Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Paddock, William J 1816 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

WILLIAM J. PADDOCK. Prominent among those who spent their younger years wisely 
and profitably and are now living retired from life's active labors, may be 
properly mentioned Mr. Paddock, whose well-regulated home-stead is on section 
21, Homer Township. His surroundings indicate a man of more than ordinary 
enterprise, the farm being embellished with suitable buildings and having 
about it the air of thrift and prosperity, which is the inevitable result of 
industry, prudence and good management. Personally, Mr. Paddock is genial, 
liberal and public spirited, a man who is held in high esteem in his 
community, and who has acquitted himself in a worthy manner among his fellow-
men. The subject of this notice was the third in a family of fourteen 
children, and was born May 5, 1816, in Camillus, Onondaga County, N. Y. He was 
reared to manhood in his native county, where he lived until coming to 
Illinois, with the exception of one year spent in Cayuga County. We first find 
him a resident of this county in the winter of 1836, when he located on the 
land which his father had previously secured on section 21, Homer Township. He 
has thus been a resident of this township for the long period of fifty-four 
years, and until retiring from labor was continuously engaged in farming 
pursuits. He is now the owner of one hundred and thirty acres of good land, 
which through his careful management has not only yielded him a handsome 
income, but enabled him to lay by something for a rainy day. Mr. Paddock was 
married in Homer Township, October 30, 1838, to Miss Emily E. Oliver. This 
lady was born in Monroe County, N. Y., August 13, 1815, and by her union with 
our subject became the mother of three children. The eldest born, Edgar L., 
died when about two years old; Eliza E. is the wife of Samuel W. Jones, and 
they live with our subject; Frank E. married Miss Anna Murphy, and resides in 
this township. Mr. Paddock cast his first Presidential vote for Harrison, and 
has always taken an active interest in political affairs, giving his uniform 
support to the Republican party. He has held the office of Township Collector, 
and has been a Highway Commissioner for several years. His long experience and 
close observation of men and things have conspired to make him a man of more 
than ordinary intelligence, and he has watched the various events during a 
long and useful life with a thoughtfulness which has maintained him in a 
position in the front rank among the readers and thinkers of the present day. 
A fine portrait of Mr. Paddock appears on another page.

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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