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 KANE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, 
 
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 A HISTORY OF THE COUNTY ITS CITIES, TOWNS, &c., A DIRECTORY 
 OF ITS CITIZENS, WAR RECORD OF ITS VOLUNTEERS IN THE LATE 
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 MEN, GENERAL AND LOCAL STATISTICS, MAP OF KANE 
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 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION. 
 
 When the Northwestern Territory was ceded to the United States 
 by Virginia in 1784, it embraced only the territory lying between the 
 Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers, and north to the northern limits of the 
 United States. It coincided with the area now embraced in the States 
 of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and that portion of 
 Minnesota lying on the east side of the Mississippi River. The United 
 States itself at that period extended no farther west than the Mississippi 
 River ; but by the purchase of Louisiana in 1803, the western boundary 
 of the United States was extended to the Rocky Mountains and the 
 Northern Pacific Ocean. The new territory thus added to the National 
 domain, and subsequently opened to settlement, has been called the 
 " New Northwest," in contradistinction from the old " Northwestern 
 Territory. " 
 
 In comparison with the old Northwest this is a territory of vast 
 magnitude. It includes an area of 1,887,850 square miles ; being greater 
 in extent than the united areas of all the Middle and Southern States, 
 including Texas. Out of this magnificent territory have been erected 
 eleven sovereign States and eight Territories, with an aggregate popula- 
 tion, at the present time, of 13,000,000 inhabitants, or nearly one third of 
 the entire population of the United States. 
 
 Its lakes are fresh-water seas, and the larger rivers of the continent 
 flow for a thousand miles through its rich alluvial valleys and far- 
 stretching prairies, more acres of which are arable and productive of the 
 highest percentage of the cereals than of any other area of like extent 
 on the globe. 
 
 For the last twenty years the increase of population in the North- 
 west has been about as three to one in any other portion of the United 
 States. 
 
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 20 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 EARLY EXPLORATIONS. 
 
 In the year 1541, DeSoto first saw the Great West in the New 
 World. He, however, penetrated no farther north than the 35th parallel 
 of latitude. The expedition resulted in his death and that of more than 
 half his army, the remainder of whom found their way to Cuba, thence 
 to Spain, in a famished and demoralized condition. DeSoto founded no 
 settlements, produced no results, and left no traces, unless it were that 
 he awakened the hostility of the red man against the white man, and 
 disheartened such as might desire to follow up the career of discovery 
 for better purposes. The French nation were eager and ready to seize 
 upon any news from this extensive domain, and were the first to profit by 
 DeSoto's defeat. Yet it was more than a century before any adventurer 
 took advantage of these discoveries. 
 
 In 1616, four years before the pilgrims " moored their bark on the 
 wild New England shore," Le Caron, a French Franciscan, had pene- 
 trated through the Iroquois and Wyandots (Hurons) to the streams which 
 run into Lake Huron ; and in 1634, two Jesuit missionaries founded the 
 first mission among the lake tribes. It was just one hundred years from 
 the discovery of the Mississippi by DeSoto (1541) until the Canadian 
 envoys met the savage nations of the Northwest at the Falls of St. Mary, 
 below the outlet of Lake Superior. This visit led to no permanent 
 result; yet it was not until 1659 that any of the adventurous fur traders 
 attempted to spend a Winter in the frozen wilds about the great lakes, 
 nor was it until 1660 that a station was established upon their borders by 
 Mesnard, who perished in the woods a few months after. In 1665, Claude 
 Allouez built the earliest lasting habitation of the white man among the 
 Indians of the Northwest. In 1668, Claude Dablon and James Marquette 
 founded the mission of Sault Ste. Marie at the Falls of St. Mary, and two 
 years afterward, Nicholas Perrot, as agent for M. Talon, Governor Gen- 
 eral of Canada, explored Lake Illinois (Michigan) as far south as the 
 present City of Chicago, and invited the Indian nations to meet him at a 
 grand council at Sault Ste. Marie the following Spring, where they were 
 taken under the protection of the king, and formal possession was taken 
 of the Northwest. This same year Marquette established a mission at 
 Point St. Ignatius, where was founded the old town of Michillimackinac. 
 
 During M. Talon's explorations and Marquette's residence at St. 
 Ignatius, they learned of a great river away to the west, and fancied 
 as all others did then that upon its fertile banks whole tribes of God's 
 children resided, to whom the sound of the Gospel had never come. 
 Filled with a wish to go and preach to them, and in compliance with a
 
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 22 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 request of M. Talon, who earnestly desired to extend the domain of his 
 king, and to ascertain whether the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico 
 or the Pacific Ocean, Marquette with Joliet, as commander of the expe- 
 dition, prepared for the undertaking. 
 
 On the 13th of May, 1673, the explorers, accompanied by five assist- 
 ant French Canadians, set out from Mackinaw on their daring voyage of 
 discovery. The Indians, who gathered to witness their departure, were 
 astonished at the boldness of the undertaking, and endeavored to dissuade 
 them from their purpose by representing the tribes on the Mississippi as 
 exceedingly savage and cruel, and the river itself as full of all sorts of 
 frightful monsters ready to swallow them and their canoes together. But, 
 nothing daunted by these terrific descriptions, Marquette told them he 
 was willing not only to encounter all the perils of the unknown region 
 they were about to explore, but to lay down his life in a cause in which 
 the salvation of souls was involved ; and having prayed together they 
 separated. Coasting along the northern shore of Lake Michigan, the 
 adventurers entered Green Bay, and passed thence up the Fox River and 
 Lake Winnebago to a village of the Miamis and Kickapoos. Here Mar- 
 quette was delighted to find a beautiful cross planted in the middle of the 
 town ornamented with white skins, red girdles and bows and arrows, 
 which these good people had offered to the Great Manitou, or God, to 
 thank him for the pity he had bestowed on them during the Winter in 
 giving them an abundant " chase." This was the farthest outpost to 
 which Dablon and Allouez had extended their missionary labors the 
 year previous. Here Marquette drank mineral waters and was instructed 
 in the secret of a root which cures the bite of the venomous rattlesnake. 
 He assembled the chiefs and old men of the village, and, pointing to 
 Joliet, said : " My friend is an envoy of France, to discover new coun- 
 tries, and I am an ambassador from God to enlighten them with the truths 
 of the Gospel." Two Miami guides w-ere here furnished to conduct 
 them to the Wisconsin River, and they set out from the Indian village on 
 the 10th of June, amidst a great crowd of natives who had assembled to 
 witness their departure into a region where no white man had ever yet 
 ventured. The guides, having conducted them across the portage, 
 returned. The explorers launched their canoes upon the Wisconsin, 
 which they descended to the Mississippi and proceeded down its unknown 
 waters. What emotions must have swelled their breasts as they struck 
 out into the broadening current and became conscious that they were 
 now upon the bosom of th3 Father of Waters. The mystery was about 
 to be lifted from the long-sought river. The scenery in that locality is 
 beautiful, and on that delightful seventeenth of June must have been 
 clad in all its primeval loveliness as it had been adorned by the hand of
 
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 Nature. Drifting rapidly, it is said that the bold bluffs on either hand 
 " reminded them of the castled shores of their own beautiful rivers of 
 France." By-and-by, as they drifted along, great herds of buffalo appeared 
 on the banks. On going to the heads of the valley they could see a 
 country of the greatest beauty and fertility, apparently destitute of inhab- 
 itants yet presenting the appearance of extensive manors, under the fas- 
 tidious cultivation of lordly proprietors. 
 
 THE WILD PRAIRIE. 
 
 On June 25, they went ashore and found some fresh traces of men upon 
 the sand, and a path which led to the prairie. The men remained in the 
 boat, and Marquette and Joliet followed the path till they discovered a 
 village on the banks of a river, and two other villages on a hill, within a 
 half league of the first, inhabited by Indians. They were received most 
 hospitably by these natives, who had never before seen a white person. 
 After remaining a few days they re-embarked and descended the river to 
 about latitude 33, where they found a village of the Arkansas, and being 
 satisfied that the river flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, turned their course
 
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 up the river, and ascending the stream to the mouth of the Illinois, 
 rowed up that stream to its source, and procured guides from that point 
 to the lakes. " Nowhere on this journey," says Marquette, ' did we see 
 such grounds, meadows, woods, stags, buffaloes, deer, wildcats, bustards, 
 swans, ducks, parroquets, and even beavers, as on the Illinois River." 
 The party, without loss or injury, reached Green Bay in September, and 
 reported their discovery one of the most important of the age, but of 
 which no record was preserved save Marquette's, Joliet losing his by 
 the upsetting of his canoe on his way to Quebec. Afterward Marquette 
 returned to the Illinois Indians by their request, and ministered to them 
 until 1675. On the 18th of May, in that year, as he was passing the 
 mouth of a stream going with his boatmen up Lake Michigan he asked 
 to land at its mouth and celebrate Mass. Leaving his men with the canoe, 
 he retired a short distance and began his devotions. As much time 
 passed and he did not return, his men went in search of him, and found 
 him upon his knees, dead. He had peacefully passed away while at 
 prayer. He was buried at this spot. Charlevoix, who visited the place 
 fifty years after, found the waters had retreated from the grave, leaving 
 the beloved missionary to repose in peace. The river has since been 
 called Marquette. 
 
 While Marquette and his companions were pursuing their labors in 
 the West, two men, differing widely from him and each other, were pre- 
 paring to follow in his footsteps and perfect the discoveries so well begun 
 by him. These were Robert de LaSalle and Louis Hennepin. 
 
 After La Salle's return from the discovery of the Ohio River (see 
 the narrative elsewhere), he established himself again among the French 
 trading posts in Canada. Here he mused long upon the pet project of 
 those ages a short way to China and the East, and was busily planning an 
 expedition up the great lakes, and so across the continent to the Pacific, 
 when Marquette returned from the Mississippi. At once the vigorous mind 
 of LaSalle received from his and his companions' stories the idea that by fol- 
 lowing the Great River northward, or by turning up some of the numerous 
 western tributaries, the object could easily be gained. He applied to 
 Frontenac, Governor General of Canada, and laid before him the plan, 
 dim but gigantic. Frontenac entered warmly into his plans, and saw that 
 LaSalle's idea to connect the great lakes by a chain of forts with the Gulf 
 of Mexico would bind the country so wonderfully together, give un- 
 measured power to France, and glory to himself, under whose adminis- 
 tration he earnestly hoped all would be realized. 
 
 LaSalle now repaired to France, laid his plans before the King, who 
 warmly approVed of them, and made him a Chevalier. He also received 
 from all the noblemen the warmest wishes for his success. The Chev-
 
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 alier returned to Canada, and busily entered upon his work. He at 
 once rebuilt Fort Frontenac and constructed the first ship to sail on 
 these fresh-water seas. On the 7th of August, 1679, having been joined 
 by Hennepin, he began his voyage in the Griffin up Lake Erie. He 
 passed over this lake, through the straits beyond, up Lake St. Clair and 
 into Huron. In this lake they encountered heavy storms. They were 
 some time at Michillimackinac, where LaSalle founded a fort, and passed 
 on to Green Bay, the " Baie des Puans " of the French, where he found 
 a large quantity of furs collected for him. He loaded the Griffin with 
 these, and placing her under the care of a pilot and fourteen sailors, 
 
 LA SALLE LANDING ON THE SHORE OF GREEN BAY. 
 
 started her on her return voyage. The vessel was never afterward heard 
 of. He remained about these parts until early in the Winter, when, hear- 
 ing nothing from the Griffin, he collected all his men thirty working 
 men and three monks and started again upon his great undertaking. 
 By a short portage they passed to the Illinois or Kankakee, called by 
 the Indians, " Theakeke," wolf, because of the tribes of Indians called 
 by that name, commonly known as the Mahingans, dwelling there. The 
 French pronounced it Kiakiki, which became corrupted to Kankakee. 
 " Falling down the said river by easy journeys, the better to observe the 
 country," about the last of December they reached a village of the. 
 Illinois Indians, containing some five hundred cabins, but at that moment
 
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 no inhabitants. The Seur de LaSalle being in want of some breadstuff's, 
 took advantage of the absence of the Indians to help himself to a suffi- 
 ciency of maize, large quantities of which he found concealed in holes 
 under the wigwams. This village was situated near the present village 
 of Utica in LaSalle County, Illinois. The corn being securely stored, 
 the voyagers again betook themselves to the stream, and toward evening, 
 on the 4th day of January, 1680, they came into a lake which must have 
 been the lake of Peoria. This was called by the Indians Pim-i-te-wi, thac 
 is, a place where there are many fat beasts. Here the natives were met 
 with in large numbers, but they were gentle and kind, and having spent 
 some time with them, LaSalle determined to erect another fort in that 
 place, for he had heard rumors that some of the adjoining tribes were 
 trying to disturb the good feeling which existed, and some of his men 
 were disposed to complain, owing tp the hardships and perils of the travel. 
 He called this fort " Crevecceur" (broken-heart), a name expressive of the 
 very natural sorrow and anxiety which the pretty certain loss of his ship, 
 Griffin, and his consequent impoverishment, the danger of hostility on the 
 part of the Indians, and of mutiny among his own men, might well cause 
 him. His fears were not entirely groundless. At one time poison was 
 placed in his food, but fortunately was discovered. 
 
 While building this fort, the Winter wore away, the prairies began to 
 look green, and LaSalle, despairing of any reinforcements, concluded to 
 return to Canada, raise new means and new men, and embark anew in 
 the enterprise. For this purpose he made Hennepin the leader of a party 
 to explore the head waters of the Mississippi, and he set out on his jour- 
 ney. This journey was accomplished with the aid of a few persons, and 
 was successfully made, though over an almost unknown route, and in a 
 bad season of the year. He safely reached Canada, and set out again for 
 the object of his search. 
 
 Hennepin and his party left Fort Crevecceur on the last of February, 
 1680. When LaSalle reached this place on his return expedition, he 
 found the fort entirely deserted, and he was obliged to return again to 
 Canada. He embarked the third time, and succeeded. Seven days after 
 leaving the fort, Hennepin reached the Mississippi, and paddling up the 
 icy stream as best he could, reached no higher than the Wisconsin River 
 by the llth of April. Here he and his followers were taken prisoners by a 
 band of Northern Indians, who treated them with great kindness. Hen- 
 nepin's comrades were Anthony Auguel and Michael Ako. On this voy- 
 age they found several beautiful lakes, and " saw some charming prairies." 
 Their captors were the Isaute or Sauteurs, Chippewas, a tribe of the Sioux 
 nation, who took them up the river until about the first of May, when 
 they reached some falls, which Hennepin christened Falls of St. Anthony
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
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 in honor of his patron saint. Here they took the land, and traveling 
 nearly two hundred miles to the northwest, brought them to their villages. 
 Here they were kept about three months, were treated kindly by their 
 captors, and at the end of that time, were met by a band of Frenchmen, 
 
 BUFFALO HUNT. 
 
 headed by one Seur de Luth, who, in pursuit of trade and game, had pene- 
 trated thus far by the route of Lake Superior ; and with these fellow- 
 countrymen Hennepin and his companions were allowed to return to the 
 borders of civilized life in November, 1680, just after LaSalle had 
 returned to the wilderness on his second trip. Hennepin soon after went 
 to France, where he published an account of his adventures.
 
 28 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 The Mississippi was first discovered by De Soto in April, 1541, in his 
 vain endeavor to find gold and precious gems. In the following Spring, 
 De Soto, weary with hope long deferred, and worn out with his wander- 
 ings, he fell a victim to disease, and on the 21st of May died. His followers, 
 reduced by fatigue and disease to less than three hundred men, wandered 
 about the country nearly a year, in the vain endeavor to rescue them- 
 selves by land, and finally constructed seven small vessels, called brigan- 
 tines, in which they embarked, and descending the river, supposing it 
 would lead them to the sea, in July they came to the sea (Gulf of 
 Mexico), and by September reached the Island of Cuba. 
 
 They were the first to see the great outlet of the Mississippi ; but, 
 being so weary and discouraged, made no attempt to claim the country, 
 and hardly had an intelligent idea of what they had passed through. 
 
 To La Salle, the intrepid explorer, belongs the honor of giving the 
 first account of the mouths of the river. His great desire was to possess 
 this entire country for his king, and in January, 1682, he and his band of 
 explorers left the shores of Lake Michigan on their third attempt, crossed 
 the portage, passed down the Illinois River, and on the 6th of February, 
 reached the banks of the Mississippi. 
 
 On the 13th they commenced their downward course, which they 
 pursued with but one interruption, until upon the 6th of March they dis- 
 covered the three great passages by which the liver discharges its waters 
 into the gulf. La Salle thus narrates the event : 
 
 " We landed on the bank of the most western channel, about three 
 leagues (nine miles) from its mouth. On the seventh, M. de LaSalle 
 went to recoimoiter the shores of the neighboring sea, and M. de Tonti 
 meanwhile examined the great middle channel. They found the main 
 outlets beautiful, large and deep. On the 8th we reascended the river, a 
 little above its confluence with the sea, to find a dry place beyond the 
 reR-ch of inundations. The elevation of the North Pole was here about 
 twenty-seven degrees. Here we prepared a column and a cross, and to 
 the column were affixed the arms of France with this inscription : 
 
 Louis Le Grand, Roi De France et de Navarre, regne ; Le neuvicme Avril, 1682. 
 
 The whole party, under arms, chanted the Te Deum, and then, after 
 a salute and cries of " Vive le Roi" the column was erected by M. de 
 LaSalle, who, standing near it, proclaimed in a loud voice the authority of 
 the King of France. LaSalle returned and laid the foundations of the Mis- 
 sissippi settlements in Illinois, thence he proceeded to France, where 
 another expedition was fitted out, of which he was commander, and in two 
 succeeding voyages failed to find the outlet of the river by sailing along 
 the shore of the gulf. On his third voyage he was killed, through the
 
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 treachery of his followers, and the object of his expeditions was not 
 accomplished until 1699, when D'Iberville, under the authority of the 
 crown, discovered, on the second of March, by way of the sea, the mouth 
 of the " Hidden River." This majestic stream was called by the natives 
 44 Malbouchia," and by the Spaniards, " la Palissade" from the great 
 
 TRAPPING. 
 
 number of trees about its mouth. After traversing the several outlets, 
 and satisfying himself as to its certainty, he erected a fort near its 
 western outlet, and returned to France. 
 
 An avenue of trade was now opened out which was fully improved. 
 In 1718, New Orleans was laid out and settled by some European colon- 
 ists. In 1762, the colony was made over to Spain, to be regained by 
 France under the consulate of Napoleon. In 1803, it was purchased by
 
 30 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 the United States for the sum of fifteen million dollars, and the territory 
 of Louisiana and commerce of the Mississippi River came under the 
 charge of the United States. Although LaSalle's labors ended in defeat 
 and death, he had not worked and suffered in vain. He had thrown 
 open to France and the world an immense and most valuable country ; 
 had established several ports, and laid the foundations of more than one 
 settlement there. " Peoria, Kaskaskia and Cahokia, are to this day monu- 
 ments of LaSalle's labors ; for, though he had founded neither of them 
 (unless Peoria, which was built nearly upon the site of Fort Crevecceur,) 
 it was by those whom he led into the West that these places were 
 peopled and civilized. He was, if not the discoverer, the first settler of 
 the Mississippi Valley, and as such deserves to be known and honored." 
 
 The French early improved the opening made for them. Before the 
 year 1698, the Rev. Father Gravier began a mission among the Illinois, 
 and founded Kaskaskia. For some time this was merely a missionary 
 station, where none but natives resided, it being one of three such vil- 
 lages, tlie other two being Cahokia and Peoria. What is known of 
 these missions is learned from a letter written by Father Gabriel- Marest, 
 dated " Aux Cascaskias, autrement dit de I'lmmaculate Conception de 
 la Sainte Vierge, le 9 Novembre, 1712." Soon after the founding of 
 Kaskaskia, the missionary, Pinet, gathered a flock at Cahokia, while 
 Peoria arose near the ruins of Fort Crevecoaur. This must have been 
 about the year 1700. The post at Vincennes on the Oubache river, 
 (pronounced Wa-ba, meaning summer cloud moving swiftly) was estab- 
 lished in 1702, according to the best authorities.* It is altogether prob- 
 able that on LaSalle's last trip he established the stations at Kaskaskia 
 and Cahokia. In July, 1701, the foundations of Fort Ponchartrain 
 were laid by De la Motte Cadillac on the Detroit River. These sta- 
 tions, with those established further north, were the earliest attempts to 
 occupy the Northwest Territory. At the same time efforts were being 
 made to occupy the Southwest, which finally culminated in the settle- 
 ment and founding of the City of New Orleans by a colony from England 
 in 1718. This was mainly accomplished through the efforts of the 
 famous Mississippi Company, established by the notorious John Law, 
 who so quickly arose into prominence in France, and who with his 
 scheme so quickly and so ignominiously passed away. 
 
 From the time of the founding of these stations for fifty years the 
 French nation were engrossed Avith the settlement of the lower Missis- 
 sippi, and the war with the Chicasaws, who had, in revenge for repeated 
 
 There is considerable dispute about this date, some asserting it was founded as late as 1742. When 
 the new court house at Vincennes was erected, all authorities on the subject were carefully examined, and 
 1702 fixed upon as the correct date. It was accordingly engraved on the corner-stone of the court house.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 31 
 
 injuries, cut off the entire colony at Natchez. Although the company 
 did little for Louisiana, as the entire West was then called, yet it opened 
 the trade through the Mississippi River, and started the raising of grains 
 indigenous to that climate. Until the year 1750, but little is known of 
 the settlements in the Northwest, as it was not until this time that the 
 attention of the English was called to the occupation of this portion of the 
 New World, which they then supposed they owned. Vivier, a missionary 
 among the Illinois, writing from " Aux Illinois," six leagues from Fort 
 Chartres, June 8, 1750, says: "We have here whites, negroes and 
 Indians, to say nothing of cross-breeds. There are five French villages, 
 and three villages of the natives, within a space of twenty-one leagues 
 situated between the Mississippi and another river called the Karkadaid 
 (Kaskaskias). In the five French villages are, perhaps, eleven hundred 
 whites, three hundred blacks and some sixty red slaves or savages. The 
 three Illinois towns do not contain more than eight hundred souls all 
 told. Most of the French till the soil; they raise wheat, cattle, pigs and 
 horses, and live like princes. Three times as much is produced as can 
 be consumed ; and great quantities of grain and flour are sent to New 
 Orleans." This city was now the seaport town of the Northwest, and 
 save in the extreme northern part, where only furs and copper ore were 
 found, almost all the products of the country found their way to France 
 by the mouth of the Father of Waters. In another letter, dated Novem- 
 ber 7, 1750, this same priest says : " For fifteen leagues above the 
 mouth of the Mississippi one sees no dwellings, the ground being too low 
 to be habitable. Thence to New Orleans, the lands are only partially 
 occupied. New Orleans contains black, white and red, not more, I 
 think, than twelve hundred persons. To this point come all lumber, 
 bricks, salt-beef, tallow, tar, skins and bear's grease ; and above all, pork 
 and flour from the Illinois. These things create some commerce, as forty 
 vessels and more have come hither this year. Above New Orleans, 
 plantations are again met with ; the most considerable is a colony of 
 Germans, some ten leagues up the river. At Point Coupee, thirty -five 
 leagues above the German settlement, is a fort. Along here, within five 
 or six leagues, are not less than sixty habitations. Fifty leagues farther 
 up is the Natchez post, where we have a garrison, who are kept prisoners 
 through fear of the Chickasaws. Here and at Point Coupee, they raise 
 excellent tobacco. Another hundred leagues brings us to the Arkansas, 
 where we have also a fort and a garrison for the benefit of the river 
 traders. * * * From the Arkansas to the Illinois, nearly five hundred 
 leagues, there is not a settlement. There should be, however, a fort at 
 the Oubache (Ohio), the only path by which the English can reach the 
 Mississippi. In the Illinois country are numberless mines, but no one to
 
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 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 work them as they deserve." Father Marest, writing from the post at 
 Vincennes in 181 2, makes the same observation. Vivier also says : " Some 
 individuals dig lead near the surface and supply the Indians and Canada. 
 Two Spaniards now here, who claim to be adepts, say that our mines are 
 like those of Mexico, and that if we would dig deeper, we should find 
 silver under the lead ; and at any rate the lead is excellent. There is also 
 in this country, beyond doubt, copper ore, as from time to time large 
 pieces are found in the streams." 
 
 HUNTING. 
 
 At the close of the year 1750, the French occupied, in addition to the 
 lower Mississippi posts and those in Illinois, one at Du Quesne, one at 
 the Maumee in the country of the Miamis, and one at Sandusky in what 
 may be termed the Ohio Valley. In the northern part of the Northwest 
 they had stations at St. Joseph's on the St. Joseph's of Lake Michigan, 
 at Fort Ponchartrain (Detroit), at Michillimackanac or Massillimacanac, 
 Fox River of Green Bay, and at Sault Ste. Marie. The fondest dreams of 
 LaSalle were now fully realized. The French alone were possessors of 
 this vast realm, basing their claim on discovery and settlement. Another 
 nation, however, was now turning its attention to this extensive country,
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 33 
 
 and hearing of its wealth, began to lay plans for occupying it and for 
 securing the great profits arising therefrom. 
 
 The French, however, had another claim to this country, namely, the 
 
 DISCOVERY OF THE OHIO. 
 
 This " Beautiful" river WPS discovered by Robert Cavalier de La- 
 Salle in 1669, four years before the discovery of the Mississippi by Joliet 
 and Marquette. 
 
 While LaSalle was at his trading post on the St. Lawrence, he found 
 leisure to study nine Indian dialects, the chief of which was the Iroquois. 
 He not only desired to facilitate his intercourse in trade, but he longed 
 to travel and explore the unknown regions of the West. An incident 
 soon occurred which decided him to fit out an exploring expedition. 
 
 While conversing with some Senecas, he learned of a river called the 
 Ohio, which rose in their country and flowed to the sea, but at such a 
 distance that it required eight months to reach its mouth. In this state- 
 ment the Mississippi and its tributaries were considered as one stream. 
 LaSalle believing, as most of the French at that period did, that the great 
 rivers flowing west emptied into the Sea of California, was anxious to 
 embark in the enterprise of discovering a route across the continent to 
 the commerce of China and Japan. 
 
 He repaired at once to Quebec to obtain the approval of the Gov- 
 ernor. His eloquent appeal prevailed. The Governor and the Intendant, 
 Talon, issued letters patent authorizing the enterprise, but made no pro- 
 vision to defray the expenses. At this juncture the seminary of St. Sul- 
 pice decided to send out missionaries in connection with the expedition, 
 and LaSalle offering to sell his improvements at LaChine to raise money, 
 the offer was accepted by the Superior, and two thousand eight hundred 
 dollars were raised, with which LaSalle purchased four canoes and the 
 necessary supplies for the outfit. 
 
 On the 6th of July, 1669, the party, numbering twenty-four persons, 
 embarked in seven canoes on the St. Lawrence ; two additional canoes 
 carried the Indian guides. In three days they were gliding over the 
 bosom of Lake Ontario. Their guides conducted them directly to the 
 Seneca village on the bank of the Genesee, in the vicinity of the present 
 City of Rochester, New York. Here they expected to procure guides to 
 conduct them to the Ohio, but in this they were disappointed. 
 
 The Indians seemed unfriendly to the enterprise. LaSalle suspected 
 that the Jesuits had prejudiced their minds against his plans. After 
 waiting a month in the hope of gaining their object, they met an Indian
 
 34 
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 from the Iroquois colony at the head of Lake Ontario, who assured them 
 that they could there find guides, and offered to conduct them thence. 
 
 On their way they passed the mouth of the Niagara River, when they 
 heard for the first time the distant thunder of the cataract. Arriving 
 
 OH IK*'. 
 
 among the Iroquois, they met with a friendly reception, and learned 
 from a Shawanee prisoner that they could reach the Ohio in six weeks. 
 Delighted with the unexpected good fortune, they made ready to resume 
 their journey ; but just as they were about to start they heard of the 
 arrival of two Frenchmen in a neighboring village. One of them proved 
 to be Louis Joliet, afterwards famous as an explorer in the West. He
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 History Northwest Territory 19 
 
 Geographical 19 
 
 HISTORICAL. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Other Indian Troubles 79 
 
 Present Condition of the Northwest 87 
 
 Early Exploration 20 Illinois 99 
 
 Discovery of the Ohio 33 I Indiana 101 
 
 English Explorations and Settle- j Iowa 102 
 
 ments 35 | Michigan 103 
 
 American Settlements 60 Wisconsin 104 
 
 Division of the Northwest Terri- 
 tory 66 
 
 Tecumseh and the war of 1812 70 
 
 Black Hawk and the Black Hawk 
 War 74 
 
 Minnesota ..106 
 
 Nebraska 107 
 
 History of Illinois 109 
 
 Coal 125 
 
 Compact of 1787 117 
 
 PAEG. 
 
 History of Chicago 132 
 
 Early Discoveries 109 
 
 Early Settlements 115 
 
 Education 129- 
 
 First French Occupation 112 
 
 Genius of La Salle 113 
 
 Material Resources 124 
 
 Massacre of Fort Dearborn 141 
 
 Physical Features 121 
 
 Progress of Development 123 
 
 Religion and Morale 128 
 
 War Record of Illinois 130 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Source of the Mississippi 21 
 
 Mouth of the Mississippi 21 
 
 Wild Prairie 23 
 
 La Salle Landing on the Shore of 
 
 Green Bay 25 
 
 Buffalo Hunt 27 
 
 Trapping 29 
 
 Hunting 32 
 
 Iroquois Chief. 34 
 
 Pontiac, the Ottawa Chieftain 43 
 
 Indians Attacking Frontiersmen... 56 
 
 A Prairie Storm 59 
 
 A Pioneer Dwelling 61 
 
 Breaking Prairie 63 
 
 ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 Tecumseh, the Shawnee' Chieftain... 69 
 
 Indians Attacking a Stockade 72 
 
 Black Hawk, the Sac Chieftain 75 
 
 Big Eagle 80 
 
 Captain Jack, the Modoc Chieftain.. 83 
 
 Kinzie House 85 
 
 Village Residence 86 
 
 A Representative Pioneer 87 
 
 Lincoln Monument, Springfield, 111. 88 
 
 A Pioneer School House 89 
 
 Farm View in the Winter 90 
 
 Spring Scene 91 
 
 Pioneers' First Winter 92 
 
 High Bridge and Lake Bluff 94 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Great Iron Bridge of Chicago, Rock 
 Island & Pacific Railroad, Cross- 
 ing the River at Davenport, Iowa 96 
 
 A Western Dwelling 100 
 
 Hunting Prairie Wolves at an 
 
 Early Day 108 
 
 Starved Rock, on the Illinois River, 
 
 La Salle County, 111 110 
 
 An Early Settlement 116 
 
 Chicago in 1833 133 
 
 Old Fort Dearborn in 1830 136 
 
 Ruins of Chicago 142 
 
 View of the City of Chicago 144 
 
 Shabbona 149- 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 General History of Kane Co 221 
 
 Aurora Township 270 
 
 Batavia " 296 
 
 Blackberry " 473 
 
 Burlington " 480 
 
 Big Rock " 488 
 
 KANE < 01 VIY HISTORY. 
 
 PAE. 
 Campton Townehip 465 
 
 Dundee 
 
 Elgin 
 
 Geneva 
 
 Hampshire 
 
 Kaneville 
 
 ..396 
 
 357 
 
 311 
 
 457 
 
 422 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Plato Township 449 
 
 Rutland " 442 
 
 St. Charles " 329 
 
 Sugar Grove Township 411 
 
 Virgil " 430 
 
 LITHOGRAPHIC: PORTRAITS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Browning, S. W 183 
 
 Borden, Gail 237 
 
 Burlingame, D. E 525 
 
 Barrows, M.T 550 
 
 Crabtree, L. A 201 
 
 Chisholm, R. B 471 
 
 Farusworth. A. P 165 
 
 Gillett, L. H 147 
 
 Herrington, A. M 255 
 
 Kelley, L. M 
 
 Ketchum, E. G 
 
 Mann, S. S 
 
 .Minimi. Ira 
 
 Mann, James 
 
 Mixer. Cbas. S 
 
 Merrill, Arthur H., 
 
 Manu, A. J , 
 
 Pingree, Daniel.... 
 
 PAGE. I PAGK. 
 
 , 381 Pingree, Andrew 363 
 
 489 Starks, E. R 543 
 
 219 TOWN, M. C 291 
 
 309 Tabor, Mervin 399 
 
 345 Teflt, Dr. Jos 417 
 
 435 ! Wheeler. H. N 273 
 
 5(17 Wheeler, A. R 507 
 
 453 j 
 
 327 , 
 
 U i \ 1. COUNTY WAR RECORD. 
 
 PAGE. PAGE. I 
 Infantry 497 Cavalry 537 | Artillery 
 
 545.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 Aurora Township 737 
 
 Batavia 
 Blackberry " 
 Burlington " 
 Big Rock 
 Campton " 
 
 TOWNSHIP DIRECTORY. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Dundee Township 560 
 
 Elgin " iiC8 
 
 Geneva " 551 
 
 Hampshire ' 559 
 
 Kaneville " i;->5 
 
 Plato Township 
 
 Rutland " 
 St. Charles " 
 Sugar Grove " 
 Virgil " 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 732 
 
 722 
 
 637 
 
 654 
 
 700 
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Adoption of Children 160 
 
 Bills of Exchange and Promissory 
 
 Notes 151 
 
 County Courts 155 
 
 Conveyances 164 
 
 Church Organizations 189 
 
 Descent 151 
 
 Deeds and Mortgages 157 
 
 Drainage 163 
 
 Damages from Trespass 169 
 
 Definition of Commercial Terms 173 
 
 Exemptions from Forced Sale 156 
 
 Estrays 157 
 
 Fences 168 
 
 Forms : 
 
 Articles of Agreement 175 
 
 Bills of Purchase 174 
 
 Bills of Sale 176 ! 
 
 Bonds 176 | 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Chattel Mortgages 177 
 
 Codicil 189 
 
 Lease of Farm and Build- 
 ings , 179 
 
 Lease of House 180 
 
 Landlord's Agreement 180 
 
 Notes 174 
 
 Notice Tenant to Quit 181 
 
 Orders 174 
 
 Quit Claim Deed 185 
 
 Receipt 174 
 
 Real Estate Mortgaged to Secure 
 
 Payment of Money 181 
 
 Release 186 
 
 Tenant's Agreement 180 
 
 Tenant's Notice to Quit 181 
 
 Warranty Deed 182 
 
 Will , 187 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Game 158 
 
 Interest 151 
 
 Jurisdiction of Courts 154 
 
 Limitation of Action 155 
 
 Landlord and Tenant 169 
 
 Liens 172 
 
 Married Women 156 
 
 Millers 159 
 
 Marks and Brands 159 
 
 Paupers 164 
 
 Roads and Bridges 161 
 
 Surveyors and Surveys 160 
 
 Suggestions to Persons Purchasing 
 
 Books by Subscription 190 
 
 Taxes 154 
 
 Wills and Estates 152 
 
 Weights and Measures 158 
 
 Wolf Scalps 164 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Map of Kane County Front 
 
 Constitution of the U. S 192 
 
 Electors of President and Vice Pres- 
 ident 206 
 
 Practical Rules for Every Day Use.207 
 U. S. Government Land Measure. ..210 
 Agricultural Productions of Illi- 
 nois by Counties, 1870 210 
 
 Surveyors' Measure 211 
 
 How to Keep Accounts 211 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Interest Table 212 
 
 Miscellaneous Tables 212 
 
 Names of the States of the Union 
 
 and their Signification 213 
 
 Population of the United States 214 
 
 Population of Fifty Principal Cities 
 
 of the United States 214 
 
 Population and Area of the United 
 
 States 215 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Population of the Principal Coun- 
 tries in the World 215 
 
 Population of Illinois 216-217 
 
 Elgin National Guards 548 
 
 Aurora Light Guards 548 
 
 Errata 550 
 
 Business Directory 810 
 
 Assessors' Report 822 
 
 Population of Kane County 826
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 35 
 
 had been sent by the Canadian Government to explore the copper mines 
 on Lake Superior, but had failed, and was on his way back to Quebec. 
 He gave the missionaries a map of the country he had explored in the 
 lake region, together with an account of the condition of the Indians in 
 that quarter. This induced the priests to determine on leaving the 
 expedition and going to Lake Superior. LaSalle warned them that the 
 Jesuits were probably occupying that field, and that they would meet 
 with a cold reception. Nevertheless they persisted in their purpose, and 
 after worship on the lake shore, parted from LaSalle. On arriving at 
 Lake Superior, they found, as LaSalle had predicted, the Jesuit Fathers, 
 Marquette and Dablon, occupying the field. 
 
 These zealous disciples of Loyola informed them that they wanted 
 no assistance from St. Sulpice, nor from those who made him their patron 
 saint ; and thus repulsed, they returned to Montreal the following June 
 without having made a single discovery or converted a single Indian. 
 
 After parting with the priests, LaSalle went to the chief Iroquois 
 village at Onondaga,. where he obtained guides, and passing thence to a 
 tributary of the Ohio south of Lake Erie, he descended the latter as far 
 as the falls at Louisville. Thus was the Ohio discovered by LaSalle, the 
 persevering and successful French explorer of the West, in 1669. 
 
 The account of the latter part of his journey is found in an anony- 
 mous paper, which purports to have been taken from the lips of LaSalle 
 himself during a subsequent visit to Paris. In a letter written to Count 
 Frontenac in 1667, shortly after the discovery, he himself says that he 
 discovered the Ohio and descended it to the falls. This was regarded as 
 an indisputable fact by the French authorities, who claimed the Ohio 
 Valley upon another ground. When Washington was sent by the colony 
 of Virginia in 1753, to demand of Gordeur de St. Pierre why the French 
 had built a fort on the Monongahela, the haughty commandant at Quebec 
 replied : " We claim the country on the Ohio by virtue of the discoveries 
 of LaSalle, and will not give it up to the English. Our orders are to 
 make prisoners of every Englishman found trading in the Ohio Valley." 
 
 ENGLISH EXPLORATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 When the new year of 1750 broke in upon the Father of Waters 
 and the Great Northwest, all was still wild save at the French posts 
 already described. In 1749, when the English first began to think seri- 
 ously about sending men into the West, the greater portion of the States 
 of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were yet 
 under the dominion of the red men. The English knew, however, pretty
 
 36 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 conclusively of the nature of the wealth of these wilds. As early as 
 1710, Governor Spotswood, of Virginia, had commenced movements to 
 secure the country west of the Alleghenies to the English crown. In 
 Pennsylvania, Governor Keith and James Logan, secretary of the prov- 
 ince, from 1719 to 1731, represented to the powers of England the neces- 
 sity of securing the Western lands. Nothing was done, however, by that 
 power save to take some diplomatic steps to secure the claims of Britain 
 to this unexplored wilderness. 
 
 England had from the outset claimed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, 
 on the ground that the discovery of the seacoast and its possession was a 
 discovery and possession of the country, and, as is well known, her grants 
 to the colonies extended " from sea to sea." This was not all her claim. 
 She had purchased from the Indian tribes large tracts of land. This lat- 
 ter was also a strong argument. As early as 1684, Lord H oward, Gov- 
 ernor of Virginia, held a treaty with the six nations. These were the 
 great Northern Confederacy, and comprised at first the Mohawks, Onei- 
 das, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. Afterward the Tuscaroras were 
 taken into the confederacy, and it became known as the Six NATIONS, 
 They came under the protection of the mother country, and again in 
 1701, they repeated the agreement, and in September, 1726, a formal deed 
 was drawn up and signed by the chiefs. The validity of this claim has 
 often been disputed, but never successfully. In 1744, a purchase was 
 made at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of certain lands within the " Colony of 
 Virginia," for which the Indians received .200 in gold and a like sum in 
 goods, with a promise that, as settlements increased, more should be paid. 
 The Commissioners from Virginia were Colonel Thomas Lee and Colonel 
 William Beverly. As settlements extended, the promise of more pay was 
 called to mind, and Mr. Conrad Weiser was sent across the mountains with 
 presents to appease the savages. Col. Lee, and some Virginians accompa- 
 nied him with the intention of sounding the Indians upon their feelings 
 regarding the English. They were not satisfied with their treatment, 
 and plainly told the Commissioners why. The English did not desire the 
 cultivation of the country, but the monopoly of the Indian trade. In 
 1748, the Ohio Company was formed, and petitioned the king for a grant 
 of land beyond the Alleghenies. This was granted, and the government 
 of Virginia was ordered to grant to them a half million acres, two hun- 
 dred thousand of which were to be located at once. Upon the 12th of 
 June, 1749, 800,000 acres from the line of Canada north and west was 
 made to the Loyal Company, and on the 29th of October, 1751, 100,000 
 acres were given to the Greenbriar Company. All this time the French 
 were not idle. They saw that, should the British gain a foothold in the 
 West, especially upon the Ohio, they might not only prevent the French
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 37 
 
 settling upon it, but in time would come to the lower posts and so gain 
 possession of the whole country. Upon the 10th of May, 1774, Vaud- 
 reuil, Governor of Canada and the French possessions, well knowing the 
 consequences that must arise from allowing the English to build trading- 
 posts in the Northwest, seized some of their frontier posts, and to further 
 secure the claim of the French to the West, he, in 1749, sent Louis Cel- 
 eron with a party of soldiers to plant along the Ohio River, in the mounds 
 and at the mouths of its principal tributaries, plates of lead, on which 
 were inscribed the claims of France. These were heard of in 1752, and 
 within the memory of residents now living along the " Oyo," as the 
 beautiful river was called by the French. One of these plates was found 
 with the inscription partly defaced. It bears date August 16, 1749, and 
 a copy of the inscription with particular account of the discovery of the 
 plate, was sent by DeWitt Clinton to the American Antiquarian Society, 
 among whose journals it may now be found.* These measures did not, 
 however, deter the English from going on with their explorations, and 
 though neither party resorted to arms, yet the conflict was gathering, and 
 it was only a question of time when the storm would burst upon the 
 frontier settlements. In 1750, Christopher Gist was sent by the Ohio 
 Company to examine its lands. He went to a village of the Twigtwees, 
 on the Miami, about one hundred and fifty miles above its mouth. He 
 afterward spoke of it as very populous. From there he went down 
 the Ohio River nearly to the falls at the present City of Louisville, 
 and in November he commenced a survey of the Company's lands. Dur- 
 ing the Winter, General Andrew Lewis performed a similar work for the 
 Greenbriar Company. Meanwhile the French were busy in preparing 
 their forts for defense, and in opening roads, and also sent a small party 
 of soldiers to keep the Ohio clear. This party, having heard of the Eng- 
 lish post on the Miami River, early in 1652, assisted by the Ottawas and 
 Chippewas, attacked it, and, after a severe battle, in which fourteen of 
 the natives were killed and others wounded, captured the garrison. 
 (They were probably garrisoned in a block house). The traders were 
 carried away to Canada, and one account says several were burned. This 
 fort or post was called by the English Pickawillany. A memorial of the 
 king's ministers refers to it as " Pickawillanes, in the center of the terri- 
 tory between the Ohio and the Wabash. The name is probably some 
 variation of Pickaway or Picqua in 1773, written by Rev. David Jones 
 Pickaweke." 
 
 * The following is a translation of the inscription on the plate: "In the year 1749. reign of Louis XV., 
 King of France, we, Celeron, commandant of a detachment by Monsieur the Marquis of Galllsoniere, com- 
 inander-in-chief of New France, to establish trancjuility in certain Indian villages of these cantons, have 
 buried this plate at the confluence of the Toradakoin, this twenty- ninth of July, near the river Ohio, otherwise 
 , Beautiful River, as a monument of renewal of possession which we have taken of the said river, and all its 
 tributaries; inasmuch as the preceding Kings of France have enjoyed it, and maintained it by their arms and 
 treaties; especially by those of Ryswick, Utrecht, and Aix La Chapelle."
 
 88 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 
 
 This was the first blood shed between the French and English, and 
 occurred near the present City of Piqua, Ohio, or at least at a point about 
 forty-seven miles north of Dayton. Each nation became now more inter- 
 ested in the progress of events in the Northwest. The English deter- 
 mined to purchase from the Indians a title to the lands they wished to 
 occupy, and Messrs. Fry (afterward Commander-in-chief over Washing- 
 ton at the commencement of the French War of 1775-1763), Lomax and 
 Patton were sent in the Spring of 1752 to hold a conference with the 
 natives at Logstown to learn what they objected to in the treaty of Lan- 
 caster already noticed, and to settle all difficulties. On the 9th of June, 
 these Commissioners met the red men at Logstown, a little village on the 
 north bank of the Ohio, about seventeen miles below the site of Pitts- 
 burgh. Here had been a trading point for many years, but it was aban- 
 doned by the Indians in 1750. At first the Indians declined to recognize 
 the treaty of Lancaster, but, the Commissioners taking aside Montour, 
 the interpreter, who was a son of the famous Catharine Montour, and a 
 chief among the six nations, induced him to use his influence in their 
 favor. This he did, and upon the 13th of June they all united in signing 
 a deed, confirming the Lancaster treaty in its full extent, consenting to a 
 settlement of the southeast of the Ohio, and guaranteeing that it should 
 not be disturbed by them. These were the means used to obtain the first 
 treaty with the Indians in the Ohio Valley. 
 
 Meanwhile the powers beyond the sea were trying to out-manoeuvre 
 each other, and were professing to be at peace. The English generally 
 outwitted the Indians, and failed in many instances to fulfill their con- 
 tracts. They thereby gained the ill-will of the red men, and further 
 increased the feeling by failing to provide them with arms and ammuni- 
 tion. Said an old chief, at Easton, in 1758: " The Indians on the Ohio 
 left you because of your own fault. When we heard the French were 
 coming, we asked you for help and arms, but we did not get them. The 
 French came, they treated us kindly, and gained our affections. The 
 Governor of Virginia settled on our lands for his own benefit, and, when 
 we wanted help, forsook us." 
 
 At the beginning of 1653, the English thought they had secured by 
 title the lands in the West, but the French had quietly gathered cannon 
 and military stores to be in readiness for the expected blow. The Eng- 
 lish made other attempts to ratify these existing treaties, but not until 
 the Summer could the Indians be gathered together to discuss the plans 
 of the French. They had sent messages to the French, warning them 
 away ; but they replied, that they intended to complete the chain of forts 
 alread}' begun, and would not abandon the field. 
 
 Soon after this, no satisfaction being obtained from the Ohio regard-
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 39 
 
 ing the positions and purposes of the French, Governor Dinwiddie of 
 Virginia determined to send to them another messenger and learn from 
 them, if possible, their intentions. For this purpose he selected a young 
 man, a surveyor, who, at the early age of nineteen, had received the rank 
 of major, and who was thoroughly posted regarding frontier life. This 
 personage was no other than the illustrious George Washington, who then 
 held considerable interest in Western lands. He was at this time just 
 twenty-two years of age. Taking Gist as his guide, the two, accompanied 
 by four servitors, set out on their perilous march. They left Will's ' 
 Creek on the 10th of November, 1753, and on the 22d reached the Monon- 
 gahela, about ten miles above the fork. From there they went to 
 Logstown, where Washington had a long conference with the chiefs of 
 the Six Nations. From them he learned the condition of the French, and 
 also heard of their determination not to come down the river till the fol- 
 lowing Spring. The Indians were non-committal, as they were afraid to 
 turn either way, and, as far as they could, desired to remain neutral. 
 Washington, finding nothing could be done with them, went on to 
 Venango, an old Indian town at the mouth of French Creek. Here the 
 French had a fort, called Fort Machault. Through the rum and flattery 
 of the French, he nearly lost all his Indian followers. Finding nothing 
 of importance here, he pursued his way amid great privations, and on the 
 llth of December reached the fort at the head of French Creek. Here 
 he delivered Governor Dinwiddie's letter, received his answer, took his 
 observations, and on the 16th set out upon his return journey with no one 
 but Gist, his guide, and a few Indians who still remained true to him, 
 notwithstanding the endeavors of the French to retain them. Their 
 homeward journey was one of great peril and suffering from the cold, yet 
 they reached home in safety on the 6th of January, 1754. 
 
 From the letter of St. Pierre, commander of the French fort, sent by 
 Washington to Governor Dinwiddie, it was learned that the French would 
 not give up without a struggle. Active preparations were at once made 
 in all the English colonies for the coming conflict, while the French 
 finished the fort at Venaugo and strengthened their lines of fortifications, 
 and gathered their forces to be in readiness. 
 
 The Old Dominion was all alive. Virginia was the center of great 
 activities ; volunteers were called for, and from all the neighboring 
 colonies men rallied to the conflict, and everywhere along the Potomac 
 men were enlisting under the Governor's proclamation which promised 
 two hundred thousand acres on the Ohio. Along this river they were 
 gathering as far as Will's Creek, and far beyond this point, whither Trent 
 had come for assistance for his little band of forty-one men, who were
 
 40 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 working away in hunger and want, to fortify that point at the fork of 
 the Ohio, to which both parties were looking with deep interest. 
 
 " The first birds of Spring filled the air with their song ; the swift 
 river rolled by the Allegheny hillsides, swollen by the melting snows of 
 Spring and the April showers. The leaves were appearing ; a few Indian 
 scouts were seen, but no enemy seemed near at hand ; and all was so quiet, 
 that Frazier, an old Indian scout and trader, who had been left by Trent 
 in command, ventured to his home at the mouth of Turtle Creek, ten 
 miles up the Monongahela. But, though all was so quiet in that wilder- 
 ness, keen eyes had seen the low intrenchment rising at the fork, and 
 swift feet had borne the news of it up the river ; and upon the morning 
 of the 17th of April, Ensign Ward, who then had charge of it, saw 
 upon the Allegheny a sight that made his heart sink sixty batteaux and 
 three hundred canoes filled with men, and laden deep with cannon and 
 stores. * * * That evening he supped with his captor, Contrecoeur, 
 and the next day he was bowed off by the Frenchman, and with his men 
 and tools, marched up the Monongahela." 
 
 The French and Indian war had begun. The treaty of Aix la 
 Chapelle, in 1748, had left the boundaries between the French and 
 English possessions unsettled, and the events already narrated show the 
 French were determined to hold the country watered by the Mississippi 
 and its tributaries ; while the English laid claims to the country by virtue 
 of the discoveries of the Cabots, and claimed all the country from New- 
 foundland to Florida, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The 
 first decisive blow had now been struck, and the first attempt of the 
 English, through the Ohio Company, to occupy these lands, had resulted 
 disastrously to them. The French and Indians immediately completed 
 the fortifications begun at the Fork, which they had so easily captured, 
 and when completed gave to the fort the name of DuQuesne. Washing- 
 ton was at Will's Creek when the news of the capture of the fort arrived. 
 He at once departed to recapture it. On his way he entrenched him- 
 self at a place called the " Meadows," where he erected a fort called 
 by him Fort Necessity. From there he surprised and captured a force of 
 French and Indians marching against him, but was soon after attacked 
 in his fort by a much superior force, and was obliged to yield on the 
 morning of July 4th. He was allowed to return to Virginia. 
 
 The English Government immediately planned four campaigns ; one 
 . against Fort DuQuesne ; one against Nova Scotia ; one against Fort 
 Niagara, and one against Crown Point. These occurred during 1755--6, 
 and were not successful in driving the French from their possessions. 
 The expedition against Fort DuQuesne was led by the famous General 
 Braddock, who, refusing to listen to the advice of Washington and those
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 41 
 
 acquainted with Indian warfare, suffered such an inglorious defeat. This 
 occurred on the morning of July 9th, and is generally known as the battle 
 of Monongahela, or " Braddock's Defeat." The war continued with 
 various vicissitudes through the years 1756-7 ; when, at the commence- 
 ment of 1758, in accordance with the plans of William Pitt, then Secre- 
 tary of State, afterwards Lord Chatham, active preparations were made to 
 carry on the war. Three expeditions were planned for this year : one, 
 under General Amherst, against Louisburg ; another, under Abercrombie, 
 against Fort Ticonderoga ; and a third, under General Forbes, against 
 Fort DuQuesne. On the 26th of July, Louisburg surrendered after a 
 desperate resistance of more than forty days, and the eastern part of the 
 Canadian possessions fell into the hands of the British. Abercrombie 
 captured Fort Frontenac, and when the expedition against Fort DuQuesne, 
 of which Washington had the active command, arrived there, it was 
 found in flames and deserted. The English at once took possession, 
 rebuilt the fort, and in honor of their illustrious statesman, changed the 
 name to Fort Pitt. 
 
 The great object of the campaign of 1759, was the reduction of 
 Canada. General Wolfe was to lay siege to Quebec ; Amherst was to 
 reduce Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and General Prideaux was to 
 capture Niagara. This latter place was taken in July, but the gallant 
 Prideaux lost his life in the attempt. Amherst captured Ticonderoga 
 and Crown Point without a blow ; and Wolfe, after making the memor- 
 able ascent to the Plains of Abraham, on September 13th, defeated 
 Montcalm, and on the 18th, the city capitulated. In this engagement 
 Monteolm and Wolfe both lost their lives. De Levi, Montcalm's successor, 
 marched to Sillery, three miles above the city, with the purpose of 
 defeating the English, and there, on the 28th of the following April, was 
 fought one of the bloodiest battles of the French and Indian War. It 
 resulted in the defeat of the French, and the fall of the City of Montreal. 
 The Governor signed a capitulation by which the whole of Canada was 
 surrendered to the English. This practically concluded the war, but it 
 was not until 1763 that the treaties of peace between France and England 
 were signed. This was done on the 10th of February of that year, and 
 under its provisions all the country east of the Mississippi and north of 
 the Iberville River, in Louisiana, were ceded to England. At the same 
 time Spain ceded Florida to Great Britain. 
 
 On the 13th of September, 1760, Major Robert Rogers was sent 
 from Montreal to take charge of Detroit, the only remaining French post 
 in the territory. He arrived there on the 19th of November, and sum- 
 moned the place to surrender. At first the commander of the post, 
 Beletre* refused, but on the 29th, hearing of the continued defeat of the
 
 42 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 French arms, surrendered. Rogers remained there until December 23d 
 under the personal protection of the celebrated chief, Pontiac, to whom, 
 no doubt, he owed his safety. Pontiac had come here to inquire the 
 purposes of the English in taking possession of the country. He was 
 assured that they came simply to trade with the natives, and did not 
 desire their country. This answer conciliated the savages, and did much 
 to insure the safety of Rogers and his party during their stay, and while 
 on their journey home. 
 
 Rogers set out for Fort Pitt on December 23, and was just one 
 monj;h on the way. His route was from Detroit to Maumee, thence 
 across the present State of Ohio directly to the fort. This was the com- 
 mon trail of the Indians in their journeys from Sandusky to the fork of 
 the Ohio. It went from Fort Sandusky, where Sandusky City now is, 
 crossed the Huron river, then called Bald Eagle Creek, to " Mohickon 
 John's Town" on Mohickon Creek, the northern branch of White 
 Woman's River, and thence crossed to Beaver's Town, a Delaware town 
 on what is now Sandy Creek. At Beaver's Town were probably one 
 hundred and fifty warriors, and not less than three thousand acres of 
 cleared land. From there the track went up Sandy Creek to and across 
 Big Beaver, and up the Ohio to Logstown, thence on to the fork. 
 
 The Northwest Territory was now entirely under the English rule. 
 New settlements began to be rapidly made, and the promise of a large 
 trade was speedily manifested. Had the British carried out their promises 
 with the natives none of those savage butcheries would have been perpe- 
 trated, and the country would have been spared their recital. 
 
 The renowned chief, Pontiac, was one of the leading spirits in these 
 atrocities. We will now pause in our narrative, and notice the leading 
 events in his life. The earliest authentic information regarding this 
 noted Indian chief is learned from an account of an Indian trader named 
 Alexander Henry, who, in the Spring of 1761, penetrated his domains as 
 far as Missillimacnac. Pontiac was then a great friend of the French, 
 but a bitter foe of the English, whom he considered as encroaching on his 
 hunting grounds. Henry was obliged to disguise himself as a Canadian 
 to insure safety, l?ut was discovered by Pontiac, who bitterly reproached 
 him and the English for their attempted subjugation of the West. He 
 declared that no treaty had been made with them; no presents sent 
 them, and that he would resent any possession of the West by that nation. 
 He was at the time about fifty years of age, tall and dignified, and was 
 civil and military ruler of the Ottawas, Ojibwas and Pottawatamies. 
 
 The Indians, from Lake Michigan to the borders of North Carolina, 
 were united in this feeling, and at the time of the treaty of Paris, ratified 
 February 10, 1763, a general conspiracy was formed to fall suddenly
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 PONTIAC, THE OTTAWA CHIEFTAIN.
 
 44 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 upon the frontier British posts, and with one blow strike every man dead. 
 Pontiac was the marked leader in all this, and was the commander 
 of the Chippewas, Ottawas, Wyandots, Miamis, Shawanese, Delawares 
 and Mingoes, who had, for the time, laid aside their local quarrels to unite 
 in this enterprise. 
 
 The blow came, as near as can now be ascertained, on May 7, 1763. 
 Nine British posts fell, and the Indians drank, " scooped up in the hollow 
 of joined hands," the blood of many a Briton. 
 
 Pontiac's immediate field of action was the garrison at Detroit. 
 Here, however, the plans were frustrated by an Indian woman disclosing 
 the plot the evening previous to his arrival. Everything was carried out, 
 however, according to Poutiac's plans until the moment of action, when 
 Major Gladwyn, the commander of the post, stepping to one of the Indian 
 chiefs, suddenly drew aside his blanket and disclosed the concealed 
 musket. Pontiac, though a brave man, turned pale and trembled. He 
 saw his plan was known, and that the garrison were prepared. He 
 endeavored to exculpate himself from any such intentions ; but the guilt 
 was evident, and he and his followers were dismissed with a severe 
 reprimand, and warned never to again enter the walls of the post. 
 
 Pontiac at once laid siege to the fort, and until the treaty of peace 
 between the British and the Western Indians, concluded in August, 1764, 
 continued to harass and besiege the fortress. He organized a regular 
 commissariat department, issued bills of credit written out on bark, 
 which, to his credit, it may be stated, were punctually redeemed. At 
 the conclusion of the treaty, in which it seems he took no part, he went 
 further south, living many years among the Illinois. 
 
 He had given up all hope of saving his country and race. After a 
 time he endeavored to unite the Illinois tribe and those about St. Louis 
 in a war with the whites. His efforts were fruitless, and only ended in a 
 quarrel between himself and some Kaskaskia Indians, one of whom soon 
 afterwards killed him. His death was, however, avenged by the northern 
 Indians, who nearly exterminated the Illinois in the wars which followed. 
 
 Had it not been for the treachery of a few of his followers, his plan 
 for the extermination of the whites, a masterly one, would undoubtedly 
 have been carried out. 
 
 It was in the Spring of the year following Rogers' visit that Alex- 
 ander Henry went to Missillimacnac, and everywhere found the strongest 
 feelings against the English, who had not carried out their promises, and 
 were doing nothing to conciliate the natives. Here he met the chief, 
 Pontiac, who, after conveying to him in a speech the idea that their 
 French father would awake soon and utterly destroy his enemies, said : 
 *' Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 45 
 
 yet conquered us ! We are not your slaves! These lakes, these woods, 
 these mountains, were left us by our ancestors. They are our inheritance, 
 and we will part with them to none. Your nation supposes that we, like 
 the white people, can not live without bread and pork and beef. But you 
 ought to know that He, the Great Spirit and Master of Life, has provided 
 food for us upon these broad lakes and in these mountains." 
 
 He then spoke of the fact that no treaty had been made with them, 
 no presents sent them, and that he and his people were yet for war. 
 Such were the feelings of the Northwestern Indians immediately after 
 the English took possession of their country. These feelings were jio 
 doubt encouraged by the Canadians and French, who hoped that yet the 
 French arms might prevail. The treaty of Paris, however, gave to the 
 English the right to this vast domain, and active preparations were going 
 on to occupy it and enjoy its trade and emoluments. 
 
 In 1762, France, by a secret treaty, ceded Louisiana to Spain, to pre- 
 vent it falling into the hands of the English, who were becoming masters 
 of the entire West. The next year the treaty of Paris, signed at Fon- 
 tainbleau, gave to the English the domain of the country in question. 
 Twenty years after, by the treaty of peace between the United States 
 and England, that part of Canada lying south and west of the Great 
 Lakes, comprehending a large territory which is the subject of these 
 sketches, was acknowledged to be a portion of the United States ; and 
 twenty years still later, in 1803, Louisiana was ceded by Spain back to 
 France, and by France sold to the United States. 
 
 In the half century, from the building of the Fort of Crevecceur by 
 LaSalle, in 1680, up to the erection of Fort Chartres, many French set- 
 tlements had been made in that quarter. These have already been 
 noticed, being those at St. Vincent (Vincennes), Kohokia or Cahokia, 
 Kaskaskia and Prairie du Rocher, on the American Bottom, a large tract 
 of rich alluvial soil in Illinois, on the Mississippi, opposite the site of St. 
 Louis. 
 
 By the treaty of Paris, the regions east of the Mississippi, including 
 all these and other towns of the Northwest, were given over to England; 
 but they do not appear to have been taken possession of until 1765, when 
 Captain Stirling, in the name of the Majesty of England, established him- 
 self at Fort Chartres bearing with him the proclamation of General Gage, 
 dated December 30, 1764, which promised religious freedom to all Cath- 
 olics who worshiped here, and a right to leave the country with their 
 effects if they wished, or to remain with the privileges of Englishmen. 
 It was shortly after the occupancy of the West by the British that the 
 war with Pontiac opened. It is already noticed in the sketch of that 
 chieftain. By it many a Briton lost his life, and many a frontier settle-
 
 46 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 ment in its infancy ceased to exist. This was not ended until the year 
 1764, when, failing to capture Detroit, Niagara and Fort Pitt, his confed- 
 eracy became disheartened, and, receiving no aid from the French, Pon- 
 tiac abandoned the enterprise and departed to the Illinois, among whom 
 he afterward lost his life. 
 
 As soon as these difficulties were definitely settled, settlers began 
 rapidly to survey the country and prepare for occupation. During the 
 year 1770, a number of persons from Virginia anqL other British provinces 
 explored and marked out nearly all the valuable lands on the Mononga- 
 hela and along the banks of the Ohio as far as the Little Kanawha. This 
 was followed by another exploring expedition, in which George Washing- 
 ton was a party. The latter, accompanied by Dr. Craik, Capt. Crawford 
 and others, on the 20th of October, 1770, descended the Ohio from Pitts- 
 burgh to the mouth of the Kanawha ; ascended that stream about fourteen 
 miles, marked out several large tracts of land, shot several buffalo, which 
 were then abundant in the Ohio Valley, and returned to the fort. 
 
 Pittsburgh was at this time a trading post, about which was clus- 
 tered a village of some twenty houses, inhabited by Indian traders. This 
 same year, Capt. Pittman visited Kaskaskia and its neighboring villages. 
 He found there about sixty-five resident families, and at Cahokia only 
 forty-five dwellings. At Fort Chartres was another small settlement, and 
 at Detroit the garrison were quite prosperous and strong. For a year 
 or two settlers continued to locate near some of these posts, generally 
 Fort Pitt or Detroit, owing to the fears of the Indians, who still main- 
 tained some feelings of hatred to the English. The trade from the posts 
 was quite good, and from those in Illinois large quantities of pork and 
 flour found their way to the New Orleans market. At this time the 
 policy of the British Government was strongly opposed to the extension 
 of the colonies west. In 1763, the King of England forbade, by royal 
 proclamation, his colonial subjects from making a settlement beyond the 
 sources of the rivers which fall into the Atlantic Ocean. At the instance 
 of the Board of Trade, measures were taken to prevent the settlement 
 without the limits prescribed, and to retain the commerce within easy 
 reach of Great Britain. 
 
 The commander-in-chief of the king's forces wrote in 1769 : " In the 
 course of a few years necessity will compel the colonists, should they 
 extend their settlements west, to provide manufactures of some kind for 
 themselves, and when all connection upheld by commerce with the mother 
 country ceases, an independency in their government will soon follow." 
 
 In accordance with this policy, Gov. Gage issued a proclamation 
 in 1772, commanding the inhabitants of Vincennes to abandon their set- 
 tlements and join some of the Eastern English colonies. To this they
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 47 
 
 strenuously objected, giving good reasons therefor, and were allowed to 
 remain. The strong opposition to this policy of Great Britain led to its 
 change, and to such a course as to gain the attachment of the French 
 population. In December, 1773, influential citizens of Quebec petitioned 
 the king for an extension of the boundary lines of that province, which 
 was granted, and Parliament passed an act on June 2, 1774, extend- 
 ing the boundary so as to include the territory lying within the present 
 States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. 
 
 In consequence of the liberal policy pursued by the British Govern- 
 ment toward the French settlers in the West, they were disposed to favor 
 that nation in the war which soon followed with the colonies ; but the 
 early alliance between France and America soon brought them to the side 
 of the war for independence. 
 
 In 1774, Gov. Dunmore, of Virginia, began to encourage emigration 
 to the Western lands. He appointed magistrates at Fort Pitt under the 
 pretense that the fort was under the government of that commonwealth. 
 One of these justices, John Connelly, who possessed a tract of land in the 
 Ohio Valley, gathered a force of men and garrisoned the fort, calling it 
 Fort Dunmore. This and other parties were formed to select sites for 
 settlements, and often caine in conflict with the Indians, who yet claimed 
 portions of the valley, and several battles followed. These ended in the 
 famous battle of Kanawha in July, where the Indians were defeated and 
 driven across the Ohio. 
 
 During the years 1775 and 1776, by the operations of land companies 
 and the perseverance of individuals, several settlements were firmly estab- 
 lished between the Alleghanies and the Ohio River, and western land 
 speculators were busy in Illinois and on the Wabash. At a council held 
 in Kaskaskia on July 5, 1773, an association of English traders, calling 
 themselves the " Illinois Land Company," obtained from ten chiefs of the 
 Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Peoria tribes two large tracts of land lying on 
 the east side of the Mississippi River south of the Illinois. In 1775, a mer- 
 chant from the Illinois Country, named Viviat, came to Post Vincennes 
 as the agent of the association called the " Wabash Land Company." On 
 the 8th of October he obtained from eleven Piankeshaw chiefs, a deed for 
 37,497,600 acres of land. This deed was signed by the grantors, attested 
 by a number of the inhabitants of Vincennes, and afterward recorded in 
 the office of a notary public at Kaskaskia. This and other land com- 
 panies had extensive schemes for the colonization of the West ; but all 
 were frustrated by the breaking out of the Revolution. On the 20th of 
 April, 1780, the two companies named consolidated under the name of the 
 *' United Illinois and Wabash Land Company." They afterward made
 
 48 ' THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 strenuous efforts to have these grants sanctioned by Congress, but all 
 signally failed. 
 
 When the War of the Revolution commenced, Kentucky was an unor- 
 ganized country, though there were several settlements within her borders. 
 
 In Hutchins' Topography of Virginia, it is stated that at that time 
 " Kaskaskia contained 80 houses, and nearly 1,000 white and black in- 
 habitants the whites being a little the more numerous. Cahokia con- 
 tains 50 houses and 300 white inhabitants, and 80 negroes. There were 
 east of the Mississippi River, about the year 1771 " when these observa- 
 tions were made " 300 white men capable of bearing arms, and 230 
 negroes." 
 
 From 1775 until the expedition of Clark, nothing is recorded and 
 nothing known of these settlements, save what is contained in a report 
 made by a committee to Congress in June, 1778. From it the following 
 extract is made : 
 
 " Near the mouth of the River Kaskaskia, there is a village which 
 appears to have contained nearly eighty families from the beginning of 
 the late revolution. There are twelve families in a small village at la 
 Prairie du Rochers, and near fifty families at the Kahokia Village. There 
 are also four or five families at Fort Chartres and St. Philips, which is five 
 miles further up the river." 
 
 St. Louis had been settled in February, 1764, and at this time con- 
 tained, including its neighboring towns, over six hundred whites and one 
 hundred and fifty negroes. It must be remembered that all the country 
 west of the Mississippi was now under French rule, and remained so until 
 ceded again to Spain, its original owner, who afterwards sold it and the 
 country including New Orleans to the United States. At Detroit there 
 were, according to Capt. Carver, who was in the Northwest from 1766 to 
 1768, more than one hundred houses, and the river was settled for more 
 than twenty miles, although poorly cultivated the people being engaged 
 in the Indian trade. This old town has a history, which we will here 
 relate. 
 
 It is the oldest town in the Northwest, having been founded by 
 Antoine de Lamotte Cadillac, in 1701. It was laid out in the form of an 
 oblong square, of two acres in length, and an acre and a half in width. 
 As described by A. D. Frazer, who first visited it and became a permanent 
 resident of the place, in 1778, it comprised within its limits that space 
 between Mr. Palmer's store (Conant Block) and Capt. Perkins' house 
 (near the Arsenal building), and extended back as far as the public barn, 
 and was bordered in front by the Detroit River. It was surrounded by 
 oak and cedar pickets, about fifteen feet long, set in the ground, and had 
 four gates east, west, north and south. Over the first three of these
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 49 
 
 gates were block houses provided with four guns apiece, each a six- 
 .pounder. Two six-gun batteries were planted fronting the river and in a 
 parallel direction with the block houses. There were four streets running 
 east and west, the main street being twenty feet wide and the rest fifteen 
 feet, while the four streets crossing these at right angles were from ten 
 to fifteen feet in width. 
 
 At the date spoken of by Mr. Frazer, there was no fort within the 
 enclosure, but a citadel on the ground corresponding to the present 
 northwest corner of Jefferson Avenue and Wayne Street. The citadel was 
 inclosed by pickets, and within it were erected barracks of wood, two 
 stories high, sufficient to contain ten officers, and also barracks sufficient 
 to contain four hundred men, and a provision store built of brick. The 
 citadel also contained a hospital and guard-house. The old town of 
 Detroit, in 17T8, contained about sixty houses, most of them one story, 
 with a few a story and a half in height. They were all of logs, some 
 hewn and some round. There was one building of splendid appearance, 
 called the " King's Palace," two stories high, which stood near the east 
 gate. It was built for Governor Hamilton, the first governor commissioned 
 by the British. There were two guard-houses, one near the west gate and 
 the other near the Government House. Each of the guards consisted of 
 twenty-four men and a subaltern, who mounted regularly every morning 
 between nine and ten o'clock, Each furnished four sentinels, who were 
 relieved every two hours. There was also an officer of the day, who per- 
 formed strict duty. Each of the gates was shut regularly at sunset ; 
 even wicket gates were shut at nine o'clock, and all the keys were 
 delivered into the hands of the commanding officer. They were opened 
 in the morning at sunrise. No Indian or squaw was permitted to enter 
 town with any weapon, such as a tomahawk or a knife. It was a stand- 
 ing order that the Indians should deliver their arms and instruments of 
 every kind before they were permitted to pass the sentinel, and they were 
 restored to them on their return. No more than twenty-five Indians were 
 allowed to enter the town at any one time, and they were admitted only 
 at the east and west gates. At sundown the drums beat, and all the 
 Indians were required to leave town instantly. There was a council house 
 near the water side for the purpose of holding council with the Indians. 
 The population of the town was about sixty families, in all about two 
 hundred males and one hundred females. This town was destroyed by 
 fire, all except one dwelling, in 1805. After which the present " new " 
 town was laid out. 
 
 On the breaking out of the Revolution, the British held every post of 
 importance in the West. Kentucky was formed as a component part of 
 Virginia, and the sturdy pioneers of the West, alive to their interests,
 
 50 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 and recognizing the great benefits of obtaining the control of the trade in 
 this part of the New World, held steadily to their purposes, and those 
 within the commonwealth of Kentucky proceeded to exercise their 
 civil privileges, by electing John Todd and Richard Gallaway, 
 burgesses to represent them in the Assembly of the parent state. 
 Early in September of that year (1777) the first court was held 
 in Harrodsburg, and Col. Bowman, afterwards major, who had arrived 
 in August, was made the commander of a militia organization which 
 had been commenced the March previous. Thus the tree of loyalty 
 was growing. The chief spirit in this far-out colony, who had represented 
 her the year previous east of the mountains, was now meditating a move 
 unequaled in its boldness. He had been watching the movements of the 
 British throughout the Northwest, and understood their whole plan. He. 
 saw it was through their possession of the posts at Detroit, Vincennes, 
 Kaskaskia, and other places, which would give them constant and easy 
 access to the various Indian tribes in the Northwest, that the British 
 intended to penetrate the country from the north and south, and annihi- 
 late the frontier fortresses. This moving, energetic man was Colonel, 
 afterwards General, George Rogers Clark. He knew the Indians were not 
 unanimously in accord with the English, and he was convinced that, could 
 the British be defeated and expelled from the Northwest, the natives 
 might be easily awed into neutrality ; and by spies sent for the purpose, 
 he satisfied himself that the enterprise against the Illinois settlements 
 might easily succeed. Having convinced himself of the certainty of the 
 project, he repaired to the Capital of Virginia, which place he reached on 
 November 5th. While he was v on his way, fortunately, on October 17th, 
 Burgoyne had been defeated, and the spirits of the colonists greatly 
 encouraged thereby. Patrick Henry was Governor of Virginia, and at 
 once entered heartily into Clark's plans. The same plan had before been 
 agitated in the Colonial Assemblies, but there was no one until Clark 
 came who was sufficiently acquainted with the condition of affairs at the 
 scene of action to be able to guide them. 
 
 Clark, having satisfied the Virginia leaders of the feasibility of his 
 plan, received, on the 2d of January, two sets of instructions one secret, 
 the other open the latter authorized him to proceed to enlist seven 
 companies to go to Kentucky, subject to his orders, and to serve three 
 months from their arrival in the West. The secret order authorized him 
 to arm these troops, to procure his powder and lead of General Hand 
 at Pittsburgh, and to proceed at once to subjugate the country. 
 
