Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Grundy, Elmer S 
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Author: Past & Present, 1907

Elmer S. Grundy is connected with the development of the resources that nature 
has provided in this section of the state, being well known as a 
representative of the stone trade in Joliet. A native son of the city, he was 
born January 7, 1862, his parents being Ebenezer and Mary Ann Grundy, the 
former a professor of music. The father came from Sheffield, England, to the 
new world in his boyhood days and the mother was a native of Pennsylvania. 
Reared in the city of his nativity, Elmer S. Grundy attended the public 
schools of Joliet and the Indiana State Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, 
for a short period. After putting aside his text-books he went to Texas, where 
he was employed at clerical work in a railroad office from 1881 until 1887 and 
a manager of a foundry and machine shop from 1887 until 1890. He then went to 
Denver, Colorado, and engaged in the lumber trade until the winter of 1891, 
after which he returned to Joliet and became actively interested in the stone 
business, and he is now connected with the Joliet Pioneer Stone Company. Mr. 
Grundy was married on the 3d of September, 1901, in Joliet, to Miss Martha B. 
Mather, and they now have a son and daughter, Eben Mather and Jessie. Mr. 
Grundy is a republican in his political affiliation. He became a member of the 
county board of supervisors in 1901, and was elected tax collector in 1902. In 
1904 he was elected a member of the city board of school inspectors for a term 
of three years, and in 1905 was elected assessor for the township of Joliet, 
which office he now holds. He has also been supreme recorder of the supreme 
council, Order of the White Cross, from 1904 to the present time, and is also 
a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias. He was a member 
of the state militia of Texas from 1884 until 1890, during which time he 
attained the rank of second lieutenant. In the city of his birth, where much 
of his life has been passed, the circle of his friends is almost co-extensive 
with the circle of his acquaintance, a fact indicative of a well spent and 
honorable life. 

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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