Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Tilsy, William 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

William Tilsy, one of the most prominent and successful stock-raisers of Will 
county, owning a number of fine full blooded mares, and also a stockholder in 
the Percheron Horse Company of Homer township, was born in this township on 
the 3d of May, 1862. His father, William Tilsy, was a native of Mecklenburg, 
Germany, born in 1834. He became a resident of America in October, 1851, and 
his death occurred on the 15th of September, 1884, after a half century passed 
in the new world. On the 7th of November, 1857, he married Dorothea Holm, who 
was born in Mecklenburg, September 3, 1838, and came to the United States in 
September, 1856. She is now living with her son William. The members of their 
family were: Louis, who is a farmer living in Orland township, Cook county, 
and is married and has one daughter, Helen; William, of this review; Mary, the 
wife of Charles Doctor, a farmer of Orland township, by whom he has four 
children, Lawrence, Ray, Esther and Amiel; Henry, who is living with his 
brother Louis in Orland township; and Caroline, who also lives with her 
brother Louis and for several years has been engaged in teaching school. 
William Tilsy of this review acquired his education in the public schools of 
Mokena and Homer township and started out in life on his own account in 
December, 1884, when twenty-two years of age. His father had just died. He 
took up farm work and in the fall of 1894 bought a tract of land of one 
hundred and ten acres. To this he has added until his present holdings are one 
hundred and thirty acres. He has a well developed farm, supplied with modern 
equipments and improvements and in addition to tilling the soil and 
cultivating the fields he is interested in breeding and raising Percheron 
horses and now owns about a dozen fine full blooded horses. He is also a 
member of the Percheron Horse Company of Homer township, and was the first man 
in the township to suggest a partnership owner of a horse. The business so 
conducted has proven successful and the township is particularly notable from 
the fact that it has many fine horses which are standard bred or of highest 
grade. On the 27th of February, 1895, Mr. Tilsy was united in marriage to Miss 
Sarah Ross, who was born in Centralia, Missouri, December 2, 1869, and was 
brought to Will county when but two years of age. She acquired her education 
in the public schools of Homer township while spending her girlhood days with 
her parents, George and Julia Ross. Her mother died in Kansas, September 2, 
1879, at the age of about thirty-five years, her birth having occurred October 
2, 1844. The father is a farmer, still living on the old homestead in Homer 
township. In the Ross family were four children, namely: Mrs. Tilsy; William, 
who married Bessie White and lives in Homer township with his wife and one 
daughter, Grace; Helen, who is living with her father; and Tina, the wife of 
John Marti, of West Pullman. He is in the employ of the International Machine 
Company. They have one child. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tilsy has been blessed 
with two daughters and two sons: Julia, born September 28, 1896; John, October 
29, 1898; Edith, October 16, 1900; and Harold, February 13, 1903. In his 
political views Mr. Tilsy is a stalwart republican and is deeply interested in 
the growth and success of the party. He stands very high in public regard and 
is called upon to aid in every public movement in Homer township. In fact he 
is spoken of as the busiest man in the township and his life is indeed one of 
activity and enterprise. He lives about a half mile west of Goodings Grove, 
where he is pleasantly situated and as the years have gone by he has 
demonstrated his ability to successfully carry on agricultural interests and 
at the same time neglect no duty of citizenship. 

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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