Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Harting, John 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

JOHN HARTING has been a resident of Joliet since May 17, 1876, and is now 
proprietor of a planing mill on the corner of Cass and Joliet streets. He was 
born in Rockville Township, Kankakee County, Ill., December 26, 1855, a son 
and the only child of John and Matilda (Harting) Harting, natives of 
Pennsylvania. His maternal grandfather, Samuel Harting, who was born in 
Pennsylvania, of German descent, removed west to Illinois, where he was
a pioneer farmer of Kankakee County. John Harting was also a farmer of 
Kankakee County, where he died in early manhood; his wife now lives in Wilton 
Center, this county.

Until nineteen years of age our subject lived on a farm, meantime attending  
district schools. Coming to Joliet in 1876 he secured employment in the 
planing mill of George E. Rockey & Son, where he was first a teamster and 
afterward ran the engine for sixteen years. In 1892 he bought the business 
from his employers, and has since conducted it successfully. The mill, a two-
story building, covers almost the entire property, consisting of one hundred 
and fifty feet on Cass street and sixty feet on Joliet street. An engine of 
twenty-five horse-power operates the plant. The mill is the oldest of its kind 
in the county, having been built in 1855 in block 5, lot 10, of the old town 
of Joliet. Connected with the mill is a pattern shop, superintended by a 
foreman who has the reputation of being the best pattern maker in the entire 
state. The products include everything in wood, such as sash, doors and
blinds, and mouldings of all kinds.

Reared in the faith of the German Evangelical Association, Mr. Harting has  
always been in sympathy with the work of that denomination. In politics he 
votes with the Republicans. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America,
the Patriotic Order Sons of America, and the West Side Bowling Alley Club.   
His family occupy a residence which he built, on the corner of Granite and 
Clement streets. He was married in Joliet to Miss Martha Harting, who was born 
in Naperville, Ill., daughter of Joseph Harting, a pioneer of Chicago and  
Naperville. Four children were born of their union, namely: Meedie and Eddie  
(twins); Archie; and Maudie, who died at the age of two years and fourteen 
days.

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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