Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Fluck, Henry John 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Henry John Fluck, bearing an international reputation as a fine stock producer 
and exhibitor, is a native of Hereford, England, born May 21, 1862, his 
parents being John and Emily (Gardiner) Fluck. The father was, with one 
exception, the youngest son in a family of eighteen children. His father, 
Thomas Fluck, was one of the most prominent cattle breeders and fine stock-
raisers in England, excelling in the breeding of Hereford cattle and Shire 
horses. He died at the age of sixty-three years, while his wife survived to 
the advanced age of eighty-five years. Their son, John Fluck, was a merchant 
of Hereford, England. His wife, Mrs. Emily Fluck, died when their son Henry J. 
was between five and six years of age. Henry J. Fluck acquired a grammar-
school education in Hereford, England. He was reared upon a farm by his uncle 
and aunt and his tastes naturally drifted into agricultural lines. When his 
school days were over and he had arrived at the age when boys naturally think 
of the future, he was on a sunny afternoon pondering the question as to what 
he should do and where he should make his home, and before the sun had gone 
down he decided to leave England and come to America. Accordingly, on the 6th 
of September, 1880, he left Liverpool and in due course of time reached 
Illinois. He obtained a position with a very prominent Chicago business man to 
manage his fine herd of Hereford cattle, which he did with great success both 
for his employer and himself. He won many coveted prizes in exhibiting the 
fine stock against the strongest competition in the country in all the leading 
shows. After a period of three or four years he entered into a more lucrative 
position with another Chicago merchant, and later, severing the connection 
with him, Mr. Fluck allied his interests, in 1891, with G. F. Baker, of the 
Oakland Stock farm, at Goodenow, Illinois. His connection with the breeding, 
raising, importing and exhibiting of pedigreed cattle is unsurpassed and has 
won him world-wide fame. To mention the numerous champion prizes over all 
breeds of cattle that he has won at the leading expositions and state fairs 
would make a book in itself. The Oakland Stock farm has been the nursery of 
many recent champions, including the last year's grand champion at the 
International Exhibit at Chicago and the World's Fair champion at both the 
World's Columbian Exposition and the Pan-American Exposition. Mr. Fluck takes 
no active part in politics. He is in favor of electing the best qualified 
candidates and abhors machine politics. He is also opposed to anything like 
misrule in municipal affairs and stands at all times for a good, clean 
government.

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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