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

Richard S. MCLAUGHRY, farmer, Sec. 9; P. O. Lockport; was born in Onondaga Co., N. Y., Feb. 
13, 1822; he lived there until he was 12 years of age, when he came West with his parents, 
who first settled in Paddock's Settlement, in Cook Co., where his parents died; in 1850, he 
crossed the plains to California, prospecting and mining one year, when he returned to Cook 
Co.; in 1860, he lived upon his farm near Gooding's Grove. In the fall of 1862, he enlisted 
in Co. F, 100th IL. V. I., and was elected as Captain of the same company, serving up to 
1864; he was wounded at Mission Ridge, Georgia. He married his first wife, Mary FITZSIMMONS, 
in Cook Co., IL, Oct. 10, 1844; she died Dec. 8, 1845; they had one child - Thomas J., born 
Dec. 8, 1845, died in Andersonville prison, Georgia, in 1864; he married his second wife, 
Jane PETTYJOHN, in Cook Co., in 1847; she died in April, 1853; they had two children - 
William L., born in June, 1848, and Hannah M., born Sept. 21, 1850, died Oct. 20, 1869; 
married his present wife, Elizabeth BENTON, of Geauga Co., Ohio, Jan. 3, 1854; they have 
seven children - Richard M., born Nov. 23, 1853; Helen B., Jan. 17, 1858; Alice G., Feb. 
26, 1860; Jessie P., Nov. 19, 1862; Herman T., July 15, 1865; Bernice, Jan. 28, 1868, and 
Florence M., July 10, 1870.