BlockHuntington County, Indiana - Biographical sketches (7 of 11 so headed), 1887 (part 2 of 2)
From History of Huntington County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc. : Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1887. 293 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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JOHlSr G. WILL, farmer and stock grower, is a native of Prussia, Germany, and only child of Louis and Margaret Will. The father was a tailor and in addition to that trade, worked at farming, carrying on both vocations until his death, which occurred in Prussia in the year 1867. John G. Will was left motherless at the early age of three years, and from his fifth to fourteenth years, attended school in his native country. On quitting school he was engaged for some time on the public works, and later for a period of six years, worked as a common farm laborer. On the 1st of April, 1858, he sailed for the United States and after a long sea voyage reached his destination and proceeded at once to Huntington County, Ind., locating in Rock Creek Township, with a relative, for whom he worked for a period of about five years, saving sufficient money in the meantime to enable him to purchase forty acres of land, the foundation of his present beautiful home. Beginning life with no capital save a determination to succeed Mr. Will has by persevering' industry, steadily risen from a day laborer, to one of the largest and most successful farmers of Rock Creek, owning at this time a valuable farm of 200 acres, situated in one of the richest agricultural regions in Huntington County. He married on the third day of October, 1858, Miss Catharine Baker, who was born in Hesse Darmsdadt, Germany, December 22, 1829. To this union five children have been born: Louis, born September 12, 1861; William, born October 35, 1863; John, born December 30, 1865; Fred, July 17, 1870; and Mary, born November 2, 1872. Politically Mr. Will is a Democrat, in religion a Lutheran.
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