Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Warthen, O H P 
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Author: Portraits & Bio Sketches, 1890

O. H. P. WARTHEN. 

A favorably located and well-tilled farm of two hundred and thirty-eight acres 
in Lockport Township, is owned and occupied by this gentleman, who finds 
enjoyment in his chosen calling and the pleasant surroundings of his home. 
Every detail of the farm work is under efficient oversight, and tilling the 
soil has proved a remunerative vocation. In Licking County, Ohio, in the year 
1828, a child was born, whose simple record is contained in these brief 
paragraphs. His early years were spent in attendance at the common schools, 
and in such home duties as generally fall to the lot of growing lads in town. 
He is of Revolutionary parentage, being a son of Alvin Warthen, a native of 
Virginia, who died in 1830. The widowed mother survived until 1888, reaching 
the advanced age of ninety-two years. She was a hotel keeper for sixty-seven 
years. Our subject came to Illinois in 1853 and purchased a farm near 
Plainfield, which he afterward sold, buying bis present estate November 6. In 
1851 he became the husband of Miss Charlotte Kendall, who, like himself, is a 
native of the Buckeye State, and who possesses many of the qualities belonging 
to honored womanhood. To the happy couple have been born eleven children, nine 
of whom are living and six yet under the parental roof. Mr. Warthen is a 
Democrat of the old school. He is a reliable citizen and an upright man, 
especially charitable, and the doer of many kindly deeds known only to their 
object.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890 
 


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