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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Cornelius C. VAN HORNE, deceased, formerly of Joliet Twp., was born in Hunterdon Co., 
N. J., April 13, 1794; shortly afterward, his parents removed to Amsterdam, N. Y., 
where his father, a widely-known clergyman of the Dutch Reformed Church, lived many 
years. In the spring of 1832, Mr. VAN HORNE came to Illinois and located in Will (then 
Cook) Co. He died in Joliet July 7, 1854. In 1813, he, married Elizabeth VEEDER, who 
died, in Will Co., in 1838; in 1842, he married Mary M. RICHARDS, who is still living; 
by his first marriage he had seven children - Abraham C., born in 1815; Simon V., born 
in 1818; Anne, born in 1822 ; Cornelius P., born in 1824; Margaret C born in 1826; Barney 
W., born in 1829, and Andrew J., born in 1832.; by his second marriage he had five 
children - William C., born in 1843; Augustus, born in 1844; Elizabeth, born in 1846; 
Theodore C., born in 1849, and Mary, born in 1852 - all now living. He was a man of 
great force of character, and of liberal education, and had much to do with the shaping 
of events in the early days of Will Co., in the history of which his name occurs often 
and very prominently ; he gave his name to the locality known as Van Horne's Point. He 
was successively a Postmaster and a Justice of the Peace, and, upon the incorporation 
of Joliet as a city, he was chosen its first Mayor; after a long, active and useful life, 
he died in 1854, one of the victims of cholera.


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