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

Francis SHIELDS, groceries and farming, Wilmington; born in County Roscommon, Ireland, in 
1833; removed to this country in 1852, locating in New York City, where he engaged as 
clerk in a wholesale dry goods house, and, two years later, came to this State, locating 
at Wilmington in 1856, he engaged in the grocery business; owns 410 acres of land, valued 
at $10,450, and city property valued at $10,000. Married in 1857 to Miss Elizabeth MAHAR, 
who was born in Queens County, Ireland; nine children by this union, six of whom are 
living - Thomas, Mary A., Caroline, Agnes, William and Julia; lost three - Francis, died 
in September, 1862; Michael, Sept. 29, 1864; Ann, Aug. 21, 1868.