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

J. A. HENRY, retired, Joliet; the above-named gentleman has been a resident of Joliet for 
the past twenty years; he is a native of Hunterdon Co., N. J., and was born April 25, 1825; 
he began railroading in 1842, on the Hartford & New Haven Railroad, where he remained four 
years, and then spent four years more on the New Haven & Northampton Railroad, at the end 
of which time he came West and engaged in railroad contracting in Ohio and Indiana; in the 
year 1858, he came to Joliet and spent several years as roadmaster of the Chicago & Alton 
R. R., after which he built two branches of the road; in 1870, he went to Texas and built 
the Houston & Great Northern Railroad; at the end of three years, he returned to Joliet and 
erected his elegant residence on Eastern avenue, the finest in the city. He was married in 
Winsted, Conn., April 26, 1846, to Miss Nancy BRIGGS, of Winsted; she died Jan. 21, 1878, 
leaving one daughter, wife of Dr. Julius FOLK, of Joliet.