Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Binzen, Michael 1836 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

MICHAEL BINZEN, Highway Commissioner at Joliet, was in the spring of 1890, 
elected for the second time to the position which he fills to the general 
satisfaction of the community. In politics he is a decided Democrat and is 
recognized as a great worker in the ranks. He belongs to the social and 
benevolent order of Odd Fellows and has many friends by whom he is highly 
regarded. He was born in Prussia, January 29, 1836, being a son of John and 
Annie (Hirschen) Binzen. His father was a cooper and distiller, and became 
expert in distilling grapes, plums, juniper berries and cherries, a business 
wrhich he followed many years. Of the children born to him there are now 
living three sons. Joseph resides in Troy, N. Y., and is engaged in the 
manufacture and sale of shoes, employing fifteen men; Jacob and Michael reside 
in Joliet. The gentleman of whom we write came to America in 1852, making his 
first stop at Albany, N. Y., where he found employment in a brewery. We next 
find him in Hudson, where with a brother-in-law he opened a brewery, which was 
destroyed by fire in 1868. Thence he went to Pittsfield, Mass., where he 
engaged in the liquor traffic, coming West in the latter part of the same year 
and after remaining a year in Chicago, taking up his abode in Joliet. For the 
first two years of his residence here he worked in a brewery, after which he 
again engaged in the liquor traffic. A few years thereafter, in 1881, he 
purchased a farm which he has since successfully managed. The marriage of Mr. 
Binzen and Miss Catherine Meyer was celebrated January 23, 1856. Mrs. Binzen 
is a well-informed woman with many useful accomplishments and is a notable 
housewife. The happy union has been blessed by the birth of eight children, 
named respectively: Mary, wife of James Cushing; Joseph, Michael, Jr., John, 
Cato, Emma and George (twins), and William. In connection with this sketch, is 
given a lithographic view of Mr. Binzen's pleasant homestead.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 

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