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MAJOR WELLMAN PACKARD Biography


MAJOR WELLMAN PACKARD, of Bloomington, is the oldest practitioner of the McLean County bar, and during 
a residence of over forty years has built up for himself an enviable reputation as counselor, advocate, 
friend and citizen. He comes from an old and honorable family, his father having been a descendant of 
Samuel Packard, who emigrated from England to th New World in 1638. Our subject's father, John A. Packard, 
a native of Vermont, was the first child born in St. Johnsbury, that State, and his grandfather, Richard Packard, 
made the first clearing on St. Johnsbury Plain. Richard Pckard was born in Bridgewater, Mass., in about 1760, and 
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, enlisting when a youth of about sixteen years of age.