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

Jacob MATTER, farmer; P. O. Naperville; was born in Dauphin Co., Penn., Feb. 1, 1818, and 
is a son of Christian MATTER (was a soldier of the war of 1812), was a shoemaker by trade 
and was engaged in farming the latter years of his life. Mr. MATTER learned the shoemaker 
trade, but, on account of his health, turned his attention to farming; moved to Jefferson 
Co., Penn., with his parents; here his father died, leaving a wife and five children. In 
1844 he came West to Illinois; first settled in Naperville; his first purchase was eighty 
acres of Government land, at $1.25 per acre, the present farm now farmed by his son 
Abraham; Mr. MATTER was a resident of Aurora eight years. Married Miss Nancy MILLIREN, 
of Jefferson Co., Penn., by whom he has had ten children - five boys and five girls. 
Abraham was a soldier in the late war; was taken sick at Vicksburg, Miss.; was honorably 
discharged.