 With these instructions Clark repaired to Pittsburgh, choosing rather 
 to raise his men west of the mountains, as he well knew all were needed 
 in the colonies in the conflict there. He sent Col. W. B. Smith to Hoi-
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 51 
 
 ston for the same purpose, but neither succeeded in raising the required 
 number of men. The settlers in these parts were afraid to leave their 
 own firesides exposed to a vigilant foe, and but few could be induced to 
 join the proposed expedition. With three companies and several private 
 volunteers, Clark at length commenced his descent of the Ohio, which he 
 navigated as far as the Falls, where he took possession of and fortified 
 Corn Island, a small island between the present Cities of Louisville, 
 Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana. Remains of this fortification may 
 yet be found. At this place he appointed Col. Bowman to meet him 
 with such recruits as had reached Kentucky by the southern route, and 
 as many as could be spared from the station. Here he announced to 
 the men their real destination. Having completed his arrangements, 
 and chosen his party, he left a small garrison upon the island, and on the 
 24th of June, during a total eclipse of the sun, which to them augured 
 no good, and which fixes beyond dispute the date of starting, he with 
 his chosen band, fell down the river. His plan was to go by water as 
 far as Fort Massac or Massacre, and thence march direct to Kaskaskia. 
 Here he intended to surprise the garrison, and after its capture go to 
 Cahokia, then to Vincennes, and lastly to Detroit. Should he fail, he 
 intended to march directly to the Mississippi River and cross it into the 
 Spanish country. Before his start he received two good items of infor- 
 mation : one that the alliance had been formed between France and the 
 United States ; and the other that the Indians throughout the Illinois 
 country and the inhabitants, at the various frontier posts, had been led to 
 believe by the British that the " Long Knives" or Virginians, were the 
 most fierce, bloodthirsty and cruel savages that ever scalped a foe. With 
 this impression on their minds, Clark saw that proper management would 
 cause them to submit at once from fear, if surprised, and then from grati- 
 tude would become friendly if treated with unexpected leniency. 
 
 The march to Kaskaskia was accomplished through a hot July sun, 
 and the town reached on the evening of July 4. He captured the fort 
 near the village, and soon after the village itself by surprise, and without 
 the loss of a single man or by killing any of the enemy. After sufficiently 
 working upon the fears of the natives, Clark told them they were at per- 
 fect liberty to worship as they pleased, and to take whichever side of the 
 great conflict they would, also he would protect them from any barbarity 
 from British or Indian foe. This had the desired effect, and the inhab- 
 itants, so unexpectedly and so gratefully surprised by the unlocked 
 for turn of affairs, at once swore allegiance to the American arms, and 
 when Clark desired to go to Cahokia on the 6th of July, they accom- 
 panied him, and through their influence the inhabitants of the place 
 surrendered, and gladly placed themselves under his protection. Thus
 
 52 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 the two important posts in Illinois passed from the hands of the English 
 into the possession of Virginia. 
 
 In the person of the priest at Kaskaskia, M. Gibault, Clark found a 
 powerful ally and generous friend. Clark saw that, to retain possession 
 of the Northwest and treat successfully with the Indians within its boun- 
 daries, he must establish a government for the colonies he had taken. 
 St. Vincent, the next important post to Detroit,remained yet to be taken 
 before the Mississippi Valley was conquered. M. Gibault told him that 
 he would alone, by persuasion, lead Vincennes to throw off its connection 
 with England. Clark gladly accepted his offer, and on the 14th of July, 
 in company with a fellow-townsman, M. Gibault started on his mission of 
 peace, and on the 1st of August returned with the cheerful intelligence 
 that the post on the " Oubache " had taken the oath of allegiance to 
 the Old Dominion. During this interval, Clark established his courts, 
 placed garrisons at Kaskaskia and Cahokia, successfully re-enlisted his 
 men, sent word to have a fort, which proved the germ of Louisville, 
 erected at the Falls of the Ohio, and dispatched Mr. Rocheblave, who 
 had been commander at Kaskaskia, as a prisoner of war to Richmond. 
 In October the County of Illinois was established by the Legislature 
 of Virginia, John Todd appointed Lieutenant Colonel and Civil Governor, 
 and in November General Clark and his men received the thanks of 
 the Old Dominion through their Legislature. 
 
 In a speech a few days afterward, Clark made known fully to the 
 natives his plans, and at its close all came forward and swore alle- 
 giance to the Long Knives. While he was doing this Governor Hamilton, 
 having made his various arrangements, had left Detroit and moved down 
 the Wabash to Vincennes intending to operate from that point in reducing 
 the Illinois posts, and then proceed on down to Kentucky and drive the 
 rebels from the West. Gen. Clark had, on the return of M. Gibault, 
 dispatched Captain Helm, of Fauquier County, Virginia, with an attend- 
 ant named Henry, across the Illinois prairies to command the fort. 
 Hamilton knew nothing of the capitulation of the post, and was greatly 
 surprised on his arrival to be confronted by Capt. Helm, who, standing at 
 the entrance of the fort by a loaded cannon ready to fire upon his assail- 
 ants, demanded upon what terms Hamilton demanded possession of tha 
 fort. Being granted the rights of a prisoner of war, he surrendered to 
 the British General, who could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw the 
 force in the garrison. 
 
 Hamilton, not realizing the character of the men with whom he was 
 contending, gave up his intended campaign for the Winter, sent his four 
 hundred Indian warriors to prevent troops from coming down the Ohio,
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 53 
 
 and to annoy the Americans in all ways, and sat quietly down to pass the 
 Winter. Information of all these proceedings having reached Clark, he 
 saw that immediate and decisive action was necessary, and that unless 
 he captured Hamilton, Hamilton would capture him. Clark received the 
 news on the 29th of January, 1779, and on February 4th, having suffi- 
 ciently garrisoned Kaskaskia and Cahokia, he sent down the Mississippi 
 a " battoe," as Major Bowman writes it, in order to ascend the Ohio and 
 Wabash, and operate with the land forces gathering for the fray. 
 
 On the next day, Clark, with his little force of one hundred and 
 twenty men, set out for the post, and after incredible hard marching 
 through much mud, the ground being thawed by the incessant spring 
 rains, on the 22d reached the fort, and being joined by his " battoe," at 
 once commenced the attack on the post. The aim of the American back- 
 woodsman was unerring, and on the 24th the garrison surrendered to the 
 intrepid boldness of Clark. The French were treated with great kind- 
 ness, and gladly renewed their allegiance to Virginia. Hamilton was 
 sent as a prisoner to Virginia, where he was kept in close confinement. 
 During his command of the British frontier posts, he had offered prizes 
 to the Indians for all the scalps of Americans they would bring to him, 
 and had earned in consequence thereof the title " Hair-buyer General," 
 by which he was ever afterward known. 
 
 Detroit was now without doubt within easy reach of the enterprising 
 Virginian, could he but raise the necessary force. Governor Henry being 
 apprised of this, promised him the needed reinforcement, and Clark con- 
 cluded to wait until he could capture and sufficiently garrison the posts. 
 Had Clark failed in this bold undertaking, and Hamilton succeeded in 
 uniting the western Indians for the next Spring's campaign, the West 
 would indeed have been swept from the Mississippi to the Allegheny 
 Mountains, and the great blow struck, which had been contemplated from 
 the commencement, by the British. 
 
 " But for this small army of dripping, but fearless Virginians, the 
 union of all the tribes from Georgia to Maine against the colonies might 
 have been effected, and the whole current of our history changed." 
 
 At this time some fears were entertained by the Colonial Govern- 
 ments that the Indians in the North and Northwest were inclining to the 
 British, and under the instructions of Washington, now Commander-in- 
 Chief of the Colonial army, and so bravely fighting for American inde- 
 pendence, armed forces were sent against the Six Nations, and upon the 
 Ohio frontier, Col. Bowman, acting under the same general's orders, 
 marched against Indians within the present limits of that State. These 
 expeditions were in the main successful, and the Indians were compelled 
 to sue for peace.
 
 54 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 During this same year (1779) the famous " Land Laws" of Virginia 
 were passed. The passage of these laws was of more consequence to the 
 pioneers of Kentucky and the Northwest than the gaining of a few Indian 
 conflicts. These laws confirmed in main all grants made, and guaranteed 
 to all actual settlers their rights and privileges. After providing for the 
 settlers, the laws provided for selling the balance of the public lands at 
 forty cents per acre. To carry the Land Laws into effect, the Legislature 
 sent four Virginians westward to attend to the various claims, over many 
 of which great confusion prevailed concerning their validity. These 
 gentlemen opened their court on October 13, 1779, at St. Asaphs, and 
 continued until April 26, 1780, when they adjourned, having decided 
 three thousand claims. They were succeeded by the surveyor, who 
 came in the person of Mr. George May, and assumed his duties on the 
 10th day of the month whose name he bore. With the opening of the 
 next year (1780) the troubles concerning the navigation of the Missis- 
 sippi commenced. The Spanish Government exacted such measures in 
 relation to its trade as to cause the overtures made to the United States 
 to be rejected. The American Government considered they had a right 
 to navigate its channel. To enforce their claims, a fort was erected below 
 the mouth of the Ohio on the Kentucky side of the river. The settle- 
 ments in Kentucky were being rapidly filled by emigrants. It was dur- 
 ing this year that the first seminary of learning was established in the 
 West in this young and enterprising Commonwealth. 
 
 The settlers here did not look upon the building of this fort in a 
 friendly manner, as it aroused the hostility of the Indians. Spain had 
 been friendly to the Colonies during their struggle for independence, 
 and though for a while this friendship appeared in danger from the 
 refusal of the free navigation of the river, yet it was finally settled to the 
 satisfaction of both nations. 
 
 The Winter of 1779-80 was one of the most unusually severe ones 
 ever experienced in the West. The Indians always referred to it as the 
 "Great Cold." Numbers of wild animals perished, and not a few 
 pioneers lost their lives. The following Summer a party of Canadians 
 and Indians attacked St. Louis, and attempted to take possession of it 
 in consequence of the friendly disposition of Spain to the revolting 
 colonies. They met with such a determined resistance on the part of the 
 inhabitants, even the women taking part in the battle, that they were 
 compelled to abandon the contest. They also made an attack on the 
 settlements in Kentucky, but, becoming alarmed in some unaccountable 
 manner, they fled the country in great haste. 
 
 About this time arose the question in the Colonial Congress con- 
 cerning the western lands claimed by Virginia, New York, Massachusetts
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 55 
 
 and Connecticut. The agitation concerning this subject finally led New 
 York, on the 19th of February, 1780, to pass a law giving to the dele- 
 gates of that State in Congress the power to cede her western lands for 
 the benefit of the United States. This law was laid before Congress 
 during the next month, but no steps were taken concerning it until Sep- 
 tember 6th, when a resolution passed that body calling upon the States 
 claiming western lands to release their claims in favor of the whole body. 
 This basis formed the union, and was the first after all of those legislative 
 measures which resulted in the creation of the States of Ohio,' Indiana, 
 Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In December of the same 
 year, the plan of conquering Detroit again arose. The conquest might 
 have easily been effected by Clark had the necessary aid been furnished 
 him. Nothing decisive was done, vet the heads of the Government knew 
 
 O ' v 
 
 that the safety of the Northwest from British invasion lay in the capture 
 and retention of that important post, the only unconquered one in the 
 territory. 
 
 Before the close of the year, Kentucky was divided into the Coun- 
 ties of Lincoln, Fayette and Jefferson, and the act establishing the Town 
 of Louisville was passed. This same year is also noted in the annals of 
 American history as the year in which occurred Arnold's treason to the 
 United States. 
 
 Virginia, in accordance with the resolution of Congress, on the 2d 
 day of January, 1781, agreed to yield her western lands to the United 
 States upon certain conditions, which Congress would not accede to, and 
 the Act of Cession, on the part of the Old Dominion, failed, nor was 
 anything farther done until 1783. During all that time the Colonies 
 were busily engaged in the struggle with the mother country, and in 
 consequence thereof but little heed was given to the western settlements. 
 Upon the 16th of April, 1781, the first birth north of the Ohio River of 
 American parentage occurred, being that of Mary Heckewelder, daughter 
 of the widely known Moravian missionary, whose band of Christian 
 Indians suffered in after years a horrible massacre by the hands of the 
 frontier settlers, who had been exasperated by the murder of several of 
 their neighbors, and in their rage committed, without regard to humanity, 
 a deed which forever afterwards cast a shade of shame upon their lives. 
 For this and kindred outrages on the part of the whites, the Indians 
 committed many deeds of cruelty which darken the years of 1771 and 
 1772 in the history of the Northwest. 
 
 During the year 1782 a number of battles among the Indians and 
 frontiersmen occurred, and between the Moravian Indians and the Wyan- 
 dots. In these, horrible acts of cruelty were practised on the captives, 
 many of such dark deeds transpiring under the leadership of the notorious
 
 56 
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERR1TOEY. 
 
 frontier outlaw, Simon Girty, whose name, as well as those of his brothers, 
 was a terror to women and children. These occurred chiefly in the Ohio 
 valleys. Cotemporary with them were several engagements in Kentucky, 
 in which the famous Daniel Boone engaged, and who, often by his skill 
 and knowledge of Indian warfare, saved the outposts from cruel destruc- 
 
 INDIANS ATTACKING FRONTIERSMEN. 
 
 tion. By the close of the year victory had perched upon the American 
 banner, and on the 30th of November, provisional articles of peace had 
 been arranged between the Commissioners of England and her uncon- 
 querable colonies. Cornwallis had been defeated on the 19th of October 
 preceding, and the liberty of America was assured. On the 19th of 
 April following, the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, peace was
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. >7 
 
 proclaimed to the army of the United States, and on the 3d of the next 
 September, the definite treaty which ended our revolutionary struggle 
 was concluded. By the terms of that treaty, the boundaries of the West 
 were as follows : On the north the line was to extend along the center of 
 the Great Lakes ; from the western point of Lake Superior to Long Lake ; 
 thence to the Lake of the Woods ; thence to the head of the Mississippi 
 River ; down its center to the 31st parallel of latitude, then on that line 
 east to the head of the Appalachicola River; down its center to its junc- 
 tion with the Flint ; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's River, and 
 thence down along its center to the Atlantic Ocean. 
 
 Following the cessation of hostilities with England, several posts 
 were still occupied by the British in the North and West. Among these 
 was Detroit, still in the hands of the enemy. Numerous engagements 
 with the Indians throughout Ohio and Indiana occurred, upon whose 
 lands adventurous whites would settle ere the title had been acquired by 
 the proper treaty. 
 
 To remedy this latter evil, Congress appointed commissioners to 
 treat with the natives and purchase their lands, and prohibited the set- 
 tlement of the territory until this could be done. Before the close of the 
 year another attempt was made to capture Detroit, which was, however, 
 not pushed, and Virginia, no longer feeling the interest in the Northwest 
 she had formerly done, withdrew her troops, having on the 20th of 
 December preceding authorized the whole of her possessions to be deeded 
 to the United States. This was done on the 1st of March following, and 
 the Northwest Territory passed from the control of the Old Dominion. 
 To Gen. Clark and his soldiers, however, she gave a tract of one hundred 
 and fifty thousand acres of land, to be situated any where north of the 
 Ohio wherever they chose to locate them. They selected the region 
 opposite the falls of the Ohio, where is now the dilapidated village of 
 Clarksville, about midway between the Cities of New Albany and Jeffer- 
 sonville, Indiana. 
 
 While the frontier remained thus, and Gen. Haldimand at Detroit 
 refused to evacuate alleging that he had no orders from his King to do 
 so, settlers were rapidly gathering about the inland forts. In the Spring 
 of 1784, Pittsburgh was regularly laid out, and from the journal of Arthur 
 Lee, who passed through the town soon after on his way to the Indian 
 council at Fort Mclntosh, we suppose it was not very prepossessing in 
 appearance. He says : 
 
 " Pittsburgh is inhabited almost entirely by Scots and Irish, who 
 live in paltry log houses, and are as dirty as if in the north of Ireland or 
 even Scotland. There is a great deal of trade carried on, the goods being 
 bought at the vast expense of forty-five shillings per pound from Phila-
 
 58 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 delphia and Baltimore. They take in the shops flour, wheat, skins and 
 money. There are in the town four attorneys, two doctors, and not a. 
 priest of any persuasion, nor church nor chapel." 
 
 Kentucky at this time contained thirty thousand inhabitants, and 
 was beginning to discuss measures for a separation from Virginia. A 
 land office was opened at Louisville, and measures were adopted to take 
 defensive precaution against the Indians who were yet, in some instances, 
 incited to deeds of violence by the British. Before the close of this year, 
 1784, the military claimants of land began to occupy them, although no 
 entries were recorded until 1787. 
 
 The Indian title to the Northwest was not yet extinguished. They 
 held large tracts of lands, and in order to prevent bloodshed Congress 
 adopted means for treaties with the original owners and provided for the 
 surveys of the lands gained thereby, as well as for those north of the 
 Ohio, now in its possession. On January 31, 1786, a treaty was made 
 with the Wabash Indians. The treaty of Fort Stanwix had been made 
 in- 1784. That at Fort Mclntosh in 1785, and through these much land 
 was gained. The Wabash Indians, however, afterward refused to comply 
 with the provisions of the treaty made with them, and in order to compel 
 their adherence to its provisions, force was used. Daring the year 1786 r 
 the free .navigation of the Mississippi came up in Congress, and caused 
 various discussions, which resulted in no definite action, only serving to 
 excite speculation in regard to the western lands. Congress had promised 
 bounties of land to the soldiers of the Revolution, but owing to the 
 unsettled condition of affairs along the Mississippi respecting its naviga- 
 tion, and the trade of the Northwest, that body had, in 1783, declared 
 its inability to fulfill these promises until a treaty could be concluded 
 between the two Governments. - Before the close of the year 1786, how- 
 ever, it was able, through the treaties with the Indians, to allow some 
 grants and the settlement thereon, and on the 14th of September Con- 
 necticut ceded to the General Government the tract of land known as 
 the " Connecticut Reserve," and before the close of the following year a 
 large tract of land north of the Ohio was sold to a company, who at once 
 took measures to settle it. By the provisions of this grant, the company 
 were to pay the United States one dollar per acre, subject to a deduction 
 of one-third for bad lands and other contingencies. They received 
 750,000 acres, bounded on the south by the Ohio, on the east by the 
 seventh range of townships, on the west by the sixteenth range, and on 
 the north by a line so drawn as to make the grant complete without 
 the reservations. In addition to this, Congress afterward granted 100,000 
 acres to actual settlers, and 214,285 acres as army bounties under the 
 resolutions of 1789 and 1790.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 69 
 
 While Dr. Cutler, one of the agents of the company, was pressing 1 
 its claims before Congress, that body was bringing into form an ordinance 
 for the political and social organization of this Territory. When the 
 cession was made by Virginia, in 1784, a plan was offered, but rejected. 
 A motion had been made to strike from the proposed plan the prohibition 
 of slavery, which prevailed. The plan was then discussed and altered, 
 and finally passed unanimously, with the exception of South Carolina. 
 By this- proposition, the Territory was to have been divided into states 
 
 A PRAIRIE STORM. 
 
 by parallels and meridian lines. This, it was thought, would make ten 
 states, which were to have been named as follows beginning at the 
 northwest corner and going southwardly : Sylvania, Michigania, Cher- 
 sonesus, Assenisipia, Mesopotamia, Illenoia, Saratoga, Washington, Poly- 
 potamia and Pelisipia. 
 
 There was a more serious objection to this plan than its category of 
 names, the boundaries. The root of the difficulty was in the resolu- 
 tion of Congress passed in October, 1780, which fixed the boundaries 
 of the ceded lands to be from one hundred to one hundred and fifty miles
 
 <30 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 square. These resolutions being presented to the Legislatures of Vir- 
 ginia and Massachusetts, they desired a change, and in July, 1786, the 
 subject was taken up in Congress, and changed to favor a division into 
 not more than five states, and not less than three. This was approved by 
 the State Legislature of Virginia. The subject of the Government was 
 again taken up by Congress in 1786, and discussed throughout that year 
 and until July, 1787, when the famous " Compact of 1787 " was passed, 
 and the foundation of the government of the Northwest laid. This com- 
 pact is fully discussed and explained in the history of Illinois in this book, 
 .and to it the reader is referred. 
 
 The passage of this act and the grant to the New England Company 
 was soon followed by an application to the Government by John Cleves 
 Symmes, of New Jersey, for a grant of the land between the Miamis. 
 This gentleman had visited these lands soon after the treaty of 1786, and, 
 being greatly pleased with them, offered similar terms to those given to the 
 New England Company. The petition was referred to the Treasury 
 Board with power to act, and a contract was concluded the following 
 year. During the Autumn the directors of the New England Company 
 were preparing to occupy their grant the following Spring, and upon the 
 23d of November made arrangements for a party of forty-seven men, 
 under the superintendency of Gen. Rufus Putnam, to set forward. Six 
 boat-builders were to leave at once, and on the first of January the sur- 
 veyors and their assistants, twenty-six in number, were to meet at Hart- 
 ford and proceed 011 their journey westward ; the remainder to follow as 
 soon as possible. Congress, in the meantime, upon the 3d of October, 
 had ordered seven hundred troops for defense of the western settlers, and 
 to prevent unauthorized intrusions ; and two days later appointed Arthur 
 St. Clair Governor of the Territory of the Northwest. 
 
 AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 The civil organization of the Northwest Territory was now com- 
 plete, and notwithstanding the uncertainty of Indian affairs, settlers from 
 the East began to come into the country rapidly. The New England 
 Company sent their men during the Winter of 1787-8 pressing on over 
 the Alleghenies by the old Indian path which had been opened into 
 Braddock's road, and which has since been made a national turnpike 
 from Cumberland westward. Through the weary winter days they toiled 
 on, and by April were all gathered on the Yohiogany, where boats had 
 been built, and at once started for the Muskingum. Here they arrived 
 on the 7th of that month, and unless the Moravian missionaries be regarded 
 as the pioneers of Ohio, this little band can justly claim that honor.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 61 
 
 Gen. St. Clair, the appointed Governor of the Northwest, not having 
 yet arrived, a set of laws were passed, written out, and published by 
 being nailed to a tree in the embryo town, and Jonathan Meigs appointed 
 to administer them. 
 
 Washington in writing of this, the first American settlement in the 
 Northwest, said : " No colony in America was ever settled under 
 such favorable auspices as that which has just commenced at Muskingum. 
 Information, property and strength will be its characteristics. I know 
 many of its settlers personally, and there never were men better calcu- 
 lated to promote the welfare of such a community.' 5 
 
 A PIONEER DWELLING. 
 
 On the 2d of July a meeting of the directors and agents was held 
 on the banks of the Muskingum, " for the purpose of naming the new- 
 born city and its squares." As yet the settlement was known as the 
 "Muskingum," but that was now changed to the name Marietta, in honor 
 of Marie Antoinette. The square upon which the block -houses stood 
 was called " Campus Martins ;" square number 19, " Capitolium ;" square 
 number 61, ''Cecilia;''' and the great road through the covert way, " Sacra 
 Via" Two days after, an oration was delivered by James M. Varnum, 
 who with S. H. Parsons and John Armstrong had been appointed to the 
 judicial bench of the territory on the 16th of October, 1787. On July 9, 
 Gov. St. Clair arrived, and the colony began to assume form. The act 
 of 1787 provided two district grades of government for the Northwest,
 
 G2 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 under the first of which the whole power was invested in the hands of a 
 governor and three district judges. This was immediately formed upon 
 the Governor's arrival, and the first laws of the colony passed on the 25th 
 of July. These provided for the organization of the militia, and on the 
 next day appeared the Governor's proclamation, erecting all that country 
 that had been ceded by the Indians east of the Scioto River into the 
 County of Washington. From that time forward, notwithstanding the 
 doubts yet existing as>to the Indians, all Marietta prospered, and on the 
 2d of September the first court of the territory was held with imposing 
 ceremonies. 
 
 The emigration westward at this time was very great. The com- 
 mander at Fort Harmer, at the mouth of the Muskingum, reported four 
 thousand five hundred persons as having passed that post between Feb- 
 ruary and June, 1788 many of whom would have purchased of the 
 "Associates," as the New England Company was called, had they been 
 ready to receive them. 
 
 On the 26th of November, 1787, Symmes issued a pamphlet stating 
 the terms of his contract and the plan of sale he intended to adopt. In 
 January, 1788, Matthias Denman, of New Jersey, took an active interest 
 in Symmes' purchase, and located among other tracts the sections upon 
 which Cincinnati has been built. Retaining one-third of this locality, he 
 sold the other two-thirds to Robert Patterson and John Filson, and the 
 three, about August, commenced to lay out a town on the spot, which 
 was designated as being opposite Licking River, to the mouih of which 
 they proposed to have a road cut from Lexington. The naming of the 
 town is thus narrated in the "Western Annals " : " Mr. Filson, who had 
 been a schoolmaster, was appointed to name the town, and, in respect to 
 its situation, and as if with a prophetic perception of the mixed race that 
 were to inhabit it in after days, he named it Losantiville, which, being 
 interpreted, means : ville, the town ; anti, against or opposite to ; os, the 
 mouth ; L. of Licking." 
 
 Meanwhile, in July, Symmes got thirty persons and eight four-horse 
 teams under way for the West. These reached Limestone (now Mays- 
 ville) in September, where were several persons from Redstone. Here 
 Mr. Symmes tried to found a settlement, but the great freshet of 1789 
 caused the " Point," as it was and is yet called, to be fifteen feet under 
 water, and the settlement to be abandoned. The little band of settlers 
 removed to the mouth of the Miami. Before Symmes and his colony left 
 the " Point," two settlements had been made on his purchase. The first 
 was by Mr. Stiltes, the original projector of the whole plan, who, with a 
 colony of Redstone people, had located at the mouth of the Miami, 
 whither Symmes went with his Maysville colony. Here a clearing had
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 63 
 
 been made by the Indians owing to the great fertility of the soil. Mr. 
 Stiltes with his colony came to this place on the 18th of November, 1788, 
 with twenty-six persons, ano\, building a block-house, prepared to remain 
 through the Winter. They named the settlement Columbia. Here they 
 were kindly treated by the Indians, but suffered greatly from the flood 
 of 1789. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1789, the Constitution of the United States 
 went into operation, and on April 30, George Washington was inaug- 
 urated President of the American people, and during the next Summer, 
 an Indian war was commenced by the tribes north of the Ohio. The 
 President at first used pacific means ; but these failing, he sent General 
 Harmer against the hostile tribes. He destroyed several villages, but 
 
 BREAKING PRAIRIE. 
 
 was defeated in two battles, near the present City of Fort Wayne, 
 Indiana. From this time till the close of 1795, the principal events were 
 the wars with the various Indian tribes. In 1796, General St. Clair 
 was appointed in command, and marched against the Indians ; but while 
 he was encamped on a stream, the St. Mary, a branch of the Maumee, 
 he was attacked and defeated with the loss of six hundred men. 
 
 General Wayne was now sent against the savages. In August, 1794, 
 he met them near the rapids of the Maumee, and gained a complete 
 victory. This success, followed by vigorous measures, compelled the 
 Indians to sue for peace, and on the 30th of July, the following year, the 
 treaty of Greenville was signed by the principal chiefs, by which a large 
 tract of country was ceded to the United States. 
 
 Before proceeding in our narrative, we will pause to notice Fort 
 Washington, erected in the early part of this war on the site of Cincinnati. 
 Nearly all of the great cities of the Northwest, and indeed of the
 
 64 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 whole country, have had their nuclei in those rude pioneer structures, 
 known as forts or stockades. Thus Forts Dearborn, Washington, Pon- 
 ehartrain, mark the original sites of the now proud Cities of Chicago, 
 Cincinnati and Detroit. So of most of the flourishing cities east and west 
 of the Mississippi. Fort Washington, erected by Doughty in 1790, was a 
 rude but highly interesting structure. It was composed of a number of 
 strongly-built hewed log cabins. Those designed for soldiers' barracks 
 were a story and a half high, while those composing the officers quarters 
 were more imposing and more conveniently arranged and furnished. 
 The whole were so placed as to form a hollow square, enclosing about an 
 acre of ground, with a block house at each of the four angles. 
 
 The logs for the construction of this fort were cut from the ground 
 upon which it was erected. It stood between Third and Fourth Streets 
 of the present city (Cincinnati) extending east of Eastern Row, now 
 Broadway, which was then a narrow alley, and the eastern boundary of 
 of the town as it was originally laid out. On the bank of the river, 
 immediately in front of the fort, was an appendage of the fort, called the 
 Artificer's Yard. It contained about two acres of ground, enclosed by 
 small contiguous buildings, occupied by workshops and quarters of 
 laborers. Within this enclosure there was a large two-story frame house, 
 familiarly called the " Yellow House," built for the accommodation of 
 the Quartermaster General. For many years, this was the best finished 
 and most commodious edifice in the Queen City. Fort Washington was 
 for some time the headquarters of both the civil and military governments 
 of the Northwestern Territory. 
 
 Following the consummation of the treaty various gigantic land spec- 
 ulations were entered into by different persons, who hoped to obtain 
 from the Indians in Michigan and northern Indiana, large tracts of lands. 
 These were generally discovered in time to prevent the outrageous, 
 schemes from being carried out, and from involving the settlers in war. 
 On October 27, 1795, the treaty between the United States and Spain 
 was signed, whereby the free navigation of the Mississippi was secured. 
 
 No sooner had the treaty of 1795 been ratified than settlements began 
 to pour rapidly into the West. The great event of the year 1796 was the 
 occupation of that part of the Northwest including Michigan, which was 
 this year, under the provisions of the treaty, evacuated by the British 
 forces. The United States, owing to certain conditions, did not feel 
 justified in addressing the authorities in Canada in relation to Detroit 
 and other frontier posts. When at last the British authorities were 
 called to give them up, they at once complied, and General Wayne, who 
 had done so much to preserve the frontier settlements, and who, before 
 the year's close, sickened and died near Erie, transferred his head-
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 65 
 
 quarters to the neighborhood of the lakes, where a county named after 
 him was formed, which included the northwest of Ohio, all of Michigan, 
 and the northeast of Indiana. During this same year settlements were 
 formed at the present City of Chillicothe, along the Miami from Middle- 
 town to Piqua, while in the more distant West, settlers and speculators 
 began to appear in great numbers. In September, the City of Cleveland 
 was laid out, and during the Summer and Autumn, Samuel Jackson and 
 Jonathan Sharpless erected the first manufactory of paper the " Red- 
 stone Paper Mill" in the West. St. Louis contained some seventy 
 houses, and Detroit over three hundred, and along the river, contiguous 
 to it, were more than three thousand inhabitants, mostly French Canadians, 
 Indians and half-breeds, scarcely any Americans venturing yet into that 
 part of the Northwest. 
 
 The election of representatives for the territory had taken place, 
 and on the 4th of February, 1799, they convened at Losantiville now 
 known as Cincinnati, having been named so by Gov. St. Clair, and 
 considered the capital of the Territory to nominate persons from whom 
 the members of the Legislature were to be chosen in accordance with 
 a previous ordinance. This nomination being made, the Assembly 
 adjourned until the 16th of the following September. From those named 
 the President selected as members of the council, Henry Vandenburg, 
 of Vincennes, Robert Oliver, of Marietta, James Findlay and Jacob 
 Burnett, of Cincinnati, and David Vance, of Vanceville. On the 16th 
 of September the Territorial Legislature met, and on the 24th the two 
 houses were duly organized, Henry Vandenburg being elected President 
 of the Council. 
 
 The message of Gov. St. Clair was addressed to the Legislature 
 September 20th, and on October 13th that body elected as a delegate to 
 Congress Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison, who received eleven of the votes 
 cast, being a majority of one over his opponent, Arthur St. Clair, son of 
 Gen. St. Clair. 
 
 The whole number of acts passed at this session, and approved by 
 the Governor, were thirty-seven eleven others were passed, but received 
 his veto. The most important of those^ passed related to the militia, to 
 the administration, and to taxation. On the 19th of December this pro- 
 tracted session of the first Legislature in the West was closed, and on the 
 30th of December the President nominated Charles Willing Bryd to the 
 office of Secretary of the Territory vice Wm. Henry Harrison, elected to 
 Congress. The Senate confirmed his nomination the next day.
 
 66 THE NOKTHWEST TERRITOKY. 
 
 DIVISION OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 The increased emigration to the Northwest, the extent of the domain, 
 and the inconvenient modes of travel, made it very difficult to conduct 
 the ordinary operations of government, and rendered the efficient action 
 of courts almost impossible. To remedy this, it was deemed advisable to 
 divide the territory for civil purposes. Congress, in 1800, appointed a 
 committee to examine the question and report some means for its solution. 
 This committee, on the 3d of March, reported that : 
 
 " In the three western countries there has been but one court having 
 cognizance of crimes, in five years, and the immunity which offenders 
 experience attracts, as to an asylum, the most vile and abandoned crim- 
 inals, and at the same time deters useful citizens from making settlements 
 in such society. The extreme necessity of judiciary attention and assist- 
 ance is experienced in civil as well as in criminal cases. * * * * To 
 minister a remedy to these and other evils, it occurs to this committee 
 that it is expedient that a division of said territory into two distinct and 
 separate governments should be made ; and that such division be made 
 by a line beginning at the mouth of the Great Miami River, running 
 directly north until it intersects the boundary between the United States 
 and Canada." 
 
 The report was accepted by Congress, and, in accordance with its 
 suggestions, that body passed an Act extinguishing the Northwest Terri- 
 tory, which Act was approved May 7. Among its provisions were these : 
 
 " That from and after July 4 next, all that part of the Territory of 
 the United States northwest of the Ohio River, which lies to the westward 
 of a line beginning at a point on the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the 
 Kentucky River, and running thence to Fort Recovery, and thence north 
 until it shall intersect the territorial line between the United States and 
 Canada, shall, for the purpose of temporary government, constitute a 
 separate territory, 'and be called the Indiana Territory." 
 
 After providing for the exercise of the civil and criminal powers of 
 the territories, and other provisions, the Act further provides : 
 
 " That until it shall otherwise be ordered by the Legislatures of the 
 said Territories, respectively, Chillicothe on the Scioto River shall be the 
 seat of government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the 
 Ohio River ; and that St. Vincennes on the Wabash River shall be the 
 seat of government for the Indiana Territory." 
 
 Gen. Wm. Henry Harrison was appointed Governor of the Indiana 
 Territory, and entered upon his duties about a year later. Connecticut 
 also about this time released her claims to the reserve, and in March a law
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 67 
 
 was passed accepting this cession. Settlements had been made upon 
 thirty-five of the townships in the reserve, mills had been built, and seven 
 hundred miles of road cut in various directions. On the 3d of November 
 the General Assembly met at Chillicothe. Near the close of the year, 
 the first missionary of the Connecticut Reserve came, who found no 
 township containing more than eleven families. It was upon the first of 
 October that the secret treaty had been made between Napoleon and the 
 King of Spain, whereby the latter agreed to cede to France the province 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 In January, 1802, the Assembly of the Northwestern Territory char- 
 tered the college at Athens. From the earliest dawn of the western 
 colonies, education was promptly provided for, and as early as 1787, 
 newspapers were issued from Pittsburgh and Kentucky, and largely read 
 throughout the frontier settlements. Before the close of this year, the 
 Congress of the United States granted to the citizens of the Northwestern 
 territory the formation of a State government. One of the provisions of 
 the "compact of 1787" provided that whenever the number of inhabit- 
 ants within prescribed limits exceeded 45*000, they should be entitled to 
 a separate government. The prescribed limits of Ohio contained, from a 
 census taken to ascertain the legality of the act, more than that number, 
 and on the 30th of April, 1802, Congress passed the act defining its limits, 
 and on the 29th of November the Constitution of the new State of Ohio, 
 so named from the beautiful river forming its southern boundary, came 
 into existence. The exact limits of Lake Michigan were not then known, 
 but the territory now included within the State of Michigan was wholly 
 within the territory of Indiana. 
 
 Gen. Harrison, while residing at Vincennes, made several treaties 
 with the Indians, thereby gaining large tracts of lands. The next year is 
 memorable in the history of the West for the purchase of Louisiana from 
 France by the United States for $15,000,000. Thus by a peaceful mode, 
 the domain of the United States was extended over a large tract of 
 country west of the Mississippi, and was for a time under the jurisdiction 
 of the Northwest government, and, as has been mentioned in the early 
 part of this narrative, was called the "New Northwest." The limits 
 of this history will not allow a description of its territory. The same year 
 large grants of land were obtained from the Indians, and the House of 
 Representatives of the new State of Ohio signed a bill respecting the 
 College Township in the district of Cincinnati. 
 
 Before the close of the year, Gen. Harrison obtained additional 
 grants of lands from the various Indian nations in Indiana and the present 
 limits of Illinois, and on the 18th of August, 1804, completed a treaty at 
 St. Louis, whereby over 51,000,000 acres of lands were obtained from the
 
 68 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 aborigines. Measures were also taken to learn the condition of affairs in 
 and about Detroit. 
 
 C. Jouett, the Indian agent in Michigan, still a part of Indiana Terri- 
 tory, reported as follows upon the condition of matters at that post : 
 
 " The Town of Detroit. The charter, which is for fifteen miles 
 square, was granted in the time of Louis XIV. of France, and is now, 
 from the best information I have been able to get, at Quebec. Of those 
 two, hundred and twenty-five acres, only four are occupied by the town 
 and Fort Lenault. The remainder is a common, except twenty-four 
 acres, which were added twenty years ago to a farm belonging to Wm. 
 Macomb. * * * A stockade incloses the town, fort and citadel. The 
 pickets, as well as the public houses, are in a state of gradual decay. The 
 streets are narrow, straight and regular, and intersect each other at right 
 angles. The houses are, for the most part, low and inelegant." 
 
 During this year, Congress granted a township of land for the sup- 
 port of a college, and began to offer inducements for settlers in these 
 wilds, and the country now comprising the State of Michigan began to 
 fill rapidly with settlers along its southern borders. This same year, also, 
 a law was passed organizing the Southwest Territory, dividing it into two 
 portions, the Territory of New Orleans, which city was made the seat of 
 government, and the District of Louisiana, which was annexed to the 
 domain of Gen. Harrison. 
 
 On the llth of January, 1805, the Territory of Michigan was formed, 
 Wm. Hull was appointed governor, with headquarters at Detroit, the 
 change to take effect on June 30. On the llth of that month, a fire 
 occurred at Detroit, which destroyed almost every building in the place. 
 When the officers of the new territory reached the post, they found it in 
 ruins, and the inhabitants scattered throughout the country. Rebuild- 
 ing, however, soon commenced, and ere long the town contained ,more 
 houses than before the fire, and many of them much better built. 
 
 While this was being done, Indiana had passed to the second grade 
 of government, and through her General Assembly had obtained large 
 tracts of land from the Indian tribes. To all this the celebrated Indian, 
 Tecumthe or Tecumseh, vigorously protested, and it was the main cause 
 of his attempts to unite the various Indian tribes in a conflict with the 
 settlers. To obtain a full account of these attempts, the workings of the 
 British, and the signal failure, culminating in the death of Tecumseh at 
 the battle of the Thames, and the close of the war of 1812 in the Northwest, 
 we will step aside in our story, and relate the principal events of his life, 
 and his connection with this conflict.
 
 THE NOKTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 TECUMSEH, THE SHAWANOE CHIEFTAIN.
 
 TO THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 TECUMSEH, AND THE WAR OF 1812. 
 
 This famous Indian chief was born about the year 1768, not far from 
 the site of the present City of Piqua, Ohio. His father, Puckeshinwa, 
 was a member of the Kisopok tribe of the Swanoese nation, and his 
 mother, Methontaske, was a member of the Turtle tribe of the same 
 people. They removed from Florida about the middle of the last century 
 to the birthplace of Tecumseh. In 1774, his father, who had risen to be 
 chief, was slain at the battle of Point Pleasant, and not long after Tecum- 
 seh, by his bravery, became the leader of his tribe. In 1795 he was 
 declared chief, and then lived at Deer Creek, near the site of the 
 present City of Urbana. He remained here about one year, when he 
 returned to Piqua, and in 1798, he went to White River, Indiana. In 
 1805, he and his brother, Laulewasikan (Open Door), who had announced 
 himself as a prophet, went to a tract of land on the Wabash River, given 
 them by the Pottawatomies and Kickapoos. From this date the chief 
 comes into prominence. He was now about thirty-seven years of age, 
 was five feet and ten inches in height, was stoutly built, and possessed of 
 enormous powers of endurance. His countenance was naturally pleas- 
 ing, and he was, in general, devoid of those savage attributes possessed 
 l>y most Indians. It is stated he could read and write, and had a confi- 
 dential secretary and adviser, named Billy Caldwell, a half-breed, who 
 afterward became chief of the Pottawatomies. He occupied the first 
 house built on the site of Chicago. At this time, Tecumseh entered 
 upon the great work of his life. He had long objected to the grants of 
 land made by the Indians to the whites, and determined to unite all the 
 Indian tribes into a league, in order that no treaties or grants of land 
 could be made save by the consent of this confederation. 
 
 He traveled constantly, going from north to south ; from the south 
 to the north, everywhere urging the Indians to this step. He was a 
 matchless orator, and his burning words had their effect. 
 
 Gen. Harrison, then Governor o'f Indiana, by watching the move- 
 ments of the Indians, became convinced that a grand conspiracy was 
 forming, and made preparations to defend the settlements. Tecumseh's 
 plan was similar to Pontiac's, elsewhere described, and to the cunning 
 artifice of that chieftain was added his own sagacity. 
 
 During the year 1809, Tecumseh and the prophet were actively pre- 
 paring for the work. In that year, Gen. Harrison entered into a treaty 
 with the Delawares, Kickapoos, Pottawatomies, Miamis, Eel River Indians 
 and Weas, in which these tribes ceded to the whites certain lands upon 
 the Wabash, to all of which Tecumseh entered a bitter protest, averring
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 71 
 
 as one principal reason that he did not want the Indians to give up any 
 lands north and west of the Ohio River. 
 
 Tecumseh, in August, 1810, visited the General at Vincennes and 
 held a council relating to the grievances of the Indians. Becoming unduly 
 angry at this conference he was dismissed from the village, and soon after 
 departed to incite the southern Indian tribes to the conflict. 
 
 Gen. Harrison determined to move upon the chiefs headquarters at 
 Tippecanoe, and for this purpose went about sixty-five miles up the 
 Wabash, where he built Fort Harrison. From this place he went to the 
 prophet's town, where he informed the Indians he had no hostile inten- 
 tions, provided they were true to the existing treaties. He encamped- 
 near the village early in October, and on the morning of November 7, he 
 was attacked by a large force of the Indians, and the famous battle of 
 Tippecanoe occurred. The Indians were routed and their town broken 
 up. Tecumseh returning not long after, was greatly exasperated at his 
 brother, the prophet, even threatening to kill him for rashly precipitating 
 the war, and foiling his (Tecumseh's) plans. 
 
 Tecumseh sent word to Gen. Harrison that he was now returned, 
 from the South, and was ready to visit the President as had at one time 
 previously been proposed. Gen. Harrison informed him he could not go- 
 as a chief, which method Tecumseh desired, and the visit was never 
 made. 
 
 In June of the following year, he visited the Indian agent at 
 Fort Wayne. Here he disavowed arny intention to make a war against 
 the United States, and reproached Gen. Harrison for marching against his 
 people. The agent replied to this ; Tecumseh listened with a cold indif- 
 ference, and after making a few general remarks, with a haughty air drew 
 his blanket about him, left the council house, and departed for Fort Mai- 
 den, in Upper Canada, where he joined the British standard. 
 
 He remained under this Government, doing effective work for the 
 Crown while engaged in the war of 1812 which now opened. He was, 
 however, always humane in his treatment of the prisoners, never allow- 
 ing his warriors to ruthlessly mutilate the bodies of those slain, or wan- 
 tonly murder the captive. 
 
 In the Summer of 1813, Perry's victory on Lake Erie occurred, and 
 shortly after active preparations were made to capture Maiden. On the 
 27th of September, the American army, under Gen. Harrison, set sail for 
 the shores of Canada, and in a few hours stood around the ruins of Mai- 
 den, from which the British army, under Proctor, had retreated to Sand- 
 wich, intending to make its way to the heart of Canada by the Valley of 
 the Thames. On the 29th Gen. Harrison was at Sandwich, and Gen~ 
 McArthur took possession of Detroit and the territory of Michigan.
 
 72 
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 On the 2d of October, the Americans began their pursuit of Proctor, 
 whom they overtook on the 5th, and the battle of the Thames followed. 
 Early in the engagement, Tecumseh who was at the head of the column 
 of Indians was slain, and they, no longer hearing the voice of their chief- 
 tain, fled. The victory was decisive, and practically closed the war in 
 the Northwest. 
 
 INDIANS ATTACKING A STOCKADE. 
 
 Just who killed the great chief has been a matter of much dispute ; 
 but the weight of opinion awards the act to Col. Richard M. Johnson, 
 who fired at him with a pistol, the shot proving fatal. 
 
 In 1805 occurred Burr's Insurrection. He took possession of a 
 beautiful island in the Ohio, after the killing of Hamilton, and is charged 
 by many with attempting to set up an independent government. His 
 plans were frustrated by the general government, his property confiscated 
 and he was compelled to flee the country for safety.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 73 
 
 In January, 1807, Governor Hull, of Michigan Territory, made a 
 treaty with the Indians, whereby all that peninsula was ceded to the 
 United States. Before the clDse of the year, a stockade was built about 
 Detroit. It was also during this year that Indiana and Illinois endeavored 
 to obtain the repeal of that section of the compact of 1787, whereby 
 slavery was excluded from the Northwest Territory. These attempts, 
 however, all signally failed. 
 
 In 1809 it was deemed advisable to divide the Indiana Territory. 
 This was done, and the Territory of Illinois was formed from the western 
 part, the seat of government being fixed at Kaskaskia. The next year, 
 the intentions of Tecumseh manifested themselves in open hostilities, and 
 then began the events already narrated. 
 
 While this war was in progress, emigration to the West went on with 
 surprising rapidity. In 1811, under Mr. Roosevelt of New York, the 
 first steamboat trip was made on the Ohio, much to the astonishment of 
 the natives, many of whom fled in terror at the appearance of the 
 " monster." It arrived at Louisville on the 10th day of October. At the 
 close of the first week of January, 1812, it arrived at Natchez, after being 
 nearly overwhelmed in the great earthquake which occurred while on its 
 downward trip. 
 
 The battle of the Thames was fought on October 6, 1813. It 
 effectually closed hostilities in the Northwest, although peace was not 
 fully restored until July 22, 1814, when a treaty was formed at Green- 
 ville, under the direction of General Harrison, between the United States 
 and the Indian tribes, in which it was stipulated that the Indians should 
 cease hostilities against the Americans if the war were continued. Such, 
 happily, was not the case, and on the 24th of December the treaty 
 of Ghent was signed by the representatives of England and the United 
 States. This treaty was followed the next year by treaties with various 
 Indian tribes throughout the West, and Northwest, and quiet was again 
 restored in this part of the new world. 
 
 On the 18th of March, 1816, Pittsburgh was incorporated as a city. 
 It then had a population of 8,000 people, and was already noted for its 
 manufacturing interests. On April 19, Indiana Territory was allowed 
 to form a state government. At that time there were thirteen counties 
 organized, containing about sixty-three thousand inhabitants. The first 
 election of state officers was held in August, when Jonathan Jennings 
 was chosen Governor. The officers were sworn in on November 7, and 
 on December 11, the State was formally admitted into the Union. For 
 some time the seat of government was at Corydon, but a more central 
 location being desirable, the present capital, Indianapolis (City of Indiana), 
 was laid out January 1, 1825.
 
 74 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 On the 28th of December the Bank of Illinois, at Shawneetown, was 
 chartered, with a capital of $300,000. At this period all banks were 
 under the control of the States, and were allowed to establish branches 
 at different convenient points. 
 
 Until this time Chillicothe and Cincinnati had in turn enjoyed the 
 privileges of being the capital of Ohio. But the rapid settlement of the 
 northern and eastern portions of the State demanded, as in Indiana, a 
 more central location, and before the close of the year, the site of Col- 
 umbus was selected and surveyed as the future capital of the State. 
 Banking had begun in Ohio as early as 1808, when the first bank was 
 chartered at Marietta, but here as elsewhere it did not bring to the state 
 the hoped-for assistance. It and other banks were subsequently unable 
 to redeem their currency, and were obliged to suspend. 
 
 In 1818, Illinois was made a state, and all the territory north of her 
 northern limits was erected into a separate territory and joined to Mich- 
 igan for judicial purposes. By the following year, navigation of the lakes 
 was increasing with great rapidity and affording an immense source of 
 revenue to the dwellers in the Northwest, but it was not until 1826 that 
 the trade was extended to Lake Michigan, or that steamships began to 
 navigate the bosom of that inland sea. 
 
 Until the year 1832, the commencement of the Black Hawk War r 
 but few hostilities were experienced with the Indians. Roads were 
 opened, canals were dug, cities were built, common schools were estab- 
 lished, universities were founded, many of which, especially the Michigan 
 University, have achieved a world wide-reputation. The people were 
 becoming wealthy. The domains of the United States had been extended, 
 and had the sons of the forest been treated with honesty and justice, the 
 record of many years would have been that of peace and continuous pros- 
 perity. 
 
 BLACK HAWK AND THE BLACK HAWK WAR. 
 
 This conflict, though confined to Illinois, is an important epoch in 
 the Northwestern history, being the last war with the Indians in this part 
 of the United States. 
 
 Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiah, or Black Hawk, was born in the principal 
 Sac village, about three miles from the junction of Rock River with the 
 Mississippi, in the year 1767. His father's name was Py-e-sa or Pahaes ; 
 his grandfather's, Na-na-ma-kee, or the Thunderer. Black Hawk early 
 distinguished himself as a warrior, and at the age of fifteen was permitted 
 to paint and was ranked among the braves. About the year 1783, he 
 went on an expedition against the enemies of his nation, the Osages, one
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 75 
 
 BLACK HAWK, THE SAC CHIEFTAIN.
 
 76 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 of whom he killed and scalped, and-forthis deed of Indian bravery he was 
 permitted to join in the scalp dance. Three or four years after he, at the 
 head of two hundred braves, went on another expedition against the 
 Osages, to avenge the murder of some women and children belonging to 
 his own tribe. Meeting an equal number of Osage warriors, a fierce 
 battle ensued, in which the latter tribe lost one-half their number. The 
 Sacs lost only about nineteen warriors. He next attacked the Cherokees 
 for a similar cause. In a severe battle with them, near the present City 
 of St. Louis, his father was slain, and Black Hawk, taking possession of 
 the " Medicine Bag," at once announced himself chief of the Sac nation. 
 He had now conquered the Cherokees, and about the year 1800, at the 
 head of five hundred Sacs and Foxes, and a hundred lowas, he waged 
 war against the Osage nation and subdued it. For two vears he battled 
 
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 successfully with other Indian tribes, all of whom he conquered. 
 
 Black Hawk does not at any time seem to have been friendly to 
 the Americans. When on a visit to St. Louis to see his " Spanish 
 Father," he declined to see any of the Americans, alleging, as a reason, 
 he did not want two fathers. 
 
 The treaty at St. Louis was consummated in 1804. The next year the 
 United States Government erected a fort near the head of the Des Moines 
 Rapids, called Fort Edwards. This seemed to enrage Black Hawk, who 
 at once determined to capture Fort Madison, standing on the west side of 
 the Mississippi above the mouth of the Des Moines River. The fort was 
 garrisoned by about fifty men. Here he was defeated. The difficulties 
 with the British Government arose about this time, and the War of 1812 
 followed. That government, extending aid to the Western Indians, by 
 giving them arms and ammunition, induced them to remain hostile to the 
 Americans. In August, 1812, Black Hawk, at the head of about five 
 hundred braves, started to join the British forces at Detroit, passing on 
 his way the site of Chicago, where the famous Fort Dearborn Massacre 
 had a few days before occurred. Of his connection with the British 
 Government but little is known. In 1813 he with his little band descended 
 the Mississippi, and attacking some United States troops at Fort Howard 
 was defeated. 
 
 In the early part of 1815, the Indian tribes west of the Mississippi 
 were notified that peace had been declared between the United States 
 and England, and nearly all hostilities had ceased. Black Hawk did not 
 sign any treaty, however, until May of the following year. He then recog- 
 nized the validity of the treaty at St. Louis in 1804. From the time of 
 signing this treaty in 1816, until the breaking out of the war in 1832, he 
 and his band passed their time in the common pursuits of Indian life. 
 
 Ten years before the commencement of this war, the Sac and Fox
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 77 
 
 Indians were urged to join the lowas on the west bank of the Father of 
 Waters. All were agreed, save the band known as the British Band, of 
 which Black Hawk was leader. He strenuously objected to the removal, 
 and was induced to comply only after being threatened with the power of 
 the Government. This and various actions on the part of the white set- 
 tlers provoked Black Hawk and his band to attempt the capture of his 
 native village iiow occupied by the whites. The war followed. He and 
 his actions were undoubtedly misunderstood, and had his wishes been 
 acquiesced in at the beginning of the struggle, much bloodshed would 
 have been prevented. 
 
 Black Hawk was chief now of the Sac and Fox nations, and a noted 
 warrior. He and his tribe inhabited a village on Rock River, nearly three 
 miles above its confluence with the Mississippi, where the tribe had lived 
 many generations. When that portion of Illinois was reserved to them, 
 they remained in peaceable possession of their reservation, spending their 
 time in the enjoyment of Indian life. The fine situation of their village 
 and the quality of their lands incited the more lawless white settlers, who 
 from time to time began to encroach upon the red men's domain. From 
 one pretext to another, and from one step to another, the crafty white 
 men gained a foothold, until through whisky and artifice they obtained 
 deeds from many of the Indians for their possessions. The Indians were 
 finally induced to cross over the Father of Waters and locate among the 
 lowas. Black Hawk was strenuously opposed to all this, but as the 
 authorities of Illinois and the United States thought this the best move, he 
 was forced to comply. Moreover other tribes joined the whites and urged 
 the removal. Black Hawk would not agree to the terms of the treaty 
 made with his nation for their lands, and as soon as the military, called to 
 enforce his removal, had retired, he returned to the Illinois side of the 
 river. A large force was at once raised and marched against him. On 
 the evening of May 14, 1832, the first engagement occurred between a 
 band from this army and Black Hawk's band, in which the former were 
 defeated. 
 
 This attack and its result aroused the whites. A large force of men 
 was raised, and Gen. Scott hastened from the seaboard, by way of the 
 lakes, with United States troops and artillery to aid in the subjugation of 
 the Indians. On the 24th of June, Black Hawk, with 200 vvarriors, was 
 repulsed by Major Demont between Rock River and Galena. The Ameri- 
 can army continued to move up Rock 'River toward the main body of 
 the Indians, and on the 21st of July came upon Black Hawk and his band, 
 and defeated them near the Blue Mounds. 
 
 Before this action, Gen. Henry, in command, sent word to the main 
 army by whom he was immediately rejoined, and the whole crossed the
 
 78 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 Wisconsin in pursuit of Black Hawk and his band who were fleeing to the 
 Mississippi. They were overtaken on the 2d of August, and in the battle 
 which followed the power of the Indian chief was completely broken. He 
 fled, but was seized by the Winnebagoes and delivered to the whites. 
 
 On the 21st of September, 1832, Gen. Scott and Gov. Reynolds con- 
 cluded a treaty with the Winnebagoes, Sacs and Foxes by which they 
 ceded to the United States a vast tract of country, and agreed to remain 
 peaceable with the whites. For the faithful performance of the provi- 
 sions of this treaty on the part of the Indians, it was stipulated that 
 Black Hawk, his two sons, the prophet Wabokieshiek, and six other chiefs 
 of the hostile bands should be retained as hostages during the pleasure 
 of the President. They were confined at Fort Barracks and put in irons. 
 
 The next Spring, by order of the Secretary of War, they were taken, 
 to Washington. From there they were removed to Fortress Monroe, 
 "there to remain until the conduct of their nation was such as to justify 
 their being set at liberty." They were retained here until the 4th of 
 June, when the authorities directed them to be taken to the principal 
 cities so that they might see the folly of contending against the white 
 people. Everywhere they were observed by thousands, the name of the 
 old chief being extensively known. By the middle of August they 
 reached Fort Armstrong on Rock Island, where Black Hawk was soon 
 after released to go to his countrymen. As he passed the site of his birth- 
 place, now the home of the white man, he was deeply moved. His village 
 where he was born, where he had so happily lived, and where he had 
 hoped to die, was now another's dwelling place, and he was a wanderer. 
 
 On the next day after his release, he went at once to his tribe and 
 his lodge, His wife was yet living, and with her he passed the remainder 
 of his days. To his credit it may be said that Black Hawk always re- 
 mained true to his wife, and served her with a devotion uncommon among 
 the Indians, living with her upward of forty years. 
 
 Black Hawk now passed his time hunting and fishing. A deep mel- 
 ancholy had settled over him from which he could not be freed. At all 
 times when he visited the whites he was received with marked atten- 
 tion. He was an honored guest at the old settlers' reunion in Lee County, 
 Illinois, at some of their meetings, and received many tokens of esteem. 
 In September, 1838, while on his way to Rock Island to receive his 
 annuity from the Government, he contracted a severe cold which resulted 
 in a fatal attack of bilious fever which terminated his life on October 3. 
 His faithful wife, who was devotedly attached to him, mourned deeply 
 during his sickness. After his death he was dressed in the uniform pre- 
 sented to him by the President while in Washington. He was buried in 
 a grave six feet in depth, situated upon a beautiful eminence. " Thr
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 79 
 
 body was placed in the middle of the grave, in a sitting posture, upon a 
 seat constructed for the purpose. On his left side, the cane, given him 
 by Henry Clay, was placed upright, with his right hand resting upon it. 
 Many of the old warrior's trophies were placed in the grave, and some 
 Indian garments, together with his favorite weapons." 
 
 No sooner was the Black Hawk war concluded than settlers began 
 rapidly to pour into the northern parts of Illinois, and into Wisconsin, 
 now free from Indian depredations. Chicago, from a trading post, had 
 grown to a commercial center, and was rapidly coming into prominence. 
 In 1835, the formation of a State Government in Michigan was discussed, 
 but did not take active form until two years later, when the State became 
 a part of the Federal Union. 
 
 The main attraction to that portion of the Northwest lying west of 
 Lake Michigan, now included in the State of Wisconsin, was its alluvial 
 wealth. Copper ore was found about Lake Superior. For some time this 
 region was attached to Michigan for judiciary purposes, but in 183<> was 
 made a territory, then including Minnesota and Iowa. The latter State 
 was detached two years later. In 1848, Wisconsin was admitted as a 
 State, Madison being made the capital. We have now traced the various 
 divisions of the Northwest Territory (save a little in Minnesota) from 
 the time it was a unit comprising this vast territory, until circumstances 
 compelled its present division. 
 
 OTHER INDIAN TROUBLES. 
 
 Before leaving this part of the narrative, we will narrate briefly the 
 Indian troubles in Minnesota and elsewhere by the Sioux Indians. 
 
 In August, 1862, the Sioux Indians living on the western borders of 
 Minnesota -fell upon the unsuspecting settlers, and in a few hours mas- 
 sacred ten or twelve hundred persons. A distressful panic was the 
 immediate result, fully thirty thousand persons fleeing from their homes 
 to districts supposed to be better protected. The military authorities 
 at once took active measures to punish the savages, and a large number 
 were killed and captured. About a year after, Little Crow, the chief, 
 was killed by a Mr. Lampson near Scattered Lake. Of those captured, 
 thirty were hung at Mankato, and the remainder, through fears of mob 
 violence, were removed to Camp McClellan, on the outskirts of the City 
 of Davenport. It was here that Big Eagle came into prominence and 
 secured his release by the following order :
 
 80 
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 BIG EAGLE.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 81 
 
 "Special Order, No. 430. "WAR DEPARTMENT, 
 
 " ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 1864. 
 
 " Big Eagle, an Indian now in confinement at Davenport, Iowa, 
 will, upon the receipt of this order, be immediately released from confine- 
 ment and set at liberty. 
 
 " By order of the President of the United States. 
 " Official : " E. D. TOWNSEND, Ass't Adft G-en. 
 
 " CAPT. JAMES VANDERVENTER, Corny Sub. Vbls. 
 
 " Through Com'g Gen'l, Washington, D. C." 
 
 Another Indian who figures more prominently than Big Eagle, and 
 who was more cowardly in his nature, with his band of Modoc Indians, 
 is noted in the annals of the New Northwest : we refer to Captain Jack. 
 This distinguished Indian, noted for his cowardly murder of Gen. Canby, 
 was a chief of a Modoc tribe of Indians inhabiting the border lands 
 between California and Oregon. This region of country comprises what 
 is known as the " Lava Beds." a tract of land described as utterly impene- 
 trable, save by those savages who had made it their home. 
 
 The Modocs are known as an exceedingly fierce and treacherous 
 race. They had, according to their own traditions, resided here for many 
 generations, and at one time were exceedingly numerous and powerful. 
 A famine carried off nearly half their numbers, and disease, indolence 
 and the vices of the white man have reduced them to a poor, weak and 
 insignificant tribe. 
 
 Soon after the settlement of California and Oregon, complaints began 
 to be heard of massacres of emigrant trains passing through the Modoc 
 country. In 1847, an emigrant train, comprisihg eighteen souls, was en- 
 tirely destroyed at a place since known as " Bloody Point." These occur- 
 rences caused the United States Government to appoint a peace commission, 
 who, after repeated attempts, in 1864. made a treaty with the Modocs, 
 Snakes and Klamaths, in which it was agreed on their part to remove to 
 a reservation set apart for them in the southern part of Oregon. 
 
 With the exception of Captain Jack and a band of his followers, who 
 remained at Clear Lake, about six miles from Klamath, all the Indians 
 complied. The Modocs who went to the reservation were under chief 
 Schonchin. Captain Jack remained at the lake without disturbance 
 until 1869, when he was also induced to remove to the reservation. The 
 Modocs and the Klamaths soon became involved in a quarrel, and Captain 
 Jack and his band returned to the Lava Beds. 
 
 Several attempts were made by the Indian Commissioners to induce 
 them to return to the reservation, and finally becoming involved in a
 
 82 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 difficulty with the commissioner and his military escort, a fight ensued, 
 in which the chief and his band were routed. They were greatly enraged, 
 and on their retreat, before the day closed, killed eleven inoffensive whites. 
 
 The nation was aroused and immediate action demanded. A com- 
 mission was at once appointed by the Government to see what could be 
 done. It comprised the following persons : Gen. E. R. S. Canby : Rev. 
 Dr. E. Thomas, - a loading Methodist divine of California; Mr. A. B. 
 Meacham, Judge Rosborough, of California, and a Mr. Dyer, of Oregon. 
 After several interviews, in which the savages were always aggressive, 
 often appearing with scalps in their belts, Bogus Charley came to the 
 commission on the evening of April 10, 1873, and informed them that 
 Capt. Jack and his band would have a " talk " to-morrow at a place near 
 Clear Lake, about three miles distant. Here the Commissioners, accom- 
 panied by Charley, Riddle, the interpreter, and Boston Charley repaired. 
 After the usual greeting the council proceedings commenced. On behalf 
 of the Indians there were present : Capt. Jack, Black Jim, Schnac Nasty 
 Jim, Ellen's Man, and Hooker Jim. They had no guns, but carried pis- 
 tols. After short speeches by Mr. Meacham, Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas, 
 Chief Schonchin arose to speak. He had scarcely proceeded when, 
 as if by a preconcerted arrangement, Capt. Jack drew his pistol and shot 
 Gen. Canby dead. In less than a minute a dozen shots were fired b}' the 
 savages, and the massacre completed. Mr. Meacham was shot by Schon- 
 chin, and Dr. Thomas by Boston Charley. Mr. Dyer barely escaped, being 
 fired at twice. Riddle, the interpreter, and his squaw escaped. The 
 troops rushed to the spot where they found Gen. Canby and Dr. Thomas 
 dead, and Mr. Meacham badly wounded. The savages had escaped to 
 their impenetrable- fastnesses and could not be pursued. 
 
 The whole country was aroused by ting brutal massacre ; but it was 
 not until the following May that the murderers were brought to justice. 
 At that time Boston Charley gave himself up, and offered to guide the 
 troops to Capt. Jack's stronghold. This led to the capture of his entire 
 gang, a number of whom were murdered by Oregon volunteers while on 
 their way to trial. The remaining Indians were held as prisoners until 
 July when their trial occurred, which led to the conviction of Capt. 
 Jack, Schonchin, Boston Charley, Hooker Jim, Broncho, alias One-Eyed 
 Jim, and Slotuck, who were sentenced to be hanged. These sentences 
 were approved by the President, save in the case of Slotuck and Broncho 
 whose sentences were commuted to imprisonment for life. The others 
 were executed at Fort Klamath, October 3, 1873. 
 
 These closed the Indian troubles for a time in the Northwest, and for 
 several years the borders of civilization remained in peace. They were 
 again involved in a conflict with the savages about the country of the
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 83 
 
 CAPTAIN JACK, THE MODOC CHIEFTAIN.
 
 84 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 Black Hills, in which war the gallant Gen. Ouster lost his life. Just 
 now the borders of Oregon and California are again in fear of hostilities ; 
 but as the Government has learned how to deal with the Indians, they 
 will be of short duration. The red man is fast passing away before the 
 inarch of the white man, and a few more generations will read of the 
 Indians as one of the nations of the past. 
 
 The Northwest abounds in memorable places. We have generally 
 noticed them in the narrative, but our space forbids their description in 
 detail, save of the most important places. Detroit, Cincinnati, Vincennes, 
 Kaskaskia and their kindred towns have all been described. But ere we 
 leave the narrative we will present our readers with an account of the 
 Kinzie house, the old landmark of Chicago, and the discovery of the 
 source of the Mississippi River, each of which may well find a place in 
 the annals of the Northwest. 
 
 Mr. John Kinzie, of the Kinzie house, represented in the illustra- 
 tion, established a trading house at Fort Dearborn in 1804. The stockade 
 had been erected the year previous, and named Fort Dearborn in honor 
 of the Secretary of War. It had a block house at each of the two angles, 
 on the southern side a sallyport, a covered way on the north side, that led 
 down to the river, for the double purpose of providing means of escape, 
 and of procuring" water in the event of a siege. 
 
 Fort Dearborn stood on the south bank of the Chicago River, about 
 half a mile from its mouth. When Major Whistler built it, his soldiers 
 hauled all the timber, for he had no oxen, and so economically did he 
 work that the fort cost the Government only fifty dollars. For a while 
 the garrison could get no grain, and Whistler and his men subsisted on 
 acorns. Now Chicago is the greatest grain center in the world. 
 
 Mr. Kinzie bought the hut of the first settler, Jean Baptiste Point au 
 Sable, on the site of which he erected his mansion. Within an inclosure 
 in front he planted some Lombardy poplars, seen in the engraving, and in 
 the rear he soon had a fine garden and growing orchard. 
 
 In 1812 the Kinzie house and its surroundings became the theater 
 of stirring events. The garrison of Fort Dearborn consisted of fifty-four 
 men, under the charge of Capt. Nathan Heald, assisted by Lieutenant 
 Lenai T. Helm (son-in-law to Mrs. Kinzie), and Ensign Ronan. The 
 surgeon was Dr. Voorhees. The only residents at the post at that time 
 were the wives of Capt. Heald and Lieutenant Helm and a few of the 
 soldiers, Mr. Kinzie and his family, and a few Canadian voyagers with their 
 wives and children. The soldiers and Mr. Kinzie were on the most 
 friendly terms with the Pottawatomies and the Winnebagoes, the prin- 
 cipal tribes around them, but they could not win them from their attach- 
 ment to the British.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 85 
 
 After the battle of Tippecanoe it was observed that some of the lead- 
 ing chiefs became sullen, for some of their people had perished in that 
 conflict with American troops. 
 
 One evening in April, 1812, Mr. Kinzie sat playing his violin and his 
 children were dancing to the music, when Mrs. Kinzie came rushing into 
 the house pale with terror, and exclaiming, " The Indians ! the Indians-! " 
 " What? Where ? " eagerly inquired Mr. Kinzie. " Up at Lee's, killing 
 and scalping," answered the frightened mother, who, when the alarm was 
 given, was attending Mrs. Burns, a newly-made mother, living not far off. 
 
 KINZIE HOUSE. 
 
 Mr. Kinzie and his family crossed the river in boats, and took refuge in 
 the fort, to which place Mrs. Burns and her infant, not a day old, were 
 conveyed in safety to the shelter of the guns of Fort Dearborn, and the 
 rest of the white inhabitants fled. The Indians were a scalping party of 
 Winnebagoes, who hovered around the fort some days, when they dis- 
 appeared, and for several weeks the inhabitants were not disturbed by 
 alarms. . 
 
 Chicago was then so deep in the wilderness, that the news of the 
 declaration of war against Great Britain, made on the 19th of June, 1812, 
 did not reach the commander of the garrison at Fort Dearborn till the 7th 
 of August. Now the fast mail train will carry a man from New York to 
 Chicago in twenty-seven hours, and such a declaration might be sent, 
 every word, by the telegraph in less than the same number of minutes.
 
 THE FOETITWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 8? 
 
 PRESENT CONDITION OF THE NORTHWEST, 
 
 Preceding chapters have brought us to the close of the Black Hawk 
 war, and we now turn to the contemplation of the growth and prosperity 
 of the Northwest under the smile of peace and the blessings of our civili- 
 zation. The pioneers of this region date events back to the deep snow 
 
 A REPRESENTATIVE PIONEER. 
 
 of 1831, no one arriving here since that date taking first honors. The 
 inciting cause of the immigration which overflowed the prairies early in 
 the '30s was the reports of the marvelous beauty and fertility of the 
 region distributed through the East by those who had participated in the 
 Black Hawk campaign with Gen. Scott. Chicago and Milwaukee then 
 had a few hundred inhabitants, and Gurdon S. Hubbard's trail from the 
 former city to Kaskaskia led almost through a wilderness. Vegetables 
 and clothing were largely distributed through the regions adjoining the
 
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 lakes by steamers from the Ohio towns. There are men now living in 
 Illinois who came to the state when barely an acre was in cultivation, 
 and a man now prominent in the business circles of Chicago looked over 
 the swampy, cheerless site of that metropolis in 1818 and went south- 
 ward into civilization. Emigrants from Pennsylvania in 1830 left behind 
 
 LINCOLN MONUMENT, SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. 
 
 them but one small railway in the coal regions, thirty miles in length, 
 and made their way to the Northwest mostly with ox teams, finding in 
 Northern Illinois petty settlements scores of miles apart, although the 
 southern portion of the state was fairly dotted with farms. The 
 water courses of the lakes and rivers furnished transportation to the 
 second great army of immigrants, and about 1850 railroads were 
 pushed to that extent that the crisis of 1837 was precipitated upon us,
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 89 
 
 from the effects of which the Western country had not fully recovered 
 at the outbreak of the war. Hostilities found the colonists of the prairies 
 fully alive to the demands of the occasion, and the honor of recruiting 
 
 the vast armies of the Union fell largely to Gov. Yates, of Illinois, and 
 Gov. Morton, of Indiana. To recount the share of the glories of the 
 campaign won by ovir Western troops is a needless task, except to 
 mention the fact that Illinois gave co the nation the President who saved
 
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 it, and sent out at the head of one of its regiments tne general who led 
 its armies to the final victory at Appomattox. The struggle, on the 
 
 FAJ1M VIEW IN WINTER. 
 
 whole, had a marked effect for the better on the new Northwest, giving 
 it an impetus which twenty years of peace would not have produced. 
 In a large degree this prosperity was an inflated one, and with the rest 
 of the Union we have since been compelled to atone therefor by four
 
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 SPRING SCENE.
 
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 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 93 
 
 years of depression of values, of scarcity of employment, and loss of 
 fortune. To a less degree, however, than the manufacturing or mining 
 regions has the West suffered during the prolonged panic now so near its 
 end. Agriculture, still the leading feature in our industries, has been 
 quite prosperous through all these dark years, and the farmers have 
 cleared away many incumbrances resting over them from the period of 
 fictitious values. The population has steadily increased, the arts and 
 sciences are gaining a stronger foothold, the trade area of the region is 
 becoming daily more extended, and we have been largely exempt from 
 the financial calamities which have nearly wrecked communities on the 
 seaboard dependent wholly on foreign commerce or domestic manufacture. 
 
 At the present period there are no great schemes broached for the 
 Northwest, no propositions for government subsidies or national works 
 of improvement, but the capital of the world is attracted hither for the 
 purchase of our products or the expansion of our capacity for serving the 
 nation at large. A new era is dawning as to transportation, and we bid 
 fair to deal almost exclusively with the increasing and expanding lines 
 of steel rail running through every few miles of territory on the prairies. 
 The lake marine will no doubt continue to be useful in the warmer 
 season, and to serve as a regulator of freight rates ; but experienced 
 navigators forecast the decay of the system in moving to the seaboard 
 the enormous crops of the West. Within the past five years it has 
 become quite common to see direct shipments to Europe and the West 
 Indies going through from the second-class towns along the Mississippi 
 and Missouri. 
 
 As to popular education, the standard has of late risen very greatly, 
 and our schools would be creditable to any section of the Union. 
 
 More and more as the events of the war pass into obscurity will the 
 f.ite of the Northwest be linked with that of the Southwest, and the 
 next Congressional apportionment will give the valley of the Mississippi 
 absolute control of the legislation of the nation, and do much toward 
 securing the removal of the Federal capitol to some more central location. 
 
 Our public men continue to wield the full share of influence pertain- 
 ing to their rank in the national autonomy, and seem not to forget that 
 for the past sixteen years they and their constituents have dictated the 
 principles which should govern the country. 
 
 In a work like this, destined to lie on the shelves of the library for 
 generations, and not doomed to daily destruction like a newspaper, one 
 can not indulge in the same glowing predictions, the sanguine statements 
 of actualities that fill the columns of ephemeral publications. Time may 
 bring grief to the pet projects of a writer, and explode castles erected on 
 a pedestal of facts. Yet there are unmistakable indications before us of
 
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 LAKE BLUFF. 
 
 The frontage of Lake Bluff Grounds on Lake Michigan, -with one hnndred and seventy feet of gradual ascent. 
 
 HIGH BRIDGE, LAKE BLUFF, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 95 
 
 the same radical change in our great Northwest which characterizes its 
 history for the past thirty years. Our domain has a sort of natural 
 geographical border, save where it melts away to the southward in the 
 cattle raising districts of the southwest. 
 
 Our prime interest will for some years doubtless be the growth of 
 the food of the world, in which branch it has already outstripped all 
 competitors, and our great rival in this duty will naturally be the fertile 
 plains of Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado, to say nothing of the new 
 empire so rapidly growing up in Texas. Over these regions there is a 
 continued progress in agriculture and 'in railway building, and we must 
 look to our laurels. Intelligent observers of events are fully aware of 
 the strides made in the way of shipments of fresh meats to Europe, 
 many of these ocean cargoes being actually slaughtered in the West and 
 transported on ice to the wharves of the seaboard cities. That this new 
 enterprise will continue there is no reason to -doubt. There are in 
 Chicago several factories for the canning of prepared meats for European 
 consumption, and the orders for this class of goods are already immense. 
 English capital is becoming daily more and more dissatisfied with railway 
 loans and investments, and is gradually seeking mammoth outlays in 
 lands and live stock. The stock yards in Chicago, Indianapolis and East 
 St. Louis are yearly increasing their facilities, and their plant steadily 
 grows more valuable. Importations of blooded animals from the pro- 
 gressive countries of Europe are destined to greatly improve the quality 
 of our beef and mutton. Nowhere is there to be seen a more enticing 
 display in this line than at our state and county fairs, and the interest 
 in the matter is on the increase. 
 
