Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hart, John March 17, 1838 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

JOHN HART, mechanic, Morris, was born on the 17th of March, 1838, in 
Elizabeth, Penn. His parents, James and Rebecca HART, came to Grundy County, 
his father in 1839 and his mother, with the family, in 1840. His father died 
in Morris on the 1st of January, 1844. His mother, Rebecca (SIMPSON) HART, was 
born in Ireland in 1803; died in Morris November 8, 1846. John, being left an 
orphan at the age of nine years, early acquired habits of industry. At the age 
of sixteen, he began the trade of blacksmithing, under Martin HINES, serving 
as an apprentice three years, since which time he has worked at his trade in 
Morris, with the exception of three years, from 1859 to 1862, spent in 
Sacramento, Cal. He is now located on Canal street, between Fulton and Calhoun 
streets, where he has run a shop for the past fifteen years. He was married, 
on the 6th of March, 1859, to Miss Ellen WARD, a native of Ireland. They are 
members of the Catholic Church of Morris. Mr. HART is among the very first 
inhabitants of Morris, and attended the first school ever conducted in the 
town. In politics, he is strictly independent. Residence on the corner of 
Fremont avenue and Oak street.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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