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

George SPERRY, farmer, Sec. 14; P. O. Lockport; was born in Rochester, N. Y., April 27, 1826; 
he carried on agricultural implements business two years, and taught school for three years 
in the state of New York; in 1856, he came to this county, teaching school eight years during 
the winter months and farming during the summer; in 1857, he came to the farm he now resides 
on. He enlisted as a private in 1862, in the 100th IL. V. I., serving two years, and was 
promoted to First Lieutenant 22d N. Y. Cav., serving as such six months, when he was promoted 
as Captain in the same regiment, and also served as Regimental Quartermaster, and subsequently, 
before being mustered out, as Brigade Quartermaster; he was promoted to the rank of Major for 
service in the field in the capture of Early's army at Waynesboro, Va., and remained such 
until mustered out July 4, 1865; Mr. SPERRY, during his term of service, was responsible for 
over one million and a half of Government property, and, what very few officers of our army 
can say, has certificates of non-indebtedness from every department of the Government from 
which he had drawn supplies, consisting of the Quartermaster's, Ordnance and Commissary. In 
1873, he went to Kansas and took up a claim of 160 acres under the " Homestead Law." He 
married his first wife Miss Mary D. COOK (daughter of Hon. Bates COOK, former Controller 
of the State of New York under the late Gov. DeWitt Clinton) in Lewiston, N. Y., July 6, 
1851; she died in Henrietta, N. Y., April 6, 1853; he married his second wife, Mrs. Oliver 
PECK, April 5, 1857.