Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Grant, William C 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

William C. Grant, who makes his home in Elwood, has spent his entire life in 
Will county, being born at Reed's Grove, December 5, 1839. His father, John 
Grant, was a native of Scotland, born March 12, 1816, and came to America in 
early life. In 1838 he married Miss Rosannah Lamping, whose birth occurred in 
New York state on the 18th of February, 1821, and the same year of their 
marriage they located in Will county, Illinois, where Mrs. Grant died April 
16, 1843. Our subject is one of two children born of this union. His sister, 
Isabella, died November 26, 1842. The father was again married in March, 1844. 
his second wife being Mrs. Adeline Kelley, by whom he had four children: John 
A. and James M., both residents of Joliet; Mrs. Margaret Bush, of Elwood; and 
Mary, who died in September, 1854. The father died on the 12th of September, 
1854. William C. Grant was reared and educated in this county and remained on 
the home farm until the spring of 1866, when he entered mercantile business in 
Elwood and followed that occupation for a number of years. At the present time 
he is a salesman for the Yorkville Drug Company, of Yorkville, Will county, 
and also acts as a substitute mail carrier on the rural service. On the 18th 
of April, 1861, Mr. Grant married Miss Rhoda Bridges, of Steuben county, New 
York, who died January 21, 1904, and he was again married July 27, 1905, his 
second union being with Harriet A. Bridge, who was also born in Steuben 
county, New York, in October, 1842. There are no children by either marriage. 
On attaining his majority, Mr. Grant affiliated with the republican party and 
continued to vote that ticket until ten years ago, since which time he has 
supported the prohibition party, being a strong temperance man. Religiously he 
is an earnest and consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Since 
1877 he has filled the office of justice of the peace and his decisions have 
always been fair and impartial. For forty years he has made his home 
continuously in Elwood and no man in the community is more widely or favorably 
known.

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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