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

John GOUGAR, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Joliet; one of our very early settlers; was born 
in Montour Co., Penn., March 20, 1810; he removed with his father's family to Ohio when he was 
8 years old, and from there to Indiana when he was in his 12th year; he remained there but a 
short time, when he came to this State and settled where he now resides in New Lenox; at the 
time of his, arrival, the surrounding country was all embraced in Cook Co., and what is now the 
township of New Lenox did not then have a name; he arrived here Sept. 10, 1830, at which time 
there was but one building in Chicago, which was then used as a French trading-post, and was 
situated on the west side of the river; Mr. GOUGAR has now spent forty-eight years in this county, 
during which time his occupation has been that of a farmer and stock-raiser; his present farm 
contains 340 acres, valued at $20,400. He was married in this State Jan. 2, 1849, to Miss Mary 
A. MILLER, who was born in Pennsylvania May 21, 1813; they have had one child, viz.: Lewis, born 
Nov. 10, 1852.