Grady, W. A. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 437, Astoria Township
W. A. Grady, baker and confectioner, arrived in Astoria March 10, 1879, and has already succeeded in building up a large local trade. He was born in Fairfield Co., O., Aug. 1, 1847. His father, Oliver Grady, was a native of Pennsylvania and a tailor by occupation; he moved to Ohio in an early day, where he was married to Miss Elizabeth Hoopes, by whom he had 3 children; W. A. the eldest. W. A. grew up in Ohio and came to Ill. In 1871, and settled in Vermont. In 1873 he was united in marriage with Miss Harriet, daughter of Aaron Hickson, of Va. Hattie M. and William R. are their children.
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