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

P. SHUTTS, of the firm of Zarley & Co., publishers of the Joliet Signal, Joliet; was born in 
Ulster Co., N. Y. Oct. 7, 1849;. when he was about 6 years of age, he accompanied his parents 
to Columbia Co., N. Y., when they spent a year in preparation for their departure for the 
West; in 1855, they came to Will Co., and settled about two and a half miles southeast of 
Joliet; Mr. Shutts received an English education in the old Babylon stone schoolhouse, and 
in the fall of 1872, entered the Signal office to learn the printer's trade. He became one 
of the proprietors in March, 1876.