Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

A. L. GAINES, Foreman George B. NORTON's dry goods store, Lockport; was born in Castleton, 
Rutland Co., Vt., Sept. 11th, 1843; his boyhood days were passed in attendance upon the schools, 
and his early manhood years either as a student or teacher; about the age of 19, he entered 
Commercial College at New Haven, Conn., in which he completed a business course; in 1866, he 
came West and located in Morris, Grundy Co., IL, where he engaged in the sale of dry goods; 
in February, 1873, he came to Lockport and entered the employ of George B. NORTON as foreman 
in his dry goods establishment; a position he still holds. He was married Oct. 21, 1871, to 
Mary E. ALLEN, a native of Troy, N. Y.; has two children - Hallie H., born Dec. 11, 1872, and 
Lula M., born Feb. 4, 1876.