Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Pease, Sidney B 1839 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

SIDNEY B. PEASE. To the architectural skill and reliable workmanship of S. B. 
Pease, Joliet owes many of her most beautiful and substantial edifices, among 
these being the Union Block, the residences of Charles Thayer, E. M. Bray, and 
others too numerous to mention. No citizen of this flourishing city stands 
higher in the respect of the community than he, and by his own efforts he has 
risen to this position and a good financial standing. Mr. Pease was born in 
Lawrence, N. Y., June 9, 1839, to Samuel and Irene (Hamlin) Pease who were 
natives of the Green Mountain State. The father was born July 4, 1811, and 
died in 1887; the mother was born in 1810, and breathed her last in 1883. 
Their son of whom we write was educated in the common schools and remained in 
the place of his birth until he was seventeen years old. He then in 1856, came 
west and locating at Dwight, Ill., embarked in the vocation of a farmer. In 
that occupation he continued until the spring of 1861, when the call for 
troops to put down the rebellion fired his spirit and he determined to give 
his strength to the service of his country. Going to Springfield young Pease 
was soon enrolled as a member of Company B, Twelfth Illinois Infantry, and 
under the command of Capt. T. D. Moffat, of Chicago, and Col. McArthur, he 
went to the front. He first smelled the smoke of battle at Belmont, after 
which he took part in the contest at Ft. Donelson, where he was wounded on the 
bloody field of Shiloh and at Corinth. Beside the minor skirmishes that fell 
to the lot of all soldiers in a greater or less degree, he was in all the 
engagements in and around Chattanooga until Gen. Sherman started on the famous 
march to the sea. He accompanied the forces to Savannah and back through the 
Carolinas, taking part in the last battle in the campaign, that at 
Bentonville. At Resaca he had been wounded and also before Atlanta. After the 
surrender of Lee he took his place at the Grand Review, did some service at 
Louisville, Ky., and was finally mustered out at Springfield. He had been 
promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant for meritorious conduct. Upon 
resuming the peaceful arts of civil life Mr. Pease took up the pursuit of a 
contractor and builder in which he has been actively engaged from that time. 
Success has crowned his efforts and he has become known as one who fulfills 
his contracts in an honorable manner and performs his duties to society and 
his family, as an upright and kindhearted man should. He is a member of the 
Congregational Church, and belongs to Bartleson Post, No. 6, G. A. R. The lady 
whom Mr. Pease chose as his companion in life and with whom he was united in 
marriage in New York State in 1867, bore the maiden name of Jennie Eggleston. 
She was born in Vermont whence she had removed to the Empire State prior to 
her marriage. She has borne him five children—William H., Mary, Bertie, Carrie 
and Marion. Mary and Bertie died in infancy; the survivors are a handsome and 
particularly interesting trio.

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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