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

Joseph LEWIS, general merchandise and farming, Channahon; the subject of this sketch was born 
in Tunbridge Wells, Kent Co., England, Dec. 15, 1812. He married Miss Ann TOWNER in 1835; she 
was born in Peckham,,Kent Co., England, and died in the winter of 1842; they had five children, 
three living, viz., Mary, Catheron and Jane, all married. His present wife was Miss Harriet 
SCOTT; she was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 24, 1820, and married Nov. 30, 1845; 
they had seven children, five living, viz., Alta F., Harriet S., Anna C., Henry D. and George
A. He lived in England until he was 22 years of age; he then came to the United States, and 
settled in what is now Grundy Co., IL, where he engaged in farming, and remained fifteen 
years; he then, in 1850, came to Channahon, and engaged in general merchandise, and continued 
same until 1864, when he came to his present place and engaged in farming, and has remained 
here since; he has held the offices of School Director, Justice of the Peace and Notary. His 
wife's parents were among the first settlers of this county, fleeing to the Wabash during the 
Black Hawk war.