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

Nathan CORWIN, farmer, Sec. 21; P. O. Lockport; was born in Wayne Co., N. Y., March 15, 
1810; he lived there, engaged in farming, up to the time he was 24 years of age, when he
came West, and first moved to Wayne Co., Mich., and was engaged in clearing up timber 
land; two years afterward, he moved to La Grange Co., Ind., where he remained thirteen 
years; he came to this county in 1848, and first lived in Plainfield two years, and then 
in Lockport Twp. three years, farming, and in Lockport three years, keeping hotel; in 1855 
he came to this township, where he has since resided; has been Poor Master and School 
Director. Married his first wife Sophia JEWELL, of Arcadia, Wayne Co., N. Y., June 30, 
1831; she died Jan. 26,1843; they had five children - Melissa, Mary U., Horace T., Henry
E. and Lydia. He married his second wife, Eliza Ann COLE, of Wayne Co., N.Y., in 1848; 
they had seven children - David R., Austin, Leroy, De Witt C., Alice, Edward L. and 
William F.


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