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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

Louis Henrotin, justice of the peace. Clifton, was born at St. Hubert, in the province of Luxemburg, kingdom of Belgium, July 19, 1839. He resided there till 1859, studying medicine and graduating from the University of Liege, Belgium. In 1860 he came to America and joined his uncle in Chicago.-Dr. J. F. Henrotin, then Belgian consul. In the fall of the same year he settled in Iroquois county, and returned to Belgium in the fall of 1861, and in the spring of 1862 he returned to his adopted country. It is presumed that he went on most important business, as he was married, December 26, 1861, to Miss Amelia Lambert, who was born May 9, 1838. Clifton became their abiding place. He was grain merchant from 1862 to 1868, and then went into mercantile operations till the fall of 1870, and in the same year was elected justice of the peace. In 1871 he took another trip to Europe, with his family, remaining there nearly one year, and coming back in 1872, once more settled down to business. As a coincidence we might relate that the train that pulled him and family out of Chicago on their last trip to Europe, at 5:15 Sunday evening, was the last that went out on that road before the "big fire," and when they arrived in Canada the electric news reached them of the dreadful conflagration. In connection with his office he holds the position of town collector. He has three children : Louisa, Amelia and Gustav. Edmund L. died October 10, 1879.

Source : Beckwith, H. W. : History of Iroquois County : together with Historic notes on the Northwest, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and other authentic, though, for the most part, out-of-the-way sources; Chicago: H.H. Hill and Co., 1880, c1879, 1219 pgs.