Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Barthelme, Joseph
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Joseph BARTHELME, farmer; P.O. Joliet; born in Alsace, Germany, Feb. 17, 1828, where 
he lived until 18 years of age, and engaged in farming; he emigrated to America at the 
above age, landing in New York April 12, 1846, going directly to Pennsylvania; he engaged 
in the canal business until October, 1848. when he emigrated to Joliet and worked in the 
quarries and lime-kilns for a period of twelve years; in 1860, he engaged in farming, renting 
sixty acres two miles from Joliet, which he worked for seven years, when he purchased eight 
acres on Sec. 6, Joliet Tp., which he has since continued to work; he owns besides his farm 
of eighty acres, which is located one mile from Joliet, his present residence on Bluff Street, 
which he has owned since 1851.  He married June 11, 1851, to Mary WILES; she was born in 
Alsace, Germany, March 22, 1833; they have by this union ten children now living, viz., 
Mary Ann, Helen, Frank, Joseph, Michael, Antonette, Edward C., George, William and Alexander. 
Mr. B . has held the office of Alderman for two years in the ward in which he lives.

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

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