 To attempt to give statistics of our grain production for 1877 would 
 be useless, so far have we surpassed ourselves in the quantity and 
 quality of our product. We are too liable to forget that we are giving 
 the world its first article of necessity its food supply. An opportunity 
 to learn this fact so it never can be forgotten was afforded at Chicago at 
 the outbreak of the great panic of 1873, when Canadian purchasers, 
 fearing the prostration of business might bring about an anarchical condition 
 of affairs, went to that city with coin in bulk and foreign drafts to secure 
 their supplies in their own currency at first hands. It may be justly 
 claimed by the agricultural community that their combined efforts gave 
 the nation its first impetus toward a restoration of its crippled industries, 
 and their labor brought the gold premium to a lower depth than the 
 government was able to reach by its most intense efforts of legislation 
 and compulsion. The hundreds of millions about to be disbursed for 
 farm products have already, by the anticipation common to all commercial
 
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 nations, set the wheels in motion, and will relieve us from the perils so 
 long shadowing our efforts to return to a healthy tone. 
 
 Manufacturing has attained in the chief cities a foothold which bids 
 fair to render the Northwest independent of the outside world. Nearly 
 
 our whole region has a distribution of coal measures which will in time 
 support the manufactures necessary to our comfort and prosperity. As 
 to transportation, the chief factor in the production of all articles excej.*" 
 food, no section is so magnificently endowed, and our facilities are yearly 
 increasing beyond those of any other region.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 97 
 
 The period from a central point of the war to the outbreak of the 
 panic was marked by a tremendous growth in our railway lines, but the 
 depression of the times caused almost a total suspension of operations. 
 Now that prosperity is returning to our stricken country we witness its 
 anticipation by the railroad interest in a series of projects, extensions, 
 and leases which bid fair to largely increase our transportation facilities. 
 The process of foreclosure and sale of incumbered lines is another matter 
 to be considered. In the case of the Illinois Central road, which formerly 
 transferred to other 'lines at Cairo the vast burden of freight destined for 
 the Srulf region, we now see the incorporation of the tracks connecting 
 through to New Orleans, every mile co-operating in turning toward the 
 northwestern metropolis the weight of the inter-state commerce of a 
 thousand miles or more of fertile plantations. Three competing routes 
 to Texas have established in Chicago their general freight and passenger 
 agencies. Four or five lines compete for all Pacific freights to a point as 
 as far as the interior of Nebraska. Half a dozen or more splendid bridge 
 structures have been thrown across the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by 
 the railways. The Chicago and Northwestern line has become an aggre- 
 gation of over two thousand miles of rail, and the Chicago, Milwaukee 
 and St. Paul is its close rival in extent and importance. The three lines 
 running to Cairo via Vincennes form a through route for all traffic with 
 the states to the southward. The chief projects now under discussion 
 are the Chicago and Atlantic, which is to unite with lines now built to 
 Charleston, and the Chicago and Canada Southern, which line will con- 
 nect with all the various branches of that Canadian enterprise. Our 
 latest new road is the Chicago and Lake Huron, formed of three lines, 
 and entering the city from Valparaiso on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne 
 and Chicago track. The trunk lines being mainly in operation, the 
 progress made in the way of shortening tracks, making air-line branches, 
 and running extensions does not show to the advantage it deserves, as 
 this process is constantly adding new facilities to the established order 
 of things. The panic reduced the price of steel to a point where the 
 railways could hardly afford to use iron rails, and all our northwestern 
 lines report large relays of Bessemer track. The immense crops now 
 being moved have given a great rise to the value of railway stocks, and 
 their transportation must result in heavy pecuniary advantages. 
 
 Few are aware of the importance of the wholesale and jobbing trade 
 of Chicago. One leading firm has since the panic sold $24,000,000 of 
 dry goods in one year, and they now expect most confidently to add 
 seventy per cent, to the figures of their last year's business. In boots 
 and shoes and in clothing, twenty or more great firms from the east have 
 placed here their distributing agents or their factories ; and in groceries
 
 98 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 Chicago supplies the entire Northwest at rates presenting advantages 
 over New York. 
 
 Chicago has stepped in between New York and the rural banks as a 
 financial center, and scarcely a banking institution in the grain or cattle 
 regions but keeps its reserve funds in the vaults of our commercial insti- 
 tutions. Accumulating here throughout the spring and summer months, 
 they are summoned home at pleasure to move the products of the 
 prairies. This process greatly strengthens the northwest in its financial 
 operations, leaving home capital to supplement local operations on 
 behalf of home interests. 
 
 It is impossible to forecast the destiny of this grand and growing 
 section of the Union. Figures and predictions made at this date might 
 seem ten years hence so ludicrously small as to excite only derision. 
 
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 ILLINOIS. 
 
 Length, 380 miles, mean width about 156 miles. Area, 55,410 square 
 miles, or 35,462,400 acres. Illinois, as regards its surface, constitutes a 
 table-land at a varying elevation ranging between 350 and 800 feet above 
 the sea level ; composed of extensive and highly fertile prairies and plains. 
 Much of the south division of the State, especially the river-bottoms, are 
 thickly wooded. The prairies, too, have oasis-like clumps of trees 
 scattered here and there at intervals. The chief rivers irrigating the 
 State are the Mississippi dividing it from Iowa and Missouri the Ohio 
 (forming its south barrier), the Illinois, Wabash, Kaskaskia, and San- 
 gamon, with their numerous affluents. The total extent of navigable 
 streams is calculated at 4,000 miles. Small lakes are scattered over vari- 
 ous parts of the State. Illinois is extremely prolific in minerals, chiefly 
 coal, iron, copper, and zinc ores, sulphur and limestone. The coal-field 
 alone is estimated to absorb a full third of the entire coal-deposit of North 
 America. Climate tolerably equable and healthy ; the mean temperature 
 standing at about 51 Fahrenheit As an agricultural region, Illinois takes 
 a competitive rank with neighboring States, the cereals, fruits, and root- 
 crops yielding plentiful returns ; in fact, as a grain-growing State, Illinois 
 may be deemed, in proportion to her size, to possess a greater area of 
 lands suitable for its production than any other State in the Union. Stock- 
 raising is also largely carried on, while her manufacturing interests in 
 regard of woolen fabrics, etc., are on a very extensive and yearly expand- 
 ing scale. The lines of railroad in the State are among the most exten- 
 sive of the Union. Inland water-carriage is facilitated by a canal 
 connecting the Illinois River with Lake Michigan, and thence with the 
 St. Lawrence and Atlantic. Illinois is divided into 102 counties ; the 
 chief towns being Chicago, Springfield (capital), Alton, Quincy, Peoria, 
 Galena, Bloomington, Rock Island, Vandalia, etc. By the new Consti- 
 tution, established in 1870, the State Legislature consists of 51 Senators, 
 elected for four years, and 153 Representatives, for two years ; which 
 numbers were to be decennially increased thereafter to the number of 
 six per every additional half-million of inhabitants. Religious and 
 educational institutions are largely diffused throughout, and are in a very 
 flourishing condition. Illinois has a State Lunatic and a Deaf and Dumb 
 Asylum at Jacksonville ; a State Penitentiary at Joliet ; and a Home for 
 
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 Soldiers' Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the public debt of 
 the State was returned at $4,870,937, with a balance of $1,808,833 
 unprovided for. At the same periad the value of assessed and equalized 
 property presented the following totals : assessed, $840,031,703 ; equal- 
 ized $480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly the whole of 
 the eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north and 
 west of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, at 
 Cahokia and Kaskaskia, and the territory of which these settlements 
 formed the nucleus was, in 1763, ceded to Great Britain in conjunction 
 with Canada, and ultimately resigned to the United States in 1787. 
 Illinois entered the Union as a State, December 3, 1818 ; and now send* 
 19 Representatives to Congress. Population, 2,539,891, in 1870. 
 
 WESTERN DWELLING.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 101 
 
 INDIANA. 
 
 The profile of Indiana forms a nearly exact parallelogram, occupy- 
 ing one of the most fertile portions of the great Mississippi Valley. The 
 greater extent of the surface embraced within its limits consists of gentle 
 undulations rising into hilly tracts toward the Ohio bottom. The chief 
 rivers of the State are the Ohio and Wabash, with their numerous 
 affluents. The soil is highly productive of the cereals and grasses most 
 particularly so in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash, Whitewater, and 
 White Rivers. The northeast and central portions are well timbered 
 with virgin forests, and the west section is notably rich in coal, constitut- 
 ing an offshoot of the great Illinois carboniferous field. Iron, copper, 
 marble, slate, gypsum, and various clays are also abundant. From an 
 agricultural point of view, the staple products are maize and wheat, with 
 the other cereals in lesser yields ; and besides these, flax, hemp, sorghum, 
 hops, etc., are extensively raised. Indiana is divided into 92 counties, 
 and counts among her principal cities and towns, those of Indianapolis 
 (the capital), Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute, Madison, Jefferson- 
 ville, Columbus, Vincennes, South Bend, etc. The public institutions of 
 the State are many and various, and on a scale of magnitude and 
 efficiency commensurate with her important political and industrial status. 
 Upward of two thousand miles of railroads permeate the State in all 
 directions, and greatly conduce to the development of her expanding 
 manufacturing interests. Statistics for the fiscal year terminating 
 October 31, 1870, exhibited a total of receipts, $3,896,541 as against dis- 
 bursements, $3,532,406, leaving a balance, $364,135 in favor of the State 
 Treasury. The entire public debt, January 5, 1871, $3,971,000. This 
 State was first settled by Canadian voyageurs in 1702, who erected a fort 
 at Vincennes; in 1763 it passed into the hands of the English,. and was 
 by the latter ceded to the United States in 1783. From 1788 till 1791, 
 an Indian warefare prevailed. In 1800, all the region west and north of 
 Ohio (then formed into a distinct territory) became merged in Indiana. 
 In 1809, the present limits of the State were defined, Michigan and 
 Illinois having previously been withdrawn. In 1811, Indiana was. the 
 theater of the Indian War of Tecumseh, ending with the decisive battle 
 of Tippecanoe. In 1816 (December 11), Indiana became enrolled among 
 the States of the American Union. In 1834, the State passed through a 
 monetary crisis owing to its having become mixed up with railroad, 
 Qanal, and other speculations on a gigantic scale, which ended, for the 
 time being, in a general collapse of public credit, and consequent bank- 
 ruptcy. Since that time, however, the greater number of the public
 
 102 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 works which had brought about that imbroglio especially the great 
 Wabash and Erie Canal have been completed, to the great benefit of 
 the State, whose subsequent progress has year by year been marked by 
 rapid strides in the paths of wealth, commerce, and general social and 
 political prosperity. The constitution now in force was adopted in 1851. 
 Population, 1,680,637. 
 
 IOWA. 
 
 In shape, Iowa presents an almost perfect parallelogram; has a 
 length, north to south, of about 300 miles, by a pretty even width of 208 
 miles, and embraces an area of 55,045 square miles, or 35,228,800 acres. 
 The surface of the State is generally undulating, rising toward the 
 middle into an elevated plateau which forms the " divide " of the 
 Missouri and Mississippi basins. Rolling prairies, especially in the south 
 section, constitute a regnant feature, and the river bottoms, belted with 
 woodlands, present a soil of the richest alluvion. Iowa is well watered ; 
 the principal rivers being the Mississippi and Missouri, which form 
 respectively its east and west limits, and the Cedar, Iowa, and Des 
 Moines, affluents of the first named. Mineralogically, Iowa is important 
 as occupying a section of the great Northwest coal field, to the extent of 
 an area estimated at 25,000 square miles. Lead, copper, zinc, and iron, 
 are also mined in considerable quantities. The soil is well adapted to 
 the production of wheat, maize, and the other cereals ; fruits, vegetables, 
 and esculent roots; maize, wheat, and oats forming the chief staples. 
 Wine, tobacco, hops, and wax, are other noticeable items of the agricul- 
 tural yield. Cattle-raising, too, is a branch of rural industry largely 
 engaged in. The climate is healthy, although liable to extremes of heat 
 and cold. The annual gross product of the various manufactures carried 
 on in this State approximate, in round numbers, a sum of $20,000,000. 
 Iowa has an immense railroad system, besides over 500 miles of water- 
 communication by means of its navigable rivers. The State is politically 
 divided into 99 counties, with the following centers of population : Des 
 Moines (capital), Iowa City (former capital), Dubuque, Davenport, Bur- 
 lington, Council Bluffs, Keokuk, Muscatine, and Cedar Rapids. The 
 State institutions of Iowa religious, scholastic, and philanthropic are 
 on a par, as regards number and perfection of organization and operation, 
 with those of her Northwest sister States, and education is especially 
 well cared for, and largely diffused. Iowa formed a portion of the 
 American territorial acquisitions from France, by the so-called Louisiana 
 purchase in 1803, and was politically identified with Louisiana till 1812,
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 103 
 
 when it merged into the Missouri Territory; in 1834 it came under the 
 Michigan organization, and, in 1836, under that of Wisconsin. Finally, 
 after being constituted an independent Territory, it became a State of 
 the Union, December 28, 1846. Population in 1860, 674,913 ; in 1870, 
 1,191,792, and in 1875, 1,353,118. 
 
 MICHIGAN. 
 
 United area, 56,243 square miles, or 35,995,520 acres. Extent of the 
 Upper and smaller Peninsula length, 316 miles; breadth, fluctuating 
 between 36 and 120 miles. The south division is 416 miles long, by from 
 50 to 300 miles wide. Aggregate lake-shore line, 1,400 miles. The 
 Upper, or North, Peninsula consists chiefly of an elevated plateau, 
 expanding into the Porcupine mountain-system, attaining a maximum 
 height of some 2,000 feet. Its shores along Lake Superior are eminently 
 bold and picturesque, and its area is rich in minerals, its product of 
 copper constituting an important source of industry. Both divisions are 
 heavily wooded, and the South one, in addition, boasts of a deep, rich, 
 loamy soil, throwing up excellent crops of cereals and other agricultural 
 produce. The climate is generally mild and humid, though the Winter 
 colds are severe. The chief staples of farm husbandry include the cereals, 
 grasses, maple sugar, sorghum, tobacco, fruits, and dairy-stuffs. In 1870, 
 the acres of land in farms were : improved, 5,096,939 ; unimproved 
 woodland, 4,X)80,146 ; other unimproved land, 842,057. The cash value 
 of land was $398,240,578 ; of farming implements and machinery, 
 $13,711,979. In 1869, there were shipped from the Lake Superior ports, 
 874,582 tons of iron ore, and 45,762 of smelted pig, along with 14,188 
 tons of copper (ore and ingot). Coal is another article largely mined. 
 Inland communication is .provided for by an admirably organized railroad 
 system, and by the St. Mary's Ship Canal, connecting Lakes Huron and 
 Superior. Michigan is politically divided into 78 counties ; its chief 
 urban centers are Detroit, Lansing (capital), Ann Arbor, Marquette, 
 Bay City, Niles, Ypsilanti, Grand Haven, etc. The Governor of the 
 State is elected biennially. On November 30, 1870, the aggregate bonded 
 debt of Michigan amounted to $2,385,028, and the assessed valuation of 
 land to $266,929,278, representing an estimated cash value of $800,000,000. 
 Education is largely diffused and most excellently conducted and pro- 
 vided for. The State University at Ann Arbor, the colleges of Detroit 
 and Kalamazoo, the Albion Female College, the State Normal School at 
 Ypsilanti, and the State Agricultural College at Lansing, are chief among 
 the academic institutions. Michigan (a term of Chippeway origin, and
 
 104 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 signifying "Great Lake), was discovered and first settled by French 
 Canadians, who, in 1670, founded Detroit, the pioneer of a series of trad- 
 ing-posts on the Indian frontier. During the " Conspiracy of Pontiac," 
 following the French loss of Canada, Michigan became the scene of a 
 sanguinary struggle between the whites and aborigines. In 1796, it 
 became annexed to the United States, which incorporated this region 
 with the Northwest Territory, and then with Indiana Territory, till 1803, 
 when it became territorially independent. Michigan was the theater of 
 warlike operations during the war of 1812 with Great Britain, and in 
 1819 was authorized to be represented by one delegate in Congress ; hi 
 1837 she was admitted into the Union as a State, and in 1869 ratified the 
 15th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Population, 1,184,059. 
 
 WISCONSIN. 
 
 It has a mean length of 260 miles, and a maximum breadth of 215. 
 Land area, 53,924 square miles, or 34,511,360 acres. Wisconsin lies at a 
 considerable altitude above sea-level, and consists for the most part of an 
 upland plateau, the surface of which is undulating and very generally 
 diversified. Numerous local eminences called mounds are interspersed 
 over the State,, and the Lake Michigan coast-line is in many parts char- 
 acterized by lofty escarped cliffs, even as on the west side the banks of 
 the Mississippi form a series of high and picturesque bluffs. A group of 
 islands known as The Apostles lie off the extreme north point of the 
 State in Lake Superior, and the great estuary of Green Bay, running far 
 inland, gives formation to a long, narrow peninsula between its waters 
 and those of Lake Michigan. The river-system of Wisconsin has three 
 outlets those of Lake Superior, Green Bay, and the Mississippi, which 
 latter stream forms the entire southwest frontier, widening at one point 
 into the large watery expanse called Lake Pepin. Lake Superior receives 
 the St. Louis, Burnt Wood, and Montreal Rivers ; Green Bay, the 
 Menomonee, Peshtigo, Oconto, and Fox ; while into the Mississippi 
 empty the St. Croix, Chippewa, Black, Wisconsin, and Rock Rivers. 
 The chief interior lakes are those of Winnebago, Horicon, and Court 
 Oreilles, and smaller sheets of water stud a great part of the surface. 
 The climate is healthful, with cold Winters and brief but very warm 
 Summers. Mean annual rainfall 31 inches. The geological system 
 represented b} r the State, embraces those rocks included between the 
 primary and the Devonian series, the former containing extensive 
 deposits of copper and iron ore. Besides these minerals, lead and zinc 
 are found in great quantities, together with kaolin, plumbago, gypsum,
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 105 
 
 and various clays. Mining, consequently, forms a prominent industry, 
 and one of yearly increasing dimensions. The soil of Wisconsin is of 
 varying quality, but fertile on the whole, and in the north parts of the 
 State heavily timbered. The agricultural yield comprises the cereals, 
 together with flax, hemp, tobacco, pulse, sorgum, and all kinds of vege- 
 tables, and of the hardier fruits. In 1870, the State had a total number 
 of 102,904 farms, occupying 11,715,321 acres, of which 5,899,343 con- 
 sisted of improved land, and 3,437,442 were timbered. Cash value of 
 farms, $300,414,064 ; of farm implements and machinery, $14,239,364. 
 Total estimated value of all farm products, including betterments and 
 additions to stock, $78,027,032 ; of orchard and dairy stuffs, $1,045,933 ; 
 of lumber, $1,327,618 ; of home manufactures, $338,423 ; of all live-stock, 
 $45,310,882. Number of manufacturing establishments, 7,136, employ- 
 ing 39,055 hands, and turning out productions valued at $85,624,966. 
 The political divisions of the State form 61 counties, and the chief places 
 of wealth, trade, and population, are Madison (the capital), Milwaukee, 
 Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Prairie du Chien, Janesville, Portage City, 
 Racine, Kenosha, and La Crosse. In 1870, the total assessed valuation 
 reached $333,209,838, as against a true valuation of both real and personal 
 estate aggregating $602,207,329. Treasury receipts during 1870, $886,- 
 696 ; disbursements, $906,329. Value of church property, $4,749,983. 
 Education is amply provided for. Independently of the State University 
 at Madison, and those of Galesville and of Lawrence at Appleton, and 
 the colleges of Beloit, Racine, and Milton, there are Normal Schools at 
 Platteville and Whitewater. The State is divided into 4,802 common 
 school districts, maintained at a cost, in 1870, of $2,094,160. The chari- 
 table institutions of Wisconsin include a Deaf and Dumb Asylum, an 
 Institute for the Education of the Blind, and a Soldiers' Orphans' School. 
 In January, 1870, the railroad system ramified throughout the State 
 totalized 2,779 miles of track, including several lines far advanced toward 
 completion. Immigration is successfully encouraged by the State author- 
 ities, the larger number of yearly new-comers being of Scandinavian and 
 German origin. The territory now occupied within the limits of the 
 State of Wisconsin was explored by French missionaries and traders in 
 1639, and it remained under French jurisdiction until 1703, when it 
 became annexed to the British North American possessions. In 1796, it 
 reverted to the United States, the government of which latter admitted 
 it within the limits of 'the Northwest Territory, and in 1809, attached it 
 to that of Illinois, and to Michigan in 1818. Wisconsin became independ- 
 ently territorially organized in 1836, and became a State of the Union, 
 March 3, 1847. Population in 1870, 1,0<>4,985, of which 2,113 were of 
 the colored race, and 11,521 Indians, 1,206 of the latter being out of 
 tribal relations.
 
 106 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 MINNESOTA. 
 
 Its length, north to south, embraces an extent of 380 miles ; its 
 breadth one of 250 miles at a maximum. Area, 84,000 square miles, or 
 54,760,000 acres. The surface of Minnesota, generally speaking, con- 
 sists of a succession of gently undulating plains and prairies, drained by 
 an admirable water-system, and with here and there heavily- timbered 
 bottoms and belts of virgin forest. The soil, corresponding with such a 
 superfices, is exceptionally rich, consisting for the most part of a dark, 
 calcareous sandy drift intermixed with loam. A distinguishing physical 
 feature of this State is its riverine ramifications, expanding in nearly 
 every part of it into almost innumerable lakes the whole presenting an 
 aggregate of water-power having hardly a rival in the Union. Besides 
 the Mississippi which here has its rise, and drains a basin of 800 miles 
 of country the principal streams are the Minnesota (334 miles long), 
 the Red River of the North, the St. Croix, St. Louis, and many others of 
 lesser importance ; the chief lakes are those called Red, Cass, Leech, 
 Mille Lacs, Vermillion, and Winibigosh. Quite a concatenation of sheets 
 of water fringe the frontier line where Minnesota joins British America, 
 culminating in the Lake of the Woods. It has been estimated, that of 
 an area of 1,200,000 acres of surface between the St. Croix and Mis- 
 sissippi Rivers, not less than 73,000 acres are of lacustrine formation. In 
 point of minerals, the resources of Minnesota have as yet been very 
 imperfectly developed; iron, copper, coal, lead all these are known to 
 exist in considerable deposits ; together with salt, limestone, and potter's 
 clay. The agricultural outlook of the State is in a high degree satis- 
 factory ; wheat constitutes the leading cereal in cultivation, with Indian 
 corn and oats in next order. Fruits and vegetables are grown in great 
 plenty and of excellent quality. The lumber resources of Minnesota are 
 important ; the pine forests in the north region alone occupying an area 
 of some 21,000 square miles, which in 1870 produced a return of scaled 
 logs amounting to 313,116,416 feet. The natural industrial advantages 
 possessed by Minnesota are largely improved upon by a railroad system. 
 The political divisions of this State number 78 counties ; of which the 
 chief cities and towns are : St. Paul (the capital), Still water, Red Wing, 
 St. Anthony, Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, and Mankato. Minnesota has 
 already assumed an attitude of high importance as a manufacturing State ; 
 this is mainly due to the wonderful command of water-power she pos- 
 sesses, as before spoken of. Besides her timber-trade, the milling of 
 flour, the distillation of whisky, and the tanning of leather, are prominent 
 interests, which, in 1869, gave returns to the amount of $14,831,043.
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 10T 
 
 Education is notably provided for on a broad and catholic scale, the 
 entire amount expended scholastically during the year 1870 being $857,- 
 816 ; while on November 30 of the preceding year the permanent school 
 fund stood at $2,476,222. Besides a University and Agricultural College, 
 Normal and Reform Schools flourish, and with these may be mentioned 
 such various philanthropic and religious institutions as befit the needs of 
 an intelligent and prosperous community. The finances of the State for 
 the fiscal year terminating December 1, 1870, exhibited a balance on the 
 right side to the amount of $136,164, being a gain of $44,000 over the 
 previous year's figures. The earliest exploration of Minnesota by the 
 whites was made in 1680 by a French Franciscan, Father Hennepin, who 
 gave the name of St. Antony to the Great Falls on the Upper Missisippi. 
 In 1763, the Treaty of Versailles ceded this region to England. 
 Twenty years later, Minnesota formed part of the Northwest Territory 
 transferred to the United States, and became herself territorialized inde- 
 pendently in 1849. Indian cessions in 1851 enlarged her boundaries, and, 
 May 11, 1857, Minnesota became a unit of the great American federation 
 of States. Population, 439,706. 
 
 NEBRASKA. 
 
 Maximum length, 412 miles ; extreme breadth, 208 miles. Area, 
 75,905 square miles, or 48,636,800 acres. The surface of this State is 
 almost entirely undulating prairie," and forms part of the west slope of 
 the great central basin of the North American Continent. In its west 
 division, near the base of the Rocky Mountains, is a sandy belt of 
 country, irregularly defined. In this part, too, are the " dunes," resem- 
 bling a wavy sea of sandy billows, as well as the Mauvaises Terres, a tract 
 of singular formation, produced by eccentric disintegrations and denuda- 
 tions of the land. The chief rivers are the Missouri, constituting its en- 
 tire east line of demarcation ; the Nebraska or Platte, the Niobrara, the 
 Republican Fork of the Kansas, the Elkhorn, and the Loup Fork of the 
 Platte. The soil is very various, but consisting chiefly of rich, bottomy 
 loam, admirably adapted to the raising of heavy crops of cereals. All 
 the vegetables and fruits of the temperate zone are produced in great 
 size and plenty. For grazing purposes Nebraska is a State exceptionally 
 well fitted, a region of not less than 23,000,000 acres being adaptable to 
 this branch of husbandry. It is believed that the, as yet, comparatively 
 infertile tracts of land found in various parts of the State are susceptible 
 of -productivity by means of a properly conducted system of irrigation. 
 Few minerals of moment have so far been found within the limits of
 
 108 
 
 THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY. 
 
 Nebraska, if we may except important saline deposits at the head of Salt 
 Creek in its southeast section. The State is divided into 57 counties, 
 independent of the Pawnee and Winnebago Indians, and of unorganized 
 territory in the northwest part. The principal towns are Omaha, Lincoln 
 (State capital), Nebraska City, Columbus, Grand Island, etc. In 1870, 
 the total assessed value of property amounted to $53,000,000, being an 
 increase of $11,000,000 over the previous year's returns. The total 
 amount received from the school-fund during the year 1869-70 was 
 177,999. Education is making great onward strides, the State University 
 and an Agricultural College being far advanced toward completion. In 
 the matter of railroad communication, Nebraska bids fair to 1 soon place 
 herself on a par with her neighbors to the east. Besides being inter- 
 sected by the Union Pacific line, with its off-shoot, the Fremont and Blair, 
 other tracks are in course of rapid construction. Organized by Con- 
 gressional Act into a Territory, May 30, 1854, Nebraska entered the 
 Union as a full State, March 1, 1867. Population, 122,993. 
 
 HUNTING PRAIRIE WOLVES IIST AN EARLY DAY.
 
 EARLY HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 The name of this beautiful Prairie State is derived from Illini, a 
 Delaware word signifying Superior Men. It has a French termination, 
 and is a symbol of how the two races the French and the Indians 
 were intermixed during the early history of the country. 
 
 The appellation was no doubt well applied to the primitive inhabit- 
 ants of the soil whose prowess in savage warfare long withstood the 
 combined attacks of the fierce Iroquois on the one side, and the no less 
 savage and relentless Sacs and Foxes on the other. The Illinois were 
 once a powerful confederacy, occupying the most beautiful and fertile 
 region in the great Valley of the Mississippi, which their enemies coveted 
 and struggled long and hard to wrest from them. By the fortunes of 
 war they were diminished in numbers, and finally destroyed. " Starved 
 Rock," on the Illinois River, according to tradition, commemorates their 
 last tragedy, where, it is said, the entire tribe starved rather than sur- 
 render. 
 
 EARLY DISCOVERIES. 
 
 The first European discoveries in Illinois date back over two hun- 
 dred years. They are a part of that movement which, from the begin- 
 ning to the middle of the seventeenth century, brought the French 
 Canadian missionaries and fur traders into the Valley of the Mississippi, 
 and which, at a later period, established the civil and ecclesiastical 
 authority of France from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, 
 and from the foot-hills of the Alleghanies to the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 The great river of the West had been discovered by DeSoto, the 
 Spanish conqueror of Florida, three quarters of a century before the 
 French founded Quebec in 1608, but the Spanish left the country a wil- 
 derness, without further exploration or settlement within its borders, in 
 which condition it remained until the Mississippi was discovered by the 
 agents of the French Canadian government, Jolietand Marquette, in 1673. 
 These renowned explorers were not the first white visitors to Illinois. 
 In 1671 two years in advance of them came Nicholas Perrot to Chicago. 
 He liar 1 been sent by Talon as an agent of the Canadian government to 
 
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 110 
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
 
 HISTOBY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Ill 
 
 call a great peace convention of "Western Indians at Green Bay, prepara- 
 tory to the movement for the discovery of the Mississippi. It was 
 deemed a good stroke of policy to secure, as far as possible, the friend- 
 ship and co-operation of the Indians, far and near, before venturing upon 
 an enterprise which their hostility might render disastrous, and which 
 their friendship and assistance would do so much to make successful ; 
 and to this end Perrot was sent to call together in council the tribes 
 throughout the Northwest, and to promise them the commerce and pro- 
 tection of the French government. He accordingly arrived at Green 
 Bay in 1671, and procuring an escort of Pottawattamies, proceeded in a 
 bark canoe upon a visit to the Miamis, at Chicago. Perrot was there- 
 fore the first European to set foot upon the soil of Illinois. 
 
 Still there were others before Marquette. In 1672, the Jesuit mis- 
 sionaries, Fathers Claude Allouez and Claude Dablon, bore the standard 
 of the Cross from their mission at Green Bay through western Wisconsin 
 and northern Illinois, visiting the Foxes on Fox River, and the Masquo- 
 tines and Kickapoos at the mouth of the Milwaukee. These missionaries 
 penetrated on the route afterwards followed by Marquette as far as the 
 Kickapoo village at the head of Lake Winnebago, where Marquette, in 
 his journey, secured guides across the portage to the Wisconsin. 
 
 The oft-repeated story of Marquette and* Joliet is well known. 
 They were the agents employed by the Canadian government to discover 
 the Mississippi. Marquette was a native of France, born in 1637, a 
 Jesuit priest by education, and a man of simple faith and of great zeal and 
 devotion in extending the Roman Catholic religion among the Indians. 
 Arriving in Canada in 1666, he was sent as a missionary to the far 
 Northwest, and, in 1668, founded a mission at Sault Ste. Marie. The 
 following year he moved to La Pointe, in Lake Superior, where he 
 instructed a branch of the Hurons till 1670, when he removed south, and 
 founded the mission at St. Ignace, on the Straits of Mackinaw. Here 
 he remained, devoting a portion of his time to the study of the Illinois 
 language under a native teacher who had accompanied him to the mission 
 from La Pointe, till he was joined by Joliet in the Spring of 1673. By 
 the way of Green Bay and the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, they entered 
 the Mississippi, which they explored to the mouth of the Arkansas, and 
 returned by the way of the Illinois and Chicago Rivers to Lake Michigan. 
 
 On his way up the Illinois, Marquette visited the great village of 
 the Kaskaskias, near what is now Utica, in the county of LaSalle. The 
 following year he returned and established among them the mission of 
 the Immaculate Virgin Mary, which was the first Jesuit mission founded 
 in Illinois and in the Mississippi Valley. The intervening winter he 
 had spent in a hut which his companions erected on the Chicago River, a 
 few leagues from its mouth. The founding of this mission was the last
 
 112 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 act of Marquette's life. He died in Michigan, on his way back to Green 
 Bay, May 18, 1675. 
 
 FIRST FRENCH OCCUPATION. 
 
 The first French occupation of the territory now embraced in Illi- 
 nois was effected by LaSalle in 1680, seven years after the time of Mar- 
 quette and Joliet. LaSalle, having constructed a vessel, the " Griffin," 
 above the falls of Niagara, which he sailed to Green Bay, and having 
 passed thence in canoes to the mouth of the St. Joseph River, by which 
 and the Kankakee he reached the Illinois, in January, 1680, erected Fort 
 Crevecceur, at the lower end of Peoria Lake, where the city of Peoria is 
 now situated. The place where this ancient fort stood may still be seen 
 just below the outlet of Peoria Lake. It was destined, however, to a 
 temporary existence. From this point, LaSalle determined to descend 
 the Mississippi to its mouth, but did not accomplish this purpose till two 
 years later in 1682. Returning to Fort Frontenac for the purpose of 
 getting materials with which to rig his vessel, he left the fort in charge of 
 Touti, his lieutenant, who during his absence was driven off by the Iro- 
 quois Indians. These savages had made a raid upon the settlement of 
 the Illinois, and had left nothing in their track but ruin and desolation. 
 Mr. Davidson, in his History of Illinois, gives the following graphic 
 account of the picture that met the eyes of LaSalle and his companions 
 on their return : 
 
 " At the great town of the Illinois they were appalled at the scene 
 which opened to their view. No hunter appeared to break its death-like 
 silence with a salutatory whoop ot welcome. The plain on which the 
 town had stood was now strewn with charred fragments of lodges, which 
 had so recently swarmed with savage life and hilarity. To render more 
 hideous the picture of desolation, large numbers of skulls had been 
 placed on the upper extremities of lodge-poles which had escaped the 
 devouring flames. In the midst of these horrors was the rude fort of 
 the spoilers, rendered frightful by the same ghastly relics. A near 
 approach showed that the graves had been robbed of their bodies, and 
 swarms of buzzards were discovered glutting their loathsome stomachs 
 on the reeking corruption. To complete the work of destruction, the 
 growing corn of the village had been cut down and burned, while the 
 pits containing the products of previous years, had been rifled and their 
 contents scattered with wanton waste. It was evident the suspected 
 blow of the Iroquois had fallen with relentless fury." 
 
 Tonti had escaped LaSalle knew not whither. Passing down the 
 lake in search of him and his men, LaSalle discovered that the fort had 
 been destroyed, but the vessel which he had partly constructed was still
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OP ILLINOIS. 113 
 
 on the stocks, and but slightly injured. After further fruitless search, 
 failing to find Tonti, he fastened to a tree a painting representing himself 
 and parfy sitting in a canoe and bearing a pipe of peace, and to the paint- 
 ing attached a letter addressed to Tonti. 
 
 Tonti had escaped, and, after untold privations, taken shelter among 
 the Pottawattamies near Green Bay. These were friendly to the French. 
 One of their old chiefs used to say, " There were but three great cap- 
 tains in the world, himself, Tonti and LaSalle." 
 
 GENIUS OF LASALLE. 
 
 We musfc now return to LaSalle, whose exploits stand out in such 
 bold relief. He was born in Rouen, France, in 1643. His father was 
 wealthy, but he renounced his patrimony on entering a college of the 
 Jesuits, from which he separated and came to Canada a poor man in 1666. 
 The priests of St. Sulpice, among whom he had a brother, were then the 
 proprietors of Montreal, the nucleus of which was a seminary or con- 
 vent founded by that order. The Superior granted to LaSalle a large 
 tract of land at LaChine, where he established himself in the fur trade. 
 He was a man of daring genius, and outstripped all his competitors in 
 exploits of travel and commerce with the Indians. In 1669, he visited 
 the headquarters of the great Iroquois Confederacy, at Onondaga, in the 
 heart of New York, and, obtaining guides, explored the Ohio River to 
 the falls at Louisville. 
 
 In order to understand the genius of LaSalle, it must be remembered 
 that for many years prior to his time the missionaries and traders were 
 obliged to make their way to the Northwest by the Ottawa River (of 
 Canada) on account of the fierce hostility of the Iroquois along the lower 
 lakes and Niagara River, which entirely closed this latter route to the 
 Upper Lakes. They carried on their commerce chiefly by canoes, pad- 
 dling them through the Ottawa to Lake Nipissing, carrying them across 
 the portage to French River, and descending that to Lake Huron. This 
 being the route by which they reached the Northwest, accounts for the 
 fact that all the earliest Jesuit missions were established in the neighbor- 
 hood of the Upper Lakes. LaSalle conceived the grand idea of opening 
 the route by Niagara River and the Lower Lakes to Canadian commerce 
 by sail vessels, connecting it with the navigation of the Mississippi, and 
 thus opening a magnificent water communication from the Gulf of St. 
 Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. This truly grand and comprehensive 
 purpose seems to have animated him in all his wonderful achievements 
 and the matchless difficulties and hardships he surmounted. As the first 
 step in the accomplishment of this object he established himself on Lake 
 Ontario, and built and garrisoned Fort Frontenac, the site of the present
 
 114 HISTORY OP THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 city of Kingston, Canada. Here he obtained a grant of land from the 
 French crown and a body of troops by which he beat back the invading 
 Iroquois and cleared the passage to Niagara Falls. Having by this mas- 
 terly stroke made it safe to attempt a hitherto untried expedition, his 
 next step, as we have seen, was to advance to the Falls with all his 
 outfit for building a ship with which to sail the lakes. He was success- 
 ful in this undertaking, though his ultimate purpose was defeated by a 
 strange combination of untoward circumstances. The Jesuits evidently 
 hated LaSalle and plotted against him, because he had abandoned them 
 and co-operated with a rival order. The fur traders were also jealous of 
 his superior success in opening new channels of commerce. At LaChine 
 he had taken the trade of Lake Ontario, which but for his presence there 
 would have gone to Quebec. While they were plodding with their bans 
 canoes through the Ottawa he was constructing sailing vessels to com- 
 mand the trade of the lakes and tht Mississippi. These great plans 
 excited the jealousy and envy of the small traders, introduced treason and 
 revolt into the ranks of his own companions, and finally led to the foul 
 assassination by which his great achievements were prematurely ended. 
 
 In 1682, LaSalle, having completed his vessel at Peoria, descended 
 the Mississippi to its confluence with the Gulf of Mexico. Erecting a 
 standard on which he inscribed the arms of France, he took formal pos- 
 session of the whole valley of the mighty river, in the name of Louis 
 XIV., then reigning, in honor of whom he named the country LOUISIANA. 
 
 LaSalle then went to France, was appointed Governor, and returned 
 with a fleet and immigrants, for the purpose of planting a colony in Illi- 
 nois. They arrived in due time in the Gulf of Mexico, but failing to 
 find the mouth of the Mississippi, up which LaSalle intended to sail, his 
 supply ship, with the immigrants, was driven ashore and wrecked on 
 Matagorda Bay. With the fragments of the vessel he constructed a 
 stockade and rude huts on the shore for the protection of the immigrants, 
 calling the post Fort St. Louis. He then made a trip into New Mexico, 
 in search of silver mines, but, meeting with disappointment, returned to 
 find his little colony reduced to forty souls. He then resolved to travel 
 on foot to Illinois, and, starting with his companions, had reached the 
 valley of the Colorado, near the mouth of Trinity river, when he was 
 shot by one of his men. This occurred on the 19th of March, 1687. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Foster remarks of him : " Thus fell, not far from the banks 
 of the Trinity, Robert Cavalier de la Salle, one of the grandest charac- 
 ters that ever figured in American history a man capable of originating 
 the vastest schemes, and endowed with a will and a judgment capable of 
 carrying them to successful results. Had ample facilities been placed by 
 the King of France at his disposal, the result of the colonization of this 
 continent might have been far different from what we now behold."
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 115 
 
 EARLY SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 A temporary settlement was made at Fort St. Louis, or the old Kas- 
 kaskia village, on the Illinois River, in what is now LaSalle County, in 
 1682. In 1690, this was removed, with the mission connected with it, to 
 Kaskaskia, on the river of that name, emptying into the lower Mississippi 
 in St. 'Glair County. Cahokia was settled about the same time, or at 
 least, both of these settlements began in the year 1690, though it is now 
 pretty well settled that Cahokia is the older place, and ranks as the oldest 
 permanent settlement in Illinois), as well as in the Mississippi Valley. 
 The reason for the removal of the old Kaskaskia settlement and mission, 
 was probably because the dangerous and difficult route by Lake Michigan 
 and the Chicago portage had been almost abandoned, and travelers and 
 traders passed down and up the Mississippi by the Fox and Wisconsin 
 River route. They removed to the vicinity of the Mississippi in order 
 to be in the line of travel from Canada to Louisiana, that is, the lower 
 part of it, for it was all Louisiana then south of the lakes. 
 
 During the period of French rule in Louisiana, the population prob- 
 ably never exceeded ten thousand, including whites and blacks. Within 
 that portion of it now included in Indiana, trading posts were established 
 at the principal Miami villages which stood on the head waters of the 
 Maumee, the Wea villages situated at Ouiatenon, on the Wabash, and 
 the Piankeshaw villages at Post Vincennes ; all of which were probably 
 visited by French traders and missionaries before the close of the seven- 
 teenth century. 
 
 In the vast territory claimed by the French, many settlements of 
 considerable importance had sprung up. Biloxi, on Mobile Bay, had 
 been founded by D'Iberville, in 1699 ; Antoine de Lamotte Cadillac had 
 founded Detroit in 1701 ; and New Orleans had been founded by Bien- 
 ville, under the auspices of the Mississippi Company, in 1718. In Illi- 
 nois also, considerable settlements had been made, so that in 1730 they 
 embraced one hundred and forty French families, about six hundred " con- 
 verted Indians," and many traders and voyageurs. In that portion of the 
 country, on the east side of the Mississippi, there were five distinct set- 
 tlements, with their respective villages, viz. : Cahokia, near the mouth 
 of Cahokia Creek and about five miles below the present city of St. 
 Louis ; St. Philip, about forty-five miles below Cahokia, and four miles 
 above Fort Chartres ; Fort Chartres, twelve miles above Kaskaskia ; 
 Kaskaskia, situated on the Kaskaskia River, five miles above its conflu- 
 ence with the Mississippi ; and Prairie du Rocher, near Fort Chartres. 
 To these must be added St. Genevieve and St. Louis, on the west side 
 of the Mississippi. These, with the exception of St. Louis, are among
 
 116 
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 117 
 
 the oldest French towns in the Mississippi Valley. Kaskaskia, in its best 
 days, was a town of some two or three thousand inhabitants. After it 
 passed from the crown of France its population for many years did not 
 exceed fifteen hundred. Under British rule, in 1773, the population had 
 decreased to four hundred and fifty. As early as 1721, the Jesuits had 
 , established a college and a monastery in Kaskaskia. 
 
 Fort Chartres was first built under the direction of the Mississippi 
 Company, in 1718, by M. de Boisbraint, a military officer, under command 
 of Bienville. It stood on the east bank of the Mississippi, about eighteen 
 miles below Kaskaskia, and was for some time the headquarters of the 
 military commandants of the district of Illinois. 
 
 In the Centennial Oration of Dr. Fowler, delivered at Philadelphia, 
 by appointment of Gov. Beveridge, we find some interesting facts with 
 regard to the State of Illinois, which we appropriate in this history: 
 
 In 1682 Illinois became a possession of the French crown, a depend- 
 ency of Canada, and a part of Louisiana. In 1765 the English flag was 
 run up on old Fort Chartres, and Illinois was counted among the treas- 
 ures of Great Britain. 
 
 In 1779 it was taken from the English by Col. George Rogers Clark, 
 This man was resolute in nature, wise in council, prudent in policy, bold 
 in action, and heroic in danger. Few men who have figured in the his- 
 tory of America are more deserving than this colonel. Nothing short of 
 first-class ability could have rescued Vincens and all Illinois from the 
 English. And it is not possible to over-estimate the influence of this- 
 achievement upon the republic. In 1779 Illinois became a part of Vir- 
 ginia. It was soon known as Illinois County. In 1784 Virginia ceded 
 all this territory to the general government, to be cut into States, to be 
 republican in form, with " the same right of sovereignty, freedom, and 
 independence as the other States." 
 
 In 1787 it was the object of the wisest and ablest legislation found 
 in any merely human records. No man can study the secret history of 
 
 THE "COMPACT OF 1787," 
 
 and not feel that Providence was guiding with sleepless eye these unborn 
 States. The ordinance that on July 13, 1787, finally became the incor- 
 porating act, has a most marvelous history. Jefferson had vainly tried 
 to secure a system of government for the northwestern territory. He 
 was an emancipationist of that day, and favored the exclusion of slavery 
 from the territory Virginia had ceded to the general government ; but 
 the South voted him down as often as it came up. In 1787, as late as- 
 July 10, an organizing act without the anti-slavery clause was pending. 
 This concession to the South was expected to carry it. Congress was in
 
 118 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 session in New York City. On July 5, Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler, of 
 Massachusetts, came into New York to lobby on the northwestern terri- 
 tory. Everything seemed to fall into his hands. Events were ripe. 
 
 The state of the public credit, the growing of Southern prejudice, 
 the basis of his mission, his personal character, all combined to complete 
 one of those sudden and marvelous revolutions of public sentiment that 
 once in five or ten centuries are seen to sweep over a country like the 
 breath of the Almighty. Cutler was a graduate of Yale received his 
 A.M. from Harvard, and his D.D. from Yale. He had studied and taken 
 degrees in the three learned professions, medicine, law, and divinity. He 
 had thus America's best indorsement. He had published a scientific 
 examination of the plants of New England. His name stood second only 
 to that of Franklin as a scientist in America. He was a courtly gentle- 
 man of the old style, a man of commanding presence, and of inviting 
 face. The Southern members said they had never seen such a gentleman 
 in the North. He came representing a company that desired to purchase 
 a tract of land now included in Ohio, for the purpose of planting a colon}*. 
 It was a speculation. Government money was worth eighteen cents on 
 the dollar. This Massachusetts company had collected enough to pur- 
 chase 1,500,000 acres of land. Other speculators in New York made 
 Dr. Cutler their agent (lobbyist). On the 12th he represented a demand 
 for 5,500,000 acres. This would reduce the national debt. Jefferson 
 and Virginia were regarded as authority concerning the land Virginia 
 had just ceded. Jefferson's policy wanted to provide for the public credit, 
 and this was a good opportunity to do something. 
 
 Massachusetts then owned the territory of Maine, which she was 
 crowding on the market. She was opposed to opening the northwestern 
 region. This fired the zeal of Virginia. The South caught the inspira- 
 tion, and all exalted Dr. Cutler. The English minister invited him to 
 dine with some of the Southern gentlemen. He was the center of interest. 
 
 The entire South rallied round him. Massachusetts could not vote 
 against him, because many of the constituents of her members were 
 interested personally in the western speculation. Thus Cutler, making 
 friends with the South, and, doubtless, using all the arts of the lobby, 
 was enabled to command the situation. True to deeper convictions, he 
 dictated one of the most compact and finished documents of wise states- 
 manship that has ever adorned any human law book. He borrowed from 
 Jefferson the term " Articles of Compact," which, preceding the federal 
 constitution, rose into the most sacred character. He then followed very 
 closely the constitution of Massachusetts, adopted three years before. 
 Its most marked points were : 
 
 1. The exclusion of slavery from the territory forever. 
 
 2. Provision for public schools, giving one township for a seminary,
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 119 
 
 and every section numbered 16 in each township ; that is, one-thirty-six th 
 of all the land, for public schools. 
 
 3. A provision prohibiting the adoption of any constitution or the. 
 enactment of any law that should nullify pre-existing contracts. 
 
 Be it forever remembered that this compact declared that " Religion, 
 morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the 
 happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall always 
 be encouraged." 
 
 Dr. Cutler planted himself on this platform and would not yield. 
 Giving his unqualified declaration that it was that or nothing that unless, 
 they could make the land desirable they did not want it he took his 
 horse and buggy, and started for the constitutional convention in Phila- 
 delphia. On July 13, 1787, the bill was put upon its passage, and was 
 unanimously adopted, every Southern member voting for it, and only one 
 man, Mr. Yates, of New York, voting against it. But as the States voted 
 as States, Yates lost his vote, and the compact was put beyond repeal. 
 
 Thus the great States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis- 
 consin a vast empire, the heart of the great valley were consecrated 
 to freedom, intelligence, and honesty. Thus the great heart of the nation 
 was prepared for a year and a day and an hour. In the light of these eighty- 
 nine years I affirm that this act was the salvation of the republic and the 
 destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw their great blunder, and 
 tried to repeal the compact. In 1803 Congress referred it to a committee 
 of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that this ordinance 
 was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood a rock, in the way 
 of the on-rushing sea of slavery. 
 
 With all this timely aid it was, after all, a most desperate and pro- 
 tracted struggle to keep the soil of Illinois sacred to freedom. It was 
 the natural battle-field for the irrepressible conflict. In the southern end 
 of the State slavery preceded the compact. It existed among the old 
 French settlers, and was hard to eradicate. The southern part of the 
 State was settled from the slave States, and this population brought their 
 laws, customs, and institutions with them. A stream of population from 
 the North poured into the northern part of the State. These sections 
 misunderstood and hated each other perfectly. The Southerners regarded 
 the Yankees as a skinning, tricky, penurious race of peddlers, filling the 
 country with tinware, brass clocks, and wooden nutmegs. The North- 
 erner thought of the Southerner as a lean, lank, lazy creature, burrowing 
 in a hut, and rioting in whisky, dirt and ignorance. These causes aided-' 
 in making the struggle long and bitter. So strong was the sympathy 
 with slavery that, in spite of the ordinance of 1787, and in spite of the 
 deed of cession, it was determined to allow the old French settlers to 
 retain their slaves. Planters from the slave States mi^ht brinsr their'
 
 120 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 slaves, if they would give them a chance to choose freedom or years 
 of service and bondage for their children till they should become 
 thirty years of age. If they chose freedom they must leave the State 
 in sixty days or be sold as fugitives. Servants were whipped for offenses 
 for which white men are fined. Each lash paid forty cents of the fine. A 
 negro ten miles from home without a pass was whipped. These famous 
 laws were imported from the slave States just as they imported laws foi 
 the inspection of flax and wool when there was neither in the State. 
 
 These Black Laws are now wiped out. A vigorous effort was made 
 to protect slavery in the State Constitution of 1817. It barely failed. 
 It was renewed in 1825, when a convention was asked to make a new 
 constitution. After a hard fight the convention was defeated. But 
 slaves did not disappear from the census of the State until 1850. There 
 were mobs and murders in the interest of slavery. Lovejoy was added 
 to the list of martyrs a sort of first-fruits of that long life of immortal 
 heroes who saw freedom as the one supreme desire of their souls, and 
 were so enamored of her that they preferred to die rather than survive her. 
 
 The population of 12,282 that occupied the territory in A.D. 1800, 
 increased to 45,000 in A.D. 1818, when the State Constitution was 
 adopted, and Illinois took her place in the Union, with a star on the flag 
 and two votes in the Senate. 
 
 Shadrach Bond was the first Governor, and in his first message he 
 recommended the construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. 
 
 The simple economy in those days is seen in the fact that the entire 
 bill for stationery for the first Legislature was only $13.50. Yet this 
 simple body actually enacted a very superior code. 
 
 There was no money in the territory before the war of 1812. Deer 
 skins and coon skins were the circulating medium. In 1821, the Legis- 
 lature ordained a 1 State Bank on the credit of the State. It issued notes 
 in the likeness of bank bills. These notes were made a legal tender for 
 every thing, and the bank was ordered to loan to the people $100 on per- 
 sonal security, and more on mortgages. They actually passed a resolu- 
 tion requesting the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States to 
 receive these notes for land. The old French Lieutenant Governor, Col. 
 Menard, put the resolution as follows : " Gentlemen of the Senate : It is 
 moved and seconded dot de notes of dis bank be made land-office money. 
 All in favor of dat motion say aye ; all against it say no. It is decided 
 in de affirmative. Now, gentlemen, I bet you one hundred dollar he 
 xiever be land-office money ! " Hard sense, like hard money, is always 
 above par. 
 
 This old Frenchman presents a fine figure up against the dark back- 
 ground of most of his nation. They made no progress. They clung to 
 their earliest and simplest implements. They never wore hats or cap?
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 121 
 
 They pulled their blankets over their heads in the winter like the Indians, 
 with whom they freely intermingled. 
 
 Demagogism had an early development. One John Grammar (only 
 in name), elected to the Territorial and State Legislatures of 1816 and 
 1836, invented the policy of opposing every new thing, saying, " If it 
 succeeds, no one will ask who voted against it. If it proves a failure, he 
 could quote its record." In sharp contrast with Grammar was the char- 
 acter of D. P. Cook, after whom the county containing Chicago was 
 named. Such was his transparent integrity and remarkable ability that 
 his will was almost the law of the State. In Congress, a young man, 
 .and from a poor State, he was made Chairman of the Ways and Means 
 Committee. He was pre-eminent for standing by his committee, regard- 
 less of consequences. It was his integrity that elected John Quincy 
 Adams to the Presidency. There were four candidates in 1824, Jackson, 
 Clay, Crawford, and John Quincy Adams. There being no choice by the 
 people, the election was thrown into the House. It was so balanced that 
 it turned on his vote, and that he cast for Adams, electing him; then 
 went home to face the wrath of the Jackson party in Illinois. It cost 
 him all but character and greatness. It is a suggestive comment on the 
 times, that there was no legal interest till 1830. It often reached 150 
 per cent., usually 50 per cent. Then it was reduced to 12, and now to 
 10 per cent. 
 
 PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE PRAIRIE STATE. 
 
 In area the State has 55,410 square miles of territory. It is about 
 150 miles wide and 400 miles long, stretching in latitude from Maine to 
 North Carolina. It embraces wide variety of climate. It is tempered 
 on the north by the great inland, saltless, tideless sea, which keeps the 
 thermometer from either extreme. Being a table land, from 600 to 1,600 
 feet above the level of the sea, one is prepared to find on the health 
 maps, prepared by the general government, an almost clean and perfect 
 record. In freedom from fever and malarial diseases and consumptions, 
 the three deadly enemies of the American Saxon, Illinois, as a State, 
 stands without a superior. She furnishes one of the essential conditions 
 of a great people sound bodies. I suspect that this fact lies back of 
 that old Delaware word, Illini, superior men. 
 
 The great battles of history that have been determinative of dynas- 
 ties and destinies have been strategical battles, chiefly the question of 
 position. Thermopylae has been the war-cry of freemen for twenty-four 
 centuries. It only tells how much there may be in position. All this 
 advantage belongs to Illinois. It is in the heart of the greatest valley in 
 the world, the vast region between the mountains a valley that could
 
 122 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 feed mankind for one thousand years. It is well on toward the center of 
 the continent. It is in the great temperate belt, in which have been 
 found nearly all the aggressive civilizations of history. It has sixty-five 
 miles of frontage on the head of the lake. With the Mississippi forming 
 the western and southern boundary, with the Ohio running along the 
 southeastern line, with the Illinois River and Canal dividing the State 
 Diagonally from the lake to the Lower Mississippi, and with the Rock and 
 Wabash Rivers furnishing altogether 2,000 miles of water-front, con- 
 necting with, and running through, in all about 12,000 miles of navi- 
 gable water. 
 
 But this is not all. These waters are made most available by the 
 fact that the lake and the State lie on the ridge running into the great 
 valley from the east. Within cannon-shot of the lake the water runs 
 away from the lake to the Gulf. The lake now empties at both ends, 
 one into the Atlantic and one into the Gulf of Mexico. The lake thus 
 seems to hang over the land. This makes the dockage most serviceable ; 
 there are no steep banks to damage it. Both lake and river are made 
 for use. 
 
 The climate varies from Portland to Richmond ; it favors every pro- 
 duct of the continent, including the tropics, with less than half a dozen 
 exceptions. It produces every great nutriment of the world except ban- 
 anas and rice. It is hardly too much to say that it is the most productive 
 spot known to civilization. With the soil full of bread and the earth full 
 of minerals ; with an upper surface of food and an under layer of fuel ; 
 with perfect natural drainage, and abundant springs and streams and 
 navigable rivers ; half way between the forests of the North and the fruits 
 of the South ; within a day's ride of the great deposits of iron, coal, cop- 
 per, lead, and zinc ; containing and controlling the great grain, cattle, 
 pork, and lumber markets of the world, it is not strange that Illinois has 
 the advantage of position. 
 
 This advantage has been supplemented by the character of the popu- 
 lation. In the early days when Illinois was first admitted to the Union, 
 her population were chiefly from Kentucky and Virginia. But, in the 
 conflict of ideas concerning slavery, a strong tide of emigration canie in 
 from the East, and soon changed this composition. In 1870 her non- 
 native population were from colder soils. New York furnished 133,290 ; 
 Ohio gave 162,623; Pennsylvania sent on 98,352; the entire South gave 
 us only 206,734. In all her cities, and in all her German and Scandina- 
 vian and other foreign colonies, Illinois has only about one-fifth of her 
 people of foreign birth.
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 PROGRESS OF DEVELOPMENT. 
 
 One of the greatest elements in the early development of Illinois is- 
 she Illinois and Michigan Canal, connecting the Illinois and Mississippi 
 Rivers with the lakes. It was of the utmost importance to the State. 
 It was recommended by Gov. Bond, the first governor, in his first message. 
 In 1821, the Legislature appropriated $10,000 for surveying the route. 
 Two bright young engineers surveyed it, and estimated the cost at 
 $600,000 or $700,000. It finally cost $8,000,000. In 1825, a law was 
 passed to incorporate the Canal Company, but no stock was sold. In 
 1826, upon the solicitation of Cook, Congress gave 800,000 acres of land 
 on the line of the work. In 1828, another law commissioners appointed, 
 and work commenced with new survey and new estimates. In 1834-35, 
 George Farquhar made an able report on the whole matter. This was, 
 doubtless, the ablest report ever made to a western legislature, and it 
 became the model for subsequent reports and action. From this the 
 work went on till it was finished in 1848. It cost the State a large 
 amount of money ; but it gave to the industries of the State an impetus 
 that pushed it up into the first rank of greatness. It was not built as a 
 speculation any more than a doctor is employed on a speculation. But 
 it has paid into the Treasury of the State an average annual net sum of 
 over $111,000. 
 
 Pending the construction of the canal, the land and town-lot fever 
 broke out in the State, in 183435. It took on the malignant type in 
 Chicago, lifting the town up into a city. The disease spread over the 
 entire State and adjoining States. It was epidemic. It cut up men's 
 farms without regard to locality, and *ut up the purses of the purchasers 
 without regard to consequences. It is estimated that building lots enough 
 were sold in Indiana alone to accommodate every citizen then in the 
 United States. 
 
 Towns and cities were exported to the Eastern market by the ship- 
 load. There was no lack of buyers. Every up-ship came freighted with 
 speculators and their money. 
 
 This distemper seized upon the Legislature in 1836-37, and left not 
 one to tell the tale. They enacted a system of internal improvement 
 without a parallel in the grandeur of its conception. They ordered the 
 construction of 1,300 miles of railroad, crossing the State in all direc- 
 tions. This was surpassed by the river and canal improvements. 
 There were a few counties not touched by either railroad or river or 
 canal, and those were to be comforted and compensated by the free dis- 
 tribution of $200,000 among them. To inflate this balloon beyond cre- 
 dence it was ordered that work should be commenced on both ejids of
 
 124 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 each of these railroads and rivers, and at each river-crossing, all at the 
 same time. The appropriations for these vast improvements were over 
 $12,000,000, and commissioners were appointed to borrow the money OD 
 the credit of the State. Remember that all this was in the early days of 
 railroading, when railroads were luxuries ; that the State had whole 
 Bounties with scarcely a cabin ; and that the population of the State was 
 less than 400,000, and you can form some idea of the vigor with which 
 these brave men undertook the work of making a great State. In the 
 light of history I am compelled to say that this was only a premature 
 throb of the power that actually slumbered in the soil of the State. It 
 was Hercules in the cradle. 
 
 At this juncture the State Bank loaned its funds largely to Godfrey 
 Oilman & Co., and to other leading houses, for the purpose of drawing 
 trade from St. Louis to Alton. Soon they failed, and took down the 
 bank with them. 
 
 In 1840, all hope seemed gone. A population of 480,000 were loaded 
 with a debt of $14,000,000. It had only six small cities, really only 
 towns, namely : Chicago, Alton, Springfield, Quincy, Galena, Nauvoo. 
 This debt was to be cared for when there was not a dollar in the treas- 
 ury, and when the State had borrowed itself out of all credit, and when 
 there was not good money enough in the hands of all the people to pay 
 the interest of the debt for a single year. Yet, in the presence of all 
 these difficulties, the young State steadily refused to repudiate. Gov. 
 Ford took hold of the problem and solved it, bringing the State through 
 in triumph. 
 
 Having touched lightly upon some of the more distinctive points in 
 the history of the development of Illinois, let us next briefly consider the 
 
 MATERIAL RESOURCES OF THE STATE. 
 
 It is a garden four hundred miles long and one hundred and fifty 
 miles wide. Its soil is chiefly a black sandy loam, from six inches to 
 sixty feet thick. On the American bottoms it has been cultivated for 
 one hundred and fifty years without renewal. About the old French 
 towns it has yielded corn for a century and a half without rest or help. 
 It produces nearly everything green in the temperate and tropical zones. 
 She leads all other States in the number of acres actually under plow. 
 Her products from 25,000,000 of acres are incalculable. Her mineral 
 wealth is scarcely second to her agricultural power. She has coal, iron, 
 lead, copper, zinc, 'many varieties of building stone, fire clay, cuma clay, 
 common brick clay, sand of all kinds, gravel, mineral paint every thing 
 needed for a high civilization. Left to herself, she has the elements of 
 all greatness. The single item of coal is too vast for an appreciative
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 125 
 
 handling in figures. We can handle it in general terms like algebraical 
 signs, but long before we get up into the millions and billions the human 
 mind drops down from comprehension to mere symbolic apprehension. 
 
 When I tell you that nearly four-fifths of the entire State is under- 
 laid with a deposit of coal more than forty feet thick on the average (now 
 estimated, by recent surveys, at seventy feet thick), you can get some 
 idea of its amount, as you do of the amouut of the national debt. There 
 it is ! 41,000 square miles one vast mine into which you could put 
 any of the States ; in which you could bury scores of European and 
 ancient empires, and have room enough all round to work without know- 
 ing that they had been sepulchered there. 
 
 Put this vast coal-bed down by the other great coal deposits of the 
 world, and its importance becomes manifest. Great Britain has 12,000 
 square miles of coal; Spain, 3,000; France, 1,719; Belgium, 578; Illinois 
 about twice as many square miles as all combined. Virginia has 20,000 
 square miles ; Pennsylvania, 16,000 ; Ohio, 12,000. Illinois has 41,000 
 square miles. One-seventh of all the known coal on this continent is in 
 Illinois. 
 
 Could we sell the coal in this single State for one-seventh of one cent 
 a ton it would pay the national debt. Converted into power, even with 
 the wastage in our common engines, it would do more work than could 
 be done by the entire race, beginning at Adam's wedding and working 
 ten hours a day through all the centuries till the present time, and right 
 on into the future at the same rate for the next 600,000 years. 
 
 Great Britain uses enough mechanical power to-day to give to each 
 man, woman, and child in the kingdom the help and service of nineteen 
 untiring servants. No wonder she has leisure and luxuries. No wonder 
 the home of the common artisan has in it more luxuries than could be 
 found in the palace of good old King Arthur. Think, if you can conceive 
 of it, of the vast army of servants that slumber in the soil of Illinois, 
 impatiently awaiting the call of Genius to come forth to minister to our 
 comfort. 
 
 At the present rate of consumption England's coal supply will be 
 exhausted in 250 years. When this is gone she must transfer her dominion 
 either to the Indies, or to British America, which I would not resist ; or 
 to some other people, which I would regret as a loss to civilization. 
 
 COAL IS KING. 
 
 At the same rate of consumption (which far exceeds our own) the 
 deposit of coal in Illinois will last 120,000 years. And her kingdom shall 
 be an everlasting kingdom. 
 
 Let us turn, now from this reserve power to the annual products of
 
 126 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 the State. We shall not be humiliated in this field. Here we strike the 
 secret of our national credit. Nature provides a market in the constant 
 appetite of the race. Men must eat, and if we can furnish the provisions 
 we can command the treasure. All that a man hath will he give for his 
 life. 
 
 According to the last census Illinois produced 30,000,000 of bushels 
 of wheat. That is more wheat than was raised by any other State in the 
 Union. She raised In 1875, 130,000,000 of bushels of corn twice as 
 much as any other State, and one-sixth of all the corn raised in the United 
 States. She harvested 2,747,000 tons of hay, nearly one-tenth of all the 
 hay in the Republic. It is not generally appreciated, but it is true, that 
 the hay crop of the country is worth more than the cotton crop. The 
 hay of Illinois equals the cotton of Louisiana. Go to Charleston, S. C., 
 and see them peddling handfuls of hay or grass, almost as a curiosity, 
 as we regard Chinese gods or the cryolite of Greenland ; drink your 
 coffee and condensed milk; and walk back from the coast for many a 
 league through the sand and burs till you ge't up into the better atmos- 
 phere of the mountains, without seeing a waving meadow or a grazing 
 herd ; then you will begin to appreciate the meadows of the Prairie State, 
 where the grass often grows sixteen feet high. 
 
 The value of her farm implements is $211,000,000, and the value of 
 her live stock is only second to the great State of New York. in 1875 
 she had 25,000,000 hogs, and packed 2,113,845, about one-half of all that 
 were packed in the United States. This is no insignificant item. Pork 
 is a growing demand of the old world. Since the laborers of Europe 
 have gotten a taste of our bacon, and we have learned how to pack it dry 
 in boxes, like dry goods, the world has becopie the market. 
 
 The hog is on the march into the future. His nose is ordained to 
 uncover the secrets of dominion, and his feet shall be guided by the star 
 of empire. 
 
 Illinois marketed $57,000,000 worth of slaughtered animals more 
 than any other State, and a seventh of all the States. 
 
 Be patient with me, and pardon my pride, and I will give you a list 
 of some of the things in which Illinois excels all other States. 
 
 Depth and richness of soil ; per cent, of good ground ; acres of 
 improved land ; large farms some farms contain from- 40, 000 to 60,000 
 acres of cultivated land, 40,000 acres of corn on a single farm ; number of 
 farmers ; amount of wheat, corn, oats and honey produced ; value of ani- 
 mals for slaughter ; number of hogs ; amount of pork ; number of horses 
 three times as many as Kentucky, the horse State. 
 
 Illinois excels all other States in miles of railroads and in miles of 
 postal service, and in money orders sold per annum, and in the amount of 
 lumber sold in her markets.
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 127 
 
 Illinois is only second in many important matters. This sample list 
 comprises a few of the more important : Permanent school fund (good 
 for a young state) ; total income for educational purposes ; number of pub- 
 lishers of books, maps, papers, etc.; value of farm products and imple- 
 ments, and of live stock ; in tons of coal mined. 
 
 The shipping of Illinois is only second to New York. Out of one 
 port during the business hours of the season of navigation she sends forth 
 a vessel every ten minutes. This does not include canal boats, which go 
 one every five minutes. No wonder she is only second in number of 
 bankers and brokers or in physicians and surgeons. 
 
 She is third in colleges, teachers and schools ; cattle, lead, hay, 
 flax, sorghum and beeswax. 
 
 She is fourth in population, ?n children enrolled in public schools, in 
 law schools, in butter, potatoes and carriages. 
 
 She is fifth in value of real and personal property, in theological 
 seminaries and colleges exclusively for women, in milk sold, and in boots 
 and shoes manufactured, and in book-binding. 
 
 She is only seventh in the production of wood, while she is the 
 twelfth in area. Surely that is well done for the Prairie State. She now 
 has much more wood and growing timber than she had thirty years ago. 
 
 A few leading industries will justify emphasis. She manufactures 
 $205,000,000 worth of goods, which places her well up toward New York 
 and Pennsylvania. The number of her manufacturing establishments 
 increased from 1860 to 1870, 300 per cent.; capital employed increased 350 
 per cent., and the amount of product increased 400 per cent. She issued 
 5,500,000 copies of commercial and financial newspapers only second to 
 New York. She has 6,759 miles of railroad, thus leading all other States, 
 worth $636,458,000, using 3,245 engines, and 67,712 cars, making a train 
 long enough to cover one-tenth of the entire roads of the State. Her 
 stations are only five miles apart. She carried last year 15,795,000 passen- 
 gers, an average of 36^ miles, or equal to taking her entire population twice 
 across the State. More than two-thirds of her land is within five miles of 
 a railroad, and less than two per cent, is more than fifteen miles away. 
 
 The State has a large financial interest in the Illinois Central railroad. 
 The road was incorporated in 1850, and the State gave each alternate sec- 
 tion for six miles on each side, and doubled the price of the remaining 
 land, so keeping herself good. The road received 2,595,000 acres of land, 
 and pays to the State one-seventh of the gross receipts. The State 
 receives this year $350,000, and has received in all about $7,000,000. It 
 is practically the people's road, and it has a most able and gentlemanly 
 management. Add to this the annual receipts from the canal, $111,000, 
 and a large per cent, of the State tax is provided for.
 
 128 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 THE RELIGION AND MORALS 
 
 of the State keep step with her productions and growth. She was born 
 of the missionary spirit. It was a minister who secured for her the ordi- 
 nance of 1787, by which she has been saved from slavery, ignorance, and 
 dishonesty. Rev. Mr. Wiley, pastor of a Scotch congregation in Randolph 
 County, petitioned the Constitutional Convention of 1818 to recognize 
 Jesus Christ as king, and the Scriptures as the only necessary guide and 
 book of law. The convention did not act in the case, and the old Cove- 
 nanters refused to accept citizenship. They never voted until 1824, when 
 the slavery question was submitted to the people; then they all voted 
 against it and cast the determining votes. Conscience has predominated 
 whenever a great moral question has been submitted to the people. 
 
 But little mob violence has ever been felt in the State. In 1817 
 regulators disposed of a band of horse-thieves that infested the territory. 
 The Mormon indignities finally awoke the same spirit. Alton was also 
 the scene of a pro-slavery mob, in' which Lovejoy was added to the list of 
 martyrs. The moral sense of the people makes the law supreme, and gives 
 to the State unruffled peace. 
 
 With $22,300,000 in church property, and 4,298 church organizations, 
 the State has that divine police, the sleepless patrol of moral ideas, that 
 alone is able to secure perfect safety. Conscience takes the knife from 
 the assassin's hand and the bludgeon from the grasp of the highwayman. 
 We sleep in safety, not because we are behind bolts and bars these only 
 fence against the innocent ; not because a lone officer drowses on a distant 
 corner of a street; not because a sheriff may call his posse from a remote 
 part of the county ; but because conscience guards the very portals of the 
 air and stirs in the deepest recesses of the public mind. This spirit issues 
 within the State 9,500,000 copies of religious papers annually, and receives 
 still more from without. Thus the crime of the State is only one-fourth 
 that of New York and one-half that of Pennsylvania. 
 
 Illinois never had but one duel between her own citizens. In Belle- 
 ville, in 1820, Alphonso Stewart and William Bennett arranged to vindi- 
 cate injured honor. The seconds agreed to make it a sham, and make 
 them shoot blanks. Stewart was in the secret. Bennett mistrusted some- 
 thing, and, unobserved, slipped a bullet into his gun and killed Stewart. 
 He then fled the State. After two years he was caught, tried, convicted, 
 and, in spite of friends and political aid, was hung. This fixed the code 
 of honor on a Christian basis, and terminated its use in Illinois. 
 
 The early preachers were ignorant men, who were accounted eloquent 
 according to the strength of their voices. But they set the style for all 
 public speakers. Lawyers and political speakers followed this rule. Gov.
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 129 
 
 Ford says: "Nevertheless, these first preachers were of incalculable 
 benefit to the country. They inculcated justice and morality. To them 
 are we indebted for the first Christian character of the Protestant portion 
 of the people." 
 
 In education Illinois surpasses her material resources. The ordinance 
 of 1787 consecrated one thirty-sixth of her soil to common schools, and 
 the law of 1818, the first law that went upon her statutes, gave three per 
 cent, of all the rest to 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 The old compact secures this interest forever, and by its yoking 
 morality and intelligence it precludes the legal interference with the Bible 
 in the public schools. With such a start it is natural that we should have 
 11,050 schools, and that our illiteracy should be less than New York or 
 Pennsylvania, and only about one-half of Massachusetts. We are not to 
 blame for not having more than one-half as many idiots as the great 
 States. These public schools soon made colleges inevitable. The first 
 college, still flourishing, was started in Lebanon in 1828, by the M. E. 
 church, and named after Bishop McKendree. Illinois College, at Jackson- 
 ville, supported by the Presbyterians, followed in 1830. In 1832 the Bap- 
 tists built Shurtleff College, at Alton. Then the Presbyterians built Knox 
 College, at Galesburg, in 1838, and the Episcopalians built Jubilee College, 
 at Peoria, in 1847. After these early years colleges have rained down. 
 A settler could hardly encamp on the prairie but a college would spring 
 up by his wagon. The State now has one very well endowed and equipped 
 university, namely, the Northwestern University, at Evanston, with six 
 colleges, ninety instructors, over 1,000 students, and $1,500,000 endow- 
 ment. 
 
 Rev. J. M. Peck was the first educated Protestant minister in tne 
 State. He settled at Rock Spring, in St. Clair County, 1820, and left his 
 impress on the State. Before 1837 only party papers were published, but 
 Mr. Peck published a Gazetteer of Illinois. Soon after John Russell, of 
 Bluffdale, published essays and tales showing genius. Judge James Hall 
 published The Illinois Monthly Magazine with great ability, and an animal 
 called The Western Souvenir, which gave him an enviable fame all over the 
 United States. From these beginnings Illinois has gone on till she has 
 more volumes in public libaaries even than Massachusetts, and of the 
 44,500,000 volumes in all the public libraries of the United States, she 
 has one-thirteenth. In newspapers she stands fourth. Her increase is 
 marvelous. In 1850 she issued 5,000,000 copies; in 1860, 27,590,000 ; in 
 1870, 113,140,000. In 1860 she had eighteen colleges and seminaries ; in 
 1870 she had eighty. That is a grand advance for the war decade. 
 
 This brings us to a record unsurpassed in the history of any age,
 
 loO HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 THE WAR RECORD OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 s 
 
 I hardly know where to begin, or how to advance, or what to say. J 
 can at best give you only a broken synopsis of her deeds, and you must 
 put them in the order of glory for yourself. Her sons have always been 
 foremost on fields of danger. In 1832-33, at the call of Gov. Reynolds, 
 her sons drove Blackhawk over the Mississippi. 
 
