MANHATTAN TOWNSHIP.
JOHN W. SMITH, farmer and stock raiser Sec. 2S; P. O. Joliet; the subject of this sketch was born in Lincolnshire, England Feb. 10,1825. He married Miss Catheron Phillips April 15, 1861; she was born in Herefordshire, England, March 19,1834; they had seven children, four living, viz. Saline C, Anna N., Mary C. and Martha Jane. He lived in England until he was 20 years of age; he then came to the United States via New Orleans; thence to St. Louis, when he returned to England, remaining some six months; he went to Australia, where he remained one year, and then again come to the United States and settled in Ohio, where he remained a short time, and came to Illinois; in 1858, he settled in Hill Co., and in 1869, he settled on his present place. He had no means to begin with, and now owns 480 acres in this township, all of which he has earned by his own labor.
Source: The History of Will County, Illinois, by George H. Woodruff and H.H. Hill, published by Wm. Le Baron, Jr. & Co., 1878; Pg. 801
