Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Gorham, Henry G 1848 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Henry G. Gorham, farmer and grain merchant, Wauponsee, is a native of Putnam 
County, Ill., born November 5, 1848, son of Gardner T. and Elizabeth A. 
Gorham, who settled in this county in 1849. His mother is a daughter of Jesse 
and Jane Newport, who settled in Vienna Township in 1834. Mr. Gorham was 
educated in the common schools of Grundy County, and, at the Lombard 
University of Galesburg, Ills. He was married, November 6, 1878, to Miss Clara 
Lord, daughter of L. M. Lord, of Morris. She was born in Kendall County, Ill., 
November 7, 1852. They have one daughter, Mabel, born in Grundy County 
December 31, 1870. Mr. Gorham is engaged in the grain trade at Hill Park, and 
has control of the Gorham estate, consisting of 860 acres of farm land in 
Section 1 of Vienna Township, and Section 6 of Mazon Township. He is a member 
of the Masonic fraternity, Morris Commandery. His father, who was a native of 
New York, born in 1804, died in Grundy County October 1, 1872.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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