Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Peart, James P 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Peart, James P. - Many of the substantial agriculturists of Grundy County are 
carrying on operations on land cultivated for years by their fathers. Born on 
their farms, and spending their whole lives thereon, they are familiar with 
soil and climatic conditions, and can bring to their labors that intelligence 
and knowledge that insures success. In this class may be mentioned James P. 
Peart, the owner of 160 acres of land, which has been in the family possession 
for nearly a half a century. Mr. Peart was born on his present property, in 
Goose Lake Township, in March, 1877, and he is a son of Cuthbert and Mary Ann 
(Walker) Peart, natives of England. The parents of James P. Peart both came to 
the United States as children, their families locating first in Ohio, where 
Mr. and Mrs. Peart were married. About the year 1864 they migrated from the 
Buckeye State to Grundy County, Ill., where the father purchased a tract of 
eighty acres in Goose Lake Township. To this he added from time to time, 
increasing his earnings by working in the mines during the winter months, and 
he was thus occupied until his death, October 13, 1910, when he was the owner 
of 160 acres of land and one of his section’s substantial men. The mother, who 
survives him, resides at Carbon Hill, Ill. They had the following children: 
John, who is deceased; Jeremiah, who resides in Goose Lake Township; Joseph, 
of Carbon Hill; Mary, who is the widow of Roscoe Brown, of Carbon Hill; 
Emerson, who is of Springfield, Ill.; James P.; and Jessie, who married Thomas 
Nicholson, lives at Divernon, Ill.

James P. Peart received a common school education in the schools of Grundy 
County, and was reared to agricultural pursuits. On February 19, 1901, he was 
married to Anna Wilson, who was born at Braidwood, Ill., daughter of William 
and Margaret Wilson, and two children have been born to this union: William 
and Milford. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Peart settled on the farm of 
his father, in Goose Lake Township, of which he has been the owner since the 
older man’s death. He is thoroughly skilled in farm work, and the general air 
of prosperity noticeable on his property gives ample evidence of good 
management and industrious effort. In all matters pertaining to the welfare of 
his community he shows an active and intelligent interest, but has never been 
a politician, and supports Republican principles only as a good citizen. 
Fraternally he holds membership in the A. O. O. G. and the I. O. O. F. of Coal 
City.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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