 When the Mexican war came, in May, 1846, 8,370 men offered them- 
 selves when only 3,720 could be accepted. The fields of Buena Vista and 
 Vera Cruz, and the storming of Cerro Gordo, will carry the glory of Illinois 
 soldiers along after the infamy of the cause they served has been forgotten. 
 But it was reserved till our day for her sons to find a field and cause and 
 foemen that could fitly illustrate their spirit and heroism. Illinois put 
 into her own regiments for the United States government 256,000 men, 
 and into the army through other States enough to swell the number to 
 290,000. This far exceeds all the soldiers of the federal government in 
 all the war of the revolution. Her total years of service were over 600,000. 
 She enrolled men from eighteen to forty-five years of age when the law 
 of Congress in 1864 the test time only asked for those from twenty to 
 forty-five. Her enrollment was otherwise excessive. Her people wanted 
 to go, and did not take the pains to correct the enrollment. Thus the 
 basis of fixing the quota was too great, and then the quota itself, at least 
 in the trying time, was far above any other State. 
 
 Thus the demand on some counties, as Monroe, for example, took every 
 able-bodied man in the county, and then did not have enough to fill the 
 quota. Moreover, Illinois sent 20,844 men for ninety or one hundred days, 
 for whom no credit was asked. When Mr. Lincoln's attention was called 
 to the inequality of the quota compared with other States, he replied, 
 " The country needs the sacrifice. We must put the whip on the free 
 horse." In spite of all these disadvantages Illinois gave to the country 
 73,000 years of service above all calls. With one-thirteenth of the popu- 
 lation of the loyal States, she sent regularly one-tenth of all the soldiers, 
 and in the peril of the closing calls, when patriots were few and weary, 
 she then sent one-eighth of all that were called for by her loved and hon- 
 ored son in the white house. Her mothers and daughters went into the 
 fields to raise the grain and keep the children together, while the fathers 
 and older sons went to the harvest fields of the world. I knew a father 
 and four sons who agreed that one of them must stay at home ; and they 
 pulled straws from a stack to see who might go. The father was left. 
 The next day he came into the camp, saying : " Mother says she can get 
 the crops in, and I am going, too." I know large Methodist churches 
 from which every male member went to the army. Do you want to know
 
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 what these heroes from Illinois did in the field ? Ask any soldier with a 
 good record of his own, who is thus able to judge, and he will tell you 
 that the Illinois men went in to win. It is common history that the greater 
 victories were won in the West. When everything else looked dark Illi- 
 nois was gaining victories all down the river, and dividing the confederacy. 
 Sherman took with him on his great march forty-five regiments of Illinois 
 infantry, three companies of artillery, and one company of cavalry. He 
 could not avoid 
 
 GOING TO THE SEA. 
 
 If he had been killed, I doubt not the men would have gone right on. 
 Lincoln answered all rumors of Sherman's defeat with, " It is impossible ; 
 there is a mighty sight of fight in 100,000 Western men." Illinois soldiers 
 brought home 300 battle-flags. The first United States flag that floated 
 over Richmond was an Illinois fl'ag. She sent messengers and nurses to 
 every field and hospital, to care for her sick and wounded sons. She said, 
 41 These suffering ones are my sons, and I will care for them." 
 
 When individuals had given all, then cities and towns came forward 
 with their credit to the extent of many millions, to aid these men and 
 their families. 
 
 Illinois gave the country the great general of the war Ulysses S. 
 Grant since honored with two terms of the Presidency of the United 
 States. 
 
 One other name from Illinois comes up in all minds, embalmed in all 
 hearts, that must have the supreme place in this story of our glory and 
 of our nation's honor ; that name is Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois. 
 
 The analysis of Mr. Lincoln's character is difficult on account of its 
 symmetry. 
 
 In this age we look with admiration at his uncompromising honesty. 
 And well we may, for this saved us. Thousands throughout the length 
 and breadth of our country who knew him only as u Honest Old Abe," 
 voted for him on that account ; and wisely did they choose, for no other 
 man could have carried us through the fearful night of the war. When 
 his plans were too vast for our comprehension, and his faith in the cause 
 too sublime for our participation ; when it was all night about us, and all 
 dread before us, and all sad and desolate behind us ; when not one ray 
 shone upon our cause ; when traitors were haughty and exultant at the 
 South, and fierce and blasphemous at the North ; when the loyal men here 
 seemed almost in the minority ; when the stoutest heart quailed, the bravest 
 cheek paled ; when generals were defeating each other for place, and 
 contractors were leeching out the very heart's blood of the prostrate 
 republic : when every thing else had failed us, we looked at this calm, 
 patient man standing like a rock in the storm, and said: " Mr. Lincoln
 
 132 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 is honest, and we can trust him still." Holding to this single point with 
 the energy of faith and despair we held together, and, under God, he 
 brought us through to victory. 
 
 His practical wisdom made him the wonder of all lands. With such 
 certainty did Mr. Lincoln follow causes to their ultimate effects, that his 
 foresight of contingencies seemed almost prophetic. 
 
 He is radiant with all the great virtues, and his memory shall shed a 
 glory upon this age that shall fill the eyes of men as they look into his- 
 tory. Other men have excelled him in some point, but, taken at all 
 points, all in all, he stands head and shoulders above every other man of 
 6,000 years. An administrator, he saved the nation in the perils of 
 unparalleled civil war. A statesman, he justified his measures by their 
 success. A philanthropist, he gave liberty to one race and salvation to 
 another. A moralist, he bowed from the summit of human power to the 
 foot of the Cross, and became a Christian. A mediator, he exercised mercy 
 under the most absolute abeyance to law. A leader, he was no partisan. 
 A commander, he was untainted with blood. A ruler in desperate times, 
 he was unsullied with crime. A man, he has left no word of passion, no 
 thought of malice, no trick of craft, no act of jealousy, no purpose of 
 selfish ambition. Thus perfected, without a model, and without a peer, 
 he was dropped into these troubled years to adorn and embellish all that 
 is good and all that is great in our humanity, and to present to all coming 
 time the representative of the divine idea of free government. 
 
 It is not too much to say that away down in the future, when the 
 republic has fallen from its niche in the wall of time ; when the great 
 war itself shall have faded out in the distance like a mist on the horizon ; 
 when the Anglo-Saxon language shall be spoken only by the tongue of 
 the stranger ; then the generations looking this way shall see the great 
 president as the supreme figure in this vortex of history 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 It is impossible in our brief space to give more than a meager sketch 
 of such a city as Chicago, which is in itself the greatest marvel of the 
 Prairie State. This mysterious, majestic, mighty city, born first of water, 
 and next of fire ; sown in weakness, and raised in power ; planted among 
 the willows of the marsh, and crowned with the glory of the mountains ; 
 sleeping on the bosom of the prairie, and rocked on the bosom of the sea ; 
 the youngest city of the world, and still the eye of the prairie, as Damas- 
 cus, the oldest city of the world, is the eye of the desert. AVith a com- 
 merce far exceeding that of Corinth on her isthmus, in the highway to 
 the East ; with the defenses of a continent piled around her by the thou- 
 sand miles, making her far safer than Rome on the banks of the Tiber :
 
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 134 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 with schools eclipsing Alexandria and Athens ; with liberties more con- 
 spicuous than those of the old republics ; with a heroism equal to the first 
 Carthage, and with a sanctity scarcely second to that of Jerusalem set 
 your thoughts on all this, lifted into the eyes of all men by the miracle of 
 its growth, illuminated by the flame of its fall, and transfigured by the 
 divinity of its resurrection, and you will feel, as I do, the utter impossi- 
 bility of compassing this subject as it deserves. Some impression of her 
 importance is received from the shock her burning gave to the civilized 
 world. 
 
 When the doubt of her calamity was removed, and the horrid fact 
 was accepted, there went a shudder over all cities, and a quiver over all 
 lands. There was scarcely a town in the civilized world that did not 
 shake on the brink of this opening chasm. The flames of our homes red- 
 dened all skies. The city was set upon a hill, and could not be hid. All 
 eyes were turned upon it. To have struggled and suffered amid the 
 scenes of its fall is as distinguishing as to have fought at Thermopylae, or 
 Salamis, or Hastings^ or Waterloo, or Bunker Hill. 
 
 Its calamity amazed the world, because it was felt to be the common 
 property of mankind. 
 
 The early history of the city is full of interest, just as the early his- 
 tory of such a man as Washington or Lincoln becomes public property, 
 and is cherished by every patriot. 
 
 Starting with 560 acres in 1833, it embraced and occupied 23,000 
 acres in 1869, and, having now a population of more than 500,000, it com- 
 mands general attention. 
 
 The first settler Jean Baptiste Pointe au Sable, a mulatto from the 
 West Indies came and began trade with the Indians in 1796. John 
 Kinzie became his successor in 1804, in which year Fort Dearborn was 
 erected. 
 
 A mere trading-post was kept here from that time till about the time 
 of the Blackhawk war, in 1832. It was not the city. It was merely a 
 cock crowing at midnight. The morning was not yet. In 1833 the set- 
 tlement about the fort was incorporated as a town. The voters were 
 divided on the propriety of such corporation, twelve voting for it and one 
 against it. Four years later it was incorporated as a city, and embraced 
 560 acres. 
 
 The produce handled in this city is an indication of its power. Grain 
 and flour were imported from the East till as late as 1837. The first 
 exportation by way of experiment was in 1839. Exports exceeded imports 
 first in 1842. The Board of Trade was organized in 1848, but it was so 
 weak that it needed nursing till 1855. Grain was purchased by the 
 wagon-load in the street. 
 
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 line of wagons along Lake street, while the buyers came and untied the 
 bags, and examined the grain, and made their bids. That manner of 
 business had to cease with the day of small things. Now our elevators 
 will hold 15,000,000 bushels of grain. The cash value of the produce 
 handled in a year is $215,000,000, and the produce weighs 7,000,000 
 tons or 700,000 car loads. This handles thirteen and a half ton each 
 minute, all the year round. One tenth of all the wheat in the United 
 States is handled in Chicago. Even as long ago as 1853 the receipts of 
 grain in Chicago exceeded those of the goodly city of St. Louis, and in 
 1854 the exports of grain from Chicago exceeded those of New York and 
 doubled those of St. Petersburg, Archangel, or Odessa, the largest grain 
 markets in Europe. 
 
 The manufacturing interests of the city are not contemptible. In 
 1873 manufactories employed 45,000 operatives ; in 1876, 60,000. The 
 manufactured product in 1875 was worth $177,000,000. 
 
 No estimate of the size and power of Chicago would be adequate 
 that did not put large emphasis on the railroads. Before they came 
 thundering along our streets canals were the hope of our country. But 
 who ever thinks now of traveling by canal packets ? In June, 1852, 
 there were only forty miles of railroad connected with the city. The 
 old Galena division of the Northwestern ran out to Elgin. But now, 
 who can count the trains and measure the roads that seek a terminus or 
 connection in this city ? The lake stretches away to the north, gathering 
 in to this center all the harvests that might otherwise pass to the north 
 of us. If you will take a map and look at the adjustment of railroads, 
 you will see, first, that Chicago is the great railroad center of the world, 
 as New York is the commercial city of this continent ; and, second, that 
 the railroad lines form the iron spokes of a great wheel whose hub is 
 this city. The lake furnishes the only break in the spokes, and this 
 seems simply to have pushed a few spokes together on each shore. See 
 the eighteen trunk lines, exclusive of eastern connections. 
 
 Pass round the circle, and view their numbers and extent. There 
 is the great Northwestern, with all its branches, one branch creeping 
 along the lake shore, and so reaching to the north, into the Lake Superior 
 regions, away to the right, and on to the Northern Pacific on the left, 
 swinging around Green Bay for iron and copper and silver, twelve months 
 in the year, and reaching out for the wealth of the great agricultural 
 belt and isothermal line traversed by the Northern Pacific. Another 
 branch, not so far north, feeling for the heart of the Badger State. 
 Another pushing lower down the Mississippi all these make many con- 
 nections, and tapping all the vast wheat regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
 Iowa, and all the regions this side of sunset. There is that elegant road, 
 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, running out a goodly number of
 
 136 
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 OLD FORT DEARBORN, 1830. 
 
 PRESENT SITE OF LAKE STREET BRIDGE, CHICAGO, IN 1833.
 
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 branches, and reaping the great fields this side of the Missouri River. 
 I can only mention the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis, our Illinois Central, 
 described elsewhere, and the Chicago & Rock Island. Further around 
 we come to the lines connecting us with all the eastern cities. The 
 Chicago, Indianapolis & St. Louis, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & 
 Chicago, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and the Michigan Cen- 
 tral and Great Western, give us many highways to the seaboard. Thus we 
 reach the Mississippi at five points, from St. Paul to Cairo and the Gulf 
 itself by two routes. We also reach Cincinnati and Baltimore, and Pitts- 
 burgh and Philadelphia, and New York. North and south run the water 
 courses of the lakes and the rivers, broken just enough at this point to 
 make a pass. Through this, from east to west, run the long lines that 
 stretch from ocean to ocean. 
 
 This is the neck of the glass, and the golden sands of commerce 
 must pass into our hands. Altogether we have more than 10,000 miles 
 of railroad, directly tributary to this city, seeking to unload their wealth 
 in our coffers. All these roads have come themselves by the infallible 
 instinct of capital. Not a dollar was ever given by the city to secure 
 one of them, and only a small per cent, of stock taken originally by her 
 citizens, and that taken simply as an investment. Coming in the natural 
 order of events, they will not be easily diverted. 
 
 There is still another showing to all this. The connection between 
 New York and San Francisco is by the middle route. This passes inevit- 
 ably through Chicago. St. Louis wants the Southern Pacific or Kansas 
 Pacific, and pushes it out through Denver, and so on up to Cheyenne. 
 But before the road is fairly under way, the Chicago roads shove out to 
 Kansas City, making even the Kansas Pacific a feeder, and actually leav- 
 ing St. Louis out in the cold. It is not too much to expect that Dakota, 
 Montana, and Washington Territory will find their great market in Chi- 
 cago. 
 
 But these are not all. Perhaps I had better notice here the ten or 
 fifteen new roads that have just entered, or are just entering, our city. 
 Their names are all that is necessary to give. Chicago & St. Paul, look- 
 ing up the Red River country to the British possessions ; the Chicago, 
 Atlantic & Pacific ; the Chicago, Decatur & State Line ; the Baltimore & 
 Ohio ; the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes ; the Chicago & LaSalle Rail- 
 road ; the Chicago, Pittsburgh & Cincinnati ; the Chicago and Canada 
 Southern ; the Chicago and Illinois River Railroad. These, with their 
 connections, and with the new connections of the old roads, already in 
 process of erection, give to Chicago not less than 10,000 miles of new 
 tributaries from the richest land on the continent. Thus there will be 
 added to the reserve power, to the capital within reach of this city, not 
 less than $1,000,000,000.
 
 138 HISTOKY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 Add to all this transporting power the ships that sail one every nine 
 minutes of the business hours of the season of navigation ; add, also, the 
 canal boats that leave one every five minutes during the same time and 
 you will see something of the business of the city. 
 
 THE COMMERCE OF THIS CITY 
 
 has been leaping along to keep pace with the growth of the country 
 around us. In 1852, our commerce reached the hopeful sum of 
 820,000,000. In 1870 it reached 1400,000,000. In 1871 it was pushed 
 up above $450,000,000. And in 1875 it touched nearly double that. 
 
 One-half of our imported goods come directly to Chicago. Grain 
 enough is exported directly from our docks to the old world to employ a 
 semi-weekly line of steamers of 3,000 tons capacity. This branch is 
 not likely to be greatly developed. Even after the great Welland Canal 
 is completed we shall have only fourteen feet of water. The great ocean 
 vessels will continue to control the trade. 
 
 The banking capital of Chicago is $24,431,000. Total exchange in 
 1875, $659,000,000. Her wholesale business in 1875 was $294,000,000. 
 The rate of taxes is less than in any other great city. 
 
 The schools of Chicago are unsurpassed in America. Out of a popu- 
 lation of 300,000 there were only 186 persons between the ages of six 
 and twenty-one unable to read. This is the best known record. 
 
 In 1831 the mail system was condensed into a half-breed, who went 
 on foot to Niles, Mich., once in two weeks, and brought back what papers 
 and news he could find. As late as 1846 there was often only one mail 
 a week. A post-office was established in Chicago in 1833, and the post- 
 master nailed up old boot-legs on one side of his shop to serve as boxes 
 for the nabobs and literary men. 
 
 It is an interesting fact in the growth of the young city that in the 
 active life of the business men of that day the mail matter has grown to 
 a daily average of over 6,500 pounds. It speaks equally well for the 
 intelligence of the people and the commercial importance of the place, 
 that the mail matter distributed to the territory immediately tributary to- 
 Chicago is seven times greater than that distributed to the territory 
 immediately tributary to St. Louis. 
 
 The improvements that have characterized the city are as startling 
 as the city itself. In 1831, Mark Beaubien established a ferry over the 
 river, and put himself under bonds to carry all the citizens free for the 
 privilege of charging strangers. Now there are twenty-four large bridges 
 and two tunnels. 
 
 In 1833 the government expended $30,000 on the harbor. Then 
 commenced that series of maneuvers with the river that has made it one
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 of the world's curiosities. It used to wind around in the lower end of 
 the town, and make its way rippling over the sand into the lake at the 
 foot of Madison street. They took it up and put it down where it now 
 is. It was a narrow stream, so narrow that even moderately small crafts 
 had to go up through the willows and cat's tails to the point near Lake 
 street bridge, and back up one of the branches to get room enough in 
 which to turn around. 
 
 In 1844 the quagmires in the streets were first pontooned by plank 
 roads, which acted in wet weather as public squirt-guns. Keeping you 
 out of the mud, they compromised by squirting the mud over you. The 
 wooden-block pavements came to Chicago in 1857. In 1840 water was 
 delivered by peddlers in carts or by hand. Then a twenty-five horse- 
 power engine pushed it through hollow or bored logs along the streets 
 till 1854, when it was introduced into the houses by new works. The 
 first fire-engine was used in 1835, and the first steam fire-engine in 1859. 
 Gas was utilized for lighting the city in 1850. The Young Men's Chris- 
 tian Association was organized in 1858, and horse railroads carried them 
 to their work in 1859. The museum was opened in 1863. The alarm 
 telegraph adopted in 1864. The opera-house built in 1865. The city 
 grew from 560 acres in 1833 to 23,000 in 1869. In 1834, the taxes 
 amounted to $48.90, and the trustees of the town borrowed $60 more for 
 opening and improving streets. In 1835, the legislature authorized a loan 
 of $2,000, and the treasurer and street commissioners resigned rather than 
 plunge the town into such a gulf. 
 
 Now the city embraces 36 square miles of territory, and has 30 miles 
 of water front, besides the outside harbor of refuge, of 400 acres, inclosed 
 by a crib sea-wall. One-third of the city has been raised up an average 
 of eight feet, giving good pitch to the 263 miles of sewerage. The water 
 of the city is above all competition. It is received through two tunnels 
 extending to a crib in the lake two miles from shore. The closest analy- 
 sis fails to detect any impurities, and, received 35 feet below the surface, 
 it is always clear and cold. The first tunnel is five feet two inches in 
 diameter and two miles long, and can deliver 50,000,000 of gallons per 
 day. The second tunnel is seven feet in diameter and six miles long, 
 running four miles under the city, and can deliver 100,000,000 of gal- 
 lons per day. This water is distributed through 410 miles of water- 
 mains. 
 
 The three grand engineering exploits of the city are : First, lifting 
 the city up on jack-screws, whole squares at a time, without interrupting 
 the business, thus giving us good drainage ; second, running the tunnels 
 under the lake, giving us the best water in the world ; and third, the 
 turning the current of the river in its own channel, delivering us from the 
 old abominations, and making decency possible. They redound about
 
 140 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 equally to the credit of the engineering, to the energy of the people, and 
 to the health of the city. 
 
 That which really constitutes the city, its indescribable spirit, its soul, 
 the way it lights up in every feature in the hour of action, has not been 
 touched. In meeting strangers, one is often surprised how some homely 
 women marry so well. Their forms are bad, their gait uneven and awk- 
 ward, their complexion is dull, their features are misshapen and mismatch- 
 ed, and when we see them there is no beauty that we should desire them. 
 But when once they are aroused on some subject, they put on new pro- 
 portions. They light up into great power. The real person comes out 
 from its unseemly ambush, and captures us at will. They have power. 
 They have ability to cause things to come to pass. We no longer wonder 
 why they are in such high demand. So it is with our city. 
 
 There is no grand scenery except the two seas, one of water, the 
 other of prairie. Nevertheless, there is a spirit about it, a push, a breadth, 
 a power, that soon makes it a place never to be forsaken. One soon 
 ceases to believe in impossibilities. Balaams are the only prophets that are 
 disappointed. The bottom that has been on the point of falling out has 
 been there so long that it has grown fast. It can not fall out. It has all 
 the capital of the world itching to get inside the corporation. 
 
 The two great laws that govern the growth and size of cities are, 
 first, the amount of territory for which they are the distributing and 
 receiving points ; second, the number of medium or moderate dealers that 
 do this distributing. Monopolists build up themselves, not the cities. 
 They neither eat, wear, nor live in proportion to their business. Both 
 these laws help Chicago. 
 
 The tide of trade is eastward not up or down the map, but across 
 the map. The lake runs up a wingdam for 500 miles to gather in the 
 business. Commerce can not ferry up there for seven months in the year, 
 and the facilities for seven months can do the work for twelve. Then the 
 great region west of us is nearly all good, productive land. Dropping 
 south into the trail of St. Louis, you fall into vast deserts and rocky dis- 
 tricts, useful in holding the world together. St. Louis and Cincinnati, 
 instead of rivaling and hurting Chicago, are her greatest sureties of 
 dominion. They are far enough away to give sea-room, farther off than 
 Paris is from London, and yet they are near enough to prevent the 
 springing up of any other great city between them. 
 
 St. Louis will be helped by the opening of the Mississippi, but also 
 hurt. That will put New Orleans on her feet, and with a railroad running 
 over into Texas and so West, she will tap the streams that now crawl up 
 the Texas and Missouri road. The current is East, not North, and a sea- 
 port at New Orleans can not permanently help St. Louis. 
 
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 fourth of the territory of this great republic. This strip of seacoast 
 divides its margins between Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 
 Baltimore and Savannah, or some other great port to be created for the 
 South in the next decade. But Chicago has a dozen empires casting their 
 treasures into her lap. On a bed of coal that can run all the machinery 
 of the world for 500 centuries ; in a garden that can feed the race by the 
 thousand years; at the head of the lakes that give her a temperature as a 
 summer resort equaled by no great city in the land ; with a climate that 
 insures the health of her citizens ; surrounded by all the great deposits 
 of natural wealth in mines aud forests and herds, Chicago is the wonder 
 of to-day, and will be the city of the future. 
 
 MASSACRE AT FORT DEARBORN. 
 
 During the war of 181.2, Fort Dearborn became the theater of stirring 
 events. The garrison consisted of fifty-four men under command of 
 Captain Nathan Heald, assisted by Lieutenant Helm (son-in-law of Mrs. 
 Kinzie) and Ensign Ronan. Dr. Voorhees was surgeon. The only resi- 
 dents at the post at that time were the wives of Captain Heald and Lieu- 
 tenant Helm, and a few of the soldiers, Mr. Kinzie and his family, and 
 a few Canadian voyageurs, with their wives and children. The soldiers 
 and Mr. Kinzie were on most friendly terms with the Pottawattamies 
 and Winnebagos, the principal tribes around them, but they could not 
 win them from their attachment to the British. 
 
 One evening in April, 1812, Mr. Kinzie sat playing on his violin and 
 his children were dancing to the music, when Mrs. Kinzie came rushing 
 into the house, pale with terror, and exclaiming : " The Indians ! the 
 Indians!" "What? Where?" eagerly inquired Mr. Kinzie. "Up 
 at Lee's, killing and scalping," answered the frightened mother, who, 
 when the alarm was given, was attending Mrs. Barnes (just confined) 
 living not far off. Mr. Kinzie and his family crossed the river and took 
 refuge in the fort, to which place Mrs. Barnes and her infant not a day 
 old were safely conveyed. The rest of the inhabitants took shelter in the 
 fort. This alarm was caused by a scalping party of Winnebagos, who 
 hovered about the fort several days, when they disappeared, and for several 
 weeks the inhabitants were undisturbed. 
 
 On the 7th of August, 1812, General Hull, at Detroit, sent orders to 
 Captain Heald to evacuate Fort Dearborn, and to distribute all the United 
 States property to the Indians in the neighborhood a most insane order. 
 The Pottawattamie chief, who brought the dispatch, had more wisdom 
 than the commanding general. He advised Captain Heald not to make 
 the distribution. Said he : " Leave the fort and stores as they are, and 
 let the Indians make distribution for themselves ; and while they are 
 engaged in the business, the white people may escape to Fort Wayne."
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 143 
 
 Captain Heald held a council with the Indians on the afternoon of 
 the 12th, in which his 1 officers refused to join, for they had been informed 
 that treachery was designed that the Indians intended to murder the 
 white people in the council, and then destroy those in the fort. Captain 
 Heald, however, took the precaution to open a port-hole displaying a 
 cannon pointing directly upon the council, and by that means saved 
 his life. 
 
 Mr. Kinzie, who knew the Indians well, begged Captain Heald not 
 to confide in their promises, nor distribute the arms and mu nitions among 
 them, for it would only put power into their hands to destroy the whites. 
 Acting upon this advice, Heald resolved to withhold the munitions of 
 war ; and on the night of the 13th, after the distribution of the other 
 property had been made, the powder, ball and liquors were thrown into 
 the river, the muskets broken up and destroyed. 
 
 Black Partridge, a friendly chief, came to Captain Heald, and said : 
 " Linden birds have been singing in my ears to-day: be careful on the 
 march you are going to take." On that dark night vigilant Indians had 
 crept near the fort and discovered the destruction of their promised booty 
 going on within. The next morning the powder was seen floating on the 
 surface of the river. The savages were exasperated and made loud com- 
 plaints and threats. 
 
 On the following day when preparations were making to leave the 
 fort, and all the inmates were deeply impressed with a sense of impend- 
 ing danger, Capt. Wells, an uncle of Mrs. Heald, was discovered upon 
 the Indian trail among the sand-hills on the borders of the lake, not far 
 distant, with a band of mounted Miamis, of whose tribe he was chief, 
 having been adopted by the famous Miami warrior, Little Turtle. When 
 news of Hull's surrender reached Fort Wayne, he had started with this 
 force to assist Heald in defending Fort Dearborn. He was too late. 
 Every means for its defense had been destroyed the night before, and 
 arrangements were made for leaving the fort on the morning of the 15th. 
 
 It was a warm bright morning in the middle of August. Indications 
 were positive that the savages intended to murder the white people ; and 
 when they moved out of the southern gate of the fort, the march was 
 like a funeral procession. The band, feeling the solemnity of the occa- 
 sion, struck up the Dead March in Saul. 
 
 Capt. Wells, who had blackened his face with gun-powder in token 
 of his fate, took the lead with his band of Miamis, followed by Capt. 
 Heald, with his wife by his side on horseback. Mr. Kinzie hoped by his 
 personal influence to avert the impending blow, and therefore accompanied 
 them, leaving his family in a boat in charge of a friendly Indian, to be 
 taken to his trading station at the site of Niles, Michigan, in the event OL 
 his death.
 
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 The procession moved slowly along the lake shore till they reached 
 the sand-hills between the prairie and the beach, when the Pottawattamie 
 escort, under the leadership of Blackbird, filed to the right, placing those 
 hills between them and the white people. Wells, with his Miamis, had 
 kept in the advance. They suddenly came rushing back, Wells exclaim- 
 ing, " They are about to attack us ; form instantly." These words were 
 quickly followed by a storm of bullets, which came whistling over the 
 little hills which the treacherous savages had made the covert for their 
 murderous attack. The white troops charged upon the Indians, drove 
 them back to the prairie, and then the battle was waged between fifty- 
 four soldiers, twelve civilians and three or four women (the cowardly 
 Miamis having fled at the outset) against five hundred Indian warriors. 
 The white people, hopeless, resolved to sell their lives as dearly as possible. 
 Ensign Ronan wielded his weapon vigorously, even after falling upon his 
 knees weak from the loss of blood. Capt. Wells, who was by the side of 
 his niece, Mrs. Heald, when the conflict began, behaved with the greatest 
 coolness and courage. He said to her, " We have not the slightest chance 
 for life. We must part to meet no more in this world. God bless you." 
 And then he dashed forward. Seeing a young warrior, painted like a 
 demon, climb into a wagon in which were twelve children, and tomahawk 
 them all, he cried out, unmindful of his personal danger, " If that is your 
 game, butchering women and children, I will kill too." He spurred his 
 horse towards the Indian camp, where they had left their squaws and 
 papooses, hotly pursued by swift-footed young warriors, who sent bullets 
 whistling after him. One of these killed his horse and wounded him 
 severely in the leg. With a yell the young braves rushed to make him 
 their prisoner and reserve him for torture. He resolved not to be made 
 a captive, and by the use of the most provoking epithets tried to induce 
 them to kill him instantly. He called a fiery young chief a squaw, when 
 the enraged warrior killed Wells instantly with his tomahawk, jumped 
 upon his body, cut out his heart, and ate a portion of the warm morsel 
 with savage delight ! 
 
 In this fearful combat women bore a conspicuous part. Mrs. Heald 
 was an excellent equestrian and an expert in the use of the rifle. She 
 fought the savages bravely, receiving several severe wounds. Though 
 faint from the loss of blood, she managed to keep her saddle. A savage 
 raised his tomahawk to kill her, when she looked him full in the face, 
 and with a sweet smile and in a gentle voice said, in his own language, 
 " Surely you will not kill a squaw ! " The arm of the savage fell, and 
 the life of the heroic woman was saved. 
 
 Mrs. Helm, the step-daughter of Mr. Kinzie, had an encounter with 
 a stout Indian, who attempted to tomahawk her. Springing to one side, 
 she received the glancing blow on her shoulder, and at the same instant
 
 140 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 seized the savage round the neck with her arms and endeavored to get 
 hold of his scalping knife, which hung in a sheath at his breast. While 
 she was thus struggling she was dragged from her antagonist by anothei 
 powerful Indian, who bore her, in spite of her struggles, to the margin 
 of the lake and plunged her in. To her astonishment she was held by 
 him so that she would ,not drown, and she soon perceived that she was 
 in the hands of the friendly Black Partridge, who had saved her life. 
 
 The wife of Sergeant Holt, a large and powerful woman, behaved as 
 bravely as an Amazon. She rode a fine, high-spirited horse, which the 
 Indians coveted, and several of them attacked her with the butts of their 
 guns, for the purpose of dismounting her ; but she used the sword which 
 .she had snatched from her disabled husband so skillfully that she foiled 
 them ; and, suddenly wheeling her horse, she dashed over the prairie, 
 followed by the savages shouting, " The brave woman ! the brave woman ! 
 Don't hurt her ! " They finally overtook her, and while she was fighting 
 them in front, a powerful savage came up behind her, seized her by the 
 neck and dragged her to the ground. Horse and woman were made 
 captives. Mrs. Holt was a long time a captive among the Indians, but 
 was afterwards ransomed. 
 
 In this sharp conflict two-thirds of the white people were slain and 
 wounded, and all their horses, baggage and provision were lost. Only 
 twenty-eight straggling men now remained to fight five hundred Indians 
 rendered furious by the sight of blood. They succeeded in breaking 
 through the ranks of the murderers and gaining a slight eminence on the 
 prairie near the Oak Woods. The Indians did not pursue, but gathered 
 on their flanks, while the chiefs held a consultation on the sand-hills, and 
 showed signs of willingness to parley. It would have been madness on 
 the part of the whites to renew the fight ; and so Capt. Heald went for- 
 ward and met Blackbird on the open prairie, where terms of surrender 
 were soon agreed upon. It was arranged that the white people should 
 give up their arms to Blackbird, and that the survivors should become 
 prisoners of war, to be exchanged for ransoms as soon as practicable, 
 With this understanding captives and captors started for the Indian 
 camp near the fort, to which Mrs. Helm had been taken bleeding and 
 suffering by Black Partridge, and had met her step-father and learned 
 that her husband was safe. 
 
 A new scene of horror was now opened at the Indian camp. The 
 wounded, n0t being included in the terms of surrender, as it was inter- 
 preted by the Indians, and the British general, Proctor, having offered a 
 liberal bounty for American scalps, delivered at Maiden, nearly all the 
 wounded men were killed and scalped, and the price of the trophies was 
 afterwards paid by the British government.
 
 L.H.G I LLETT. 
 SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP
 
 HISTORY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 149 
 
 SHABBONA. 
 
 [This was engraved from a daguerreotype, taken when Shabbona was 83 years old.] 
 
 This celebrated Indian chief, whose portrait appears in this work, deserves 
 more than a passing notice. Although Shabbona was not so conspicuous as 
 Tecumseh or Black Hawk, yet in point of merit he was superior to either 
 of them. 
 
 Shabbona was born at an Indian village on the Kankakee River, now in 
 Will County, about the year 1775. While young he was made chief of the 
 band, and went to Shabbona Grove, now DeKalb County, where they were 
 found in the early settlement of the county. 
 
 In the war of 1812, Shabbona, with his warriors, joined Tecumseh, was
 
 150 HISTOKY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 aid to that great chief, and stood by his side when he fell at the battle of 
 the Thames. At the time of the Wimiebago war, in 1827, he visited almost 
 every village among the Pottawatomies, and by his persuasive arguments 
 prevented them from taking part in the war. By request of the citizens 
 of Chicago, Shabbona, accompanied by Billy Caldwell (Sauganash), visited 
 Big Foot's village at Geneva Lake, in order to pacify the warriors, as fears 
 were entertained that they were about to raise the tomahawk against the 
 whites. Here Shabbona was taken prisoner by Big Foot, and his life 
 threatened, but on the following day was set at liberty. From that time 
 the Indians (through reproach) styled him " the white man's friend," 
 and many times his life was endangered. 
 
 Before the Black Hawk war, Shabbona met in council at two differ- 
 ent times, and by his influence prevented his people from taking part with 
 the Sacs and Foxes. After the death of Black Partridge and Senachwine, 
 no chief among the Pottawatomies exerted so much influence as Shabbona. 
 Black Hawk, aware of this influence, visited him at two different times, in. 
 order to enlist him in his cause, but was unsuccessful. While Black Hawk 
 was a prisoner at Jefferson Barracks, he said, had it not been for Shabbona 
 the whole Pottawatomie nation would have joined his standard, and he 
 could have continued the war for years. 
 
 To Shabbona many of the early settlers of Illinois owe the pres- 
 ervation of their lives, for it is a well-known fact, had he not notified the 
 people of their danger, a large portion of them would have fallen victims 
 to the tomahawk of savages. By saving the lives of whites he endangered 
 his own, for the Sacs and Foxes threatened to kill him, and made two 
 attempts to execute their threats. They killed Pypeogee, his son, and 
 Pyps, his nephew, and hunted him down as though he was a wild beast. 
 
 Shabbona had a reservation of two sections of land at his Grove, but 
 by leaving it and going west for a short time, the Government declared 
 the reservation forfeited, and sold it the same as other vacant land. On 
 Shabbona's return, and finding his possessions gone, he was very sad and 
 broken down in spirit, and left the Grove for ever. The citizens of Ottawa 
 raised money and bought him a tract of land on the Illinois River, above 
 Seneca, in Grundy County, on which they built a house, and supplied 
 him with means to live on. He lived here until his death, which occurred 
 on the 17th of July, 1859, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and was 
 buried with great pomp in the cemetery at Morris. His squaw, Pokanoka, 
 was drowned in Mazen Creek, Grundy County, on the 30th of November, 
 1864, and was buried by his side. 
 
 In 1861 subscriptions were taken up in many of the river towns, to 
 erect a monument over the remains of Shabbona, but the war breaking 
 out, the enterprise was abandoned. Only a plain marble slab marks the: 
 resting-place of this friend of the white man.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND PROMISSORY NOTES. 
 
 No promissory note, check, draft, bill of exchange, order, or note, nego- 
 tiable instrument payable at sight, or on demand, or on presentment, shall 
 be entitled to days of grace. All other bills of exchange, drafts or notes are 
 entitled to three days of grace. All the above mentioned paper falling 
 due on Sunday, New Years' Day, the Fourth of July, Christmas, or any 
 day appointed or recommended by the President of the United States or 
 the Governor of the State as a day of fast or thanksgiving, shall be deemed 
 as due on the day previous, and should two or more of these days come 
 together, then such instrument shall be treated as due on the day previous 
 to the first of said days. No defense can be made against a negotiable 
 instrument (assigned before due) in the hands of the assignee without 
 notice, except fraud was used in obtaining the same. To hold an indorser, 
 due diligence must be used by suit, in collecting of the maker, unless suit 
 would have been unavailing. Notes payable to person named or to order, 
 in order to absolutely transfer title, must be indorsed by the payee. Notes' 
 payable to bearer may be transferred by delivery, and when so payable 
 every indorser thereon is held as a guarantor of payment unless otherwise 
 expressed. 
 
 In computing interest or discount on negotiable instruments, a month 
 shall be considered a calendar month or twelfth of a year, and for less- 
 than a month, a day shall be figured a thirtieth part of a month. Notes 
 only bear interest when so expressed, but after due they draw the legal 
 interest, even if not stated. 
 
 INTEREST. 
 
 The legal rate of interest is six per cent. Parties may agree in writ- 
 ing on a rate not exceeding ten per cent. If a rate of interest greater 
 than ten per cent, is contracted for, it works a forfeiture of the whole of 
 said interest, and only the principal can be recovered. 
 
 DESCENT. 
 
 When no will is made, the property of a deceased person is distrib- 
 uted as follows :
 
 152 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 First. To his or her children and their descendants in equal parts ; 
 the descendants of the deceased child or grandchild taking the share of 
 their deceased parents in equal parts among them. 
 
 Second. Where there is no child, nor descendant of such child, and 
 no widow or surviving husband, then to the parents, brothers and sisters 
 of the deceased, and their descendants, in equal parts, the surviving 
 parent, if either be dead, taking a double portion ; and if there is no 
 parent living, then to the brothers and sisters of the intestate and their 
 descendants. 
 
 Third. When there is a widow or surviving husband, and no child or 
 children, or descendants of the same, then one-half of the real estate and 
 the whole of the personal estate shall descend to such widow or surviving 
 husband, absolutely, and the other half of the real estate shall descend as 
 in other cases where there is no child or children or descendants of the 
 .-same. 
 
 Fourth. When there is a widow or surviving husband and also a child 
 or children, or descendants of the latter, then one third of all the personal 
 -estate to the widow or surviving husband absolutely. 
 
 Fifth. If there is no child, parent, brother or sister, or descendants of 
 -either of them, and no widow or surviving husband, then in equal parts 
 to the next of kin to the intestate in equal degree. Collaterals shall not 
 be represented except with the descendants of brothers and sisters of the 
 intestate, and there shall be no distinction between kindred of the whole 
 .and the half blood. 
 
 Sixth. If any intestate leaves a widow or surviving husband and no 
 Tcindred, then to such widow or surviving husband ; and if there is no such 
 widow or surviving husband, it shall escheat to and vest in the county 
 where the same, or the greater portion thereof, is situated. 
 
 WILLS AND ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS. 
 
 No exact form of words are necessary in order to make a will good at 
 law. Every male person of the age of twenty-one years, and every female 
 of the age of eighteen years, of sound mind and memory, can make a valid 
 will ; it must be in writing, signed by the testator or by some one in his 
 .or her presence and by his or her direction, and attested by two or more 
 .credible witnesses. Care should be taken that the witnesses are not inter- 
 ested in the will. Persons knowing themselves to have been named in the 
 will or appointed executor, must within thirty days of the death of 
 deceased cause the will to be proved and recorded in the proper county, 
 or present it, and refuse to accept ; on failure to do so are liable to forfeit 
 the sum of tiventy dollars per month. Inventory to be made by executor 
 .or administrator within three months from date of letters testamentary or
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 153 
 
 of administration. Executors' and administrators' compensation not tc v 
 exceed six per cent, on amount of personal estate, and three per cent, 
 on money realized from real estate, with such additional allowance a? 
 shall be reasonable for extra services. Appraisers' compensation $2 per 
 day. 
 
 Notice requiring all claims to be presented against the estate shall btf 
 given by the executor or administrator within six months of being quali- 
 fied. Any person having a claim and not presenting it at the time fixed 
 by said notice is required to have summons issued notifying the executor 
 or administrator of his having filed his claim in court ; in such cases the* 
 costs have to be paid by the claimant. Claims should be filed within two* 
 years from the time administration is granted on an estate, as after that 
 time they are forever barred, unless other estate is found that was not in- 
 ventoried. Married women, infants, persons insane, imprisoned or without 
 the United States, in the employment of the United States, or of this- 
 State, have two years after their disabilities are removed to file claims. 
 
 Claims are classified and paid out of the estate in the folio wing manner r 
 
 First. Funeral expenses. 
 
 Second. The widow's award, if there is a widow ; or children if there 
 are children, and no widow. 
 
 Third. Expenses attending the last illness, not including physician's; 
 bill. 
 
 Fourth. Debts due the common school or township fund . 
 
 Fifth. All expenses of proving the will and taking out letters testa- 
 mentary or administration, and settlement of the estate, and the physi- 
 cian's bill in the last illness of deceased. 
 
 Sixth. Where the deceased has received money in trust for any pur- 
 pose, his executor or administrator shall pay out of his estate the amount 
 received and not accounted for. 
 
 'Seventh. All other debts and demands of whatsoever kind, without 
 regard to quality or dignity, which shall be exhibited to the court within 
 two years from the granting of letters. 
 
 Award to Widow and Children, exclusive of debts and legacies or be- 
 quests, except funeral expenses : 
 
 First. The family pictures and wearing apparel, jewels and ornaments 
 of herself and minor children. 
 
 Second. School books and the family library of the value of $100. 
 
 Third. One sewing machine. 
 
 Fourth. Necessary beds, bedsteads and bedding for herself and family. 
 
 Fifth. The stoves and pipe used in the family, with the necessary 
 cooking utensils, or in case they have none, $50 in money. 
 
 Sixth. Household and kitchen furniture to the value of $100. 
 
 Seventh. One milch cow and calf for every four members of her family
 
 154 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Eighth. Two sheep for each member of her family, and the fleeces 
 taken from the same, and one horse, saddle and bridle. 
 
 Ninth. Provisions for herself and family for one year. 
 
 Tenth. Food for the stock above specified for six months. 
 
 Eleventh. Fuel for herself and family for three months. 
 
 Twelfth. One hundred dollars worth of other property suited to her 
 condition in life, to be selected by the widow. 
 
 The widow if she elects may have in lieu of the said award, the same 
 personal property or money in place thereof as is or may be exempt from 
 execution or attachment against the head of a family. 
 
 TAXES. 
 
 The owners of real and personal property, on the first day of May in 
 each year, are liable for the taxes thereon. 
 
 Assessments should be completed before the fourth Monday in June, 
 at which time the town board of review meets to examine assessments, 
 hear objections, and make such changes as ought to be made. The county 
 board have also power to correct or change assessments. 
 
 The tax books are placed in the hands of the town collector on or 
 before the tenth day of December, who retains them until the tenth day 
 of March following, when he is required to return them to the county 
 treasurer, who then collects all delinquent taxes. 
 
 No costs accrue on real estate taxes till advertised, which takes place 
 the first day of April, when three weeks' notice is required before judg- 
 ment. Cost of advertising, twenty cents each tract of land, and ten cents 
 each lot. 
 
 Judgment is usually obtained at May term of County Court. Costs 
 six cents each tract of land, and five cents each lot. Sale takes place in 
 June. Costs in addition to those before mentioned, twenty-eight cents 
 each tract of land, and twenty-seven cents each town lot. 
 
 Real estate sold for taxes may be redeemed any time before the expi- 
 ration of two years from the date of sale, by payment to the County Clerk 
 of the amount for which it was sold and twenty-five per cent, thereon if 
 redeemed within six months, fifty per cent, if between six and twelve 
 months, if between twelve and eighteen months seventy-five per cent., 
 and if between eighteen months and two years one hundred per cent., 
 and in addition, all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with ten per 
 cent, interest thereon, also one dollar each tract if notice is given by the 
 purchaser of the sale, and a fee of twenty-five cents to the clerk for his 
 certificate. 
 
 JURISDICTION OF COURTS. 
 
 Justices have jurisdiction in all civil cases on contracts for the recovery 
 of moneys for damages for injury to real property, or taking, detaining, or
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 155 
 
 injuring personal property ; for rent; for all cases to recover damages done 
 real or personal property by railroad companies, in actions of replevin, and 
 in actions for damages for fraud in the sale, purchase, or exchange of per- 
 sonal property, when the amount claimed as due is not over $200. They 
 have also jurisdiction in all cases for violation of the ordinances of cities, 
 towns or villages. A justice of the peace may orally order an officer or a 
 private person to arrest any one committing or attempting to commit a 
 criminal offense. He also upon complaint can issue his warrant for the 
 arrest of any person accused of having committed a crime, and have him 
 brought before him for examination. 
 
 COUNTY COURTS 
 
 Have jurisdiction in all matters of probate (except in counties having a 
 population of one hundred thousand or over), settlement of estates of 
 deceased persons, appointment of guardians and conservators, and settle- 
 ment of their accounts ; all matters relating to apprentices ; proceedings 
 for the collection of taxes and assessments, and in proceedings of executors, 
 administrators, guardians and conservators for the sale of real estate. In 
 law cases they have concurrent jurisdiction with Circuit Courts in all 
 cases where justices of the peace now have, or hereafter may have, 
 jurisdiction when the amount claimed shall not exceed $1,000, and in all 
 criminal offenses where the punishment is not imprisonment in the peni- 
 tentiary, or death, and in all cases of appeals from justices of the peace 
 and police magistrates ; excepting when the county judge is sitting as a 
 justice of the peace. Circuit Courts have unlimited jurisdiction. 
 
 LIMITATION OF ACTION.' 
 
 Accounts jive years. Notes and written contracts ten years. Judg- 
 ments twenty years. Partial payments or new promise in writing, within 
 or after said period, will revive the debt. Absence from the State deducted, 
 and when the cause of action is barred by the law of another State, it has 
 the same effect here. Slander and libel, one year. Personal injuries, two 
 years. To recover land or make entry thereon, twenty years. Action to 
 foreclose mortgage or trust deed, or make a sale, within ten years. 
 
 All persons in possession of land, and paying taxes for seven consecu- 
 tive years, with color of title, and all persons paying taxes for seven con- 
 secutive years, with color of title, on vacant land, shall be held to be the 
 legal owners to the extent of their paper title. 
 
 MARRIED WOMEN 
 
 May sue and be sued. Husband and wife not liable for each other's debts, 
 either before or after marriage, but both are liable for expenses and edu- 
 cation of the family.
 
 156 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 She may contract the same as if unmarried, except that in a partner- 
 ship business she can not, without consent of her husband, unless he has 
 abandoned or deserted her, or is idiotic or insane, or confined in peniten- 
 tiary ; she is entitled and can recover her own earnings, but neither hus- 
 band nor wife is entitled to compensation for any services rendered for the 
 other. At the death of the husband, in addition to widow's award, a 
 married woman has a dower interest (one-third) in all real estate owned 
 by her husband after their marriage, and which has not been released by 
 her, and the husband has the same interest in the real estate of the wife 
 at her death. 
 
 EXEMPTIONS FROM FORCED SALE. 
 
 Home worth $1,000, and the following Personal Property : Lot of ground! 
 and buildings thereon, occupied as a residence by the debtor, being a house- 
 holder and having a family, to the value of $1,000. Exemption continues 
 after the death of the householder for the benefit of widow and family, some 
 one of them occupying the homestead until youngest child shall become 
 twenty-one years of age, and until death of widow. There is no exemption 
 from sale for taxes, assessments, debt or liability incurred for the purchase 
 or improvement of said homestead. No release or waiver of exemption is 
 valid, unless in writing, and subscribed by such householder and wife (if 
 he have one), and acknowledged as conveyances of real estate are required 
 to be acknowledged. The following articles of personal property owned 
 by the debtor, are exempt from execution, writ of attachment, and distress 
 for rent : The necessary wearing apparel, Bibles, school books and family 
 pictures of every person ; and, 2d, one hundred dollars worth of other 
 property to be selected by the debtor, and, in addition, when the debtor 
 is the head of a family and resides with the same, three hundred dollars 
 worth of other property to be selected by the debtor ; provided that such 
 selection and exemption shall not be made by the debtor or allowed to- 
 him or her from any money, salary or wages due him or her from any 
 person or persons or corporations whatever. 
 
 When the head of a family shall die, desert or not reside with the 
 same, the family shall be entitled to and receive all the benefit and priv- 
 ileges which are by this act conferred upon the head of a family residing 
 with the same. No personal property is exempt from execution when 
 judgment is obtained for the wages of laborers or servants. Wages of a 
 laborer who is the head of a family can not be garnisheed, except the sum 
 due him be in excess of $25.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 157 
 
 DEEDS AND MORTGAGES. 
 
 To be valid there must be a valid consideration. Special care should 
 be taken to have them signed, sealed, delivered, and properly acknowl- 
 edged, with the proper seal attached. Witnesses are not required. The- 
 acknoivledgement must be made in this state, before Master in Chancery r 
 Notary Public, United States Commissioner, Circuit or County Clerk, Justice 
 of Peace, or any Court of Record having a seal, or any Judge, Justice, or 
 Clerk of any such Court. When taken before a Notary Public, or United 
 States Commissioner, the same shall be attested by his official seal, when 
 taken before a Court or the Clerk thereof, the same shall be attested by 
 the seal of such Court, and when taken before a Justice of the Peace resid- 
 ing out of the county where the real estate to be conveyed lies, there shall 
 be added a certificate of the County Clerk under his seal of office, that he 
 was a Justice of the Peace in the county at the time of taking the same. 
 A deed is good without such certificate attached, but can not be used in 
 evidence unless such a certificate is produced or other competent evidence 
 introduced. Acknowledgements made out of the state must either be 
 executed according to the laws of this state, or there should be attached 
 a certificate that it is in conformity with the laws of the state or country 
 where executed. Where this is not done the same may be proved by any 
 other legal way. Acknowledgments where the Homestead rights are to 
 be waived must state as follows : " Including the release and waiver of 
 the right of homestead." 
 
 Notaries Public can take acknowledgements any where in the state. 
 
 Sheriffs, if authorized by the mortgagor of real or personal property 
 in his mortgage, may sell the property mortgaged. 
 
 In the case of the death of grantor or holder of the equity of redemp- 
 tion of real estate mortgaged, or conveyed by deed of trust where equity 
 of redemption is waived, and it contains power of sale, must be foreclosed 
 in the same manner as a common mortgage in court. 
 
 ESTRAYS. 
 
 Horses, mules, asses, neat cattle, swine, sheep, or goats found straying 
 at any time during the year, in counties where such animals are not allowed 
 to run at large, or between the last day of October and the 15th day of 
 April in other counties, the owner thereof being unknown, may be taken up 
 as estrays. 
 
 No person not a householder in the county where estray is found can 
 lawfully take up an estray, and then only upon or about his farm or place 
 of residence. Estrays should not be used before advertised, except animals 
 giving milk, which may be milked for their benefit.
 
 158 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Notices must be posted up within five (5) days in three (3) of the 
 most public places in the town .or precinct in which estray was found, giv- 
 ing the residence of the taker up, and a particular description of the 
 estray, its age, color, and marks natural and artificial, and stating before 
 what justice of the peace in such town or precinct, and at what time, not 
 less than ten (10) nor more than fifteen (15) days from the time of post- 
 ing such notices, he will apply to have the estray appraised. 
 
 A copy of such notice should be filed by the taker up with the town 
 clerk, whose duty it is to enter the same at large, in a book kept by him 
 for that purpose. 
 
 If the owner of estray shall not have appeared and proved ownership, 
 and taken the .same away, first paying the taker up his reasonable charges 
 for taking up, keeping, and advertising the same, the taker up shall appear 
 before the justice of the peace mentioned in above mentioned notice, and 
 make an affidavit as required by law. 
 
 As the affidavit has to be made before the justice, and all other steps as 
 to appraisement, etc., are before him, who is familiar therewith, they are 
 therefore omitted here. 
 
 Any person taking up an estray at any other place than about or 
 upon his farm or residence, or without complying with the law, shall forfeit 
 and pay a fine of ten dollars with costs. 
 
 Ordinary diligence is required in taking care of estrays, but in case 
 they die or get away the taker is not liable for the same. 
 
 GAME. 
 
 It is unlawful for any person to kill, or attempt to kill or destroy, in 
 any manner, any prairie hen or chicken or woodcock between the 15th day 
 of January and the 1st day of September ; or any deer, fawn, wild-turkey, 
 partridge or pheasant between the 1st day of February and the 1st day 
 of October ; or any quail between the 1st day of February and 1st day of 
 November ; or any wild goose, duck, snipe, brant or other water fowl 
 between the 1st day of May and 15th day of August in each year. 
 Penalty : Fine not less than $5 nor more than $25, for each bird or 
 .animal, and costs of suit, and stand committed to county jail until fine is 
 paid, but not exceeding ten days. It is unlawful to hunt with gun, dog 
 or net within the inclosed -grounds or lands of another without permission. 
 Penalty: Fine not less than $3 nor more than $100, to be paid into 
 school fund. 
 
 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
 
 Whenever any of the following articles shall be contracted for, or 
 sold or delivered, and no special contract or agreement shall be made to 
 the contrary, the weight per bushel shall be, as follows, to-wit :
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 159 
 
 Pounds. 
 
 Stone Coal, - - 80 
 
 Unslacked Lime, 80 
 
 Corn in the ear, - - - 70 
 
 Wheat, - 60 
 
 Irish Potatoes, - - 60 
 
 White Beans, - - 60 
 
 Clover Seed, - - 60 
 
 Onions, - - - 57 
 
 Shelled Corn, - 56 
 
 Rye, - 56 
 
 Flax Seed, - - 56 
 
 Sweet Potatoes, - - 55 
 
 Turnips, - 55 
 
 Fine Salt, 55 
 
 Pounds. 
 
 Buckwheat, - - 52 
 
 Coarse Salt, 50 
 
 Barley, - - 48 
 
 Corn Meal, ... 48 
 
 Castor Beans, - - 46 
 
 Timothy Seed, - - 45 
 
 Hemp Seed, - - 44 
 
 Malt, - ... 38 
 
 Dried Peaches, - 33 
 
 Oats, - - 32 
 
 Dried Apples, - 24 
 
 Bran, - - 20 
 
 Blue Grass Seed, - - 14 
 
 Hair (plastering), ' - 8 
 
 Penalty for giving less than the above standard is double the amount 
 of property wrongfully not given, and ten dollars addition thereto. 
 
 MILLERS. 
 
 The owner or occupant of every public grist mill in this state shall 
 grind all grain brought to his mill in its turn. The toll for both steam 
 and water mills, is, for grinding and bolting wheat, rye, or other grain, one 
 eighth part; for grinding Indian corn, oats, barley and buckwheat not 
 required to be bolted, one seventh part; for grinding malt, and chopping all 
 kinds of grain, one eighth part. It is the duty of every miller when his 
 mill is in repair, to aid and assist in loading and unloading all grain brought 
 to him to be ground, and he is also required to keep an accurate half 
 bushel measure, and an accurate set of toll dishes or scales for weighing 
 the grain. The penalty for neglect or refusal to comply with the law is 
 $5, to the use of any person to sue for the same, to be recovered before 
 any justice of the peace of the county where penalty is incurred. Millers 
 are accountable for the safe keeping of all grain left in his mill for the 
 purpose of being ground, with bags or casks containing same (except it 
 results from unavoidable accidents), provided that such bags or casks are 
 distinctly marked with the initial letters of the owner's name. 
 
 MARKS AND BRANDS. 
 
 Owners of cattle, horses, hogs, sheep or goats may have one ear mark 
 and one brand, but which shall be different from his neighbor's, and may 
 be recorded by the county clerk of the county in which such property is 
 kept. The fee for such record is fifteen cents. The record of such shall 
 be open to examination free of charge. In cases of disputes as to marks 
 or brands, such record is prima facie evidence. Owners of cattle, horses, 
 hogs, sheep or goats that may have been branded by the former owner,
 
 160 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 may be re-branded in presence of one or more of his neighbors, who shall 
 certify to the facts of the marking or branding being done, when done, 
 and in what brand or mark they were re-branded or re-marked, which 
 certificate may also be recorded as before stated. 
 
 ADOPTION OF CHILDREN. 
 
 Children may be adopted by any resident of this state, by filing a 
 petition in the Circuit or County Court of the county in which he resides, 
 asking leave to do so, and if desired may ask that the name of the child 
 be changed. Such petition, if made by a person having a husband or- 
 wife, will not be granted, unless the husband or wife joins therein, as the 
 adoption must be by them jointly. 
 
 The petition shall state name, sex, and age of the child, and the new 
 name, if it is desired to change the name. Also the name and residence 
 of the parents of the child, if known, and of the guardian, if any, and 
 whether the parents or guardians consent to the adoption. 
 
 The court must find, before granting decree, that the parents of the 
 child, or the survivors of them, have deserted his or her family or such 
 child for one year next preceding the application, or if neither are living, 
 the guardian ; if no guardian, the next of kin in this state capable of giving 
 consent, has had notice of the presentation of the petition and consents- 
 to such adoption. If the child is of the age of fourteen years or upwards, 
 the adoption can not be made without its consent. 
 
 SURVEYORS AND SURVEYS. 
 
 There is in every county elected a surveyor known as county sur- 
 veyor, who has power to appoint deputies, for whose official acts he is 
 responsible. It is the duty of the county surveyor, either by himself or 
 his deputy, to make all surveys that he may be called upon to make within 
 his county as soon as may be after application is made. The necessary 
 chainmen and other assistance must be employed by the person requiring 
 the same to be done, and to be by him paid, unless otherwise agreed ; but 
 the chainmen must be disinterested persons and approved by the surveyor 
 and sworn by him to measure justly and impartially. 
 
 The County Board in each county is required by law to provide a copy 
 of the United States field notes and plats of their surveys of the lands 
 in the county to be kept in the recorder's office subject to examination 
 by the public, and the county surveyor is required to make his surveys 
 in conformity to said notes, plats and the laws of the United States gov- 
 erning such matters. The surveyor is also required to keep a record 
 of all surveys made by him, which shall be subject to inspection by any 
 one interested, and shall be delivered up to his successor in office. A
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 161 
 
 certified copy of the said surveyor's record shall be prima facie evidence 
 of its contents. 
 
 The fees of county surveyors are six dollars per day. The county 
 surveyor is also ex officio inspector of mines, and as such, assisted by some 
 practical miner selected by him, shall once each year inspect all the 
 mines in the county, for which they shall each receive such compensa- 
 tion as may be fixed by the County Board, not exceeding 85 a day, to 
 be paid out of the county treasury. 
 
 ROADS AND BRIDGES. 
 
 Where practicable from the nature of the ground, persons traveling 
 in any kind of vehicle, must turn to the right of the center of the road, so 
 ;as to permit each carriage to pass without interfering with each other. 
 The penalty for a violation of this provision is $5 for every offense, to 
 be recovered by the party injured; but to recover, there must have 
 occurred some injury to person or property resulting from the violation. 
 The owners of any carriage traveling upon any road in this State for the 
 conveyance of passengers who shall employ or continue in his employment 
 as driver any person who is addicted to drunkenness, or the excessive use of 
 spiritous liquors, after he has had notice of the same, shall forfeit, at the 
 rate of $5 per day, and if any driver while actually engaged in driving 
 .any such carriage, shall be guilty of intoxication to such a degree as to 
 endanger the safety of passengers, it shall be the duty of the owner, on 
 receiving written notice of the fact, signed by one of the passengers, and 
 certified by him on oath, forthwith to discharge such driver. If such owner 
 shall have such driver in his employ within three months after suchViotice, 
 he is liable for $5 per day for the time he shall keep said driver in his 
 employment after receiving such notice. 
 
 Persons driving any carriage on any public highway are prohibited 
 from running their horses upon any occasion under a penalty of a fine not 
 exceeding $10, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, at the discre- 
 tion of the court. Horses attached to any carriage used to convey passen- 
 gers for hire must be properly hitched or the lines placed in the hands of 
 some other person before the driver leaves them for any purpose. For 
 violation of this provision each driver shall forfeit twenty dollars, to be 
 recovered by action, to be commenced within six months. It is under- 
 stood by the term carriage herein to mean any carriage or vehicle used 
 for the transportation of passengers or goods or either of them. 
 
 The commissioners of highways in the different towns have the care 
 and superintendence of highways and bridges therein. They have all 
 the powers necessary to lay out, vacate, regulate and repair all roadsi 
 build and repair bridges. In addition to the above, it is their duty to 
 erect and keep in repair at the forks or crossing-place of the most
 
 162 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 important roads post and guide boards with plain inscriptions, giving 
 directions and distances to the most noted places to which such road may 
 lead ; also to make provisions to prevent thistles, burdock, and cockle 
 burrs, mustard, yellow dock, Indian mallow and jimson weed from 
 seeding, and to extirpate the same as far as practicable, and to prevent 
 all rank growth of vegetation on the public highways so far as the same 
 may obstruct public travel, and it is in their discretion to erect watering 
 places for public use for watering teams at such points as may be deemed 
 advisable. 
 
 The Commissioners, on or before the 1st day of May of each year, 
 shall make out and deliver to their treasurer a list of all able-bodied men 
 in their town, excepting paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such others as are 
 exempt by law, and assess against each the sum of two dollars as a poll 
 tax for highway purposes. Within thirty days after such list is delivered 
 they shall cause a written or printed notice to be given to each person so 
 assessed, notifying him of the time when and place where such tax must 
 be paid, or its equivalent in labor performed ; they may contract with 
 persons owing such poll tax to perform a certain amount of labor on any 
 road or bridge in payment of the same, and if such tax is not paid nor 
 labor performed by the first Monday of July of such year, or within ten 
 days after notice is given after that time, they shall bring suit therefor 
 against such person before a justice of the peace, who shall hear and 
 determine the case according to law for the offense complained of, and 
 shall forthwith issue an execution, directed to any constable of the county 
 where the delinquent shall reside, who shall forthwith collect the moneys 
 therein mentioned. 
 
 The Commissioners of Highways of each town shall annually ascer- 
 tain, as near as practicable, how much money must be raised by tax on real 
 and personal property for the making and repairing of roads, only, to any 
 amount they may deem necessary, not exceeding forty cents on each one 
 hundred dollars' worth, as valued on the assessment roll of the previous 
 year. The tax so levied on property lying within an incorporated village, 
 town or city, shall be paid over to the corporate authorities of such town, 
 village or city. Commissioners shall receive $1.50 for each day neces- 
 sarily employed in the discharge of their duty. 
 
 Overseers. At the first meeting the Commissioners shall choose one 
 of their number to act General Overseer of Highways in their township, 
 whose duty it shall be to take charge of and safely keep all tools, imple- 
 ments and machinery belonging to said town, and shall, by the direction 
 of the Board, have general supervision of all roads and bridges in their 
 town.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 163- 
 
 As all township and county officers are familiar with their duties, it- 
 is only intended to give the points of the law that the public should be 
 familiar with. The manner of laying out, altering or vacating roads, etc., 
 will not be here stated, as it would require more space than is contem- 
 plated in a work of this kind. It is sufficient to state that, the first step 
 is by petition, addressed to the Commissioners, setting out what is prayed 
 for, giving the names of the owners of lands if known, if not known so 
 state, over which the road is to pass, giving the general course, its place 
 of beginning, and where it terminates. It requires not less than twelve- 
 freeholders residing within three miles of the road who shall sign the 
 petition. Public roads must not be less than fifty feet wide, nor more 
 than sixty feet wide. Roads not exceeding two miles in length, if peti- 
 tioned for, may be laid out, not less than forty feet. Private roads 
 for private and public use, may be laid out of the width of three rods, on 
 petition of the person directly interested ; the damage occasioned thereby 
 shall be paid by the premises benefited thereby, and before the road is 
 opened. If not opened in two years, the order shall be considered 
 rescinded. Commissioners in their discretion may permit persons who- 
 live on or have private roads, to work out their road tax thereon. Public- 
 roads must be opened in five days from date of filing order of location,, 
 or be deemed vacated. 
 
 DRAINAGE. 
 
 Whenever one or more owners or occupants of land desire to construct 
 a drain or ditch across the land of others for agricultural, sanitary or 
 mining purposes, the proceedings are as follows : 
 
 File a petition in the Circuit or County Court of the county in which 
 the proposed ditch or drain is to be constructed, setting forth the neces- 
 sity for the same, with a description of its proposed starting point, route 
 and terminus, and if it shall be necessary for the drainage of the land or 
 coal mines or for sanitary purposes, that a drain, ditch, levee or similar 
 work be constructed, a description of the same. It shall also set forth 
 the names of all persons owning the land over which such drain or ditch- 
 shall be constructed, or if unknown stating that fact. 
 
 No private property shall be taken or damaged for the purpose of 
 constructing a ditch, drain or levee, without compensation, if claimed by 
 the owner, the same to be ascertained by a jury ; but if the construction 
 of such ditch, drain or levee shall be a benefit to the owner, the same 
 shall be a set off against such compensation. 
 
 If the proceedings seek to affect the property of a minor, lunatic or 
 married woman, the guardian, conservator or husband of the same shall 
 be made party defendant. The petition may be amended and parties 
 made defendants at any time when it is necessary to a fair trial.
 
 164 ABSTRACT OP ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 When the petition is presented to the judge, he shall note therein 
 when he will hear the same, and order the issuance of summonses and 
 the publication of notice to each non-resident or unknown defendant. 
 
 The petition may be heard by such judge in vacation as well as in 
 term time. Upon the trial, the jury shall ascertain the just compensation 
 to each owner of the property sought to be damaged by the construction 
 of such ditch, drain or levee, and truly report the same. 
 
 As it is only contemplated in a work of this kind to give an abstract 
 of the laws, and as the parties who have in charge the execution of the 
 further proceedings are likely to be familiar with the requirements of the 
 statute, the necessary details are not here inserted. 
 
 WOLF SCALPS. 
 
 The County Board of any county in this State may hereafter allww 
 rsuch bounty on wolf scalps as the board may deem reasonable. 
 
 Any person claiming a bounty shall produce the scalp or scalps with 
 the ears thereon, within sixty days after the wolf or wolves shall have 
 been caught, to the Clerk of the County Board, who shall administer to 
 said person the following oath or affirmation, to-wit: "You do solemnly 
 swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that the scalp or scalps here pro- 
 duced by you was taken from a wolf or wolves killed and first captured 
 by yourself within the limits of this county, and within the sixty days 
 last past." 
 
 CONVEYANCES. 
 
 When the reversion expectant on a lease of any tenements or here- 
 ditaments of any tenure shall be surrendered or merged, the estate which 
 shall for the time being confer as against the tenant under the same lease 
 the next vested right to the same tenements or hereditaments, shall, to 
 the extent and for the purpose of preserving such incidents to and obli- 
 gations on the same reversion, as but for the surrender or merger thereof, 
 would have subsisted, be deemed the reversion expectant on the same 
 lease. 
 
 PAUPERS. 
 
 Every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in conse- 
 quence ot any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy or unavoidable cause, shall 
 be supported by the father, grand-father, mother, grand-mother, children, 
 grand-children, brothers or sisters of such poor person, if they or either 
 of them be of sufficient ability ; but if any of such dependent class shall 
 have become so from intemperance or other bad conduct, they shall not be 
 ^entitled to support from any relation except parent or child.
 
 ASA P. FARNSWORTH (DECEASED) 
 
 AURORA
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 167 
 
 The children shall first be called on to support their parents, if they 
 are able ; but if not, the parents of such poor person shall then be called 
 on, if of sufficient ability ; and if there be no parents or children able, 
 then the brothers and sisters of such dependent person shall be called 
 upon ; and if there be no brothers or sisters of sufficient ability, the 
 grand-children of such person shall next be called on ; and if they are 
 not able, then the grand-parents. Married females, while their husbands 
 live, shall not be liable to contribute for the support of their poor relations 
 except out of their separate property. It is the duty of the state's 
 (county) attorney, to make complaint to the County Court of his county 
 against all the relatives of such paupers in this state liable to his support 
 and prosecute the same. In case the state's attorney neglects, or refuses, to 
 complain in such cases, then it is the duty of the overseer of the poor to 
 do so. The person called upon to contribute shall have at least ten days' 
 notice of such application by summons. The court has the power to 
 determine the kind of support, depending upon the circumstances of the 
 parties, and may also order two or more of the different degrees to main- 
 tain such poor person, and prescribe the proportion of each, according to 
 their ability. The court may specify the time for which the relative shall 
 contribute in fact has control over the entire subject matter, with power 
 to enforce its orders. Every county (except those in which the poor are 
 supported by the towns, and in such cases the towns are liable) is required 
 to relieve and support all poor and indigent persons lawfully resident 
 therein. Residence means the actual residence of the party, or the place 
 where he was employed ; or in case he was in no employment, then it 
 shall be the place where he made his home. When any person becomes 
 chargeable as a pauper in any county or town who did not reside at the 
 commencement of six months immediately preceding his becoming so, 
 but did at that time reside in some other county or town in this^ state, 
 then the county or town, as the case may be, becomes liable for the expense 
 of taking care of such person until removed, and it is the duty of the 
 overseer to notify the proper authorities of the fact. If any person shall 
 bring and leave any pauper in any county in this state where such pauper 
 had no legal residence, knowing him to be such, he is liable to a fine of 
 $100. In counties under township organization, the supervisors in each 
 town are ex-officio overseers of the poor. The overseers of the poor act 
 under the directions of the County Board in taking care of the poor and 
 granting of temporary relief ; also, providing for non-resident persons not 
 paupers who may be taken sick and not able to pay their way, and in case 
 of death cause such person to be decently buried. 
 
 The residence of the inmates of poorhouses and other charitable 
 institutions for voting purposes is their former place of abode.
 
 168 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 FENCES. 
 
 In counties under township organization, the town assessor and com- 
 missioner of highways are the fence-viewers in their respective towns. 
 In other counties the County Board appoints three in each precinct annu- 
 ally. A lawful fence is four and one-half feet high, in good repair, con- 
 sisting of rails, timber, boards, stone, hedges, or whatever the fence- 
 viewers of the town or precinct where the same shall lie, shall consider 
 equivalent thereto, but in counties under township organization the annual 
 town meeting may establish any other kind of fence as such, or the County 
 Board in other counties may do the same. Division fences shall be made 
 and maintained in just proportion by the adjoining owners, except when. 
 the owner shall choose to let his land lie open, but after a division fence is- 
 built by agreement or otherwise, neither party can remove his part of such 
 fence so long as he may crop or use such land for farm purposes, or without 
 giving the other party one year's notice in writing of his intention to remove 
 his portion. When any person shall enclose his land upon the enclosure 
 of another, he shall refund the owner of the adjoining lands a just pro- 
 portion of the value at that time of such fence. The value of fence and 
 the just proportion to be paid or built and maintained by each is to be 
 ascertained by two fence-viewers in the town or precinct. Such fence- 
 viewers have power to settle all disputes between different owners as to 
 fences built or to be built, as well as to repairs to be made. Each party- 
 chooses one of the viewers, but if the other party neglects, after eight 
 days' notice in writing, to make his choice, then the other party may 
 select both. It is sufficient to notify the tenant or party in possession, 
 when the owner is not a resident of the town or precinct. The twa 
 fence-viewers chosen, after viewing the premises, shall hear the state- 
 ments of the parties, in case they can't agree, they shall select another 
 fence-viewer to act with them, and the decision of any two of them is- 
 final. The decision must be reduced to writing, and should plainly set 
 out description of fence and all matters settled by them, and must be 
 filed in the office of the town clerk in counties under township organiza- 
 tion, and in other counties with the county clerk. 
 
 Where any person is liable i to contribute to the erection or the 
 repairing of a division fence, neglects or refuses so to do, the party 
 injured, after giving sixty days notice in writing when a fence is to be 
 erected, or ten days when it is only repairs, may proceed to have the 
 work done at the expense of the party whose duty it is to do it, to be 
 recovered from him with costs of suit, and the party so neglecting shall 
 also be liable to the party injured for all damages accruing from such, 
 neglect or refusal, to be determined by any two fence-viewers selected 
 as before provided, the appraisement to be reduced to writing and signed.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 169 
 
 Where a person shall conclude to remove his part of a division fence, 
 and let his land lie open, and having given the year's notice required, the 
 adjoining owner may cause the value of said fence to be ascertained by 
 fence-viewers as before provided, and on payment or tender of the 
 amount of such valuation to the owner, it shall prevent the removal. A 
 party removing a division fence without notice is liable for the damages 
 accruing thereby. 
 
 Where a fence has been built on the land of another through mis- 
 take, the owner may enter upon such premises and remove his fence and 
 material within oix months after the division line has been ascertained. 
 Where the material to build such a fence has been taken from the land 
 on which it was built, then before it can be removed, the person claiming 
 must first pay for such material to the owner of the land from which it 
 was taken, nor shall such a fence be removed at a time when the removal 
 wHl throw open or expose the crops of the other party ; a reasonable 
 time must be given beyond the six months to remove crops. 
 
 The compensation ^f fence-viewers is one dollar and fifty cents a 
 day each, to be paid in the first instance by the party calling them, but 
 in the end all expenses, including amount charged by the fence-viewers, 
 must be paid equally by the parties, except in cases where a party neglects 
 or refuses to make or maintain a just proportion of a division fence, when 
 the party in default shall pay them. 
 
 DAMAGES FROM TRESPASS. 
 
 Where stock of any kind breaks into any person's enclosure, the 
 fence being good and sufficient, the owner is liable for the damage done ; 
 but where the damage is done by stock running at large, contrary to law, 
 the owner is liable where tlwre is not such a fence. Where stock is 
 found trespassing on the enclosure of another as aforesaid, the owner 01 
 occupier of the premises may take possession of such stock and keep the 
 same until damages, with reasonable charges for keeping and feeding and 
 all costs of suit, are paid. Any person taking or rescuing such stock so 
 held without his consent, shall be liable to a fine of not less than three 
 nor more than five dollars for each animal rescued, to be recovered by 
 suit before a justice of the peace for the use of the school fund. Within 
 twenty-four hours after taking such animal into his possession, the per- 
 son taking it up must give notice of the fact to the owner, if known, or 
 if unknown, notices must be posted in some public place near the premises. 
 
 LANDLORD AND TENANT. 
 
 The owner of lands, or his legal representatives, can sue for and 
 recover rent therefor, in any of the following cases : 
 
 First. When rent is due and in arrears on a lease for life or lives.
 
 170 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Second. When lands are held and occupied by any person without 
 any special agreement for rent. 
 
 Third. When possession is obtained under an agreement, written 
 or verbal, for the purchase of the premises and before deed given, the 
 right to possession is terminated by forfeiture on con-compliance with the 
 agreement, and possession is wrongfully refused or neglected to be giver, 
 upon demand made in writing by the party entitled thereto. Provided 
 that all payments made by the vendee or his representatives or assigns, 
 may be set off against the rent. 
 
