Author: Will County ILGenWeb

Submitted by: Norman Shreffler Daniel Shreffler (1793-1860) Daniel was born in Centra Co., Penn. The 5th child of Henry Shreffler. He was a “Weaver of Cloth” by trade, but also a preacher and an inventer. He married...

Pioneer – Patriot Veteran – Father Citizen: VA, OH, IN, IL submitted by Wayne Reed DEDICATION Our ancestors deserve more than a line in a musty book, or a yellowed letter, long forgotten. We have the resources to...

Johann Diedrich Heinrich Friedrich Pauling and Dorothea Marie Ridder submitted by Linda Pauling They immigrated in 1850 from Gilten, Hannover, Germany. I have direct line information from the Gilten Evangelical Church going back...

Submitted by: Kathryn E. Young Source: Portrait and Biography Album of Will County, Illinois, 1890 Page 200 and 201 Samuel G. NELSON, Supervisor and Justice of the Peace of Milton (Wilton) Township, is a native of Randolph...

Submitted by Stephenie Todd Source: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Kendall and Will Counties Illinois, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1901; pp. 586-587. Elias MYERS, a pioneer farmer of Wheatland Township, was...

submitted by Jo Fletcher Horatio Nelson Marsh The History of Will County prepared by the Will County Bicentennial Committee stated that the early settlement of Joliet Township owed a good bit of its population to those who came...

A B C DE F G H IJK L M NO PQ R S TUV WXYZ Description Submitter Wagner, Anthony Deb Haines Wagner, Mathias Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn Wahls, Henry J Deb Haines Wakefield, Col Edwin Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn Walker, John...