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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Laurance TINSLAR, farmer; P. O. Wilmington; owns 161 acres of land, valued at $10,000; 
born June 19, 1823, in Madison Co., N. Y. Married Delia S. MARSH Nov. 9, 1847, in 
Alleghany Co.; they moved to Skaneateles, Onondaga Co.; thence to Auburn, where he 
was superintendent of the spinning department in the Auburn Woolen Mills for three 
years; gave up said position with the intention of going to California, but finally 
abandoned the idea. From Rochester, N. Y., they came to Illinois, located at 
Braceville, Grundy Co., where they resided until November, 1866, at which date 
they moved to Wilmington, Will Co., where he established, a meat market, which he 
conducted one year; disposing of his interest in that, he opened a similar 
establishment in Braidwood, which he owned for two and a half years; at the end 
of said period, he opened a boot and shoe store in Braidwood, which business he 
was in about one year, then sold, and purchased the establishment (boots and shoes) 
of Arnold & Sisson, of Wilmington, which establishment he owned three years, then 
traded it for his present farm. Children by first marriage are Lucian W., Eva A. 
and Esther A. Mrs. TINSLAR died in Braceville, IL in 1866; married second wife, 
Katie MCCABE; she was born in Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., June 2, 1842; children 
by second marriage are Laurance (deceased), Hiram, Delia, Laurance (deceased), and 
Katie B.


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