Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Black, Charles H 1870 - 
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Author: History of Grundy County IL 1914

Black, Charles H. - The realization of the many uses to which cement can be 
put, has worked a revolution in building operations, and the contractors who 
are forging to the foremost places, are those who have engaged in this line of 
construction work. One of the leading cement contractors of Grundy County is 
Charles H. Black of Morris. Mr. Black was born at Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 30, 
1870, son of Rev. James K. and Kate W. (Wright) Black, natives of Ohio. They 
were married in Iowa to which state they went in childhood. James K. Black was 
a Presbyterian clergyman, who was stationed at different points throughout 
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan, and died at Hoopston, Ill., in July, 1902, 
where his widow still resides.

Charles H. Black attended school at the different towns to which his father's 
ministerial duties took him, and while at Bloomingdale, Ind., he had the 
advantage of an academic course. When he was twenty-one years old, he learned 
the trade of a printer in Chicago, and remained in that city until 1902, when 
he went to Aurora. His arrival in the latter city was coincident with his 
association with the cement firm of R. F. Safford & Son, with whom Mr. Black 
remained until October, 1907, when he located at Morris, and embarked in a 
general cement business of his own. Since then, his efforts have been rewarded 
with a number of important contracts, and his affairs are in a very prosperous 
condition. In 1913 he completed four bridges in Grundy County, and many other 
contracts equally as large and important.

On May 23, 1907, Mr. Black was married at St. Joseph, Mich., to Addie O. 
Hampton, born at Batavia, Ill. They have one daughter, Addie Louise, born July 
30, 1912. Mr. Black is an independent voter. He belongs to Lodge No. 498, Odd 
Fellows of Hoopstown, Ill. A man of progress, Mr. Black has never neglected an 
opportunity or failed to advance his interests whenever he could do so 
honestly. His standing in the community is a high one, and has been won by god 
work and honorable methods.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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