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

Daniel C. SLEEPER, Assistant Deputy Warden Illinois State Penitentiary, Joliet; born in 
Sandown, Rockingham Co., N. H., July 5, 1832, where he lived until 13 years of age, when 
he went to Methuen, Mass., learning the trade of hatter; which trade he followed until 
1854, when he emigrated West and settled in Joliet as clerk for Hayden Bros., in the 
grocery business, for two years  then one year in the same business with S. 0. Simonds; 
in 1858, he was appointed, by Warden S. K. CASEY, as keeper and assistant book-keeper 
of the Illinois State Penitentiary; in the spring of 1864, he visited Montana for his 
health and engaged in mining for three and a half years, when he returned to Joliet and 
was again appointed keeper until 1869, when he was appointed Assistant Deputy Warden, 
which office he has since held, with the exception of nine months, from July, 1871 to 
April, 1872, when be was Assistant Superintendent of the Reform School, at Pontiac, 
Ill.,. Married, June 20, 1861, to Alice M. RICHARDSON; she was born in Joliet April 
11, 1839 ; they are the parents of three children - Kate F., born May 1, 1862; George 
B., born May 29, 1864; Daniel C., Jr., born May 19, 1874.