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

William P. CATON, retired, Joliet; one of the pioneers of Will Co.; was born in Orange 
Co., N. Y., March 28, 1815; he lived in Oneida Co., N. Y., until 18 years of age, being 
engaged in mercantile pursuits and attending school; at the above age, he removed to Ann 
Arbor, Mich., where he remained three years, clerking in a general store; he then came 
to Chicago in 1836, clerking for a short time; then to Milwaukee, clerking until the 
following year; he then returned to Illinois and took up 2,000 acres of Government land 
in Cook Co., sixteen miles northwest of Chicago; here he lived until 1848, when he removed 
to Chicago, being engaged in mercantile pursuits and inspector of canal-boats until 1856, 
when he removed to Plainfield, Will Co., and engaged in farming until 1871, when on account 
of ill health he was obliged to give up farming, since which time he has lived in Joliet, 
but not engaged in active business. He owns his residence and the one adjoining on Oneida 
St., Joliet. He married Nov. 28, 1844, to Elizabeth STEELE; they are the parents of five 
children now living - William E., Hannah E., Charles A., Albert R. and Minnie E.


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