Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hoenshell, Samuel M 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

SAMUEL M. HOENSHELL.

The efficient county treasurer of Grundy county is one of Illinois' native 
sons, and he commands the highest regard by reason of his sterling worth and 
fidelity to duty. His birth occurred in Nettle Creek township, Grundy county, 
June 17, 1867, his parents being Samuel M. and Christina (Waltz) Hoenshell. 
His father was born in Pennsylvania, and was of German lineage. About 1860 he 
came to Grundy county, where he married Miss Waltz, who was born in Germany, 
and came to this country during her childhood with her parents, who located in 
the Keystone state, whence they came to Grundy county about 1860. Mr. 
Hoenshell devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits throughout his entire 
life, his death occurring in 1874. He left three children: Nora, Lillie, and 
Samuel M., the last two being twins. After the death of her first husband, the 
mother married again, becoming the wife of Joseph Dawson, a retired farmer, 
residing in Morris.

Upon the homestead farm Samuel M. Hoenshell spent his boyhood days and early 
became familiar with all the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the 
agriculturist. His preliminary education was obtained in the public schools 
and later he was a student in Valparaiso, Indiana, and in Geneseo, Illinois. 
At the age of eighteen years, an accident caused the loss of his left arm, 
which was caught in a corn-sheller. This somewhat hampering him in farm work, 
he has devoted his energies largely to professional labors, and at the age of 
twenty years he began teaching. For seven years he was accounted one of the 
successful educators in Grundy county, having the faculty of imparting clearly 
and readily to others the knowledge he had acquired. In the fall of 1894 he 
was appointed deputy county treasurer, and so acceptably discharged his duties 
during his four-years term of service in that capacity that he was elected the 
county treasurer in 1898. Although the youngest nominee on the ticket, he 
received the largest majority, which was a merited compliment to his personal 
worth and ability. No trust reposed in him has ever been betrayed and he is 
deservedly popular in the locality where he has so long made his home. 
Socially he is connected with the Knights of the Globe.

February 21, 1900, Mr. Hoenshell married Miss Jessie Johnson, a daughter of 
Charles W. Johnson, the sheriff of Grundy county.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p623-624

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