Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Amend, Andrew
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Andrew AMEND, farming, Sec. 28; P. O. Joliet; was born in Germany in the spring of 1829. 
He married Miss Suzan ZIPH in 1848; she was born in Bavaria in 1816; they have one adopted 
daughter, viz., Suzan. He left Germany when quite young and came to the United States with 
his parents, who settled in Huron Co., Ohio, and engaged in farming; remained until 1850, 
when he went to Iowa and remained a few months, when he came to Will Co., IL, and settled 
in Plainfield; remained two years; thence to Sec. 1 of Joliet Twp., and lived there four 
years; he then moved on the Plankroad and remained some ten years; he then went to Ohio 
and engaged in grocery and saloon; remained until 1865, when he came to Joliet and engaged 
in saloon and boarding-house; he also acted as Constable some ten years; in 1878, he came 
to his present place; he started in poor circumstances, and now owns 101 acres here, besides 
some residence property in Joliet. His mother died in Ohio in 1855, and his father died in 
Canada in 1860.

Additional Comments:
HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

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