. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . rank, living in Santa Barbara, isassessor there and is engaged in the wharf busi-ness. Jerome T. Smith spent the first thirteen yearsof his life in the east and then accompanied hisparents on their removal to Kendall county, Illi-nois, in 1844. In early life he worked by themonth as a farm hand for nine years, after whichhe invested his earnings in forty acres of land,which he placed under a high state of attended him and as his financial resourcesincreased he added to his property until he owneda finely improved farm of two hun
. Past and present of Will County, Illinois . rank, living in Santa Barbara, isassessor there and is engaged in the wharf busi-ness. Jerome T. Smith spent the first thirteen yearsof his life in the east and then accompanied hisparents on their removal to Kendall county, Illi-nois, in 1844. In early life he worked by themonth as a farm hand for nine years, after whichhe invested his earnings in forty acres of land,which he placed under a high state of attended him and as his financial resourcesincreased he added to his property until he owneda finely improved farm of two hundred acres,which is now being cultivated by his son, W. The father remained in active life untilabout nineteen years ago, when he removed toPlainfield. where he now owns and occupies acomfortable home. Mr. Smith was married in Kendall county. Illi-nois, on the 29th of April, 1856, to Miss Eliza-beth Bronk, who was bom in New York and wasbrought to Illinois by her parents, when four yearsof age, the family locating in Kendall PAST AX J) PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY. 023 She was burn in the town of Queens on theHudson, and her parents, Ephraim and Char-lotte (Van Dolson) Bronk, were fanning peo-ple. They continued residents of Kendallcount} until called to their final rest. Their fam-ily numbered five children: Elizabeth, now ; Peter A., a farmer residing in Willcounty; Mrs. Mary Brown, a widow living in Willcounty; John, whose home is in Kendall county;and Amelia, the wife of Solon Smith, a brotherof our subject and a resident of Santa Barbara,California. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Smith have beenborn five children. Helena H. became the wifeof Frank Wenell and died February 23, 1899,while Mr. Wenell died in May. 1902. They leftthree children, Frank, Sarah and Myrtle, who areresidents of Chicago. Sarah Smith became thewife of Willard T. Brown, of Will county, andthey have two children. Ruby and Lee. Willard a daughter of Samuel Spangler and re-sides o
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