Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Blogg, Charles H 1851 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

CHARLES H. BLOGG. In a city like Joliet the subject of fuel is an important 
one and a trade in that necessary article furnishes occupation to many 
dealers. The subject of this sketch, although he has not been engaged in 
business here for any great length of time, has already built up a fine trade. 
He handles all grades of hard coal together with the Wilmington and Indiana 
block coal. His boyhood was passed upon a farm, and in the pursuit of 
agriculture he was engaged until 1888, when he established his present 
business. His nature is an energetic one, and his early training developed 
those traits which are needful to a successful business career and secured for 
him the practical education without which a man can scarcely succeed. Mr. 
Blogg is still quite young, having been born June 22, 1851. His birthplace was 
Norwich, England, his parents removing to Lockport, Ill., when he was about 
six years of age, and he is the oldest of six sons and two daughters born to 
them. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen organization and of the First 
Presbyterian Church. His private character is above reproach, while in 
knowledge of general topics and current events he keeps pace with the times. 
The estimable lady who presides over his cozy home is the daughter of one of 
Will County's wealthy farmers, whose home is at Plainfield. Her maiden name 
was Mary Ann Goodson, and her parents were William and Sarah Goodson, whose 
voyage across the Atlantic was their wedding journey. Mr. and Mrs. Blogg were 
married February 14, 1877, and are the parents of one child, Mabel. The 
parents of our subject are John and Maria (Hilling) Blogg, natives of England, 
whence they came to America in 1857. In England John Blogg was a farm laborer 
and had spent twenty-one years in the employ of one man. Reaching the United 
States he located at Lockport, Ill., spending some years in the employ of John 
Fiddyment. He then engaged in farming for himself, first as a renter and later 
as the owner of real estate. The brothers and sisters of our subject are: 
William, whose home is in Florence, Will County; Mrs. Sarah Faulkner of 
Wilmington, this county; Edward, an engineer in the wire works at Lockport; 
Samuel, an engineer in Joliet; Mrs. Mary Dickson of Lockport; Albert lives in 
Wilmington; George and Henry reside in Florence.

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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