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

Judson C. PORTER, local editor of the Joliet Republican, Joliet; was born in Fairfield 
Co., Conn., July 2 I, 1846 ; when he was 3 years old, his parents removed to Litchfield 
Co., in the same State; at the age of 15, he left home, and went to New Britain, Hartford 
Co., where he spent two years in the Connecticut State Normal School, after which he 
engaged in clerking; in 1868, he came West, and taught one year in Kankakee; in 1869, 
he removed to Aurora; thence, in 1872, to Joliet, and in 1875, became local editor of 
the Joliet Republican. He was married in New Britain, Conn., Oct. 8, 1867, to Miss 
Martha J. HOLMES, of Hartford Co.; they have two children - Edith May and George E.