Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... Bronk, Peter A
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Peter A. BRONK, farming, Sec. 3; P. O. Joliet; the subject of this sketch was born in 
Albany Co., N. Y., July 18, 1836. He married Miss Harriet STORRS Oct. 8, 1858; she was 
born in Clinton Co., N. Y., Sept. 21, 1839; they had eight children, six living - Eugene 
J., Ephron, Edward C., Rossie, Prentice S. and Emmit. He lived in New York about eighteen 
months; he then moved to Illinois with his parents, who settled in Kendall Co., where he 
lived until 1865; he then moved to Manhattan Twp., Will Co., and engaged in farming, 
remaining there twelve years; in the spring of 1878, he came to his present place; he 
started in poor circumstances, and now owns 240 acres in this township, which he has 
earned by his own labor and management. His parents, Ephron BRONK and Mrs. Charlotte 
VAN_DOLFSTON - BRONK, were natives of New York; they settled in Kendall Co. in 1838, and 
died Sept. 22, 1865 and Sept. 22,1869, respectively.


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

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