Person:James Pieronnet (1)

from History of DuPage county, Illinois by Rufus Blachard, 1882, pp. 66-67

J.S. Peironnet, retired, P.O. Wheaton, Ill., is a native of Binghamton, N.Y. born in the year 1841. His parents were J.S. and Mary J. (Lsnce Peironnet. He (presumably J.S. Peironnet, Sr.) was a merchant, and, in 1854, came to Peru, Ill. where he bought and improved lands. In 1868, he returned East, locating at Waverly, N.Y., where he died. Our subject, at the age of nineteen, engaged in the lumber business at Peru, Ill., and, on becoming of age, he, in company with his brother, William F. Peironnet, in the commission business in Chicago, and they sucessfully conducted the business for eighteen years, maintaining the excellent position of the house as one of the strong concerns of the board throughout the entire time. The magnitude of the business was enormous during the navigation season; they received as high as 1,000,000 bushes of grain per month. For a few years during the business of the firm, they owned a large flour mill at Minneapolis, having a capacity of 500 barrels per day. During the ownership of this mill, Mr. Peironnet was one of the organizers of the Minneapolis Millers' Association, now the largest grain association in the world. hre became the chicago agent, and contracted the freights from Chicago East. During the years 1868-69-70-71, they recieved fully one-third of the entire receipts of the city, and contracted freights on as high as 8,000 barrels per day. Aside from these active interests, Mr. Peironnet has large special interests in various commerical enterprises. In 1877, owing to his health, he sought a home in the country, and located at Wheaton. Being pleased with the changed, he purchased property and permanently made it his home. In January, 1882, he retired entirely from the business he was engaged in for the past eighteen years. In 1873, he married Miss Fannie, daughter of William Baker, editor and proprietor of the Chicago Journal of Commerce.