Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Summers, John A 1824 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

John A. Summers, farmer, P. O. Morris, was born in Freetown, Cortland Co., N. 
Y., March 11, 1824, son of Nicholas and Mary Summers. When our subject was 
four years old, his parents moved to Onondaga County, N. Y., where they 
remained nine years; they then came to Illinois and settled in Wauponsee 
Grove, where the father died in October of 1839. Mr. Summers came tot his 
county some years before it was organized as such, and attended the first 
school taught here. It was held in the house of the teacher, Mrs. Dewey. In 
1838, subject's father built the first house of the county; it was situated 
south of the river, and was roofed with joint shingles. John Summers began the 
trade of carpenter and joiner, under the instruction of his father, at which 
trade he worked for several years, in and around Morris. He had a vivid 
recollection of having to grind the breadstuffs for the family in a common 
coffee-mill, the severe freezing weather rendering the grist-mill useless for 
weeks at a time. In 1852, he bought eighty acres of farm land in Section 21, 
of Wauponsee Township, which he sold in the spring of 1882; has recently 
bought 320 acres in Douglas County, Dakota Territory, where he will soon move 
his family. Mr. Summers was married, May 25, 1854, to Miss Matilda R. Summers, 
of Ohio, born in March, 1835. They have a family of eight children - Clara C., 
born in 1855; Fred E., 1857; Hortense J., 1858; Edgar D., 1860; Emily M., 
1862; Harry M., 1866; Helen M., 1869; John G., 1872.

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

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