Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Mack, Uziah 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Uziah Mack, who for many years was well known in mercantile circles in Joliet 
as a shoe merchant and since 1900 has been engaged in the real estate 
business, was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, January 13, 1835. His 
parents were farming people of that state, and while spending his boyhood days 
under the parental roof he pursued his education in the Milton Academy. In 
1858 he removed from Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, to Joliet where he 
joined his uncle, F. Mack, in the conduct of a shoe store. His business career 
was interrupted, however, by his service in the Civil war, for when the 
country became involved in hostilities he could no longer content himself to 
remain at home but with patriotic spirit offered his aid to the Union, 
enlisting on the 8th of August, 1862, as a member of the One Hundredth 
Illinois regiment, serving with that command until honorably discharged at the 
close of the war in 1865. In the meantime, valor and meritorius service had 
won him appointment to the position of first lieutenant. When the war was 
ended he at once returned to Joliet and resumed business in connection with 
his uncle, this partnership being maintained until the uncle's death in 1872. 
Mr. Mack then carried on the store alone until 1900, when he sold out to his 
son. He had enjoyed a large and lucrative business and was well known as one 
of the old-time merchants of the city. Since retiring from that field of labor 
he has engaged in the real estate business with an office in the Cutting 
block, handling city property, and during the seven years which have since 
elapsed he has negotiated a number of important realty transfers. Mr. Mack was 
married in 1865, at Conover, Iowa, to Miss Jane Flemming, who died a few years 
later. Of their three children, Robert L. is deceased; Mary F. wedded Harless 
King and resides in Joliet; and William F. succeeded his father in the shoe 
business in Joliet. In 1883 Mr. Mack was married to Miss Carrie M. Cagwin, and 
they have two children: Josephine E., who is now attending school at Lake 
Forest, Illinois; and Francis C., a student in Joliet. The parents are members 
of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Mack belongs to the Grand Army of the 
Republic. He is one of Joliet's oldest and most substantial business men, 
having for almost a half century been identified with its commercial progress 
and development and the regard in which he is uniformly held is indicative of 
his mode of life and his method of procedure in the business world.

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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