Will County IL Archives Biographies.....HENRY, JACOB 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

JACOB A. HENRY, president of the Will County National Bank at Joliet, was born 
in  Hunterdon County, N. J., April 25, 1825.  In 1842 he entered the employ of 
the Hartford & New Haven Railroad Company, and assisted in laying the first 
track on the canal road through New Haven.  In 1846 he settled in Elyria, 
Ohio, and took his first contract in connection with a railroad in Ohio and 
Indiana.  He superintended the construction of the northern division of the 
Sandusky road. In 1856 he came to Illinois, and in 1859 to Joliet.  For 
several years he was roadmaster of the Chicago & Alton Railroad.  In 1870 he 
began a contract for the building of the Houston & Great Northern Railroad in 
Texas, which he completed in 1873.  Meantime he also built a portion of the 
Southern Pacific, which involved a large amount of heavy work.  In 1888 he 
filled a contract in Arkansas.  Few men in the central states have had larger 
contracts, and certainly no one has been more successful in filling them 
satisfactorily.
In 1873 Mr. Henry erected a residence in Joliet, and here he has since made 
his home.  He has been very active in matters pertaining to the progress of 
the city, aided in securing the electric railways and in other movements of 
great value.  Justly, therefore, he holds a high position in the regard of his 
fellow-townsmen.  He has been a Republican since the organization of the 
party.  He has been twice married, having by the first marriage a daughter, 
who is the wife of J. W. Folk, of Joliet.  His first wife died in 1878, and in 
1885 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Rachel (Hulsizer) Apgar. 



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