Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Millspaugh, Isaac T 1820 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

ISAAC T. MILLSPAUGH, Justice of the Peace in Joliet, was first elected to that 
office in 1877, serving four years; in 1886 he was again elected, this time to 
fill a vacancy, and at the expiration of the term was continued in the 
position. His character is an honorable one, his nature enterprising and 
genial, and his life has been spent in usefulness and good citizenship. As a 
public servant, he proves worthy of the suffrage of the people, laboring for 
the peace and good order of the community faithfully and ably. In Orange 
County, N. Y., February 26, 1820, the eyes of Isaac Millspaugh first saw the 
light of day. His father, Charles Millspaugh, was a native of the same county 
and a farmer there. He married Mehitable VanTassell, of the same county, who 
bore him seven sons and one daughter. When the son of whom we write was 
fifteen years old the parents removed to the village of Bloomingburg, where 
the father died in 1837, and the mother a year later. Both were members of the 
Presbyterian Church and respected in the community. The subject of this sketch 
lived with his parents until the death of his father, when he went into 
Tompkins County and learned the trade of a blacksmith, passing his 
apprenticeship at Dryder Croners. He worked at the trade nearly twenty years, 
all told. In 1844 he came to Illinois, arriving at Joliet in May, and at once 
beginning the labor in which he had previously been engaged. He made the first 
steel plow manufactured in Joliet, and was the first blacksmith in the Chicago 
& Alton round house, that being the last of his blacksmithing. He fired the 
engine that pulled the first train out of Chicago, and ran the first engine 
that came into Joliet over the Rock Island Railroad, that being in 1852. He 
also ran as an engineer on a construction train of the same road. At the time 
that he abandoned his trade, Mr. Millspaugh was elected Assessor for Joliet 
City and township, and being re-elected at each successive election, served 
about ten years. The duties of the office occupied the most of his time, and 
soon after this long term of office he was made Justice of the Peace. He was 
the organizer of Millspaugh's Orchestra, that furnished music for social 
gatherings here for forty-two years. During his entire mature life Mr. 
Millspaugh has been a stanch Democrat. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, 
holding membership in the Blue Lodge, the Chapter and the Commandery. In 
March, 1842, Mr. Millspaugh was united in marriage with Miss Charlotte E. 
Noyes, the ceremony taking place at McLain, Tompkins County, N. Y. One living 
son is the fruit of the union—Charles H., of this city. The second wife of Mr. 
Millspaugh was in her girlhood Miss Mary L. Roberts, of Lockport, N. Y. She 
died in Joliet, in January, 1882.

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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