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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

William D. Lloyd

For forty-three years William DeLand Lloyd has been a resident of Illinois and 
is numbered among the pioneer settlers of this section of the state, and has 
therefore witnessed much of the growth and development of Morris county and 
has ever borne his part in the work of progress. He has seen the wild lands 
transformed into beautiful homes and farms, while hamlets have become cities 
and all the evidences of an advanced civilization have replaced the primitive 
forms of pioneer life.

Mr. Lloyd was born on a farm in Oneida county, New York, March 28, 1825, and 
is a son of William Rily and Lucy (DeLand) Lloyd. The father was born in 
Massachusetts, April 15, 1798, and died in Kendall county, Illinois, February 
16, 1876. On the 22d of October, 1823, he married Miss DeLand, whose birth 
occurred in Oneida county, New York, July 10, 1798, and who died in Chautauqua 
county, that state, June 10, 1832. The Lloyd family is of Welsh origin and at 
an early day was planted on American soil, since which time its 
representatives have resided in Massachusetts. Mrs. Lloyd was probably of 
French lineage. She died when her son William, her only child, was about seven 
years of age, and the father afterward married Elizabeth Ransom, by whom he 
had four sons, namely: Nelson R., a resident of Chicago; Clinton R., who died 
in Dakota in 1897; Henry Harrison, also of Chicago; and Cyrus B., a farmer of 
Kendall county, Illinois.

When William D, Lloyd was about a year old his parents removed to Chautauqua 
county, New York, where he spent his boyhood days upon a farm. At the age of 
fifteen he left the parental roof and from that time has been dependent upon 
his own resources. His educational privileges were limited and he had neither 
wealth nor influential friends to aid him. His wages, too, were given to his 
father until he was twenty-two years of age.  His home was scarcely a pleasant 
place of residence to him after his father’s second marriage, but his love for 
his parent was very strong, as is indicated by his bringing the money which he 
had earned to his father. He worked as a farm hand by the month for several 
years, and in 1853 resolved to carry on agricultural pursuits on his own 
account. Accordingly he purchased a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, at 
twenty dollars per acre, but he went in debt for this, and later could not 
meet the payments; so he decided to try his fortune in the west. In the fall 
of 1856 he arrived in Illinois, locating in Kendall county, where for seven 
years he operated land on the shares. In the meantime he purchased eighty 
acres of land at thirty-five dollars per acre, and during the seven-years’ 
period he not only cleared it of all indebtedness but also accumulated one 
thousand dollars additional.  His life has been one of great industry, and he 
prosecuted his labors with unremitting diligence until about 1888, when he 
removed to Morris, where he has since lived retired. In his business dealings 
he was quite successful and a year after paying for his first eighty acres he 
purchased seventy-five acres, transforming the entire amount into a valuable 
farm which he recently sold for sixty-eight dollars per acre. He is now 
seventy-five years of age but still enjoys good health and has the figure of a 
man of much younger years.  He is five feet nine inches in height and his 
average weight is about one hundred and sixty pounds, but at the present time 
he weighs two hundred pounds.

On the 5th of January, 1853, Mr. Lloyd married Julia A. Abbott, a daughter of 
Samuel W. and Ursula (Bryan) Abbott. Her father was born in Camden, Oneida 
county, New York, October 27, 1808, and died in Clinton, New York, December 
28, 1892. He was the son of Nehemiah Abbott, who was born in Plymouth, 
Connecticut. Ursula Bryan was born January 23, 1809, in Camden, Oneida county, 
New York, and her marriage occurred May 21, 1829. Her father was Benjamin 
Bryan, a native of Watertown, Connecticut. Since November, 1893, Mrs. Abbott 
has resided with her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd, and in her family were the 
following children: Rhoda A., Samuel P., Sophrona, Abigail, Ursula, Julian, 
John, Asahel and Roderick. By her marriage Mrs. Abbott became the mother of 
five children: Julia Atwater, born November 14, 1830; Sidney M., Newall J., 
Mary A. and Wayne G. The eldest son, Sidney M. Abbott, enlisted in the Union 
army during the civil war and was killed in November, 1863, while making the 
ascent at Mission Ridge. Newall J. was also one of the loyal ‘boys in blue” 
and served throughout the struggle between the north and the south as a member 
of Company D, Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry.  The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Lloyd are Herbert W., who was born July 28, 1859, and died September 11, 1863; 
Maynard W., who was born September 18, 1862, and died September 28, 1863; Lucy 
DeLand, who was born November 8, 1864, and is the wife of James Hubbard, of 
Plattville, Kendall county, by whom she has five children: Ida Clayton, 
deceased; Arthur W., Myrtle D., Luella U. and Uriah. Elva Abbott Lloyd, who 
was born February 22, 1870, married G. W. Elerding, of Morris, by whom she has 
a son, Frank Abbott Elerding.

Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd are members of the Congregational church, and in his 
political faith Mr. Lloyd is Republican, but has never sought or desired 
office, his time and energies being devoted to his business interests, in 
which he has attained a creditable success. The record of such a man is well 
worthy of emulation and contains many valuable lessons which may be profitably 
followed. He has demonstrated the truth of the saying that success is not a 
matter of genius, but the reward of earnest labor directed or guided by 
practical common sense. He is now living retired in Morris, enjoying the 
fruits of his former toil and surrounded by his many friends, who esteem him 
highly for his sterling worth.

Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy Counties 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, pages 532-534

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