Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Petit, Dennis 1832 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Dennis Petit, farmer, P. O. Gardner, was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., 
October 20, 1832, son of Chester W. and Nancy (Collins) Petit, natives of New 
York State; he is a farmer by occupation; she died in August, 1873. Our 
subject was one of ten children; received a common-school education and 
assisted on the home farm; came to Kendall County, Ill., in 1856, and to 
Grundy County in 1871; here he has since resided on a well-cultivated farm of 
eighty acres. Mr. Petit was married, November 4, 1852, to Catharine Baxter, 
who was born in Sharon, N. Y., June 14, 1827; this union has been blessed with 
three children - Charles, Nancy and Wesley. Mr. Petit is a Republican.

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

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