Madison Co., N. Y., Nov. 5, 1831; Ambrosia R. was born Oct. 1, 1834; Ann Eliza, Dec. 2, 1836; Harlow N., Oct. 10,1838; Gertrude D., July 6, 1842 ; Mary Ellen, Sept. 27, 1845, and Charles S., Dec. 24, 1848. Of these, Albert H. married Elizabeth Ella White, of Chicago, and are now living in Joliet; Ambrosia R. married M. 0. Cagwin, of Joliet ; Ann Eliza married M. G. Demmond, of Joliet ; Harlow N. married Rachael Davidson, of Joliet ; he is in the mercantile house of Field, Leiter & Co., Chicago; Gertrude D. married Thomas Leddy, of Joliet, both deceased ; Mary Ellen married R. C. Darwin, of Joliet ; she is now deceased ; Charles S. married Cynthia L. Kemp, of New Lenox, now residing in Kansas. H. D. Higinbotham and family moved to Joliet in the fall of 1854 ; he built a fine residence on Cass St., where he resided until his death ; with his energy and perseverance, he aided very much in making the city of Joliet what it is to-day. He held several prominent ofiices under the city government. He died March 13, 1865, leaving a widow and children and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss. His widow, Rebecca Higinbotham, in 1871, married C. H. Sutphen, a prominent citizen of La Salle Co., 111., and a cousin of the late H. D. Higinbotham ; Mr. and Mrs. Sutphen now reside at the old Higinbotham homestead, on Cass st., Joliet.

GEORGE HOUCK, of the firm of Houck & Brown, tanners and curriers, wholesale and retail dealers in sole-leather and shoe findings, etc., Joliet ; was born in Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, Dec. 13, 1827 ; when he was about 12 years of age, his parents came to this country, and purchased a farm in Erie Co., N. Y. ; Mr. Houck remained on the farm until 1846, when he went to Buffalo, and entered the employ of ex-President Millard Fillmore, where he continued one year ; he then served three years at the tanner and currier's trade, learning thoroughly every branch of the business ; in 1850, he came to Chicago, living there until 1853, when he came to Joliet, and entered the employ of Mack & Cleghorn ; in 1863 the firm of Mack, Cleghorn & Co. was formed, Mr. Houck becoming partner ; the same year, they built the Joliet Tannery ; the present firm of Houck & Brown was formed in 1876; they give employment to twenty men. Mr. Houck was married in 1853, to Miss Anna Hohman, of Chicago, a native of Hess Cassel, Germany ; they have three children living - Mary, now Mrs. William Grassley, of Chicago ; Lizzie, wife of Frederick Steinburn, of Joliet, and Annie S.

HON. HUGH HENDERSON, Joliet; deceased ; was born on the 9th day of June, 1809, in Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y. ; he received his education at Fairfield Seminary, in his native county ; after which he read law in the office of George Feeter, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Little Falls, Herkimer Co.; in 1836, he came to Joliet, and shortly after his arrival was admitted to the bar, and at once took high rank among the members of the legal profession. He was married Dec. 23, 1837, to Miss Helen A. Myers of Herkimer Co., who came to Joliet in the fall of 1836, and who still survives him, living in the same house which he built in 1838. In 1837, he was elected County Judge, hold ing the office one year ; he was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1845 ; in 1849, he was elected Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, and held the office until his death, which occurred on the 19th of October, 1854, while on his first visit to his old home in Norway, N. Y. We quote the following from the remarks of the late Hon. Uri Osgood, on the occasion of presenting to the Circuit

the proceedings of the Will County Bar, upon the death of Judge Henderson : " By his knowledge of the law, his unremitting attention to the duties of his office, his urbanity, his sterling integrity, and accommodating business habits, he acquired the affections and respect of the members of the bar, and the people of the ' circuit ; he had attained a high position as a lawyer and a judge ; he was firm but courteous, honorable and irreproachable in morals, and in all the relations of private life ; he was respected and honored, and highly esteemed as a useful member of society." He left four children - Sarah Margaret, who was born Oct. 21, 1839, and is now the wife of Capt. John A. Kelly, of Lyons, Mich. ; Daniel C, who was born May 31, 1845, learned the printer's trade in Joliet, and in 1866, went to Chicago, and entered the employ of Horton & Leonard ; in 1870, he returned to Joliet, and in 1871, established the Joliet Record, a Democratic weekly newspaper, which has steadily increased in circulation and influence, and has a circulation of 850 copies ; James E., the second son, was born May 23, 1848, learned the printing business, and is now associated with his brothers on the Record; John D., the youngest son, was born Oct. 16, 1851, entered the telegraph office of the C, A. & St. L. R. R. Co., about ten years ago, remaining until some five years ago, at which time he joined his brothers in the publication of the Record.

DR. M. F. HAND, dental surgeon; Joliet ; has been a practicing dentist in this city for the past twenty-two years ; he was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., May 5, 1834 ; he received an academic education, and at about the age of 18 years, began the study of dentistry ; in 1856, he came to Joliet, and began the practice of his profession. In 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 100th 111. Vols., serving in the army of the Cumberland, and afterward in the Quartermaster's Department of the Army of the Tennessee, under Capt. Alexander Mcintosh, of this city ; returning in July, 1865, he resumed practice in Joliet. He was married Jan. 14, 1874, to Miss Harriet E. Speer, of Joliet.

March 17, 1849, and came to this county with his parents in 1852 ; he was educated in the Joliet Union School and the University of Notre Dame, Ind., reading law during vacations in the office of T. L. Breokenridge, of this city; in 1870, he entered the law department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., where he graduated in 1871 ; he was admitted to the bar in October, 1871, and began practice in May, 1872, in company with James K. Flanders, having an office in Joliet and also in Wilmington ; this partnership continued until December, 1872, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Haley continued alone until 1874, when the present firm of Haley & O'Donnell was formed. Mr. Haley is at present Alderman from the Fifth Ward, being elected in April, 1878 ; he also served as City Attorney in 1874. He was married Dec. 1, 1875, to Miss Mary A. D'Aroy, of Joliet, and has one child - Margaret C.

