. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. of the Methodist Episco-pal Church. After having framed and raised thesteeple, and before it was completed, the staging-fell, thus precipitating Mr. AVilliams to the ground,sixty feet below, by which he was severely in-jured. In 1862, he of whom we write went to Chicagowhere he was employed at working at his trade,and in 1864 had char
. Portrait and biographical record of Winnebago and Boone counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States. of the Methodist Episco-pal Church. After having framed and raised thesteeple, and before it was completed, the staging-fell, thus precipitating Mr. AVilliams to the ground,sixty feet below, by which he was severely in-jured. In 1862, he of whom we write went to Chicagowhere he was employed at working at his trade,and in 1864 had charge of the erection of the Gov-ernment corral on State Street, which extendedfrom Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth Street. In thefall of 1864, our subject raised a company of me-chanics for the United States service, and after thebattle of Nashville went to St. Louis, where mustered into service. He was then sent toNashville, being assigned to duty in the EighthTennessee Regiment, with which he remained untilMay, 1865, when he received his honorable dis-charge and returned home. Removing his family tothe Garden City, our subject took charge of a sash,door and bliml factory, which he until1871 and then, on account of ill-health, came to.
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