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

Isaac T. MILLSPAUGH, Police Magistrate, Joliet; was born in Orange Co., N. Y., Feb. 26, 1820; 
his parents died when he was about, 15 years old, and he then went "out West" to Tompkins Co., 
N. Y.; be made his home there and in Cortland Co. until 1844, when he removed to Joliet; he 
followed his trade of a blacksmith for a year or more, and made the first steel plow in Joliet; 
he then went to Chicago and engaged as fireman on the old Chicago & Galena Union R. R. (now a 
branch of the Chicago & Northwestern), which extended at that time but eight miles west of 
Chicago; he fired the first new locomotive on that road; about a year later, he returned to 
Joliet, and run one season on the packet from Chicago to Peru; he then became a fireman on 
the Chicago & Rock Island R. R., and run the first engine into Joliet, in 1852; he was the 
first blacksmith in the Chicago & Alton roundhouse, where he worked half a dozen years or 
more. He served for fourteen years as Assessor for Joliet Twp.; he was elected Police 
Magistrate in May 1878. He was married in March 1842, to Miss Charlotte Elizabeth NOYES, 
of Cortland Co., N. Y.; she died in 1846, leaving one son, Charles H., who served through 
the late war as Dram Major of the 100th IL Vols., and is now a musician in Joliet. Mr. 
MILLSPAUGH was married again, in July 1852, to Miss Mary L. ROBERTS, of Joliet, formerly 
of Lockport, N. Y.; they have one son - Frank D., a fireman on the Michigan Central R. R.