McHenry County IL Archives Biographies.....Stocker, John W 
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Source: History of Western Iowa, Its Settlement and Growth; 1882
Author: Western Publishing Company

John W. Stocker, grocer and dealer in corn and stock, was born in Caledonia
county, Vt., June 2nd, 1835; moved with parents to Lowell, Mass., in 1813;
thence to McHenry county, Ill., in 1854 and engaged in farming; thence to Henry
county, Ia., and engaged in setting up woolen mills; thence to Buchanan county
in 1857 and engaged in farming one year; then moved to Little Sioux. He enlisted
in Co. C, 29th Ia. Inft.; was in a number of important battles; was regimental
quartermaster and commanded his company the last year and a half of his service;
was some time in Rio Grande, Tex., and returned home Sept. 2nd, 1865; moved to
Woodbine and bought an interest in the woolen mill there; after six months sold
out and removed to Magnolia, then the county seat, and was elected clerk of the
courts in 1866 and re-elected in 1868. In 1876 he located in Logan and engaged
in the stock and grain buying business and added the grocery business in 1879.
He is a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F, and I. O. G. T. orders. He married
Susan B. Bonney, in 1862. They have three daughters.


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Harrison County Chapter; Logan Biographies

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