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

William H. CAVENDER, farming, Sec. 3; P. O. Bird's Bridge; the subject of this sketch was 
born in Greenfield, N. H., Feb. 22, 1828. He married Miss P. A. STEEL April 27, 1856; she 
was born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., Nov. 11, 1841; they have seven children viz., Francis E., 
Dora E., Libbie M., Mary A., Emma C., Sinclair S. and Anna Belle. He lived in New Hampshire 
seven years, when his parents moved to Michigan, where he lived until 1849; he then went to 
California, where he engaged in the mining and stock business, meeting with good success, 
having accumulated over $12,000 during four years; in 1854, he returned to Michigan, and 
remained until 1865; he then went to Texas, and bought a drove of cattle, his family 
coming to Joliet at the same time; he returned from Texas the same year, and marketed 
his stock in Chicago, and then came to Will Co. and settled in Troy Twp., and engaged in 
the grain business at Bird's Bridge; in 1868, he came to his present place. He started 
in poor circumstances, and now owns 165 acres in this township.


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