OTIS HARDY ; P. 0. Joliet ; one of the early settlers of Will Co. ; was born near Windsor, Vt., Sept. 23, 1810; in 1813, his parents left their Eastern home and made the journey to Marietta, Ohio, descending the Alleghany and Ohio Rivers on rafts; in 1819, they removed to Meigs Co., Ohio ; when he was 14 years old, Mr. Hardy was apprenticed to the trade of a carpenter, serving an apprenticeship of six years, and receiving during that time the sum eighteen pence ; he came to Joliet in 183'6, making the journey from Cincinnati on horse-back, previous to which he spent about four years in Louisiana ; he continued the carpenter's trade until 1848, when he engaged in the lumber business for twenty years, or until 1868, since which time he has been in the banking and gas business ; he is one of the original stockholders of the First National Bank, and a stockholder in the Joliet Gas-Light Co. since 1862; he has always been an active temperance man, and for the past two years has been President of the Joliet Reform Club ; he is a zealous member of the M. B. Church, to which he has belonged since he was 22 years of age, assisting liberally in the support of all its enterprises ; he buUt, at his own expense, the Richards Street M. E. Church and parsonage at a cost of over $5,000 ; he also bore about half the expense of build- ing the chapel at the Rolling-Mills, which cost some $2,000, besides contributing largely to the building and support of the Ottawa Street Church ; he has been a member of the Quarterly Conference since 1837, and President of the Will County Bible Society for the past forty years. He was married Oct. 14, 1838, to Miss Angelia Hopkins, of Joliet, a native of Vermont; they have three children living - Mrs. W. J. Maclay, of Napa City, Cal., Mrs. N. D. Dyer, and Mrs. T. H. Mc- Bride, of Joliet.

GEORGE S. HOUSE, attorney at law, Joliet; is a native of this State; he was born in Grundy Co., then a part of Cook Co., March 1, 1837 ; he is a son of Rodney House, one of the early settlers of Will Co., and now a resident of Joliet ; he came with his parents to Joliet in infancy, and this city has been his home ever since ; he prepared for college in Utica Academy, Oneida Co., N. Y., after which he entered Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1856, graduating in 1860 ; he then pursued the study of law under Prof. Theodore W. Dwight, now of Columbia College, New York, receiving the degree of B. L. in 1862 ; returning to Joliet, he entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he still continues. He was married in 1863 to Miss Virginia A. Osgood, daughter of the late Hon. Uri Osgood, of Joliet, and has five children.

JOHN HULSWORTH, foreman of the smith-shops, Joliet ; was born March 2, 1822, in Yorkshire, Eng. ; he emigrated to America in 1847, and first labored in Philadelphia and New York about one year ; he next went to Richmond, Va., and remained a short time; he then made a tour through the Southern States, visiting New Orleans, Memphis, and various other cities South and West, finally locating in St. Louis in the latter part of 1849 ; here he remained till 1853 ; he then came to Alton, on the C, A. & St. L. R. R., where he was foreman most of the time in the shops till August, 1859 ; he then came to Joliet, and was eight years foreman in the shops of the State Prison ; he was next foreman for the Dillman Manufacturing Company four years ; in 1871, he took the position of foreman in the shops of the Joliet Iron and Steel Works, which he still holds.

C. B. HAYWARD, publisher and proprietor of the Joliet Daily and Weekly Sun, Joliet ; was born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Ind., July 1, 1844; at the age of ten years he entered the office of the Locomotive, in Indianapolis, completing his trade with Cameron & McNeely, book and job printers. In 1860, he went to Carthage, Mo., where, with his brother, he engaged in publishing The Southwest. On the breaking-out of the war, their oflice was captured by the rebels, and taken into Arkansas. Mr. Hayward made his way to Fort Scott, Kansas, and purchased the Port Scott Bidletin, and a year and a half later took a partner and founded the Fort Scott Union Monitor, now one of the leading papers of Kansas, which he continued to publish about a year and a half. In the mean time, he was appointed U. S. Assessor, for that division, and served about a year and a half. He then came to Marseilles, 111., where he resided one year, and from that place to Joliet, and had charge of the Joliet Republican oflice about a year and three months. In 1872, he established the Joliet Sun. He has built up an extensive job-printing business, and a large and healthy circulation among the best people of the county. The Daily Sun is the oldest and largest daily published in the Seventh Congressional District. Mr. Hayward was married in April, 1872, to Miss Mary E. Monroe, daughter of George Monroe, of Joliet, and has three children - Josephine, George B. and Thomas.

MRS. HANNAH HUTCHINS, farmer ; P. 0. Joliet ; the widow of Wm. H. Hutchins, resides one mile north of Joliet ; she was born Aug. 28, 1817, in Saratoga Co., N. Y. ; she was married to W. H. Hutchins in 1837, in New York State. Mr. Hutchins was born in New York City, Sept. 1, 1817, where he lived until 15 years of age, when he removed to Northern New York, where he lived three years ; then to Saratoga, where he was married, living there nearly five years ; thence to New York City, living there five years. He removed to .Will Cc^

111., in 1847, and always lived within four miles of their present home. In early life, Mr. Hutchins was engaged in mercantile business, after coming West, he was engaged in loaning money and dealing in real estate. They had seven children by this union, viz, ; Thomas H., George Edgar, deceased, Sarah E., deceased ; Anna M., Mary E., Jennie C. and William J. Geo. Edgar died from wounds received in the army. Mr. Hutchins died July 21, 1877.

ELVIS HARWOOD, deceased; Joliet ; whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Wilmington, Ind., May 17, 1824; where he remained until he was sixteen years of age ; he then commenced the study of law in the office of Alexander C. Downey, at Aurora, Ind., and was admitted to practice Dec. 14, 1843; after the end of one year, finding this profession unsuited to his tastes, he studied medicine with his brother, John Harwood, M. D., and after .attending a course of lectures in the medical college of Ohio, in the years 1846-47, practiced for three years at Crete and New Lenox, in this county, and in the year 1850, coming to Joliet, continued the practice of his profession up to 1868, from which time, up to the day of his death, Feb. 1, 1870, he was largely engaged in the real estate business. lu 1861, he went to California, returning from there in the summer of 1862. The same summer, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the 100th Regiment I. Y. I., being afterward promoted to Surgeon of the " Pioneer Brigade," which position he held until his resignation, on account of ill health, in the spring of 1863. He was elected Alderman of the city of Joliet, from 1863-67, and Mayor, 1868-69. He married Miss Helen A. Cagwin (daughter of Abijah Cagwin, of Joliet), Jan. 24, 1850 ; she was born Oct. 30, 1830 ; they had five children, three living - Alma L., William E. and Bertha H. ; and two deceased - Flora A. and G-eorge T.

