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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Robert STRONG, farmer; P. O. Naperville; Mr. STRONG is the only surviving pioneer 
of the few that settled in Du Page Twp., in the early period of 1831; was born in 
Greensboro, Vt., April 28, 1806; when he was 8 years of age, his father moved to 
Susquehanna Co., Penn., and engaged in clearing land and farming; in 1819, the 
family, moved to Chemung Co., Penn., and opened a farm where the town of Waverly 
now stands; in 1825, his father moved to Ogden, in Monroe Co., N. Y.; in 1831, 
Robert came to seek a home in the Far West and settled where he now resides, 
having purchased a claim of a half-section of SELBY & WALKER; here, in company 
with his young and lovely bride, he commenced, amid the difficulties and 
privations incident to pioneer life, to carve out his fortune. He was married 
April 21, 1831, to Caroline W. WILLEY, a native of Oneida Co., N. Y.; she was 
born May 10, 1811; eleven children have blessed their union, four -Alfred W., 
Robert H., Mary A. (now widow of James N. GEORGE) and Albert M. are living; seven 
are dead. Owns 230 acres of land, valued at $17,000. Has held the offices of 
Supervisor, Justice of the Peace eight years, School Treasurer sixteen years, 
with the enormous salary of $10 for the first ten years. And here upon a portion 
of his original purchase made almost one-half of a century ago, he still lives, 
the only remaining landmark of those who settled in Du Page in 1831 or 1832; all 
the others have either rested from their labors or changed their locations; to him 
we are indebted for much of the early history of Du Page Twp.


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