Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Spiller, John 1808 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

John Spiller, retired farmer, Gardner, was born in Devonshire, England, 
November 28, 1808, son of Robert and Ann (Applin) Spiller, natives of England; 
he was a farmer by occupation and died in 1872, at the age of eighty years. 
The mother died in 1848, aged about sixty. Our subject received a limited 
education, and assisted his parents upon the home farm, until he was thirty 
years of age, when he went to farming on his own account. In 1851, he 
emigrated to America, locating in Kendall County, Ill. October 31, 1839, Mr. 
Spiller was married, in England, to Miss Joanna Wakley, born in Devonshire 
June 24, 1819; she is the mother of six children, viz., Ann, William, Joel, 
Thomas, Mary Jane and John. For eight months after landing in this county, our 
subject was ill, and the entire support of the family devolved upon Mrs. 
Spiller. Upon regaining his health, Mr. Spiller engaged as a farm hand until, 
by his industry and economy, he had accumulated sufficient means to purchase 
eighty acres of farm land in Grundy County; this he added to until he had 108 
acres, upon which he located in 1858. In the spring of 1875, he retired from 
active labor, and the farm is now managed by his son. Thomas Spiller, one of 
the sons of our subject, was born in England February 20, 1845. When six years 
of age, he came with his parents to America, and located in Kendall County, 
Ill.; received a common-school education and assisted on the home farm until 
twenty-one years of age. In 1876, he came to Gardner and engaged in harness-
making, which he has since continued and at which he has been very successful. 
He was married, in Grundy County, January 9, 1868, to Elizabeth Allen, born in 
1846; they have four children - Walter, Frank, Clarence and an infant. Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas Spiller are members of the M. E. Church. He is a Republican; his 
father also a Republican; cast his first vote for Lincoln.

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

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