J. A. HENRY, retired, Joliet; the above-named gentleman has been a resident of Joliet for the past twenty years; he is a native of Hunterdon Co., N. J., and was born April 25, 1825 ; he began railroading in 1842, on the Hartford & New Haven Railroad, where he remained four years, and then spent four years more on the New Haven & Northampton Railroad, at the end of ^hich time he came West and engaged in railroad contracting in Ohio and Indiana ; in the year 1858, he came to Joliet and spent several years as roadmaster of the Chicago & Alton R. R., after which he built two branches of the road ; in 1870, he went to Texas and builtthe Houston & Great Northern Railroad ; at the end of three years, he returned to Joliet and erected his elegant residence on Eastern avenue, the finest in the city. He was married in Winsted, Conn., April 26, 1846, to Miss Nancy Briggs, of Winsted; she died Jan. 21, 1878, leaving one daughter, wife of Dr. Julius Folk, of Joliet.

GEORGE H. EOSMBR, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet ; is 'the oldest son of W. H. C. Hosmer, the poet, author and lecturer ; he traces his ancestry to a period prior to the Revolutionary war; at the battle of Concord the first two who fell by a volley of British musketry, were Capt. Davis and Abner Hosmer, the latter of whom was a lineal ancestor of the subject of this sketch ; the Doctor's greatgrandfather, Dr. Timothy Hosmer, was surgeon of the Sixth Continental Regiment in the war of the Revolution, and afterwards a prominent pioneer in the settlement of the Holland Purchase, in Western New York ; his father, George Hosmer, was an aide-de-camp of General Schuyler in the war of 1812 ; a prominent lawyer, member of the State Legislature, and for twenty-one years District Attorney of Livingston Co., N. Y.; Miss Harriet Hosmer, the famous sculptress, is also a cousin. Dr. Hosmer was born in Avon, Livingston Co., N. Y., Aug. 23,1839; he thoroughly prepared for college at the Owego Academy, where he spent nine years ; he then entered the University of New York, remaining two years in the literary department, after which he pursued a three-years course in the medical department of the same institution,, graduating in 1865 ; he practiced medicine one year in Ontario Co., N. Y., removing thence to New Baltimore, Macomb Co., Mich., where he remained until his removal to Joliet in 1870. He was married in 1866, to Miss Ann Belford, of Boston, and has one son - George B. Dr. Hosmer is a regular physician, but clings to no dogma, seizing upon any remedy froin whatever source, which will accomplish his object, the relief of the patient and the cure' of the disease; he takes an active interest in educational matters, and is now on his second term as a member of the Board of School Inspectors of Joliet.

A. W. HEISE, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet ; one of the oldest and most prominent physicians of Joliet, was born in Bramsche, in the Province of Hanover, Germany, Sept. 4, 1823; he received his literary education at the Gymnasium of Osnabruck, and entered the University of Goettingen, where he pursued his medical course, and graduated in 1846 ; he then attended a covirse of medical lectures in the University of Heidelberg, receiving the ad eundem degree of M. D. from that institution, in 1847 ; taking part in the revolution of 1848, he was compelled to leave the country, and accordingly sought a home in America; a general pardon of all those implicated was issued some five years later by the German Government, but Dr. Hcise being then so long in this country, and intending to make it his permanent home, did not care to take advantage of it ; the first year in this country he spent in traveling in the Eastern and Southern States, supporting himself by corresponding with some of the German newspapers ; in 1849 he located in Du Page Co., 111., and continued the practice of medicine there until 1856 ; he then went to New York as House Surgeon in the Marine Hospital on Ward's Island, remaining there until September, 1857, when he came to Joliet, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession here ever since. In 1861, he entered the army as Surgeon of the 11th I. V. I., and the following spring was appointed Surgeon of the 100th I. V. I.; after the battle of Murfreesboro, he was promoted to Brigade Surgeon, and after the battle of Chickamauga, was appointed Operator of the Brigade, with the privilege of choosing his own assistants without regard to rank ; owing to illness, he was afterward obliged to retire from active service in the field, and was appointed Inspector of Hospitals and Consulting Surgeon of the Corps ; in 1864, owing to continued ill health, he tendered his resignation, which was finally accepted with a*great deal of reluctance - his ability and skill as an army surgeon were so apparent as to merit and receive recognition and honorable mention in the " Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion ;" in 1872, he was appointed Physician in Charge of the Illinois State Penitentiary, in this city, which position he still holds.

L. E. INGALLS, real estate and loans, Joliet ; is a native of Will Co. ; he was born in the present town of Du Page Oct. 26, 1839 ; he is a son of Henry Ingalls, who came from Vermont and settled in that township in 1837, and resided there until 1841, when he removed across the line into Du Page Co., and there lived until his death, which occurred March 10, 1876. He left a family of nine children, all but one of whom are now living. The subject of this sketch remained at. home until he was about 15 years old ; then after spending three years in this county, he went to Iowa, and remained four years,, going thence to Wisconsin, where he spent two years in the lumber business ; returning to Illinois, he continued the same business in Lemont, Cook Co. ; he came to Joliet in 1870, and followed the lumber business till 1871, when he disposed of his business to Mason & Plants, and since then has been farming and dealing in real estate, etc. He owns a fine farm of 260 acres on Sec. 12, well improved with good buildings where he resides, and is engaged quite extensively in stock-raising and dairying. He was married Oct. 27, 1865, to Miss Millie Emmerson, of Door Co., Wis. ; she died March 7, 1868. Mr. Ingalls was married again, on Jan. 14, 1870, to Miss Esther E. Bartholmew, of Marengo, Mc- Henry Co., Ill ; they have four children - Millie R., Roy K., Myra B. H. and Charles L.

