Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Burville, Lorenzo D 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Lorenzo D. Burville, who resides upon the home farm in Crete township, upon 
which he was reared, was born in Medina county, Ohio, January 29, 1844, but 
since 1855 has lived upon the old family homestead on section 16. His father, 
Reuben Burville, was a native of the state of New York and a son of William 
Burville, who came from Holland to this country and settled in the Empire 
state, although it was then numbered among the colonial possessions of Great 
Britain. He was a farmer by occupation and at the time the colonies made the 
attempt to throw off the yoke of British oppression he joined the Continental 
Army and assisted in winning independence for the nation. His son, Reuben 
Burville, came to Illinois with his family in 1855. He was a soldier of the 
war of 1812 and followed farming in New York. Following his removal to the 
middle west he located on section 16, Crete township, Will county, where he 
secured seventy acres of land. He was an enterprising farmer and won a goodly 
measure of success in his business dealings. In politics he was a democrat. He 
married Lucretia Babcock, who was born in the state of New York in 1806, and 
they were married while still residents of the east. Mr. Burville died in 1860 
and his wife passed away in 1874. They were the parents of thirteen children, 
of whom five reached adult age: Ann Eliza, the widow of James Graham, who was 
a farmer of Iowa; Prudence, who is the widow of Daniel Sullivan and resides at 
Auburn Park, a suburb of Chicago; Laura D., who married Erasmus P. Dean, but 
both are now deceased; Lorenzo D. of this review; Helen, the deceased wife of 
Hiram Gilson; and Eurette and Frances, who died in childhood. The father of 
this family was twice married and by his first union had three children, of 
whom one is living, Catherine, the widow of Lorenzo Tillottson. Mrs. Burville 
was also married twice and by her first marriage had a daughter, Clarinda, who 
is now the widow of Ulysses Merrick. Lorenzo D. Burville was a youth of eleven 
years when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Illinois and he was 
reared to farm life, while in the district schools he acquired his education. 
He has always remained on the old homestead on section 16, Crete township, and 
since it came into his possession he has extended its boundaries by the 
purchase of an additional tract of thirty-five acres. He has a comfortable 
home in the midst of his farm, together with good barns and outbuildings for 
the shelter of grain and stock and in the care and management of his property 
he displays practical methods that result advantageously. On the 17th of 
November, 1870, Mr. Burville was united in marriage to Miss Harriet Cool, who 
was born in the town of Bremen, now Tinley Park, Illinois, in 1848, and is a 
daughter of Benjamin and Jane (Nobles) Cool, the former a native of New York 
and the latter of Pennsylvania. Alexander Nobles, grandfather of Mrs. 
Burville, locating at Chicago in 1835, conducted one of the few stores then in 
the frontier village. Mr. Cool was a farmer by occupation and owned and 
operated land near Blue Island. He was justice of peace in Bremen township, 
Cook county, for forty years. He died in 1896, at the age of seventy-six 
years, while his wife passed away in 1874, at the age of forty-five years. 
They had six children: Mrs. Burville; Nelson A., a coal merchant of Blue 
Island; Edwin W., who is now a guard and was formerly a bailiff in the Cook 
county jail and resides at Blue Island; Franklin B., a retired farmer of Blue 
Island; Caroline J., who died at the age of four years; and Julia, the wife of 
Frederick Ferrers, a farmer of the town of Bremen. The home of Mr. and Mrs. 
Burville was blessed with a daughter and three sons: Annie J., now the wife of 
Franklin B. Minard; Benjamin R., a farmer of Oklahoma; Hiram D., a mechanic of 
Laporte, Indiana; and Charles, who is upon the home farm. Another member of 
the household is their niece, Minerva Cool, who has made her home with Mr. and 
Mrs. Burville since eleven months old and is now a young lady. Mr. and Mrs. 
Burville also have six grandchildren. Mrs. Burville belongs to the 
Congregational church, to the Ladies' Aid Society and the Order of the Eastern 
Star. In politics Mr. Burville is a democrat but has never been an aspirant 
for office, as he has preferred to give his undivided time and attention to 
his business affairs. He has lived the quiet but honorable life of a farmer 
and has now a valuable property which gives him a good income.

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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