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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 10/20/1910
Birth Place: Hesse Daemstadt, Germany
Party Affiliation: Democrat
Assemblies Served:
House: 12 (1868)
Home County: Lee
William Werner
Lee County
William Werner was born in Hesse, Germany, on January 3, 1828. In 1848 he married Eliza Magdeline Peters (from Bavaria) in Hancock, Illinois, and then around 1849 he and Eliza moved to Lee County where he was a druggist in West Point. He was also a farmer, horticulturalist, and a music teacher. Werner died in Chicago, October 20, 1910. 
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House District 1
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12th GA (1868)
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12th GA (1868)