REV. SOLOMON KNAPP, Joliet; one of the pioneer ministers of Will Co. ; was born in Mayfield, Fulton Co., N. Y., then a part of Montgomery Co., March 29, 1803 ; he was brought up on a farm, his father being an extensive farmer, and employing a large number of men ; his education was such as was afibrded by the common schools up to the time he began studying for the ministry and preaching, which was when he was 29 years of age. He was ordained a clergyman of the Baptist

Church in February, 1834, previous to which, he originated the Baptist movement in Grloversville, N. Y., which has since grown to be one of the most important Baptist interests in the State. At 31, he removed to Cayuga Co. and took charge of a large church in Cato. During his ministry of four years, he received 300 new members into the church, 183 of them by baptism ; he afterward spent two years in Port Byron, N. Y., coming to Will Co. in 1840 ; he settled in Homer, and took charge of the Baptist Church in Joliet, preaching in the afternoonin Lockport, and in Homer in the evening. In 1841, he became Pastor of the church known as the Aux Plaines Church, now the Hadley Church, removing in the fall of the same year to Rockford, 111., where he became Pastor of the First Baptist Church ; at the close of the first year, owing to an adverse family affliction, he was obliged to sever his connection with the Rockford Church and return to Homer; in 1843, he took chaige of the church in Plainfield, remaining two years, during which time he organized the Baptist Churchat Lockport, having pastoral charge of both churches ; he was afterward again) Pastor of the Hadley Church, and took the preliminary measures for the erection of their house of worship ; in 1854, he removed to Cedar Falls, Iowa, and organized the Baptist Church there, and had charge of the church in Waterloo ; two years later he returned to Homer, broken down in health, and settled on a farm ; he continued farming five years, and then removed to the city of Lockport, residing there two years, during which time he preached nine months in Metamora, 111., witnessing a glorious ingathering in the church, and some $75,000 added to the finances of the church ; since then he has had pastoral charge of churches in Seneca, Morris Co., and in Gilman, Iroquois Co., besides which, he has supplied the churches in the vicinity until his voice failing, he was obliged to discontinue preaching. He was first married in 1823, to Miss Eliza E. Lanfear, of his native town ; she died in Homer in February, 1853, leaving six children. He was married again, in June, 1853, to Miss Martha H. Cook, a native of Hadley, Mass., and who was one of the pioneer teachers of Will Co., having come in 1840; they have one daughter - Florence C. Mr. Knapp unites financial ability with power as a preacher, and although his benefactions have always exceeded any salary he has received, he is still the possessor of a comfortable competence.

HENRY C. KNOWLTON, Cashier of the Will County National Bank, Joliet ; is a son of Calvin Knowlton, President of the above-named bank ; he was born in Spencer, Worcester Co., Mass., April 29,1842 ; he lived in the city of Worcester until he was 12 years of age, his father being engaged in business in that city ; at the age of 12 years, he accompanied his parents to New Albany, Ind. ; thence to Michigan City, and in 1856, to Joliet ; he received an English education in the public schools, and in 1861, entered the ofiice of his father, then Assistant Superintendent of the Michigan Central Railroad ; he remained there until the organization of the Will County National Bank, which he entered as Assistant Cashier ; in 1877, he was elected Cashier. He was married on the 20th of November, 1870, to Miss Sophie Lippencott, of Wilkesbarre, Penn., and has one child - Joseph L.

JULIUS KRAUSE, watchmaker and jeweler, dealer in watches, clocks, silverware, etc., Joliet; was born in Silesia, Prussia, Dec. 2, 1843 ; he is a son of Julius Krause, who was an inspector and general overseer of the estate of one of the nobility in that country ; when he was about 14 years old, he was apprenticed to learn the watchmaker's trade, and after completing his apprenticeship, he worked at his trade in various places until 1868, when he came to this country, and the same year began business in Joliet. He was married Feb. 14, 1871, to Miss Margarita Young, daughter of Henry Young, of Joliet ; she was born in Bufialo, N. Y., June 2, 1852, and came to Joliet with her parents in 1858 ; they have three children - Henry A. G., Julius J. A. and Juaneta J. M.

CALVIN KNOWLTON, President of the Will County National Bank, Joliet ; was born in Worcester Co., Mass., Jan. 2, 1817 ; in 1842, he went into business for himself in Worcester, where he remained until 1848 ; he then began railroading as train-dispatcher on the Worcester and Nashua Railroad ; in 1853, he removed to New Albany, Ind., as Superintendent of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railroad, shortly afterward changing his residence to Michigan City ; he came to Joliet in 1856, and held the position of Superintendent of the Joliet Division of the Michigan Central Railroad, afterward becoming Assistant Superintendent of the entire road, and continued as such until 1873 ; in 1871, the Will County National Bank was established, and, during that year, Mr. Knowlton was elected President. He has served two years as Alderman, but with that exception has avoided public offices of all kinds. He was married in 1838 to Miss Mary C. Warren, also a native of Worcester Co., Mass., and has two sons - Henry C, Cashier of the Will County National Bank, and Edward R., a grain dealer of Joliet.

JOHN P. KING, dealer in lumber, etc. (King & Bishop), Joliet ; was born near Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 18, 1832 ; in 1835, his father, Andrew King, came to Will Co., and opened up a farm near the present city of Joliet, on which he resided until his death, which occurred in 1849 ; he left a family of eleven children, of whom eight are now living in this State, four of them being residents of Joliet. The oldest son was John P., the subject of this sketch ; when he was 19 years of age, he made the journey, via the Isthmus, to California, where he followed mining, farming and staging for twelve years, being for three years one of the proprietors of the stage-line from Yreka to Red Bluffs ; he returned to Joliet in 1864, and, in 1866, engaged in the lumber business, which he has continued ever since ; in 1869, W. W. Bishop became a partner, the firm now being King and Bishop. He is at present Alderman from the Seventh Ward, to .which he was elected in April, 1877 ; he was elected School Trustee in June, 1877, and still holds the office ; he is a prominent member and Trustee of the Universalist Church. He was married Sept. 12, 1867, to Miss Hannah Leonard, of Joliet, and has three children - Lulu B., G-ertie and Harless W.

A. P. KNOX, of the firm of Garnsey & Knox, attorneys at law, Joliet; is a native of this State; he was born in Kane Co., on the 12th of January, 1840 ; en becoming of age, he came to Joliet in 1861, and.

about four years afterward, began the study of law in the office of Messrs. Goodspeed & Snapp ; he was admitted to the bar in 1867, and began practice in Joliet, forming a partnersliip with Messrs. Goodspeed & Snapp, which continued for several years, the firm being Goodspeed, Snapp & Knox ; the present firm of Garnsey & Knox was formed in 1877. BIr. Knox was appointed Master in Chancery for Will' Co. in 1871, holding the office' until 1877. He was married Sept. 2, 1869, to Miss Jennie McGovney, of Joliet, and has one child.

