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

Nelson H. PEASE, assistant book-keeper for J. L. Norton & Co., Lockport; was born in Brasher, 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 1844; at the age of 15, he left home and entered the academy 
at LaurenceviIIe, remaining two years. September 1861, he enlisted in Co. I, 60th Regt. N. Y. 
V. I.; Jan. 23, 1863, was discharged at Harper's Ferry on account of disability. Returning 
home, he engaged for a short time in farming; Feb. 28, 1864, he came West, and stopping in 
Chicago, attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College. Re-enlisted in the 100 days' service, 
in Co. F, 134th IL. V. I., and served 140 days. Next located in Dwight, Livingston Co., 
entering the employ of J. C. HERTZEL as clerk in his dry goods and grocery store; at the 
expiration of five months, engaged in the service of the C. & A. R. R. as baggage master at 
the same place; this position he held sixteen months; he was next placed in charge of the 
station at Carrollton on the Jacksonville & Chicago line; here he remained one and a half 
years; was night operator on the Union Pacific at Elm Creek, Neb., and at a later date at 
Julesburg as agent six months; returned to Dwight as night operator, remaining three months; 
in 1869, he was appointed agent at Lockport, and remained one and a half years; then returned 
to Dwight, and was agent two and a half years; in 1872, took charge of Odell Station, 
remaining two years; in 1874, he abandoned railroading, and entered the employ of J. L. 
Norton & Co., in the position he now holds. Was married March 22, 1866, to Irene C. RIGGS, 
a native of Dwight, IL; has two children - Alice L. and Myrtle K. Rep.; attends the 
Congregational Church.