Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Small, Wilson 1843 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Wilson Small, hardware, Mazon Center, is a native of Somerset County, Maine, 
born January 1, 1843. When he was twelve years old, his parents, Harris and 
Sophrona Small, moved to Illinois and settled in Highland Township, Grundy 
County, where our subject was educated in the common schools. He enlisted July 
31, 1861, in Company G, Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he 
served three years. He was mustered out September 23, 1864, at Atlanta, Ga.; 
he participated in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone River and 
Jonesboro. He was married, December 23, 1868, to Miss Philena C. Mooney, 
daughter of H. B. and Mary L. Mooney, of Grundy County. Mrs. Small was born in 
Essex County, N. Y., May 5, 1848, and is the mother of seven children - Ira 
M., born in Grundy County June 29, 12870; Guy W., born in Grundy County 
October 11, 1871; Clarence H., born in Grundy County March 3, 1873; G. 
Winnefred, born in Grundy County May 27, 1875; Ina V., born in Grundy County 
August 27, 1876; Raymond, born August 28, 1878, died August 12, 1882; and Ida 
May, born July 21, 1882. Mr. Small owns a farm of eighty acres of cultivated 
land, valued at $50 per acre, in Section 2, of Highland Township. He is 
engaged in the hardware trade at Mazon Center; is a Republican and a member of 
the Masonic fraternity, Blue Lodge, of Verona, No. 757.

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

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