Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Wait, Philip 1819 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

Philip Wait, Verona, was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., June 5, 1819, son 
of Walter and Margaret Wait, of :New York State. He remained till ten years 
old in New York, when his parents moved to Genesee County, N. Y., where they 
lived about nine years. They then went to Ohio and settled in Hancock County 
for a few years, and afterward moved to Muskingum County, Ohio, where subject 
was married November 10, 1844, to Miss Nancy Bryant born in Muskingum County, 
Ohio, May 4, 1827, daughter of Joseph and Nancy Bryant of Virginia. By this 
union they have a family of six children - Alwilda M., born in Ohio, March 10, 
1847, married, March 12, 1866, to Henry Jones, of Grundy County; Romando W., 
born January 20, 1848, married, in the spring of 1868, to Miss Martha A. 
Allison, of Grundy County; Alice M., born March 26, 1851, married to Rhonelle 
Thompson in 1871; Edgar B., born January 11; 1856, married, in September, 
1877, to Miss Zelma Paxton, of Grundy County; Emma T., born September 11, 
1853; and Newton, born November 11, 1858. Mr. Wait removed from Ohio to Kane 
County, Ill., in 1848, and, the year following, moved to Grundy County, and 
settled in Mazon, where he lived one year, then moved on a farm, which he had 
previously bought, in Highland Township, upon which they lived until 1876, 
when they removed to the village of Verona. Mr. Wait now owns two farms in 
Highland Township - 111 acres in Section 14, and eighty acres in Section 2, 
including two dwelling houses, the land being valued at $50 per acre. He also 
owns a desirable property in the village of Verona. While living in Mazon, Mr. 
Wait sustained the loss of his only team by a violent storm, which occurred on 
May 28, 1851. After this, he lost, on an average, one horse each year for 
twenty-seven years.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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