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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Horace WEEKS, attorney at law, Joliet; was born in Homer Twp., Will Co., Ill., Sept. 20, 
1837 ; he is the fifth son of Dr. Nathaniel WEEKS, one of the pioneers of Will Co., who 
came West in 1833 and located in what was called Yankee Settlement; his father moved to 
Lockport when Horace was quite a small boy ; here he received his education and grew to 
manhood; at the age of 13, he was employed in the office of the Lockport Telegraph, 
edited and published by Dr. J. F. DAGGETT and C. D. HOLCOMB, and played the "devil" for 
about two years; in the summer of 1854, he learned the art of telegraphy and had charge 
of the office at Sheffield, on the C. & R. I. R. R.; here he continued about six months, 
and then returned to Lockport, and was engaged in the drug business in connection with 
his father two years; he was next employed as book-keeper in the banking house of J. S. 
MCDONALD till 1859, when he entered upon a course of legal study under the direction of 
E. C. uthis he prosecuted two years; subsequently, he was clerk in the post office at 
La Salle one year, was clerk in the Canal office at Chicago one year and held the same 
position in the Provost Marshal's office at Joliet two years; in 1865, he was employed 
as ticket agent and operator on the C & R. I. R. R. at Joliet three years; in 1868, he 
was admitted to the bar, and the same year was employed as Deputy Circuit Clerk, a 
position he held until 1872 ; in February, 1872, he was appointed Collector of Internal 
Revenue for the Sixth District, and, occupied the office till January, 1876 ; in 1877, 
he was appointed Master in Chancery, and still occupies the office. He was married in 
1862 to Mary MUNSON, a native of Illinois; has five children - Fannie E., Fred B., 
Kittie, Curtis M. and Henry S.


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