Farmer, Rawlins Township, Jo Daviess County, was born Sept. 1. 1846, on the farm where he now lives, the son of Louis Chetlain, who was a native of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and one of the early settlers of this section of Jo Daviess County. Henry B. Chetlain received his education in the home schools and followed farming until 1884 when he engaged in the sale of agricultural implements, continuing in that l888. Since the latter year he has devoted his attention to the management of his farm. For thirty-seven years he has been intimately connected with the affairs of the Jo Daviess County Agricultural Society, and for eight years has served as Justice of the Peace, half of this time being in Galena Township before the setting-off of Rawlins Township, and the other half in the new town. He was appointed Deputy Game Warden for Jo Daviess County on August 1, 1903.

Source History of Jo Daviess County -- 1904