| Fairbury Blade - Friday, 04 Feb 1944 J. W. PATERNOSTER, WELL KNOWN FARMER DIES Joseph W. Paternoster, a resident of this civinity for over a half century, passed away at his home south of Fairbury, yesterday morning about six o'clock at the age of 67 years and 21 days. He had been ill only a few days. Joseph W. was a son of Joseph and Magdalena Paternoster and was born in Switzerland on January 12, 1877. When he was six years of age the family immigrated to Canada where they resided for eight years, when the family came to Fairbury. For the past 45 years Mr. Paternoster had lived within the boundaries of that section of land where he passed away. In July 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Bittner, who survives, together with a daughter, Mrs. Alton Schieler of Fairbury; Manuel of Peoria; John, residing in California, and Mrs. Albert Stetzer of Morton, and a grandaughter Marlene Schieler. A brother, Emil passed away in Chicago seven years ago. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at one o'clock at the South Apostolic Christian church. Interment will be in the South cemetery. |
| Magdelena, Joseph, Cecil, Tina Timms, Bertha Hitly (Sarah Hitly's sister) |
| History of Livingston County Joseph Paternoster, head of the firm of Paternoster & Son, plasterers and stone masons, workers in cement and manufacturers of cement blocks, Fairbury, Livingston County, Ill. The subject of this sketch after learning the uses and possibilities of cement in Europe, came to America at the time when the demand for that material in the construction of buildings was just beginning to be recognized. How well he apprehended and took advantage of his opportunities his later business success demonstrated. Nor has he been slow to keep abreast of all improvements in the manufacture and uses of cement or to avail himself of obvious opportunities of its extension into newer fields of usefulness. Joseph Paternoster was born in Trejoal, Austria, December 16, 1862, a son of Joseph Paternoster, Sr., a shoemaker and farmer who worked his earthly destiny out to its end in his native land. His boyhood was spent on his father’s farm and in gaining a primary education. When he was fifteen years of age he went to his brother, Manuel Paternoster, to learn the trade of plasterer, brick-mason and cement worker and under the able instructions of the latter, during the succeeding six years, acquitted the practical knowledge of these trades in all their details. He was the youngest of six children, two of whom-a son and a daughter-are now deceased. Manuel and Henry Paternoster are living in their native land. The former has given up masonry and cement work and like his brother Henry, is a farmer. In 1875, when he was between twenty-three and twenty-four years old, Joseph Paternoster went to Switzerland, where, until October, 1882, he was a contractor of masonry and cement work. On October 6, bringing with him a strong recommendation from T. Hauser, mayor of the city in which he had been operation, he started for America. He stopped at Ontario, Canada, where he secured work for the city in construction of cement walks. In 1889 he came to Illinois and located in Fairbury, where he has since lived and labored. He has finished many of the finest buildings in the city and surrounding country so far as the foundation and plaster work is concerned. His last noteworthy achievement, completed in April, 1908, was the new forty-room hotel at Chatsworth. He gives a positive guarantee as to quality and durability for all work that he undertakes, and is able to point to evidences of his mechanical skill in every direction. For more than thirty years he has devoted himself to this line of construction, in which he has had exceptional experience for variety and thoroughness, having erected the first two-story building of cement blocks in Fairbury. He has recently added to his establishment, a cement-block machine with a capacity of 200 blocks a day, with which he is able to make cement blocks of any shape or size. Mr. Paternoster married in 1877, Miss Magelina Schulter, a native of Switzerland, and the following facts concerning the six children she bore her husband will not be out of place in this connection. Joseph is a farmer in Livingston County. John is a conductor in the railway system of Peoria. Emil, of Forrest, Ill., is in the employ of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad Company, in the capacity of railway conductor. Henry is a member of the firm of paternoster & Son, Fairbury. Manuel is a plasterer and brick mason at Rosenberg, Fort Bend County, Texas. Rosa is a member of her parents’ household. Mr. Paternoster has given to each of his children an education fitting them for any position to which they may be called. He has always taken an active part in public enterprise and there is no measure which, in his opinion, tends to benefit the community which he does not advocate and support to the extent of his ability. He is a member of the Amish church of Fairbury, and politically supports the principles of the Republican party in which his sons, as they have attained their majority, have enrolled themselves as member. |
| Feb 2-4 1874 or 1876 |
| At Ron and Patricia's wedding |
| 339 W Wick |
| 339 W Wick |
| with Albert Stetzler |
| 206 W Jefferson |
| 218 N Third Street |
| Son of William & Ida (Kutzly) Pflederer Married Margaret Stetzler on 6/18/1939 in Morton Children: Steve, Linda (Delong), Brent, & Cindy (Oberlander) He served: U.S. Army during World War 2, from 1943 - 1946. Lloyd owned and operated the Tazewell Publishing Co. and later owned and operated Captain Clean in Morton, Il. |
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