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

Henry LECARON, M. D., drug store, Braidwood. The subject of this sketch is one of the most 
prominent men of Reed Township; was born in France Sept. 26, 1839, and is the son of Francis 
V. LECARON, who was a speculator and money broker. Dr. LECARON remained in France until the 
breaking-out of the late war; he then, with the intention of enlisting, in the Union army, 
immigrated to America Aug. 20, 1861. He first enlisted in the bodyguard of Maj. Anderson; was 
also bodyguard of Gen. Buel; in 1862, he enlisted as Sergeant in the 15th Penn. Calvary, and 
participated in some of the most prominent battles - Antietam, Stone River, Chickamauga; in 
July, 1864, was commissioned as 2d Lieutenant in the Regular U. S. A., 13th Regiment; was 
wounded in the side in a skirmish in Tennessee; was mustered out as 1st Lieutenant in March, 
1866; was with Gen. O'Neal's Canada movement in 1866. He then came to Illinois, and settled 
in Lockport, Will County; here he was engaged in the flourmills of Norton & Co. In 1870, he 
was a participant in the great Fenian movement. In 1868 - 1869, attended the Rush Medical 
College, of Chicago; in 1872, graduated in the Detroit Medical College, of Detroit, Mich. 
He then came to Will County, and has engaged in the practice of medicine ever since; in 
1873, came to Braidwood. Was Supervisor of Reed Township in 1875. Democrat in politics; 
was in August 1878. nominated by the Democratic party for Representative. Dr. LECARON 
married in 1864 to Miss Nannie J. MELVIN, of Nashville, Tenn., by whom he has four children.