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

David M. REDMAN, farmer; P.O. Wilmington; was born in Upper Canada, Nov. 20, 1806, and is the 
son of Charles and Susanna (MARR) REDMAN; father was a school teacher, and a native of Ireland; 
was in the war of 1812; was taken prisoner at Queenstown Heights, was slightly wounded in the 
leg; his mother, a native of Pennsylvania; with his parents came to America when he was very 
young; at 17 years old he started to learn his trade as carpenter and joiner in Stroudsburg, 
Penn.; in 1856, he came to Illinois and settled in Kankakee, and remained there about seven 
years engaged at his trade; in 1863, he came to Will Co., and settled on the present farm. 
Married twice; first wife Miss Sallie Ann YETTER, of Pennsylvania; married second time to 
Miss Rachel KING, of Indiana; fourteen children; owns 184 acres of fine improved land. His 
son John F., was in the late war, 113th I. V. I. served until the end of the war, and was 
honorably discharged; Thomas M., born Oct. 29, 1855; has taught in the District School, is 
now with his brother Eugene engaged in farming on the farm.