Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Wall, John F 
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JOHN F. WALL, a successful business man of Joliet, is the proprietor of a 
large agricultural implement store on Joliet and Van Buren streets. He 
occupies all of a three-story building, 44x80 feet in dimensions, where he 
keeps in stock a full line of steam threshing machines, Deere and Janesville 
plows, Bain wagons, Columbia, Wisconsin and Henney and other carriages, seeds 
of all kinds, and, in fact, everything to be found in a model store of this 
kind. He lives at No. 505 Wilcox street, in a residence built by himself 
several years ago. He is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America and is 
an active member of St. Patrick's Church of this city.

A resident of Joliet since the spring of 1881, Mr. Wall was born at New 
Diggings, Wis., in 1852, a son of Robert and Katherine (Crowley) Wall, natives 
of Canada. His father, who was reared in New York, came to Joliet at an early 
age and followed the blacksmith's trade in this city during the building of 
the canal. Next he engaged in lead mining in Wisconsin, where he died in 1855. 
His wife survived him for many years, dying at Highland, Wis., September 22, 
1896. They were the parents of five sons and four daughters, of whom three 
sons and three daughters are living. One son, James; who was a sergeant in the 
Tenth Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil war, later became a member of the 
Forty-fourth Wisconsin, and for a time was held a prisoner in Libby. He died 
in Wisconsin ten years after his return from the war. Another son, Richard, 
now living in Kansas City, was also  a member of the Forty-fourth Wisconsin 
Infantry. Two sons, Peter and John F., make their home in Joliet.

The education of our subject was obtained in public and select schools and in 
Avoca Academy, where he was a student for two years. Afterward he taught 
school in Highland, Wis., and later six months in South Dakota. In 1881, 
coming to Joliet, he became an employe of G. C. Erhard, in the implement 
business, remaining with his successors, Watkins & Son, in the same business 
until 1887, when he bought out his employers and continued the business on 
Desplaines street. In 1892 he removed to  his present location, corner of Van 
Buren and Joliet streets. After coming to Joliet he married Miss Bessie 
O'Connor, daughter of James O'Connor, an early settler of this county. They 
are the parents of six children, William, Jessie, Genevieve, John, Raymond and 
Helen.


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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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