Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Stoll, Herman C L 
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Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

Herman C. L. Stoll, conducting a real-estate and loan agency, is recognized as 
one of the successful business men of Joliet, where he has resided 
continuously since 1890, previous to which time he had for many years made his 
home in Mokena, Will county. He is therefore too well known to need special 
introduction to the readers of this volume. He was born September 15, 1857, in 
New York city. His parents were Conrad L. and Franciska Stoll. The former died 
in March, 1897, in the seventy-ninth year of his age at Mokena, Will county, 
and is still survived by his widow. He was engaged in general merchandising at 
Mokena and in connection with that store his wife conducted a millinery and 
dressmaking department. The store was established in the year 1859 and was a 
financial success. Both parents, however, retired from the business in the 
year 1889, thereafter enjoying more of the comforts of life. Mr. Stoll, whose 
name introduces this review, was brought to Will county at an early age, 
pursued a common-school education in the village of Mokena and also attended a 
German private school of that place, pursuing his studies between the ages of 
six and fifteen years. When but ten years of age he became his father's 
assistant in the store during the periods of vacation and after the regular 
school hours, thus learning the business, and when he had permanently put 
aside his text-books he regularly became one of the clerks in the store, 
acting in that capacity until nearly twenty-three years of age. He was married 
in the year 1879 and soon afterward assisted his father-in-law in the hotel 
business, acting as clerk until March, 1884, when he was offered the position 
of agent for lands in the southern, western and northern states. He accepted 
this in March, 1884, and retired from the hotel clerkship, continuing as 
general agent in the land business until the year 1889. On the 15th of 
February, 1890, he opened a real-estate office at No. 107 South Ottawa street 
in Joliet, conducting a general land, city property and loan agency from that 
time to the present. He has prospered in business and has made judicious 
investment, accumulating properties in Joliet, also good farming land in the 
northwestern states and Canada, all clear of incumbrance. He has made it a 
rule of his life to keep out of debt and this has undoubtedly been one of the 
strong elements in his successful career. He also holds the position of 
administrator of several estates and has made various profitable purchases of 
land for investors. Mr. Stoll was married at Mokena, Illinois, December 25, 
1879, to Henrietta L. Schiek and they have seven living children. He is a 
member of the Union League Club of Joliet and of the Commercial Club at 
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A self-made man, he started out in life in very 
humble financial circumstances, but by his laudable ambition and enterprise 
has risen to the plane of affluence. He has placed his earnings in the safest 
of all investments—real estate—and has become thoroughly conversant with land 
values, not only in Joliet and Will county, but in Illinois and other states 
and in the northwest and western Canada. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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