Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Petteys, John G 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Petteys, John G. - It is an unquestioned fact that the men who have 
accomplished the most in the worlds history are those who have won their own 
way. The stimulus of necessity acts as a spur, urging men onward and upward. 
The self-made man is not new to this country. This type existed from the 
beginning of civilization and will continue to be in evidence as long as 
civilization continues, for when this kind of citizen dies out, advancement 
will cease. One of the men who deserves more than passing mention because of 
what he has made of himself, is John Gordon Petteys, a leading attorney of 
Grundy County, residing at Morris. Mr. Petteys was born in Wayne County, N. 
Y., July 25, 1871, a son of Freeman David and Almary (Jenkins) Petteys, 
natives of New York. They married and settled in Wayne County, N. Y., where 
they lived until 1879, when they moved to Detroit, Mich. After two years in 
that city, they moved to Bureau County, Ill., and farmed until 1892, when they 
left the farm, going to Tiskilwa, Ill., where they are now living retired. 
Their children were: Jesse Aubrey of Wyoming, Ill.; John Gordon; Wayne A., a 
letter carrier at Morris; William Lloyd G., who was drowned when three and one-
half years old at Tiskilwa; and Hazel, a schoolteacher in the Evanston, Ill., 
public schools.

John G. Petteys graduated from the Tiskilwa High school in June, 1889. 
Entering the service of the United States Government as a railway postal clerk 
in 1890, he thus continued until 1901, when he resigned to take up the 
practice of law at Morris, Ill. In 1896 be entered the Northwestern University 
Law school from which he graduated in June, 1899, having completed the course 
while in the employ of the government, as a postal clerk. Mr. Petteys is 
possessed of the true legal mind, that is acquired from practical experience 
while being carefully trained in his profession.

A Republican in politics, he was Public Administrator of Grundy County for 
four years. He is a prominent Mason, being a member of the Blue Lodge of 
Tiskilwa, Ill.; Orient Chapter No. 31 of Morris, Ill., which he served as High 
Priest for two years; and the Royal and Select Masters and Council of Joliet, 
Ill., and received the thirty-second degree in Oriental Consistory, at 
Chicago, Ill. He also is a member of the Knights of Pythias of Morris, Ill. 
Mr. Petteys has one child, Dorothy, born in January, 1901.

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

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