Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Carlin, John W ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com May 13, 2006, 5:03 pm Author: History of Grundy County, 1914 Carlin, John W. - The native sons of Grundy County retain a love for it although their interests may call they away from its confines. One of the men who has proven this in the way he has ever borne a part of its public-spirited movements, although now living across the line in Kendall County, is John W. Carlin of Newark, who for many years was a successful agriculturalist of Aux Sable Township, Grundy County. Mr. Carlin was born in Aux Sable Township, September 22, 1855, a son of Henry and Catherine (Kinsella) Carlin. Henry Carlin came from Ireland to New York City in 1835, and was employed in a hotel and also as a teamster until 1837, when he came west to Grundy County, locating in Aux Sable Township. The following year, he went to Joliet, Ill., and there married Catherine Kinsella, born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1821. The Kinsella family had come from Ireland to Montreal, Canada, in 1837, from whence they traveled to Chicago by way of the lakes, but later moved to Joliet, where they resided for two years. Removal was then made to Morris, where Mr. Kinsella lived, the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal giving him employment on two sections of the canal between the Morris and Aux Sable locks. Mr. Carlin and Mr. Kinsella joined forces in a partnership about 1839, and worked together on the canal and operated a boarding house until the canal was completed. Mr. Kinsella then bought 640 acres in Aux Sable Township, and Henry Carlin bought 120 acres, and both developed their land. In addition to working on his own property, Mr. Carlin broke the prairie for the neighbors with several yoke of oxen. He continued to work his farm until his death in November, 1857. His remains were laid to rest in the Dresden cemetery. He and his wife had eight children, but John W. Carlin is the only survivor, the others being: Henry (1), who died in infancy; Henry (II), who died at the age of twenty-six years having been a harnessmaker and street commissioner at the time of his demise; Mary A., who died at the age of thirteen years; James B., who died at the age of eight years; Mrs. James Cantwell, who died September 25, 1908; Andrew (I), who died in infancy; and Andrew (II), who died at the age of four years. In 1859 Mrs. Carlin married (second) Thomas Dempsey, who was meat inspector of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet for a quarter of a century prior to his death. Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey had two children: Anna L. and Catherine J. Amanda L. Dempsey married Thomas Coughlin, who is a shipping clerk in the Air Motor Company. They reside at No. 1009 Cyprus street, Chicago, and have four sons: Thomas J., John E. W., James F. and Henry A., all of Chicago. Catherine J. Dempsey married Edmond J. Sweeney of Plattville, Kendall County, Ill., a heavy landowner and stock dealer. They have had the following children: an unnamed infant who is deceased; Catherine J., who is attending a convent school at Ottawa, Ill.; Mary A. and William J. Until 1902, John W. Carlin assisted his mother in operating the homestead farm, but in that year the two moved to Minooka, Ill., where they lived with Mrs. James Cantwell until the mother's death, August 7, 1907. Since then Mr. Carlin has resided at Newark, Ill. page 782-783 Additional Comments: Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. Publishers; 1914 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/carlin742nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb