Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Gaines, Ferris Edwin 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Ferris Edwin Gaines, who is carrying on agricultural pursuits and also 
conducts an abstract business, was born in Crete, in 1873, and still makes his 
home in that town. His father, Horatio N. Gaines, was born in Vermont and on 
removing to the west settled in Crete township. He first worked by the day and 
in 1877 purchased the Henry Hauer farm, adjoining the village of Crete, on 
sections 8-9, Crete township. The place comprised one hundred and seven acres 
and is now the residence of Ferris Edwin Gaines. The father carefully 
conducted his farming interests and also engaged quite extensively in the 
raising and sale of stock and was a breeder of thoroughbred trotting horses, 
making a specialty of Hambletonians. He was a lover of fine horses and was 
seldom, if ever, at error in his judgment of one. He became well-to-do and his 
business life was at all times strictly honorable and upright. Though he did 
not belong to any church he regularly attended services and contributed to the 
support thereof. In politics he was an earnest republican. The mother, who 
bore the maiden name of Martha Ann Adams, was born in Illinois, and they 
became the parents of two children of whom Walter Lee, now pursuing an 
agricultural course in the State University at Champaign, is the younger. The 
father died in 1887, at the age of forty-seven years, but the mother is still 
living at the age of sixty-two years, making her home with her older son, 
Ferris E. Gainer Upon the home farm on which he now lives and which adjoins 
the village of Crete, Mr. F. E. Gaines was reared and still continues in the 
occupation of farming, with which he became familiar after practical 
experience in his boyhood days. In the management of the property he displays 
good discernment and unfaltering energy and the farm is bringing to him goodly 
returns in bounteous harvests. Also he has a knowledge of abstracting titles 
of estates, having served for one year in the O'Connor abstract office in 
Joliet. He makes a business of making abstracts of titles and also does an 
insurance business and general conveyancing. He is likewise a notary public 
and places many loans, his efforts thus extending into the abstract, loan and 
insurance business as well as engaged in agricultural lines. On the 20th of 
June, 1906, Mr. Gaines was married to Lillie D. Cook, who was born in Kankakee 
county, Illinois, in July, 1880, daughter of Thomas and Margaret E. Cook, the 
former a native of Ohio and the latter of New York. Her father and mother came 
with their respective parents to Illinois, the Cook family establishing their 
home in Crete, while the mothers people settled in Plainfleld. Mrs. Gaines is 
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Mr. Gaines is a republican and in 
1906 was elected township clerk. He is a young man possessing a spirit of 
enterprise and laudable ambition which prompts him to greater success and 
larger achievements.

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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