Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Pease, Sidney B 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

SIDNEY B. PEASE. Since establishing his home in Joliet in 1872 Mr. Pease has 
been engaged in contracting and building. For proficiency in his chosen 
occupation he has established an enviable reputation and has been given 
contracts for some of the most substantial business blocks and finest 
residences in the city. During the first years of his connection with Joliet 
building interests he drew up almost all of the plans that he used, but of 
more recent years he has confined his attention to the carrying out of plans 
designed by others. He has built as many as twenty-six residences, besides 
other buildings, in one year. In addition to this business he is interested 
with his brother, Cyrus, in the grocery and queensware business at Hamilton, 
Mo., the firm name being Pease Brothers. He assisted in the organization of 
the Joliet National Bank and has since been a member of its board of 
directors. Tracing the history of the Pease family, we find that Abel Pease, a 
native of Vermont and a soldier of the war of 1812, removed to St. Lawrence 
County, N. Y., where he improved a farm and died at the age of almost eighty 
years. His son, Samuel, who was born in Vermont, became a farmer near 
Lawrenceville, N. Y., where he continued to reside until his death, at seventy-
seven years. During Civil war days he was a stanch Abolitionist and a 
supporter of the Union. He married Irene Hamlin, who was born in Vermont and 
died in New York. She was a cousin of Hannibal Hamlin, who was vice-president 
with Abraham Lincoln. Her father, Stephen Hamlin, a Vermonter, belonged to an 
English family that early settled in Massachusetts. In the family of Samuel 
and Irene Pease were six sons and one daughter. Of these, the eldest, James, a 
soldier in the Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry throughout the Civil war, was wounded 
three times at Arkansas Post and was taken prisoner, but escaped; Hiram 
resides in Oregon; Nelson, now in Colorado, was a soldier in the Sixtieth New 
York Infantry during the Civil war; Milo died in New York; and Cyrus, also a 
member of the Sixtieth Regiment, is now living in Hamilton, Mo. The second of 
the sons, Sidney B., was born near Lawrenceville, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 
June 9, 1839, and was reared on a farm. In 1856 he settled in Illinois, and 
for two years during the summers worked on a farm near Dwight, and for one 
winter attended Lisbon Academy. In 1859 he became interested in bridge 
building in various sections of the country, mainly in the south, but the 
growing hostility between the north and the south made it unpleasant for him 
to remain in a pro-slavery section, so he returned to Illinois. In the fall of 
1860 he cast his ballot for Lincoln and Hamlin. In April of the next year he 
enlisted in a company, but, the quota having already been obtained, the 
company was disbanded. With two others, he went to Springfield, Ill., where he 
was admitted into Company B, Twelfth Illinois Infantry, May 7, 1861. His 
regiment was stationed for a time near St. Louis and later took part in the 
battle of Belmont, Ky. In September, 1861, he was mustered out, but did not 
leave the service, re-enlisting at once in the same company and regiment. 
After the battle of Fort Donelson he was promoted to be second sergeant. In 
that battle he was wounded in the right hip, by a minie ball and returned to 
Dwight on a thirty days' furlough; the bullet was never removed, but has given 
him little trouble. After returning to his regiment he took part in the 
battles of Shiloh, Monterey, Iuka and Corinth. The winter of 1863-64 he spent 
in Tennessee. Just before this he had veteranized at Richland Creek, and, at 
an election of officers, had been chosen second lieutenant of Company B, but, 
the company not being filled, he was not mustered in. After a thirty days' 
furlough in New York he rejoined his regiment and took part in the battles of 
Dalton, Resaca and Dallas. At Resaca he was wounded in the right ear. Later he 
was in the engagements at Kenesaw Mountain, Micko Jack Creek and the siege of 
Atlanta, where for four months there were continual skirmishes. In front of 
Atlanta, July 22, he was wounded in the right foot, but promptly bandaged the 
foot and held his place in the ranks. Later he was in the battles of 
Jonesboro, Lovejoy Station, the capture of Atlanta, and the battle of Altoona 
Pass, where they held the fort until reinforcements arrived. Going with 
Sherman toward the sea, he took part in the battle of Savannah, then marched 
north through the Carolinas, and was in a battle near Newberne, a hotly-
contested engagement at Bentonville and the battle of Goldsborough, after 
which he went on to Petersburg with the troops. At Raleigh word was received 
of Lincoln's assassination. When the war ended he took part in the grand 
review at Washington, after which he was sent to Louisville, Ky., and received 
a commission as first lieutenant of his company from Governor "Dick" Oglesby. 
He was mustered out at Springfield, Ill., July 18, 1865. After a short time in 
Dwight, in 1866 Mr. Pease went to Johnson County, Kans., and engaged in 
contracting. During the fall of the same year he went to New Orleans, as a 
contractor in the Southern car works. In the spring of 1867 he went back to 
his native county in New York and there married Miss Jennie Eggleston, who 
died in Joliet in 1892. Of their five children three are living: William, who 
is with the Illinois Steel Company; Marion and Carrie, who are graduates of 
the Joliet high school. From 1867 to 1872 Mr. Pease engaged in contracting in 
Dwight, since which time he has been a resident of Joliet. He built and 
occupies a comfortable residence at No. 401 Raynor avenue. He is connected 
with Bartleson Post No. 6, G. A. R., and in politics has always been a strong 
Republican.

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Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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