 Fourth. When land has been sold upon a judgment or a decree of 
 court, when the party to such judgment or decree, or person holding under 
 him, wrongfully refuses, or neglects, to surrender possession of the same, 
 after demand in writing by the person entitled to the possession. 
 
 Fifth. When the lands have been sold upon a mortgage or trust 
 cleed, and the mortgagor or grantor or person holding under him, wrong- 
 fully refuses or neglects to surrender possession of the same, after demand 
 in writing by the person entitled to the possession. 
 
 If any tenant, or any person who shall come into possession from or 
 under or by collusion with such tenant, shall willfully hold over any lands, 
 etc., after the expiration the term of their lease, and after demand made 
 in writing for the possession thereof, is liable to pay double rent. A 
 tenancy from year to year requires sixty days notice in writing, to termi- 
 nate the same at the end of the year; such notice can be given at any 
 time within four months preceding the last sixty days of the year. 
 
 A tenancy by the month, or less than a year, where the tenant holds 
 over without any special agreement, the landlord may terminate the 
 tenancy, by thirty days notice in writing. 
 
 When rent is due, the landlord may serve a notice upon the tenant, 
 stating that unless the rent is paid within not less than five days, his lease 
 will be terminated ; if the rent is not paid, the landlord may consider the 
 lease ended. When default is made in any of the terms of a lease, it 
 shall not be necessary to give more than ten days notice to quit or of the 
 termination of such tenancy ; and the same may be terminated on giving 
 isuch notiee to quit, at any time after such default in any of the terms of 
 such lease; which notice may be substantially in the following form, viz: 
 
 To , You are hereby notified that, in consequence of your default 
 
 in ^here insert the character of the default), of the premises now occupied 
 by you, being etc. (here describe the premises), I have elected to deter- 
 mine your lease, and you are hereby notified to quit and deliver up pos- 
 session of the same to me within ten days of this date (dated, etc.) 
 
 The above to be signed by the lessor or his agent, and no other notice 
 or demand of possession or termination of such tenancy is necessary. 
 
 Demand may be made, or notice served, by delivering a written or
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 171 
 
 pnnted, or partly either, copy thereof to the tenant, or leaving the same? 
 with some person above the age of twelve years residing on or in posses- 
 sion of the premises ; and in case no one is in the actual possession of the? 
 said premises, then by posting the same on the premises. When the 
 tenancy is for a certain time, and the term expires by the terms of the 
 lease, the tenant is then bound to surrender possession, and no notice, 
 to quit or demand of possession is necessary. 
 
 Distress for rent. In all cases of distress for rent, the landlord, by 
 himself, his agent or attorney, may seize for rent any personal property of 
 his tenant that may be found in the county where the tenant resides ; the 
 property of any other person, even if fo'und on the premises, is. not 
 liable. 
 
 An inventory of the property levied upon, with a statement of the 
 amount of rent claimed, should be at once filed with some justice of the 
 peace, if not over $200 ; and if above that sum, with the clerk of a court 
 of record of competent jurisdiction. Property may be released, by the 
 party executing a satisfactory bond for double the amount. 
 
 The landlord may distrain for rent, any time within six months after 
 the expiration of the term of the lease, or when terminated. 
 
 In all cases where the premises rented shall be sub-let, or the lease 
 assigned, the landlord shall have the same right to enforce lien against 
 such lessee or assignee, that Jie has against the tenant to whom the pre- 
 mises were rented. 
 
 When a tenant abandons or removes from the premises or any part 
 thereof, the landlord, or his agent or attorney, may seize upon any grain 
 or other crops grown or growing upon the premises, or part thereof so 
 abandoned, whether the rent is due or not. If such grain, or other crops, 
 or any part thereof, is not fully grown or matured, the landlord, or his 
 agent or attorney, shall cause the same to be properly cultivated, harvested 
 or gathered, and may sell the same, and from the proceeds pay all his 
 labor, expenses and rent. The tenant may, before the sale of such pro- 
 perty, redeem the same by tendering the rent and reasonable compensation, 
 for work done, or he may replevy the same. 
 
 Exemption. The same articles of personal property which are bylaw 
 exempt from execution, except the crops as above stated, is also exempt 
 from distress for rent. 
 
 If any tenant is about to or shall permit or attempt to sell and 
 remove from the premises, without the consent of his landlord, such 
 portion of the crops raised thereon as will endanger the lien of the land- 
 lord upon such crops, for the rent, it shall be lawful for the landlord to 
 distress before rent is due.
 
 172 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 LIENS. 
 
 Any person who shall by contract, express or implied, or partly both, 
 with the owner of any lot or tract of land, furnish labor or material, or 
 services as an architect or superintendent, in building, altering, repairing 
 or ornamenting any house or other building or appurtenance thereto on 
 such lot, or upon any street or alley, and connected with such improve' 
 ments, shall have a lien upon the whole of such lot or tract of land, and 
 upon such house or building and appurtenances, for the amount due to 
 him for such labor, material or services. If the contract is expressed, and 
 the time for the completion of the work is leyond three years from the com- 
 mencement thereof ; or, if the time of payment is beyond one year from 
 the time stipulated for the completion of the work, then no lien exists. 
 If the contract is implied, then no lien exists, unless the work be done or 
 material is furnished within one year from the commencement of the work 
 or delivery of the materials. As between different creditors having liens, 
 no preference is given to the one whose contract was first made ; but each 
 shares pro-rata. Incumbrances existing on the lot or tract of the land at 
 the time the contract is made, do not operate on the improvements, and 
 are only preferred to the extent of the value of the land at the time of 
 making the contract. The above lien can not be enforced unless suit is 
 commenced within six months after the last payment for labor or materials 
 shall have become due and payable. Sub-contractors, mechanics, workmen 
 and other persons furnishing any material, or performing any labor for a 
 contractor as before specified, have a lien to the extent of the amount due 
 the contractor at the time the following notice is served upon the owner 
 of the land who made the contract : 
 
 To , You are hereby notified, that I have been employed by 
 
 (here state whether to labor or furnish material, and substantially the 
 nature of the demand) upon your (here state in general terms description 
 and situation of building), and that I shall hold the (building, or as the 
 case may be), and your interest in the ground, liable for the amount that 
 
 may (is or may become) due me on account thereof. Signature, 
 
 Date, 
 
 If there is a contract in writing between contractor and sub-contractor, 
 a copy of it should be served with above notice, and said notice must be 
 served within forty days from the completion of such sub-contract, if there 
 is one ; if not, then from the time payment should have been made to the 
 person performing the labor or furnishing the material. If the owner is 
 not a resident of the county, or can not be found therein^ then the above 
 notice must be filed with the clerk of the Circuit Court, with his fee, fifty 
 cents, and a copy of said notice must be published in a newspaper pub- 
 lished in the county, for four successive weeks.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 173 
 
 When the owner or agent is notified as above, he can retain any 
 money due the contractor sufficient to pay such claim ; if more than one 
 claim, and not enough to pay all, they are to be paid pro rata. 
 
 The owner has the right to demand in writing, a statement of the 
 contractor, of what he owes for labor, etc., from time to time as the work 
 progresses, and on his failure to comply, forfeits to the owner $50 for 
 every offense. 
 
 The liens referred to cover any and all estates, whether in fee for 
 life, for years, or any other interest which the owner may have. 
 
 To enforce the lien of sub-contractors, suit must be commenced within 
 three months from the time of the performance of the sub-contract, or 
 during the work or furnishing materials. 
 
 Hotel, inn and boarding-house keepers, have a lien upon the baggage 
 .and other valuables of their guests or boarders, brought into such hotel, 
 inn or boarding-house, by their guests or boarders, for the proper charges 
 due from such guests or boarders for their accommodation, board and 
 lodgings, and such extras as are furnished at their request. 
 
 Stable-keepers and other persons have a lien upon the horses, car- 
 riages and harness kept by them, for the proper charges due for the keep- 
 ing thereof and expenses bestowed thereon at the request of the owner 
 or the person having the possession of the same. 
 
 Agisters (persons who take care of cattle belonging to others), and 
 persons keeping, yarding, feeding or pasturing domestic animals, shall 
 have a lien upon the animals agistered, kept, yarded or fed, for the proper 
 charges due for such service. 
 
 All persons who may furnish any railroad corporation in this state 
 with fuel, ties, material, supplies or any other article or thing necessary 
 for the construction, maintenance, operation or repair of its road by con- 
 tract, or may perform work or labor on the same, is entitled to be paid as 
 part of the current expenses of the road, and have a lien upon all its pro- 
 perty. Sub-contractors or laborers have also a lien. The conditions and 
 limitations both as to contractors and sub-contractors, are about the same 
 as herein stated as to general liens. 
 
 DEFINITION OF COMMERCIAL TERMS. 
 
 $ means dollars, being a contraction of U. S., which was formerly 
 
 placed before any denomination of money, and meant, as it means now, 
 United States Currency. 
 
 means pounds, English money. 
 
 @ stands for at or to. Ib for pound, and bb'l. for barrel; fJ for per or 
 ly the. Thus, Butter sells at 20@30c f Ib, and Flour at $8@12 f bbl. 
 
 % for per cent and # for number. 
 
 May 1. Wheat sells at $1.20@1.25, "seller June." Seller June
 
 1T4 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 means that the person who sells the wheat has the privilege of delivering 
 it at any time during the month of June. 
 
 Selling short, is contracting to deliver a certain amount of grain or 
 stock, at a fixed price, within a certain length of time, when the seller 
 has not the stock on hand. It is for the interest of the person selling 
 "short," to depress the market as much as possible, in order that he may 
 buy and fill his contract at a profit. Hence the " shorts " are termed 
 " bears." 
 
 Buying long, is to contract to purchase a certain amount of grain or 
 shares of stock at a fixed price, deliverable within a stipulated time, 
 expecting to make a profit by the rise of prices. The "longs" are 
 termed "bulls," as it is for their interest to "operate " so as to "toss" 
 the prices upward as much as possible. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
 Form of note is legal, worded in the simplest way, so that the 
 amount and time of payment are mentioned. 
 
 $100. Chicago, 111., Sept. 15, 1876. 
 
 Sixty days from date I promise to pay to E. F. Brown, 
 or order, One Hundred dollars, for value received. 
 
 L. D. LOWRY. 
 
 A note to be payable in any thing else than money needs only the 
 facts substituted for money in the above form. 
 
 ORDERS. 
 
 Orders should be worded simply, thus : 
 
 Mr. F. H. COATS: Chicago, Sept. 15, 1876. 
 
 Please pay to H. Birdsall, Twenty-five dollars, and charge to 
 
 F. D. SILVA. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Receipts should always state when received and what for, thus : 
 
 $100. Chicago, Sept. 15, 1876. 
 
 Received of J. W. Davis, One Hundred dollars, for services 
 rendered in grading his lot in Fort Madison, on account. 
 
 THOMAS BRADY. 
 If receipt is in full it should be so stated. 
 
 BILLS OF PURCHASE. 
 
 W. N. MASON, Salem, Illinois, Sept. 15, 1876. 
 
 Bought of A. A. GRAHAM. 
 
 4 Bushels of Seed Wheat, at $1.50 - $6.00 
 
 2 Seamless Sacks " .30 - - ' .60 
 
 Received payment, $6.60> 
 
 A. A. GRAHAM.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 17> 
 
 ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT. 
 
 An agreement is where one party promises to another to do a certain 
 thing in a certain time for a stipulated sum. Good business men always 
 reduce an agreement to writing, which nearly always saves misunder- 
 standings and trouble. No particular form is necessary, but the facts must 
 be clearly and explicitly stated, and there must, to make it valid, be a 
 reasonable consideration. 
 
 GENERAL FORM OF AGREEMENT. 
 
 THIS AGREEMENT, made the Second day of October, 1876, between. 
 John Jones, of Aurora, County of Kane, State of Illinois, of the first part, 
 and Thomas Whiteside, of the same place, of the second part 
 
 WITNESSETH, that the said John Jones, in consideration of the agree- 
 ment of the party of the second part, hereinafter contained, contracts and 
 agrees to and with the said Thomas Whiteside, that he will deliver, in 
 good and marketable condition, at the Village of Batavia, 111., during the 
 month of November, of this year, One Hundred Tons of Prairie Hay, in. 
 the following lots, and at the following specified times ; namely, twenty- 
 five tons by the seventh of November, twenty-five tons additional by the 
 fourteenth of the month, twenty-five tons more by the twenty -first, and 
 the entire one hundred tons to be all delivered by the thirtieth of 
 November. 
 
 And the said Thomas Whiteside, in consideration of the prompt 
 fulfillment of this contract, on the part of the party of the first part, 
 contracts to and agrees with the said John Jones, to pay for said hay five 
 dollars per ton, for each ton as soon as delivered. 
 
 In case of failure of agreement by either of the parties hereto, it is 
 hereby stipulated and agreed that the party so failing shall pay to the 
 other, One Hundred Dollars, as fixed and settled damages. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have 'hereunto set our hands the day and 
 year first above written. JOHN JONES, 
 
 THOMAS WHITESIDE. 
 
 AGREEMENT WITH CLERK FOR SERVICES. 
 
 THIS AGREEMENT, made the first day of May, one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy-six, between Reuben Stone, of Chicago, County 
 of Cook, State of Illinois, party of the first part, and George Barclay, of 
 Englewood, County of Cook, State of Illinois, party of the second part 
 
 WITNESSETH, that said George Barclay agrees faithfully and dili- 
 gently to work as clerk and salesman for the said Reuben Stone, for 
 and during the space of one year from the date hereof, should both 
 live such length of time, without absenting himself from his occupation j
 
 176 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 during which time he, the said Barclay, in the store of said Stone, of 
 Chicago, will carefully and honestly attend, doing and performing all 
 duties as clerk and salesman aforesaid, in accordance and in all respects 
 as directed and desired by the said Stone. 
 
 In consideration of which services, so to be rendered by the said 
 Barclay, the said Stone agrees to pay to said Barclay the annual sum of 
 one thousand dollars, payable in twelve equal monthly payments, each 
 upon the last day of each month ; provided that all dues for days of 
 -absence from business by said Barclay, shall be deducted from the sum 
 otherwise by the agreement due and payable by the said Stone to the said 
 Barclay. 
 
 Witness our hands. REUBEN STONE. 
 
 GEORGE BARCLAY. 
 
 BILLS OF SALE. 
 
 /p A bill of sale is a written agreement to another party, for a consider- 
 ation to convey his right and interest in the personal property. The 
 purchaser must take actual possession of the property. Juries have 
 power to determine upon the fairness or unfairness of a bill of sale. 
 
 COMMON FORM OF BILL OF SALE. 
 
 KNOW ALL MEN by this instrument, that I, Louis Clay, of Princeton, 
 Illinois, of the first part, for and in consideration of Five Hundred 
 and Ten dollars, to me paid by John Floyd, of the same place, of the 
 second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have sold, and 
 by this instrument do convey unto the said Floyd, party of the second 
 part, his executors, administrators, and assigns, my undivided half of 
 ten acres of corn, now growing on the farm of Thomas Tyrrell, in the 
 town above mentioned ; one pair of horses, sixteen sheep, and five cows, 
 belonging to me, and in my possession at the farm aforesaid ; to have and 
 to hold the same unto the party of the second part, his executors and 
 assigns, forever. And I do, for myself and legal representatives, agree 
 with the said party of the second part, and his legal representatives, to 
 warrant and defend the sale of the afore-mentioned property and chattels 
 unto the said party of the second part, and his legal representatives, 
 against all and every person whatsoever. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand, this tenth day 
 of October, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six. 
 
 Louis CLAY. 
 
 BONDS. 
 
 A bond is a written admission on the part of the maker in which he 
 pledges a certain sum to another, at a certain time.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 177 
 
 COMMON FORM OF BOND. 
 
 KNOW ALL MEN by this instrument, that I, George Edgerton, of 
 Watseka, Iroquois County, State of Illinois, am firmly bound unto Peter 
 Kirchoff, of the place aforesaid, in the sum of five hundred dollars, to be 
 paid to the said Peter Kirchoff, or his legal representatives ; to which 
 payment, to be made, I bind myself, or my legal representatives, by this 
 instrument. 
 
 Sealed with my seal, and dated this second day of November, one 
 thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. 
 
 The condition of this bond is such that if I, George Edgerton, my 
 heirs, administrators, or executors, shall promptly pay the sum of two 
 hundred and fifty dollars in three equal annual payments from the date 
 hereof, with annual interest, then the above obligation to be of no effect ; 
 otherwise to be in full force and valid. 
 Sealed and delivered in 
 
 presence of GEORGE EDGERTON. [L.S.] 
 
 WILLIAM TURNER. 
 
 CHATTEL MORTGAGES. 
 
 A chattel mortgage is a mortgage on personal property for payment 
 of a certain sum of money, to hold the property against debts of other 
 creditors. The mortgage must describe the property, and must be 
 acknowledged before a justice of the peace in the township or precinct 
 where the mortgagee resides, and entered upon his docket, and must be 
 recorded in the recorder's office of the county. 
 
 GENERAL FORM OF CHATTEL MORTGAGE. 
 
 THIS INDENTURE, made and entered into this first day of January, 
 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, 
 between Theodore Lottinville, of the town of Geneseo in the County 
 of Henry, and State of Illinois, party of the first part, and Paul Henshaw, 
 of the same town, county, and State, party of the second part. 
 
 Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consider- 
 ation of the sum of one thousand dollars, in hand paid, the receipt whereof 
 is hereby acknowledged, does hereby grant, sell, convey, and confirm unto 
 the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever, all and 
 singular the following described goods and chattels, to wit : 
 
 Two three-year old roan-colored horses, one Burdett organ, No. 987, 
 one Brussels carpet, 15x20 feet in size, one marble-top center table, one 
 Home Comfort cooking stove, No. 8, one black walnut bureau with mirror 
 attached, one set of parlor chairs (six in number), upholstered in green 
 rep, with lounge corresponding with same in style and color of upholstery, 
 now in possession of said Lottinville, at No. 4 Prairie Ave., Geneseo, 111. ;
 
 178 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Together with all and singular, the appurtenances thereunto "belong- 
 ing, or in any wise appertaining ; to have and to hold the above described 
 goods and chattels, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and 
 assigns, forever. 
 
 Provided, always, and these presents are upon this express condition, 
 that if the said Theodore Lottinville, his heirs, executors, administrators, 
 or assigns, shall, on or before the first day of January, A.D., one thousand 
 eight hundred and seventy-six, pay, or cause to be paid, tQ the said Paul 
 Ranslow, or his lawful attorney or attorneys, heirs, executors, adminis- 
 trators, or assigns, the sum of One Thousand dollars, together with the 
 interest that may accrue thereon, at the rate of ten per cent, per annum,, 
 from the first day of January, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy-five, until paid, according to the tenor of one promissory note 
 bearing even date herewith for the payment of said sum of money, that 
 then and from thenceforth, these presents, and everything herein con- 
 tained, shall cease, and be null and void, anything herein contained to the 
 contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 Provided, also, that the said Theodore Lottinville may retain the 
 possession of and have the use of said goods and chattels until the day 
 of payment aforesaid ; and also, at his own expense, shall keep said goods 
 and chattels; and also at the expiration of said time of payment, if said 
 sum of money, together with the interest as aforesaid, shall not be paid, 
 shall deliver up said goods and chattels, in good condition, to said Paul 
 Ranslow, or his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns. 
 
 And provided, also, that if default in payment as aforesaid, by said 
 party of the first part, shall be made, or if said party of the second part 
 shall at any time before said promissory note becomes due, feel himself 
 unsafe or insecure, that then the said party of the second part, or his 
 attprney, agent, assigns, or heirs, executors, or administrators, shall have 
 the right to take possession of said goods and chattels, wherever they 
 may or can be found, and sell the same at public or private sale, to the 
 highest bidder for cash in hand, after giving ten days' notice of the time 
 and place of said sale, together with a description of the goods and chat- 
 tels to be -sold, by at least four advertisements, posted up in public places 
 in the vicinity where said sale is to take place, and proceed to make the 
 sum of money and interest promised as aforesaid, together with all reason- 
 able costs, charges, and expenses in so doing ; and if there shall be any 
 overplus, shall pay the same without delay to the said party of the first 
 part, or his legal representatives. 
 
 In testimony whereof, the said party of the first part has hereunto 
 set his hand and affixed his seal, the day and year first above written. 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in 
 
 presence of THEODORE LOTTINVILLE. [L.S.] 
 
 SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 179 
 
 LEASE OF FARM AND BUILDINGS THEREON. 
 
 THIS INDENTURE, made this second day of June, 1875, between David 
 Patton of the Town of Bisbee, State of Illinois, of the first part, and John 
 Doyle of the same place, of the second part, 
 
 Witnesseth, that the said David Patton, for and in consideration of 
 the covenants hereinafter mentioned and reserved, on the part of the said 
 John Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, to be paid, kept, 
 and performed, hath let, and by these presents doth grant, demise, and 
 let, unto the said John Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, 
 all that parcel of land situate in Bisbee aforesaid, bounded and described 
 as follows, to wit : 
 
 [Here describe the land.~\ 
 
 Together with all the appurtenances appertaining thereto. To have 
 and to hold the said premises, with'appurtenances thereto belonging, unto 
 the said Doyle, his executors, administrators, and assigns, for the term of 
 five years, from the first day of October next following, at a yearly rent 
 of Six Hundred dollars, to be paid in equal payments, semi-annually, as 
 long as said buildings are in good tenantable condition. 
 
 And the said Do} r le, by these presents, covenants and agrees to pay 
 all taxes and assessments, and keep in repair all hedges, ditches, rail, and 
 other fences ; (the said David Patton, his heirs, assigns and administra- 
 tors, to furnish all timber, brick, tile, and other materials necessary for 
 such repairs.) 
 
 Said Doyle further covenants and agrees to apply to said land, in a 
 farmer-like manner, all manure and compost accumulating upon said 
 farm, and cultivate all the arable land in a husbandlike manner, accord- 
 ing to the usual custom among farmers in the neighborhood ; he also 
 agrees to trim the hedges at a seasonable time, preventing injury from 
 cattle to such hedges, and to all fruit and other trees on the said premises. 
 That he will seed down with clover and timothy seed twenty acres yearly 
 of arable land, ploughing the same number of acres each Spring of land 
 now in grass, and hitherto unbroken. 
 
 It is further agreed, that if the said Doyle shall fail to perform the 
 "whole or any one of the above mentioned covenants, then and in that 
 case the said David Patton may declare this lease terminated, by giving 
 three months' notice of the same, prior to the first of October of any 
 year, and may distrain any part of the stock, goods, or chattels, or other 
 property in possession of said Doyle, for sufficient to compensate for the 
 non-performance of the above written covenants, the same to be deter- 
 mined, and amounts so to be paid to be determined, by three arbitrators, 
 chosen as follows : Each of the parties to this instrument to choose one,
 
 180 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 and the two so chosen to select a third ; the decision of said arbitrators 
 to be final. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have hereto set our hands and seals. 
 Signed, sealed, and delivered 
 
 in presence of DAVID PATTON. [L.S.] 
 
 JAMES WALDRON. JOHN DOYLE. [L.S.] 
 
 FORM OF LEASE OF A HOUSE. 
 
 THIS INSTRUMENT, made the first day of October, 1875, witnesseth 
 that Amos Griest of Yorkville, County of Kendall, State of Illinois, hath 
 rented from Aaron Young of Logansport aforesaid, the dwelling and lot 
 No. 13 Ohio Street, situated in said City of Yorkville, for five years 
 from the above date, at the yearly rental of Three Hundred dollars, pay- 
 able monthly, on the first day of each month, in advance, at the residence 
 of said Aaron Young. 
 
 At the expiration of said above mentioned term, the said Griest 
 agrees to give the said Young peaceable possession of the said dwelling, 
 in as good condition as when taken, ordinary wear and casualties excepted. 
 
 In witness whereof, we place our hands and seals the day and year 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered AMOS GRIEST. [L.S.] 
 
 in presence of 
 
 NlCKOLAS SCHUTZ, AARON YOUNG. [L.S.] 
 
 Notary Public. 
 
 LANDLORD'S AGREEMENT. 
 
 THIS certifies that I have let and rented, this first day of January, 
 1876, unto Jacob Schmidt, my house and lot, No. 15 Erie Street, in the 
 City of Chicago, State of Illinois, and its appurtenances ; he to have the 
 free and uninterrupted occupation thereof for one year from this date, at 
 the yearly rental of Two Hundred dollars, to be paid monthly in advance ; 
 rent to cease if destroyed by fire, or otherwise made untenantable. 
 
 PETER FUNK. 
 TENANT'S AGREEMENT. 
 
 THIS certifies that I have hired and taken from Peter Funk, his 
 house and lot, No. 15 Erie Street, in the City of Chicago, State of Illi- 
 nois, with appurtenances thereto belonging, for one year, to commence 
 this day, at a yearly rental of Two Hundred dollars, to be paid monthly 
 in advance ; unless said house becomes untenantable from fire or other 
 causes, in which case rent ceases ; and I further agree to give and yield 
 said premises one year from this first day of January 1876, in as good 
 condition as now, ordinary wear and damage by the elements excepted. 
 
 Given under my hand this day. JACOB SCHMIDT.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 181 
 
 NOTICE TO QUIT. 
 
 To F. W. ARLEN, 
 
 Sir : Please observe that the terra of one year, for which the house 
 and land, situated at No. 6 Indiana Street, and now occupied by you r 
 were rented to you, expired on the first day of October, 1875, and as I 
 desire to repossess said premises, you are hereby requested and required 
 
 to vacate the same. Respectfully Yours, 
 
 P. T. BARNUM. 
 LINCOLN, NEB., October 4, 1875. 
 
 TENANT'S NOTICE OF LEAVING. 
 
 DEAR SIR: 
 
 The premises I now occupy as your tenant, at No. 6 Indiana Street, 
 I shall vacate on the first day of November, 1875. You will please take 
 notice accordingly. 
 
 Dated this tenth day of October, 1875. F. W. ARLEN. 
 
 To P, T. BARNUM, ESQ. 
 
 REAL ESTATE MORTGAGE TO SECURE PAYMENT OF MONEY. 
 
 THIS INDENTURE, made this sixteenth day of May, in the year of 
 our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between William 
 Stocker, of Peoria, County of Peoria, and State of Illinois, and Olla, his 
 wife, party of the first part, and Edward Singer, party of the second part. 
 
 Whereas, the said party of the first part is justly indebted to the said 
 party of the second part, in the sum of Two Thousand dollars, secured 
 to be paid by two certain promissory notes (bearing even date herewith) 
 the one due and payable at the Second National Bank in Peoria, Illinois, 
 with interest, on the sixteenth day of May, in the year one thousand eight 
 hundred and seventy-three ; the other due and payable at the Second 
 National Bank at Peoria, 111., with interest, on the sixteenth day of May,, 
 in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. 
 
 Now, therefore, this indenture witnesseth, that the said party of the 
 first part, for the better securing the payment Of the money aforesaid, 
 with interest thereon, according to the tenor and effect of the said two- 
 promissory notes above mentioned ; and, also in consideration of the fur- 
 ther sum of one dollar to them in hand paid by the said party of the sec- 
 ond part, at the delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby 
 acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, and conveyed, and by these 
 presents do grant, bargain, sell, and convey, unto the said party of the 
 second part, his heirs and assigns, forever, all that certain parcel of land r 
 situate, etc. 
 
 [Describing the premises.] 
 
 To have and to hold the same, together with all and singular the 
 Tenements, Hereditaments, Privileges and Appurtenances thereunto
 
 182 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Belonging or in any wise appertaining. And also, all the estate, interest, 
 and claim whatsoever, in law as well as in equity which the party of 
 the first part have in and to the premises hereby conveyed unto the said 
 party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, and to their only proper 
 use, benefit and behoof. And the said William Stocker, and Olla, his 
 wife, party of the first part, hereby expressly waive, relinquish, release, 
 and convey unto the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, 
 administrators, and assigns, all right, title, claim, interest, and benefit 
 whatever, in and to the above described premises, and each and every 
 part thereof, which is given by or results from all laws of this state per- 
 taining to the exemption of homesteads. 
 
 Provided always, and these presents are upon this express condition, 
 that if the said party of the first part, their heirs, executors, or adminis- 
 trators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, to the said party of 
 the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, the afore- 
 said sums of money, with such interest thereon, at the time and in the 
 manner specified in the above mentioned promissory notes, according to 
 the true intent and meaning thereof, then in that case, these presents and 
 every thing herein expressed, shall be absolutely null and void. 
 
 In witness whereof, the said party of the first part hereunto set their 
 hands and seals the day and year first above written. 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of 
 
 JAMES WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM STOCKER. [L.S.] 
 
 FRED. SAMUELS. OLLA STOCKER. [L.S.] 
 
 WARRANTY DEED WITH COVENANTS. 
 
 THIS INDENTURE, made this sixth day of April, in the year. of OUT 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, between Henry Best 
 of Lawrence, County of Lawrence, State of Illinois, and Belle, his wife, 
 of the first part, and Charles Pearson of the same place, of the second part, 
 
 Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in consideration 
 of the sum of Six Thousand dollars in hand paid by the said party of the 
 second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, 
 bargained, and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain, and sell, 
 unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, all the fol- 
 lowing described lot, piece, or parcel of land, situated in the City of Law- 
 rence, in the County of Lawrence, and State of Illinois, to wit : 
 [Here describe the property.] 
 
 Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and 
 reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits thereof; 
 and all the estate, rignt, title, interest, claim, and demand whatsoever, of 
 the said party of the nrst part, either in law or equity, of, in. and to tht
 
 
 S. W. BROWNING 
 
 FARMER Sc DAIRY, 
 DUNDEE T P.
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 185 
 
 above bargained premises, with the hereditaments and appurtenances. 
 To have and to hold the said premises above bargained and described, 
 with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs 
 and assigns, forever. And the said Henry Best, and Belle, his wife, par- 
 ties of the first part, hereby expressly waive, release, and relinquish unto 
 the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators, and 
 assigns, all right, title, claim, interest, and benefit whatever, in and to the 
 above described premises, and each and every part thereof, which is given 
 "by or results from all laws of this state pertaining to the exemption of 
 homesteads. 
 
 And the said Henry Best, and Belle, his wife, party of the first 
 part, for themselves and their heirs, executors, and administrators, do 
 covenant, grant, bargain, and agree, to and with the said party of the 
 second part, his heirs and assigns, that at the time of the ensealing and 
 delivery of these presents they were well seized of the premises above 
 conveyed, as of a- good, sure, perfect, absolute, and indefeasible estate of 
 inheritance in law, and in fee simple, and have good right, full power, 
 and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell,<and convey the same, in 
 manner and form aforesaid, and that the same are free and clear from all 
 former and other grants, bargains, sales, liens, taxes, assessments, and 
 encumbrances of what kind or nature soever ; and the above bargained 
 premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of the 
 second part, his heirs and assigns, against all and every person or persons 
 lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part thereof, the said party 
 of the first part shall and will warrant and forever defend. 
 
 In testimony whereof, the said parties of the first part have hereunto 
 set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. . 
 Signed, sealed and delivered 
 
 in presence of HENRY BEST, [L.S.] 
 
 JERRY LINKLATER. BELLE BEST. [L.S.] 
 
 QUIT-CLAIM DEED. 
 
 THIS INDENTURE, made the eighth day of June, in the year of our 
 Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, between David Tour, 
 of Piano, County of Kendall, State of Illinois, party of the first part, 
 and Larry O'Brien, of the same place, party of the second part, 
 
 Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part, for and in considera- 
 tion of Nine Hundred dollars in hand paid by the said party of the sec- 
 ond part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said party 
 of the second part forever released and discharged therefrom, has remised, 
 released, sold, conveyed, and quit-claimed, and by these presents does 
 remise, release, sell, convey, and quit-claim, unto the said party of the 
 second part, his heirs and assigns, forever, all the right, title, interest,
 
 186 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 claim, and demand, which the said party of the first part has in and to- 
 the following described lot, piece, or parcel of land, to wit : 
 
 \_Here describe the land.~\ 
 
 To have and to hold the same, together with all and singular the 
 appurtenances and privileges thereunto belonging, or in any wise there- 
 unto appertaining, and all the estate, right, title, interest, and claim- 
 whatever, of the said party of the first part, either in law or equity, to 
 the only proper use, benefit, and behoof of the said party of the second 
 part, his heirs and assigns forever. 
 
 In witness whereof the said party of the first part hereunto set his- 
 hand and seal the day and year above written. 
 Signed, sealed and delivered DAVID TOUR. [L.S.}, 
 
 in presence of 
 THOMAS ASHLEY. 
 
 The above forms of Deeds and Mortgage are such as have heretofore 
 been generally used, but the following are much shorter, and are made 
 equally valid by the laws of this state. 
 
 WARRANTY DEED. 
 
 The grantor (here insert name or names and place of residence), for 
 and in consideration of (here insert consideration) in hand paid, conveys 
 and warrants to (here insert the grantee's name or names) the following 
 described real estate (here insert description), situated in the County of 
 in the State of Illinois. 
 
 Dated this day of A. D. 18 . 
 
 QUIT CLAIM DEED. 
 
 The grantor (here insert grantor's name or names and place of resi- 
 dence), for the consideration of (here insert consideration) convey and 
 quit-claim to (here insert grantee's name or names) all interest in the 
 following described real estate (here insert description), situated in the 
 County of in the State of Illinois. 
 
 Dated this day of A. D. 18 . 
 
 MORTGAGE. 
 
 The mortgagor (here insert name or names) mortgages and warrants 
 to (here insert name or names of mortgagee or mortgagees), to secure the 
 payment of (here recite the nature and amount of indebtedness, showing 
 when due and the rate of interest, and whether secured by note or other- 
 wise), the following described real estate (here insert description thereof), 
 situated in the County of in the State of Illinois. 
 
 Dated this day of A. D. 18 . 
 
 RELEASE. 
 
 KNOW ALL MEN by these presents, that I, Peter Ahlund, of Chicago, 
 of the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, for and in consideration of 
 One dollar, to me in hand paid, and for other good and valuable considera-
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. " 187 
 
 tions, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed, do hereby grant, bargain, 
 remise, convey, release, and quit-claim unto Joseph Carlin of Chicago, 
 of the County of Cook, and 'State of Illinois, all the right, title, interest,, 
 claim, or demand whatsoever, I may have acquired in, through, or by a, 
 certain Indenture or Mortgage Deed, bearing date the second day of Jan- 
 uary, A. D. 1871, and recorded in the Recorder's office of said county, 
 in book A of Deeds, page 46, to the premises therein described, and which 
 said Deed was made to secure one certain promissory note, bearing even- 
 date with said deed, for the sum of Three Hundred dollars. 
 
 Witness my hand and seal, this second day of November, A. D. 1874.- 
 
 PETER AHLUND. [L.S.] 
 State" of Illinois, ) 
 
 Cook County. j ' I, George Saxton, a Notary Public in. 
 
 and for said county, in the state aforesaid, do hereby 
 certify that Peter Ahlund, personally known to me 
 as the same person whose name is subscribed to the 
 foregoing Release, appeared before me this day in 
 [ N0 8EAL. AL ] person, and acknowledged that he signed, sealed, and 
 delivered the said instrument of writing as his free, 
 and voluntary act, for the uses and purposes therein 
 set forth. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal, this second day of 
 November, A. D. 1874. 
 
 GEORGE SAXTON, N. P. 
 
 GENERAL FORM OF WILL FOR REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY. 
 
 I, Charles Mansfield, of the Town of Salem, County of Jackson r 
 State of Illinois, being aware of the uncertainty of life, and in failing 
 health, but of sound mind and memory, do make and declare this to be- 
 my last will and testament, in manner following, to wit : 
 
 First. I give, devise and bequeath unto my oldest son, Sidney H. 
 Mansfield, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars, of bank stock, now in the- 
 Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the farm owned by myself 
 in the Town of Buskirk, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, with, 
 all the houses, tenements, and improvements thereunto belonging ; to* 
 have and to hold unto my said son, his heirs and assigns, forever. 
 
 Second. I give, devise and bequeath to each of my daughters, Anna 
 Louise Mansfield and Ida Clara Mansfield, each Two Thousand dollars in 
 bank stock, in the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, and also each 
 one quarter section of land, owned by myself, situated in the Town of 
 Lake, Illinois, and recorded in my name in the Recorder's office in the 
 county where such land is located. The north one hundred and sixty 
 acres of said half section is devised to my eldest daughter, Anna Louise.- 
 6
 
 188 
 
 ABSTRACT OP ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 Third. I give, devise and bequeath to niy son, Frank Alfred Mans- 
 field, Five shares of Railroad stock in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 
 and my one hundred and sixty acres of land and saw mill thereon, situ- 
 ated in Manistee, Michigan, with all the improvements and appurtenances 
 thereunto belonging, which said real estate is recorded in my name in the 
 county where situated. 
 
 Fourth. I give to my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, all my 
 household furniture, goods, chattels, and personal property, about my 
 home, not hitherto disposed of, including Eight Thousand dollars of bank 
 stock in the Third National Bank of Cincinnati, Ohio, Fifteen shares in 
 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the free and unrestricted use, pos- 
 session, and benefit of the home farm, so long as she may live, in lieu of 
 dower, to which she is entitled by law ; said farm being my present place 
 of residence. 
 
 Fifth. I bequeath to my invalid father, Elijah H. Mansfield, the 
 income from rents of my store building at 145 Jackson Street, Chicago, 
 Illinois, during the term of his natural life. Said building and land there- 
 with to revert to my said sons and daughters in equal proportion, upon 
 the demise of my said father. 
 
 Sixth. It is also my will and desire that, at the death of my wife, 
 Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, or at any time when she may arrange to 
 relinquish her life interest in the above mentioned homestead, the same 
 may revert to my above named children, or to the lawful heirs of each. 
 
 And lastly. I nominate and appoint as executors of this my last will 
 and testament, my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, and my eldest son, 
 Sidney H. Mansfield. 
 
 I further direct that my debts and necessary funeral expenses shaJ 
 be paid from moneys now on deposit in the Savings Bank of Salem, the 
 residue of such moneys to revert to my wife, Victoria Elizabeth Mansfield, 
 for her use forever. 
 
 In witness whereof, I, Charles Mansfield, to this my last will and 
 testament, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fourth day of April, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy-two. 
 
 Signed, sealed, and declared by Charles 
 Mansfield, as and for his last will and 
 testament, in the presence of us, who, 
 at his request, and in his presence, and 
 in the presence of each other, have sub- 
 scribed our names hereunto as witnesses 
 thereof. 
 
 PETER A. SCHENCK, Sycamore, Ills. 
 
 FRANK E. DENT, Salem, Ills. 
 
 CHARLES MANSFIELD. [L.S.]
 
 ' ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 189 
 
 CODICIL 
 
 Whereas I, Charles Mansfield, did, on the fourth day of April, one 
 thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, make my last will and testa- 
 ment, I do now, by this writing, add this codicil to my said will, to be 
 taken as a part thereof. 
 
 Whereas, by the dispensation of Providence, my daughter, Anna 
 Louise, has deceased November fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, 
 and whereas, a son has been born to me, which son is now christened 
 Richard Albert Mansfield, I give and bequeath unto him my gold watch, 
 and all right, interest, and title in lands and bank stock and chattels 
 bequeathed to my deceased daughter, Anna Louise, in the body of this will. 
 
 In witness whereof, I hereunto place my'hand and seal, this tenth 
 day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 
 
 Signed, sealed, published, and declared to' 
 
 us by the testator, Charles Mansfield, as CHARLES MANSFIELD. [L.S.] 
 
 and for a codicil to be annexed to his 
 
 last will and testament. And we, at 
 
 his request, and in his presence, and in 
 
 the presence of each other, have sub- 
 scribed our names as witnesses thereto, 
 
 at the date hereof. 
 FRANK E. DENT, Salem, Ills. 
 JOHN C. SHAY, Salem, Ills. 
 
 CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS 
 
 May be legally made by electing or appointing, according to the usages 
 or customs of the body of which it is a part, at any meeting held for that 
 purpose, two or more of its members as trustees, wardens or vestrymen, and 
 may adopt a corporate name. The chairman or secretary of such meeting 
 shall, as soon as possible, make and file in the office of the recorder of 
 deeds of the county, an affidavit substantially in the following form : 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) 
 
 County. j SS ' 
 
 I, - , do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), 
 
 that at a meeting of the members of the (here insert the name of the 
 church, society or congregation as known before organization), held at 
 
 (here insert place of meeting), in the County of , and State of 
 
 Illinois, on the day of , A.D. 18 , for that purpose, the fol- 
 lowing persons were elected (or appointed) [here insert their names} 
 trustees, wardens, vestrymen, (or officers by whatever name they may 
 choose to adopt, with powers similar to trustees) according to the rules 
 and usages of such fchurch, society or coiiQ-regation), and said
 
 190 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 
 
 .adopted as its corporate name (here insert name), and at said meeting 
 this affiant acted as (chairman or secretary, as the case may be). 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this day of , A.D. 
 
 18 . Name of Affiant 
 
 which affidavit must be recorded by the recorder, and shall be, or a certi- 
 ,fied copy made by the recorder, received as evidence of such an incorpo- 
 ration. 
 
 No certificate of election after the first need be filed for record. 
 
 The term of office of the trustees and the general government of the 
 : society can be determined by the rules or by-laws adopted. Failure to 
 elect trustees at the time provided does not work a dissolution, but the 
 -old trustees hold over. A trustee or trustees may be removed, in the 
 .same manner by the society as elections are held by a meeting called for 
 that purpose. The property of the society vests in the corporation. The 
 corporation may hold, or acquire by purchase or otherwise, land not 
 exceeding ten acres, for the purpose of the society. The trustees have 
 the care, custody and control of the property of the corporation, and can, 
 when directed by the society, erect houses or improvements, and repair 
 and alter the same, and may also when so directed by the society, 
 mortgage, encumber, sell and convey any real or personal estate belonging 
 to the corporation, and make all proper contracts in the name of such 
 ocorporation. , But they are prohibited by law from encumbering or inter- 
 fering with any property so as to destroy the effect of any gift, grant, 
 devise or 1 bequest to the corporation ; but such gifts, grants, devises or 
 bequests, must in all cases be used so as to carry out the object intended 
 by the persons making the same. Existing societies may organize in the 
 manner herein set forth, and have all the advantages thereof. 
 
 SUGGESTIONS TO THOSE PURCHASING BOOKS BY SUBSCRIPTION. 
 
 ' The business of publishing books by subscription having so often been 
 brought into disrepute by agents making representations and declarations 
 not authorized by the publisher ; in order to prevent that as much as possi- 
 ble, and that there may be more general knowledge of the relation such 
 agents bear to their principal, and the law governing such cases, the fol- 
 lowing statement is made : 
 
 A subscription is in the nature of a contract of mutual promises, by 
 which the subscriber agrees to pay a certain sum for the work described ; 
 ,the consideration is concurrent that the publisher shall publish the book 
 named, and deliver the same, for which the subscriber is to pay the price 
 named. The nature and character of the work is described in the prospectus 
 and by the sample shown. These should be carefully examined before sub- 
 scribing, as they are the basis and consideration of the promise to pay,
 
 ABSTRACT OF ILLINOIS STATE LAWS. 191 
 
 and not the too often exaggerated statements of the agent, who is merely 
 employed to solicit subscriptions, for which he is usually paid a commission 
 for each subscriber, and has no authority to change or alter the conditions 
 upon which the subscriptions are authorized to be made by the publisher. 
 Should the agent assume to agree to make the subscription conditional or 
 modify or change the agreement of the publisher, as set out by prospectus 
 .and sample, in order to bind the principal, the subscriber should see that 
 such conditions or changes are stated over or in connection with his signa- 
 ture, so that the publisher may have notice of the same. 
 
 All persons making contracts in reference to matters of this kind, or 
 ,any other business, should remember that the law as to written contracts is, 
 that they can not be varied, altered or rescinded verbally, but if done at all, 
 must be done in writing. It is therefore important that all persons contem- 
 plating sub scribing -should distinctly understand that all talk before or after 
 the subscription is made, is not admissible as evidence, and is no part of the 
 contract. 
 
 Persons employed to solicit subscriptions are known to the trade as 
 -canvassers. They are agents appointed to do a particular business in a 
 prescribed mode, and have no authority to do it in any other way to the 
 prejudice of their principal, nor can they bind their principal in any other 
 matter. They cannot collect money, or agree that payment may be made 
 in anything else but money. They can not extend the time of payment 
 T)eyond the time of delivery, nor bind their principal for the payment of 
 expenses incurred in their buisness. 
 
 It would save a great deal of trouble, and often serious loss, if persons, 
 .before signing their names to any subscription book, or any written instru- 
 ment, would examine carefully what it is ; if they can not read themselves, 
 .should call on some one disinterested who can. 
 
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 192 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 
 
 We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union^ 
 establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common 
 defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty 
 to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution 
 for the United States of America. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 SECTION 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be Vested in 
 a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and 
 House of Representatives. 
 
 SEC. 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem- 
 bers chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the 
 electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of 
 the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. 
 
 No person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the 
 age of twenty-five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United 
 States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in 
 which he shall be chosen. 
 
 Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the sev- 
 eral states which may be included within this Union, according to their 
 respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole 
 number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of 
 years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons. 
 The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first 
 meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subse- 
 quent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct. The 
 number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, 
 but each state shall have at least one Representative ; and until such 
 enumeration shall be made the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled 
 to choose three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plan- 
 tations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylva- 
 nia eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, 
 and Georgia three. 
 
 When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the 
 Executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such 
 vacancies. 
 
 The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and other 
 officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment. 
 
 SEC. 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two 
 Senators from each state, chosen by the Legislature thereof for six years ; 
 and each Senator shall have one vote. 
 
 Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first 
 election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three classes- 
 The seats of the Senators of the first class shall be vacated at the expira-
 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 193 
 
 tion of the second year, of the second class at the expiration of the fourth 
 year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year, so that 
 one-third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by 
 resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any state, 
 the Executive thereof may make temporary appointments until the next 
 meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 
 
 No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age 
 of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and 
 who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he 
 shall be chosen. 
 
 The Vice-President of the United States shall be. President of the 
 Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided. 
 
 The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro 
 tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise 
 the office of President of the United States. 
 
 The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When 
 sitting for that purpose they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the 
 President of the United States is tried the Chief Justice shall preside. 
 And no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds 
 of the members present. 
 
 Judghient, in cases of impeachment, shall not extend further than to 
 removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of 
 honor, trust, or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted 
 shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, 
 and punishment according to law. 
 
 SEC. 4. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Sen- 
 ators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legis- 
 lature thereof ; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter 
 such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators. 
 
 The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such 
 meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by 
 law appoint a different day. 
 
 SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and 
 qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute 
 a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to 
 day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members 
 in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide. 
 
 Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its 
 members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, 
 expel a member. 
 
 Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to 
 time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, 
 require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house 
 on any question shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered 
 on the journal. 
 
 Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the 
 consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other 
 place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. 
 
 SEC. 6. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compen- 
 sation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the 
 treasury of the United States. They shall in all cases, except treason r
 
 194 CONSTITUTION OP THE UNITED STATES 
 
 felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their 
 attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and 
 returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either house 
 they shall not be questioned in any other place. 
 
 No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was 
 elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United 
 States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall 
 have been increased during such time ; and no person holding any office 
 under the United States, shall be a member of either house during his 
 continuance in office. 
 
 SEC. 7. ' All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of 
 Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments 
 as on other bills. 
 
 Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and 
 the Senate, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President 
 of the United States ; if he approve he shall sign it ; but if not he shall 
 return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have origi- 
 nated, who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and 
 proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration two-thirds of that 
 house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objec- 
 tions, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if 
 approved by two-thirds of that house, it shall become a law. But in all 
 such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, 
 and the names, of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered 
 on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned 
 by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted), after it shall have 
 been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he 
 had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its 
 return, in which case it shall not be a law. 
 
 Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the 
 Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a 
 question of adjournment), shall be presented to the President of the 
 United States, and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by 
 him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be re-passed by two-thirds of 
 the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and lim- 
 itations prescribed in the case of a bill. 
 
 SEC. 8. The Congress shall have power 
 
 To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts, 
 and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United 
 States ; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout 
 the United States ; 
 
 To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; 
 
 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several 
 States, and with the Indian tribes ; 
 
 To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on 
 the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 
 
 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and 
 fix the standard of weights and measures ; 
 
 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and 
 current coin of the United States ; 
 
 To establish post offices and post roads ;
 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 195 
 
 To promote the progress of sciences and useful arts, by securing, 
 for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their 
 respective writings and discoveries ; 
 
 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ; 
 
 To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high 
 seas, and offenses against the law of nations ; 
 
 To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules 
 concerning captures on land and water ; 
 
 To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that 
 use shall be for A longer term than two years ; 
 
 To provide and maintain a navy ; 
 
 To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and 
 naval forces ; 
 
 To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the 
 Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions ; 
 
 To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and 
 for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the 
 United States, reserving to the states respectively the appointment of the 
 officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the disci- 
 pline prescribed by Congress ; 
 
 To exercise legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not 
 exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the 
 acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United 
 States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the 
 consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for 
 the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful 
 buildings ; and 
 
 To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying 
 into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this 
 Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any depart- 
 ment or officer thereof. 
 
 SEC. 9: The migration or importation of such persons as any of the 
 states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited 
 by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, 
 but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten 
 dollars for each person. 
 
 The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, 
 unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may 
 require it. 
 
 No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 
 
 No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion 
 to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. 
 
 No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. 
 
 No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or rev- 
 enue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall vessels 
 bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in 
 another. 
 
 No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of 
 appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of 
 the receipts and expeditures of all public money shall be published from 
 time to time.
 
 196 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States : and no 
 person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the 
 consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title 
 of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state. 
 
 SEC. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confeder- 
 ation ; grant letters of marque and reprisal ; coin money ; emit bills of 
 credit ; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of 
 debts ; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the 
 obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility. 
 
 No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts 
 or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary 
 for executing its inspection laws, and the net produce of all duties and 
 imposts laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the 
 Treasury of the United States ; and all such laws shall be subject to the 
 revision and control of the Congress. 
 
 No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty on 
 tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any 
 agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or 
 engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will 
 not admit of delay. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 SECTION 1. The Executive power shall be vested in a President of 
 the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term 
 of four years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same 
 term, be elected as follows : 
 
 Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof 
 may direct, a number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators 
 and Representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress ; 
 but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or 
 profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. 
 
 [*The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by 
 ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of 
 the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of all the 
 persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each ; which list they 
 shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to the seat of the government 
 of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The Pres- 
 ident of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Rep- 
 resentatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. 
 The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, 
 if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ; 
 and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal 
 number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately 
 choose by ballot one of them for President ; and if no person have a ma- 
 jority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like 
 manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the vote 
 shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one 
 vote ; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members 
 from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be 
 necessary to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the President, 
 
 * This clause between.brackets has been superseded and annulled by the Twelfth. amendment.
 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 197 
 
 the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be 
 the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have 
 equal votes, the Senate shall choose from them by ballot the Vice-Presi- 
 dent.] 
 
 The Congress may determine the time of choosing the Electors, and 
 the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same 
 throughout the United States. 
 
 No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United 
 States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible 
 to the office of President ; neither shall any person be eligible to that 
 office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been 
 fourteen years a resident within the United States. 
 
 In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, 
 resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said 
 office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-Puesident, and the Congress 
 may by law provide for the case of removal, death, resignation, or inabil- 
 ity, both of the President and Vice-President, declaring what officer shall 
 then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly, until the dis- 
 ability be removed, or a President shall be elected. 
 
 The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a com- 
 pensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the 
 period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive 
 within that period any other emolument from the United States or any of 
 them. 
 
 Before he enters on the execution of his office, he shall take the fol- 
 lowing oath or affirmation : 
 
 " I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the 
 office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, 
 preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." 
 
 SEC. 2. The President shall be commander in chief of the army and 
 navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when 
 called into the actual service of the United States; he may require the 
 opinion, in writing, of the principal officer in each of the executive 
 departments, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective 
 offices, and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardon for offenses 
 against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. 
 
 He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present con- 
 cur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate, 
 shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of 
 the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States whose 
 appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be 
 established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment 
 of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in 
 the courts of law, or in the heads of departments. 
 
 The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may 
 happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which 
 shall expire at the end of their next session. 
 
 SEC. 3. He shall from time to time give to the Congress information 
 of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such mea- 
 sures as he shall judge necessary and expedient ; he may on extraordinary
 
 198 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 occasions convene both houses, or either of them, and in case of disagree- 
 ment between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may 
 adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper ; he shall receive 
 ambassadors and other public ministers ; he shall take care that the laws be 
 faithfully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the United 
 States. 
 
 SEC. 4. The President, Vice-President, and all civil officers of the 
 United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and con- 
 viction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 SECTION I. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested 
 in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as the Congress may from 
 time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the Supreme and 
 inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at 
 stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be 
 diminished during their continuance in office. 
 
 SEC. 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and 
 equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and 
 treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority ; to all cases 
 affecting ambassadors^ other public ministers, and consuls ; to all cases of 
 admiralty and maritime jurisdiction ; to controversies to which the United 
 States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states ; 
 between a state and citizens of another state ; between citizens of differ- 
 ent states ; between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants 
 of different states, and between a state or the citizens thereof, and foreign 
 states, citizens, or subjects. 
 
 In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls, 
 and those in which a state shall be a party, the Supreme Court shall have 
 original jurisdiction. 
 
 In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall 
 have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions 
 and under such regulations as the Congress shall make. 
 
 The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by 
 jury ; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall 
 have been committed ; but when not committed within any state, the 
 trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have 
 directed. 
 
 SEC. 3. Treason against the United States shall consist only in levy- 
 ing war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid 
 and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the tes- 
 timony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open 
 court. 
 
 The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, 
 but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, 
 except during the life of the person attainted. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 SECTION 1. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the 
 public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state. And
 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 
 
 the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which suck 
 acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. 
 
 SEC. 2. The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges 
 and immunities of citizens in the several states. 
 
 A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, 
 who shall flee from justice and be found in another state, shall, on demand 
 of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered 
 up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime. 
 
 No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof 
 escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation 
 therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered 
 up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due. 
 
 SEC. 3. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; 
 but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any 
 other state ; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, 
 or parts of states, without the consent of the Legislatures of the states 
 concerned, as well as of the Congress. 
 
 The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful 
 rules and regulations respecting the territorj r or other property belonging 
 to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed 
 as to prejudice any claims of the United States or of any particular state. 
 
 SEC. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this 
 Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them 
 against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Execu- 
 tive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic vio- 
 lence. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it 
 necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the ap- 
 plication of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the several states, shall call 
 a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be 
 valid to all intents and purposes as part of this Constitution, when rati- 
 fied by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by con- 
 ventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratifi- 
 cation may be proposed by the Congress. Provided that no amendment 
 which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth 
 section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall 
 be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adop- 
 tion of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under 
 this Constitution as under the Confederation. 
 
 This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be 
 made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made r 
 under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the 
 land ; and the Judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in 
 the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the mem-
 
 200 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 bers of the several state Legislatures, and all executive and judicial offi- 
 cers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound 
 by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution ; but no religious test 
 shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under 
 the United States. 
 
 AETICLE VII. 
 
 The ratification of the Conventions of nine states shall be sufficient 
 for the establishment of this Constitution between the states so ratifying 
 the same. 
 
 Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present, the 
 seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the 
 United States of America the twelfth. In witness whereof we have 
 hereunto subscribed our names. 
 
 GEO. WASHINGTON, 
 President and Deputy from Virginia. 
 
 New Hampshire. 
 JOHN LANGDON, 
 NICHOLAS GILMAN. 
 
 Massachusetts. 
 NATHANIEL GOEHAM, 
 RUFUS KING. 
 
 Connecticut. 
 WM. SAM'L JOHNSON, 
 ROGER SHEKMAN. 
 
 New York. 
 ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 
 
 New Jersey. 
 WIL. LIVINGSTON, 
 WM. PATERSON, 
 DAVID BREARLEY, 
 JONA. DAYTON. 
 
 Pennsylvania. 
 B. FRANKLIN, 
 ROBT. MORRIS, 
 THOS. FITZSIMONS, 
 JAMES WILSON, 
 THOS. MIFFLIN, 
 GEO. CLYMER, 
 JARED INGERSOLL, 
 Gouv. MORRIS. 
 
 Delaware. 
 GEO. READ, 
 JOHN DICKINSON, 
 JACO. BROOM, 
 GUNNING BEDFORD, JR., 
 RICHARD BASSETT. 
 
 Maryland. 
 JAMES M' HENRY, 
 DANL. CARROLL, 
 DAN. OF ST. THOS. JENIFER. 
 
 Virginia. 
 JOHN BLAIR, 
 JAMES MADISON, JR. 
 
 North Carolina. 
 WM. BLOUNT, 
 Hu. WILLIAMSON, 
 RICH'D DOBBS SPAIGHT. 
 
 South Carolina. 
 J. RUTLEDGE, 
 CHARLES PINCKNEY, 
 CHAS. COTESWORTH PINCKNEY, 
 PIERCE BUTLER. 
 
 G-eorgia. 
 
 WILLIAM FEW, 
 ABR. BALDWIN. 
 
 WILLIAM JACKSON, Secretary,
 
 DR. L. A. CRABTREE 
 
 DUNDEE.
 
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 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 203 
 
 ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO AND AMENDATORY OP THE CONSTITUTION 
 OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
 Proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several states, 
 pursuant to the fifth article of the original Constitution. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, 
 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of 
 speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, 
 and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 A well regulated militia being .necessary to the security of a free 
 state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house without 
 the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in a manner to be pre- 
 scribed by law. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, 
 and-effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio- 
 lated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by 
 oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched 
 and the persons or things to be seized. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous 
 crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in 
 cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual 
 service in time of war or public danger j nor shall any person be subject 
 for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ; nor shall 
 be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be 
 deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; nor 
 shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a 
 speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district 
 wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have 
 been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and 
 cause of the accusation ; to be confronted with the witnesses against him ; 
 to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor ; and to 
 have the assistance of counsel for his defense. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed 
 twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact
 
 204 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES 
 
 tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United 
 States than according to the rules of the common law. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, 
 nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 The enumeration, in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be 
 construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. 
 
 ARIICLE X. 
 
 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution,, 
 nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively*. 
 or to the people. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to- 
 extend to any suit in law or equity commenced or prosecuted against one 
 of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or sub- 
 jects of any foreign state. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot 
 for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an 
 inhabitant of the same state with themselves ; they shall name in their 
 ballots the person to be voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the 
 person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of 
 all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- 
 President, and of the number of votes for each, which list they shall sign 
 and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United 
 States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the 
 Senate shall, in presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
 open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person, 
 having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the President, 
 if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed ;. 
 and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the 
 highest number not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as 
 President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by 
 ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be 
 taken by States, ' the representation from each state having one vote; a 
 quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two- 
 thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to 
 a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a Presi- 
 dent whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the 
 fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as 
 President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of 
 the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice- 
 President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be the majority 
 of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a major-
 
 AND ITS AMENDMENTS. 205 
 
 ity, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose- 
 the Vice-President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds 
 of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number 
 shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible 
 to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the 
 United States. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a 
 punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, 
 shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their juris- 
 diction. 
 
 SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro- 
 priate legislation. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 SECTION 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and 
 subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States, and 
 of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law 
 which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United 
 States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, 
 without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction 
 the equal protection of the laws. 
 
 SEC. 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several states 
 according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of -per- 
 sons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed ; but when the right to 
 vote at any election for the choice of Electors for President and Vice- 
 President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the execu- 
 tive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the Legislature 
 thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being 
 twenty-one years of age and citizens of the United States, or in any way 
 abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, the basis of 
 representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the num- 
 ber of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 
 twenty-one years of age in such state. 
 
 SEC. 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, 
 or Elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or 
 military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previ- 
 ously taken an oath as a Member of Congress, or as an officer of the 
 United States, or as a member of any state Legislature, or as an execu- 
 tive or judicial officer of any state to support the Constitution of the 
 United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the 
 same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, 
 by a vote of two-thirds of each house, remove such disability. 
 
 SEC. 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States author- 
 ized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and boun- 
 ties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be ques- 
 tioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall pay any debt 
 or obligation incurred in the aid of insurrection or rebellion against the 
 United States, or any loss or emancipation of any slave, but such debts, 
 obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void.
 
 06 
 
 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate 
 legislation, the provisions of this act. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall 
 not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any state, on 
 account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. 
 
 SEC. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appro- 
 priate legislation. 
 
 ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 NOVEMBER 7, 1876. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Haves and 
 Wheeler, 
 Republican. 
 
 Tilden and 
 Hendricks, 
 Democrat. 
 
 PeterCopper 
 Greenback. 
 
 Smith, 
 Prohibition 
 
 Anti-Secret 1 
 Societies. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Hayes and 
 Wheeler, 
 Republican. 
 
 Tllden and 
 Hendricks, 
 Democrat. 
 
 PeterCooper 
 Greenback. 
 
 Smith, 
 Prohibition. 
 
 Anti-Secret | 
 Societies.] 
 
 Adams 
 
 4953 
 1219 
 1520 
 1965 
 944 
 3719 
 441 
 2231 
 1209 
 4530 
 2501 
 1814 
 1416 
 1329 
 2957 
 36548 
 1355 
 1145 
 3679 
 1928 
 1631 
 2129 
 2715 
 970 
 1145 
 1881 
 1601 
 966 
 4187 
 703 
 1695 
 1996 
 627 
 3496 
 330 
 1315 
 4177 
 3768 
 2040 
 
 6308 
 1280 
 1142 
 363 
 1495 
 2218 
 900 
 918 
 1618 
 3103 
 3287 
 2197 
 1541 
 1989 
 2822 
 39240 
 1643 
 1407 
 1413 
 1174 
 1357 
 1276 
 2883 
 466 
 2265 
 2421 
 742 
 1302 
 4669 
 1140 
 3160 
 1142 
 1433 
 4207 
 611 
 1015 
 1928 
 2578 
 2071 
 
 41 
 
 17 
 
 
 Livingston 
 Logan 
 
 3550 
 2788 
 3120 
 3567 
 4554 
 2009 
 1553 
 1566 
 1231 
 2952 
 3465 
 6363 
 1115 
 2209 
 845 
 2486 
 3069 
 1245 
 3833 
 4665 
 1319 
 1541 
 1807 
 3055 
 1043 
 646 
 2357 
 1410 
 3912 
 980 
 4851 
 1522 
 910 
 2069 
 1140 
 4708 
 3198 
 2850 
 978 
 4372 
 650 
 2795 
 1911 
 1570 
 1297 
 3851 
 4770 
 1672 
 4505 
 1733 
 
 2134 
 2595 
 2782 
 4076 
 4730 
 2444 
 1430 
 1939 
 793 
 2811 
 1874 
 4410 
 1657 
 1428 
 1651 
 3013 
 3174 
 1672 
 1921 
 5443 
 800 
 1383 
 1316 
 4040 
 772 
 459 
 2589 
 1552 
 2838 
 1081 
 5847 
 1804 
 1269 
 3553 
 786 
 5891 
 2758 
 3171 
 2155 
 3031 
 936 
 1984 
 1671 
 1751 
 2066 
 2131 
 3999 
 1644 
 1568 
 2105 
 
 1170 
 37 
 268 
 114 
 39 
 209 
 135 
 86 
 20 
 347 
 34 
 518 
 10 
 90 
 7 
 201 
 109 
 28 
 104 
 95 
 5 
 48 
 117 
 35 
 
 
 3 
 
 Alexander 
 
 Bond 
 
 17 
 43 
 183 
 145 
 
 '"ill 
 74 
 604 
 207 
 236 
 112 
 132 
 102 
 277 
 38 
 129 
 65 
 746 
 94 
 25 
 161 
 61 
 43 
 57 
 204 
 391 
 
 282 
 1 
 108 
 770 
 
 
 
 Macon 
 
 16 
 
 
 Boone 
 
 2 
 1 
 8 
 
 '"i 
 
 7 
 
 '"i 
 
 "ii 
 
 "*3 
 
 '"i 
 
 6 
 9 
 
 Macoupin 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 Bureau 
 
 Marlon 
 
 Oalhoiui 
 
 Marshall 
 Mason 
 
 '" 
 
 1 
 
 Carroll 
 
 Cass 
 
 Massac 
 
 Champaign 
 
 McDonough 
 
 
 
 Christian 
 
 McHenry 
 
 "8 
 
 3 
 
 7 
 
 Clark .. 
 
 McLean 
 
 Clay 
 
 Meuard 
 
 Clinton 
 
 
 
 Mercer 
 
 
 3 
 
 Coles . 
 
 
 
 
 Cook 
 
 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 
 
 Crawford 
 
 
 
 Morgan 
 Moultrle 
 
 
 3 
 
 Cumberland . . . 
 
 DeKalb... 
 
 ' 10 
 
 3 
 3 
 
 Ogle 
 
 
 8 
 
 DeWitt . 
 
 Peorla 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Pope 
 
 
 
 DuPage 
 
 
 8 
 
 Perry.... 
 
 
 
 Edgar 
 
 Piatt 
 
 
 
 Edwards 
 
 Pike 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 Effingham 
 
 
 
 Pulaskl 
 
 Fay ette 
 
 
 
 Putnam 
 
 14 
 2 
 
 55 
 27 
 641 
 29 
 115 
 182 
 341 
 96 
 99 
 26 
 44 
 
 288 
 207 
 138 
 39 
 482 
 469 
 133 
 677 
 41 
 70 
 237 
 
 
 
 Ford . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Franklin 
 
 
 
 Kicliland 
 
 
 
 Fulton 
 
 '" 
 
 1 
 '"9 
 '"i 
 
 Rock Island. 
 
 
 
 (rill latin 
 
 Saline 
 
 
 
 Greene 
 
 Sangamon 
 
 
 
 
 Schuyler 
 Scott. 
 
 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 
 
 Hancock 
 
 Shelby 
 
 
 
 Hardin 
 
 134 
 
 340 
 249 
 106 
 
 
 
 Stark 
 
 
 
 Henderson 
 
 
 
 St. Clair 
 
 '" 
 
 1 
 3 
 
 2 
 
 Henry 
 
 4 
 14 
 
 6 
 
 Stephenson 
 
 Iroqueig 
 
 Tazewell 
 
 . Jackson 
 
 Union 
 
 .Jasper 
 
 
 
 Vermilion 
 
 
 9 
 
 
 1346 
 1345 
 2907 
 1367 
 5398 
 2627 
 1869 
 5235 
 2619 
 6277 
 1198 
 3087 
 
 1667 
 2166 
 2276 
 893 
 2850 
 1363 
 524 
 2632 
 1647 
 6001 
 1329 
 2080 
 
 647 
 
 '"i'40 
 61 
 172 
 26 
 309 
 141 
 55 
 514 
 27 
 100 
 
 
 
 Wabash 
 
 -Jersey 
 
 M 
 
 * 
 
 "3 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 .Johnson 
 
 Wayne . . . 
 
 
 
 Kane 
 
 
 5 
 2 
 
 White 
 
 'Hi 
 
 4 
 1 
 
 Xankakee . . . 
 
 Whiteslde 
 
 Kendall 
 
 Will 
 
 
 
 1 
 1 
 15 
 
 Williamson 
 
 ' i ?, 
 
 "2 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 iLaSalle 
 
 Woodford 
 
 &ee 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 Total 
 
 275958 
 
 -Jo 70 99 
 
 16951 130 
 
 157
 
 PRACTICAL RULES FOR EVERY DAY USE, 
 
 How to find the gain or loss per cent, when the cost and setting price 1 
 are given. 
 
 RULE. Find the difference between the cost and selling price, which 
 will be the gain or loss. 
 
 Annex two ciphers to the gain or loss, and divide it by the cost 
 price ; the result will be the gain or loss per cent. 
 
 Hoiv to change gold into currency. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the given sum of gold by the price of gold. 
 
 Hoiv to change currency into gold. 
 
 Divide the amount in currency by the price of gold. 
 
 How to find each partner's share of the gain or loss in a copartnership 
 business. 
 
 RULE. Divide the whole gain or loss by the entire stock, the quo- 
 tient will be the gain or loss per cent. 
 
 Multiply each partner's stock by this per cent., the result will be 
 each one's share of the gain or loss. 
 
 How to find gross and net weight and price of hogs. 
 
 A short and simple method for finding the net weight, or price of hoff r 
 when the gross weight or price is given, and vice versa. 
 
 NOTE. It Is generally assumed that the gross weight of Hogs diminished by 1-5 or 20 per cent, 
 of itself gives the net weight, and the net weight increased by K or 25 per cent, of itself equals the 
 gross weight. 
 
 To find the net weight ar gross price. 
 
 Multiply the given number by .8 (tenths.) 
 
 To find the gross weight or net price. 
 
 Divide the given number by .8 (tenths.) 
 
 How to find the capacity of a granary, bin, or wagon-bed. 
 
 RULE. Multiply (by short method) the number of cubic feet by 
 6308, and point off ONE decimal place the result will be the correct 
 answer in bushels and tenths of a bushel. 
 
 For only an approximate answer, multiply the cubic feet by 8 T and 
 point off one decimal place. 
 
 Hoiv to find the contents of a corn-crib. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the number of cubic feet by 54, short method, or 
 
 (207)
 
 208 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 by 4| ordinary method, and point off ONE decimal place the result will 
 be the answer in bushels. 
 
 NOTE. In estimating corn in the ear, the quality and the time it has been cribbed must be taken 
 Into consideration, since corn will shrink considerably during the Winter and Spring. This rule generally holds 
 good for cor* measured at the time it is cribbed, provided it is sound and clean. 
 
 How to find the contents of a cistern or tank. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the square of the mean diameter by the depth (all 
 in feet) and this product by 5681 (short method), and point off ONE 
 .decimal place the result will be the contents in barrels of 31 1 gallons. 
 
 How to find the contents of a barrel or cask. 
 
 RULE. Under the square of the mean diameter, write the length 
 (all in inches) in REVERSED order, so that its UNITS will fall under the 
 TENS ; multiply by short method, and this product again by 430 ; point 
 off one decimal place, and the result will be the answer in wine gallons. 
 
 How to measure boards. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the length (in feet) by the width (in inches) and 
 divide the product by 12 the result will be the contents in square feet. 
 
 How to measure scantlings, joists, planks, sills, etc. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the width, the thickness, and the length together 
 (the width and thickness in inches, and the length in feet), and divide 
 the product by 12 the result will be square feet. 
 
 ffoiv to find the number of acres in a body of land. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the length by the width (in rods), and divide the 
 product by 160 (carrying the division to 2 decimal places if there is a 
 remainder) ; the result will be the answer in acres and hundredths. 
 
 When the opposite sides of a piece of land are of unequal length, 
 add them together and take one-half for the mean length or width. 
 
 How to find the number of square yards in a floor or wall. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the length by the width or height (in feet), and 
 divide the product by 9, the result will be square yards. 
 
 How to find the number of bricks required in a building. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the number of cubic feet by 22. 
 
 The number of cubic feet is found by multiplying the length, height 
 and thickness (in feet) together. 
 
 Bricks are usually made 8 inches long, 4 inches wide, and two inches 
 thick ; hence, it requires 27 bricks to make a cubic foot without mortar, 
 but it is generally assumed that the mortar fills 1-6 of the space. 
 
 How to find the number of shingles required in a roof. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the number of square feet in the roof by 8, if the 
 shingles are exposed 4 inches, or by 7 1-5 if exposed 5 inches. 
 
 To find the number of square feet, multiply the length of the roof by 
 twice the length of the rafters.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 209 
 
 To find the length of the rafters, at ONE-FOURTH pitch, multiply the 
 width of the building by .56 (hundredths) ; at ONE-THIRD pitch, by .6 
 (tenths) ; at TWO-FIFTHS pitch, by .64 (hundredths) ; at ONE-HALF 
 pitch, by .71 (hundredths). This gives the length of the rafters from 
 the apex to the end of the wall, and whatever they are to project must be 
 taken into consideration. 
 
 NOTE. By X or % pitch is meant that the apex or comb of the roof Is to be X or )i the width of the 
 'building higher than the walls or base of the rafters. 
 
 How to reckon the cost of hay. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the number of pounds by half the price per ton, 
 .and remove the decimal point three places to the left. 
 
 How to measure grain. 
 
 RULE. Level the grain ; ascertain the space it occupies in cubic 
 feet ; multiply the number of cubic feet by 8, and point off one place to 
 the left. 
 
 NOTE. Exactness requires the addition to every three hundred bushels of one extra bushel. 
 
 The foregoing rule may be used for finding the number of gallons, by 
 multiplying the number of bushels by 8. 
 
 If the corn in the box is in the ear, divide the answer by 2, to find 
 the number of bushels of shelled corn, because it requires 2 bushels of eai 
 corn to make 1 of shelled corn. 
 
 Rapid rules for measuring land without instruments. 
 
 In measuring land, the first thing to ascertain is the contents of any 
 given plot in square }^ards ; then, given the number of yards, find out the 
 number of rods and acres. 
 
 The most ancient and simplest measure of distance is a step. Now, 
 .an ordinary -sized man can train himself to cover one yard at a stride, 011 
 the average, with sufficient accuracy for ordinary purposes. 
 
 To make use of this means of measuring distances, it is essential to 
 walk in a straight line ; to do this, fix the eye on two objects in a line 
 straight ahead, one comparatively near, the other remote ; and, in walk- 
 ing, keep these objects constantly in line. 
 
 Farmers and others by adopting the following simple and ingenious con- 
 trivance, may always carry with them the scale to construct a correct yard 
 measure. 
 
 Take a foot rule, and commencing at the base of the little finger of 
 the left hand, mark the quarters of the foot on the outer borders of the 
 left arm, pricking in the marks with indelible ink. 
 
 To find hotv many rods in length will make an acre, the width being given. 
 
 I 
 RULE. Divide 160 by the width, and the quotient will be the' answer.
 
 210 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 How to find the number of acres in any plot of land, the number of rods 
 being given. 
 
 RULE. Divide the number of rods by 8, multiply the quotient by 5, 
 and remove the decimal point two places to the left. 
 
 The diameter being given, to find the circumference. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the diameter by 3 1-7. 
 
 How to find the diameter, when the circumference is given. 
 
 RULE. Divide the circumference by 3 1-7. 
 
 To find how many solid feet a round stick of timber of the same thick- 
 ness throughout will contain when squared. 
 
 RULE. Square half the diameter in inches, multiply by 2, multiply 
 by the length in feet, and divide the product by 144. 
 
 Q-eneral rule for measuring timber, to find the solid contents in feet. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the depth in inches by the breadth in inches, and 
 then multiply by the length in feet, and divide by 144. 
 
