Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Brockway, Henry S 1841 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

HENRY S. BROCKWAY. Among the workers in handicraft in the thriving city of 
Joliet, none better deserve mention in a volume of this description than H. S. 
Brockway. He was born in Chemung, N. Y., being a son of Edmund and Elizabeth 
(Shoemaker) Brockway, both of whom were likewise natives of the Empire State. 
The father was born January 29, 1811, and the mother in February, 1817. They 
removed to Kendall County, Ill., in 1855, and after a time changed their 
location to Grant Township, Buena Vista County, Iowa, where the husband and 
father engaged in farming until his death, May 30, 1885. The mother died in 
November, 1854. The natal day of him of whom we write was October 1, 1841, and 
he is the eldest son in a family comprising seven children. Having accompanied 
his father to the Prairie State in 1855, he attended the public schools and 
afterward entered Clark Seminary in Aurora, where he completed his studies. He 
began his career in life as a farmer, but after a brief period devoted to 
agriculture learned the trade of a carpenter and, coming to Joliet, began 
active business as a contractor and builder. Many beautiful buildings that are 
ornaments to the city have been put up by him, among them being the Campbell 
and Stevens Blocks, the elevator and the residences of James Ashley and W. S. 
Brooks. He is a man of the strictest integrity, punctual in the smallest 
details of his engagements and reliable in word and deed. He therefore enjoys 
the marked esteem of his fellow-men and the sincere friendship of those 
intimately acquainted with his worth of character. At the head of the cozy 
home on Sherman Street is a lady of housewifely skill and fine character, 
between whom and our subject the rites of wedlock were celebrated November 13, 
1878. She bore the maiden name of Nettie E. McCowan, is a native of this 
county and a daughter of parents who helped to subdue the prairie and are yet 
living as examples of the sturdy yeomanry of pioneer days. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Brockway two sturdy sons have been born: Henry S., whose natal day was April 
28, 1884, and Jay McCowan, who opened his eyes to the light January 5, 1886. 
Mr. Brockway is an active member of the Richards Street Methodist Episcopal 
Church.

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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