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

Eli N. SMALL, Postmaster, Custer; the subject of this sketch was born in Herkimer County, 
N. Y., June 20, 1828, and is the son of William and Evelina (CANFIELD) SMALL; his mother, a 
native of Connecticut, his father of New York, and was engaged in the wholesale grocery 
business in the city of New York. Mr. SMALL came West to Will County in 1853, and settled 
in Wilmington; then to Custer; here he has remained ever since; through his influence, the 
township of Custer was named, and in honor of Gen. Custer is the Postmaster (the first) of 
Custer Twp. Married in 1857 to Miss Alice L. EASTON, of New York, daughter of William 
EASTON; they have three children.