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

Stephen GLIDDEN, farming and stock; P. O. Channahon; the subject of this sketch was born in New 
Hampshire, Sept. 15, 1820. He married Miss Mary L. BARNET, July 4, 1949; she was born in New 
York; they had eleven children, five, living, viz., Pernelia, Sarah J., Melissa, Ella and Harvey 
O. His parents left New Hampshire when be was six months old, and moved to New York, where he 
lived twenty-seven years; he then came to Illinois and remained one year; he then returned to 
New York and married, and then came to Will Co. and settled in this township; he came here in 
poor circumstances and now owns 1,036 acres in this township, all of which he has earned by his 
own labor and management.