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

Asher HOLMES, deceased, New Lenox Twp., whose portrait appears in this work, was born in 
Sherburne, Chenango Co., N. Y., in September, 1796; at the age of 9, his parents moved to 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y.; in 1826, he returned to Chenango Co., and married, Aug. 26 of the 
same year Miss Eliza Ann ELMORE; they moved back to Chautauqua Co., and remained there 
until the year 1831, when they again returned to Chenango Co., remaining there until his 
coming to Will Co. in the spring of 1835; he settled on Sec. 22, in New Lenox Twp., where 
he died; his widow still lives on the homestead. He held the office of Justice of the 
Peace in Chenango Co., and that of School Treasurer in New Lenox Twp. He had six children, 
five living - James E., born June 25, 1827; Myron P., born June 8, 1830; Orsamus, born in 
August, 1838; Lydia E., born Feb. 5, 1840, and Sophie, born Aug. 14, 1852, and one 
deceased - Eliza Ann, born Jan. 18, 1834, died in May, 1873.