Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Ward, Samuel 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

WARD, Samuel – If Grundy County had no other interests save those connected 
with agriculture, it would still be a prosperous locality, for it is so 
preeminently fitted for farming and stock raising that the majority of its 
prosperous men are interested along these lines in one way or another. One of 
those who has made a success of his work as an agriculturalist is Samuel Ward, 
of Vienna Township. He was born in Suffolk, England, January 1, 1863, a son of 
John and Hannah (Elwood) Ward of the same place. The mother died in 1909, and 
the father in 1911.

Samuel Ward was somewhat hampered in the beginning of his business career by 
the fact that he had not been given a fair amount of schooling, but as time 
went on he remedied this by observation and experience. On October 3, 1883, he 
landed in New York City, from whence he came to Verona, Ill., and for five 
years worked out by the month, in Vienna Township. By this time he had saved 
sufficient money to justify him in renting the farm he now occupies, and in 
June, 1906, he bought it. This property comprises 145 acres on which he has 
erected the greater part of the buildings and made many other necessary 
improvements. Mr. Ward carries on grain farming and raises cattle and hogs, 
experience having proven that his land is best adapted to these products.

On March 15, 1888, Mr. Ward married Louisa Finch, born in Vienna Township, 
August 30, 1862, a daughter of George and Martha (Rumney) Finch, natives of 
England. Mr. Finch is deceased, but his widow, surviving, resides at Verona. 
Mr. and Mrs. Ward are the parents of the following children: George, born 
December 24, 1889, married, December 10, 1913, Mary R. Fleming; Laura, born 
January 16, 1892; Ruth I., born August 16, 1885, died April 4, 1911, and is 
buried in the Ward cemetery near Verona; and Lawrence, born September 12, 
1888, lives at home.

pages 917-918

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

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