Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Corrie, William 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

WILLIAM CORRIE is assistant general manager of the Joliet Limestone Company, 
which has its main office in the Chamber of Commerce building, Chicago, and 
its Joliet office on the corner of Rowell and Fourth avenues. The officers of 
the company are: Hugh Young, president; R. C. Harper, vice-president and 
general manager; and C. S. Metcalfe, secretary. The quarries owned by the 
company are the most extensive and their business the largest of any in 
Joliet. Besides the quarrying of stone, they are engaged in the manufacture of 
sawed and machine-dressed stone of all descriptions, curbing, engine beds, 
limestone sidewalks, etc. Mr. Corrie was born in Greenock, Scotland, December 
12, 1846, a son of William and Isabella (Maine) Corrie, also natives of that 
country. His father, who was an expert silk buyer, brought his family to 
America in 1850 and settled in New York City, where he was employed by A. T. 
Stewart and James Beck as an expert in silk. In 1862 he removed to Tipton, 
Cedar County, Iowa, where he engaged in farming until he died. His wife, who 
was a daughter of John Maine, a carpenter, and a member of a very old and 
prominent family of Scotland, is still living in Iowa, and is now about ninety 
years of age. Of their two sons and two daughters, all are in Ida County, 
Iowa, except William, the oldest of the family and the subject of this sketch. 
He attended ward school No. 35, on Thirteenth street near Sixth, New York. In 
May, 1861, at the first call for volunteers, he enlisted as a drummer boy in 
the Twelfth New York Infantry, and afterward took a part in all the engagments 
of his regiment, including the first battle of Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, 
etc. At Gaines' Mill he was struck by a spent ball and lay unconscious for 
some time, and was reported among the killed. At this battle his regiment was 
so badly cut up that it was consolidated as guard for headquarters. On the day 
before the battle of Gettysburg he was mustered out at Frederick City, Md., 
but accompanied the command to Gettysburg and took part in that memorable 
engagement. Afterward he returned to New York and then went to Iowa, where his 
father had moved during his absence at the front. At Muscatine, Iowa, Mr. 
Corrie again enlisted in the army, and was assigned to the scouting troops of 
the Mississippi marine brigade, attached to the treasury department, and 
ordered to protect the Mississippi River. They were mounted and took their 
horses with them on boats, going down the Mississippi from Memphis to New 
Orleans, then up the Red River, and having a skirmish with some of the 
southern troops almost daily. Near Rodney, Miss., Mr. Corrie was wounded in 
the leg, but soon returned to active service. At other times he was wounded, 
though not so seriously. He continued in the army until February, 1866, when 
he was honorably discharged. After the war he came to Illinois, and resided 
successively in Ogle, Winnebago and Carroll Counties, being for a time in the 
employ of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company as baggage-master and at 
Winnebago. In 1887 Mr. Corrie came to Joliet, where he was time-keeper for the 
Young & Farrell Diamond Stone Sawing Company, with whom he was later employed 
as superintendent. For two years he was superintendent of the Detroit 
Brownstone Company, of Detroit, Mich., and for a similar period was 
superintendent of the Portland Stone Company in Indiana. Returning to Joliet 
in the spring of 1898, he became assistant general manager of the Joliet 
Limestone Company. He is a past commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
and a past officer of the local lodge of Odd Fellows, also a member of the 
Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Republican. While living in Ogle 
County, Mr. Corrie married Miss Annie M. Black, who was born there, a daughter 
of William Black, who in an early day came to Illinois from Virginia. They are 
the parents of six children. The eldest, Belle, is the wife of Henry Schumann, 
who is one of the largest stone contractors in San Francisco, Cal., and, among 
other contracts, had that for the building of the Leland Stanford University. 
The other children are as follows: William Albert, a painter and paper-hanger, 
living in Joliet; E. J., who is connected with the Joliet Limestone Company; 
Mrs. Blanche Mathers, of Joliet; Bessie and Ruby, at home.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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