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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Alfred WARNER, farmer; P. O. Wilmington; was born in Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y., 
May 19, 1814, and is the son of Asahel and Sarah (KETCHUM) WARNER of New York; Mr. 
WARNER was brought up on his father's farm, and when 19 years of age, he was 
farming it by the month; in 1844, he came West and settled in Ohio; engaged in 
farming and mercantile business; in 1849, came to Will Co., IL, and settled in 
Wesley Twp. the country was very new at that time; but few houses between him 
and Joliet; in 1853, he made a trip to Australia, prospecting; returned in 1875. 
Married in 1839 to Miss Rachel L. CURTIS, born in New York May 24, 1818. Mr. 
WARNER's political opinions are Democratic. Owns 217 acres of fine improved land. 
His son, Norman C., was born in New York Nov. 26, 1839; came West with his 
parents; received a good common school education, and taught district school 
before the war. At the breaking-out of the late war, he enlisted in the 39th IL. 
V. I., as 2d Lieutenant; he took a very active part in recruiting for the regiment; 
participated in some of the hard-fought battles; Aug. 16, 1864, was wounded in the 
leg at the battle of Deep Bottom on the James River; this wound caused his leg to 
be amputated; for his gallant service at this battle, he was brevetted as Major; 
he then received a clerk-ship in the War Department at Washington, D. C. Here he 
studied law and graduated at the Columbia College in 1867; came West and is now 
practicing law in Rockford, IL; ranks as one of the prominent attorneys of that 
vicinity. He has taken a very active part in politics in Will County.


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