JOHN KEYES, druggist, Joliet ; was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Nov. 27, 1841 ; in May, 1869, he came West, and in July following, located in Lemont, Cook Co., 111., when he entered the employ of B. Van Buren & Co., as clerk in the drug business; in October, 1869, he came to Joliet, where he has since resided ; here he first clerked for J. H. Brown & Co., druggists, remaining three years ; in April, 1873, he opened a store for J. M. Brown, having general charge of the business ; June 1, 1874, he formed a copartnership with F. W. Schroeder, which continued three years and two months ; in November, 1877, he started in business for himself He was married Oct. 21, 1872, to Beulah T. Thornton, a native of Troy Tp., Will Co., 111. ; her father, Cary Thornton, whose portrait appears in the work, is one of the pioneer settlers of Troy Tp., and is the oldest living early settler of that section. Mr. Keyes is thoroughly versed in his profession, and is recognized as a man well qualified in every respect for his business.

THOMAS J. KELLY, dry goods; Joliet ; born in Ireland, and emigrated when quite young to America, landing in New York Jan. 8, 1848; on account of ill health he remained with his uncle, the Rev. John Kelly, in Jersey City, for one year, he then came West, locating in Joliet May 11, 1849 ; he then lived jipon his father's farm until 1854, when he entered the College of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., remaining here until February, 1856, when, on account of ill health, he went East, remaining with his uncle, Eugene Kelly, in New York City, one year, when he went to St. Mary's College, Wilmington, Del., where he remained two years; then one year at the College of the Holy Cross, near Montreal, Canada; he then returned to Joliet, and remained upon his father's farm until ISGT, when he engaged in the above business, which he has since successfully followed, being the oldest continuous dry goods house in Joliet ; during the period from 1868 to 1876, his junior brother was associated with him ; at the latter date, he purchased his brother's interest, since which time he has continued the business alone. He married Sept. 10, 1868, to Mary, eldest daughter of Patrick Fitzpatrick of Lockport, 111. ; her parents were among the very early settlers of Will Co., settling in the county before the formation of Will Co., upward of forty years ago. Mr. Kelly is a nephew of Eugene Kelly of New York City, who is today the wealthiest Catholic banker in the Ignited States; he is also a relative of John Kelly the celebrated Tammany sachem, of New York City.

FRED. KIESSLING, butcher and stock dealer, Joliet ; born in Bavaria, Germany June 13, 1850, where he lived and attended school until 13 years of age, when he was apprenticed in the butchering business for three years, which time he served and, after successfully passing his examination, he emigrated to America, landing in New York Oct. 5, 1866 ; coming directly West, he located in Joliet, Will Co., 111., where he has since continued to live ; for ten years he resided on Summer st.. West Side. Joliet ; being an excellent judge of stock, he has been engaged in buying stock for other parties when not engaged in buying on his own account ; since locating here he has given his exclusive attention to buying and shipping stock in connection with his butchering business, his store and market being located corner Bluff St. and Western ave.. West Side, Joliet.

THOMAS KEEGAN, retired millwright, Joliet ; born in county of West Meath, Ireland, April 11, 1803, where he learned and worked at the millwright trade until 29 years of age, when he immigrated to Canada, landing at Quebec in 1832 ; here he engaged upon Government works until the cholera forced him to leave, when he went to Toronto and engaged at his trade for three years ; next, to Rochester for three years, then to Rome, Mich., for eighteen months ; from there he went to Chicago, from which place he came by stage to Joliet, where he located his family May 20, 1840, which place he has since made his home ; he owns a fine residence on Centre st., which he erected in 1850; Mr. K.'s first work in Joliet was building- Jones' steam flour-mill in 1840, being the first mill of the kind in Joliet ; from there he, with John Clarkson, went to Marseilles, and built the first flour- mill of that place, then to New Orleans, where he remained until being driven away by the yellow fever, when he came back to Joliet, since which time his skill and labor have been extensively employed in all the neighboring towns as well as in Janesville and Watertown, Wis. He married May 11, 1835, to Ann O'Brien, born in Ireland in 1807 ; ten children were the fruits of this union, nine of whom are deceased ; Ellen, the one living, now lives with her parents.

E. R. KNOWLTON, dealer in grain, hard and soft coal and wood, Joliet ; is a son of Calvin Knowlton, President of the Will County National Bank ; he was born in Worcester, Mass., Jan. 23, 1844 ; at the age of Y years, he accompanied his parents to New Albany, Ind. ; thence shortly afterward to Michigan City, and, in 1856, to Joliet ; he attended the public schools of this city. His first business experience was in the hay business in Matteson, Cook Co., 111., where he remained about two years ; he then returned to Worcester Co., Mass., and engaged in farming, and after six years, came again to Joliet, since which time he has been in the grain business here. He was married Jan. 11, 1865, to Miss Alice J. Wheeler, of Matteson, Cook Co., 111., and has one child - Mary L.

ALONZO LEACH, retired, Joliet; was born in Sangerfield, Ooeida Co., N. Y., Sept. 28, 1816; when he was 8 years of age, he left his native county, and went to Eaton, Madison Co., N. Y. ; in 1836, he went to Michigan, and in 1838, came to Joliet ; he spent about a year in charge of a hotel, and then engaged in the soap and chandlery business ; in 1842, he was elected Constable, and appointed Deputy Sheriff, and served until 1848, when he was elected Sheriff of Will Co. The constitution not allowing an incumbent of the ofiice to hold two terms in succession, he retired at the end of his term, but was again elected in

1852, and again in 1858 ; in the mean time he was engaged in farming and stock-raising. On the breaking-out of the war, he was appointed sutler of the 4th 111. V. C., under Col. Dickey. After the battle of Pittsburg Landing, he sold out and returned home, where he engaged in dealing in stock. He was appointed Postmaster at Joliet in 1867, and held the office two years. He was married May 10, 1856, to Mrs. Mary Gutterson, of Joliet, who died Nov. 2, 1866. JVIr. Leach was married again, May 8, 1870, to Mrs. Mary J. White, of Joliet; she died Jan. 31, 1871.

