Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Pomeroy, George Napoleon 1855 - 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

GEORGE NAPOLEON POMEROY. 

A stroll through the prominent streets of Joliet reveals the fact that it 
contains many business houses of fine appearance, well stocked with the best 
goods and evidently the centers of a flourishing trade. Such is the furniture 
store of the firm of Rocky & Pomeroy, which was established in 1887, and which 
is now doing a business of $9,000 per year. The career of the junior member of 
the firm has been marked with a determination and persistence that could 
scarcely fail to win success. While working for others he was faithful to the 
interests of his employers, and in serving others he learned how to be a 
master. His business is conducted according to honorable principles of square 
dealing, which, combined with the courteous treatment received by the patrons 
of the establishment, redounds to his credit throughout the community, and 
brings custom. The natal day of our subject was November 5, 1855, and his 
birthplace Bay City, Mich. His parents were William and Charlotte (Sherman) 
Pomeroy, and the father was a millwright by trade. He was originally from the 
Green Mountain State. In the family were seven children, all still living but 
William, who was drowned in the Saginaw River. The others are: Mrs. Dr. Nash; 
C. H., of Bay City, Mich; Mrs. John Jenkins, of Detroit; David and Daniel, 
(twins), the one living in Detroit and the other farming in Shiawassee County, 
Mich.; and the subject of this sketch. The gentleman of whom we write passed 
his boyhood upon a farm near Howell, Mich., his father being at that time the 
keeper of a tavern at what was known as the Three Corners. Pomeroy's Hotel 
became a popular and well-known place of rendezvous for those engaged in the 
lumber trade. The family removed from the farm to Ann Arbor, where our subject 
attended school four or five years. When the father died, February 22, 1874, 
the family became scattered and George went to Lansing, doing whatever offered 
in the way of work. Subsequently, after spending a short time in Grand Rapids, 
he worked on a farm for a time, then realizing the highest ambition of his 
boyhood by entering a shop as a clerk. After eleven months of this work Mr. 
Pomeroy became foreman of a bakery and confectionery shop in Bay City, which 
he left to take a position in a cracker factory that had been purchased by his 
brother C. H. and C. C. Whitney. With them he remained three years, attending 
to the shipping, buying, and similar details of the business. In 1884 he was 
called to Joliet by a telegram announcing the expected death of his mother. 
His first labor in this city was in a conservatory, his employer being A. R. 
Sparr. He next entered the employ of George Monroe & Son, first working on a 
building they were erecting, and then becoming assistant shipping clerk for 
the firm. He next learned the upholstering trade of E. F. Etmyre, for whom he 
worked nearly a year, leaving him to establish a business of his own in 
Kankakee. There he remained but eighteen months ere returning to Joliet to 
continue the upholstering business here. In Miss Jennie Rocky, Mr. Pomeroy 
found united the qualities of mind and heart, the pleasing manners, and useful 
accomplishments which won his deep regard and aroused in his breast the desire 
to make her his wife. His wooing proved successful, and on September 26, 1885, 
the young couple were united in marriage. Mr. Pomeroy is a member of the 
society know as the Modern Woodmen of America. He is identified with the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, having full fellowship in that religious 
organization.

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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