Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Pettit, Joseph H 
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Author: Bio/Gen Record LaSalle/Grundy 1900

Joseph H. Pettit, who is engaged in the abstract and loan business at Morris, 
Illinois, has been identified with this place since his boyhood and is ranked 
with its leading citizens.

Mr. Pettit was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey. For ten or twelve years 
he clerked in a general store in Morris, in 1870 and 1871 was the cashier in 
the Grundy County National Bank, and then for four years was engaged in the 
hardware business, with a partner. In 1878 he was appointed the clerk of the 
circuit court and recorder, in which orifice he served by appointment and 
election nine years and as deputy ten years. Since severing his connection 
with this office he has devoted his attention to the abstract and loan 
business.

Mr. Pettit has always been a stanch Republican. Fraternally he is a Mason, 
having advanced through the various degrees of the order up to and including 
the Knight Templar. Also he is a member of the G. A. R. At the very beginning 
of the civil war, in April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company H, Third 
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry, and served until the expiration of his term of 
enlistment in August of that year, when he was honorably discharged and 
returned to Morris.

Mr. Pettit was married in Grundy county, in 1873, to Miss Myra Massey, and 
they have one child living—Murriel.



Additional Comments:
Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p620-621

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