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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

James D. FRAZER, farmer; P. O., Lockport; was born in Pittsford, Monroe Co., N. Y., 
Oct. 5, 1821; he was one of nine children; his mother was of Dutch and his father of 
Scotch extraction; his great grandfather was frozen to death on the Green Mountains, 
Vt.; his parents being poor, the subject of this sketch was thrown upon his own 
resources early in life, working upon a farm until 19 years of age, from which time 
up to the age of 27 he was employed in collecting and driving stock from Ohio, 
Pennsylvania and Western New York to Boston; on June 8, 1849, he came West and 
purchased a farm in this township, now owned and occupied by Harmon V., one of his 
brothers; in 1852, he crossed the plains to California, remaining there nineteen 
months mining at Yreka; he returned to this county in April, 1854, and has been 
engaged in farming ever since; in 1854, was elected Highway Commissioner, and in 
1861, was elected Supervisor of the town, and having in that year offered a resolution 
before the Board of Supervisors instructing the County Treasurer to receive the 
county taxes in "greenbacks" has been called and known as the "Veteran Greenbacker" 
in 1865, he was elected Assessor, and in 1874, was again elected Supervisor, being 
re-elected in 1878 to the same position; he has always taken an active part in 
polities, and in whatever would advance the interests of his county has always taken 
a prominent part; he was a Delegate to the convention of 1856, which organized the 
Republican party. He married Mary F. LANE (daughter of John LANE, the inventor of 
the first steel plow), in Lockport in this county, April 12, 1857; she was born in 
Pittsford, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1830; they have three children - John D., born March 29, 
1858; Mattie J., Jan. 16, 1863, and Mary F., Feb. 16, 1867.


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