Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Croxen, Benjamin 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

BENJAMIN CROXEN. Among the venerable citizens of Will county none are more 
deserving of mention in this volume than Benjamin Croxen, who has reached the 
age of four-score years and now resides in Peotone township. He was born in 
Northamptonshire, England, in 1826. His father, Benjamin Croxen, was a farmer 
by occupation, and both he and his wife died in England. Mr. Croxen of this 
review had no school privileges and the success which he has won has come as 
the reward of his force of character and unfaltering determination in business 
affairs. He crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1850, locating in 
Joliet, and as he had no capital he earned his living by working by the month 
on a farm. When he had saved from his earnings a sufficient sum of money to 
justify his purchase of land, he bought one hundred and sixty acres on section 
30, Peotone township. This was in 1854 and he has resided continuously upon 
the farm, covering a period of more than a half century. Throughout his entire 
life he has carried on general agricultural pursuits and has prospered as the 
years have gone by. Mr. Croxen had four children: Ida, at home; Sallie, the 
wife of George Bartlett; Ira, who is operating the home farm; and John, 
deceased. Ira married Jennie Berry, a daughter of George and Jane Berry, and 
they have four children, Gerald, James Temple, Eugene and George. Benjamin 
Croxen of this review votes with the republican party, having been one of its 
stanch advocates since its organization. His son Ira is an independent 
republican. Mr. Croxen has led a life of activity and usefulness, developing a 
character which commands respect and is worthy of emulation, and now in the 
evening of life he receives the esteem and veneration which should ever be 
accorded to those who have traveled far on life's journey.

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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