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

Solomon LOUER, clothing and gents' furnishing goods, Wilmington; born in Bavaria, Germany, 
March 26, 1826; came to this country 1845, locating in Greene Co., N. Y., where he resided 
until 1852, then removed to Massachusetts; thence to Illinois the following year, locating 
at Joliet, where he engaged in his present line of trade, and is now the oldest established 
house in the line of clothing and gents' furnishing goods in Will, Co.; in 1866, he 
established his Wilmington store, continuing both houses until 1875, when he sold his stock 
at Joliet. Married in 1857 to Miss Regina BOHM, who was born in Bavaria, Germany; nine 
children by this union, six of whom are living - Albert, Charles, Helen, Emma, Cora and 
Daisy; lost three - Hedwig, Henry and Edward.