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

John MOTTINGER, retired; P. O. Plainfield; the above gentleman was born in Pennsylvania, 
May 8, 1799. He married Miss Barbara LONG; she was born in Pennsylvania; they have ten 
children, viz., Suanna, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Joseph, Leah, Anna C., Sarah, Lena, Rebecca, 
Samuel and Daniel. He lived in Pennsylvania until he was 13, when he went to Ohio with 
his parents, where his father died; he then went to Illinois and settled in Will Co., 
engaging in farming; all his children are married; his parents, George and Mrs. Elizabeth 
LASHBAUGH MOTTINGER, both died in Ohio; they were natives of Pennsylvania.