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Excerpt from Past and Present of Will County, Illinois
The family spend the winters in J oliet and dur ing the summer months occupy their country home, Elwood Terrace, on the St. Clair river in Michigan. They are communicants of Christ''s Episcopal church, of which Mr. Elwood served as vestryman and warden for a long period. He took an active part in financing the interests of the church and aided actively in the erection of the house of worship. While he has gained a goodly competence he has not amassed a princely for tune, for his energies have not been concentrated solely upon that purpose. On the contrary, he has divided his time between his business affairs and those interests which effect local progress and im provement, which strive to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and which affect man in his fraternal and social relations. Withal he has manifested a spirit of cordiality and genuine appreciation of character worth in others until it is said that no other man in the county is more widely known or has more friends than Captain James G. Elwood.
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The family spend the winters in J oliet and dur ing the summer months occupy their country home, Elwood Terrace, on the St. Clair river in Michigan. They are communicants of Christ''s Episcopal church, of which Mr. Elwood served as vestryman and warden for a long period. He took an active part in financing the interests of the church and aided actively in the erection of the house of worship. While he has gained a goodly competence he has not amassed a princely for tune, for his energies have not been concentrated solely upon that purpose. On the contrary, he has divided his time between his business affairs and those interests which effect local progress and im provement, which strive to ameliorate the hard conditions of life for the unfortunate and which affect man in his fraternal and social relations. Withal he has manifested a spirit of cordiality and genuine appreciation of character worth in others until it is said that no other man in the county is more widely known or has more friends than Captain James G. Elwood.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - W. W. Stevens
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ISBN - 9780331317145
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Page Count - 472
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