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

Levi HARTWELL, farmer, Sec. 20; P. O. Lockport; was born in Hadley, Mass., Dec. 10, 1817; at 
the age of 11, he was thrown upon his own resources; at the age of 12, he learned the trade of 
blacksmithing with John LANE, and served an apprenticeship of seven years - three years in New 
York State and four years in Illinois, having come to this county in 1833 with Mr. LANE; he also 
worked for John P. MANNY one year, and in Galena about a year, returning to this township in 
1838, he again worked for John LANE up to 1842, when he settled upon the farm upon which he now 
resides, making all the improvements on thirty acres, at the same time carrying on the manufacture 
of steel plows up to 1862, since which time be has devoted himself to his farm, now containing 
110 acres. Has held the office of Constable and Path Master seven or eight terms; Town Commissioner 
thirteen years; School Director twelve years; Supervisor two years and Poor Master one year. He 
married his first wife, Miss Louisa POOR, in Homer Twp., Nov. 3, 1842; she was born in Indiana, 
Sept. 11, 1823, and died Oct. 26, 1867; they had five children, one only living - Samuel, born 
June 27, 1856, and four dead - William E., first, died Jan. 12, 1846; William E., second, died 
at Eastport, Miss., May 6, 1865, of disease contracted in the army; Charles died Feb. 14, 1869, 
and Levi died May 20, 1873. He married his second wife, Miss Emma TRASK, of St. Lawrence Co., 
N. Y., in Chicago, April 22, 1868; she was born Nov. 10, 1847.