Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.

************************************************

File contributed for use by:
Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn

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

William MCGINNIS, farmer; P. O. Wilmington; owns 270 acres here, valued at $50 per acre, 
and 400 acres in Livingston Co., valued at $35 per acre; born in Rochester, N. Y., in 
1826; they moved to Boston when he was very young; thence to this county with his mother 
in 1837 his father having died in New York; they located at Joliet, where they resided 
until 1849, at which date he went to California, and returned to Joliet in 1851; he 
left Joliet in 1852, and settled in Reed Twp., where he lived until 1870; thence to 
Livingston Co. four years; thence to his present residence in 1874. Married Eliza 
PALMER Nov. 11, 1855, in this county; she was born in Orange Co., Vt., Feb. 29, 1840, 
and came to this county with her parents in 1850; have four children living - 
Margaret, died Sept. 15, 1872; John, Frank, Mary and Gertrude; William, died Nov. 
30, 1872.