JOHN LAMBERT, dealer ia coal, wood, coke, etc., Joliet ; was born in Lambertville, Hunterdon Co., N. J., Jan. 12, 1847. In January, 1862, at the age of 16 years, he enlisted in Co. D, 1st New Jersey V. C. ; served one year on detailed duty in Virginia, and was discharged by reason of ill health ; he again volunteered as a Sergeant in Co. A, 3d N. J. V. C, serving till the close of the war ; during the first year he was detailed as private orderly to Gen. Burnside ; afterward, under Gen. Custer, he participated in the Shenandoah campaign of 1864, including the battles around Washington, the battle of Winchester, and terminating in the splendid victory of Cedar Creek, the occasion of Gen. Sheridan's famous ride " From Winchester twenty miles away ; '' in 1865, in the battles of Waynesboro, Ashland, Dinwiddle Court House and Five Forks, where he was wounded by a fragment of a shell, losing a part of his left hand, and also had his horse shot under him ; after this he participated in all the battles under Grant until the surrender of Lee, and in the grand review of the army in Washington, where his company was reduced to but four men able to perform duty out of the original number of 101. He was discharged Aug. 9, 1865. Mr. Lambert came to Grundy Co., 111., in 1867, and in 1870, to Joliet. He was for six years an officer at the State Penitentiary, alter which he served as Deputy Sheriff under Warren S. Noble, serving during the strike in Braidwood in 1877. During the exciting political campaign of 1876, Mr. Lambert organized the Republican Guards of Joliet, of which he was chosen Captain. He was married in April, 1876, to Miss M. E.

JOHN C. LANG, editor of the Joliet Republican, Joliet, is a son of Thomas J. Lang, one of the early settlers of Will County, who emigrated from Groton, N. H., to this county in 1836, and settled in the town of Frankfort ; afterward removed to Plainfield, where he now resides. John C. Lang was born in Frankfort, Will Co., March 24, 1844; in 1862, he entered the Union army as a member of Co.D, 100th I. V. I., and served till the close of the war, participating in all the arduous service and all the battles of that regiment, and returning with it in 1865. He then spent two years on the farm, and, in 1867, made the trip via the Isthmus and California, to Arizona Territory, where lie remained three years, engaged in mining, and in the employ of the Government in the Quartermaster's Department ; in July, 1870, after his return from the West, he entered the employ of the Illinois State Penitentiary, in this city, occupying successively the positions of Guard, Keeper, Assistant Deputy, and Deputy Warden, until October, 1874; from December, 1874, to August, 1875, he was employed on the Joliet Record, since which time he has been editor of the Republican. He was married Nov. 19, 1874, to Miss Emma Webster, of Joliet, and has two children - Francis M. and Horace W.

H. M. LYFORD, dealer in clothing, hats, caps, furs and furnishing goods, Joliet; has been engaged in his present business in this city since 1868; he is a native of the Province of Quebec ; he wa» born in Stanstead, Dec. 3, 1844; he lived there until he was about 17 years of age, when he left home, and, going to Boston, entered a wholesale grocery house as a clerk, remaining there four years ; on coming West, he went first to St. Louis, where he remained about a year and a half, coming to Joliet as above stated ; his business career in this city has been a successful one, as he studies the wants of his customers, and uses every endeavor to supply them, keeping a fine line of goods at the lowest prices. Mr. Lyford was married in December, 1865, to Miss Ellen A. Ladd, of his native town, a daughter of 0. ALadd, now of this city ; they have one son - Winfield E. Lyford. Mr. Lyford is Col-

JOHN D. LBLAND, Steward of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet. John D. Leland, born in the State of New York, came West in 1868, and was soon thereafter, under Elmer Washburn, Warden, appointed Steward of the Illinois State Penitentiary, which position he successfully held until August, 1872, when under the force of circumstances he was induced to resign ; after a few years spent in farming, and on the produce market, his wellknown qualities as to economy and carefulness in performing the duties of Steward of the Penitentiary, gave reason for a renewed call to that position, in 1877; under his present supervision, the extensive commissary department of the Penitentiary has been managed at less expense and to more general satisfaction than at any previous time in the history of the institution.

JOHN LEY, farmer. Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Joliet ; was born in Prussia Oct. 17, 1823, where he followed farming until 19 years of age, when he emigrated with his parents to America in 1842, and settled in WiU Co., Joliet Tp., on Sec. 19, living there until 1852, when he removed two miles east of Joliet, near the Red Mill, where he lived until 1856, when he settled upon his present place ; he owns 220 acres of well-improved land, which he has accumulated by his own energy and industry. He married, in 1847, Elizabeth Magert ; she was born in Virginia ; they have four children living, viz., John, Valentine, Frederick D. and Lawrence; the deceased are Joseph and Hubbert. Mr. Ley has held the office of School Director for three years ; also, as Road Commissioner.

FRANK B. MARSH, of the firm of Carpenter & Marsh, grain merchants and proprietors of the Union Transfer Elevator, Joliet ; was born in Joliet June 27, 1849 ; he is the son of H. N. Marsh, an early settler of Will Co., and for many years past the agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company in this city. He was educated in the public schools of Joliet, and at the Chicago Academy ; in 1S68, he became ticket agent and telegraph operator of the C, R. I. & P. R- R., and continued till the spring of 1874, when he entered into partnership with H. S. Carpenter in the grain and elevator business ; they are now the heaviest dealers in Northern Illinois outside of Chicago ; they do an extensive export business, about three-fourths of their grain being purchased for foreign shipment. Mr. Marsh was Superintendent of the Will County Historical Society in 1871 and 1872, previously to its being merged into the Joliet Public Library. He was married Feb. 4, 1873, to Miss Kate Richmond, of Joliet, and has two children - Horatio Richmond and Loren William.

H. N. MARSH, freight and ticket agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company ; has been a resident of Joliet since 1835 ; he is a native of Franklin Co., Mass., and was born Nov. 15, 1812; about 1828, his parents emigrated to Western New York, where they resided until 1835, when they came to Will Co., and settled in what is now Crete Tp., Mr. Marsh at the same time locating in Joliet ; he followed his previous business of cabinet-making until the spring of 1847, when he purchased the True Democrat, which, on the organization of the Republican party, was changed to the Joliet Repuhlican; previous to this, he had served two years as School Commissioner of the county ; he continued to publish the True Democrat until July, 1852, and in October of the same year, on the completion of the C, R. I. & P. Railroad to this point, he took charge of the office in this city, and has remained in charge ever since, with the exception of an interval of three years, from 1864 to 1867, during which period he served as Postmaster of Joliet; in 1850, he was appointed Asst. U. S. Marshal, to take the census of WiU Co.; he was elected a member of the City Council in 1876, and again in 1878.

