The History of Will County, Illinois : containing a history of the county a directory of its real estate owners; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; general and local statistics.history of Illinois history of the Northwest, Part 69

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Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Chicago : Wm. Le Baron, jr. & co.
Number of Pages: 980

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P. C. HALEY (of the firm of Haley & O'Donnell), attorney at law, Joliet; was born in Saranac, Clinton Co., N. Y.,

March 17, 1849, and came to this county with his parents in 1852 ; he was educated in the Joliet Union School and the Uni- versity of Notre Dame, Ind., reading law during vacations in the office of T. L. Breckenridge, of this city; in 1870, he entered the law department of the Univer- sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., where he graduated in 1871; he was admitted to the bar in October, 1871, and began praeticc in May, 1872, in company with James R. Flanders, having an office in Joliet and also in Wilmington ; this part- , nership continued until December, 1872, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Haley eon- tinued 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 Dee. 1, 1875, to Miss Mary A. D'Arey, of Joliet, and has one child-Margaret C.

OTIS HARDY ; P. O. Jolict ; 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 earpenter, serving an apprenticeship of six years, and receiving during that time the sum eighteen penee ; he came to Joliet in 1836, making the journey from Cinein- nati on horse-back, previous to which he spent about four years in Louisiana ; he continued the earpenter's trade until 1848, when he engaged in the lumber business for twenty years, or until 1868, sinec 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 stoekholder 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. E. Church, to which he has be- longed since he was 22 years of age, assisting liberally in the support of ail its enterprises ; he built, 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-

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ing the chapel at the Rolling-Mills, which cost some $2,000, besides contributing largely to the building and support of the Ottawa Street Churchı; 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 An- gelia Hopkins, of Joliet, a native of Ver- mont; 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 Rod- ney 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 cver 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 mar- ried in 1863 to Miss Virginia A. Osgood, daughter of the late Hon. Uri Osgood, of Jolict, and has five children.

JOHN HULSWORTH, foreman of the smith-shops, Joliet; was born March 2, 1822, in Yorkshire, Eng .; he emi- grated to America in 1847, and first labored in Philadelphia and New York about one year; he next went to Rich- mond, 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 cight 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.

He was married in 1854 to Caroline P. Bryant, a native of Connecticut ; had one son-John H., deceased, and one, Edwin A., living.

C. B. HAYWARD, publisher and pro- prietor of the Joliet Daily and Weekly Sun, Joliet; was born in Fairfield, Frank- lin 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 South- west. On the breaking-out of the war, their office was captured by the rebels, and taken into Arkansas. Mr. Hayward made his way to Fort Scott, Kansas, and pur- chased the Fort Scott Bulletin, 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, Ill., where he re- sided one year, and from that place to Joliet, and had charge of the Joliet Re- publican office 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 E. and Thomas.

MRS. HANNAH HUTCHINS, farm- er; P. O. 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 Co.,

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Ill., in 1847, and always lived within four miles of their present home. In early life, Mr. Hutchins was engaged in mer- cantile 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 Ed- gar, deccased, Sarah E., deceased ; Anna M., Mary E., Jennie C. and William J. Geo. Edgar dicd 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 mcd- ical 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. In 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. V. 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 Alder- man 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 George T.

J. A. HENRY, retired, Joliet; the above-named gentleman has been a resi- dent 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 Rail- road, at the end of which 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 built the Houston & Great Northern Railroad ; at the end of three years, he returned to Jolict 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. HOSMER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet ; is the old- est son of W. H. C. Hosmer, the poct, 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 sub- ject of this sketch; the Doctor's great- grandfather, Dr. Timothy Hosmer, was surgeon of the Sixth Continental Regi- ment in the war of the Revolution, and afterwards a prominent pioneer in the sct- tlement 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 pur- sued a thrce-years course in the medical department of the same institution, grad- uating 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 re- moval 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

