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

Edson GIFFORD, of the firm of E. GIFFORD & Son, general merchandise, Elwood; the subject of 
this sketch was born in Wasbington Co, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1820. He married Miss Lydia WHIPPLE; 
she was born in New York; they have had five children, two living; his wife died while in 
Grundy Co. His present wife was Miss Harriet KENDALL, who was the first child born in a 
frame house in Big Grove Twp., Kendall Co, IL; in 1846, he left New York, and came to Grundy 
Co, IL, and engaged in farming; then went to Kendall Co, and engaged in general merchandise; 
then to Morris, engaging in general merchandise, and, in 1872, he came to Will Co, and settled 
in EIwood, where he engaged in his present business, and has continued here since.