Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ireland, William 1842 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

WILLIAM IRELAND is foreman of the Pattern department of the Fox plant which is 
under the control of the Illinois Steel Works Company, by whom he has been 
employed for the past nine years. For a score of years he has been engaged in 
the same business, in which he is a master workman, a fact that is thoroughly 
appreciated by his employers. He was born in Kirkwall on the Orkney Islands, 
north of Scotland, July 26, 1842, and was engaged in Glasgow and London in 
pattern-making. Having determined to seek a home in the United States, he 
crossed the Atlantic in April, 1872, and obtaining a position in the Cleveland 
Rolling Mills at Cleveland, Ohio, resided in that city for nearly a decade. He 
then removed to Joliet, Ill., which has since been his home. Mr. Ireland 
married Miss Emily Roylance, of Chelford, Cheshire, England, who has proved 
herself a devoted companion to her husband, and mother to the children-who 
have been born to them. The pleasant dwelling at No. 820 Irving Street, which 
was built by Mr. Ireland, bears an appearance of order and refinement which 
none but a thorough housekeeper could impart, and thorough hospitality is 
dispensed under its roof. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Ireland comprises five 
living children, named respectively, Edna, Emily, John, Margaret and James. In 
the Peoples' Loan & Homestead Association, of which he has been a member since 
he came to Joliet, Mr. Ireland holds the ofiice of Director. He belongs to the 
social orders of Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum and the St. 
Andrew's Society, and has held nearly all the chairs in the different orders. 
He also belongs to the Athenaeum and is a singing teacher there. He votes with 
the Republican party and during the last Presidential election belonged to the 
Protective Tariff Glee Club. His religious belief coincides with that 
expressed by the creed of the Presbyterian Church with which he is identified. 
He is thoroughly respected by his fellow-men as an unpretending and useful 
member of society, a reliable workman and a Christian gentleman.

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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