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

William POHLMAN, farmer, Sec. 36; P. O. Elwood; was born in Prussia May 16, 1828. He married 
Miss Amelia HARMING Feb. 3, 1853; she was born in Prussia in February, 1836; they had eleven 
children, nine living, viz., Mary E., Catheron M., Emma C., Charles F., Henry F., George T., 
J. Edward, Sarah R. and Francis L. He lived in Prussia sixteen years; he then came to the 
United States, and landed at Baltimore, and remained in that neighborhood about six years, 
engaged in farm labor; then moved to York Co, Penn.; engaged in quarrying and lime-burning; 
remained five years; then came to Illinois and settled in this township, engaging in farming; 
in 1868, he came to his present place. He is no office-seeker, his only offices being 
connected with the school and road. He came to this county in poor circumstances; he now 
owns 422 acres in this township, which he has earned by his own labor.