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

J. N. FRYER, farm and loan agent, Sec. 17; P. O. Channahon; the subject of this sketch 
was born in Schodack Landing, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., July 11, 1818. He married Miss 
Charlotte BEARDSLEY Oct. 1, 1849; she was born in Litchfield Co., Conn., Nov. 24, 1822; 
they had six children, five living, viz., Jennie J., Kittie E., Chauncey M., Lotta B. 
and Leonard S; Albertine M. died. He lived in New York until 1834, when he came to 
Illinois and settled on his present farm, and lived at home until 1849, when be built 
his present house (the first regular frame built in this township) and has lived in 
same since; he was one of the Commissioners appointed to divide the county into townships; 
he has held the office of Justice of the Peace for twenty-five years, and School Director 
for fifteen years; he has been Town Collector and is now serving in his fourteenth term 
as Supervisor; he started in limited circumstances and now owns between three and four 
hundred acres in this township; his father died in Albany, N. Y; his mother, Mrs. Sarah 
SCHERMERHORN FOUR, married Mr. M. MOREHOUSE in 1832, and is now living on an adjoining 
farm.


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