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

William GOUGAR, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. New Lenox; was born in Pickaway Co., Ohio, Aug. 
24, 1818; came to this State with his father's family in 1831; has been a farmer and stock-raiser 
from boyhood; his present farm consists of 372 acres of land, valued at $22,000, situated on Sec. 
20, in New Lenox Twp., and on Sec. 20, in Joliet. He was married Dec. 29, 1859, to Miss Clarissa 
HAWKINS, who was born in Kankakee Co., IL, Feb. 19, 1839; they have had four children, three of 
whom are living - William, Nellie and Frank; deceased, Hester. Mr. GOUGAR participatedin the Black 
Hawk war, which is fully described by him in the general history of the township.