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

John HULSWORTH, foreman of the smith-shops, Joliet; was born March 2, 1822, in Yorkshire, 
Eng.; he emigrated to America in 1847, and first labored in Philadelphia and New York about 
one year; he next went to Richmond, Va., and remained a short time; he then made a tour 
through the Southern States, visiting New Orleans, Memphis, and various other cities South 
and West, finally locating in St. Louis in the latter part of 1849; here he remained till 
1853; he then came to Alton, on the C., A. & St. L. R. R., where he was foreman most of 
the time in the shops till August, 1859; he then came to Joliet, and was eight years 
foreman in the shops of the State Prison; he was next foreman for the Dillman Manufacturing 
Company four years; in 1871, he took the position of foreman in the shops of the Joliet 
Iron and Steel Works, which he still holds. He was married in 1854 to Caroline P. BRYANT, 
a native of Connecticut; had one son - John H., deceased, and one, Edwin A., living.