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dogma, seizing upon any remedy from 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 course of medical . lectures in the University of Heidelberg, receiving the ad eundem de- gree of M. D. from that institution, in 1847; taking part in the revolution of 1848, he was compelled to leave the coun- try, 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 correspond- ing with some of the German newspapers ; in 1849 he located in Du Page Co., Ill., 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 Chicka- mauga, 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 ; return- ing to Illinois, he continued the same busi- ness 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 build- ings 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 em- ploying a large number of men ; his educa- tion was such as was afforded by the com- mon schools up to the time he began study- ing for the ministry and preaching, which was when he was 29 years of age. He was ordained a clergyman of the Baptist

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Church in February, 1834, previous to which, he originated the Baptist movement in Gloversville, 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 min- istry 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 afternoon in Loekport, and in Homer in the evening. In 1841, he be- eame Pastor of the church known as the Aux Plaines Church, now the Hadley Church, removing in the fall of the same year to Rockford, Ill., where he became Pastor of the First Baptist Church ; at the elose of the first year, owing to an adverse family affliction, he was obliged to sever his con- neetion with the Roekford Church and re- turn to Homer; in 1843, he took charge of the church in Plainfield, remaining two years, during which time he organized the Baptist Church at Lockport, having pastoral charge of both churches; he was afterward againį Pastor of the Hadley Church, and took the preliminary measures for the eree- tion 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 re- moved to the city of Loekport, residing there two years, during which time he preached nine months in Metamora, Ill., 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 compe- tenee.

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 Spen- eer, Worcester Co., Mass., April 29, 1842 ; he lived in the city of Worcester until he was 12 years of age, his father being en- gaged in business in that city ; at the age of 12 years, he accompanied his parents to New Albany, Ind .; thenee to Michigan City, and in 1856, to Joliet ; he received an English education in the publie schools, and in 1861, entered the office of his father, then Assistant Superintendent of the Miehi- gan Central Railroad ; he remained there until the organization of the Will County National Bank, which he entered as Assist- ant Cashier ; in 1877, he was elected Cashier. He was married on the 20th of November, 1870, to Miss Sophie Lippen- cott, of Wilkesbarre, Penn., and has one child-Joseph L.

JULIUS KRAUSE, watchmaker and jeweler, dealer in watches, clocks, silver- ware, etc., Joliet; was born in Silesia, Prussia, Dee. 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 Mar- garita Young, daughter of Henry Young, of Joliet ; she was born in Buffalo, 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

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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 re- sided 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., Gertie and Harless W.

A. F. KNOX, of the firm of Garnscy & Knox, attorneys at law, Jolict; is a native of this State; he was born in Kane Co., on the 12th of January, 1840; on becom- ing 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 Jolict, form- ing a partnership with Messrs. Goodspecd & Snapp, which continued for several years, the firm being Goodspeed, Snapp & Knox ; the present firm of Garnsey & Knox was formed in 1877. Mr. 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., Ill., when he entered the employ of B. Van Buren & Co., as clerk in the drug busi- ness ; in October, 1869, he came to Jolict, 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., Ill. ; 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 pro- fession, 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 upon 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,

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near Montreal, Canada ; he then returned to Joliet, and remained upon his father's farm until 1867, when he engaged in the above business, which he has sinee suecess- fully 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, sinee which time he has continued the business alone. He married Sept. 10, 1868, to Mary, eldest daughter of Patrick Fitz- patrick of Lockport, Ill. ; 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 Eu- gene Kelly of New York City, who is to- day the wealthiest Catholie banker in the United States ; he is also a relative of John Kelly the celebrated Tammany saehem, of New York City.

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The History of Will County, Illinois : containing a history of the county a directory of its real estate owners; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; general and local statistics.history of Illinois history of the Northwest, Part 69

Author: Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Chicago : Wm. Le Baron, jr. & co. Number of Pages: 980

Author:
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Chicago : Wm. Le Baron, jr. & co.
Number of Pages: 980