 To find the number of feet of timber in trees with the bark on. 
 
 RULE. Multiply the square of one-fifth of the circumference in 
 inches, by twice the length, in feet, and divide by 144. Deduct 1-10 to 
 1-15 according to the thickness of the bark. 
 
 Howard s new rule for computing interest. 
 
 RULE. The reciprocal of the rate is the time for which the interest 
 on any sum of money will be shown by simply removing the decimal 
 point two places to the left ; for ten times that time, remove the point 
 one place to the left ; for 1-10 of the same time, remove the point three 
 places to the left. 
 
 Increase or diminish the results to suit the time given. 
 
 NOTE. The reciprocal of the rate is found by inverting: the rate ; thus 3 per cent, per month, in- 
 verted, becomes % of a month, or 10 days. 
 
 When the rate is expressed by one figure, always write it thus : 3-l r 
 three ones. 
 
 Rule for converting English into American currency. 
 
 Multiply the pounds, with the shillings and pence stated in decimals,, 
 by 400 plus the premium in fourths, and divide the product by 90. 
 
 U. S. GOVERNMENT LAND MEASURE. 
 
 A township 36 sections each a mile square. 
 A section 640 acres. 
 
 A quarter section, half a mile square 160 acres. 
 An eighth section, half a mile long, north and south, and a quarter 
 of a mile wide 80 acres. 
 
 A sixteenth section, a quarter of a mile square 40 acres.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 211 
 
 The sections are all numbered 1 to 36, commencing at the north-east 
 corner. 
 
 The sections are divided into quarters, which are named by the 
 cardinal points. The quarters are divided in the same way. The de- 
 scription of a forty acre lot would read : The south half of the west half of 
 the south-west quarter of section 1 in township 24, north of range 7 west, 
 or as the case might be ; and sometimes will fall short and sometimes 
 overrun the number of acres it is supposed to contain. 
 
 The nautical mile is 795 4-5 feet longer than the common mile. 
 
 SURVEYORS' MEASURE. 
 
 7 92-100 inches make 1 link. 
 
 25 links " 1 rod. 
 
 4 rods " 1 chain.. 
 
 80 chains " 1 mile. 
 
 * 
 
 NOTE. A chain is 100 links, equal to 4 rods or 66 feet. 
 
 Shoemakers formerly used a subdivision of the inch called a barley- 
 corn ; three of which made an inch. 
 
 Horses are measured directly over the fore feet, and the standard of" 
 measure is four inches called a hand. 
 
 In Biblical and other old measurements, the term span is sometimes 
 used, which is a length of nine inches. 
 
 The sacred cubit of the Jews was 24.024 inches in length. 
 
 The common cubit of the Jews was 21.704 inches in length. 
 
 A pace is equal to a yard or 36 inches. 
 
 A fathom is equal to 6 feet. 
 
 A league is three miles, but its length is variable, for it is strictly 
 speaking a nautical term, and should be three geographical miles, equal 
 to 3.45 statute miles, but when used on land, three statute miles are said 
 to be a league. 
 
 In cloth measure an aune is equal to li yards, or 45 inches. 
 
 An Amsterdam ell is equal to 26.796 inches. 
 
 A Trieste ell is equal to 25.284 inches. 
 
 A Brabant ell is equal to 27.116 inches. 
 
 HOW TO KEEP ACCOUNTS. 
 
 Every farmer and mechanic, whether he does much or little business, 
 should keep a record of his transactions in a clear and systematic man- 
 ner. For the benefit of those who have not had the opportunity of ac- 
 quiring a primary knowledge of the principles of book-keeping, we here- 
 present a simple form of keeping accounts which is easily comprehended,, 
 and well adapted to record the business transactions of farmers, mechanics- 
 and laborers.
 
 212 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 1875. 
 
 A. H. JACKSON. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Cr. 
 
 .Jan. 10 
 " 17 
 Feb. 4 
 " 4 
 March 8 
 8 
 " 13 
 " 27 
 April 9 
 9 
 May 6 
 24 
 July 4 
 
 To 7 bushels Wheat __ . at $1.25 
 
 $8 
 
 6 
 1 
 
 48 
 6 
 
 17 
 
 75 
 
 :jo 
 5 
 
 00 
 
 as 
 
 r,o 
 
 $2 
 
 18 
 2 
 
 25 
 
 4 
 
 35 
 
 50 
 
 00 
 10 
 25 
 
 00 
 
 75 
 
 15 
 
 By shoeing span of Horses 
 
 To 14 bushels Oats at $ .45 
 
 To 5 Ibs. Butter .. _ at .25 
 
 By new Harrow .. 
 
 Bv sharpening* 2 Plows. _ 
 
 By new Double-Tree. 
 
 To Cow and Calf . 
 
 To half ton of Hay 
 
 By Cash . 
 
 By repairing Corn-Planter. . 
 
 To one Sow with Pigs . __ 
 
 By Cash; to balance account . .. 
 
 
 $88 
 
 05 
 
 $88 
 
 05 
 
 1 8T5 . CASSA MASON. Dr. Cr . 
 
 March 21 
 " 21 
 " 23 
 May 1 
 1 
 June 19 
 26 
 July 10 
 29 
 Aug. 12 
 12 
 Sept. 1 
 
 By 3 days' labor . ... at $1.25 
 
 $6 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 2 
 2 
 
 20 
 18 
 
 00 
 10 
 
 00 
 
 75 
 70 
 
 00 
 10 
 
 $3 
 
 25 
 12 
 
 18 
 9 
 
 75 
 
 oo 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 00 
 
 To 2 Shoats at 3 00 
 
 To 18 bushels Corn ... . at .45 
 
 By 1 month's Labor . 
 
 To Cash 
 
 By 8 days' Mowing at $1.50 
 
 To 50 Ibs. Flour 
 
 To 27 Ibs. Meat . at $ .10 
 
 By 9 days' Harvesting at 2.00 
 
 By 6 days' Labor .. ._ at 1.50 
 
 To Cash ... 
 
 To Cash to balance account ._ 
 
 
 $67 
 
 75 
 
 $67 
 
 75 
 
 INTEREST TABLE. 
 
 A SIMPLE RULK YOB. ACCURATELY COMPUTING INTEREST AT AMY GIVBK PER CENT. FOR ANY 
 
 LENGTH OF TIMB. 
 
 Multiply the principal (amount of money at interest) by the time reduced to days; then divide this product 
 by the quotient obtained by dividing 360 (the number of days In the interest year) by the per cent, of interest, 
 Aiidthe quotient thus obtained will be the required interest. 
 
 ILLUSTRATION. Solution. 
 
 Require the interest of $462.50 for one month and eighteen days at 6 per cent. An 462.50 
 
 interest month is 30 days ; one month and eighteen days equal 48 days. $4b2.50 multi- .48 
 
 plied by .48 gives $222.0000; 360 divided by 6 (the per cent, of interest) gives 60, and 
 $22'2.0000 divided by 60 will give you the exact Interest, which is $3.70. If the race of 370000 
 
 interest in the above example were 12 per cent, we would divide the $222.0000 by 30 6)360 \ 185000 
 
 (because 360 divided by 12 gives 30); if 4 per cent., we would divide by 90; if 8 per 
 
 <;ent., by 45: and in like manner for any other per cent. 60/$222.0000($3.70 
 
 180 
 
 420 
 420 
 
 00 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS TABLE. 
 
 12 units, or things, 1 Dozen. 
 12 dozen, 1 Gross. 
 20 things, 1 Score. 
 
 196 pounds, 1 Barrel of Flour. 
 200 pounds, 1 Barrel of Pork. 
 56 pounds, 1 Firkin of Butter. 
 
 24 sheets of paper, 1 Quire. 
 
 20 quires paper 1 Ream. 
 
 4 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, and 8 tt. long, 1 Cord Wood.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 213 
 
 NAMES OF THE STATES OF THE UNION, AND THEIR SIGNIFICATIONS. 
 
 Virginia. The oldest of the States, was so called in honor of Queen 
 Elizabeth, the "Virgin Queen," in whose reign Sir Walter Raleigh made 
 Iris first attempt to colonize that region. 
 
 Florida. Ponce de Leon landed on the coast of Florida on Easter 
 Sunday, and called the country in commemoration of the day, which was 
 the Pasqua Florida of the Spaniards, or " Feast of Flowers." 
 
 Louisiana was called after Louis the Fourteenth, who at one lime 
 owned that section of the country. 
 
 Alabama was so named by the Indians, and signifies " Here we Rest." 
 Mississippi is likewise an Indian name, meaning " Long River." 
 Arkansas, from Kansas, the Indian word for " smoky water." Its 
 
 prefix was really arc, the French word for " bow." 
 
 The Carolinas were originally one tract, and were called "Carolana," 
 
 after Charles the Ninth of France. 
 
 Georgia owes its name to George the Second of England, who first 
 established a colony there in 1732. 
 
 Tennessee is the Indian name for the " River of the Bend," i. e., the 
 Mississippi which forms its western boundary. 
 
 Kentucky is the Indian name for " at the head of the river." 
 
 Ohio means " beautiful ; " Iowa, " drowsy ones ; " Minnesota, " cloudy 
 water," and Wisconsin, " wild-rushing channel." 
 
 Illinois is derived from the Indian word illini, men, and l;he French 
 suffix ois, together signifying " tribe of men." 
 
 Michigan was called by the name given the lake, fish-weir, which was 
 so styled from its fancied resemblance to a fish trap. 
 
 Missouri is from the Indian word " muddy," which more properly 
 applies to the river that flows through it. 
 
 Oregon owes its Indian name also to its principal river. 
 
 Cortes named California. 
 
 Massachusetts is the Indian for " The country around the great hills." 
 
 Connecticut, from the Indian Quon-ch-ta-Cut, signifying "Long 
 River." 
 
 Maryland, after Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles the First, of 
 England. 
 
 New York was named by the Duke of York. 
 
 Pennsylvania means " Penn's woods," and was so called after William 
 Penn, its orignal owner.
 
 214 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 Delaware after Lord De La Ware. 
 
 New Jersey, so called in honor of Sir George Carteret, who was 
 Governor of the Island of Jersey, in the British Channel. 
 
 Maine was called after the province of Maine in France, in compli- 
 ment of Queen Henrietta of England, who owned that province. 
 
 Vermont, from the French word Vert Mont, signifying Green 
 Mountain. 
 
 New Hampshire, from Hampshire county in England. It was 
 formerly called Laconia. 
 
 The little State of Rhode Island owes its name to the Island of 
 Rhodes in the Mediterranean, which domain it is said to greatly 
 resemble. 
 
 Texas is the American word for the Mexican name by which all that 
 section of the country was called before it was ceded to the United States. 
 
 POPULATION OF THE 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 POPULATION OF FIFTY 
 PRINCIPAL CITIES. 
 
 STATES AND TERRITORIES. 
 
 Total 
 Population. 
 
 CITIES. 
 
 Aggregate 
 Population. 
 
 
 996.992 
 484,471 
 560,247 
 537,454 
 125,015 
 187,748 
 1.184,109 
 2,539,891 
 1,680,637 
 1,191,792 
 364,399 
 1,321,011 
 726,915 
 626,915 
 780,894 
 1,457,351 
 1,184,059 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 California 
 Connecticut 
 Delaware 
 Florida 
 Georgia 
 illinois 
 Indiana 
 Iowa 
 Kansas 
 Kentucky 
 Louisiana 
 Maine 
 Maryland . 
 Massachusetts 
 Michigan 
 
 New York, N. Y.... 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 Brooklyn, N. Y 
 St. Louis, Mo 
 Chicago, 111 
 Baltimore, Md 
 Boston, Mass 
 Cincinnati, Ohio 
 New Orleans, La 
 San Francisco, Cal 
 Buffalo, N. Y 
 Washington, D. C 
 Newark, N. J 
 
 942,292 
 
 674,022 
 396,099 
 310,864 
 298. 977" 
 267,354 
 250,526 
 216,239- 
 191,418 
 149,473 
 117,714 
 109,199 
 105,059 
 
 Minnesota 
 Mississippi 
 Missouri 
 Nebraska 
 Nevada 
 New Hampshire 
 New Jersey 
 New York , 
 North Carolina 
 Ohio 
 Oregon 
 Pennsylvania 
 Rhode Island 
 South Carolina 
 Tennessee 
 Texas 
 Vermont 
 
 439,706 
 827,922 
 1,721,295 
 122,993 
 42.491 
 318,300 
 906.096 
 4,382.759 
 1,071,361 
 2,665,260 
 90,923 
 3,521,791 
 217,353 
 705,606 
 1,258,520 
 818,579 
 330,551 
 
 Cleveland, Ohio 
 Pittsburg, Pa 
 Jersey City, N. J 
 Detroit, Mich 
 Milwaukee, Wis 
 Albany, N. Y 
 Providence, R. I 
 Rochester, N. Y 
 Allegheny, Pa 
 Richmond, Va 
 New Haven, Conn 
 Charleston, S. C 
 Indianapolis, Ind 
 Troy, N. Y 
 Syracuse, N. Y 
 Worcester, Mass 
 
 92,829- 
 86,076 
 82,546 
 79,577 
 71,440 
 69,422 
 68,904 
 62,386 
 53.180 
 51.038 
 50,840 
 48,956 
 48.244 
 46,465 
 43,051 
 41,105 
 40.928 
 40,226 
 39,634 
 37,180 
 35,092 
 33.930 
 33.579 
 32,260 
 32,034 
 31,584 
 31,413 
 31 274 
 
 West Virginia 
 Wisconsin 
 
 Total States 
 
 442,014 
 1,054,670 
 
 38,113,253 
 
 Memphis, Tenn 
 Cambridge, Mass 
 Hartford, Conn 
 Scranton, Pa 
 
 Arizona , 
 ( 'olorada 
 Dakota 
 1 >i strict of Columbia , 
 Idaho 
 
 9,658 
 39,864 
 14,181 
 131.700 
 14,999 
 20,595 
 91,874 
 86,786 
 23.955 
 9,118 
 
 Paterson, N. J 
 Kansas City, Mo 
 Mobile, Ala 
 Toledo, Ohio 
 Portland, Me 
 
 Montana 
 New Mexico 
 Utah 
 Wachi ngton 
 Wyoming 
 
 Total Territories. 
 
 Wilmington, Del 
 Dayton, Ohio 
 Lawrence, Mass 
 Utica, N. Y 
 Charlestown, Mass 
 Savannah, Ga 
 
 301841 
 30,473 
 28,921 
 28,804 
 28,323 
 28.235 
 28,233 
 26.766 
 
 442,730 
 
 Total United States 
 
 38,555,983 
 
 Fall River, Mass
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 215 
 
 POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 STATES AND 
 TERRITORIES. 
 
 Area in 
 square 
 Miles. 
 
 POPULATION. 
 
 Miles 
 R. R. 
 1872. 
 
 STATES AND 
 TERRITORIES. 
 
 Area in 
 square 
 Miles. 
 
 POPULATION. 
 
 Miles 
 R. R. 
 1872. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1875. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1875. 
 
 State*. 
 
 50,722 
 52,198 
 188.981 
 4.674 
 2,120 
 59,268 
 58,000 
 55,410 
 33,809 
 55.1145 
 81.318 
 37,600 
 41,346 
 31,776 
 11,184 
 7,800 
 56,451 
 83,531 
 47,156 
 65.350 
 75.9P5 
 112,090 
 9,280 
 8.320 
 47,000 
 50,704 
 39,964 
 95,244 
 s of Mic 
 
 996,992 
 484,471 
 560,247 
 687,464 
 125,015 
 187,748 
 1,184,109 
 2.539,891 
 1,680,637 
 1,191.792 
 364,399 
 1,321,011 
 726,915 
 6261915 
 780,894 
 1,457,351 
 1,184,059 
 439,706 
 827.922 
 1,721,295 
 123,993 
 42,491 
 318.300 
 906,096 
 4,382,759 
 1,071,361 
 2,665,260 
 90,923 
 higan tak 
 
 
 1,671 
 25 
 1,013 
 820 
 227 
 466 
 2,108 
 5,904 
 3.529 
 3.160 
 1,760 
 1,123 
 539 
 871 
 820 
 1,606 
 21235 
 1,612 
 990 
 2,580 
 828 
 593 
 790 
 1.265 
 4,470 
 1,190 
 3,740 
 Io9 
 
 States. 
 Pennsylvania 
 Rhode Island 
 South Carolina... 
 Tennessee 
 
 46,000 
 1,306 
 29,385 
 45,600 
 237,504 
 10,212 
 40,904 
 23,000 
 53,924 
 
 3,521,791 
 217,353 
 705,606 
 1,258,520 
 818.579 
 330,551 
 1,225,163 
 442,014 
 1.054.670 
 
 
 5,113 
 136 
 1,201 
 1,520 
 865 
 675 
 1,490 
 485 
 1,725 
 
 Arkansas 
 
 
 258,239 
 925,145 
 
 California 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Texas 
 
 
 Florida 
 
 
 
 
 Georgia. 
 Illinois 
 
 
 Virginia 
 West Virginia 
 
 
 Indiana 
 
 1,350,544 
 528,349 
 
 "857',039 
 
 1,236,729 
 
 Total States 
 
 Territories. 
 Arizona 
 Colorado 
 
 
 1,950,171 
 
 113,916 
 104.500 
 147,490 
 60 
 90,932 
 143.776 
 121,201 
 80,056 
 69,944 
 93,107 
 
 38,113,253 
 
 9,658 
 39,864 
 14,181 
 131,700 
 14,999 
 20,595 
 91,874 
 86,786 
 23,955 
 9.118 
 
 
 59,587 
 
 Kentucky 
 Louisiana 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 392 
 
 Massachusetts... 
 
 1,651,912 
 1,334.031 
 598,429 
 
 Dakota 
 
 
 Dist. of Columbia. 
 Idaho 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 
 Mississippi 
 Missouri 
 
 
 
 
 "246,280 
 52,540 
 
 New Mexico 
 Utah 
 
 
 
 
 375 
 
 
 
 
 New Hampshire. 
 New Jersey 
 
 
 
 498 
 
 1,026,502 
 4,705,208 
 
 Total Territories. 
 
 Aggregate of U. S.. 
 * Included In t 
 
 
 965,032 
 
 2,915,203 
 he Railro 
 
 442,730 
 
 
 1,265 
 
 North Carolina.. 
 Ohio 
 
 
 38,555,983 
 ad Mileage 
 
 
 60,852 
 id. 
 
 
 en in 1874 
 
 * Last Censu 
 
 of Marylai 
 
 PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD ; 
 
 POPULATION AND AREA. 
 
 COUNTRIES. 
 
 Population. 
 
 Date of 
 Census. 
 
 Area in 
 Square 
 Miles. 
 
 Inhabitants 
 to Square 
 Mile. 
 
 CAPITALS. 
 
 Population. 
 
 China 
 
 446,500 000 
 
 1871 
 
 3 741 846 
 
 119.3 
 
 Pekln 
 
 1,648,800 
 
 British Kin pi re 
 
 226 817 108 
 
 1871 
 
 4 677 432 
 
 48-6 
 
 
 3 251 800 
 
 Russia 
 
 81 925 4^0 
 
 1871 
 
 8 003 778 
 
 10 2 
 
 
 667 000 
 
 United States with Alaska 
 
 38 925 600 
 
 1870 
 
 I 603 884 
 
 7.78 
 
 Washington 
 
 109,199 
 
 
 36 469 800 
 
 1866 
 
 204 091 
 
 178 7 
 
 Paris 
 
 1 825 300 
 
 Austria and Hungary 
 
 35,904 400 
 
 1869 
 
 240 348 
 
 149.4 
 
 Vienna 
 
 833,900 
 
 Japan 
 
 34 785 300 
 
 1871 
 
 149 399 
 
 232.8 
 
 Yeddo 
 
 1 554,900 
 
 Great Britain and Ireland 
 
 31 817 100 
 
 1871 
 
 121 315 
 
 262 3 
 
 
 3 251 800 
 
 German Empire 
 
 29 906 092 
 
 1871 
 
 Ifilt 207 
 
 187. 
 
 Berlin 
 
 825,400 
 
 Italy 
 
 27 439 921 
 
 1871 
 
 118 847 
 
 230.9 
 
 
 244 484 
 
 
 16 642 000 
 
 1867 
 
 195 775 
 
 85 
 
 Madrid 
 
 332 000 
 
 Brazil 
 
 10 000 000 
 
 
 3 253 029 
 
 3.07 
 
 Rio Janeiro 
 
 420,000 
 
 Turkey 
 Mexico 
 
 16,463,000 
 9 173,000 
 
 1869 
 
 '672,621 
 761 526 
 
 24.4 
 
 Constantinople 
 Mexico 
 
 1,075,000 
 210.300 
 
 Sweden and Norway 
 
 5 921 500 
 
 1870 
 
 292 871 
 
 20. 
 
 Stockholm 
 
 136 900 
 
 Persia 
 
 5 000 000 
 
 1870 
 
 63 r > %4 
 
 7.8 
 
 
 120 (Mil) 
 
 Belgium 
 
 5 021,300 
 
 1869 
 
 11 373 
 
 441.5 
 
 Brussels 
 
 314 100 
 
 Bavaria 
 
 4 sin 400 
 
 1871 
 
 29 292 
 
 165.9 
 
 
 169 500 
 
 Portugal 
 
 3 995 200 
 
 1868 
 
 34 494 
 
 115.8 
 
 
 224 063 
 
 Holland 
 
 3 688 300 
 
 1870 
 
 12 680 
 
 290-9 
 
 Hague 
 
 90,100 
 
 >ew Grenada 
 
 3 000 000 
 
 1870 
 
 357 157 
 
 8.4 
 
 
 45 000 
 
 Chili 
 
 2 000 000 
 
 1869 
 
 132 616 
 
 15 1 
 
 
 115 400 
 
 Switzerland 
 
 2 669 100 
 
 1870 
 
 15 992 
 
 166.9 
 
 Berne 
 
 36 000 
 
 Peru 
 
 2 500 000 
 
 1871 
 
 471 838 
 
 5.3 
 
 
 160 100 
 
 Bolivia. 
 
 2 000 000 
 
 
 497 321 
 
 4 
 
 
 25 000 
 
 Argentine Republic 
 
 1,812 000 
 
 1869 
 
 871 848 
 
 2.1 
 
 Buenos Ay res 
 
 177.800 
 
 Wurtembnrg 
 
 1 818 500 
 
 1871 
 
 7 533 
 
 241 4 
 
 Stuttgart 
 
 91 600 
 
 Denmark 
 
 1 784 700 
 
 1870 
 
 14 753 
 
 120 9 
 
 
 162 042 
 
 Venezuela 
 
 I 500 000 
 
 
 M* 238 
 
 4.2 
 
 
 47.000 
 
 Baden 
 
 1 461 400 
 
 1871 
 
 5 912 
 
 247 
 
 
 36,600 
 
 Greece 
 
 1 457 900 
 
 1870 
 
 19 353 
 
 75 3 
 
 
 43 400 
 
 Guatemala 
 
 1 180 000 
 
 1871 
 
 40 879 
 
 28.9 
 
 Guatemala 
 
 40,000 
 
 Ecuador 
 
 1,300,000 
 
 
 218,928 
 
 5.9 
 
 Quito 
 
 70.000 
 
 Paraguay 
 
 1 000 000 
 
 1871 
 
 63 787 
 
 15 6 
 
 
 48 000 
 
 Hesse 
 
 823' 138 
 
 
 2 969 
 
 277 
 
 
 30 000 
 
 Liberia 
 
 718*000 
 
 1871 
 
 9*576 
 
 74 9 
 
 
 3,000 
 
 San Salvador 
 
 600 000 
 
 1871 
 
 7 335 
 
 81 8 
 
 Sal Salvador 
 
 15 000 
 
 Havti 
 
 572 000 
 
 
 10*205 
 
 56 
 
 
 20 000 
 
 Nicaragua 
 
 350 000 
 
 1871 
 
 58*171 
 
 1 
 
 
 10 000 
 
 Uruguay 
 
 300 000 
 
 1871 
 
 66 722 
 
 6 5 
 
 
 44 500 
 
 Honduras 
 
 350 000 
 
 1871 
 
 47 092 
 
 7 4 
 
 
 12 000 
 
 San Domingo 
 
 136 000 
 
 
 17 827 
 
 7 6 
 
 
 20 000 
 
 Costa Rica 
 
 165 000 
 
 1870 
 
 21 505 
 
 7 7 
 
 
 2 000 
 
 Hawaii 
 
 62.950 
 
 
 7.633 
 
 80. 
 
 Honolulu 
 
 7.633
 
 216 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION 
 
 POPULATION OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 BY COUNTIES. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 AGGREGATE. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1860. 
 
 1850. 
 
 1840. 
 
 1830. 
 
 1820. 
 
 Adams -- - - - 
 
 56362 
 10564 
 I3I52 
 12942 
 I22O5 
 
 32415 
 6562 
 16705 
 11580 
 
 32737 
 20363 
 18719 
 
 15875 
 16285 
 
 25235 
 349966 
 
 13889 
 12223 
 23265 
 14768 
 
 13484 
 16685 
 21450 
 75"5 
 15653 
 19633 
 9103 
 12652 
 38291 
 
 "134 
 
 20277 
 14938 
 13014 
 35935 
 5H3 
 12582 
 35506 
 25782 
 19634 
 11234 
 17864 
 
 15054 
 27820 
 11248 
 39091 
 24352 
 12399 
 39522 
 21014 
 60792 
 
 12533 
 27171 
 
 3M7I 
 23053 
 
 41323 
 
 4707 
 9815 
 11678 
 9938 
 26426 
 
 5144 
 "733 
 "325 
 14629 
 10492 
 14987 
 9336 
 10941 
 14203 
 144954 
 
 "551 
 8311 
 19086 
 10820 
 7140 
 14701 
 16925 
 
 5454 
 7816 
 11189 
 1979 
 9393 
 33338 
 8055 
 16093 
 10379 
 
 99 T 5 
 29061 
 
 3759 
 950i 
 20660 
 12325 
 
 9589 
 8364 
 12965 
 12051 
 27325 
 934 2 
 30062 
 15412 
 13074 
 28663 
 18257 
 48332 
 9214 
 17651 
 11637 
 
 14272 
 
 26508 
 2484 
 6144 
 7624 
 7198 
 8841 
 
 3231 
 
 4586 
 
 7253 
 2649 
 3203 
 9532 
 4289 
 
 5139 
 9335 
 43385 
 
 7135 
 3718 
 7540 
 5002 
 
 14476 
 
 3313 
 5060 
 
 1705 
 4183 
 3067 
 1741 
 1023 
 2981 
 
 1475 
 1878 
 
 7453 
 3228 
 37i8 
 9616 
 1 020 1 
 
 4422 
 
 2186 
 1390 
 3124 
 
 
 Alexander. - - 
 
 626 
 2931 
 
 Bond 
 
 Boone 
 
 Brown 
 
 
 
 Bureau ____ 
 
 
 
 Calhoun .. - 
 
 logo 
 
 
 Carroll _-_..-- 
 
 
 Cass . . _ . . -- 
 
 
 
 Champaign . 
 
 
 
 Christian 
 
 
 
 Clark 
 
 3940 
 
 755 
 2330 
 
 931 
 
 Clay 
 
 Clinton 
 
 
 Coles .. . 
 
 
 Cook 
 
 
 
 Crawford _ ... .... 
 
 3U7 
 
 *2J. 
 2999" 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 De Kalb 
 
 1697 
 3247 
 
 
 
 I?e Witt 
 
 
 
 Douglas 
 
 
 
 Du Page 
 
 9290 
 10692 
 3524 
 3799 
 8075 
 
 3535 
 8225 
 3070 
 
 1675 
 6328 
 
 
 
 Edgar _ 
 
 4071 
 1649 
 
 
 Edwards - 
 
 3444 
 
 Effingham. 
 
 Fayette - - 
 
 2704 
 
 
 Ford -. 
 
 
 Franklin 
 
 5681 
 22508 
 544$ 
 12429 
 3023 
 6362 
 14652 
 2887 
 4612 
 3807 
 4149 
 5862 
 3220 
 8109 
 
 7354 
 18604 
 4114 
 16703 
 
 3682 
 13142 
 10760 
 H95I 
 
 4083 
 1841 
 7405 
 7674 
 
 1763 
 
 Fulton . 
 
 Gallatin 
 
 3155 
 
 Greene ... 
 
 Grundy .... 
 
 
 Hamilton ... ... 
 
 3945 
 9946 
 
 1378 
 
 2616 
 
 483 
 
 
 Hancock _ - _ ._. . _. 
 
 
 Hardin . . 
 
 
 Henderson 
 
 
 
 Henry ---- 
 
 1260 
 1695 
 3566 
 1472 
 5762 
 
 4535 
 6180 
 3626 
 6501 
 
 4i 
 
 
 Iroquois .... 
 
 
 Jackson _ ___ __ .. 
 
 1828 
 
 1542 
 
 Jasper 
 
 Jefferson . .... 
 
 2555 
 
 691 
 
 Jersey . 
 
 Jo Daviess 
 
 2III 
 1596 
 
 
 Johnson 
 
 843 
 
 Kane ... 
 
 Kankakee. . 
 
 
 
 Kendall 
 
 7730 
 13279 
 14226 
 
 17815 
 
 6lI 
 
 5.292 
 
 1553 
 5128 
 
 
 
 
 Knox 
 
 7060 
 2634 
 9348 
 7092 
 2035 
 759 
 
 2<m 
 
 274 
 
 
 Lake .... . 
 
 
 La Salle .- . . .. .- 
 
 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 3668 
 
 
 Lee 
 
 
 Livingston 
 
 
 
 Loean . . 
 

 
 MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
 
 217 
 
 POPULATION OF ILLINOIS CONCLUDED. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 AGGREGATE. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1860. 
 
 185O. 
 
 1840. 
 
 183O. 
 
 182O. 
 
 Macon . 
 
 26481 
 32726 
 
 44I3I 
 2O622 
 16950 
 
 16184 
 
 95SI 
 26509 
 23762 
 53988 
 
 H735 
 18769 
 
 12982 
 
 253H 
 28463 
 10385 
 27492 
 47540 
 13723 
 
 10953 
 30708 
 
 H437 
 
 8 75 2 
 6280 
 20859 
 12803 
 
 29783 
 12714 
 46352 
 17419 
 10530 
 25476 
 I075I 
 
 51068 
 30608 
 
 27903 
 16518 
 30388 
 8841 
 23174 
 17599 
 19758 
 16846 
 27503 
 43013 
 17329 
 29301 
 18956 
 
 2539891 
 
 13738 
 24602 
 3"5I 
 12739 
 13437 
 10931 
 6213 
 20069 
 22089 
 28772 
 9584 
 15042 
 
 12832 
 
 13979 
 22II2 
 
 6385 
 22888 
 366OI 
 9552 
 6l27 
 
 27249 
 6742 
 
 3943 
 5587 
 17205 
 9711 
 21005 
 9331 
 32274 
 14684 
 9069 
 14613 
 9004 
 
 37694 
 25112 
 21470 
 11181 
 
 19800 
 
 7313 
 18336 
 
 I373I 
 12223 
 12403 
 
 18737 
 29321 
 12205 
 24491 
 13282 
 
 3988 
 
 12355 
 20441 
 6720 
 5180 
 5921 
 4092 
 7616 
 14978 
 10163 
 6349 
 5246 
 
 7679 
 6277 
 16064 
 
 3234 
 10020 
 
 17547 
 5278 
 1606 
 18819 
 
 3975 
 2265 
 
 3924 
 11079 
 4012 
 
 6937 
 5588 
 19228 
 10573 
 7914 
 7807 
 3710 
 
 20180 
 , 11666 
 12052 
 7615 
 11492 
 4690 
 8176 
 
 6953 
 6825 
 8925 
 536i 
 16703 
 7216 
 "773 
 4415 
 
 851470 
 
 3039 
 79 2 6 
 
 14433 
 4742 
 1849 
 
 1122 
 
 1990 
 6221 
 2125 
 
 
 Vlacoupin 
 
 
 Madison . 
 
 13550 
 
 Marion . 
 
 Marshall . 
 
 
 Mason 
 
 
 
 Massac 
 
 
 
 
 McDonough 
 
 5308 
 2578 
 6565 
 4431 
 2352 
 
 4481 
 449 
 19547 
 
 (*) 
 
 
 McHenry . 
 
 
 McLean 
 
 
 
 Menard ... . 
 
 
 
 Mercer. .. .. . _ ...... 
 
 26 
 
 20OO 
 
 2953 
 I27I4 
 
 
 Monroe .. 
 
 *2I 
 I5l6 
 
 Montgomery _. 
 
 Morgan 
 
 
 Moultrie . 
 
 
 Ogle . . 
 
 3479 
 6i53 
 3222 
 
 
 
 Peoria __ 
 
 w 
 
 1215 
 
 
 Perry . . 
 
 
 Piatt 
 
 
 Pike 
 
 11728 
 4094 
 
 2396 
 
 3316 
 
 
 Pope 
 
 2610 
 
 Pulaski 
 
 Putnam . 
 
 2131 
 7944 
 
 ^1310 
 
 4429 
 
 
 Randolph 
 
 3492 
 
 Richland . 
 
 Rock Island 
 
 2610 
 
 
 
 Saline 
 
 
 
 Sangamon 
 
 14716 
 6972 
 6215 
 6659 
 1573 
 
 13631 
 2800 
 7221 
 5524 
 9303 
 4240 
 
 6739 
 4810 
 
 5133 
 7919 
 
 2514 
 10167 
 
 4457 
 4609 
 
 12960 
 
 2959 
 
 
 Schuyler 
 
 
 Scott 
 
 
 Shelby 
 
 2972 
 
 
 Stark . 
 
 
 St.Clair 
 
 7078 
 
 *5 
 5248- 
 
 Stephenson.. . 
 
 Tazewell-. . .. . 
 
 4716 
 
 3239 
 5836 
 
 2710 
 
 308 
 1675 
 
 2553 
 
 6091 
 
 
 Union 
 
 2362 
 
 Vermilion _ 
 
 \Vabash 
 
 
 Warren . 
 
 
 Washi ngton 
 
 1517 
 1114 
 
 4828 
 
 Wayne . 
 
 White 
 
 Whitesides 
 
 Will. 
 
 
 
 Williamson 
 
 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 
 
 Woodford . 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 
 
 1711951 
 
 476183 
 
 157445 
 
 *49 
 55162 

 
 PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE, STATE OF ILLINOIS, BY COUNTIES. 1870. 
 
 
 Improved 
 Land. 
 
 Woodl'nd 
 
 Uther un- 
 improved 
 
 Spring 
 Wheat! 
 
 Winter 
 Wheat. 
 
 Rye. 
 
 Indian 
 Corn. 
 
 Oats. 
 
 JOUNTIES. 
 Total 
 
 Number. 
 19.329.95a 
 
 Number. 
 5,061.578 
 
 Number. 
 1,491.331 
 
 Bushels. 
 10,133.207 
 
 Bushels. 
 19995.198 
 
 Bushels. 
 2.456,578 
 
 Bushels. 
 129.921,395 
 
 Bushels. 
 42.780.851 
 
 Adams 
 Alexander 
 
 287.926 
 13 836 
 
 112,576 
 17,761 
 
 19,370 
 
 16,191 
 
 947.616 
 42 658 
 
 20,989 
 30 
 
 1,452,905 
 244 220 
 
 759,074 
 21,627 
 
 Bond 
 
 145,045 
 
 42,613 
 
 1,915 
 
 700 
 
 368 625 
 
 6 240 
 
 1 064 052 
 
 461,097 
 
 Boone 
 
 137 307 
 
 2y,886 
 
 2,658 
 
 241,042 
 
 599 
 
 35 871 
 
 466 985 
 
 579,127 
 
 Brown 
 
 57,062 
 
 35,491 
 
 25.608 
 
 13,276 
 
 117 502 
 
 4,742 
 
 337 769 
 
 70,852 
 
 
 398,611 
 
 41,866 
 
 15.803 
 
 465,236 
 
 724 
 
 43 811 
 
 3 030 404 
 
 987,426 
 
 
 37 684 
 
 63.443 
 
 2.754 
 
 
 221 298 
 
 186 
 
 234 041 
 
 26,234 
 
 Carroll 
 
 186,864 
 
 29,793 
 
 33,302 
 
 418,073 
 
 260 
 
 25.721 
 
 1.367 965 
 
 775,100 
 
 Cass 
 
 92.902 
 
 33,493 
 
 6,604 
 
 12,165 
 
 127,054 
 
 2.772 
 
 1,146,980 
 
 168,784 
 
 Champaign 
 
 419,368 
 
 16,789 
 
 58,502 
 
 102.577 
 
 123,091 
 
 45,752 
 
 3,924,720 
 
 721,375 
 
 Christian 
 
 241,472 
 
 19,803 
 
 19.173 
 
 18,360 
 
 504,041 
 
 10,722 
 
 1,883,336 
 
 383,821 
 
 Clark 
 
 118 594 
 
 102,201 
 
 5,420 
 
 
 195 118 
 
 7,308 
 
 614 5 82 
 
 212 628 
 
 Clay 
 
 146,922 
 
 80,612 
 
 5,225 
 
 1,894 
 
 85,737 
 
 3,221 
 
 1,019,994 
 
 269,945 
 
 Clinton 
 
 150,177 
 
 48,868 
 
 8,722 
 
 500 
 
 610.888 
 
 1,619 
 
 813.257 
 
 446,324 
 
 Coles 
 
 208,337 
 
 45,214 
 
 3,274 
 
 2.651 
 
 154,485 
 
 8,825 
 
 2,133,111 
 
 315.954 
 
 
 348.824 
 
 19,635 
 
 17,337 
 
 144,296 
 
 4,904 
 
 20,171 
 
 570,427 
 
 1,584,225 
 
 
 105,505 
 
 78,350 
 
 27,185 
 
 60 
 
 212 924 
 
 15,497 
 
 581,964 
 
 136,255 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 75,342 
 
 40,334 
 
 5,604 
 
 550 
 
 84,697 
 
 14,798 
 
 403,075 
 
 171,880 
 
 DeKalb 
 
 334,502 
 
 17,722 
 
 6,551 
 
 398,059 
 
 190 
 
 21,018 
 
 1,023,849 
 
 1,087,074 
 
 DeWitt 
 
 168,539 
 
 29,548 
 
 17.633 
 
 106,493 
 
 11,695 
 
 11 540 
 
 1,311,635 
 
 216,756 
 
 Douglas ..' 
 
 147,633 
 
 11,897 
 
 7,316 
 
 7,683 
 
 65,461 
 
 9,017 
 
 1,680,225 
 
 225,074 
 
 
 564,874 
 
 17,243 
 
 3.851 
 
 106,096 
 
 693 
 
 7,532 
 
 331,981 
 
 860,809 
 
 Edgar 
 
 ^65,45 
 
 66.H03 
 
 14,282 
 
 13,283 
 
 247,360 
 
 37,508 
 
 2,107,615 
 
 290,679 
 
 
 58 912 
 
 57,585 
 
 830 
 
 
 122 703 
 
 528 
 
 352 371 
 
 129 152 
 
 Efflngham 
 Fayette 
 
 120,343 
 187,196 
 
 56.330 
 93,460 
 
 26,206 
 16.786 
 
 77 
 
 195,71(1 
 351,310 
 
 19,75!- 
 25.328 
 
 620,24', 
 962,525 
 
 386.073 
 497,395 
 
 Ford 
 
 141.228 
 
 2,996 
 
 63,976 
 
 42,571 
 
 1,008 
 
 11,577 
 
 565,671 
 
 154,589 
 
 Franklin 
 
 80,749 
 
 3,994 
 
 86,710 
 
 365 
 
 111,324 
 
 5.195 
 
 653,209 
 
 222,426 
 
 Fulton 
 
 228,132 
 
 123,823 
 
 4,076 
 
 193,669 
 
 223 930 
 
 131,711 
 
 1,508,763 
 
 261,390 
 
 Gallatin 
 
 49 572 
 
 68,750 
 
 2,565 
 
 
 83 093 
 
 512 
 
 509,491 
 
 27,164 
 
 
 175 408 
 
 93,242 
 
 29.653 
 
 
 577 400 
 
 41E 
 
 1 051 31 y 
 
 64,029 
 
 
 193,999 
 
 6,256 
 
 4,505 
 
 21,700 
 
 180 
 
 4,93( 
 
 295,97; 
 
 269,332 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 88,996 
 
 93,878 
 
 3,343 
 
 129 
 
 92.347 
 
 11,67* 
 
 735,25; 
 
 203,464 
 
 Hancock ... 
 
 311,517 
 
 43,385 
 
 18.480 
 
 181,378 
 
 232,750 
 
 133,533 
 
 1,510,401 
 
 579,599 
 
 Hardin 
 
 28.117 
 
 44,771 
 
 107 
 
 13 
 
 32,306 
 
 865 
 
 172.651 
 
 26,991 
 
 Henderson 
 
 140,954 
 
 34,705 
 
 14,243 
 
 161,112 
 
 69,062 
 
 96,430 
 
 1,712,901 
 
 229,286 
 
 Henry 
 
 265,904 
 
 12,620 
 
 31,459 
 
 462,379 
 
 445 
 
 35,76b 
 
 2,541,68o 
 
 668,367 
 
 Iroquols 
 
 322,510 
 
 22.478 
 
 63,498 
 
 57,160 
 
 10,480 
 
 23,25!i 
 
 799,811' 
 
 430,746 
 
 Jackson 
 
 78,548 
 
 87,642 
 
 5,991 
 
 89u 
 
 329.036 
 
 524 
 
 611,951 
 
 149,931 
 
 
 90 867 
 
 67,023 
 
 12,250 
 
 
 87 808 
 
 9,165 
 
 461,345 
 
 149,214 
 
 
 118 951 
 
 94,888, 
 
 778 
 
 
 100 553 
 
 5 93^ 
 
 887 981 
 
 285,949 
 
 Jersey 
 
 94,147 
 
 51,427 
 
 1,363 
 
 
 558J367 
 
 
 519,120 
 
 71.770 
 
 JoDaviess 
 
 156.517 
 57 820 
 
 82,076 
 
 45,779 
 79 141 
 
 282,758 
 
 555 
 92 191 
 
 7.1 85 
 2 468 
 
 1,886,82 
 
 343 29^ 
 
 874,016 
 74,525 
 
 Kane 
 
 240,120 
 
 34,646 
 
 399 
 
 188,826 
 
 325 
 
 23.618 
 
 674,33:' 
 
 785,608 
 
 Kankakee. 
 
 312,182 
 
 10,978 
 
 10,598 
 
 103,466 
 
 480 
 
 12,93s 
 
 637,39! 
 
 772,408 
 
 Kendall 
 
 164.004 
 
 14,244 
 
 2,283 
 
 90,681 
 
 1,249 
 
 5,16: 
 
 681,267 
 
 468,890 
 
 Knox 
 
 330,829 
 
 41,566 
 
 25.155 
 
 267,764 
 
 7 654 
 
 113,54', 
 
 2,708,31! 
 
 787,952 
 
 Lake 
 
 207,779 
 
 21,072 
 
 24,399 
 
 168,914 
 
 221 
 
 5.87t 
 
 517,35: 
 
 699,069 
 
 l.uSallr 
 
 533,724 
 
 48,117 
 
 2,356 
 
 271,181 
 
 2,193 
 
 48,30> 
 
 3,077,02!- 
 
 1,509,642 
 
 
 87,82b 
 
 72,738 
 
 3,273 
 
 
 264,134 
 
 1,12. 
 
 656,36: 
 
 131,386 
 
 Lee 
 
 322,212 
 
 12,071 
 
 7,409 
 
 450,793 
 
 2.260 
 
 14.82S 
 
 1,656,978 
 
 903,197 
 
 Livingston 
 
 377 50;; 
 
 12,462 
 
 41,788 
 
 120,206 
 
 1,339 
 
 26,16: 
 
 1 182,69( 
 
 659,300 
 
 Logan 
 
 321,70!) 
 
 17,394 
 
 408 
 
 198,056 
 
 40 963 
 
 37.232 
 
 4,221,641' 
 
 490,226 
 
 Macon 
 
 205 259 
 
 18,153 
 
 9,115 
 
 55,239 
 
 196 613 
 
 29,22: j 
 
 2,214,468 
 
 454,648 
 
 Macoupin 
 
 231.059 
 
 81,224 
 
 7,343 
 
 160 
 
 861,398 
 
 2,404 
 
 1,051,54-1 
 
 459,417 
 
 
 257032 
 
 89,450 
 
 13.675 
 
 550 
 
 1 207 181 
 
 3 68E 
 
 2 127 54 fi 
 
 475,252 
 
 Marlon .. 
 
 173 081 
 
 61,579 
 
 4.142 
 
 
 17365* 
 
 1*4 517 
 
 1 034 057 
 
 389,448 
 
 Marshall 
 
 166,057 
 
 28,260 
 
 2,976 
 
 106,129 
 
 900 
 
 36,135 
 
 1,182,903 
 
 362,604 
 
 Mason 
 
 209 453 
 
 31,739 
 
 31,013 
 
 73,261 
 
 125 628 
 
 49,182 
 
 2 648 721 
 
 272,660 
 
 
 25 151 
 
 33,39b 
 
 30 
 
 
 72 31t) 
 
 544 
 
 133 121 
 
 22,097 
 
 McDonough 
 
 261,635 
 
 52,547 
 
 14,035 
 
 273,871 
 
 86,146 
 
 52 401 
 
 1 362 491 
 
 280,717 
 
 
 230 5b6 
 
 53,293 
 
 57.998 
 
 401,790 
 
 270 
 
 29 264 
 
 1 145 OOi 
 
 910.397 
 
 McLean 
 
 494,978 
 
 40,366 
 
 49,087 
 
 211,801 
 
 10 955 
 
 39 824 
 
 3 723 37!' 
 
 911,127 
 
 Menard . 
 
 134,173 
 
 34.931 
 
 13,952 
 
 36,152 
 
 45 793 
 
 4 28: 
 
 1 973 881 
 
 235,091 
 
 Mercer 
 
 222.809 
 
 45,977 
 
 22,588 
 
 289,291 
 
 13,203 
 
 40.771? 
 
 2,054,96- 
 
 452,889 
 
 
 92 81li 
 
 83 369 
 
 666 
 
 
 651 767 
 
 1 42f 
 
 543 718 
 
 152,251 
 
 
 276 682 
 
 47,804 
 
 8 495 
 
 59 
 
 744891 
 
 3 29(, 
 
 1 527 898 
 
 668,424 
 
 Morgan 
 Moultrie 
 
 233,450 
 144 220 
 
 60,217 
 24,783 
 
 1,378 
 13,112 
 
 18,196 
 17,128 
 
 357,523 
 196 436 
 
 5,53. r 
 6 670 
 
 3,198,835 
 1 753 141 
 
 198,724 
 263,992 
 
 Ogle 
 Peoria 
 
 316,883 
 170 72fi 
 
 43,643 
 48,666 
 
 14,913 
 2,516 
 
 497,038 
 92,361 
 
 5,580 
 31 843 
 
 157,504 
 99 50'-' 
 
 1,787,066 
 969 22^1 
 
 141,540 
 334,892 
 
 
 93 754 
 
 68 470 
 
 220 
 
 
 :>5D 4.11, 
 
 1 OH/ 
 
 384 44(, 
 
 338.760 
 
 Piatt... 
 
 94,454 
 
 5,978 
 
 13,897 
 
 26,382 
 
 39 762 
 
 9*,248 
 
 1,029'. 725 
 
 130,610 
 
 Pike 
 
 233 785 
 
 128,953 
 
 9,302 
 
 130 
 
 1 057,497 
 
 25 303 
 
 1,399 188 
 
 161,419 
 
 Pope 
 
 55 980 
 
 87 754 
 
 
 
 70 457 
 
 2 309 
 
 315 958 
 
 67,886 
 
 Pulaski 
 
 19 319 
 
 12.516 
 
 
 
 44 92i 
 
 22* 
 
 195 73."- 
 
 16,511 
 
 Putnam 
 
 37 271 
 
 17 184 
 
 4 174 
 
 28,137 
 
 79(i 
 
 7 70'i 
 
 334 25!> 
 
 86,519 
 
 Randolph 
 
 140 764 
 
 162.274 
 
 1.170 
 
 450 
 
 1,031,022 
 
 3.23E 
 
 510,081 
 
 414,487 
 
 
 75 079 
 
 50 618 
 
 2 025 
 
 
 150 268 
 
 3 401 
 
 482 59n 
 
 204.634 
 
 Rock Island 
 Saline 
 
 155.214 
 72 309 
 
 31,239 
 70 393 
 
 20,755 
 809 
 
 243,541 
 
 200 
 
 2.279 
 83.011 
 
 20,00? 
 568 
 
 1, 459^65: 
 531.5H 
 
 276,575 
 69,793 
 
 Sangamon 
 
 421 748 
 
 51 085 
 
 19 932 
 
 89,304 
 
 247,658 
 
 23 078 
 
 4,388 76^ 
 
 397,718 
 
 Schuyler 
 
 96 195 
 
 62.477 
 
 21,294 
 
 56,221 
 
 165,724 
 
 20,841 
 
 440,975 
 
 119.359 
 
 Scott 
 
 85 331 
 
 44 633 
 
 1,610 
 
 18 
 
 266 105 
 
 93( 
 
 752 771 
 
 13.463 
 
 Shelby... 
 
 310,179 
 
 74,908 
 
 9,314 
 
 15,526 
 
 452,015 
 
 23.68d 
 
 2,082,578 
 
 637.812 
 
 Stark 
 
 138 129 
 
 12 375 
 
 2 783 
 
 124,630 
 
 
 30 534 
 
 1 149 878 
 
 316.726 
 
 St. Clair 
 
 231 117 
 
 76 591 
 
 2,016 
 
 2,550 
 
 1,562 621 
 
 1,008 
 
 1 423 121 
 
 476.851 
 
 Stephenson 
 
 254,857 
 
 43.167 
 
 13.701 
 
 527,394 
 
 2,118 
 
 135.362 
 
 1.615,679 
 
 960.620 
 
 Tazewell ... 
 
 229 126 
 
 45,268 
 
 14,846 
 
 132,417 
 
 72,410 
 
 59,027 
 
 2,062,053 
 
 505,841 
 
 Union 
 
 75 832 
 
 83 606 
 
 5 300 
 
 
 180 231 
 
 1 737 
 
 679 753 
 
 124,473 
 
 Vermilion... 
 
 360 251 
 
 53,078 
 
 31,122 
 
 44,806 
 
 249,558 
 
 52,476 
 
 2,818,027 
 
 436.051 
 
 Wabash 
 
 54 (163 
 
 37 558 
 
 509 
 
 
 202 201 
 
 
 421,361 
 
 110,793 
 
 Warren 
 
 266 187 
 
 27,294 
 
 14,583 
 
 186,290 
 
 5,712 
 
 72.212 
 
 2,982,853 
 
 01. 054 
 
 
 177 592 
 
 55 852 
 
 1 931 
 
 
 672 486 
 
 2 576 
 
 836 115 
 
 33,398 
 
 Wayne 
 White 
 Whitesides..., 
 
 147,352 
 92,398 
 289 809 
 
 146,794 
 78.167 
 21.823 
 
 10,486 
 869 
 37 310 
 
 266 
 "'457', 455 
 
 164,689 
 184,321 
 264 
 
 8,665 
 418 
 31.658 
 
 1,179,291 
 870,521 
 2,162 943 
 
 404,433 
 119.653 
 
 880838 
 
 Will 
 
 419,442 
 
 24.261 
 
 6,335 
 
 195,286 
 
 1,996 
 
 8,030 
 
 1.131.458 
 
 1,868.682 
 
 Williamson 
 
 128,448 
 
 116.949 
 
 1,648 
 
 176 
 
 170,787 
 
 6.228 
 
 655,710 
 
 180,986 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 V/oodford ... 
 
 241,373 
 225,504 
 
 37,238 
 25,217 
 
 15,237 
 23.135 
 
 408,606 
 178,139 
 
 2,468 
 108,307 
 
 137,985 
 20.42b 
 
 1.237.406 
 2,154.185 
 
 SIR 903 
 744.581
 
 ELGIN
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 KANE COUNTY occupies a territory of 540 square miles, extending from 
 McHenry on the north to Kendall on the south, and bounded on the east by 
 Cook and DuPage Counties and on the west by DeKalb. It originally com- 
 prised thirty-six townships, eighteen of which are now embraced in DeKalb and 
 three in Kendall, while one of the others has been divided since the township 
 organization, leaving sixteen within its present area. It contains nineteen cities, 
 villages and hamlets, many of the most extensive manufactories in the State, 
 about 105 miles of railroad in successful operation, and has few equals among 
 the counties of the entire country in the variety and extent of its resources. 
 Its chief source of wealth, however, is its rich prairie soil, drained by the 
 beautiful Fox River, which traverses its eastern range of townships from north 
 to south, and by several smaller streams and tributaries, the most important of 
 which are Big Rock, Blackberry, Mill, Ferson's, Tyler's and Kishwaukee Creeks, 
 Something less than one-fourth of its area is covered with woodland ; and its 
 timber, when the country was new, was of a superior quality, including black 
 walnut, hickory and the many varieties of oak, which are still common in its 
 groves. Its geological deposits which appear to the view are limestone. All 
 exposures of rock are, with one slight exception, along the banks of the river. 
 At any point along the valley, a removal of a few feet of soil discloses this 
 rock, which, at Batavia and vicinity, appears as an excellent building stone. 
 Flag-stone, of any required surface or thickness, may there be obtained, which 
 is usually of a buff or reddish yellow hue. An artesian well, bored at the 
 C., B. & Q. car shops, in Aurora, disclosed, first, 30 feet of alluvial deposit, fol- 
 lowed successively by 108 feet belonging to the Niagara limestone group, 165 
 feet to the Cincinnati group, 232 feet to the Galena and Trenton deposits, and, 
 finally, by 158 feet of the buff and reddish-yellow sandstone. But few fossils 
 have ever been unearthed in the county, and of these few the remains of a mas- 
 todon, found near Aurora and now preserved in Jennings Seminary, are the 
 most important. Further notice of them will be made in the chapter upon 
 Aurora Townsnip. Peat is extensively ranged over portions of the surface of the 
 northern townships, especially in Rutland and Hampshire, and in many sections a
 
 222 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 fine quality of brick- clay is obtained, from which brick very similar to the cele- 
 brated Milwaukee brick is manufactured. Water is found in nearly every 
 part of the county by sinking wells from ten to fifteen feet below the surface. 
 
 As will be inferred from the above statement, the general nature of the sur- 
 face is level or but slightly rolling, there being but few hills worthy of the name 
 in the entire county. In summer, the traveler, standing upon the slight eleva- 
 tions along the river bank, may behold for miles the rolling table lands stretch- 
 ing far away toward the rising or setting sun, like cultivated gardens, broken oJily 
 by the occasional groves, the frequent farm houses, with their clustering barn*, 
 the tall poplars around them or the well-built fences and green hedges. 
 
 Having thus briefly noticed the boundaries, the topography and the geologi- 
 cal features of the country, we hasten to detail, at greater length, its 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 There is probably no county in Illinois that has accumulated its population 
 from such various sources as has Kane County. From first to last there have 
 been no less than ten distinct and separate nationalities which have furnished, 
 not individuals only, but colonies, who have made their settlements in the 
 borders of the staunch old county ; representatives of whom, in greater or less 
 number, are among the residents to-day. 
 
 Beginning with the Hoosiers, who came into the county as early as 1883, 
 following closely upon the rear guard of Scott's army upon the settlement of 
 the Sauk, or, as it is commonly known, the Blackhawk war, we find settle- 
 ments successively of Yankees, from Massachusetts and New York : Scotch, 
 Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, French, Scandinavians, Germans, and, 
 lastly, the war gave us, as one of its legacies, Sambo. Gen. Scott pushed the 
 Indians back with his little army, which cut its way through the Little Woods, 
 fording the river at the big bend near what is now known as Silver Glen, and 
 left its trail broad and deep across the prairie through the townships of Elgin, 
 Plato and Burlington. - 
 
 Not only did the artillery and supply trains leave a broad track in their 
 wake, but Death also traveled with the column, and, under the dread name of 
 cholera, took captive many prisoners who have never yet been mustered for 
 exchange, but whose bones have mouldered away on lounded slopes in Plato, 
 where the mounds may be seen and noted to-day. As Scott solved the Indian 
 question in Illinois, people from Virginia, Kentucky, Southern Indiana and 
 Illinois, all called by the general name of " Hoosiers," came into the county, 
 in big canvas-covered wagons drawn by four or five yoke of oxen, and called 
 "prairie schooners." They located on the southern side of groves and in 
 sunny exposures beside streams and springs, and fenced only as much land as 
 would suffice for a little corn, and gave themselves up generally to the pleasures 
 of the chase, game being abundant. They were hardy people, fond of pioneer 
 life, regardless of the forms and ceremonial restraints of advanced civilization,
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 223 
 
 but noted for their neighborly kindness and hospitality. They lived a careless, 
 easy life, and on the irruption of the Yankees, as a general thing, went again 
 to the border, at that time in Iowa. They were generally inclined to Metho- 
 dism in their religious views, and took naturally to it when Bishop Asbury's 
 itinerating preachers came to the front. 
 
 The Alexanders came to Geneva from Southern Illinois, about 1835, and 
 John Tucker, a fine courtly gentlemen from Virginia, came about 1836-7, and 
 with his sons, Charles and John R., and several daughters, settled in Campton, 
 on what is still held as the Tucker homestead. Some of the daughters married 
 into the Corron families, thus connecting two of the oldest families in the 
 county. Richard J. Hamilton, Col. Strode and Buckner J. Morris, largely 
 interested at that time in Kane County, also carat from Kentucky, but located 
 in Chicago. Bird built a log house on his claim near the ravine, just north of 
 A. M. Herrington's farm house, in Geneva. Haight built his house near the 
 large spring just opposite the old Webster House that was in Geneva. Crow 
 built on the east side of the river. Newton Shelby took up the site of East 
 St. Charles, and sold all of the claim north of the main street to Calvin Ward, 
 in 1835, for $75. J. M. Laughlin made his claim at Round Grove, east of St. 
 Charles, and subsequently purchased it of the Government. He married into 
 the family of Gartons, who lived near him. John Hammers took up the 
 old Western Enterprise Claim, just east of St. Charles Village, and subse- 
 quently sold out and moved to Hoosier Grove, northeast of Elgin, where, with 
 Abe Leatherman, he soon gathered about them a fine sturdy lot of brother 
 Hoosiers, many of whom are still living in the western part of Cook County, 
 and make Elgin their market. Wm. Franklin located the claim now known 
 as the Gray farm, near Laughlin's. and the Stewarts located on the Button 
 farm. At Dundee, around its sheltering mounds so picturesque and beautiful, 
 and beside its clear, unfailing springs, Rice and Dewees squatted and built the 
 Spring Mills, supplied with power by the springs which flow from the mounds, 
 which subsequently have proven to be valuable sources of wealth in material 
 for the justly celebrated white brick of Dundee. They also built the usual 
 accompaniment, in those days, of a grist-mill, a distillery to provide a market 
 for the corn raised in the county, on the principal that as corn in the raw was 
 unpalatable, yet if it was worked up into whisky, a little of it could be worried 
 down. 
 
 Wm. Welch also came, an old veteran, whose history reaches back into the 
 bloody days of Boone, in Kentucky, and who was one of Boone's companions 
 in many a weary hunt and dangerous campaign. In 1812, Mr. Welch took a 
 supply train from Blue Lick, Ky., through the unbroken wilderness in Ohio, 
 Permyslvania and New York, to the army at Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario. 
 It was a thrilling story to hear "'Uncle Billy " relate this episode in his life. 
 Benj. Marks, a relative of the Welches, entered large tracts of land in the town- 
 ships of Elgin and St. Charles at the land sale, the patents for which from the
 
 224 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Government, signed by John Tyler, President, are on record in our Recorder's 
 office. The Oatmans came early and staid late, Jesse Oatman being still an 
 honored resident of the town of Dundee. The Ashbaughs, a large family of 
 large boned, muscular men and women, carne and settled down in the north- 
 western part of the town, and Andrew, one of the sons, still resides on the old 
 homestead. The Ashbaughs had a huge Hoosier breaking plow, with which, 
 and a team of eight yoke of oxen, they broke up prairie in nearly every town 
 in the northern part of the county. The Ashbaughs and their breaking team 
 were an institution in the early history of the county, and no record of those 
 times would be complete without honorable mention of their doings. 
 
 Strode, a brother of the Colonel, settled just north of the town line, where 
 he took up a large tract of land and subsequently bought it of the Government, 
 and which he held until within a short time ago. John R. Tucker bought a 
 large tract of land in the northern part of Campton, and added farm to farm 
 until, at his death, his heirs divided up among themselves as noble a patrimony 
 as has fallen to any children in the county. On the old Tucker homestead can 
 be viewed one of the rarest landscapes in this region. 
 
 Just south of the house, as the road rises to the summit tow-ard St. Charles, 
 the beholder stands in the center of a magnificent sweep of prairie and timber. 
 To the west and southwest stretches a natural basin of prairie, the horizon of 
 which is bounded by the wooded slopes in the southern part of the town. To 
 the northwest lie the fertile lands of Burlington, and north and northeast he 
 looks out over the splendid farms of Plato and Elgin with the city's spires in 
 the distance. Eastward are the woods on the river, and tl.e slopes beyond in 
 Du Page County. Southeast, St. Charles nestles on the banks of the Fox, and 
 the Court House the judgment seat to many a willing and unwilling litigant 
 shows its white walls, distance lending its enchantments in concealing the 
 ugly iron spots in its surface which so vex the eye on nearer inspection. 
 Southward, the view is closed in by the grove of noble old oaks, a portion of 
 the original forest which has been left standing, thanks to the discovery of coal 
 and its general use for fuel. 
 
 There is another fine view on the old Oatman homestead, north of the 
 present village of Dundee. The house, a roomy and capacious one, is built at 
 the foot of a finely wooded bluff nearly a mile from the river, and in front of it, 
 and reaching to the river, is a magnificent field of bottom land, as level as a 
 house floor, which takes a circular sweep southward until it is shut in by the 
 bluff, which, at the distance of nearly a mile, comes down to the river, from 
 which it rises abruptly from that point to the village two miles below. 
 
 These old Hoosier families did not all "go West," however, on the advent 
 of the Eastern men, but intermarried with the new comers, and raised up chil- 
 dren, who have become and are a pride to their families and an honor to our 
 county. Many of our most worthy and honored citizens to-day are repre- 
 sentatives of those old families. Among them are Jesse Oatman, Thomas R.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 225 
 
 Welch and Andrew Ashbaugh, of Dundee; George Hammers, whose daughter 
 is the estimable wife of D. F. Barclay ; Leatherman and M. J. Amick, 
 of Elgin; the Corrons, Robert, Joseph P. and Wesley, of Clintonville and 
 Campton ; J. M. Laughlin, of Round Grove ; Julius Alexander, of Geneva, 
 beside many others, descendants of the* first white men who came to the county to 
 stay and make for themselves a local habitation and a name within its borders. 
 
 The first ripple of the incoming tide of Eastern immigration from New York 
 and New England showed itself in 1834 in Kane County, while Waubansie, the 
 war chief of the Pottowattomies, and his people yet held possession of the 
 country. In 1835, Capt. C. B. Dodson removed the old chief and his tribe to 
 Council Bluffs and Kansas, and the beautiful ridge on the west bank of the Fox, 
 just north of Aurora, in which the tribe had buried its dead for many suns, was 
 claimed by McNamara" and others ; and soon the bones of the once powerful 
 tribe were exposed by the plowshare, and the implements of the chase placed 
 beside the dead warriors gathered as relics or cast aside as rubbish. Waubansie 
 was the friend of the whites, and strongly resisted his removal from the scenes 
 of his youthful exploits and the acts of bravery of his later years ; but the decree 
 was inexorable ; the white man wanted his land, and the old warrior turned from 
 his home much in the same humor his pale-face brother would if a stronger power 
 than he could say, " My people want this country, therefore you will move on." 
 
 New England and New York gave Kane County a class of men who estab- 
 lished its reputation for good order on a firm basis, organized its legal existence, 
 began its system of manufactures which have been so wonderfully developed, 
 laid the foundation of its excellent schools, built its early churches and gave it its 
 splendid farms, the real source of all its wealth. Other good men and true have 
 come in from other parts and nobly helped in the splendid achievements of suc- 
 cess and fame, who will be named under the heads of other colonizations. Mas- 
 sachusetts sent of her sons from 1835 to 1840, as follows: The " Hub" gave 
 us Charles Patten, of the " old corner," C. A. Buckingham, the different Clark 
 families, Scott and his son Charles, Samuel N. and the family of Marshall 
 Clark, Peter Sears, Cleveland, Whiting and Haskins at Geneva ; Major Osborn 
 at Batavia, and Hunt and the Brookses at St. Charles. The Wards and Durants 
 came from the Connecticut Valley and settled in St. Charles ; the Bunkers of 
 Geneva and Kaneville were New Bedford men, while the Berkshire hills, gor- 
 geous in their glories of crimson and gold, gave up the Kingsleys, Wilmarths, 
 Hoxies, Masons, McClouds, Brownings, Slades, Parkers and Wells, at Dundee 
 and vicinity, and the Judds at Sugar Grove. The Aments, Alexis Hall, the 
 Longs, the Severances of Big Rock, who settled in what was called the " Col- 
 ony " in that township, W. B. Plato at Aurora, and the Danfords five brothers 
 Eben, the inventor of the double motioned sickles for mowing machines and 
 the super-heating steam generator, at Geneva, all came from the old Bay State. 
 Dr. Le Baron, our late worthy and competent State Entomologist, came from 
 classic Andover.
 
 226 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 From Vermont, whose chief products, say the old geographers, are men and 
 good horses, came the Bradleys, Corless, Austins, Ordways, Hewitts, Sher- 
 mans, Wanzers, Lobdells and Dr. Goodwin, of Dundee ; the Ransteads, Buz- 
 zells, Calvin Pratt, Dr. Tyler and the Abbotts, of Elgin ; Starks and Rich, of/ 
 Rutland ; the Aliens, of Hampshire; the Fersons, father and six boys, S. S. 
 Jones, Minard, the Wheelers, three brothers, Dick, Adam and Dr. Charles, of 
 St. Charles; the Conants, Kelseys and Lillies, of Geneva; D. W. Annis, the 
 Merrills, the Youngs, the Whites and Wheelers,, of Blackberry, and the 
 McDoles, Paulls, Thompsons, Seaveys and P. Y. Bliss, the old veteran, of 
 Sugar Grove. Col. Lyon came from Vermont, and so did Harry Boardman, 
 whose father settled the estate of the hero of Ticonderoga, as the administrator 
 of the rough old patriot. They both settled at Batavia. Ralph C. Horr, the 
 first Justice of the Peace in Aurora, and Rob Mathews came from the same 
 Green Mountain State, and the Angells, who live north of Aurora. 
 
 The NCAV Hampshire men were, among others, Dr. Hale, of Dundee ; the 
 Merrills, Asa, Barzillai and Gil., all of whom have gone to the " undiscovered 
 country ; " the Manns, of whom Adin and William R. only now remain ; the 
 Welds, who have three doctors left, and the whole tribe of Kimballs, whose 
 sons and daughters in and about Elgin are legion. J. P. Bartlett, of Campton, 
 Ephraim and Otho Perkins and the Dearborns, at St. Charles, and the Pin- 
 grees, of Rutland, are also to be counted in the list of the Granite State. 
 Maine gave some Pennys, and St. Charles got them all. The Carrs settled at 
 Nelson's Grove. 
 
 The Nutmeg State, notwithstanding her " blue laws," sent us some splendid 
 material for government work, among whom we find Charles Hoyt, Seth 
 Stowell, R. W. Lee and W. G. Hubbard. The first two were prominent citi- 
 zens of Aurora and Plato, and the latter are still so numbered among the solid 
 men of Kaneville and Elgin. 
 
 Little Rhody remembered and gave from her " ten-acre lot," among others, 
 the Carpenters, of Carpenterville, and Charles McNamara, who appropriated 
 Waubansie's cemetery and a large tract beside to his own use, but according to 
 law, nevertheless. 
 
 The Empire State sent out an army, first and last, who not only viewed the 
 land, but entered in and took possession thereof land sent back for new recruits 
 to fill up the vacant and waste places. The Genesee Valley, where the finest 
 cultivated farms in the Union are to be seen, is represented by the Roots, Wil- 
 sons, Churchills, Smiths, Waldrons, Kemps, Grimes and Lords, who settled in 
 Batavia, Kaneville and Elgin in 18359. Oneida County gave her quota, 
 and among them we find the Giffords, Hezekiah, James T. and Abel ; the 
 Hatchs and the Raymonds, Augustine and George B., of Elgin ; and Isaac 
 Marlett, of Aurora. About Schenectady and Albany once lived the Wilcoxes, 
 Mallorys, Kelly, Mansfield, the Pecks, the Lawrences, the Jenneys, Herricks, 
 Barritts and John Hill, but they all turned their faces westward, and lo ! are
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 227 
 
 their names not written in the records of the towns of Elgin, Dundee and 
 Rutland ? 
 
 From the grassy meadows of Orange County, which boasts its high-priced 
 butter, came good old Father Brewster and took up the magnificent farm that 
 lies in four townships and two counties, DuPage and Kane. P. R. Wright 
 came from the Genesee country, and the great metropolis sent us William V. 
 Plum, of Aurora. The Bairds, Howards, Irwins, Conklins, Ingersols and 
 Browns, of St. Charles, and the Padlefords and Andersons, of Elgin, came from 
 Buffalo, and the Truesdalls, Shermans, French, Prudens, Hindsdells, Campbells 
 and Augustus Adams, of Elgin, and the Dunhams and Mark Fletcher, of St. 
 Charles, and G. W. Gorton, of Aurora, had their homes in Central New York. 
 The McCartys, Joseph, Samuel and David, came from Elmira in 1834, and laid 
 the foundation for the leading city in numbers and political influence of the 
 county Aurora. The Quakers of Madison County were moved by the spirit of 
 emigration, and per consequence we find the Teffts, Mitchells, Gilberts and 
 Knoxs pitching their tents in Elgin and vicinity, but, unlike the Arabs, have 
 not "folded them and silently stolen away." Dan Smith, of Dundee, came 
 from near Ogdensburg, and old Gen. McClure from the lake region, and T. H. 
 Thompson from Tompkins County. Washington County was represented by 
 the Van Nortwicks, Barker and House at Batavia, and Chemung County by E. 
 D. Terry, Wyatt Carr, Charles Bates and Burr Winton at Aurora. N. B. 
 Spaulding, formerly Sheriff of the county, and 0. D. Day, of Aurora, came 
 from Otsego. The Stolps, of Aurora, came from Syracuse, and George R. 
 Makepiece from Utica. Edwards, Bosworth and Hunt, of Dundee ; Allen P. 
 Hubbard, the first Clerk of the Circuit Court; James Risk, once Sheriff; R. C. 
 Mix, W. H. Hawkins, John Scott, the Gibsons, Sawyer, Anson Pease, Esquire 
 Rawson and Platt, of Blackberry, were all Knickerbockers. From Plattsburg, 
 of glorious memory, came America Gates, who had three brothers, the quartette 
 bearing the name of the four continents, Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and 
 the Wilders. Old Cortland gave the Aliens and Z. Squires, of Aurora. There 
 are others, no doubt, who came from these two great sections of the country, 
 whose names have been omitted ; but we cannot name all of the good men who 
 have helped to give Kane County her proud position in the Empire State of the 
 West, for she counts such men by the hundreds among her citizens. 
 
 C. B. Dodson and the Herringtons, James and Crawford, came from the 
 Keystone State, and so did David Dunham. The Lakes, Theodore, who died 
 January 12, 1876, and Zaphna, who made the town of West Aurora a begin- 
 ning, were Buckeyes from Ohio. 
 
 New Jersey, which, in the early days of which we write, was not the State 
 of Camden and Amboy, sent Henry Warne, who with his three stalwart boys, 
 John, Elisha and Gid, made his claim good to many broad acres in Campton 
 and Blackberry, and Wm. Lance, the centenarian, made his home in the latter 
 town, in May, 1834, and lived on the old homestead till he fell asleep, with
 
 228 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 a record made up of 104 years of varied experience. Both families are 
 represented by numerous branches in the county to-day. 
 
 New Brunswick cannot be classed with New England, although it is but 
 just a step from one to the other, but having sent of h'er "blue noses," who 
 have been eminent citizens of the county, it is not proper that they should be 
 left out, and we note them now. Th ey were Robert Moody, the old Justice of 
 St. Charles, whose court was an institution of the early days of the county, and 
 his brother Archibald, whose estate was the first administered on in the county, 
 three Young brothers, Samuel, Gideon and Joel, the Grays and J. T. Wheeler, 
 at St. Charles, and the Stringers and Bishops of EJgin, and Reads of Campton. 
 Dr. Eastman came from Canada also. 
 
 Christopher Payne is said to have been the first actual settler in the county, 
 though Haight came and took up a claim at Geneva, in June, 1833, but left it 
 again and did nofreturn till the next year. Payne came in October. 1833, 
 and located at the head of the Big Woods, just east of Batavia. He came from 
 the South direct to the county, but was originally from New York State, so that 
 State has the credit of giving the first settler to the county. Payne came to 
 Naperville, in 1831. The Winter of 1831-32 was one of unusual severity. No 
 provisions were to be had any nearer than the W T abash, from whence he came, and 
 thither he and an other party took up a weary and perilous march of 140 miles 
 for food. They had ox teams and camped out every night in groves, being 
 compelled to lay by many days from the fierceness of the winds and the 
 severity of the weather. They took a bee-line from Naperville to the Wabash, 
 and finally arrived safely home with food sufficient to last them through the 
 Winter. He counted that trip the hardest and most perilous undertaking of 
 his life. 
 
 The land of the Druids, Wales, sent a colony of the Cymri into Big Rock, 
 the pioneers of whom were John Pierce, from South Wales, and Edward 
 Whildin and Maurice Pierce, from North Wales, the first named coming in the 
 Spring of 1836, and the latter during the same year, and the settlement of the 
 town by the Welsh is due more to them than any one else. In 1837, Richard 
 Roberts and R. Whildin came. In 1840, a large addition was made to the 
 Welsh .colony, among whom were Morgan Lewis, William Griffith, William 
 Ashton, Thomas Evans and John Whildin, all from North Wales. Thomas 
 Meredith, father of our" Tom," came in 1842. The Davis families, the Jones', 
 Williams', Hughes', Vaughns, Thomas', Michaels and Owens, are all from the 
 land of the leek. 
 
