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

John D. LELAND, Steward of the Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet. John D. LELAND, born in 
the State of New York, came West in 1868, and was soon there-after, under Elmer WASHBURN, 
Warden, appointed Steward of the Illinois State Penitentiary, which position he successfully 
held until August, 1872, when under the force of circumstances he was induced to resign; 
after a few years spent in farming, and on the produce market, his well known qualities as 
to economy and carefulness in performing the duties of Steward of the Penitentiary, gave 
reason for a renewed call to that position, in 1877; under his present supervision, the 
extensive commissary department of the Penitentiary has been managed at less expense and 
to more general satisfaction than at any previous time in the history of the institution.