Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************ File contributed for use by: Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878. Alexander REID, farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Frankfort Station; one of our first settlers and pioneers; born in Scotland March 22, 1816; came to the United States in 1838, and to this State, and settled on the Yankee Settlement in the same year; he removed from there to Frankfort in 1846. His farm consists of 475 acres, valued at $28,000; it is situated on Secs. 12 and 13.