Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Hollenbeck, Justus 1821 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Justus Hollenbeck, farmer, P. O. Seneca. The subject of these lines, Justus 
Hollenbeck, is a native of Greene County, N. Y., born January 6, 1821; was 
raised and educated in his native county. When at the age of twenty-two, he 
went to East Troy, Wis., having married, August 31, 1843, to Miss Rebecca 
Bennet, daughter of William and Hannah Bennet. She was born in Schoharie 
County, N. Y., August 25, 1816. Soon after marrying they went to Wisconsin, 
where they lived nine years and came to Illinois in 1852, settling in Grundy 
County, Vienna Township; now lives in Section 33 of Norman Township, where he 
owns a farm of 160 acres, all in Section 33, valued at $40 per acre; his 
residence is nine miles southwest from Morris, and five miles southeast from 
Seneca; Hog Run divides his farm from north to south. They have a family of 
seven children - Emma E. Hollenbeck was born in East Troy, Wis., March 25, 
1844; was married to Alphonso Diebold, of Seneca; Louisa Hollenbeck was born 
November 9, 1845; was married to John Barker, of Seneca; George Hollenbeck was 
born February 28, 1847, and died December 13, 1865; Isabelle Hollenbeck was 
born February 17, 1849, and died by drowning in a well April 22, 1855; Julius 
F., and Julia A. Hollenbeck, born June 11, 1852; Julia A. is married to 
Spencer Cox, of Seneca; Julius F. is married to Frances Kelsoe; Adeline 
Hollenbeck was born September 5, 1855; was married to John Nott, of East Troy, 
Wis. Our subject is a son of John and Elizabeth Hollenbeck, of Greene County, 
N. Y.; his mother, Elizabeth (Bennett) Hollenbeck, died at their home in 
Wisconsin March 7, 1852, in her fifty-third year; his father is still living 
in Wisconsin, in his eighty-eighth year. Mrs. Hollenbeck's parents died in 
Greene County, N. Y.

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

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