Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Eib, Amos 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

AMOS EIB. As a representative of a pioneer family of this county Mr. Eib is 
well known in Jackson Township. He was born in Harrison County, W. Va., July 
29, 1823. He was ten years old when the family settled in Illinois and he has 
ever since been identified with the farming interests of Will County. His 
first purchase consisted of eighty acres of canal land, the present site of 
his home. In 1862 he bought an additional one hundred acres, which he still 
owns. Later he added more land, but of recent years has sold it, retaining 
only his tract of one hundred and eighty acres. Politically he is a Democrat. 
He has been interested in educational matters and served for twelve years as a 
member of the school board. March 28, 1851, Mr. Eib married Miss Catherine 
Gouter, who was born April 7, 1834, in Alsace, France. She was one of the five 
children of Michael and Catherine (Arnholdt) Gouter, and has one brother and 
one sister now living, viz.: Michael, of Russell County, Kans.; and Susan, 
wife of William Brown, of this county. In 1840 Mr. Gouter brought his family 
to the United States and settled three miles south of Joliet. After a few 
years he purchased land in Jackson Township and there remained until his 
death. The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Eib are named as follows: Levi H., 
who is engaged in the insurance and real-estate business in Joliet; George W., 
a wheat grower in Colusa County, Cal.; Albert M., a farmer in Will County; 
Clara E., who married Albert Cotton, of Kankakee, III.; and Susan, wife of 
Alvin Spangler, of Jackson Township, this county.

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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