GEORGE J. MUNROE, attorney at law and financial agent, Joliet ; was born in Baraboo, Sauk Co., Wis., Feb. 11, 1853; after receiving an English education in his native county, he entered Oberlin College, Ohio, at the age of 16 years, and after spending two years in that institution, became a student in the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating from the classical department in 1872; he had previously been engaged in teaching during

Ms vacations, and after graduating he assumed charge of the public school at Marlboro, Stark Co., Ohio, remaining one year ; he then spent about six months in traveling in the West, after which he began the study of the law in the office of Sleeper & Whiton in Chicago, and also attended one course of lectures at the Union College of Law in that city ; he was admitted to the bar Jan. 15, 1877, and practiced in Chicago until the fall of the same year ; in March, 1878, he settled in Joliet, and entered upon the practice of his profession ; in addition to his law practice, he does quite an extensive business in loaning money for Eastern capitalists. He was married Nov. 21, 1877, to Miss Addie P. Simonds, eldest daughter of S. 0. Simonds, Esq., of Joliet.

G. MUNROE & SON, wholesale and retail grocers, Joliet ; this is the largest grocery house in Will Co., doing a business of at least a quarter of a million dollars per annum ; it was established in 1865 ; George Munroe, the senior member, was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 4, 1821 ; he came to Will Co. in 1849, and spent thirteen years in farming in Florence Tp. ; previously to this, he had been engaged in the foundry business. He was elected Sheriff of Will Co., in 1862, and served two years ; has also served one term as School Trustee, and one term on the Board of Aldermen. George H. Munroe, son of George Munroe, is also a native of Jefferson Co., N. Y., where he was born Sept. 24, 1844, and accompanied his parents to Will Co. in 1849. On the election of his father as Sheriff, in 1862, he entered the office as Deputy Sheriff, remaining two years. In 1865, he became a partner in the firm of G. Munroe & Son. He was married in May, 1869, to Miss Eva Weeks, of Joliet. In 1875, the Joliet Stone Company was organized, and Mr. Muaroe, being one of the three equal stockholders, was made President, which position he still holds ; he is also Treasurer of the Joliet Opera House Company.

UZIAH MACK, manufacturer and wholesale and retail dealer in boots and shoes, Joliet ; was born in Northampton Co., Penn., Jan. 14, 1835; in early childhood, he accompanied his parents to Northumberland Co., and several years later, to Montour Co., in the same State, where he lived until he came to Joliet, in 1858. In July, 1862, he enlisted in Co. H, 100th 111. Vols. ; was appointed Sergeant, and afterward promoted to Sergeant Major, and finally to First Lieutenant of Co. K, in which position he served till the close of war ; he served under Gen. Thomas in the Army of the Cumberland, and with Sherman in his march through Georgia, as far as Jonesboro and Lovejoy ; he was with the command from the time it left home until its return, in 1865. After the war, he went to St. Joseph, Mo., and engaged in business, remaining there two years, when he sold out and returned to Joliet, where he entered into partnership with his uncle. Firman Mack, in the wholesale and retail boot and shoe business, the firm being P. & U. Mack, which continued until the death of his partner, Aug. 10, 1872, since which time he has continued the business alone. He was married AprillQ, 1867, to Miss Jennie Flemming, of Truro, Nova Scotia ; she died Oct. 15, 1876, leaving three children - Robert L,, Mary and Willie.

ISAAC T. MILLSPAUGH, Police Magistrate, Joliet ; was born in Orange Co., N. Y.,Feb.26, 1820; his parents died when he was about 15 years old, and he then went "out VVest " to Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; he made his home there and in Cortland Co. until 1844, when he removed to Joliet ; he followed his trade of a blacksmith for a year or more, and made the first steel plow in Joliet ; he then went to Chicago and engaged as fireman on the old Chicago & Galena Union R. R. (now a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern), which extended at that time but eight miles west of Chicago ; he fired the first new locomotive on that road ; about a year later, he returned to Joliet, and run one season on the packet from Chicago to Peru ; he then became a fireman on the Chicago & Rock Island R. R., and run the first engine into Joliet, in 1852 ; he was the first blacksmith in the Chicago & Alton roundhouse, where he worked half a dozen years or more. He served for fourteen years as Assessor for Joliet Tp. ; he was elected Police Magistrate in May, 1878. He was married in March, 1842, to Miss Charlotte Elizabeth Noyes, of Cortland Co., N. Y. ; she died in 1846, leaving one son, Charles H., who served through the late war as Drum

Major of the lOOtli 111. Vols., and is now a musician in Joliet. Mr. Millspaugh was married again, in July, 1852, to Miss Mary L. Roberts, of Joliet, formerly of Lookport, N. Y. ; they have one son - Frank D., a fireman on the Michigan Central R. R.

G-. N. MARVIN, keeper, weighmaster, shipper and receiver. State Prison, Johet was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1818 his early life was that of a farmer's son he followed agricultural pursuits during his residence at the East; in 1858, became West and located in Plainfield, Will Co., where he was employed as foreman on the farm of A. McAllister for one year ; he then purchased a farm on the Plainfield road two miles west of Joliet, which he farmed two or three years ; he next returned East and spent one or two years ; after traveling some months, he again returned West to Joliet, and was engaged as foreman on the farm of William P. Caton for three seasons ; he had charge of 1,500 acres, harvesting about 400 acres of meadow each season; Jan. 9, 1868, he connected himself with the prison and has remained here ever since. His first marriage to Marietta Hammond occurred in 1838 ; his second marriage to Laura C. Barber, a native of Pennsylvania, was celebrated in 1873 ; has three children - Emma A., George W. and WiUiam A., all married.

ALEXANDER McKEOWN, rail inspector, Joliet Iron and Steel Works, Joliet ; was born in Antrim Co., Ireland, Feb. 2, 1851 ; he attended the common schools and besides was a student in Kennedy College, Dublin, nine months; he immigrated to America May 1, 1872, and first settled in Joliet, where he engaged in learning core-making in the Joliet Foundry ; at this he spent eleven months and then engaged in the steel-rail mill as laborer ; here he worked two months, when he was promoted to the position of rail inspector, night turn; he served two years and at the shutting-down of the mills in 1873, he went to Springfield and labored at general work in the mills there four months ; subsequently, he labored at Bridgeport mills seven months, and on the re-opening of the Joliet mills, returned and was for three years and four months rail inspector on the night turn; in 1877, he went to the Vulcan Mills, in St. Louis, and remained seven months ; he then went to Mississippi and was engaged at various points in State work till March, 1878, when he returned to Joliet and was promoted May 1 following, on the re-opening of the mills, to the position of rail inspector, day turn ; thus, by close attention to business and strict uprightness with his employers, he has secured for himself a position of responsibility and trust which he richly merits.

