Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Van Horne, Augustus C ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com November 10, 2007, 1:53 pm Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County AUGUSTUS C. VAN HORNE was born in Frankfort Township, this county, September 22, 1844. He was a boy of ten years when his father, Cornelius C. died very suddenly of cholera. At seventeen years of age he began to make his own way in the world, his first work being as carpenter with a bridge-building gang. A year later he was made a fireman on the Michigan Central Railroad, and in 1864 he accepted similar work on the Chicago & Alton Railroad. He continued in that capacity until 1871, when he was promoted to be engineer on a freight train. From 1873 to 1875 he was on the old Missouri road, but with that exception he continued steadily with the Chicago & Alton for some years. Later he was with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad as engineer out from Portage, but after two years returned to the Chicago & Alton, on which he has since been engineer. Meantime he was for eleven years engine house foreman in Joliet, for eighteen months in Bloomington and for six months in Chicago. His run is now between Joliet and Brighton. He is a reliable, trustworthy engineer, and has never met with a serious accident during all of his long connection with the road. The home of Mr. Van Home is at No. 201 Union street, Joliet. In New Lenox, this county, he was married to Emma A., daughter of George Nelson Marvin, who came from Syracuse, N. Y., to this county in 1854 and settled in Plainfield Township upon a farm. For some years he has been retired and now makes his home with Mr. Van Horne. Both our subject and his wife are identified with the Richards Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he holds office as president of the board of trustees. Politically he is independent. At one time he was connected with the Knights of Pythias and at this writing he belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of Matteson Lodge No. 175, A. F. & A. M.; Joliet Chapter No. 27, R. A. M., and Joliet Commandery No. 4, K. T. With his wife he is connected with Chapter No. 187 of the Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Van Horne was the first matron and in which she has since filled many offices with tact and ability. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/vanhorne1175gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb