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

William B. SMALL, lumber merchant, Wilmington; was born in Hancock County, Ohio, February 24, 
1851, and is the son of Daniel and Sophronia (HALL) SMALL; came West in 1851; commenced the 
lumber business with his brother E. D. SMALL, known as E. D. Small & Co., in Wilmington, June 
17, 1872; here they met with good success; they then started a lumber-yard in Jersey City, 
Custer Twp., 1876; then a lumberyard at Smith's Landing; these gentlemen are the largest 
lumber merchants on the Kankakee River; buy their lumber by the cargo at Chicago; own one 
of the best steamers on the Kankakee River used in transferring lumber from Chicago to 
their lumber-yards at Wilmington, Jersey City, and Smith's Landing; their prices in lumber 
are the cheapest in any part of the State. Mr. SMALL married Sept. 17, 1873, to Miss Addie 
WARNER, of Illinois; they have two children.