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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Charles WERNER, proprietor of Werner's Hall and Werner's stone quarry, Joliet; 
has been a resident of this city for the past twenty-seven years, having come 
direct from Germany in 1851 ; he was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Hess-Darmstadt 
Sept. 14, 1828; when about 15 years old, he was apprenticed to the mason's trade, 
which he continued until 1851, when he came to this country, landing in New York in 
July, and coming direct to Joliet; he soon afterward engaged in working at his trade, 
and, in 1865, engaged in the stone-quarrying business, which he still continues; he, 
with his brother, built the Will County Jail and Sheriff's house, the Joliet Union 
Schoolhouse, St. Mary's Catholic Church, besides a large number of prominent 
buildings in different parts of the city; in 1868, Mr. Werner purchased Young's 
Hall, on Chicago street, which burned down in 1874, and the following year he 
erected Werner's Hall on the same site, at a cost of $20,000; he served as Town 
Collector in 1877. He was married July 17, 1853, to Miss Mary A. GOEBLE, of Joliet, 
a native of Prussia; they have one child - Bertha.


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