Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Greenawalt, Samuel H 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Samuel H. Greenawalt, dealer in grain, coal and lumber at Galt and Round 
Grove, was born Jan. 18, 1841, in Franklin Co., Pa. His father, Jacob 
Greenawalt, was born in Pennsylvania and there married Mary Diehl, also a 
native of the same State. Their 12 children were born in Franklin County, 
where the father died, in 1865. The mother survives. Mr. Greenawalt is the 
seventh child of his parents. He received the advantages of the common schools 
of his native county, where he remained during his minority, serving meanwhile 
two years in the shop of his father, who was a tailor. On arriving at the age 
of 21 years he came to Illinois. After passing a year in Lee County, where he 
worked on a farm, he came in 1863 to Whiteside County and passed the first 
season as a farm laborer. In the winter of 1864-5 he engaged as a clerk in a 
general mercantile establishment, and afterwards entered the machine shop of 
Galt & Tracy. He continued in their employment until the fall of 1866, when he 
formed a partnership with J. K. Carolus, the firm style becoming Carolus & 
Greenawalt. They transacted a business in general merchandise at Empire until 
the spring of 1885, when they disposed of their stock, in order to devote 
themselves exclusively to the management of the trade in which they are now 
operating, and which they inaugurated in 1881 at Galt, their firm style being 
transposed, and their business has since been managed under that of Greenawalt 
& Carolus. They have a branch establishment at Round Grove. Mr. Greenawalt is 
a Democrat in political sentiment, and he has been Clerk of Hopkins Township 
four years. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., and belongs to the English 
Lutheran Church, with which his wife is also connected. He was united in 
marriage in 1866 at Sterling, Ill., to Melinda, daughter of George and 
Elizabeth (Kuhn) Carolus, and is the sister of the business associate of her 
husband. She was born in April, 1842, in Franklin Co., Pa., and came in April, 
1862, to Whiteside County. Ollie M. and Frank H. are the names of the two 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Greenawalt.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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