COL. S. W. MUNN, attorney at law, Joliet ; was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., May 14, 1824 ; his father was poor and unable to assist him in obtaining an education, and he was, therefore, obliged to to depend upon his own exertions for what learning he received ; he worked on a farm for $8 per month, for nine months, attending a district school during the remaining three months ; thus he worked two years for one man ; he also spent six months at a seminary in his native county ; in 1845, he left home on foot, with carpet-bag in hand and $30 in his pocket, and went to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, where he engaged in teaching and attending school at Grand River Institute, a Presbyterian manuallabor school, where he could pay his way by his industry ; here he remained three years, in the mean time reading thoroughly a few of the elementary works on law. In 1848, he married Miss Imogene Mixer and removed to Wisconsin, where he completed his law studies and was admitted to the bar and began practice in 1850 ; in September of the same year his wife died, leaving one child - Charles W., who is now engaged in practice with his father in Joliet ; in 1852, he went to California, and engaged in mining and surveying for the Government ; returning, he located in Wilmington, 111., and resumed the practice of his profession. In August, 1861, he raised a company of volunteers in Wilmington, of which he was commissioned Captain, and which was mustered in as Co. A, of the 39th I. V. I. ; in December, 1862, he was promoted to Major, and served till Januuary, 1863, when he was compelled by failing health to resign ; he participated in the campaign of 1862, in the Shenandoah Valley, including the battle of Winchester, then under Gen. McClellan until the army left Harrison's Landing, in August,

1862, when his Division was ordered to SuiFolk, Va., where it remained until he resigned. On his return to Wilmington, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney for the then Ninth Judicial Circuit, serving four years; in the spring of 1865, he removed to Joliet, where he has since been engaged in general practice of law, and in November last was elected as Representative to the Legislature ; he served for a time on Governor Cullom's Staif, with the rank of Colonel. Col. Munn was married in 1851, to Miss A. 0. Crocker, of Madison, Ohio ; they have two children - Minnie I. (wife of R. A. Chapin, of Colo.) and Frank E., H law student in Geneva, Ohio.

CAPT. ALEXANDER McINTOSH, political editor of the Joliet (Sm/i, Joliet ; was born in Fulton Co., N. Y., of Scotch parentage in 1 822 ; he was raised on a farm ; when he was 19 years of age, he entered the academy at Galway Center, Saratoga Co., N. Y., as a student, and acquired a liberal education, spending three years in that institution ; he came to Joliet, 111., in 18-15, and, in 1847, started in Joliet the True Democrat, now the Joliet Republican; he sold out in 1848, and, in 1849, went to California, where he remained three years; returning to Joliet in 1852, he repurchased the True Democrat, which he published and edited until 1857 ; in 1856, he was elected on the Republican ticket Circuit Clerk and Recorder of Will Co., for a term of four years ; in 1863, he was appointed by President Lincoln, Captain and Quartermaster in the United States Army was with Sherman's army in 1864 ; was on the famous march to the sea, and up through the Carolinas and Virginia to Washington ; he was retained in the service after the disbanding of the volunteers, being assigned to Mobile as Post Quartermaster ; in 1866, he resigned this position and returning Will Co., embarked in mercantile business in Wilmington ; in 1869, he purchased the Wilmington Independent, which he published until 1873; in the spring of 1874, he returned to Joliet, and in the fall of the same year became the political editor of the Joliet RepiiUican, which position he retained till January, 1877 ; in the fall of that year, he entered upon the editorial management of the Joliet Phcenix, from which he withdrew in July, 1878, to assume the position of political editor of the Joliet Sun ; Capt. Mcintosh joined the Republican party upon its organization in 1856, and has ever remained true to its principles, and, although a man of pronounced views on all political and moral questions, and participating in many exciting political campaigns, he retains the entire respect and confidence of his fellowcitizens of all parties.

F. MUNCH, dealer in coal, wood, coke, etc., Joliet ; is a son of F. X. Munch, who came to this country from Alsace, settling in Will Co., in 1839 ; he served as a soldier in the war with Mexico, and is now a highly respected citizen of Joliet Tp. ; his son, F. Munch, was born in Joliet Tp, April 3, 1851, and remained at home until he was nineteen years of age, and then spent two summers in working near Minooka; in 1873, he came to Joliet City, and spent two years in the employ of J. Q. A. King, starting in business for himself in 1875. He was married Nov. 16, 1876, to Miss Jennie Hurley, daughter of William Hurley, of Minooka ; they have one child - Louis I.

DAVID G. MURPHY, firm of Murphy Brothers, livery and feed stable, Joliet ; is a native of County Roscommon, Ireland ; he was born Jan. 14, 1844 ; his father, P. P. Murphy, came to this country in 1850, settling in the town of Troy, where he was a prominent and respected citizen for twenty-seven years; he died in 1877, at the age of 92 years ; the family consisted of fourteen children, nine brothers and five sisters, eight of whom are living; David G. resided in Troy until March, 1874; followed farming, and represented his township in the County Board of Supervisors for three years ; on coming to Joliet, he engaged with Francis Murphy in his present business. In 1876, he was elected Supervisor in Joliet by a very large majority, but declined to serve. He was married June 10, 1868, to Miss Mary MoGuire, of Lockport, 111., and has five children - - Catherine F., Mary Ahce, Thomas B., Winnifred A. and Angela A. Mr. Murphy's brother. Father Thomas B. Murphy, late Pastor of St. Mary's Church, in this city, died April 10, 18'78 ; he was a gentleman universally respected and beloved, not only by the members of his congregation, but by the entire population of the city and county.

C. W. MUNN, of Munn & Munn, attorneys at law, Joliet ; was born in Waterloo, Wis., Dee. 30, 1848 ; he is the son of Col. S. W. Munn, the senior member of the firm ; in early childhood, he accompanied his parents to Columbus, Wis. ; thence to Madison, Lake Co., Ohio, where the family resided until March, 1854, and then removed to Wilmington, Will Co., 111., coming to Joliet in March, 1864; after receiving an English education, Mr. Munn entered the law department of the Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he graduated March 29, 1871 ; he had previously read law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar Aug. 13, 1 870 ; he began practice in Joliet in April, 1871, and .Dec. 1, 1872, formed a partnership with his father, which still continues. He was married in December, 1871, to Miss Helen C. Matthews, of Joliet; she died Sept. 26, 1872, leaving one child - Helen I.; he was^ married again Jan. 19, 1876, to Miss Lida M. Squier, of Livingston, Essex Co., N. Y. ; they have one child - Lulu L.