Transcript:History of Grundy County, Illinois/Hollenbeck, Justus

History of Grundy County
O.L. Baskin & Co. Publishers
1882 Chicago
Justus Hollenbeck, page 137

JUSTUS HOLLENBECK, farmer, P.O. Seneca. The subject of these lines, Justus Hollenbeck, is a native of Green County, N.Y., born January 6, 1821; was raised and educated in his native county. When at the age of twenty-two, he went to East Troy, Wis., having married, August 31, 1843, to Miss Rebecca Bennet, daughter of William and Hannah Bennet. She was born in Schoharie County, N.Y., August 25, 1816. Soon after marrying they went to Wisconsin, where they lived nine years, and came to Illinois in 1852, settling in Grundy County, Vienna Township; now lives in Section 33 of Norman Township, where he owns a farm of 160 acres, all in section 33, valued at $40 per acre; his residence is nine miles southwest from Morris, and five miles Southeast from Sneca; Hog Run divides his farm from north to south. They have a family of seven children. Emma E. Hollenbeck was born in East Troy, Wis., March 25, 1844: was married to Alphonso Diebold, of Seneca; Louisa Hollenbeck was born November 9, 1845; was married to John Barker, of Seneca; George Hollenbeck was born February, 28, 1847, and died December 13, 1865; Isabelle Hollenbeck was born February 17,1849 and died by drowning in a well Aprill 22, 1855; Julius F. and Julia A. Hollenbeck, born June 11, 1852; Julia A. is married to Spencer Cox of Seneca; Julius F. is married to Frances Kelsoe; Adeline Hollenbeck was born September 5, 1855; was married to John Nott, of East Troy, Wis. Our subject is a son of John and Elizabeth Hollenbeck, of Green County, N. Y.; his mother, Elizabeth (Bennett) Hollenbeck, died at their home in Wisconsin March 7, 1852, in her fifty -third year; his father is still living in Wisconsin, in his eight-eighth year. Mrs. Hollenbeck's parents died in Green County, N. Y.