Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Veronda, Anton 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Veronda, Anton – When a citizen has passed more than sixteen consecutive years 
as the incumbent of a public office, the fact is liable to be rather firmly 
established that he possesses qualities which recommend him to the public at 
large. This is the record of Anton Veronda, postmaster at Carbon Hill, Ill., 
since July, 1897, who has also served in various other offices and in every 
case has shown himself worthy of the respect and esteem which have been 
granted him. Mr. Veronda was born in Northern Italy, in 1865, and is a son of 
Maurice and Catharine Veronda. His father was an engineer in the cotton mills 
of Italy, an occupation which he followed for fifty years until his 
retirement. He died in his native country in 1877, and his wife has also 
passed away. They were the parents of fifteen children.

Anton Veronda secured his educational training in the public schools of Italy, 
but at the age of fifteen years emigrated to the United States, and at once 
secured employment as a coal digger in the Coal City mines.  In addition to 
the five years which he had spent in the common schools of Italy, Mr. Veranda 
attended night school in Coal City while working in the mines, and thus 
secured a good education. After attaining his majority, he went to Michigan 
and worked in the copper mines there until 1890. During this time he had 
worked faithfully and industriously, and found in that year that he had saved 
enough money to return to Italy to claim the young lady who had consented to 
be his wife, Mary Configliacco, whom he had left there and who had patiently 
awaited his return. Immediately after their marriage they returned to Coal 
City, and Mr. Veronda again entered the mines. In 1891, when the village of 
Carbon Hill was established, he moved to this point, where he has since 
resided with his family. He was chosen as Carbon Hill's second postmaster in 
1897, and has acted in this capacity to the present time, has served one term 
as assessor of Felix Township, has been supervisor six years, has been a 
member of the board of trustees of Carbon Hill, and at the present time is 
county agent for Grundy County. He is a Republican. He is a charter member of 
the Odd Fellows, the White Tie and the Christopher Columbus lodges. In all of 
which he is very popular. He has had some misfortune, however. On June 12. 
1913, while he was in Wisconsin to get his brother, his business place and the 
postoffice were burned, causing a heavy loss. Mr. Veronda had one of the most 
beautiful homes of the city.

Mrs. Veronda died in February, 1912, in the faith of the Catholic Church, and 
was laid to rest in the Cemetery at Braidwood, Ill. She had been the mother of 
seven children: Maurice; Frances; Louis, who died at the age of two years; 
William; Edward; Elsie; and Eva, who died in infancy.

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

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