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BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
Source:
History of Peoria County, Illinois
Chicago - Johnson & Company
1880
Note: The NAMES in 'CAPS' will have a
biography. All others do not have biographies available.
HALLOCK TOWNSHIP
NOTE: Names with (*) next to them have longer
description
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Van Tassel, David, farmer, P. O.
Hallock
Vars, Thomas, dairy farmer, P. O. West Hallock |
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Watson, Thos., laborer, P. O.
Northampton
Weidman, C. E., farmer, P. O. West Hallock
Wheeler, Joseph, farmer, Northampton
Will, Geo., P. O. Lawn Ridge |
Robert Will
Hallock Tp. |
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WILL, ROBERT (deceased),
farmer, P. O. Lawn Ridge, was born Apr. 15, 1822, at Delmar, Tioga
county, Pa., and was the son of Robert Will and Margaret Lawson,
of Forfarrshire, Scotland. He was the fourth child and third
son in a family of seven children, and was reared on a farm in his
natal county until the year 1837, when, at the age of fifteen, he
removed with his parents to Hallock township, Peoria county, and
settled on Sec. 3, near what is now Hallock post office. There
he made his home till 1848, when, on June 7 of that year, he married
Miss Mary, daughter of Lyman Robinson and Polly Nurs,
who was born Mar. 19, 1823, in Broome county, N. Y., and came with
her parents to Illinois in the Spring of 1843, arriving at Blue
Ridge May 20, of the same year. Their marital union resulted
in six children, three of whom are now alive, William, born
May 1, 1849, and died when four years old; Helen, born Nov.
18, 1851, died Apr. 26, 1853; John Wesley, born Feb.
1, 1854, died Dec. 29, 1872; Annie, born May 29, 1856;
Minnie, born May 25, 1860, and Laura A., born March 25,
1865. Upon marriage they settled on the farm now occupied by
his widow, and there all their children were born, and Mr. Will
died, Feb. 14, 1876. Mrs. Will at present
owns 120 acres of finely improved farming land worth about $8,000.
Mr. Will was, through life, an active, useful
man, and his untimely removal was keenly felt and deeply regretted
by many. He was, for twenty years, justice of the peace, and
had acceptably filled, in turn, almost all of the township offices;
was a notary public for many years, and county surveyor at time of
his death; also for over twenty years was recording secretary of the
Methodist Church at Lawn Ridge, and represented it at the annual
conference several times. Mrs. Will and family
are also members of the same church.
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Will, R., Mrs., farmer, P. O.
Lawn Ridge |
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* WILMOT,
W. H., physician, P. O. Lawn Ridge was born in
Chenango county, N. Y., and is the eldest son of Dr. A. Wilmot
(now and for many years a resident of Peoria county) and Olive A.
Wilmot, nee Smith. He came with his parents
to the county when very young, and when about fourteen years of age
went to the Knox College, Galesburg, Ill ., and attended the classes
there at various periods extending over almost two and a half years;
afterwards began his professional studies, reading medicine under
the care of his father, and attending lectures at Michigan
University, Ann Arbor, and at Iowa University, Iowa City, graduating
from the latter with degree of M. D., Feb. 16, 1858. Shortly
thereafter he established his present practice in Lawn Ridge.
He married, Nov. 8, 1860, Miss Carrie A. Stillman, who was
born in Ontario county, N. Y., Oct. 11, 1835, and who came to Peoria
county with her parents, settling in the city of Peoria when two
years of age. The fruit of this union are two children,
Frank, born Oct. 18, 1861, who is now attending Antioch College,
O., and boards with the same lady with whom his mother boarded while
attending classes at the same college twenty years ago, and Edna,
born Sept. 21, 1871.
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