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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

G. N. CHITTENDEN, general merchandise, Plainfield. The subject of this sketch was 
born in Middlebury, Portage (now Summit) Co., Ohio, April 15, 1818. He married Miss 
Elizabeth CAUFFMAN July 23, 1845; she was born in the same place Sept. 14, 1824; 
they had six children, four living, viz., William H., Henry K., Mary and Granville I. 
He lived in Ohio until the spring of 1847; his early days were spent in clerking in 
the general merchandise business; in 1838; he began reading medicine with Dr. Wm, 
BOWEN, and began the practice in 1843; in 1847, he went to Michigan and engaged in 
farming, remaining two years; he then went to South Bend, Ind., and engaged as 
superintendent of a woolen-mill; in 1851, he moved to Lockport, Will Co., and engaged 
in general merchandising; remaining one year; he then came to Plainfield and engaged 
in his present business, which, excepting one year, he has followed since. Though 
being at the head of the firm, he has placed the principal management of the business 
in the hands of his son, William H., and Alfred T. CORBIN, who are the junior members 
of the firm. He takes but a passing interest in politics, and has held the offices of 
Justice of the Peace, Township Treasurer and Collector; he has been a Delegate to County 
Conventions, to two State Conventions and to the National Convention of 1876, at Cincinnati; 
he has been identified with the M. E. Church for the past twenty years, and actively 
assisted in the building of the present elegant edifice of that denomination in this 
village. He has been more or less interested in real estate, both here and in Joliet, 
having laid out extensive additions to both places.


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