Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Fargo, Mrs Elizabeth M 1841 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bios Album, 1890

MRS. ELIZABETH M. FARGO, widow of Orange T. Fargo, is a native of Rock Island 
County, Ill., where she was born May 24, 1841. Her parents, Lucias and Harriet 
(McLean) Mears, moved to Kendall County when she was six years of age. Her 
father was a carpenter and upon the breaking out of the gold fever he went to 
California. While on his way home he was stricken by cholera and died on board 
a Mississippi steamer, May 24, 1851. The widowed mother is still living, now 
in Chicago. She has one son, J. M. engaged in the commission business in that 
city, and two daughters, Mrs. C. N. Check and Mrs. W. A. Taylor, residing 
there. The lady whose name stands at the head of this sketch has been twice 
married. She has a son, H. H. Delos, by her first husband, a noble young man 
of whom she is justly proud. He is now Treasurer of the Chicago and Aurora 
Refining and Smelting Company. He has recently taken a companion in life, his 
bride being Miss Edith, daughter of Charles Pettigrew, of the Illinois Steel 
Company, with whom he was united in marriage January 22, 1890. On February 18, 
1872, our subject was united in marriage with Orange T. Fargo, with whom she 
lived happily until November 3, 1874, when he entered into rest. He was a 
native of the Empire State in which he opened his eyes to the light February 
10, 1829. He was a most excellent man highly spoken of by all who knew him, 
his habits being unexceptionable and his whole life most exemplary. Mr. Fargo, 
politically, during his life was a stanch Republican. When first widowed in 
1868, Mrs. Fargo, then Mrs. Delos, began dressmaking in Chicago, and has 
pursued that vocation ever since. She has enjoyed a very large patronage among 
the best citizens of Joliet, and has made many friends in the years of her 
residence here. She owns the elegant buiding known as the Fargo Block, on the 
corner of Ottawa and Van Buren Streets. She is a devoted member of the 
Presbyterian Church in whose work she takes deep interest. 

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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