Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Wilcox, Charles Clement 1861 - ************************************************ 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 May 5, 2007, 8:58 pm Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890 CHARLES CLEMENT WILCOX, City and Town Clerk of Joliet, was born June 2, 1861, being a son of Edmund and Sarah M. (Green) Wilcox. On another page of this volume will be found a biographical notice of his father, from which the ancestry may be learned. Suffice it say in this connection that no more honorable family is known in Joliet than that from which our subject sprang. Young Wilcox was educated in the Joliet High School, and began his business career at the age of eighteen years, finding his first employment with G. Monroe & Sons, wholesale and retail grocers, with whom he remained two years. The three succeeding years he spent in connection with Wilcox Brothers, dealers in lumber, and while in this connection he established a trade in carriages, from which has grown a depository whose attractions draw a colossal trade. In 1884 Mr. Wilcox became a member of the firm of Smith & Wilcox, jobbers in oil. For a brief period the energetic young man was with a Chicago firm. He was then brought before the people as a candidate for Collector of Internal Revenue, and after a vigorous contest, in which his opponents were some of the most popular men in the district, he received the votes which placed him in office. At the end of two years he turned over his books to his successor with an unsurpassed record for efficiency and honesty in the duties connected with his public trust. In the spring of 1889 he was elected City and Town Clerk against a strong opposition, his majority being two hundred and eighty-four. In the city his majority was five hundred. The spring election of 1890 found him so strongly intrenched in the confidence of the people that no opposition was offered to his re-election as Town Clerk. The handsome West Side residence of Mr. Wilcox is presided over by a charming lady of high culture and estimable character. She was formerly known as Miss Ida M. Weeks, is a daughter of George Weeks, Esq., of this city, and a niece of Judge Weeks. She became the wife of our subject in the fail of 1882, the fruit of the union being a beautiful daughter, now about fifteen months old, who has been christened Evaleen. Mr. Wilcox is a Democrat of the best type, and a total abstainer from intoxicants of all kinds. He abounds with life and energy, and bids fair to reach a still higher place in business and political circles than that to which he has already attained. 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/will/bios/wilcox21bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ilfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb