Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Spiller, Clarence  
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Spiller, Clarence - Grundy County farms have long been a source of pride, not 
only to the owners of these valuable pieces of property, but all the people of 
this locality, for it is a recognized fact that the standing of any 
agricultural section is measured by the prosperity of its farmers. One of the 
men who has achieved more than the usual amount of success as a farmer here is 
Clarence Spiller, owner of a fine eighty-acre farm in Mazon Township. He was 
born in Gardner, Ill., March 21, 1877, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Allen) 
Spiller. Thomas Spiller was born in England, but came to this country in young 
manhood, and died at Gardner in 1892. For some years he had been successfully 
engaged in business there as a harnessmaker. His widow survives and makes her 
home at Gardner. She and her husband had four children: Walter B., Frank H., 
Clarence and Harry.

Clarence Spiller attended the public schools at Gardner, and after finishing 
his educational training, went into the restaurant business in that village.  
Later he worked at the mines, but in 1905 he bought his present property, 
where he carries on general farming and feeds cattle for the market. Mr. 
Spiller purposes entering the dairy business in the near future with a fine 
herd of Jersey cattle.

In 1899 Mr. Spiller was married to Laura Savage, born in Grundy County. Mr. 
and Mrs. Spiller have had two children: Della May and Raymond Thomas, but the 
latter died January 1, 1908. Mr. Spiller belongs to the Methodist Church. 
Fraternally he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. While he has always 
cast his vote for the candidates of the Republican party in national events, 
in local matters he believes in supporting the best man. A good worker, and 
thrifty in his habits, Mr. Spiller has steadily forged to the front and is 
justly regarded as one of the substantial and reliable men of Grundy County.

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

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