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Subject: Obit of Cornelius Covenhoven Van Horne
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:35:01 EST

The name of the newspaper is unknown as is the date it appeared in the
newspaper.

Death notice of C.C. Van Horne
Cornelius C. Van Horne, deceased, formerly of Joliet Tp., was born in
Hunterdon Co., NJ., April 13, 1794; shortly afterward, his parents removed to
Amsterdam, NY., where his father, a widely-known clergyman of the Dutch
Reformed Church, lived many years. In the spring of 1832, Mr. Van Horne came
to Illinois and located in Will (then Cook) Co. He died in Joliet July 7,
1854. In 1813, he married Elizabeth Veeder, who died, in Will Co., in 1838; in
1842, he married Mary M. Richards, who is still living; by his first marriage
he had seven children - Abraham C., born in 1815; Simon V., born in 1818;
Anne, born in 1822; Cornelius P., born in 1824; Margaret C., born in 1826;
Barney W., born in 1829, and Andrew J., born in 1832; by his second marriage
he had five children - William C., born in 1843; Augustus, born in 1844;
Elizabeth, born in 1846; Theodore C., born in 1849, and Mary, born in 1852 -
all now living. He was a man of great force of character, and of liberal
education, and had much to do with the shaping of events in the early days of
Will Co., in the history of which his name occurs often and very prominently;
he gave his name to the locality known as Van Horne's Point. He was
successively a Postmaster and a Justice of the Peace, and, upon the
incorporation of Joliet as a city, he was chosen its first mayor; after a
long, active and useful life, he died in 1854, one of the victims of cholera.

(Please note that he was not born in Hunterdon co., NJ. Cornelius was born in
Ulster co., NY while his father was pastoring in that area. His father Abraham
was born in Hunterdon co., NJ).

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