Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Borms, Conrad 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Conrad Borms is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred and sixty 
acres, situated on section 15, Peotone township, Will county, and is numbered 
among its representative citizens. He was born in Hanover, Germany, December 
18, 1852, a son of Englehart and Elizabeth Borms, who emigrated to America in 
1854, having then a family of six children. The family home was established in 
Du Page county, and the father, being in very limited circumstances, sought 
any employment that would yield him an honest living and enable him to provide 
for the support of his wife and children. For eight years he was employed in 
various ways, and often worked for fifty cents per day. He was very 
industrious and economical and through his careful management and close 
application he was enabled in 1862 to remove to Will county, where he 
purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land in Peotone township. This was 
but slightly improved and the farm buildings were very poor. He, however, 
began the cultivation of the fields and in due time replaced the old buildings 
with new and substantial ones, while as the years passed and his financial 
resources increased, he added to his landed interests until at the time of his 
death he possessed four hundred acre's, thus being able to give to each of his 
children a good farm. His success is indicated by the fact that when he 
arrived in Du Page county his capital consisted of but twenty-five dollars, 
and at his death, which occurred about nineteen years ago, when he had reached 
the age of seventy-seven years, he was one of the large landowners of Will 
county. He was one of the organizers of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran 
church in Peotone township, and for many years served as one of its officers, 
while he gave his political support to the republican party. His widow 
survived and died at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Louis Carstens, when she, 
too, had reached the age of seventy-seven. Our subject is one of the five 
surviving members of a family of eight children, the others being: Fred, a 
retired farmer living in Peotone; Ernest, a resident farmer of Green Garden 
township; Englehart, a grain dealer of Frankfort, Illinois; and Emma, who 
makes her home in Frankfort. Those deceased are: one, who died in childhood; 
Henry, who was a farmer of Peotone township; and Mary, the deceased wife of 
Louis Carstens, of Peotone. Conrad Borms was but two years of age when brought 
by his parents to the United States. He was reared in Du Page and Will 
counties and acquired his education in the common schools. He remained under 
the parental roof until twenty-seven years of age, at which time he came into 
possession of eighty acres of land from his father's estate. It was improved 
with fair buildings but Mr. Borms has since replaced these with modern and 
substantial structures, having now a fine country residence, good barns and 
other outbuildings. He has added to his original holdings until he now has a 
farm of one hundred and sixty acres and through the rotation of crops and the 
careful cultivation of his fields he annually adds to his financial resources, 
so that he is today accounted one of the leading and prosperous farmers of 
Peotone township. In 1879 occurred the marriage of Mr. Borms and Miss Emilie 
Carstens, who was born in Will county, a daughter of John and Mary 
(Christophers) Carstens, both of whom were natives of Germany, whence they 
emigrated to America in 1852, settling in Green Garden township, Will county, 
where the father followed the occupation of farming. Both are now deceased. 
The living children of Mr. and Mrs. Bonus are Mary, Lydia, Englehart, Laura, 
Conrad and Emily, while one died in infancy. Mr. Borms gives his political 
support to the men and measures of the democracy, while he holds membership 
with the Evangelical Lutheran church, of which he has served as trustee for 
the past six years. He and his family are widely and favorably known and stand 
high in the estimation of their neighbors and friends.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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