Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Imholz, William Edwin 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

William Edwin Imholz has been engaged in contracting and building in Peotone 
since 1884 and most of the modern residences here have been erected by him. 
Born in Winnebago county, Illinois, in 1861, he was one of the ten children of 
Joseph and Mary Ann (Mink) Imholz. The father, a native of Germany, is now 
living in Peotone, at the advanced age of seventy-six years. He came to the 
United States in 1858 and located at Pecatonia, Winnebago county, Illinois. He 
was a carpenter by trade and remained at his first location until after the 
outbreak of the Civil war, when, in August, 1861, he enlisted for service in 
the Seventy-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as a member of Company B. He 
thus served until wounded in the skirmish at Missionary Ridge, after which he 
was sent to the hospital. After his return to the north he located at Peotone. 
He holds membership in the Presbyterian church, in which he is an active 
worker, and fraternally he is connected with the Masons and with William Webb 
post, G. A. R., through which he maintains pleasant relations with his old 
army comrades. Politically he is a democrat and for a number of years he 
acceptably and faithfully served as a member of the board of supervisors of 
Peotone township. His wife, who was born in Pennsylvania, died in 1888, at the 
age of fifty-six years. Of their ten children only three are now living: 
Frank, a resident of British Columbia; Mamie, who is the wife of Sidney 
Rauworth, a farmer residing at Rockville, Kankakee county; and William Edwin. 
The last named was a student in the public schools of Peotone, and afterward 
learned the carpenters trade under the direction of his father, becoming an 
expert workman, thoroughly conversant with the business in all of its 
departments. He began contracting on his own account in 1884 and for twenty-
three years has continued in this line, having a large share of the public 
patronage. He has built most of the modern residences in Peotone and his 
excellent workmanship and fidelity to the terms of a contract insure him a 
continuance of the public support. Mr. Imholz was married in 1884 to Miss Ida 
M. Sollitt, who was born in Will township, in 1862, and is a daughter of John 
B. and Hannah (Dodds) Sollitt. Her father was a pioneer farmer of Will county, 
who came from England and was head butcher in one of the Chicago packing 
houses. For years he acted as supervisor from Peotone township and after 
leaving the farm was engaged in the drug business in the village of Peotone, 
becoming a prosperous merchant. He and his wife were devoted members of the 
Baptist church and he was also a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of 
Oriental Consistory of Chicago. In their family were eleven children, of whom 
Ida M. was the tenth. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Imholz have been born five children, 
Theron, Lois, Gilbert, Rudyard and Hilma. The parents are members of the 
Presbyterian church and Mr. Imholz is connected with, the Masonic lodge and 
the Modern Woodmen camp. He exercises his right of franchise in support of the 
men and measures of the republican party and has been tax collector of Peotone 
township. 

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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