Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Boylan, Robert J 1806 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

ROBERT J. BOYLAN, the owner of a good home on section 15, Jackson Township, is 
a pioneer of the county and as such deserves notice in this volume. He was 
born in Sussex County, N. J., January 23, 1806, and lived there until he 
attained his majority, learning surveying and civil engineering after 
finishing the ordinary branches. He went to Onondaga County, N. Y., where he 
lived about seven years, during that period taking for his wife Miss Angeline 
Brown. That lady was born in Onondaga County, March 11, 1811, and died in 
Jackson's Grove, this county, February 6, 1841. To her had been born three 
children—James, who died in California; Mary,who was bitten by a rattlesnake 
and died June 15, 1836, and Mary Jane, now widow of C. M. Kellogg. In 
November, 1834, Mr. Boylan came to what is now Will County, locating in 
Jackson's Grove where he has followed farming in connection with surveying. He 
at one time owned over two hundred and fifty acres of land but now owns but 
one hundred and four. Upon this he has made all the improvements it bears. He 
has held the office of County Surveyor eight years, has been School Treasurer 
twenty-six consecutive years, was Road Commissioner and Treasurer of the Board 
sixteen consecutive years, and Township Assessor eight years. He has taken 
quite an active part in political affairs and is the only surviving member of 
the convention that was called in 1836 to organize the Democratic party of 
Will County. He is also the only survivor of the petitioners for the setting 
off of this county, which was done at Vandalia, January 6, 1836. In former 
years he acted with the Democratic party, but is now a Prohibitionist. He and 
his estimable wife belong to the Baptist Church, in which he has been a member 
for fifty years and she for nearly as long. The present Mrs. Boylan became the 
wife of our subject in Wesley, this county, June 10, 1841. She bore the maiden 
name of Margaret M. Freer and was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., June 18, 
1819. By this marriage there are six living children namely: Lavinia, wife of 
A. D. C. Bugbee; Clara, widow of William Aldrich; Albert W.; Alice, wife of W. 
A. Palmer; Nellie, wife of Albert E. Noel, and Robert J., Jr. The deceased are 
Villetta, wife of George Stuphler, who died June 12, 1888, and Eugene who died 
at the age of six years.

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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