The Alexander family played a prominent role in Romeoville’s farming history. In 1904, James H. Alexander erected a monument dedicated to the memory of the early settlers. The monument was placed on the family farm near Romeo Road. It was built into a fence that spanned three Alexander residences. Next to the monument was a traveler’s stone that gave distances to neighboring towns. Unfortunately, the original monument was destroyed during a construction mishap. Members of the Alexander family had the monument replicated and presented it to the Romeoville Area Historical Society in 1991. Today, the Alexander family continues to be very active in the Historical Society.
Keith Eichorst coordinated with the Alexander family of today on the history of the Alexander family that owned the Endwood Farm and O’Hara Woods dating back to the mid 1800’s. Colonel Robert Alexander has deciphered and typed this book about Endwood Farm that you can read online.
“James Healy Alexander operated Endwood Farm in Lockport and DuPage Townships, Will County, Illinois, in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. The farm was established by his father, James Lewis Alexander, in 1859. Over 110 years later, in 1968, a developer took last parcel of the land as Will County became more suburban than rural and the last Alexanders left the farm and moved west to Colorado. In 2014, I discovered JHA’s notebook among the materials I had collected when my siblings and I vacated our parents’ home in Montrose, Colorado.”