Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hyland, Asel Kendrick 1840 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

ASEL KENDRICK HYLAND is the owner of a good farm in the fine farming country 
embraced in Will County. It is beautifullv located on section 36, of 
Plainfield Township, four and one-half miles northwest of Joliet, and under 
his skillful management has been brought to a high state of improvement and 
productiveness. His residence is especially comfortable, and a view of it with 
the farm surroundings, appears on another page. Mr. Hyland is of New England 
origin, born among the pleasant hills of Roxbury, Vt., July 2, 1840. His 
father, Consider Hyland, is thought to have been a native of the same State, 
where he was reared to agricultural pursuits. He bought a farm and operated it 
until 1844, when he left the Green Mountain State to take up his residence in 
the wilds of Will County, Ill. Accompanied by his wife and seven children, he 
started on the journey with a team and proceeded to Lake Champlain and 
crossing that came by Champlain and Erie Canals to Buffalo, and thence by the 
lakes to Chicago, where he took a team for Plainfield. At that time Will 
County was sparsely settled and had few of the advantages of civilized life. 
Mr. Hyland bought a tract of land partly improved and situated one and one-
half miles northeast of the village. The people lived in the most primitive 
manner, there being but few traveling facilities, no railways or canals. 
Chicago was the nearest market, and it was the custom for five or six of the 
neighboring farmers to go into the city at the same time, the most of them 
using ox-teams and traveling over the prairies, there being no roads as yet 
made. Mr. Hyland resided on his farm and engaged in its improvement until 
death closed his useful career August 9, 1854. The maiden name of the mother 
of our subject was Minerva Farwell. She was a native of Vermont, and passed 
her last years quietly on the old home- stead in Plainfield. There were eleven 
children born to herself and husband, eight of whom were reared to years of 
maturity. The son of whom we write was a lad of four years when he came to 
Illinois with his parents. He attended the pioneer schools which were 
conducted in the primitive schoolhouse, with its home-made furniture and rude 
fireplace. He was initiated into the work of the farm and remained with his 
mother until he was twenty-three; after his marriage, he bought the interest 
of the other heirs in the old homestead and resided there one year. He then 
sold it advantageously and bought a farm in the same township, which he 
occupied one year, after which he disposed of it and purchased another not far 
away. He lived on the latter seven years, and, then selling, turned his 
attention to the butcher's business in which he was engaged for nine months. 
In 1873 he bought the place where he now resides. It comprises eighty acres of 
valuable farming land in an excellent condition and supplied with all 
desirable improvements, including a substantial dwelling and other needed 
buildings. The marriage of Mr. Hyland with Josephine Green was solemnized in 
1864, and has proved of mutual benefit. They have four children: Emma, Bert, 
Gertrude and Howard. Mrs. Hyland is a native of Will County, and a daughter of 
Deacon Dennison and Otilla Green. Her father was a native of Westfield, Otsego 
County, N. Y., and was born February 13, 1807, to Archibald and Hannah (Brown) 
Green. At the youthful age of twelve years he commenced to learn the trade of 
a blacksmith, and served an apprenticeship of nine years in his native town. 
After that he did journeyman work, and then moving to Oneida County, 
established himself at his trade, opening a shop and carrying on the business 
there until 1836. Then with his wife and one child he started for Illinois, 
coming via the Erie Canal and the lakes to Chicago, and thence by stage to 
Joliet, which was at that time but a small hamlet, the only tavern there being 
kept in a little unpainted frame house. Two of his brothers-in-law lived but a 
short distance away and he engaged there in a saw-mill for nearly two years; 
then, buying property at Joliet, he built a house and shop and carried on 
blacksmithing until 1845. In that year he came to Plainfield, and buying 
property built a home and a smithy which he managed many years. He acquired a 
comfortable competence and now lives in honorable retirement. Deacon Green was 
married January 26, 1831, to Miss Otilla Wheeler, a native of Lebanon, N. Y., 
and a daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Bently) Wheeler. All of the five children 
born to them are still living and are named as follows: Judson D., Lovi, Emma 
S., M. Josephine and B. Wheeler. Deacon Green and wife have a proud record as 
church members, they having been faithful work- up the Baptist Church for 
nearly sixty years, joining the First Baptist when it was organized at Joliet, 
and Mr. Green was soon made Deacon. A son of a pioneer and one who has done 
pioneer work himself in the improvement and cultivation of a farm, our subject 
is a regular and welcome attendant at all pioneer meetings. He is a well-read 
man and is well informed on topics of general conversation. He is a man of 
excellent habits and good principles and in every relation is true to himself 
and those around him. He and his family are people of good standing in 
religious and social circles in the community and are regular attendants of 
the Baptist Church. Politically, he is a supporter of the Republican party.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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