Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Long, James 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

JAMES LONG.

Ireland has contributed to Grundy county some of her most prominent pioneers 
and most honored and substantial citizens. Among the well known Irish 
residents of Au Sable township is James Long. Mr. Long is a native of county 
Tipperary, Ireland, where he was born December 16, 1838. His father, Thomas 
Long, was the first of the family to come to America. In 1845 the mother and 
her seven children followed the husband and father across the ocean to the 
land of the free.

The family settled in the town of Van Buren, Onondaga county, New York, and 
there the mother died. James Long came to Illinois after his mother's death 
and later the father came west and made his home with his son, James, until 
his death, which occurred in 1896. One son, William, was a soldier in the war 
of the rebellion and was killed in action.

Mr. Long has a good farm of sixty-four acres, and is esteemed as a citizen of 
more than common character and prominence. He married Miss Mary Cornelius, and 
their marriage has been blessed by the birth of two sons: William, a resident 
of Chicago, Illinois; and Charles, who lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mrs. 
Long is a daughter of Charles Cornelius, who was born in county Kings, 
Ireland, shortly after the death of his father. His mother died when he was 
young and he came to the United States with an uncle and lived in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, for some time and was there employed on public works until he came to 
Will county, Illinois, and secured employment in the construction of the 
canal. He saved his money and purchased land in Channahon township, Will 
county, on which he settled and which became his homestead and there he spent 
the remainder of his life. He married Kate Dun, born in Queens county, 
Ireland, who died in 1865, and survived her until August, 1898, when he died 
at the age of about seventy-eight years. They became the parents of five 
children, three of whom are living: James Cornelius, who lives on the old 
homestead; Eliza, wife of Daniel Fisher; and Mrs. Long, the oldest of the 
family. The two who died were Kate, who became the wife of Michael Hanlon; and 
John, who died when about eighteen years old. Mr. Cornelius was a well known 
and estimable citizen and all members of his family are connected with the 
Catholic church.

Mr. Long is a man of much public spirit who favors good roads, good crops and 
good living, and believes that real success can be obtained only under a 
liberal government of the people, for the people and by the people, and he 
strives patriotically to encourage such a government in every way at his 
command.


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Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p671-672

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