Will County IL Archives Biographies.....GOUDY, ROBERT 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

ROBERT GOUDY, a farmer of Dupage Township, was born in lower Canada January 2, 

1822, a son of Alexander and Jane (Wallace) Goudy, natives respectively of 

Scotland and Ireland. When he was small his parents moved to Burlington, Vt., 

and a year later went to Essex County, N. Y., where he passed the years of 

boyhood. When he was twenty-two he came to Will County, Ill., and for three 

years worked by the month on a farm.  He then bought fifty acres of wild 

prairie land.  Next he worked on the canal for ten years.  On selling his 

original farm he bought one hundred and sixty acres on section 28, which place 

he improved and on which he resided until removing to his present farm.  He 

has served as school director and for ten years was highway commissioner.  

October 15, 1848, he married Miss Ophelia Welch, who was born in Ohio and came 

to this county in 1837.  They have one daughter, Julia, wife of J. E. Davis, 

who now has charge of Mr. Goudy's farm.

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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