Will County IL Archives Biographies.....ALDRICH, FENNER 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

FENNER ALDRICH was born in Massachusetts in 1803 and was a member of a pioneer 

family of New England. His parents, David and Mary (Capron) Aldrich, removed to 

Pennsylvania and settled on a large tract of land near Harper, Susquehanna 

County, where they spent their remaining years.  Their children afterward 

removed to northern Illinois, and one son, Levi, went to California in 1852.

In October, 1834, Fenner Aldrich came to Illinois and settled in Will (then a 

part of Cook) County.  Before the separation of the territory into two counties 

he served as deputy sheriff. He was proprietor of two hotels, the Juliet house 

and the Exchange house.  In 1836 he was elected sheriff of Will County.  Three 

years later he was re-elected.  As a county officer and as a hotel proprietor 

he became widely acquainted throughout northern Illinois, and his friends were 

as numerous as his acquaintances.  For a time he conducted the St. Nicholas 

house in Springfield, but, preferring Joliet as a place of residence, he 

returned and conducted the Exchange house during the remainder of his active 

life. In politics he was a Democrat, in religion a Universalist.  He died 

August 5, 1884.  His wife, who was a daughter of Sylvanus Wade, a Revolutionary 

soldier, passed away February  16, 1872.


Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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