 There was an old Welshman named Manchester, who managed to exist by 
 his wits, stopping where night found him, and paying for his board and lodging 
 with his tongue, who used to travel up and down the country in a very early 
 day, and was in his way a very noted character. He had a panacea for all the 
 ills flesh is heir to, and whenever any one complained of being sick, no matter 
 what the symptoms were, whether headache or a sore toe, he invariably gave
 
 HISTORY OF 'KANE COUNTY. 229 
 
 his universal prescription, which was : " Keep your head cool, your feet dry 
 and your heart free from anger and vain ambition, and you will do." 
 
 Another branch of the great Celtic race, namely the Irish, colonized at 
 Rutland. They first came in 1839 or 1840. Owen Burke came to Elgin in 
 1840, and was there two years before going to his farm. He came direct from 
 the Green Isle, but at and about the same time, from 1840 to 1842-3, a large 
 iiumber came in from the canal and settled in and about Rutland. Among 
 them were the following leading ones : The Farrells, Halligans, Hennessys, 
 Gallighans, Donohues, Dewires, Clintons, O'Briens, and Coyles. They were 
 mostly all Catholics, and staunch Democrats. The Hays', Hay dens and Free- 
 mans are also large freeholders in Rutland. The Irish people have, as is well 
 known, settled in all parts of the county, but the only Irish colony was in 
 Rutland and the western part of Dundee. They came by families direct from 
 the old sod, and built their altars and gathered around them, as in their old 
 homes they had left in Erin across the sea. 
 
 In the north of Ireland, King Robert Bruce established, in the fourteenth 
 century, colonies of Lowland Scotch, who were descended from the Saxons, 
 Danes and the old Vikings of Norway, who successively overran and qonquered 
 the "tight little island" from Land's End to the Highlands. From the de- 
 scendants of these colonies in the north of Ireland came the Moores, Rileys, 
 Christies, Eakins, Hunters, Lynchs, Hoods and Atchisons, and settled in the 
 southern and western part of Rutland. 
 
 " Auld Scotia" sent us a direct importation from her lowlands of sturdy, 
 hardheaded Presbyterians, who took as naturally to Abolitionism, when they 
 struck the soil of the land of freedom, as they did to the principles of John 
 Knox. They settled in the towns of Dundee, Elgin and Plato, and came by 
 families, and the first ones as soon as 1839-40. There was an association 
 called the "Aberdeen North American Investment and Loan Company," which, 
 by its manager and agent, W. Taylor, bought large tracts of land in all of the 
 northern tier of counties in the State. There is an agreement on record in the 
 Recorder's office of the county between the said company and Taylor, defining 
 his power and authority, acknowledged before John Blaikee. "Provost and 
 ,Chief Magistrate of Aberdeen, Scotland." At the same time, there were 
 established some Scottish banks 'in Chicago and Milwaukee, which transacted 
 the business of the Scotch colonies, beside that of many others. Messrs. Mur- 
 ray & Brand established one, a private bank, at Chicago, and bought largely of 
 the lands of Kane County. George Smith, one of the institutions of the 
 Northwest for fifteen years, had his principal bank at Chicago, which he man- 
 aged himself, with a branch at Milwaukee managed by Alexander Mitchell. 
 His bank was known as the " Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance Com- 
 pany," and he issued notes which were always redeemable in gold, and were 
 justly considered the soundest currency in circulation for ten years or more. 
 George Smith's vast wealth was pledged for its redemption, by George Smith's
 
 230 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 word, which word, it is needless to say, was never broken, in that particular 
 at least. 
 
 It was the discovery of a counterfeit $10 bill on this bank that took Allan 
 Pinkerton from the cooper shop and started him on the road which has led to 
 liis world-wide fame. A stranger came into Dundee one summer afternoon in 
 1850, and Pinkerton, who was then a Deputy under B. C. Yates, High Sheriff 
 of the county, going out of his cooper shop on the hill, down into the village, 
 met him, and, being somewhat struck with his appearance, accosted him casually-, 
 and soon fell into familiar conversation with him. The stranger was somewhat 
 wary at first, but Pinkerton's frank, bluif ways and broad Scotch accent reas- 
 sured him, and he began to be communicative. Pinkerton soon learned enough 
 to satisfy himself that the stranger had something valuable to discover, too much 
 so in fact for development then and there, and therefore it was arranged that on 
 the next day the two should go to some retired spot and the stranger would 
 unbosom himself to his new friend. An evening of social chat and enjoyment 
 was spent, and the stranger retired for the night. The next day Pinkerton and 
 the stranger took their way to the mounds that rear their beautiful rounded 
 summits to the northwest of the village, and there upon the greensward, beneath 
 the umbrageous shade of the old oaks, the stranger laid before the canny Scot 
 several packages of crisp $10 notes on the Wisconsin Fire and Marine Insurance 
 Company's bank, made from plates engraved by the stranger himself, who pro- 
 ceeded to develop the whole plan of operations and what he desired his new 
 friend to do in the premises. Pinkerton's virtue was at once alarmed (?), and 
 assuming an air of insulted dignity he drew from his pocket a pair of iron brace- 
 lets, and clapping on the stranger's wrists, had in limbo one of the sharpest 
 counterfeiters of his day " Old Craig." He brought his prisoner down to 
 Geneva, where he was locked up. but was never brought to trial, he being fortu- 
 nate enough to break out and take himself out of the jurisdiction of the court. 
 From that time Allan Pinkerton left barrel making and gave his attention to 
 detective business, with what success the whole world knows. 
 
 The Scotch families who came into Dundee were the Pinkertons, Robert and 
 Allan, the Dempsters, Allisons, Binnies, Crichtons, Thompsons, Hills, Alstons, 
 Egglestons, Archibalds, Griffiths, Howes, Todds, Duffs, McCullucks, Campbells, 
 Morrisons (Murdoch and his boys), and McAllisters and McQueen. 
 
 In Rutland, there is a Grant and a McGregor, descendants, maybe, of the 
 old clansmen who, meeting at a narrow pass in the highlands of insufficient 
 width to allow one to pass by the other, refused at each other's bidding to lie 
 down and let the other pass over his body, but drew their brands and began a 
 bloody, desperate fight : 
 
 ' Each looked to sun and stream and plain 
 
 As what they ne'er might see again ; 
 Then foot and point and eye opposed, 
 In dubious strife they darkly closed."
 
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 But, neither party gaining any advantage, they grappled one another in a 
 fierce, murderous endeavor to throw each other over the cliff. They could each 
 say to the other : 
 
 " No maiden's hand is round thee thrown ; 
 
 That desperate grasp thy frame might feel 
 Through bars of brass and triple steel ! 
 
 They tug, they strain, down, down they go," 
 
 to the bottom of the abyss at the foot of the precipice, stark and stiff as " Red 
 Murdock." 
 
 If the Rutland Grants and McGregors are descendants of those plucky 
 fighters, they have forgotten the old feuds of their ancestors, for the farms of 
 the two families lie side by side, and, for aught that appears, are the best of 
 " neebors." 
 
 The McCornacks, Alexander and William, true as steel to their principles 
 of right, and the Glens, also made their homes in Rutland, and the Sheldons, 
 Shirras, Whites and Thomas Martin settled in Elgin, and so also did the 
 Frazers, descendants of the old Gaelic Highlanders. Walter Wilson and his 
 son, John C., came in 1834 from Glasgow, and located west of St. Charles 
 village about two miles, and John C. is living near his original farm yet. He 
 says the family lived in their wagon all one season, till they got their cabin up, 
 and then they had no floor but mother earth for two years after, and the first 
 panel door brought into county he brought in 1836, from Chicago. 
 
 Robert Moody, although coming from New Brunswick into the county, 
 was a full-blooded Scot. There came a colony of Scotchmen and settled 
 southwest of Aurora, but they are all in Kendall County now. They gave 
 their old home names to their localities, and so we find, on the maps of the 
 county, McGregor and Rob Roy Slough and Creek. Rob Roy Slough was 
 quite a noted landmark in the early records and surveys of the county. 
 
 The Scotch colony has given the world another man whose fame has reached 
 as wide a range as Pinkerton's William Dempster, the sweet ballad singer, 
 whose strains and melodies have entranced courts of Kings and Presidents and 
 charmed the common people everywhere. Wherever the language of music is 
 understood, there have Dempster's Scottish songs found him friends and admir- 
 ers. As we think of him, it almost seems as if we could hear the plaintive 
 warblings of "Highland Mary," blending with the stirring notes of "Bonnie 
 Dundee." 
 
 The Scotch colonists in Dundee were great sticklers for their religious views ; 
 and though they, for a while, sat under Father Clarke's mild, persuasive preach- 
 ing, when Mr. Davis came into the pastorate they began to grow uneasy, and, 
 finally, went off by themselves and established a church, and have worshiped 
 in their own forms ever since. 
 
 Peter Innes, also, came from the land of Wallace and Bruce in an early 
 day, and settled in Aurora, and has been long noted for his strict integrity and
 
 232 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 temperance principles. Peter says his worst fault is building houses for other 
 people to inhabit. Another loyal son of the land of the thistle, and who glories 
 in the tartan and the memories of historic Scotland, is Malcolm Robert Bruce, 
 of Aurora, for aught we know a lineal descendant of King Bobby himself. He 
 has as much persistence as the ancient Bruce had, as his well-fought contests 
 with the city authorities of Aurora over his LaSalle street front will witness. 
 He had some experience, too, in the rebellion of 1848, in Ireland, with Mitchell, 
 O'Brien and their compatriots. 
 
 In the town of Hampshire and the western part of Kaneville, there is 
 dwelling a sturdy, thriving class of worthy citizens, known as Pennsylvania 
 Dutch. The first ones came into the county as early as 1844 or 1845. Old 
 John Wales, the old "Justice of the Peace," entered land in Hampshire as 
 early as June, 1845. Mr. Wales did as much, or more probably, to induce the 
 settlement of his people in Kane County, than any one else. He was followed 
 by Aurand, Litner, the Reams brothers, Becker, Munch, the two Klicks, Kearn, 
 Gift, Ebert, Wertwine, Hubner, Swartzenderfer, Gilkerson, Getzelman, Levy, 
 Shallenberger, Waidman, Hauslein, Zeigler, Heins, Tyson, Damn, Kemmer- 
 ling, Deuchler and Garlic. They or their immediate descendants are still liv- 
 ing in Hampshire and vicinity. 
 
 In 1850 or soon afterward, they organized a church, called and known as 
 the Evangelical Association of North America, and built a house of worship. 
 
 Those who settled in Kaneville and the adjoining portions of DeKalb 
 County were summed up by Dr. Potter thus : " Runkel, Schneider, Wolf and 
 Platt, Biser, Hummel and Gerlack, Zeigler, Lintner, Labrant, Mower, Kaler, 
 Kessler, Schweitzer, Sower, Ramer, Eberly, Kulp and Grimm, Myers, Haish 
 and Mose Hill, the slim Berrier, Bartmess, Rowe and Shoop, with Koonz and 
 Cuter fill the group." 
 
 The doctor used his license as a poet to make Mose Hill do duty in the 
 euphony of the rhyme, but he was neither slim nor a Dutchman. 
 
 Besides those named in the doctor's versification, there were Van Valken- 
 burg, Harter, Gusline, Gusler, Keyser and George Dauberman, all in Kane- 
 ville. They came in 1846 and afterward, buying their land of Uncle Sam in 
 the Fall of the first named year. Their religion is the same as that of 
 their Hampshire brethren, and they have a church just across the line from 
 DeKalb County. They hold their camp meetings alternately at Lone Grove 
 and Pigeon Woods, and attend them en masse. They are devoted pietists, and 
 get up considerable excitement in their revival meetings, which are held every 
 Winter. 'A description of their family worship may be interesting here. When 
 the day's work is over, the father or head of the house reads some portion of 
 the Scriptures, and then all, large and small, join in singing a hymn, after 
 which they all kneel and the head of the family offers a prayer. He closes his 
 petition, when the mother takes up the supplication and pursues it to such 
 length as she chooses, and when she closes, the oldest child, whether male or
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 233 
 
 female, offers his or her prayer, and is succeeded by the whole flock more or less, 
 according to age, down to the lisping infant who can just say, " Now I lay me 
 down to sleep," when all respond with a hearty amen, and arise and prepare 
 for bed. They usually use their native tongue in their worship, and, although 
 not understood at all scarcely by their English speaking guest, who may be a 
 witness to their solemn order, yet the fervor which characterizes their exercises 
 never fails to interest the beholder. 
 
 In and near Aurora there settled some of the Mohawk Valley Dutchmen, 
 and among them we find the Grays, Wagners, Adam Phy, Kecks and Van 
 Alstines. The Van Sickles and Van Fleets came from New Jersey. 
 
 The old Vikings of Norway and Sweden, whose descendants are known as 
 Scandinavians, Danes and Finns, are numerously represented in Geneva, St. 
 Charles, Elgin, Campton and Virgil. Among the first ones were Gunner, 
 Anderson and Anderson Gunderson, who furnished much litigation for the 
 Circuit Court, and merriment as well, when the title of the various suits they 
 had upon the dockets were called, and Andrew Peterson, John Hokanson and 
 Carl Olson. In 1853-5, the great body of Swedes came first to Geneva and St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Eben Danford was then in full blast, making his double motioned iron 
 reapers and mowers at Geneva, and many of the Swedes settled on the east 
 side of the river. They also settled at St. Charles, buying up the Little Woods 
 in small tracts and clearing off the stumps, and have now snug little home- 
 steads all over that once famous neck of woods. They pushed west almost 
 into Campton and Virgil, and north into Elgin, and have made most excellent 
 citizens. Some of our best artisans are Swedes, as the National W T atch Fac- 
 tory at Elgin, and the car shops at Aurora, and various other manufactories of 
 the county will abundantly testify. Among the noted ones are C. P. Gronberg, 
 the reaper inventor ; B. Kindblade, who will make anything from a cambric 
 needle to an electric engine or piano-forte ; Peterson, the watchmaker ; Rys- 
 trom, the carriage manufacturer ; and another Peterson, in Geneva, who makes 
 ladies' fine shoes. The leading men among these are the Lungreens, Peter and 
 sons (Charles and August), Peterson, England, Nord and Abrahamson, at St. 
 Charles, and A. P. Anderson, at Batavia, who is by, the way, a shining example 
 of what industry and continuity will do for a man to gain him a competency. 
 But a very few years ago Anderson was a journeyman tailor in Geneva, and 
 to-day he is the owner of as fine a stone block as there is in Batavia, besides 
 other good property. He has attended strictly to business, and is now reaping 
 the fruits of his active, judicious efforts ; also B. Kindblade, of Batavia; An- 
 drew Rystrom, formerly one of the city fathers of Geneva ; and Landborg, the 
 blacksmith, at the latter place. 'This people are, as a general thing, frugal and 
 industrious, and make the best of help on the farm, in the manufactory, or in 
 mercantile pursuits. The Swedish girls are noted fpr their tidiness and skill 
 in domestic affairs, and many of them have become so far metamorphosed into
 
 234 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Yankees that they have married into Yankee families, and are mixing up their 
 blood with the genuine Bunker Hill crimson. They were at first Lutherans 
 (or a branch of that denomination") in their Religious affiliations, and great 
 sticklers for their church rules and demands. They paid their big and little 
 " collects" with a promptness that would make the face of a tax collector in 
 this year of grace radiant with joy. Christmas is their great holiday. Their 
 churches then are trimmed with festoons and wreaths of evergreens, and ser- 
 vices begin as early as two or three o'clock Christmas morning, and last all 
 day, and for the whole week succeeding. They have a central church at 
 Geneva, whither they come from all directions every Sunday, rain or shine. 
 There has been, within the past three or four years, quite a secession from the 
 Lutheran Church to Methodism among them. 
 
 A mistake which occurred at the Circuit Clerk's office of Kane County, 
 some years ago, sent two brothers into their new allegiance with different family 
 names, which are still maintained. B. and Frank Kindblade were brothers, but 
 when Frank made his declaration of intention to become a citizen of this glo- 
 rious republic, by reason of his meager knowledge of the English language, he 
 gave his name as Kimball as near as he could be understood, and when his final 
 certificate was issued Frank became known no more as Kindblade, the name his 
 brother bears, but Kimball. 
 
 The ancestry of this people is an honorable one, and of which they may well 
 be proud. The Scandinavian race has given to the world some of its greatest 
 intellects, in science, literature and the arts. Tycho Brahe, the founder of prac- 
 tical astronomy and instructor of the great Kepler, and Linnaeus, the great bot- 
 anist, whose works are the standard in that science to-day, lead the grand pro- 
 cession. Ericsson, the master mechanic and inventor of the caloric engine and 
 various other helps for man, as well as the projector and constructor of the 
 "cheese box on a raft" that met, the Confederate ram, Merrimac, in Norfolk 
 Bay, and sent her back from her work of destruction to her covert, crippled and 
 disabled, giving joy to millions of loyal hearts, many of whom look upon the 
 little Monitor's appearance just at the opportune moment as something scarcely 
 less than providential, is also an honored member of that procession. 
 
 In music, this fair-haired and blue-eyed race has given us a divine trinity, 
 viz. : Ole Bull, the incomparable violinist ; Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale, 
 whose warblings have entranced the world, and Christine Nilsson, the matchless 
 queen of song, before whose throne millions have bowed and worshiped. 
 
 In literature, the gifted and noble woman, Fredrika Bremer, whose books 
 are read in almost every tongue, stands out like a beacon on a mountain top ; 
 and what child is there who has not laughed and cried by turns ovter the fairy 
 tales of the northern magician and king of youth, Hans Christian Andersen, 
 whose gentle, loving life has been crowned with a happy, serene and peaceful close? 
 
 The first white men who came into the wilderness of the Northwest were 
 Pere Marquette, the great Jesuit missionary, Joliet, the merchant, and La Salle,
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 235 
 
 the trader and explorer. The' first two explored the Mississippi as far south as 
 Arkansas in 1673, arid returned by way of the Illinois to Chicago, then an 
 Indian village. The latter spent the Winter of 1680 near Peoria. Marquette 
 died on the shore of Lake Michigan. When the fur trade was opened, the 
 French voyagers became the avant couriers of the new commerce, and intermar- 
 ried with various Indian tribes, and trapped and hunted and acted as guides to 
 the later expeditions. French families came in very early, and made settlements- 
 at the sites of Dubuque, Mackinaw, Green Bay, St. Louis and Kaskaskia. 
 There are several reservations in Cook County set off to the French half breeds ; 
 one on the Aux Plaines is known now as the Lafrombois tract or reservation. 
 There are others to ''Billy Caldwell," Robinson and Miranda. One of them 
 covered the present site of Wilmette, and was called Ouilmette. 
 
 The Baubiens came very early to Chicago, while it was but a garrison, in 
 fact. Mark Beaubien is now living at Naperville. The French have settled 
 in Kane County in but one locality Aurora. There quite a large colony has 
 settled first and last, commencing in 1845 and running up to 1855, and later 
 even. We find the LaClares Peter and Alexander buying land in the Big 
 Woods, then a large body of magnificent timber, in 1845. Leon Mayeaux 
 sometimes spelled Layon Mayo, Layean Mayeau, Layhew Mayhew, and Layo 
 Mayhew came about the same time, and so did old Stephen Mowrey. Among 
 the earlier French settlers at Aurora may be named Touissaint, La Tranquilitte, 
 Peter Leplant, Charles Benoit (sometimes spelled Benwire and Benway), Lean- 
 der Baltasand, the Leveques, Bernard Tonnar, Francis Nadeau, Alfred Deslau- 
 riers, Frank Sylvester, Ed. Vouchee, Louis Lebont, Joseph Robere, Louis 
 Suviner, Peter Brasseaux, Louis LeBeaux, James Jaquenon, Jean Baptist 
 Hubert, Joseph Ratelle, Benoit Moisant, Joseph Lamoureaux, Louis Laplanck, 
 U. Laundre, Nick Presche, and last, though by no means least, C. F. Jauret, 
 the Master Mechanic of the Chicago, Burlington Quincy Railroad, and 
 inventor of some contrivance for use on railways which is being extensively 
 used. The religion of our French citizens is generally Catholic. 
 
 The Durants of St. Charles and Raymonds of Elgin are descendants of 
 some of the old Huguenot families of France. 
 
 The German immigration, which began in the Northwest about 1836, with 
 a single family, has become an irruption. Commencing on the shore of Lake 
 Michigan, the ever increasing army has moved steadily westward in an un- 
 broken phalanx, through Cook, Lake and Du Page Counties into Kane, with 
 but few interruptions. Here and there it has met a community of original 
 settlers, which has resisted its advance, but it speedily flanked it, and passed on 
 to new conquests beyond, leaving the garrison behind to beleaguer and captur e 
 by detail the few outposts remaining, and take full possession of the land. 
 The western towns of Cook County, which twenty years ago had scarcely a 
 German inhabitant, are now mostly occupied by them. Nearly every sale of a 
 farm in the counties above named, including the eastern portion of Kane
 
 236 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 County, is made to a German. The eastern portion of Dundee, Elgin, Geneva, 
 Batavia and the Big Woods or what was once that fine body of timber are 
 almost wholly occupied by this energetic, pushing, thriving race of Saxons. 
 They have subdued the once famous Big Woods, and what, but twenty years 
 ago, was one solid body of splendid oak, hickory and maple, is now finely cul- 
 tivated farms, with scarcely a stump to be seen to tell the story of what was 
 once there. The German is found everywhere, and in all kinds of business. 
 He makes money, and is satisfied to make but a little, but he contrives, in what- 
 ever business he enters, to make his income exceed, be it ever so little, his out- 
 go ; hence, we hear of no German paupers. The German is given to sociality, 
 and hence he spends his money freely among his friends, especially with his 
 own family, if he has one. Father, mother and children enter alike into the 
 pleasure "of the hour, whatever it may be. The Germans have attained to such 
 prominence in numbers in Kane County, they have become important factors 
 in politics, especially in Dundee, Elgin and Aurora. Scarcely an election is 
 held in those towns, at which there is not some German elected to an office. 
 They support, cheerfully, the public school, and such as are church members 
 are zealous and consistent. 
 
 John Glos settled in St. Charles, where, for several years, he followed his 
 trade of cabinet making, at which he was an adept. He came, in 1836, direct 
 from Germany, to which he never returned until the year 1874, when he went 
 to revisit the scenes of his boyhood in the Fatherland which all Germans love, 
 no matter how pleasant their surroundings are here, nor how many years may 
 have passed since they left "dear Bingen on the Rhine." Mr. Glos has held 
 many offices of trust in Du Page County, in which his residence has been for 
 the greater portion of his sojourn in this country. The first German who 
 came to Kane County was John Peter Snyder, who still resides at North 
 Aurora. 
 
 Levi Footh, a Bohemian, drove stage from Chicago to Galena, through El- 
 gin, in 1839-40, for Frink & Walker. He subsequently purchased Govern- 
 ment lands in Virgil, where he now resides, together with several brothers who 
 have since joined him from his native land. 
 
 Joseph Kapis came to Elgin in 1845, and worked in the woolen factory and 
 subsequently also bought land in Virgil. 
 
 Jacob Mueller (now known as Jacob Miller) so well known as the manufac- 
 turer of cigars at Aurora, first located at Elgin in 1853 or thereabouts. 
 
 Martin Straussel came into Elgin in 1848, from Chicago, where he came 
 about 1840. 
 
 Schweigert bought land in Section 1 of Aurora, in 1846, right in the heart 
 of the Big Woods, and Adam Hartmann, in 1848, located near him. 
 
 A large number of Germans came into Kane County in 1848. Among 
 those who are or have been prominent and leading men among them, are the 
 following in addition to those above named : At Elgin, Joseph Pfordreshei',
 
 ELGIN .

 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNT V. 230 
 
 Charles Siedel, William Damisch, Christopher Sohle, Fred Fehrman, Adolph 
 Sass, Joe Pabst, Henry Bierman, William Heideman and the Adlers. 
 
 In Dundee, whither they first came in 1853, Fred Haas, proprietor of the 
 celebrated Spring Mills, Henry Plinke. the Lutheran Minister, and Hagen, 
 proprietor of the brick yards, and Geo. Pfisterer. 
 
 The Schochs, a large family and their relatives, settled in the east part of 
 Geneva and adjoining toAvn in Du Page, with several other families from the 
 same part of Germany. 
 
 Fred Drahms, a, fine mechanic, came from the shores of the Baltic Sea, and 
 settled in Geneva as early as 1854. His son, August, went into the United 
 States service during the rebellion, while he was a mere boy, so small that his 
 cavalry overcoat dragged on the ground. He subsequently studied for the min- 
 istry and is now an eloquent divine, located near San Francisco. 
 
 In Aurora, the largest number of Germans settled, coming in from 1850 and 
 on. Among them are the following notable ones: The large family of Lies, 
 with their, relations ; John Plein, and Reising, the Youngles brothel's, and a 
 score or more of the Cassalmans and their kindred, Frieders as many more, 
 Freidweiler, Joseph Deimel, the Wolfs, Lugg, of the firm of Lugg & Plein ; 
 John and Joseph Reisiug. the merchants; Chas. Blasey, the brewer: Dr. 
 Jassoy, Weise, Encke. Hammerschmidt, Breeswick, John Adam Brunnen- 
 meyer, John Joseph Scharschug, Eitelgeorge, Felsenheld, Morris Henoch, 
 Fred Rang, George Pfaffle, Henry Fickensher, Rutishauser, Goldsmidt, the 
 Metzners, Canisius, Staudt & Karl, the druggists; Rev. Ernst, Henry Buhre, 
 the Lutheran minister; Nicholas Stenger, Leins, the exquisite painter who deco- 
 rates the Pullman palace cars at the car shops, and whose handiwork may be seen 
 and enjoyed in the beautiful frescoes in Staudt's drug store; and lastly Gus 
 Pfrangle, the worthy Postmaster at Aurora. 
 
 In Sugar Grove we find two sturdy farmers, John Banker and Nicholas 
 Henkes, and Ruteshell and Ohlinger are their neighbors across the line in 
 Blackberry. 
 
 A. T. Fischer bought the Elliott farm in Campton, a splendid property, 
 valued at $20,000. 
 
 In Plato, Adam and Randolph Bode, Reibel. Betzlinger and Ripberger and 
 others are the representatives of the Northern Goths that overran Rome. 
 
 Hampshire Collectors gather taxes from Kasermann, Schweiger, Reinike, 
 Shetter Blazer, and others from the Rhine ; and in Burlington, George E. 
 Schaiver, Grallemont and Meith pay tribute. Anton Loser, J. F. Thonvarth 
 and others are leading merchants in Aurora. 
 
 Among the Germans who have occupied public positions in Kane County, 
 may be named Charles J. Metzner, for several years State's Attorney for the 
 Twenty-eighth Circuit, and his brother Carl, Clerk of the Aurora Court of 
 Common Pleas; John Reising, Supervisor of Aurora; John Plain. Collector, 
 and August Pfrangle, Postmaster of the same city.
 
 240 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The tenth and last colonization in Kane County is that of our American: 
 citizens of African descent, the bulk of whom came in as contrabands of war 
 during the- rebellion caused on their account. There have been colored person* 
 abiding among us ever since the county was organized, in 1836 ; but who the- 
 first one was that cast his shadow on, and left his footmark in, the soil of old 
 Kane, it is hard to tell. The first one came by the underground railroad, but, 
 not liking the country, went immediately to Canada. Not being deemed worthy 
 of consideration before they were entitled to suffrage, they existed simply as- 
 hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Philistines with whom they sojourned- 
 But times change if men do not, and the day came round when " the might was. 
 with the right," and Sambo was a voter. At once he rose to the level of hid 
 citizenship, and from obscurity and disregard he passed into notice and consid- 
 eration. Candidates at once included him among their friends, and shook 
 hands with him and " cow-shedded " him and "stood treat" and cajoled and 
 flattered him, and tried to induce him to vote for them, just the same as thev 
 did his white compeers. 
 
 The colored people have the privilege of the schools now, and the rising 
 generation which is coming on thick and fast ought to be intelligent and 
 influential. Many of the young men among them are educating themselves, 
 and by the excellent progress they have already made, give promise of more- 
 than average ability. Young Brown, of .Aurora, and Terrell, of Geneva, 
 are good specimens of their class, and are studious and industrious, and ar& 
 bound to rise. The colored people are settled mostly in the river towns of the 
 county. They have churches at Elgin, St. Charles, Batavia and Aurora, which 
 are well attended. 
 
 While there never was a regular colony of Englishmen settled in Kane- 
 County, yet there have been, in various localities, individuals, sporadic cases r 
 from the land upon whose empire the sun never sets, who are entitled to hon- 
 orable mention in this history. John Smith, with his boys, Henry and sunny- 
 hearted Tilden, were Englishmen, and lived just east of Dundee village, on the- 
 fann where Tilden and his father died, and on which Henry now resides. 
 James Knott & Sons were merchants in Elgin, and established an unblemished 
 reputation for integrity and financial ability. Ed. Merrifield also lived east of 
 the city for many years. The father to Ed. and Vinnie Lovell was an En- 
 glishman, and gave to Elgin two remarkably fine sons. Ed. is a rising young- 
 lawyer, and Vincent S. (which was his father's name before him) is an equally 
 promising journalist, having held a prominent position on the Albany Argus 
 for several years. John Lovell, an uncle of the above named young men, live* 
 in Plato, and has been and is a prominent citizen of the town. The Meads r 
 Greeks, Marshalls, Pitwoods and Christian came to St. Charles. Dr. Mead 
 became an eminent physician, and surgeon, and was most successful in the- 
 treatment of insane persons, and many of his ideas have, since his removal from 
 the country, been incorporated in the management of our hospitals for the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 241 
 
 insane. This Dr. Mead must not be confounded with Dr. Thompson Mead, of 
 Batavia, who was a Yankee, or at least American born. Dr. John Thomas, an 
 Englishman, came first to Virginia, thence to Kendall County, and then to St. 
 Charles, where he established, in 1841, a newspaper and called it the St. 
 Charles Patriot, Fox River Advocate and Kane County Herald. If the edi- 
 torials in the paper were as long proportionately as its name, there was more 
 work done on it, editorially, than on all the papers in the county now. Ward 
 Rathbone was an early settler in Geneva, and prominently known throughout 
 the county. Later on, in 1844-9, there came four brothers from Halifax, En- 
 gland, named James, Joseph, John and Benjamin Wilson. Three of them 
 settled in Geneva, and one in Virgil, but he subsequently moved to Geneva. 
 Two of the brothers were printers, and published successively the Geneva Mer- 
 cury and Advertiser and Kane County Republican. Joseph was clerk for 
 an Charles Patten at the " Old Corner " for twenty years. Benjamin published 
 interlinear translation of the Greek Testament, translated and compiled by him- 
 self, called the "Emphatic Diaglot." It is a valuable assistant to the student. 
 In Batavia, Joel and J. 0. McKee and George B. Moss located very early. 
 Joel McKee and Moss run, for several years, the flouring-mills at the north 
 end of the town. Mr. McKee's reputation and character were as white and 
 pure as his flour. He was a Christian gentleman in every sense of the word, 
 and when he died Kane County lost one of her really good and true men. Mr. 
 Moss was very much of a gentleman, and died highly respected by all who 
 knew him. Both gentlemen left sons who are now residents of the county. 
 The McKees were not Englishmen, but were from the Bruce colonies in the 
 north of Ireland. James Risk, formerly Sheriff of the county, also came from 
 the latter locality, as did Dr. 'H. M. Crawford, of St. Charles. Shepherd 
 Johnston, known as the banker Johnston, and Richard Summers, settled in Big 
 Rock. Johnston was the father of Shepherd Johnston, Jr., for a long time 
 Secretary of the Board of Education of Chicago, and Charles Johnston, 
 formerly Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Aurora. Summers was 
 father of the well-known Dick Summers, " mine host " of the Richmond, in 
 Chicago, for many years before the big fire of October, 1871. 
 
 W. B. West and Peter H. Johnson settled in Blackberry, although subse- 
 quently Mr. West came to Geneva. Mr. West was widely known, having been 
 engaged in banking for many years. He was one who made as good a bargain 
 for himself as he could, but, when once his word was given, it was sure to be 
 made good in the time promised. He never oppressed a man nor pushed him, 
 when he showed any disposition to keep his obligations, and was ever willing 
 to extend the time of payment when the debt could not readily be met at ma- 
 turity, and that, too, when the security was not A 1. His judgment was most 
 excellent, and he met with but few losses in business. Out of a personal estate 
 left by him of $200,000 there was but a small amount that proved worthless, 
 and that, too, after a banking business of forty years. A daughter of Mr.
 
 242 HISTORY" OF KANE COUNTY". 
 
 West married Hon. T. N. Ravlin, Representative to the State Legislature from 
 Kane County for two terms, and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for 
 several years. His only surviving son is at present in California, engaged in- 
 atlas publishing, with Thos. H. Thompson, a son of another old settler of Kane 
 County, in Dundee. Mr. West was once beguiled, and he often laughinglv 
 told the story, though at his own expense. Charley Sexton, a "dead beat," 
 who once lived in Geneva, went to Mr. West to get his note for 50 discounted 
 for sixty days, offering to take $25 for it and leave his watch as security. Mr. 
 West did not exercise his usual caution in examining the security offered, but 
 discounted the note and laid the-" collateral" away in his safe. When the 
 note matured, Sexton was non est, and Mr. West, on examination, fourid the 
 watch left as security to be worth about five dollars. Mr. West acknowledged 
 himself fairly beaten for once, and charged the loan up to profit and loss. 
 
 Peter H. Johnson has one of the finest farms in Blackberry. Johnson's 
 Mound, the highest point of land in the county, is situated on the farm, and 
 Mr. Johnson's dwelling is built on a commanding point on the side of it, and 
 overlooks the country for miles around. It is a great summer resort for pic- 
 nics and excursions. Major J. H. Mayborne, also an Englishman, came to 
 this country in 1825. From that date until 1846, he remained in the State of 
 New York, engaged in the pursuit of agriculture and study of law. Removing 
 thence to Chicago, he remained there until 1848, when he made his home in 
 Geneva, where he has since been well known as an able and honorable attorney. 
 His services, during the war of the rebellion, ^'ere important, and he held, at 
 ts close, the rank of Major, by which title he is still familiarly known. Since 
 then, he has held the important civil office of State Senator for four years, and 
 was elected Supervisor in 1872, a position which he still retains. He is re- 
 garded throughout the county ;>.s a man of fine legal attainments, and is well 
 known beyond his own immediate section. Mark Yeoman and the Sharps, 
 Reads and Henrys settled in Virgil. Benjamin Boyes, a prosperous merchant 
 in Geneva, came from England to Geneva in 1844, but only stayed till the 
 following Spring, when he went into the town of Northfield, Cook County, 
 where he remained until the year 1863, when he returned to Geneva and 
 embarked in the mercantile business. The first job of work he did in Geneva 
 was to make a pair of boots for David Howard, who was at work at that time 
 (1S44) building the stone flouring-mill on the west side of the river. Mr. 
 Boyes had worked one month at the shoemaker's trade in England, but still 
 tried his hand at boot making, and Mr. Howard looked at the work rather 
 doubtfully, but thought they would answer to wear in the water, and accepted 
 them. Mr. Boyes did not make any more boots. We do not know of a descend- 
 ant of the heroic John Sobieski, of unhappy Poland, in Kane County, unless 
 it be our worthy citizen, David L. Zabriskie, of St. Charles. He may be. for 
 auc'ht we know, a true descendant of t-he iron-crowned kinjj' but if he is not 
 
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 ho is every whit as gallant and courteous a gentleman.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 243 
 
 The great agglomeration of people, from the different nations of the earth, 
 who have made their homes in Kane County, is "what has made the old county 
 what she is ; has transformed the virgin prairie and primeval forests into well 
 tilled farms, thriving villages and busy cities ; has brought her from a wilder- 
 ness, traversed only by the feet of the red man in pursuitr7>f game or his 
 enemies, to her rank among the foremost counties in the Empire State of the- 
 West. Coming from different countries, speaking different tongues, having dif- 
 ferent tastes, following different customs, yet all have had but one aim, to make 
 the home of their adoption prosperous and happy. To that end they have- 
 subdued her soil, enlarged her manufactories, established her beneficent insti- 
 tutions, enhanced her value and extended her political influence, until now, in 
 proportion to her area, she has no superior and but few equals among her sister 
 counties in the State. She has furnished statesmen for the halls of Congress, 
 and Generals and leaders for the armies of the nation. No one class of her 
 varied population can claim all of her virtues, nor is it to be charged with all 
 the vices incident to communities and people. In the war of the rebellion, all 
 classes sprang forward to uphold the flag with rare and noble unanimity, and 
 bore it on to victory on many blood-stained fields. All, all have -borne aloft 
 the shield of old Kane, and sung pagans to her praise. 
 
 The native American mind tends to self government as naturally as the 
 babe turns to the maternal font for nourishment ; and the early organization of 
 Kane County into a body corporate with a legal existence, while there were 
 less than two hundred legal voters within its borders, is proof of that proposition. 
 At the time of the first election in Kane County, there was none of the large 
 foreign population in the county which has subsequently settled in it, save the 
 Youngs and Wheeler, of New Brunswick, Germans, and John Glos and John 
 P. Snyder; also Walter Wilson and the Moodys from bonnie Scotland. The 
 organization, with the above exceptions, was entirely the work of the American 
 born population. Kane County, at that time, included in its limits its present 
 territory, all of DeKalb County, a portion of McHenry as now organized, and 
 a portion of Kendall County, but the first election was held at Geneva, in the 
 log house of Jarries Herrington. The election was for county officers to put 
 the machinery of a legal existence into operation, and there were 180 votes 
 polled. For the office of Sheriff, James Herrington, the father of our Repre- 
 sentative to the General Assembly, received 91, and B. F. Fridley, whose 
 home was then in Oswego, 89 votes. Asa McDole received 115 votes for 
 Coroner, while his opponent, Haiman Miller, received 58. Relief Duryea had 
 96 votes for Recorder of Deeds, the office at that time and up to 1849 being a 
 distinct and separate one from the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Calvin 
 Pepper one vote. Mark W. Fletcher received 141 votes for County Surveyor, 
 and Col ton Knox 29. The vote for County Commissioners, which was the 
 style of county government then, was as follows: Solomon Dunham 155, Eli 
 Barnes 172, Ebenezer Morgan 119, E. D. Terry 22, Ira Minard TO, Allen P. 
 i
 
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 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Hubbard "2. Allen P. Hubbard, Nathan Collins and John Griggs were the 
 Judges, and James T. Wheeler and Selden M. Church, Clerks of the election. 
 The three Judges are dead, Mr. Wheeler is living on his old homestead just 
 north of St. Charles village. Of the candidates voted for, Fridley and Fletcher 
 are living in the county, the first in Aurora and Fletcher on his original farm 
 north of St. Charles on the east side of the river. The most, if not all, of the 
 others are dead. 
 
 There seemed to be something wrong about this first election, for on the 1st 
 day of August following another general election was held for the same officers, 
 which resulted differently. There were also members of Congress and the 
 General Assembly elected at the same time, and the facilities for voting were 
 increased wonderfully. Instead of all being required to come to Geneva to 
 vote, there were nine voting precincts, viz.: Ellery, which. comprised a portion 
 of Kendall County; Orange, which was in the central part of DeKalb and 
 western part of Kane County; Syckamore (as it is spelled on the returns); 
 Pleasant Grove, in the southern part of the present territory of McHenry 
 County; Kishwaukee, southwest part of Kane and part of Kendall ; Somonauk, 
 in DeKalb: Fox River at Aurora, or McCarty's Mills, as it was then called; 
 Sandusky at Geneva, extending from Clybourne's to near Elgin, and west to 
 what is now Kaneville ; and Lake, which included everything north of the last 
 precinct named, to the county line. At this election there were 351 votes 
 polled, as follows: 
 
 FOR CONGRESSMAN. 
 
 William L. May 285 
 
 JohnT. Stewart 66 
 
 FOR STATE SENATOR. 
 
 William Stradden.. 298 
 
 George W. Howe 50 
 
 FOB REPRESENTATIVE. 
 
 Fenry Madden 189 
 
 John W. Mason 148 
 
 FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Thomas H. Thompson (Dundee) 323 
 
 Claudius Townsend (Aurora) 324 
 
 Mark Daniels (Geneva) 235 
 
 Eli Barnes 65 
 
 Jesse C. Kellogg 22 
 
 FOR SHERIFF. 
 
 Benjamin F. Fridley 225 
 
 Samuel Cory 102 
 
 Ira Minard 5 
 
 FOR RECORDER OF 1>EED*. 
 
 David Dunham 2^5 
 
 Elijah S. Town ,.. 35 
 
 FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR. 
 
 Mark W. Fletcher 242 
 
 Levi Lee 84 
 
 Horatio Gibson 5 
 
 FOR CORONER. 
 
 Asa McDole..... 324 
 
 The abstracts of, this election are signed by R. C. Horr. Jonathan Kimball, 
 Justices of the Peace, and Mark W.Fletcher, Clerk of the County Commission- 
 ers' Court of Kane County. 
 
 Where Mr. Fletcher got his appointment, the records of the county do not 
 show at present, as the records of the County Commissioners have not been in 
 the County Clerk's office far several years, but his bond being filed June 6, 1S3>, 
 would appear to show that he must have been appointed by the Commissioners 
 themselves. He was not elected by the people until the Fall of 1837, when he 
 was elected both Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court and Clerk of the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 245 
 
 Circuit Court, and held both offices until 1846, when Josiah L. Warner was 
 elected to the former office, and he was Clerk only of the Circuit until December, 
 1848, when he was succeeded by Charles B. Wells, and his long term of official 
 service expired, and he retired to his farm, Cincinnatus-like, surrounded by 
 children and children's children, and enjoying a quiet and serene voyage down 
 the current, into the broad expanse of a limitless ocean. 
 
 Both of the Justices certifying the abstracts are dead, and nearly all of the 
 persons voted for likewise Fridley, Fletcher and Town only living in the county 
 iit the present tune. 
 
 At this election, the Sandusky Precinct cast 95 votes, Lake 25 (Mr. Thomp- 
 son, with his well known modesty, refraining from voting for himself and getting 
 but 24), and the Fox River Precinct 78. These comprised all or pretty much 
 all of the present territory of Kane County. This was the election which 
 really set up our county government, and from which it has grown to its present 
 splendid proportions. 
 
 Ralph C. Horr and Ebenezer Morgan were elected Justices of the Peace 
 some time previous to July 30th, for that day they, together with Mr. Fletcher, 
 County Commissioners' Clerk, certify to the abstract of votes of a special 
 election, held at T. H. Thompson's house, in Lake Precinct (Dundee and 
 Elgin), for two Justices and Constables, when -Wanton Parker was elected 
 Justice in Dundee, and Jonathan Kimball in Elgin, and Seth Green, Constable 
 in the former place, and Samuel J. Kimball in the latter; 85 votes being 
 cast. 
 
 The Judges at that election were Thomas H. Thompson, Jonathan Kim- 
 ball and Thomas Deweese, and the Clerks Isaac Fitts and Wanton Parker. In 
 the Orange District, they elected, on the 1st of August, Mark Daniels, Justice, 
 and Joel Jenks, Constable. On the 7th November following, the people of 
 Lake Precinct wanted more justice, or law, and so they called their Constable, 
 Seth Green, to the bench, giving him a unanimous vote of 29 ballots ; and at 
 McCarty's Mills they had quite a spirited contest over the office, giving B. F. 
 Phillips 39 votes and Jonathan Benney 20 ; George W. Gorton, too, had 44 
 votes for Constable, against 7 votes for Harry White. Ira Minard and Elijah 
 S. Town had, in the meantime, been elected Justices in the central part of the 
 county, and signed ,the November abstracts. 
 
 Since the 1st of June, the few voters in the county had been keeping track 
 of the various elections which had been held ; but an important one was com- 
 ing, to which, important to them as these had been, they were but as a tallow 
 dip to a gas jet. The Presidential campaign of 1836 was in full vigor, and 
 "Young Hickory" was pushing the Whigs hard On the 7th of November, 
 the election was held, at which there were only 334 votes polled. The 
 Pleasant Grove returns are not on file. That precinct cast 10 votes in August. 
 The Democratic electors received 235 votes, and Whigs 03. There was an- 
 other set of electors, who received 4 votes, but who they favored is not stated.
 
 246 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Lake Precinct cast 42 votes, only 10 for the Whigs. Sandusky cast 118 votes, 
 97 of which were for the Democratic ticket. Fox River Precinct (Aurora) cast 
 Tl votes, and 19 of them were against " Matty Van." Orange gave the Dem- 
 ocrats all but 4 out of 26 votes, and these 4 did not go to the Whigs, but were 
 the only ones in the county cast for the odd lot. 
 
 New names appear on, the poll lists at this 'election which have not been 
 seen before. The Sandusky poll was presided over by Judge Isaac Wilson, 
 William Van Nortwick, father of Hon. John Van Nortwick. Read Ferson, 
 Mark W. Fletcher and James T. Wheeler were the Clerks. On the Fox River 
 (Aurora) list are the names of Bob Mathews, N. B. Spalding, the Isbells, Nick 
 Gray, Ayers, Van Fleets, Charles Bates and Daniel Eastman. 
 
 To close up the year in good shape, the people in the center of the county 
 held an election for Constables, and managed to get up a nice little fight while 
 it lasted. Wm. B. Arnold and Asahel P. Ward received 21 votes to 18 for 
 David Howard and Charles Ballard. 
 
 In 1837, the elections were still frequent. The newly organized county 
 was rapidly filling up, and special elections for Justices and Constables were 
 held in various precincts, and, August 7th, an election for county officers was 
 held, at which two new officers Were added to the roster of the county govern- 
 ment, viz., County Treasurer and Probate Justice of the Peace. The first 
 election of County Clerk by the people was also held at that time. The vote 
 was as follows : Isaac Wilson "(father of Hon. I. G. Wilson) received 122 votes 
 for County Treasurer, Joseph W. Churchill had 114 votes for County 
 Commissioner, and Mark W. Fletcher had 119 votes for Clerk of the County 
 Commissioners' Court. 
 
 There were but four precincts where votes were cast Fox River, Sandusky, 
 Lake and Fairfield. The latter precinct included Campton, Plato and vicinity, 
 and cast twenty-two votes. Elias Crary, Joel Harvey (father of George P. 
 Harvey, E. E. and J. D. Harvey) and James Corron were Judges, and Stephen 
 Archer and Henry K. Bartlett were Clerks. Joel Harvey and H. R. Bartlett 
 divided the vote for Justice of the Peace, Harvey leading his competitor a 
 single vote. There was not much canvassing necessary in those days, and can- 
 didates' purses were not exhausted before they made their election sure. David 
 Dunham received a single vote in the county for Commissioner, and that was 
 given in Fairfield by one William Bennett. The voters, in those days, had to 
 declare their preferences openly, as all voting was viva voce. There was no 
 dodging nor smuggling in votes, but every man, when he came to the poll, de- 
 clared the man of his choice, and down it went on the poll list opposite his 
 name. Doughfaces had to run a gauntlet that settled their affinities indisput- 
 ablv. At the Sandusky Precinct, Calvin Ward and John W. Russell were 
 elected Constables. At Aurora, Asa McDole was elected Justice of the Peace 
 over E. D. Terry, who received twenty-one votes. There were nineteen men 
 who declined to vote for county officers, who voted for their own neighbors to
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 247 
 
 dispense justice to them. John Griggs, Sr.. was elected Justice in Fairfield. 
 in June. Nathan H. Dearborn was elected Justice, David Howard, Constable, 
 at Sandusky, March 31st, receiving fifty-eight votes, and, in October following, 
 Hendrick Miller was elected Justice, and James Brown Constable, in the same 
 precinct. The latter was a genius in his way. He used to own the farm that 
 Eben Danford now owns. He was once called upon to arrest a suspected 
 criminal, and he summoned a posse to assist in the grave undertaking. They 
 assembled and went into the old hotel, where the object of the august array of 
 the dignity of the people of the State of Illinois was unconsciously smoking, 
 and the Constable thus addressed him : " We arrest and distrain you in the 
 name of the people. Have you any weapons about you ? " The apprehended 
 said he had a jack-knife. " You will please pass it over, then, and go with me 
 and this 'ere poss. Julus (to one of the po?se). you go ahead and I'll bring 
 up behind." And the procession filed away to the county jail. 
 
 In December, Elgin held her first election as a separate constituency, elect- 
 ing James T. Gifford, Justice, and Eli Henderson, Constable, and casting 42 
 votes, among them nine Kimballs and two GUFords, and the heads of the 
 tribes of Merrill, Mann, Jenne, Renwick, Lovell, Welch, Stone and Ranstead. 
 
 In Dundee (still called Lake), Dr. John R. Goodno was elected to the 
 bench, and John Oatman, Jr., Constable. On the poll list of .the latter place 
 are the names of the Carpenters, E. W. Austin and Gen. McClure. 
 
 On the 1st; day of May, 1837, the question of a division of the county, 
 forming De Kalb County out of the three ranges west of the present county 
 line and as that county is now organized, was submitted to the people of the 
 county 1 . The election resulted in 171 votes for and 83 votes against division. 
 Sandusky Precinct gave 43 votes for and 30 against. Somonauk, in the terri- 
 tory to be set off, voted solidly against the division 13 votes. Kishwaukee 
 gave 2 votes against, and Sycamore 8 the same way, and Orange, in the same 
 territory, solidly for division. Sandusky was the only precinct voting on the 
 question in the present territory of the county. This was the beginning of the 
 troublesome question of county division in Kane County. That question, and 
 the removal of the county seat, was almost constantly a bugbear in the eyes of 
 the people, until they got a $100,000 Court House as a rider of the question, 
 and that broke down the nag and spoiled him for any future race, and Geneva 
 breathed free, being rid of a horrible nightmare. 
 
 In 1838, the towns began to get into their present boundaries on the river, 
 and new precincts were. established. Charleston, as St. Charles was first called, 
 held its first election in August, which was the general election for State 
 officers, Congressmen, county officers, etc. 101 votes. In December, Alex- 
 ander H. Baird was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held uninter- 
 ruptedly nearly, if not quite, thirty years. He is now in Kansas. Dundee 
 gained its present name this year, and elected Zephaniah M. Lott Constable, 
 over his competitor, E. W. Vining, casting 40 votes. Deerfield Precinct come*
 
 248 
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 in, too, which embraced Rutland and Hampshire. On the 6th of August, an 
 election for two Justices was held, and John Van Velzer, Thomas H. Whitte- 
 more and Elijah Rich each received 11 votes. The County Clerk put their 
 ^names in his hat and shook them up and drew out the lot to settle which two of 
 the three should have the honors and emoluments of the office, and Rice and 
 TVhittemore.were the lucky men. Philo Noble and William Robbe were elected 
 to execute their commands. Rock Precinct, including Big and Little Rock, 
 elected Archibald Sears aa its Judge, in June. In Sandwich, Calvin Rawley 
 was elected Constable in March. He was a character known far and wide by 
 his peculiarity of wearing a sword when in the discharge of his official duties. 
 If he was called on to arrest or summon or subpoena a person, he buckled his 
 good sword on, and, with all the dignity of the commonwealth resting upon his 
 shoulders, he read the warrant or writ in a manner so impressive he com- 
 manded the respect and risibilities of his auditor in equal degree. 
 
 August 6th, 1888, the general election was held, at which the vote in the 
 county was as follows : 
 
 . FOR GOVERNOR. 
 
 Thomas Carlin, Democrat 511 
 
 Cyrus Edwards, Whig 323 
 
 FOF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. , 
 
 Stiason H. Anderson, Democrat 511 
 
 FOR ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Jos. W. Churchill.Democrat 231 
 
 Geo. W. Howe, Whig 339 
 
 S. S. Jones, ~ 1 
 
 FOR SHERIFF. 
 
 B. F. Fridley, Democrat 552 
 
 Leonard Howard, Whig 129 
 
 W. A. Davidson, Whig... 321 Wm. L. Church, Whig 122 
 
 FOR COITNTY COMMISSION ER3. 
 
 Colton Knox, Democrat 405 
 
 Jra Minard, Democrat 432 
 
 Geo. E. Peck, Democrat 519 
 
 Thomas H. Thompson, Whig 343 
 
 A. P. Hubbard, Whig 418 
 
 James McClure, Whig 295 
 
 FOR CORONER. 
 
 Asa McDole, Democrat 452 
 
 Samuel Sterling, Whig 340 
 
 FOR CONGRESS. 
 
 Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat 517 
 
 John T. Stuart, Whig 311 
 
 FOR STATE 3ENATK. 
 
 Alien H. Howland, Democrat... 248 
 
 William Stadden, Democrat. 256 
 
 John W. Mason, Whig 315 
 
 i At this election, St. Charles supported her own citizen, Leonard Howard, 
 against B. F. Fridley, giving him 92 votes out of her 103 polled. Mr. Minard 
 also led his colleagues Knox and Peck, getting 100 votes, while T. H. Thomp- 
 son had but 6. It looks as though the candidates traded then as they do now 
 sometimes. But in Dundee Mr. Minard received 48 votes to Mr. Thompson's 
 24. and they were both splendid men. Fridley carried off every vote in Dun- 
 dee, while Churchill had only the Democratic poll, 51. f Elgin stood 47 Demo- 
 cratic to 26Whig, Sandusky 84 to 57, Aurora 129 to 69, St. Charles 59 to 45, 
 Rock Precinct 55 to '27, Fairfield (Plato and Campton) 34 to 9, and Deerfield, 
 the present and for years past the stronghold of the Democracy in Kane 
 County (Rutland), gave 14 Whig to 9 Democratic votes. Since then, a differ- 
 ent population has moved into that territory. Fridley received every vote, 
 however, and he was the onlv scratch on the ticket. The returns from Dundee 
 
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 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 249 
 
 have on them the names of I. C. Bosworth and Dempster, Grant and Rankin, 
 the first comers of the Scotch colony. 
 
 Caleb A. Buckingham, one of the Boston company, kept the poll list at 
 Geneva in his very neat chirography. On the list are the names of Joshua E. 
 Ambrose, the Baptist missionary, and John N. Donals, the father of the present 
 Mrs. James C. Baird, of St. Charles, and whose claim was just south of the 
 Judge Lockwood homestead, and included 160 acres of the best timber in the 
 Big Woods, which remained intact up to three or four years ago, when Mrs. 
 Baird sold it to L. P. Barker, who has bought and cleared off more acres of 
 solid timber, in that grove, than any other man. The Batavia and Black- 
 berry people all voted at Sandusky then. On the Fox River list, the names of 
 three Stolps, J. G., John, Jr., and Joseph, appear; also a Knickerbocker. Plato 
 Judd, and Isbells and a long array of familiar names, and some entirely unfa- 
 miliar, they have disappeared long ago from the records of the county. 
 Silas Reynolds was one of the Clerks of election. The next county election 
 was held in August, 1839, the Democrats electing their candidates by a vote of 
 about 550 to 265 Whig. N. B. Spalding was elected County Commissioner ; 
 David Dunham, Recorder ; Joel Harvey, Treasurer ; Peter J. Waggoner, 
 County Surveyor; Horace N. Chapman, Probate Justice, and M. W. Fletcher, 
 County Clerk. Fletcher received 787 votes ; Calvin Ward, 4, and R. V. M. 
 Croes, 1 vote for the latter office. Thomas H. Thompson, of Dundee ; Charles 
 S. Clark, of Geneva; Harry Boardman, of Batavia; ISTehemiah King, of Au- 
 rora, and A. P. Hubbard, of Batavia, were the Whig standard bearers. Local- 
 ities in those days cut no figure, but the best men they could pick up were taken, 
 irrespective of locality. 
 
 At the August election in 1839, several of the precincts elected Justices 
 and Constables. In Sandusky there were six candidates for Justices, but 
 Charles Ballard, at Batavia, and C. B. Dodson, at Clybourne's, won the 
 titles and emoluments. Dr. Pierre A. Allaire was elected in Ellery Precinct, 
 now Oswego. N. B. Spaulding, who had changed his residence from Aurora 
 to Dundee, was elected Justice in Lake Precinct, against seven other compet- 
 itors; I. C. Bosworth, now of Elgin, receiving a single vote. His partner, 
 Alfred Edwards, now deceased, also received a similar token of his fitness for 
 the constabulary force. Burgess Truesdell was elected Justice in Elgin, and 
 "Father" Crary, as he was called in later years, received the same position in 
 Fairfield (now Campton and Plato). Robert Corron was chosen to read the 
 greeting of the people of the State of Illinois to unwilling hearers, in the same 
 bailiwick. William B. Plato was elected to dispense justice to those dwelling 
 where Aurora now sits a queen. 
 
 Blackberry held her first election, as a separate precinct, January 8, 1839, 
 and elected Samuel Platt and Roswell W. Acers Justices; but in August she 
 voted again for the same officers, and chose William B. West ami Mr. Platt. 
 Mr. West then gained his cognomen of " the 'Squire," which he held until his
 
 250 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 death. The unique signatures of David Wheeler and Mr. West are appended 
 to the returns, and show but little change in all the years of their busy lives. 
 
 A vacancy occurred in the office of Coroner, and a special election was or- 
 dered, in November, 1839, to fill it, at which David Livingston was elected, 
 receiving 79 votes, to 69 for James T. Gifford. of Elgin : Bosworth, 4 ; Ed- 
 wards. 2 ; and Eaton Walker, 2 the three latter all being in Dundee. Drs. 
 Tefft and Root, of Elgin, each also received a vote, and Mr. Plato had 2. This 
 election possessed little interest to the people, but Blackberry, having lately 
 come to her privileges of an independent constituency, did not neglect the 
 opportunity thus offered to make her record among the archives of the county, 
 and she sent in her returns for the day's work, with just five names upon them, 
 to wit: Abner Ravvson, David Wheeler, W. B. West. Marcus White and 
 Hiram S. Reed, and these were the Judges and Clerks who certified to the 
 returns. 
 
 In those days, any citizen of the county could vote anywhere he happened 
 to be, and at this election, C. B. Dodson, David Dunham and James Brown, 
 all residents of Sandusky Precinct, are found voting in Fairfield Precinct ; and 
 as Mr. Gifford received every vote cast, the query is raised whether or no they 
 were out on an electioneering trip. Sandusky, also, gave all of her votes to 
 Mr. Gifford, but McCarty's Mills were too much for him, and the candidate 
 from the south part of the county won the contest. 
 
 The election of August, 1840, for county officers was very closely contested, 
 1,291 votes being polled, of which James Risk received 647 and Leonard How- 
 ard. 623 for Sheriff; lt Bob " Mathews, 679, and Elijah Lee, 511, for Coroner ; 
 William B. West, 693, and Nathan C. Mighell, 598, for County Commissioner ; 
 Dr. Henry A. Miller, 687, and James Brown, 605 votes for County Treasurer. 
 The last two candidates were from Geneva ; Messrs. West and Mighell from 
 the rural- districts the "back towns." "Bob" Mathews was from Aurora; 
 Lee and Risk from Batavia, and Howard from St. Charles. Locality had its 
 influence at that election, sure. 
 
 At a special election August 15, this year (1840), Robert Moody was 
 elected Justice of the Peace, and many laughable stories are told of his court, 
 which was a great institution in those early days. S. S. Jones and B. F. Frid- 
 ley were practicing attorneys in the palmy days of Justice Moody, and were 
 almost invariably pitted against each other in the numerous cases they had 
 before the hard-headed Magistrate, whose strong common sense made up any 
 deficiency there might have been in his legal knowledge. " Shortage " in the 
 latter respect was excusable in those early days, when statutes were not as 
 plenty as now, where jobs are so easily smuggled into their printing- On one 
 occasion, when the two lawyers had a trial in his court, before a jury, after the 
 testimony was in and arguments made, the court began to instruct the jury 
 after the manner of Judge Ford, the then presiding Judge of the Circuit 
 Court. Mr. Fridley interposed and said he must not instruct the jury. The
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNT!'. 251 
 
 court asked why not. Jones, seeing the point for fun, said, certainly, it was 
 quite proper that the court should instruct. Again Fridley interfered, and 
 again the court replied, ."-Sure, Judge Ford instructs the jury, and why 
 shouldn't I ? " " Certainly, certainly," said the mischievous Jones, " the court 
 can instruct the jury." Again the Justice essays to lay down the law, and 
 again is opposed by the persistent Fridley. At length the court, with his 
 Scotch temper fully roused, says, in his broad Scotch accent, " Weel, Muster 
 Fredley, sin ye are sae strenuous about it, ahll note instruct the jury; but one 
 thing ah wull say, ye've made a vera bahd case o' it." 
 
 At the August election, Sugar Grove comes in with her first returns as a 
 separate independency, under her baptismal name, which has never been changed. 
 She cast 84 votes, and elected her first Justice and Constable, Isaac S. and Ira 
 H. Fitch being the honored recipients of her official favors, respectively. 
 
 The Presidential contest of 1840, between Van Buren and Harrison, brought 
 out 1,584 votes, and the military prestige and the high tide of song of 
 
 "Tippecanoe and Tyler too, 
 With them we can beat little Van, 
 Oh! Van, Van, Vun is a used up man," 
 
 carried the county for the Whigs by 36 majority. Among the familiar names 
 on the list of Electors are those of John A. McClernand on the Democratic 
 ticket and Abraham Lincoln and "Buck" Morris on the other. Washington 
 Precinct, now Plato, comes to the front and brings her first oifering of separate 
 self-government. Among the returns of this election she cast 47 Whig and 32 
 Democratic votes, and elected Joel Root and John S. Lee Justices of the Peace. 
 St. Charles cast 97 Democratic and 93 Whig votes. The poll book, which was 
 made by James T. Wheeler, is a perfect model of neatness. It is ruled on 
 blank paper, and the names of the Electors printed on the head of the sheet 
 with a pen, and the names of the voters written with great care, and not a blot 
 appears on it from first to last. 
 
 The Fox River Precinct cast 118 Democratic and 113 Whig votes, Elgin 110 
 to 97 the same way; Sandusky cast 70 to 77 the other way; Dundee gave the 
 Democrats 49 votes and the Whigs 119; Sugar Grove cast 62 votes and gave 
 the Whigs 33 of them; but Blackberry led her sister town 4 votes and gave 42 
 of them to the opposite party; Deerfield (Rutland) gave but 12 of her 52 votes 
 to the farmer of North Bend, but Fairfield more than paired off with her Vy giving 
 44 of her 59 votes to the hero; Big and Little Rock reversed the list again 
 and counted up for the Kinderhook Fox 94 votes to 50 for his military competitor. 
 At the election of August, 1841, another office was enrolled upon the county's 
 official roster, that of School Commissioner. Ira Minard received 506 votes to 437 
 csst for C. B. Dodson. There were 959 votes polled, and Allen P. Hubbard was 
 elected County Commissioner, Bela T. Hunt Treasurer and William C. Kimball 
 Coroner. James II. Ralston received 497 votes against 476 for John T. Stew- 
 art and 28 for Frederick Collins for Congress.
 
 252 HTSTORT OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Dundee " outgrew its territorial name of Lake, and took upon herself her 
 new name. The name could not have been distasteful to the Scotchmen whose 
 homes were within her borders. The poll list is made out by Charles B. Wells, 
 and though a younger looking, chirography, it is no neater or more uniform 
 than the Captain's is, now albeit thirty-seven years of hard labor have occupied 
 his head and hand since- then. : --/;'r4 
 
 p-:The election of August, 1842, was for State and County officers and As- 
 semblymen, and also for or against a Convention to amend the Constitution. 
 There were 1,240 votes polled. Thomas Ford, the Democratic candidate for 
 Governor, received 750 ; Joseph Duncan, the Whig candidate, 457, and Chas. 
 W. Hunter, the first standard bearer in the county of the old Liberty party, re- 
 ceived -32 votes. Thirteen of the Liberty votes were cast in St. Charles, and were 
 John L. Wilson, Dean Ferson, Robert Moody, Jr., Millen Bennett, D. W. El- 
 more, Samuel Young, Isaac Preston, Justin Crafts, Robert Moody, Sr., Lu- 
 cius Foote, Reuben Beach, Calvin Ward and Thomas Barland. Elgin gave 
 but 6 votes for the Old G-uard, and they were J. H. Scott, Hezekiah Gilford. 
 John W. Hoagland, Abel Walker, Calvin Carr and Ralph Grow. Geneva 
 and Batavia (Sandusky) had 3 votes for the Abolitionists, and they were those 
 of Sylvanus Town, John Gregg and Joseph Worsley. Aurora had 10 men 
 who were brave enough to stand up for freedom for all, black or white, and 
 they were C. Cook, S. K. Ball, B. H. Smith, D. W. Moffitt, Edwin Lockwood, 
 Benjamin Howell, Kimball Favor, Dr. Huson Root, Isaac M. Howell and Lu- 
 cian Farnam. 
 
 The Liberty party had a regular ticket in the field, but not all of the votes 
 polled for Governor were given for the rest of the ticket, the votes being cast 
 more by way of protest than anything else. James T. Gifford received 7 and 
 Sylvanus Town 8 votes for Senator. The county voted 623 votes for, to 171 
 against the Convention. Ira Minard received a majority of the votes for Sena- 
 tor. McHenry, DeKalb and Kane Counties composed the Senatorial District, 
 and Mr. Minard was elected. DeKalb cast 401 votes and McHenry 750 ; 
 Kane casting more than both. 
 
 N. B. Spaulding was elected Sheriff, Shepherd Johnston County Commis- 
 sioner, and Wm. C. Kimball Coroner. Franklin Precinct was set off at this 
 election, and comprised Virgil in its territory. There were 39 votes polled, 
 and Simeon Bean and Henry Krows were elected the first Justices, and Milton 
 Thornton and John V. McKinley, Constables. There were 27 Democratic 
 and 12 Whig votes polled. In October of the same year, the people of the 
 county chose L. Howard Probate Justice of the Peace over S. S. Jones, his 
 competitor. St. Charles, whose citizens they both were, gave Howard a ma- 
 jority of 61. The poll was but 530 votes. Previous to the election of August, 
 1842, Kendall County had been organized, the three southern towns of Kane 
 County taken into the territory of the new county, leaving Kane County as it 
 it is at present constituted.
 
 HISTORY OF KASE COUNTY. 253 
 
 The election of August, 1843, -was for Congressman and county officers. 
 Long John Wentworth was the Democratic candidate, on his first term, and 
 beat Giles Spring, his Whig competitor, 247 votes in Kane County. There- 
 were 1,468 votes polled, and the Abolitionists had gained a large per centage 
 during the year, casting 175 votes. Fletcher was elected County Clerk ; G. 
 W. Gorton, Recorder ; S. S. Jones, Probate Justice ; E. R. Allen, Treasurer ; 
 and Dr. Hale, School Commissioner, but he would not serve, and a special 
 election was held in the Fall, and Wyatt Carr elected. Thomas E. Dodge was 
 elected County Commissioner. Burlington took her place among her sister 
 towns in the county at this election, and elected Ebenezer Norman and J. C. 
 Ellithorp her first Justices. 
 
 The Presidential election of 1844 was hotly contested. The Democrats 
 carried the day by just one vote less than a majority over Whigs and Aboli- 
 tionists. The Democratic poll was 1,046, the Whig 748, and the Liberty vote 
 299. There are familiar names on the list of Electors. Govs. Wood and 
 French, W. A. Richardson, Col. Dement, Isaac X. Arnold and Judge Purple 
 were among the Democratic Electors, while S. Lisle Smith and J. J. Brown, 
 the brilliant orators, Abraham Lincoln, U. F. Linder, whose names are house- 
 hold words, were among the Whigs. , Owen Lovejoy, it is needless to say, was 
 one of the Liberty men. 
 
 S. Lisle Smith and Lincoln were passionate admirers of Henry Clay, the 
 candidate of the Whigs for the Presidency. Smith's eulogy on Clay at Niagara 
 Falls, at the obsequies of the dead statesman, is said to be one of the finest 
 productions in the way of pure eloquence of the age. Smith was quick at re- 
 tort and repartee, and a fine speaker on the stump, and always ready to make a, 
 speech. Once, while going down the lakes, he was called on to make a speech, 
 and as his forte was politics, and the campaign was hot, he naturally made a 
 partisan speech, which did noc suit the Democratic part of his audience, and 
 they gathered in the back end of the cabin of the steamer, and at last expressed 
 their dissent to Smith's sentiments by hissing. No sooner had he heard this 
 sign of disapproval than he stopped abruptly in his argument, and began a^ 
 eloquent recital of the formation of man and his situation in Eden. W.'th 
 glowing and impassioned eloquence he pictured to his rapt auditors the tempta- 
 tion and fall of man. He then drew another scene, the presentation of the Son 
 as a sacrifice for sin, the acceptance of the ~oflfer, His life on earth, ofld His 
 tragic death. "But," said the speaker, his eye kindling as he spoke, and his 
 audience in almost breathless silence, '" Death could not hold Him, the fetters 
 of the grave were broken, the rock was rolled away, the Redeemer came forth 
 in immortal youth and vigor, and all heaven rejoiced and all liell hissed. Re- 
 member that, my hearties, all keli hissed." There were no further interrup- 
 tions to that speech. 
 
 John J. Brown used to practice in our Circuit Court in early days, and as 
 late as 1849-50. He was an able advocate, merciless in his sarcasm, and could
 
 254 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 
 
 give and take with the best at the bar or in the hustings. U. F. Linder was 
 known by an expression that was in common use by him, as "For God's sake" 
 lander. He was a voluble and frothy talker. 
 
 At the election in August, 1844, N. B. Spalding was elected Sheriff; Win. 
 C. Kimball, County Commissioner; Charles Metcalf. Treasurer, and N. H. Dear- 
 born, Coroner. There were 1,641 votes polled, and the Liberty men cast 268 of 
 them, but the Democracy had a handsome majority over both the opposing par- 
 ties. There were some of the best men of the county candidates for office that 
 Summer. See what an array of men are here: For Sheriff, ^. B. Spalding. 
 Gilman H. Merrill and James T. Wheeler; County Commissioner, Wm. C. 
 Kimball, Allen P. Hubbard and Joel McKee ; Wm. G. Hubbard for County 
 Treasurer, and Clement H. Goodwin for Coroner. The candidates for Con- 
 gress were John Wentworth, Buckner S. Morris and John H. Henderson. 
 Long John labored fafthfulHr for his constituents, whether of his political faith 
 or not. Any of them was promptly attended to, to the most minute detail, 
 from a package of seeds to a harbor appropriation. Therefore, he held his 
 position for term after term. His accommodating ways paid him, at elections, 
 heavv interest. 
 
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 In August, 1845, Royalton (Kaneville) was set off into a separate constit- 
 uency, and elected Milton M. Ravlin and John Bunker Justices, and R. W. 
 Lee and Robert Carter Constables, to set the judicial life in motion. At the 
 election there were "only county officers elected, and the rote was small and 
 scattering, the successful candidates fretting but about 400 votes; Silas Rev- 
 
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 nolds, of Sugar Grove, was elected County Commissioner ; Alfred Churchill, 
 School Commissioner, and James Hotchkiss, County Treasurer. 
 
 August, 1846, was a general State and Congressional election, ajid a full 
 vote was polled, 1,857 votes. The Liberty men, from a so-called handful of 
 fanatics, beneath the notice of the other two parties, had become the second in 
 numbers, casting 533 votes for Owen Lovejoy for Congress, against the Whigs' 
 poll of but 414, and the Democratic vote of 910. Later on, in 1848, this 
 strength was utilized by a coalition of the Whigs and Abolitionists, that put C. 
 L Wells into the Circuit Clerk's office, and gave B. C. Yatcs the shrievalty. 
 
 The election of August, 1847, was hotly contested. Three tickets were in 
 the teld, and each drew its full party support, varied in some instances accord- 
 ing to the popularly or unpopularity of the several candidates. For Delegates 
 to the Convention to amend the State Constitution, there were nine good men in 
 the field, the district of which Kane County was a part being entitled to three 
 members. B. F. Fridley, Wm. B. Plato and Isaac G. Wilson, were the Dem- 
 ocratic candidates and received 783, 831 and 720 votes respectively. Augustus 
 Adams, of Elgin ; Thomas Ju-ld, of Sugar Grove, and Alfred Churchill, were 
 the candidates of the Whigs, and polled 1,144,1,051 and 971 votes respect- 
 ively. Allen Pinkerton, Nicholas Hard and J. P. Bartlett were the Liberty 
 
 men, and received 200, 315 and 318 votes respectively. 
 

 
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 The county officers elected were Josiah L. Warner, Whig, County Com- 
 missioner's Clerk, over A. M. Herrington, Democratic, by 35 majority ; Alex- 
 ander V. Sill, Whig, Probate Justice, over S. S. Jones, by a majority of 199 ; 
 Elijah H. Swartout, Recorder, over Joel McKee, Liberty, by 377, and over G. 
 H. Merrill, Whig, by 203 majority. Thomas H. Whittemore beat 'his Whig 
 competitor, Thomas H. Thompson, 95 votes, for County Commissioner, and 
 Thomas A. Scott, Democrat, was elected County Treasurer and Assessor by a 
 majority over James Brown, the Whig candidate, of 225. Mr. Scott, who was 
 then and is now a worthy citizen of Geneva, says the County Commissioner re- 
 fused to furnish him with blank books for his use in taking the assessment of 
 the county, but made him take foolscap paper and tie the sheets together in lieu 
 thereof. The stationery bills of a whole year then were not equal -to a month 
 now, but there was not anything like the use of it then as now. Then the vote 
 of the county was but 2,000 and now it is three times as many. 
 
 James Carr, the Democratic candidate for County Surveyor, led all of his 
 colleagues, he receiving 1,037 votes, to 727 for William A. Tanner and 32*3 
 for W. R. Mann. John W. Hapgood beat Thomas Judd 7 votes in the race 
 for School Commissioner. At this election, the townships or precincts were 
 complete as they now stand, except Geneva and Batavia were still called San- 
 dusky Precinct, and voted at Geneva. Hampshire was set off into a separate 
 precinct, and Deerfield (Rutland) was changed to Jackson. 
 
 In 1848, there were four general elections, the first one on March 6th, on 
 the adoption of the new Constitution, which the Convention had framed and sub- 
 mitted to the people for their approval, and the separate provisions to be voted 
 on independently. The second was the regular August election of State and 
 county officers and members of the Legislature. The third and first judicial 
 election held in the county, for Judges and Clerks of the Supreme and Circuit 
 Courts, in September; and the fourth and last, the Presidential election, in 
 November. 
 
 At the constitutional election in March,. there were 1,108 votes cast for the 
 adoption, and 348 for the rejection of the new organic act, On the two-mill 
 tax, for the support of schools, there were found 221 persons with hardihood 
 and ignorance enough to vote no, but 1,176 saw its benefits and voted aye. 
 The returns of Burlington did not 'get in in time to be canvassed. Sugar 
 Grove, which has to-day one of the best public schools in the State, had 2 votes 
 against the two-mill tax; Jackson (Rutland), 26 ; Little and Big Rock, 2; 
 Dundee, 25 ; Sanclusky, 42 ; Hampshire, 5 ; Royalton, 5 ; Fairfield, 4 ; Black- 
 berry, 19 ; St. Charles, 20 ; Washington, 6 ; Franklin, 6 ; Aurora, 36 ; and 
 Elgin, 25. These towns would hardly vote so to-day. 
 
