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

John H. WARD, insurance, Braidwood; was born in Ireland, Aug. 15, 1840; emigrated to 
America with his parents in 1846; his father, Hugh WARD, was a mason, by trade; was 
engaged in working on the Erie Canal; first settled in Pennsylvania, here about one 
and a half years; then to Buffalo, N. Y., and remained for three years; came West to 
Ill., and settled in Wilmington, Will Co. in 1851; Mr. WARD, in 1866, came to 
Braidwood, and has been engaged at his trade, mason, having plastered the first 
houses built in Braidwood; he is agent for some most reliable insurance companies 
of the United States: Continental, of New York; Home, of Columbus, Ohio; 
German-American, of New York, etc. At the breaking-out of the late war, enlisted 
in Co. I, 100th I. V. I.; was honorably discharged on the account of sickness. Mr. 
WARD has held several offices of trust in his township; Town Clerk and School 
Director. Democrat in politics; member of the Catholic Church. Married twice; in 
1865, to Miss Lustatia BROWN; second wife, 1876, to Miss Mary KEANE, of Illinois; 
three children by first wife and one child by second wife. His parents are now 
living in Joliet, IL.


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