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

John W. SMITH, farmer and stock-raiser Sec. 28; P. O. Joliet; the subject of this sketch was 
born in Lincolnshire, England Feb. 10, 1825. He married Miss Catheron PHILLIPS April 15, 1861; 
she was born in Herefordshire, England, March 19,1834; they had seven children, four living, 
viz., Saline C., Anna N., Mary C. and Martha Jane. He lived in England until he was 20 years 
of age; he then came to the United States via New Orleans; thence to St. Louis, when he 
returned to England, remaining some six months; he went to Australia, where he remained one 
year, and then again come to the United States and settled in Ohio, where he remained a short 
time, and came to Illinois; in 1858, he settled in Will Co., and in 1869, he settled on his 
present place. He had no means to begin with, and now owns 480 acres in this township, all 
of which he has earned by his own labor.