Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ward, William M 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

William M. Ward, engaged in the grocery business in Lockport, his native city, 
was born December 2, 1866. His father, John Ward, came to Lockport in 1849 
from Syracuse, New York, with his parents, William and Julia Ward, who came to 
America in 1848 from Queens county, Ireland. William Ward died soon afterward 
in Lockport. The son, John Ward, pursued his education in the public schools 
here and began providing for his own support by work as a farm hand. Later he 
was employed as a driver on the canal, and when his savings justified his 
embarkation in business on his own account he established a saloon in 1864 and 
afterward added a grocery, continuing in the same lines of business to the 
present time. He has been township collector for one term and is a member of 
St. Dennis Catholic church at Lockport. Mr. Ward was married in 1865, to Miss 
Catherine Keough, of Lockport, who is a native of Canada, and unto them were 
born nine children, of whom three died in infancy. Those still living are: 
William M.: John, Jr.: Marguerite; Catherine, the wife of William Gosseln, of 
Lockport; Stephen J. and Joseph F., both of this city. At the usual age 
William M. Ward became a student in the public schools of Lockport and 
subsequently attended Niagara University at Niagara, New York, and a business 
college in Chicago. He then joined his father in business and added the 
grocery department, which he has conducted to the present time, having a good 
trade by reason of the fact that he carries a well selected line of staple and 
fancy groceries and charges reasonable prices for his goods. On the 27th of 
February, 1892, occurred the marriage of William M. Ward and Miss Emma 
Jacklin, of Chicago, a daughter of Theodore Jacklin, a merchant. Four children 
grace this marriage, William J., Mildred, Kathryn and Rosamond, and they also 
lost one child, Grace, at the age of eight years. Mr. Ward is a democrat and 
very active in politics. He has served as delegate to county and state 
conventions a number of times, has filled the office of city clerk for two 
terms and was elected supervisor in 1903 and again in 1905, so that he is the 
present incumbert in the latter office. He belongs to St. Dennis Catholic 
church, to the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Improved Order of 
Heptasophs and is a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge. He has 
always lived in Lockport and his success has come to him as the result of his 
earnest endeavor, his diligence and unfaltering application to his business.

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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