Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bentley, William J
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Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn

Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

William J. BENTLEY, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. Lockport; was born in Homer Twp. March 28, 1843; 
he lived in this county until the age of 17, when he moved to Cook Co., remaining two years. 
In 1862, he enlisted in Co. F, 100th IL. V. I., and served as such seven months, and discharged 
on account of disability. He married Miss Ann M. DIXON, of Lockport, in Homer Twp., Feb. 28, 1867; 
she was born Aug. 2, 1841. His father, Robert BENTLEY, was born in Cambridgeshire, Eng., Aug. 13, 
1814; he came to America with his parents in 1833, who settled in Lockport, N. Y., remaining 
there six years; in 1842, he came West and settled in Homer Twp., living there sixteen years, 
when they went to Palos, Cook Co.; in 1862, they returned to Will Co.; in 1875 he purchased his 
present farm. Has been School Director and Path Master. Married Catharine RAHILL, of Southampton, 
Eng., in Lockport, N. Y., May 10, 1842; she was born Nov. 1, 1821; they had ten children, seven 
living - William Joseph, Robert James, Charles Edward, Mary Ann, Martha Ellen, Alice Kate, Asa 
Lincoln; three dead - Sarah Ann, Frederick Benjamin and Florence Jenette.


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

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