Will County IL Archives Biographies.....STRONG, ALBERT 
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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

ALBERT M. STRONG, a retired farmer of Dupage Township, was born July 18, 1848,

on the place where he still lives. His father, Robert, a native of Vermont, 

came to Illinois in July, 1831, and settled on an unimproved tract of prairie 

in Will County.  He at once began to cultivate and improve the land.  For a 

time he lived in a log house, and this was the usual stopping place of all the 

people who traveled through the country in search of a location.

During the Black Hawk war, which occurred the year after he came here, the 

family went to Chicago, returning when the danger was past. Through energy he 

became one of the large land owners of his township.  He was honored as a 

citizen, and was chosen to serve in local offices, such as supervisor and 

justice of the peace.  He helped to organize the Presbyterian Church in his 

neighborhood, served as its elder for years and was its main supporter.  While 

in New York he married Caroline Willey, and their union resulted in the birth 

of eleven children, of whom our subject is the sole representative in this 

county. In public schools, the academy at Naperville and the Western Reserve 

College, Ohio, our subject received a good education.  On leaving college he 

farmed with his father until he was twenty-one, when he rented a part of the 

homestead.  After the death of his father, which occurred December 28, 1885, he 

succeeded to the management of the estate.  He has given especial attention to 

raising Shropshire sheep.  In 1891 he rented the farm and went to Joliet, where 

he engaged in the real-estate and insurance business for four years.  Afterward 

he visited in Arkansas and other southern states, and then spent a winter in 

Colorado.  Since his return he has resided on the homestead, which he rents to 

his son-in-law.  He is a Republican and has served as delegate to county and 

state conventions.  October 21, 1869, he married Ida, daughter of George 

Wheeler, of Ohio.  They have two daughters:  Grace C, Mrs. Dawson, of New  

Mexico; and  Hattie, whose husband operates the Strong homestead.

Additional comments:
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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