Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

William M. STOWE, farmer; P. O. Lockport; was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Aug. 5, 
1842; he is the youngest son of Nathaniel H. and Eliza (PARTRIDGE) STOWE; in 1858, 
the family moved to Erie Co., Penn.; in addition to his common school education, he 
attended for some time an academy in Waterford, Penn.; he remained at home farming 
till he was 24 years of age; in 1868, he came west to Illinois and settled two miles 
north of Lockport, where he engaged in farming and the dairy business; this he 
followed six years; in 1874, he purchased the farm on which he now resides, being 
the west half of the southwest quarter of Sec. 17, Lockport Twp. He was married 
Oct. 26, 1865, to Laura BARNARD, a native of New York; has two children - Frank J., 
born May 11, 1868; Howard D., born May 9, 1877; owns eighty acres, valued at $5,000.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.