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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

George H. WOODRUFF, dealer in drugs, medicines, books, stationery, etc., Joliet; was 
born in Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 16, 1814, and resided then until 1834; he 
entered Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., in 1829, at the age of 15 years, and graduated 
four years later; he then entered the law office of Hon. Daniel GOTT, in Pompey Hill, 
Onondaga Co., N. Y., and remained one year, at the end of which time he came West, as 
the clerk of M. H. DEMMOND, Esq., the original proprietor of the western portion of the 
city of Joliet; he remained with him until the organization of the county in 1836, when 
a he was elected County Recorder, and re-elected in 1839; on leaving the Recorder's 
office, in 1843, he entered upon his present business; in 1838, he was elected County 
Judge, but resigned the office at the end of one year; he served one term as a member 
of the Board of Trustees under the village organization ; Mr. WOODRUFF is the author 
of "Fifteen Years Ago; or, The Patriotism of Will County," and of two very admirable 
lectures, entitled "Forty Years Ago," and consisting of reminiscences of early times 
in Joliet; he is the author of the "General History of Will County" in this work, 
besides which he has been an occasional lecturer and contributor to newspapers and 
periodicals for many years.


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