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

Joseph FRIEDRICH, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Joliet; was born in Biul, Weisserberg, 
near Strasbourg, Alsace, April 25, 1820; he was raised to the business of stock-raising 
and farming, and in 1840, came to the United States; he spent about three months at work 
near Buffalo, N. Y.; going from there to Chicago, and shortly afterward coming to Joliet; 
he worked for awhile on the dam at this place, and in the spring following went to Lockport, 
and was employed for about five months on the thence, in the fall, to Chicago. The 
following summer, he located in Naperville, IL, and resided there till he settled in 
Joliet in May, 1847, except a short time spent in the South; in the spring of 1848, he 
purchased his present farm adjoining the city, where he owns seventy-six acres of land. 
He was married Feb. 17, 1845, to Miss Sarah WEIS, a native of Germany and has eight 
children - Joseph E., now in business in Joliet, Charles, Oswell J., Frank E., William, 
Sarah, Josephine and Annie.


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