 At the August election there was a coalition between the Whigs and 
 Abolitionists, but it did not succeed in placing in office any one except B. C. 
 Yates, and his success was attributable as much to his personal popularity as 
 to the coalition. He had the highest vote of any candidate at the election,
 
 256 HTSTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 1,034. . He was a Whig, but several of the Whigs voted against him out of 
 personal friendship to Jim Hotchkiss, his competitor. Mr. Pluto had the next 
 highest vote, 079, for State Senator, against J. F. Farnsworth. -who received 
 but 393. From the vote the Abolitionists on the ticket received, it looks al- 
 though the Whigs did not fully carry out their agreement. Dr. Dyer, the 
 candidate for Governor, received but 416 votes, and L. C. P. Freer, candi- 
 date for Secretary of State, 414, and the balance of the State officers received" 
 the same.- The candidates for Congressmen were Wentworth, J. Y. Scam- 
 mon and Owen Lovejoy. Scammon was a Whig and received 543 votes, and 
 Lovejoy, the Liberty candidate, got the straight Abolition vote, 418. For 
 Assemblyman, the Whigs voted for their man, and the Abolitionists for theirs. 
 John Scott, of Plato, and John King, of Aurora, were candidates for County 
 Commissioner, and Scott received 897 votes to 720 for King. Seth Marvin 
 got the regular Democratic vote for Coroner, 909, and <_>eo. B. Paine, of 
 Batavia. the Whig vote. Andrew Pingree had 899 votes for County Surveyor, 
 and Adin Mann, 679. Batavia voted separately, at this election, from Geneva, 
 and cast 229 votes. Mr. Plato was elected Senator, and E. W. Austin and 
 Horace W. Fay, Representatives. The district was composed of De Kalb and 
 Kane Counties. 
 
 The new Constitution made radical changes in the government of counties, ter- 
 minating the County Commissioners' Court in 1849, and establishing the County 
 Court, consisting of one Judge and two Associates, after the manner of Ver- 
 mont, which led D. W. Annis to remark that the duty of the Associate Justice 
 was to keep the Hies off the Chief Justices. New Justices of the Supreme 
 Court were elected, and also Circuit Judges to hold the Circuit Courts, the 
 Supreme Court Justices having formerly held the Circuit Courts, and then 
 altogether in banque- they formed the Supreme Court, and decided upon the 
 legality or illegality of their own decisions in the courts below. The duties of 
 the Supreme Court Justices were onerous, and not very liberally compensated, 
 $1,200 per annum being paid previous to 1848, but reduced to $1,000. 
 
 The new Constitution went into effect April 1, 1848, and the first election 
 held under it was held September 4th, at which election Theophilus L. Dickey, 
 a most courteous and genial gentleman of good legal standing and a Henry 
 Clay Whig, from Kentucky, was chosen Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit, 
 in which Kane County was situated.' Benj. F. Fridley was his competitor. 
 Dickey made a most excellent Judge, dispatched business rapidly, and rarely 
 made an erroneous decision. He took but few cases under advisement, but 
 decided them off hand, his ready memory of the law doing him efficient service 
 in that respect. At one time during his term of office, while holding court in 
 McHenry County, Joel H. Johnson, the Clerk of the Court, was sick, and he 
 sent to Chas. B. Wells, then Clerk in Kane County, to act in his behalf at 
 Woodstock. Mr. Wells responded, and in two days' time Judge Dickey called 
 and disposed of finally, or for the term. 150 cases, and Mr. Wells himself, with-
 
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 but any assistance, had the record fully written up, ready for the Judge's sig- 
 nature, on the morning of the third day, and the court adjourned. 
 
 Judge Dickey was fond of a good story (and is now, and can tell one most 
 charmingly), and often relaxed his dignity, while on the bench, to indulge in 
 something more than a broad grin at the sallies of wit that passed between the 
 counselors at the bar. He had been accustomed to see something of the sports 
 of the ring, in his residence in Kentucky, and one day, while trying a case in 
 the first court house built in the county, on the present site of the Swedish 
 Church in Geneva an old frame building, standing as late as 1850 before 
 Judge Ford, he saw through the window the long, brawny arm of one of the 
 members of the bar of Kane County, then, as now, raised up, with a clinched 
 orown fist at the end of it, in the act of descending upon some object. For- 
 getting the awful presence of the court whom he was addressing, he sprang 
 upon the table to get, a better view of the owner of the fist, and shouted out as 
 he saw it descend heavily on the sconce of a brother limb of the law, " A fight '. 
 a fi'jht ! by Jupiter ! " find rushed out of the oourt room, amid the laughter of 
 the bar. The squabble was over by the time he reached the scene of hostilities, 
 and, coming back into court, he made a graceful apology for his impulsiveness, 
 saying that he "never could see fight without desiring to take a hand in it 
 himself." He took, in later years, a hand in a fight of larger dimensions, mak- 
 ing an honorable record at the head of a regiment of cavalry in the War of the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 Judge Caton was elected, at that same election, the Justice for the Third 
 
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 Division of the Supreme Court, and Lorenzo Lelarid, Clerk. B. C. Cook was 
 chosen State's Attorney for the Ninth Circuit, and Charles B. Wells, Clerk of 
 the Circuit Court and ex officio Recorder of Kane County; Benjamin F. Hall, 
 of Aurora-, the founder of the Aurora Beacon, and subsequently lost on the 
 Lady Elgin, on Lake Michigan, was his Democratic competitor. Mr. Wells 
 received 693 votes and Hall, 643. The office of Recorder of Deeds did not 
 attach to the Circuit Clerk, however, until September, 1849, when E. H. 
 Swarthout's term of office expired. 
 
 The fee for recording then was eight cents per folio of 100 words, a regu- 
 lar form of warranty deed costing eighty-one cents, or, as it was expressed cab- 
 alistically on the instrument. "6-6." The forms of deeds, since then, have 
 kept pace with the increase of fees, until both are as long as the purse. Those 
 were the pslmy days of the gray goose-quill, the sancl-box, the wafer and blue 
 foolscap ; but these things are now kept in some old smoke-browned antiquary's 
 cabinet, having given way and made place for '* Gillot's No. 404," blotting 
 pad, mucilaged envelopes and cream-laid legal cap. Then, the clerks plodded 
 over the miscellaneous record, taking everything in its turn, whether warranty 
 
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 or quit-claim, trust-deed or mortgage, articles of agreement or satisfaction piece, 
 and spread them at length on the plain white page, numbered by the copyist as 
 he went alon^. Now. the different kinds of instruments and their name is
 
 258 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 legion have each their separate form printed, and the blanks are filled up with 
 neatness by the white fingers of dainty misses. 
 
 In the good old days of "Fletch " and Ford, when the jackknife and Vir-j 
 ginia plug used to pass back and forth between Clerk and Judge as the docket- 
 was being called and cases tried, the floor of the Clerk's office was diversified 
 with lakelets and pools of the juice of the half masticated weed, and the water 
 vie?:, embellished witfi islets of the refuse quids. Now, this office is carpeted 
 with ingrain, upon which the footfalls of the houris that hold their court therein 
 are not heard. Then, the atmosphere was thick and nauseating with the smoke 
 from villainous pipes and more villainous tobacco; now, the odor is of mignon- 
 ette and jockey club. Then, it was hard to distinguish between judicial swear- 
 ing and the non-judicial oaths that were administered. There are none now but 
 legal oaths in those precincts sacred to the goddesses who dispense to us the 
 luxuries of summons, subpoenas, attachments, ne-exeats. mandamuses, certiorates 
 and fee bills. 
 
 The Presidential election of 1843 brought out the largest vote that had at 
 that time been polled in the county, 2,858 votes being cast. Of these the Free 
 Soil candidates, Van Buren and Adams, carried away the largest number 
 1,220; Old Zach Taylor came next, and scored 855, while Cuss and Butler had 
 a moiety of 783. S. A. Huribut, U. F. Linder and 0. H. Browning were 
 among the Electors on the Whig ticket; S. S. Hayes, still true to his early 
 teachings, was one of the Democratic electors, and Wm. B. Ogden, Thomas 
 Hoyne and Jonathan Blanchard were among the Free Soilers. 
 
 The vote in the several towns was as follows : 
 
 Whig. Dem. Free Soil. , 
 
 Genera 60 44 4H 
 
 Dundee '. 74 68 131 
 
 Hampshire 06 41 45 
 
 Burlington 18 41 
 
 Batavia 53 53 73 
 
 Sugar Grove 6*2 IS 35 
 
 Blackberry 24 18 40 
 
 St. Charles 162 141 159 
 
 Fairfield (Campion) \.. 21 19 50 
 
 Jackson (Rutland) ...". 8 47 13 
 
 Jefferson {Big, Rock) 12 35 35 
 
 Franklin (Virgil) 21 23 38 
 
 Royalton (Kaneville) 24 12 18 
 
 Washington (Plato) 20 16 37 
 
 Fox River (Aurora) 100 60 240 
 
 Elgin -\ 140 147 222 
 
 855 783 1 ,220 
 
 Geneva heH her first separate town election this year, and elected Allen P. 
 Hubbard Justice, and Nathan P. Herrington Constable. 
 
 In 1849, the only general election was the regular one on November 6, at 
 which the question of township organization was submitted and adopted by a 
 vote of 1,786 to 34, and county officers were elected as follows : I?.-iac G. 
 Wilson, County Judge; Andrew J. Waldron and Marcus White, Associate Jus- 

 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNT Y. 259 
 
 tices; James Herrington, County Clerk; Joseph Kimball, School Commissioner; 
 D. M. Green. County Treasurer, and Andrew Pingree, County Surveyor. 
 There were three tickets in the field, as in 1848, but the old ship swung back 
 to her Democratic moorings, where she remained without change until the gale 
 of 1856, when she broke away from her fastenings and scudded into the Repub- 
 lican harbor, from which she has not ventured at any general election since, 
 although she has made several trial trips at off years, and -has become somewhat 
 uncertain on a simple county issue to anxious nominees of the conventions. 
 Judge Wilson received the largest number of votes at the election of 1849, given 
 to any candidate 1,037, being but, three more than Mr. Yates received the 
 year before, on the opposite ticket for Sheriff. A. P. Hubbard, Whig, received 
 7-4 votes, and J. F. Farnsworth 320; James Herrington received 811 votes 
 for County Clerk, T. C. Moore 719, and Paul R. Wright. 548. Both of the 
 latter gentlemen were subsequently elected to the office of Circuit Clerk, Mr. 
 Wright in 1850. and Mr. Moore in 18t>0. Mr. Wright AYMS an old-line Aboli- 
 tionist, and was the first one of that original party ever elected to a county office 
 in the county. Mr. Wright, despite the opprobrium attached to his political 
 faith, received a handsome plurality at the election of November, 1849, in Elgin, 
 where he resided, and was, of course, best known. In Dundee, also, he led his 
 competitors. Mr. Moore's vote of 30 majority in Batavia, where he lived, also 
 shows in what estimation his friends held him. Mr. Herrington also led his 
 party ticket at his home in Geneva. 
 
 Tn the Spring of 1850, the first Board of Supervisors was elected, and 
 were as follows : Aurora, Russell D. Mix ; Batavia, M. M. Mallory : Geneva, 
 William Cheever; St. Charles, F. H. Bowman; Elgin, J. W. Brewster: Dun- 
 dee, T. H. Thompsom ; Rutland, E. R. Starks; Plato, John S. Lee; Camp- 
 ton, J. P. Bartlett; Blackberry, R. W. Acers; Sugar Grove, E. D. Terry; 
 Big Rock, J. D. Dunning ; Kaneville, M. M. Ravlin : Virgil, J. H. Snook ; 
 Burlington, Cyrus Phelps ; Hampshire. Julius A. Starks. 
 
 The first meeting was held June 4, 1850. and William Cheever, of Geneva, 
 was chosen the first Chairman. The members were not at home on the powers 
 of the Board, but they made a bold front, and resolved they were equal to any 
 emergency that might arise in relation to business heretofore done by the 
 County Commissioners' Court or County Court, and voted to proceed at once 
 to the performance of their duties, " promptly, cautiously and with the utmost 
 economy." Then they appointed a committee to get the opinion of Judge Wil- 
 son, of the County Court, on the power of the Board to settle with the Sheriff, 
 who was, and had been prior to 1850, the Collector of Taxes. The committee 
 reported, the next morning, that Judge Wilson held that the Supervisors had 
 not power to organize until the first Monday after the general election in No- 
 vember, 1850, and until that time the management of the fiscal concerns of the 
 county remained with the County Court. But the members of the Board did 
 not acquiesce in his honor's views, but went on as they had already resolved,
 
 ^60 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY". 
 
 and took measures for a settlement with the Sheriff, and allowed bills and drew 
 jurors, and adjourned until the annual meeting, in November. 
 
 The first town meetings held in the county, in 1850, placed the county gov- 
 ernment in the present system, the workings of which are familiar, and com- 
 pletes the history of the organization of the civil life of the county. 
 
 The first court held in. the county was a term of the Circuit Court begun on 
 the 19th day of June, 1837. It was held by Hon. John Pearson, one of the 
 Justices of the Supreme Court, in the log house of Mr. James Herri ngton, 
 which stood by the big spring that flows out of the ledge, jiut under the lower 
 terrace, in Geneva. (This old homestead served for hotel, school room, court 
 room, church and public hall for many years.) Alonzo Huntington was State's 
 Attorney in attendance on the court, and Allen P. Hubbard was Clerk the first 
 day, but on the second day Mark W. Fletcher received the appointment from 
 Judge Pearson, and took possession of the office, which he held until the elec- 
 tion of 1848, when he was succeeded by Charles B. Wells. SeMen M. Church, 
 however, was the first appointed Clerk, but before court was held he removed 
 to Rockford, and Mr. Hubbard received the appointment, from Judge Ford, 
 September 21, 1836. Mr. Hubbard took his official oath before E. S. Towne, 
 Justice of the Peace. B. F. Fridley was the Sheriff, and gave bonds in 10,000 % 
 with Jel Jenks, George W. Gorton, Nick Gray and Dr. Madden as his securi- 
 ties. George W. Gorton was his Deputy. Asa McDole was the Coroner. 
 
 The first Grand Jury impaneled in the county was at this term, and were 
 as follows: Isaac Wilson. Foreman; Sidney Kimball, Allen Ware, J. T. 
 Wheeler, Wm Van Nortwick, Samuel McCarty, Nicholas Gray, Edward Keys, 
 James Squires, B. F. Phillips, 0. W. Perkins, Ansel Kimball, Wallis Hotch- 
 kiss, John Van Fleet. W. T. Elliott, John Ross, Friend Marks, Solomon Dun- 
 ham, Marshall Stark, George Johnson and Lyman Barber. The grand inquest 
 found five indictments three for larceny and two for riot. The noting grew 
 out of claim fights in the southwest part of the county, and the parties indicted 
 appeared at the second term of the Court, held in September following, and 
 confessed that they could not deny the charges of the indictment against them, 
 and prayed the mercy of the Court, which they received in the shape of $5.00 
 fine, and costs of court. This procedure on their part was a little different 
 from "Hank" McLean's plea to the indictment found against him in the 
 McHenry Circuit Court for malicious mischief. McLean had a little ranch up 
 above Algonquin, which he had enclosed with an apology for a fence made of 
 brush, and such material as he could get together without much effort. His 
 neighbor kept a flock of sheep, and the fence did not prove to be much of un 
 obstacle to their long legs, and they bothered McLean somewhat, by breaking 
 into his garden. He chased them out several times: and at last, losing his 
 temper, he managed to kill one of the depredators. This raised a storm; and 
 at the next setting of the Circuit, the aggrieved neighbor went before the Grand 
 Jury, and laid his complaint before that body, and they found an indictment.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 261 
 
 The State's Attorney got hold of the real state of facts, and desiring some sport, 
 drew up a most elaborate indictment. He charged that the defendant, one 
 Henry, alias Hank, McLean, against the peace and dignity of the people of the 
 State of Illinois, with malice aforethought and evil intent, did, with clubs, 
 bludgeons, guns, pistols, swords and other murderous instruments, beat, bruise, 
 wound, maim and do to death, certain animals, to-wit : sheep, lambs, rams, 
 wethers and ewes, of the property of Atkinson, living then and there in the 
 peace of the people. As soon as the indictment was filed in the Court, it was 
 whispered around that there would be fun on the trial, and McLean was ordered 
 to be ready, and an early day set for the hearing. The business of the Court 
 was pushed through rapidly, and the afternoon of the term, when everybody 
 was jolly and ready for fun, the case of the people vs. Henry S. McLean was 
 called and the defendant arraigned, the indictment slowly and meusuredly read 
 t>y the Clerk, and then the Court, in solemn judicial dignity, asked the ques- 
 tion, "Is the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty in manner and form as 
 charged in the indictment?" McLean then arose from his half bent, slouch- 
 ing position, and standing erect, replied, "May it please the Court, if I should 
 say I am not guilty, I should lie ; and if I should say I am guilty in manner 
 
 arid form as charged in the indictment, I should tell a d d sight bigger lie; 
 
 therefore, I stand mute ! " The roar that shook the building, at this plea, so 
 disturbed the blind and steady handed goddess, she dismissed the case, and her 
 devotees adjourned to the hotel for a jolly wind up of the judicial proceedings. 
 The first Petit Jury of the county was as follows : Calvin Ward, Reed 
 Person, Benj. II. Smith, E. K. Mann, S. H. Hamilton, James Latham, Charles 
 Latten, John V. King, Jas. Ferson, John W. Douglas, Asa Merrill and Gideon 
 Young. The term lasted three days, and there "were in the time five jury 
 trials, four changes of venue granted, fourteen judgments, amounting to 5,400, 
 rendered, twenty suits continued, and five dismissed. The first order entered 
 on the record was a rule to "plead by to-morrow morning," entered June 19, 
 1837, in the suit of Hugh C. Gibson and three female Gibsons vs. G. W. and 
 Harrison Haynes and John Miller. The same order was entered in the case of 
 seventeen plaintiffs vs. Thomas G. Getman, Thayer and the Haynes. The same 
 seventeen plaintiffs recovered one cent damages and their costs of suit against 
 the defendants. 
 
 Ransom Olds, Aaron Burbank, Jona. Kimball, Elizur Burbank and D. W. 
 Elumre failed to respond to the process of the court, and attachments were 
 ordered against ihem, but they catne in at a subsequent term and purged them- 
 selves of their contempt, and were dismissed with the costs. On motion ot 
 Jas. M. Strode, Jacob B. Mills was allowed to practice as an attorney in the 
 court, and H. N. Chapman was similarly privileged on the motion of Giles 
 Spring. John Douglas was the first alien who renounced his allegiance to his 
 native country, and took Uncle Sam for his future Ci'esar. He was a Scotch* 
 man, and tiled his declaration on the second day of the court.
 
 262 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The second terra of the court was held in September, 1837, by Judge 
 Thomas. At this court, the afterward famous controversy of Anson Pease vs. John 
 Peter Schneider, and John Peter Schneider vs. Anson Pease, first made its 
 appearance .on the docket, from which it did not disappear until after 1S-~>0. 
 It grew out of the claim of the water power at Schneider's, now known as North 
 Aurora. Pease was a litigous fellow, and a local rhymester, whose habitat was- 
 Aurora, in the early days, thus done him up in verse : 
 
 " Is-c M-r-l-t and Anson Pease 
 Are the very d 1 to laugh and tense, 
 Of whisky punch they'll drink enough 
 To fill Fox River from bluff to bluff." 
 
 The County Commissioners' Court had charge only of the fiscal concerns of 
 the county, allowed the bills, levied the taxes and settled with the Sheriff, who was 
 Tax Collector then. The first session of the court was in 1836, and the court 
 was composed of Thomas H. Thompson, Claudius Townsend and Mark Daniels, 
 County Commissioners, with Mark W. Fletcher, as Clerk. 
 
 The Elgin bar has ever been noted for its legal and forensic ability. 
 Among its honored names are the first ones who came to the village, while it 
 was yet a hamlet of but a few houses, and who practiced in the old Thirteenth 
 Circuit, viz. : E. E. Harvey, who went into the military service at the call for 
 volunteers in the Mexican war, and gave his life for the country, dying in 
 Mexico; P. R. Wright, formerly Circuit Clerk, and now a resident of Cali- 
 fornia; I. G. Wilson, Judge of the old Thirteenth, and afterward the Twenty- 
 eighth Circuit Court, and now an eminent member of the Chicago bar ; Chas. 
 H. Morgan, formerly Judge of the Elgin and Aurora Courts of Common Pleas, 
 and later U. S. Judge in one of the Territories ; Edmund Gifford, also a Judge 
 in New Orleans ; and last, though not least, Sylvanus Wilcox, who so worthily 
 occupied the bench of the Twenty-eighth Circuit. Judge Wilcox is the only 
 one of the above named eminent lawyers who has an abiding place in Elgin. 
 
 The Probate Court, as first organized, was a very simple institution, con- 
 sisting solely of a Probate Justice of the Peace, who was his own Clerk. No- 
 Sheriff or Bailiff guarded his tribunal or made his presence awe-inspiring by 
 his cry of "Oyez ! oyez ! " but in the simple guise of a Justice of the Peace, 
 he settled the estates of the dead, dividing them among the living according to- 
 law or the will of the decedent. 
 
 The first estate administered upon in the county was that of Archibald 
 Moody, who died July 27, 1836. Letters of administration thereon were 
 granted .to Lydia C. Moody, his widow, by Mark Daniels, Probate Justice, 
 June 6, 1837, which was the first recorded act of the court. The Administra- 
 trix gave bonds in the sum of 2.000, with Gideon Young as security. 
 
 The first will probated in the court was that of Warren Tyler, of St. Charles. 
 It was dated September 10, 1837, and admitted to record on the testimony of 
 Thomas P. Whipple and Mark Fletcher, November 6, 1837, /this being the
 
 HISTORY OP KANE COUNTY. 263 
 
 second act of the court, and the first act of Isaac Wilson, Probate Justice. 
 Diadema Tyler and Thomas P. Whipple were appointed Executors, and gave 
 bonds in the sum of $6,000, with Reed Ferson and Ephraim Perkins security. 
 The principal bequest was 360 acres of land, to which decedent held a claim 
 under the claim laws of the country. 
 
 The first letters of guardianship issued were to Moses Shelby, as guardian 
 of Rebecca Gillespie, on November 5, 1838, with Thomas P. Whipple as secu- 
 rity in $200 bonds. 
 
 The old seal^of the Probate Court was a copper block, with a weeping wil- 
 low and tomb stone, emblematic, in those days, of the grief for the dead, but in 
 the present it is more impressive of the cost of the funeral, and the wasting of 
 the estate in settlement. 
 
 The Probate Justices gave way to the County Court in 1849, when Isaac 
 G. Wilson, a son of the Isaac Wilson who performed the last two official acts 
 above mentioned, was elected County Judge under the new Constitution, and 
 James Herrington, County Clerk. These officers were elected in November, 
 18-19. commissioned in December, and held the first term of the County Court, 
 for county business, the following January, commencing on the 10th day of the 
 month, 1850. The court was composed of Isaac G. Wilson, County Judge: 
 Andrew J. Waldron and Marcus White. Associate Justices, and James Her- 
 rington, Clerk. The court allowed pauper bills to the amount of $138 ; court 
 expenses, $165. and miscellaneous bills, $13. The court also granted John D. 
 \Yygant, of Batavia, and William G. Webster, of Geneva, grocers' licenses for 
 a year for $25 each. It is needless to say the groceries to be sold were wet gro- 
 ceries. The bonds of the County Judge, County Collector and Justices and Con- 
 stables were approved, except some that were informal, which were rejected and 
 new ones filed. Roads were ordered reviewed and re-located, and an order passed 
 that no more bills for the laying of roads would be allowed by the court. A. 
 P. Hubbard and Thomas A. Scott were appointed a committee to examine into 
 the financial condition of the county, and report its status at the March term 
 of the court, which they did, and their report ordered printed ; but it is not 
 recorded nor on file, and whether the county had much or little indebtedness, 
 we cannot now know. 
 
 Gen. Elijah Wilcox, of Elgin ; Dr. D. D. Waite, of St. Charles, and W. B. 
 Gillett, of Sugar Grove, were appointed a committee to divide the county into 
 towns, according to the terms of Section 6 of the law of 1849, relating to 
 township organization. They made a report and divided the county as it now 
 stands, except as to the division of Geneva and Batavia, which was effected sub- 
 sequently. They called Rutland, Jackson ; Plato, Homer, and Virgil, Frank- 
 lin, but they were soon after changed as they are now known, E. R. Starks 
 giving the name of his native town in Vermont to Jackson, and the town of 
 Homer being honored with the name of our then worthy citizen and State 
 Senator. Plato.
 
 264 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTV. 
 
 Orsemus Wilson, Esq., Poor Master of Batavia, was directed to get Schultz, 
 a pauper, boarded for less than 1.25 a- week, if he could. Wm. R. Parker, 
 Justice of the Peace, was told to hold oil and not to issue any capias against 
 Alvin Hyatt, whom he had found guilty of an assault and battery, and fined 
 $15. The Court selected a Grand and Petit Jury for the March term of the 
 Circuit Court, and adjourned. The last term of the court for county business 
 was held June 3, 1850, and then the Supervisors took the purse strings of the 
 treasury in hand, and have held them ever since. 
 
 The first settlement of the Treasurer of the county was made December 1, 
 1838,- and the whole amount of funds received by him was $548.54, including 
 thirty license fees, and fines. His compensation was $10.87. The County 
 Treasurers, from 1836 to 1841, received as the total amount of revenue of the 
 county during the time the sum of $3,982.07. The commissions amounted to 
 47. They couldn't afford to pay much to make their election sure. David 
 Dunham was Recorder of Deeds from August 1, 1836, to September 1. 1843 ; 
 but that wns not much of a bonanza, for he used to write up his records in his 
 store on rainy days, and other times when business was not pressing. The 
 whole seven years of his official term are comprised in the first three books of 
 the Recorder's office, and number 997 instruments. 
 
 The first tax levied in the county was in the year 1836, and was laid on 
 personal property only, real estate not being taxable until 1847, five years after 
 the land sales in 1842. The amount of the levy -\vas about eight hundred dol- 
 lars, and B. F. Fridley was Sheriff and ex officio County Collector, a?ul John 
 Griggs was County Assessor. The first tax levied after real .estate became taxable 
 was in 1847. The assessment o f lands and village lots amounted to $446,185, 
 and of personal property to $321,320. The taxes levied were for State purposes, 
 2,839: county purposes, $2,302.54, and for roads, $1,535.01. Total, $6,677.29. 
 
 The first instrument recorded in the county was an agreement for a deed be- 
 tween James Crow and Wallace Hotchkiss, for lands which said Crow claimed 
 300 acres of prairie and 160 acres of timber. The prairie land was on the 
 east side of the Fox River, in Batavia, and the timber was in the Big Woods. 
 The amount of purchase money was $2,000. This instrument was filed for 
 record January 23, 1837, and recorded in book 1, page 1. 
 
 The first village plat recorded was that of Geneva, on May 8, 1837, at 11 
 o'clock A. M., in Book 1, page 9 ; and St. Charles or as it was then called 
 and recorded, Charleston filed her plat the same day, at 2 o'clock P. M., and 
 it follows Geneva in the same book, on page 11. The first deed recorded is one 
 from Richard J. Hamilton and James Herrington, by Mark W. Fletcher, their 
 attorney in fact, to Kane County, for a block of ground in Geneva, known as 
 the public square. This was the original courthouse block, on which the origi- 
 nal court house was built. 
 
 The first mortgage fded for record was f- denJ from James Herrington to 
 Jacob Miller, both of Geneva, July 5, 1837. It conveys a two-thirds interst
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 265 
 
 in 110 acres of timber on the east side of the river, in Geneva, and was the 
 original ciaini of Haight and Bird. Miller gave Harrington an agreement to 
 re-convey on the payment of 300 in one year, with 1*2 per cent, interest, 
 quarterly. This was the only way security could be given on real estate, as 
 the laws of the United States made it unlawful to mortgage the land until 
 patents were issued for it. 
 
 Large tracts of land were entered at the land sale, by parties in trust for 
 others, and bonds given for deeds in payment of the sums advanced, and such 
 interest as was agreed upon. Right here comes to mind an incident growing out 
 of that practice, partially in Elgin, which shows that the confidence game was 
 practiced in early times as well as later in that city. 
 
 In Western New York lived, in 1840-41 and later, a man named William 
 Mills, familiarly known and called by many of the early settlers in Elgin, as 
 "Billy" Mills. He was a rioted man amon.sr the people of Elgin, ia those 
 early days, and was a man of wealth and good report. Some time in the Spring 
 of 1845 or 1846, a genteelly dressed and self-possessed gentleman came into 
 the stage house at Tibbals', in Elgin, and represented himself to be a nephew 
 of "Billy" Mills, of New York. He had come out to loan money and make 
 investments, and wanted a good room, regardless of expense, and so Tibbals 
 put the best room of his really good hostelry at his service, and treated him as 
 the nephew of as prime a favorite as Billy Mills ought to be shown. 
 
 The news of the arrival of a nephew of Billy Mills was soon noised abroad, 
 and the fact that he had lots of money to loan and invest was as soon known. 
 He was at once the center of attraction. The funnel's who had bought their 
 land through others, and were paying 18 to 24 per cent, for the accommoda- 
 tion, immediately began to negotiate with the nephew of his uncle for loans to 
 pay up the said advances, and at much lower rates of interest. Many, too, 
 sought for further accommodations, to reloan the money at an advance on the 
 rate the nephew charged. The days of Spring lengthened into Summer, and 
 the Summer heats began to strengthen, and still the nephew basked in the sun- 
 shine of " Uncle " Billy's fame and prestige, without a cloud or passing shower 
 to disturb his tranquility. He suggested to his host, from time to time, that he 
 was ready to pay his bill on_presentation *' expected another remittance from 
 Uncle Billy soon ; had loaned Deacon a little cash to take up the mort- 
 gage on his farm ; would be all right as soon as another letter came." etc. 
 Tibbals said it was all right, and continued to feed him in good style and diive 
 him around the country behind a pair of spanking bays. One day, which he had 
 set for fulfilling his engagement, the people came with their bonds and mort- 
 gages drawn up in the most approved ^tyle, tricked out in sealing wax and red 
 tape, to get the money to consummate the projects of their hearts, and move 
 into the splendid castles in Spain which many of them had already erected. But 
 the mails had failed to come in, and the disappointed ones were put oft" till an- 
 other day. The day came, and with it again came the people and their seen-
 
 266 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 rities, and also a letter from Billy Mills himself, to some one whose suspicions 
 had been aroused and had communicated with Mills in regard to the u nephew," 
 stating that the "nephew" was no relative of his, but was imposing on the 
 good people of Elgin. The people looked foolish, as their castles disappeared, 
 and especially those who had indulged in such rosy dreams of money loaning. 
 But Tibbals, when the truth flashed upon him, was furious. If " our army 
 swore terribly in Flanders," then Tibbals was worthy of a full Brigadier's com- 
 mission in it. He mounted in hot haste his buck-board, and drove off at a slash- 
 ing pace to Geneva to get sundry writs of capias, ne exeat and attachment, 
 whereby he might get indemnity for the outlay he had made for the said 
 nephew's comfort. The writs were duly issued and served upon the boarder, 
 with an unknown alias, and in due course of time the trial came on before the 
 Circuit Court and a jury. John J. Brown, the eloquent advocate in Chicago, 
 at rhat time Avas retained by the defendant, and interposed a plea of non compos 
 mentis. He did not try to rebut the evidence that was piled up by the prosecu- 
 tion, but rather sought to make the testimony stronger bv the cross-examination 
 
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 The evidence being all in, and the counsel for the plaintiff having closed his 
 case, the defense took the floor and began one of those impassioned appeals t<> 
 the jury for which Mr. Brown was so noted. He showed conclusively to the 
 jury and audience that the defendant, instead of being harassed by grasping 
 creditors and unfeeling bailiffs, should be tenderly cared for by Christian men 
 and women ! The Court was convulsed with suppressed laughter, the jury and 
 audience were in tears, and Tibbals himself rose and, wiping his eyes, stalked 
 out of the court room, muttering to himself, " I'll be d d if I knew I was such 
 a wretch as to prosecute such a poor fool as that ! " 
 
 Among the first things established in the county for the general good, wan 
 the Yankee institution the public school. With the yearning for a wider acre- 
 age and larger gains, was the kindred spirit of knowledge how to attain to and 
 use the increased facilities when they should be in hand. And so, by the time 
 the settlers, in 1834, had built their shanties and staked out their claims, they 
 looked for the school master, and. lo ! . he was in their midst, and from the land 
 where the pedagogue, male and female, is indigenous Vermont. In the fall of 
 1834, a Mr. Knowles was enthroned in East Batavia, with the hazel brush as a 
 scepter, to rule over and teach nine infantile subjects. The throne room was in 
 a log cabin on Col. Lyon's claim, about one mile east of the river, and was the 
 first school house built in the county. The school ma'am was but a short way 
 behind, and her name was Prudence Ward, and her kingdom was in Ira E. 
 Tvler's.Iog house, in St. Charles, and she beijan her reign in 1835. This vear, 
 
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 too, a Mr. Livingston taught school in East Geneva. The female pedagogues 
 multiplied in the land greatly, so much so, that the male of the species, for a 
 season, became extinct. Miss Charlotte Griggs, in Plato; Mi>s Amanda Cochrane, 
 in Dundee; Miss Harriet Giffbrd, in Elgin, and Mrs. Sterling, of Geneva, being 
 the first teachers in their respective localities, all before the close of the year 1837.
 
 HISTORV OF KANE COUNTY. 267 
 
 The first teachers' institute or normal school held in the county was con- 
 vened in 1850, at the old court house in Geneva, under the fostering care of 
 Father Brewster, who was the School Commissioner. Prof. Sweet was 
 the Director,, and John B. Newcomb, of Elgin ; Achsah Waite, of St. Charles ; 
 Miss Fox, of Elgin, and Miss Kidder, afterward the wife of D. L. Eastman, of 
 St. Charles, were chief assistants. The mystery of a minus quantity " one 
 less than nothing" was lucidly explained by Miss Waite to many whose lives 
 since then have been striking illustrations of the theorem. The first institute 
 will never be forgotton by those who participated in it. The Marys and Fannys 
 and Williams and Johns, how they did parse but never declined the verb 
 "to love ! " How they rattled on about the uttermost parts of the earth, and 
 yet thought the sweetest place on earth was just there in the class. How the 
 problem of two and two make four was solved in a twinkling, when the class in 
 arithmetic was ordered to the Unitarian Church, and Mary Ann, of Big Rock, 
 and the little black-eyed Miss W., from Sugar Grove, paired off with the young 
 schoolmasters of Aurora. A certain cosy farm house in the southwestern part 
 of the county will tell how two of these former mathematicians solved that other 
 more difficult problem of life, and demonstrated that three from two raakejEpe/ 
 - Newcomb drilled us all fn phonetics, and Sweet " elocuted " for our benefit, and 
 we followed in concert until such a howl rose up the Genevans rushed to see 
 what lunatic asylum had turned its inmates out for a holiday. The school- 
 ma'ams that were, and those that would, be, came in such numbers they could 
 not all be accommodated at the residences of the people ; but Father Brews ter 
 God bless the good old man was equal to the occasion, and so he called for 
 supplies of bedding and rations, and soon the dancing hall of the Geneva House 
 then occupied and kept by Mr. Sterling was transformed into a dormitory 
 and kitchen, and the girls added to their theories the additional accomplishment 
 of practical living. As we think of the two hundred and more girls, old and 
 young, then present, we ask, with Holmes, 
 
 "Where are the Marys and Anns and Elizas. 
 
 Living and lovely of yore? 
 Look in the columns of old Advertisers 
 Married and Dead by the score." 
 
 Elgin claims the first academy and the first college in the county. The 
 academy was chartered in 1839, but was not opened until 1855, when the col- 
 lege was built and transferred to the academy, and the two companies merged in 
 one. 
 
 The first sermon preached in the county was by Rev. N. C. Clarke, in 
 1834, in the log house of Christopher Payne, the first actual settler in the 
 county, east of Batavia. Mr. Clarke was one of the early missionaries sent 
 out into the West to tell the "glad tidings" to the pioneers, and gather them 
 into church societies and Sunday schools. He was one of God's noblemen, of 
 u kindly, affectionate manner, truthful and sincere, and one who drew nu-n to
 
 268 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 better things by his own gentle and consistent ways quite as much as by his 
 persuasive exhortations. No breath of suspicion ever attainted him, but he 
 seemed to stand on the mountain top, in the clear sunlight of truth and moral- 
 ity, always, from his first entrance into the county, until loving hands bore him 
 tenderly to the beautiful city of the dead that" overlooks his old homestead, in 
 Elgin. 
 
 His colleagues were Elder J. E. Ambrose and Elder Kimball. These men 
 traveled on foot or on horseback, among the early settlers around Chicago, stop- 
 ping where night overtook them, and receiving the hospitalities of the cabin, 
 without money or without price. Reverently asking the blessing of God upon 
 all that they did, their lives were .simple and unostentatious, their wants few and 
 easily satisfied ; their teaching plain and unvarnished, touched with no elo- 
 quence save that of their dailv living, which was seen and known of all men. 
 
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 Though of different religious seers one being a Congregationalist, one a Bap- 
 tise, and the pther a Methodist yen no discord was ever manifested between 
 them, but a united effort was made by them to show men the way to better 
 things by better living, and thus, finally, to reach the best of all, God and 
 heaven. They were not only physicians for the soul's cure, but they sometimes 
 ministered to the body's ailments. They married the living, and buried the 
 dead; they christened the babe, admonished the young and warned the old: 
 they cheered the despondent, rebuked the wilful and hurled the vengeance of 
 eternal burnings at the desperately wicked. When other orators were scarce, 
 they sometimes mounted the rostrum on the Fourth of July, and highfaluted 
 for the edification of the people, like other patriotic mortals. Wherever they 
 came they were welcome, and notice was soon sent around to the neighbors and 
 a meeting was held. For years they could say literally, as did the Master 
 before them : " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but 
 (we) the sons of men have not where to lay our heads." 
 
 Father Clarke, in St. Charles, and Elder Ambrose, in Elgin, finally settled 
 down and were located over respective congregations of their own faith, and 
 Elder Kimball, the Methodist, in Blooniingdale. Father Clarke has gone to 
 his rest, sincerely mourned by all who had ever known him. 
 
 The first church in the county was organized in Batavia, in 1835. It was 
 of the Congregationalist faith, and another one of the same faith was organ- 
 ized in Elgin, in 1836. The first Methodist Episcopal churches were organ- 
 ized in Aurora and Elgin, in 1837. The Baptists organized a society in 1836, 
 in St. Charles. The Unitarians organized a society in Geneva, in 1837, and 
 about that time the Universalists organized one in St. Charles. The first 
 Roman Catholic gathering was probably in Rutland, though Aurora claims the 
 first church up as late as 1848, or after. The first Congregational minister in 
 the county was Father Clarke; the first Baptist. Elder Ambrose; the first 
 Methodist, Rev. William Kimball: the first Unitarian. A. II. Conant, and the 
 first Universalists, Andrew Pingree and William Rounseville. The first church
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 269 
 
 buildings erected exclusively for worship were those of the Congregationalists- 
 in Batavia and Dundee, in 1840, though the Universalists began theirs in 1838, 
 but it was not finished until 1843. Aurora built her first church in 1843, for 
 the Methodists, and Elgin hers, in 1840, for the same society, and Geneva, for 
 the Unitarians, in 1843. In 1850, there were eighteen church edifices, valued 
 at $30,000, and capable of seating about five thousand persons. The first 
 Sunday school in the county was organized in Batavia, in 1835, but the schools- 
 multiplied rapidly, one being organized wherever children could be gathered in, 
 even if there were not a half a dozen to begin with. 
 
 Bishop Chase, of the Episcopal Church, the founder of Jubilee College, at 
 "Robin's Nest," near Peoria, held a service under the ritual of that church, 
 in St. Charles, in 1838, in the school house then standing on the corner near 
 Dr. Crawford's present residence. It was quite a noted event in those days. 
 The Bishop was a tall and large man, had white hair and was a very fine look- 
 ing old man, and in his Episcopal robes of scarlet was an august looking person- 
 age. The Episcopalians in St. Charles at that time were Dr. Thomas P. 
 Whipple and R. V. M. Croes, the latter a son of an Episcopal clergyman, of 
 New York City. The Bishop was entertained by Dr. Wliipple. The Herring- 
 tons, at Geneva, and Joseph W. Churchill, at Batavia, were also Episcopalians. 
 Churchill was a bluff, nervous fellow, and much attached to the forms of his 
 church. One Sunday, as he and his daughter were going to church, he a.4ced 
 her if she had got her prayer book. She said, "No father, I forgot it,'" 
 Churchill blurted out : '"Forget your prayer book ! Go f.nd get it ! You might 
 sis well be in as in an Episcopal church without a prayer book." 
 
 There was a time when a great religious awakening swept over the com- 
 munity, and Father Clarke, assisted by two clergymen from Boston or 
 thereabouts, had charge of the revival. Naughty rumor had been busy with 
 the names of the two men from the old Bay State, and it was whispered that 
 one of them had found it convenient to leave his creditors to get their just 
 claims paid by suffering fifty per cent, loss on the same ; while of the other it 
 was said that he, had literally taken to himself a wife, in that he had taken a 
 wife of some other man, and she was then with him in the (then) village of 
 Elgin. These rumors Avere subsequently found to have more than a mere sab- 
 stratum of truth. 
 
 While the religious awakening was at its height, Mr. Clarke and the two 
 assisting ministers called pastorally on the people, and, among others, visited 
 Mr. P. G. Patterson, and talked with him kindly, admonishing him to try and 
 reform. Patterson listened patiently and quietly to his visitors, and at length 
 Mr. Clarke asked him what he thought of what had been said. Patterson, look- 
 ing up to Mr. Clarke, said, feelingly : " Mr. Clarke, you are a good man and a 
 kind neighbor, and I thank you for your visit, but, as for the other gentlemen, all 
 I have to-say is, I pity twenty shitting* to the pound, and live with my own ivife. 
 The interview closed abruptly, for there was no room fur further argument.
 
 270 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 ; ,v^ ; . AURORA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Had ancient mythology been ransacked, it -would have been impossible 
 to have found a name containing a more pleasing and purely imaginative history 
 . than the one which this township bears ; and it may be added with equal truth 
 that the picturesquenessof the valley, stream, prairie and hill with which it is di- 
 versified renders it worthy to be associated with a conception which was the person- 
 ification of ideal beauty. Forty -four years ago, however, the Eos of the Greeks, 
 the Aurora of the Latins, shed her smiles over its fields, now marked with farm- 
 house, granary, mill and village, and beheld only a wilderness. Its broad acres 
 were uncultivated, its forests then magnificent allowed to run to waste anJ 
 only serving as a home for the Indian and the wolf and their wild neighbors. 
 But the Sac and Fox War was precipitated, and then all was changed. Scott's 
 army was sent in pursuit of the cowardly wretches, who had glutted their 
 vindictive hate with the blood of women and children, and a new era was 
 ushered in. 
 
 SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 Among the earliest ones to avail himself of the return of peace and of the 
 measures on foot to move the friendly Indians under Waubansie from the State. 
 was Jacob Carpenter, who came to Chicago from Logan County, Ohio, in No- 
 vember, 1832. In December of the following year, having spent the Summer 
 and Fall at Naperviile, which then contained some half a dozen families, he 
 took up land and built a log house on the east side of Fox River, about half a 
 mile from the spot now occupied by the village of Montgomery. This house 
 was the first in Aurora Township and one of the first in Kane County, and was 
 occupied by Carpenter and his family the week before Christmas. 
 
 In the following April, Elijah Pierce, Carpenter's father-in-law, also from 
 Logan County, followed him to the new country, and built a second shanty on 
 the same side of the river and nearer the bank than Carpenter's, where for years 
 he kept entertainment for man and beast. There the stage horses on the Chi- 
 cago & Galena Road were regularly changed as long as the route ran by way 
 of Montgomery. His accommodations were not as good as may now be found 
 at the Palmer House, or even in Aurora, but they were the best which could 
 then be obtained nearer than Naperviile. His shanty had one room, which 
 served as kitchen, dining room, sitting room, parlor and bedroom; and Mr. Wm. 
 T. Elliott, who came from Tioga County, N. Y., and took up an adjoining 
 claim in June, 1834, says that he has seen forty people men, women and 
 children packed away in promiscuous order for the night, upon the floor of 
 that room. 
 
 At that time, no Government surveys had been made anywhere in the 
 ..vicinity. All were squatters, and all were obliged to go to Ottawa, for the trans- 
 action of any public business.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 271 
 
 Mr. Elliott, our worthy informant, who still resides, at the age of 67, upon 
 his original claim, is responsible for being the author of the first romance which 
 the annals of the county furnish. He "was a goodly stripling then," and, 
 casting his eyes around among the damsels of the land, he saw none so comely as 
 Rebecca Pierce. It may be a matter of doubt if the country afforded any other 
 damsel during the first year of his residence, but, be that as it may, we have it on 
 good authority that Rebecca was fair and seventeen, and willing to place her head 
 in the matrimonial slipping-noose, .but here the cruel parent who figures in all 
 romances interposed his veto. It is not material what reasons he urged or even 
 if he urged any at all. His refusal produced the usual effect, and everything 
 went on in the regular order found in any one of Mrs. Southworth's novels. 
 "Win. T. said " Wilt thott cleave unto me in spite of Pa Pierce ? " and Rebecca 
 answered " I will." The next morning a youth might have been seen wend- 
 
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 ing his way along the road which led to Ottawa. He raised his eyes and saw 
 a man approaching. It was Mr. Pierce, the last person whom he cared to meet. 
 Mr. Pierce advised him in a friendly manner, as parents are apt to assume in such 
 circumstances, to make no more attempts to obtain his daughter, as they would 
 be useless, and receiving from Mr. Elliott the gratifying assurance that he would 
 have Rebecca or die in the attempt, he went on his way rejoicing, perhaps. 
 On reaching Ottawa, forty miles from home, the ardent lover proceeded at once 
 to the office of the County Clerk, whose reign extended over a vast territory, 
 but small population, and asked for a marriage license. The lady's age was 
 demanded and the license promptly refused. The Clerk, however, at the request 
 of Mr. Elliott, examined the marriage law, and informed him that he might 
 marry, if he would publish a notice of his and the lady's intentions two weeks 
 previous, in church. He, therefore, returned disappointed and discouraged. 
 Fortune seemed to favor him now, for as he approached his cabin he met that 
 zealous and exemplary pioneer u Father Clark," to whom he unbosomed him- 
 self, and was told that he should be " cried in meetia' come next Sunday." 
 Father Clark published him. as agreed, in Xaperville, and, in due time, tidings 
 came to the enraged parent, who vowed that the marriage should never take 
 place. Now, Mr. Pierce went to Chicago for nearly all the groceries used in 
 his business as landlord. Thinking that only one week had expired since the 
 announcement of marriage, he left home with a light heart, it may be supposed, 
 and chuckling, as he rode along over the ruts, to think that the man who so 
 yearned to call him u Father," had walked to Ottawa and back for a marriage 
 license in vain. Win. T. and Rebecca, meanwhile, were chuckling, too, for on 
 this morn the two weeks had expired. In the afternoon, Rebecca went visiting. 
 There was no suspicion, as her lover, who had a field of wheat near by, had passed 
 the house at noon with his cradle upon his shoulder. Later in the afternoon 
 he returned, met Miss Pierce, and Father Clark united them. "When the 
 unreasonable father returned, he felt greatly discomfited, and, though not a man 
 givento unseemly mirth, some say that he danced a horn-pipe many times around 
 
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 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 his shanty, but/having thus become calm, he reasoned, after a night's sleep, 
 that it would be the part of wisdom to make no more disturbance. Accord- 
 ingly, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott commenced housekeeping, and their marriage, 
 which occurred August 3, 1835, was the first in Aurora Township. 
 
 Their daughter Emeline now Mrs. Joseph Denny, of Aurora whose 
 birth occurred August 5, 1836. was the first white child born within the limits 
 of the present township. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are among the most respected of the early settlers, 
 and, to all appearances, will witness a score more of years of the progress 
 the town, which- they first found containing less than a half dozen of 
 dwellings. 
 
 Land was not dear in those early times, and, as proof of this, it may be 
 stated that Mr. Pierce bought a. claim of 380 acres, most of which is now within 
 the city limits, for 7.00. This tract was afterward owned by B. F. Fridley, 
 who came to Aurora in 1835, and is still living in the city. 
 
 On the 20th of September. 1836, Thomas Carpenter died, after a short 
 illness. It is a fact worthy of note, that he was the first settler in Aurora 
 Township, and the first who died there outside of the present city limits. He 
 was also one of the very first who settled in the county, and was only four 
 months later than Christopher Payne, the earliest pioneer. 
 
 Another very early settler in this township was John Peter Snycler. a Ger- 
 man, from Erie County, Penn., who arrived in Chicago with his family July 
 10, 1832. Finding all the country around in confusion from the recent Indian 
 atrocities, and the efforts of the Government to suppress them, he took passage to 
 Michigan, instead of unloading his goods, and remained there until the follow- 
 ing September, and then returned to Chicago, where he lay ill for two weeks or 
 more. He then went to Naperville, where he found a settlement already 
 established, and stayed thore during the Winter and the following Summer, 
 and, being a millwright, put up a small saw-mill for one of the Napers. Dur- 
 ing his first Fall there (1832), he had explored the country around North 
 Aurora, in company with Lansing Sweet, a brother-in-law of the Napers, but, 
 fearing the Pottawattornies, had made no claim. In the Fall of 1833, in com- 
 pany with his brother, John Nicholas more popularly known as ' Peter John," 
 who now lives near Piano, Kendall County he took up a claim on Blackberry 
 Creek, and built another saw-mill. Indeed, they seem to have had a peculiar 
 fondness for such work, for, according to John Peter, he and " Peter John " 
 were located, iu the Fall of 1834, on land now occupied by the North Aurora 
 Manufacturing Company's Works, hanvnering away at still another saw-mill. 
 When he arrived there in 1834, he says that the McCartys had commenced 
 their improvements below. Certainly, the country was indebted to the Snyders 
 for some valuable improvements, for after the first explorers have located in a 
 new country, the greatest benefit i? conferred, not by the one who erects a 
 school house or a church, but by tho man who builds a mill. They precede all
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 273 
 
 other improvements, and are the beacon-lights in the van of civilization. The 
 dam across the river at North Aurora was also built by the Snyders. 
 
 The first mill was burned a number of years after its completion, and John 
 Peter built another, which is still standing. 
 
 Meanwhile other settlers had located in the country around, and at first 
 taking up claims by squatter, right, and afterward purchasing of the Govern- 
 ment, the township had become rapidly settled. 
 
 In the Fall of 1835, Daniel Gray, from Montgomery County, N. Y., visited 
 the West, where his brother, Nicholas, had located the previous Spring, on a 
 farm now within the limits of Kendall County. Pleased with the new country, 
 he made immediate preparations to settle there, and in the Fall of 1836, having 
 removed his family from New York, he built the first frame house in the village, 
 which he named from the county he had left. It was located in the south part 
 of the place, near the west bank of the river, was about 22x38 feet, and, having 
 been moved from its original site, is still used as a dwelling. 
 
 MANUFACTURES AND BUSINESS. 
 
 Daniel Gray was a man of indomitable energy and entei^prise. Mills and 
 manufactures sprung up at his bidding, as by magic, and Montgomery, al- 
 though the little village has still good prospects for the future, would doubtless 
 have had a far more brilliant history had he lived. No sooner had he settled 
 in the place than he commenced improvements on a grand scale. A store, 
 foundry, reaper and header manufacturing shop over one hundred feet in 
 length, a second foundry built of stone, and one of the best stone grist-mills in 
 the country, appeared in rapid succession, furnishing employment for thirty or 
 more hands, and Mr. Gray was making preparations for still more extensive 
 business operations, in the establishment of a manufactory of stationary engines, 
 ^vhen, in the Winter of 1854, he died. The store had .burned a number of 
 years previous. The stone foundry has subsequently been used for a short 
 time as a manufactory for cotton batting, but is now- idle, as is the large build- 
 ing formerly used as a manufactory. The flouring mill is now doing a good 
 business, and running twenty-four hours in the day. Hord, Emmons & Co. 
 are the present proprietors, the manufactured article enjoys a good reputation 
 throughout the West, and is shipped in sacks to all parts of Northern Illinois. 
 
 A large cheese factory, built in 1874, and which, we are informed, is doing 
 a good business for the farmers, stands on the opposite side of the street. The 
 place also has a small sash and blind factory, two stores and an excellent stone 
 depot for the Chicago, Burlington <k Quincy Railroad, which crosses Aurora 
 Township from east to west, and passes along the edge of the village. 
 
 Turning now for a moment to North Aurora, we find several small manu- 
 factories there which deserve brief mention. The grist-mill, a good wooden 
 building, was commenced in 18H2 : the &;ish, door and blind factor}' was built 
 some fifteen years ago ; the foundry, now employing about fourteen hands, was
 
 -14 HISTORi" OF KANE BOUNTY. 
 
 erected in the Spring of 1874, and a large and elegant building, to be used as- 
 u store, was puc up the same year. All are owned by the North Aurora Man- 
 ufacturing Company. A cheese factory of magnificent dimensions, the prop- 
 erty of J. H. Boswell, was built in 1875. It has used 6,500 pounds of milk 
 during the past Summer (1877), and manufactured cream cheese, which was- 
 shipped to Liverpool,. England, during a part of the season. 
 
 The station is thirty-five miles west of Chicago, on the old State Road. It 
 has two stores ; the one on the east side, built in 1874, the other occupying 
 one end of the cheese factory. The place is four miles from the city of Aurora, 
 on the branch railroad which connects Aurora with Batavia, on the east side 
 of the river. The railroad company have built a depot there. 
 
 Like Montgomery, North Aurora has excellent water power, and there are 
 a number of residences, in the immediate vicinity, on either side of the river. 
 About half ?i mile distant, John Peter Snyder still resides, looking o.s young as- 
 many men at 45 ; although he claims to be 76. and says he has kept his youth 
 30 well beoause he had such easy times when the country was new. The exten- 
 
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 sion connecting Aurora with Batavia and Geneva, by way of the "West Side, 
 crosses the township within half a mile of North Aurora 
 
 SCHOOL HOUSES. 
 
 As early as 1839, a small frame school house stood in Montgomery, and 
 the first term was taught in it by a young lady. Mrs. Ellis, then Mrs. Car- 
 penter, now residing in the village, stales that her little boys went there to 
 school as early as the winter of 1838. The teacher was paid by subscription. 
 The house is now used us a dwelling by Mr. Harrison Young. Another 
 school was started, at quite an early period, near North Aurora, and others 
 followed throughout the districts more remote from the river, until the adoption 
 of the School Law brought about the present condition. A fine public school 
 building, erected some twenty years ago, stands in Montgomery. 
 
 POST OFFICES. 
 
 An attempt was made by the settlers near Montgomery to obtain a post 
 office as early as 1836, but the stage route being changed about that time, the 
 attempt was given up for rail ten years. At length, when the manufactories 
 established by Daniel Gray had made the village of sufficient importance, the 
 project was renewed, and Hiram Border was commissioned the first Postmaster. 
 This post office, and the one at North Aurora, established January 18, 1869, 
 with A. II. Stone as its first Postmaster, are the only ones in the township. 
 
 The village of Montgomery was at first surveyed not long after Daniel 
 Grav's arrival, and it was then laid out at a spoi: somewhat below its present 
 site. Ir was in this original plat that the school building was put up, and it 
 has not been removed to the position of the more modern place. The earliest 
 
 riaee within its present corpora^ limits was that of Ralph Gray, in lo-t-l> ;
 
 EDITOR ft PUBLISHER ST. CHARLES LEADER
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 275 
 
 the earliest death within the same bounds was that of De Witt, a son of Daniel 
 Gray, in the Fall of 1844. The 
 
 GEOLOGY 
 
 of Aurora Township may well be mentioned, as it contains some fossil remains 
 which render it interesting to the student. These have been, for the most part, 
 found in a variety of its limestone, of which two are found, one of which is 
 quarried for building purposes. The huge granite boulders which abound 
 throughout the prairie country, and are generally referred to the Drift Period, 
 are occasionally seen in all parts of the township, being often formed of a con- 
 glomerate, but not unfrequently of pure granite. They are popularly called 
 "hard heads." Brick clay is common in several sections, and there are sev- 
 eral beds of good sand for building purposes. But by far the most interesting 
 trophies which can be ranged under the head of geology were unearthed by the 
 workmen on the railroad, as they were excavating, about a quarter of a mile 
 above the depot, within the city limits, in the Fall of 1850. These were the 
 tusks of a mastodon, and eight molar teeth. Supposing the first tusk to be a 
 stick, it was nearly destroyed by them, but the second was obtained in an al- 
 most perfect state of preservation, and measures nine feet in length. The 
 largest tooth weighed seven and a fourth pounds. The tusk and several of the 
 teeth are preserved in Jennings Seminary. 
 
 SOLDIERS. 
 
 In common with the other townships of the county, Aurora furnished her 
 full quota during the late Rebellion. It is beyond our limits to trace the 
 record of all of those brave men who hastened to protect their country in her 
 hour of need. Their names are enrolled in indelible characters upon the 
 pages of fame, and, though the bones of many of them bleached upon the 
 Southern plains, and their bodies rotted in prison pens or fell on the field of 
 battle, yet their memory will live forever among the good and true. 
 
 NAME, POSITION, ETC. 
 
 Aurora Township occupies the most southeasterly position of the townships 
 of Kane County. It is bounded on the north by Batavia, on the east by Du 
 Page County, on the south by Kendall, and on the west by Sugar Grove Town- 
 ship. It is known as Township 38, North Range 8 east of the Third Princi- 
 pal Meridian, and its population, by the last census, was 2,033. Its assessed 
 valuation will be found in connection with the following sketch of the 
 
 CITY OF AURORA. 
 
 Within the bounds of the above described Congressional Township there 
 has arisen, within forty-three years, a city which, while it exceeds in size all 
 the others along the banks of Fox River, is surpassed by none of them in the 
 beaut} 7 of its location.
 
 276 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 EARLY SETTLEMENT. 
 
 On the 25th of November, 1833,* Joseph McCarty, a millwright, living 
 in Chemung County, near Elmira, N. Y., left his home, in company with a 
 single companion, one Jeffry fBeardslee, to seek his fortune in the West. Un- 
 like so many others who have left Eastern homes with a similar object in view, 
 he had mapped out a definite course before starting, and decided upon the 
 exact spot where he designed to locate. Proceeding across the country to the 
 head waters of the Alleghany, where a sufficient stop was made to construct a 
 " dug-out" of suitable dimensions to convey two passengers and a small chest 
 of tools down the river, the young men launched their rude craft, and floated 
 leisurely toward the mouth of the stream so aptly described by the elegant and 
 poetic Frenchmen in the name which they applied to it, " Beautiful." Their 
 journey to Pittsburgh was exceedingly arduous during much of the way, owing 
 to its frequent interruptions from rapids and mill-dams, where they were 
 obliged to land and unload their boat, and drag it over the country to a point 
 below. But they at length arrived there without serious accident, and, aban- 
 doning their pirogue and taking passage on a small steamer, they pushed on 
 toward the Mississippi. It may be well to state here that their destination was 
 the head of navigation on the Illinois River, where Mr. McCarty, deceived by 
 the inaccurate maps of the State, supposed that he would find excellent water 
 power and mill privileges, where he believed that a great city would eventually 
 arise ; but on reaching Cairo it became evident to him that it would be impos- 
 sible to complete their journey until the following Spring, as all nature furnished 
 indubitable signs of the speedy approach of winter. They accordingly went 
 into winter quarters at Cape Girardeau, then a thriving town, where it would 
 seem from various entries in Mr. McCarty's account book that they worked at 
 odd jobs during the cold weather to pay for their board. At the opening of 
 Spring they continued their journey to the Illinois, and up the stream to the 
 place selected, where they discovered that it was not the desirable position 
 represented, and that it had already been claimed by a party which had pre- 
 ceded them but a few weeks. They .accordingly directed their journey to 
 Ottawa, then an insignificant settlement of a few small houses, where, hearing 
 of a good site for a mill up the Fox, McCarty hired a prospector, Robert 
 Faracre by name, to accompany them ; and following the course of the river 
 they arrived, on the first day of April, 1834, at the Indian village occupied by 
 Waubansie, chief of the Pottawattomies, and two or . three hundred of hi& 
 warriors, just north of the present site of the city of Aurora, on the west side of 
 the river, on what was afterward known as the McNamara farm. The banks 
 of the river, which have long since been stripped of much of their sylvan 
 glory, were then thickly wooded, and along the east side the native forest trees 
 had attained a remarkable size in many places, and formed a continuous wood 
 
 * Entry in an old account book, in handwriting of J. McCarty. 
 f The orthography as written at that time in an old account book.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 277 
 
 extending from the vicinity of the present city to Batavia. This forest, after- 
 ward known as the "Big Wood," the Indian village, and the whole of the land 
 now occupied by the city of Aurora, had been included in a tract ten miles square, 
 set apart by the United States Government as an Indian reservation, but had 
 subsequently been purchased by treaty with Waubansie and his tribe, just 
 pievious to the arrival of McCarty, Beardslee and Faracre, as recorded above. 
 On approaching that part of the river bank opposite Stolp's Island, a landscape 
 of unusual beauty was presented to their view. The river there wound gradu- 
 ally to the west from the almost direct southerly course above, and, continuing 
 to a point some five hundred yards below the southern extremity of the island, 
 assumed in a graceful curve its former direction. The ripples dancing over 
 the limestone bed were as clear as 
 
 " The bright waters of that upper sphere," 
 
 while the tangled shrubs with which the margin of the island was covered, the 
 stately and grand forests of oak which rose gloomily along the eastern bank, 
 all contributed to form a delightful picture to the eye of the eastern voyageurs, 
 accustomed from their earliest remembrances to such scenes, but wearied for 
 weeks with gazing over the trackless and uninterrupted prairies, which stretch 
 away across the country which they had just traversed. The natural fall, too, 
 and the island partially obstructing the channel, formed the advantages which 
 they had sought so long, and McCarty immediately laid claim to about 360 
 acres on the east side, and proceeded to make good his title by erecting thereon 
 a log cabin about 10x12 feet in dimensions ; and later, in order to enjoy the 
 entire right to the water power, he took up another claim of about 100 acres 
 on the opposite side of the river, on which he built a similar shanty. The log 
 house on the east side was the first dwelling within the limits of the city, and 
 was located about seventy-five feet directly east of the spot where the old grist- 
 mill stands. The nearest white settler at that time was Elijah Pierce, who 
 lived three miles down the river with his family, at the place now occupied by 
 the village of Montgomery. The nearest neighbor on the east was not less 
 than ten miles away. Naperville contained a few families, and there was a 
 family living on Rock Creek, about twelve miles west of the Indian village ; 
 while still another, arriving about the same time as McCarty and Beardslee, 
 put up a shanty in the vicinity of Batavia. The Indians displayed consider- 
 able curiosity in the proceedings of their white neighbors, and frequently 
 visited them, begging bread, tobacco and whisky. They were friendly, and at 
 the time of Black Hawk's raid, two years previous, Waubansie had warned the 
 scattered settlers of the impending danger, thus meriting, if he did not receive, 
 their eternal gratitude. During the Summer of 1834, McCarty and his men 
 occupied the shanty upon the east side, doing their own cooking, with the 
 exception of their bread, which was prepared by Mrs. Pierce, down the river, 
 and carried home in flour sacks. In the meantime, a dam had been commenced and
 
 278 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 was steadily progressing, and the timbers for a saw-mill having been prepared, the 
 neighbors within a radius of fifteen miles were invited to the raising. It is 
 said that about a dozen men came. In October, a more convenient house was 
 commenced, and the first settlers were thinking of making a gigantic stride in 
 the direction of an advanced civilization, by inhabiting a dwelling 14x18, when 
 their numbers were augmented by the arrival of Samuel McCarty, a younger 
 brother of the one who then owned Aurora. Some weeks previous, Joseph 
 McCarty had sent him a glowing account of the wilderness where he had 
 pitched his tent, and he had immediately settled his business as a millwright, 
 in Chemung County, and, taking the most direct route for Illinois, had arrived 
 at Waubansie's reservation on the 6th of November, 1834, three weeks from 
 the day of his departure from home, having journeyed a part of the distance in 
 the same stage with the late Ira Minard, one of the pioneers of St. Charles. 
 Previous to his arrival, his brother had purchased for him, of a squatter, a 
 claim of 400 acres south of his own, for which he paid the sum of $60. Of 
 this squattei- we can obtain no satisfactory information, no reference to him 
 occurring in the early records of these times, save in ' this connection only, 
 and he was doubtless one of those wandering characters who appear in all new 
 countries, but who vanish like the native animals before the advance of civil- 
 ization, and his biography has no connection with the rise, and progress of 
 Aurora. In the following December, as the pioneers were sadly in need of a 
 hostess, Stephen A. Aldrich and family* were received into their dwelling, 
 Mrs. A. being the first white woman known to have trodden the pathless wilds 
 of Aurora. The city then contained eight inhabitants, viz. : the two McCartys, 
 Beardslee, Faracre, Mr. and Mrs. Aldrich, and two small children. 
 
 During the same month and year, R. C. Horr, who had previously emi- 
 grated, with his family, from Canada to a point further south, came to the res- 
 ervation with the intention of removing his household goods thither if the pros- 
 pect appeared favorable. Finding the place all that he had anticipated, he 
 bought of the McCartys the first acre of land sold by them, which was situated 
 where some of the principal business houses in the city have since arisen, and 
 paid for it the sum of $2.00, agreeing, also, to build thereon a dwelling and a 
 tannery, the former of which was subsequently erected; but Mr. Horr, meet- 
 ing with reverses in business, failed to fulfill the stipulation in regard to the 
 latter. He removed his family in the Spring of 1835, and became a useful 
 member of the growing settlement, being elected the first Justice of the Peace. 
 
 As the Aldriches remained but a short time in Aurora, Horr may be consid- 
 ered the first permanent settler after the McCartys. 
 
 Under the successive blows and joint exertions of all the male members of 
 the settlement, the mill and dam were soon completed. An old mill-book, now 
 in the possession of Samuel McCarty, shows that the first sawing was done for 
 Mr. Wormley, of Oswego, 111., on the 8th day of June, 1835. 
 
 * They afterward removed to Sangamon County, Illinois.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 279 
 
 In the same year, a tide of emigration from the East reached Fox River, 
 and gave the first promise of prosperity to the little settlement then known as 
 McCarty's Mill. 
 
 We notice upon the old mill-book, referred to above, the names of R. C. 
 Horr, James Leonard, Levi and George Gorton, B. F. Phillips, the first cabi- 
 net maker in the place, Joseph and Lyndorf Huntoon, Winslow Higgins, Will- 
 iam Brown and Mr. Barker ; beside whom we may mention Dr. Eastman, the 
 first settled physician, and wife, R. M. Watkins and wife, Seth Read, Theodore 
 Lake, Charles Bates, Elgin Squires, William T. Elliott, Peter Mills, E. D. 
 Terry, Richard Terry and many others, in the years immediately following, if 
 our space would permit. 
 
 The Higginses, who arrived in August, 1835, and settled on the east side 
 of the river, and the Huntoons, who came immediately after, were the earliest 
 of these. They came direct from Naperville, Canada, and were connected by 
 marriage, Mrs. Higgins being a daughter of Joseph Huntoon and a sister of 
 Lyndorf. They brought three horses, two cows and a yoke of oxen with them, 
 and at once set about constructing a frame house, which was completed during 
 the year, and was the first dwelling of the kind erected in the place. It stood 
 on the present site of E. R. Allen's warehouse, was an exclusively home-made 
 structure, Mr Higgins having manufactured the shingles from red oak, the ma- 
 terial which formed the entire building, and was about 16x20 feet in dimen- 
 sions, two small wings being subsequently attached. It has since been removed 
 to North Broadway, opposite the round-house, where it still remains. About 
 the same time, a frame building was finished by Samuel McCarty, whi ch is still 
 in existence, having been somewhat reconstructed. 
 
 It is difficult for us now, with the conveniences and luxuri es of the metrop- 
 olis at our doors, to realize the many privation-? which the pioneers were often 
 obliged to undergo at that comparatively recent date. They had to go to Otta- 
 wa or Chicago for all their supplies. The nearest grist-mill was forty miles 
 down the river, at a place then called Green's Mill, now Dayton. The coun- 
 try swarmed with Indians, who stole their horses, and with wolves, who confis- 
 cated the smaller domestic animals ; the settlers often knew by experience 
 the meaning of hunger, and they shook with the ague from December to June. 
 
 Shortly after the arrival of the Higginses and Huntoons, they found them- 
 selves one morning without horses, while the fresh tracks indicated that they 
 had been taken in the direction of Chicago. There was one remaining steed 
 in the place, which Mr Huntoon mounted, and hurried away on the trail of 
 the thieves. They were easily followed from the tracks, as none of the Indian 
 ponies were shod, while those which they had stolen left deep impressions in 
 the soft sod at nearly every step. Mr. Huntoon pursued them to the Indian 
 encampment, within sight of the agency, but there lost track of them. He 
 then applied to the Indian agent, describing the property, which was recovered 
 after a thorough search.
 
 280 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Complaint was made to the Chief in command, who proposed that his dis- 
 honest subjects should be rigidly punished ; but upon a reconsideration of the 
 circumstances, both the agent and Mr. Huntoon concluded that, since the Indi- 
 ans were so vastly superior to the settlers in numbers that they could have an- 
 nihilated them if their resentment was aroused, it was deemed prudent to allow 
 the thieves to depart, after a sharp reprimand. 
 
 But few difficulties of this kind occurred, however, as the Pottawattomies left 
 the country during the following Fall ; and Mr. Burr Winton, who is now living 
 in Aurora, at the age of 76, and who came to the place October 9, 1836, states 
 that the last Indian had gone when he arrived. 
 
 But some of the other embarrassments due to their isolated position, and 
 the diseases peculiar to all of the Western country at the time of its first set- 
 tlement, were not to be overcome with as much ease. The ague afflicted all 
 alike, and Dr. George Higgins, now a practicing physician in Aurora, a son of 
 the early settler, and who was only a small boy when he accompanied him from 
 Canada, gives some doleful accounts of his father's sufferings with the disease 
 which reduces its victim to a skeleton, but, according to popular belief, never 
 kills. 
 
 A Miss Squires, who lay sick with the ague, in the lower room of Mr. Mc- 
 Carty's house, while the workmen were shingling it, stated, in good faith, that 
 she shook so severely that they were frightened from the roof. The two 
 Huntoon families and the Higginses eleven in all occupied one and the 
 same dwelling for a time after their arrival, and the doctor states that on one 
 occasion, during their first year in the new country, their grain which had been 
 carried to Green's mill failed to return as soon as they had expected it, and the 
 last article of food in the house was devoured. In this strait, the grandmother, 
 whom he represents as one of the keen, scheming Yankee women who never 
 failed to suggest an invention adapted to the demands of any emergency, sifted a 
 small quantity of bran, mixed it with water (the cows were dry), and cooked a cake, 
 which he says was the most delicious morsel that he ever tasted. This process was 
 repeated three times, and she was finally reduced to the necessity of mixing 
 and baking the portion of the bran which would not go through the seive, be- 
 fore the grist arrived. But famine never stalked into the settlement after 
 the first year's crop was harvested, and the stories told of the fertility of that 
 virgin soil are almost incredible. In 1886, Mr. Higgins hired an acre of land 
 of the McCartys, upon which he planted potatoes, agreeing to take three- 
 fourths of the crop as his share. His share was 300 bushels. Benjamin 
 Hackney, who arrived in the settlement several years later, raised forty-two 
 bushels of winter wheat to the acre, weighing about sixty-two pounds to the 
 bushel, which was the eleventh crop on the same land. 
 
 After 1835, settlers flocked into the place by scores, and from that date its 
 destiny was manifest. In this year, the original plat of the city was laid out, 
 the survey of which must have occurred late in the Fall, as Mr. Samuel Me-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 281 
 
 Carty, who superintended it, and who is still an honored resident of the city, 
 states that the ground was frozen to such an extent that some difficulty was ex- 
 perienced in driving the stakes. The village, as first laid out, extended from 
 Flag street, on the north, to Benton, on the south, and some six blocks back 
 from the river. 
 
 It was in this year, also, that the first public religious services were held in 
 the settlement, the first sermon being delivered by a Congregational clergyman 
 from Ottawa, in Mr. Horr's house. Rev. Mr. Springer, of the Methodist 
 Church, followed close in his track and preached occasionally during the Fall 
 and Winter of 1836-7. The year 1835 is likewise memorable as the one in 
 which death first appeared in the village. A Miss Elmira Graves, an invalid, 
 brought from the East by her friends, with the hope that a change of climate 
 would effect a cure, died late in the Fall, and was buried near the corner of 
 Benton and La Salle streets, a point then believed to be beyond the possible 
 limits of the city, but now nearly in the heart of it. 
 
 In the same year, the water power, with the McCarty claim on the West 
 Side, was sold for $500, to Z. Lake. Two saw-mills were subsequently built 
 upon it, the last of which stood upon the site now occupied by the ruins of the 
 Black Hawk Mills. The rapid increase in the population from the arrival of 
 immigrants during the Fall of 1835, and "the Spring and Summer of 1836, 
 made it apparent to the least enterprising that some immediate steps should be 
 taken toward supplying the want ef a grist-mill. Hauling grain forty miles 
 was an item of labor which could ill be afforded by men dependent upon their 
 daily toil, and, accordingly, in 1836, the McCarty brothers commenced, and 
 afterward, having formed a partnership with Robert Miller, finished the long- 
 wished-for institution during the following year, the first grist being ground in 
 -it February 8, 1837. 
 
 Previous to this date, Aurora had had a school. Her first settlers had 
 come from a portion of the country proverbial for the dissemination of 
 knowledge among its inhabitants, and where the school teacher was considered 
 as essential a factor in the body politic as the farmer or the mechanic. Ac- 
 cordingly, it has been a matter of some controversy to determine when the first 
 school was started, and it seems to be admitted on all hands that it is difficult 
 to point to a time, after the first boy or girl appeared in the town, when there 
 was not one. 
 
 According to Mr. Burr Winton, a man by the name of Livings, from Syracuse, 
 N. Y., appeared in the settlement, early in the Winter of 1836, and told the set- 
 tlers that they ought to have a school. This axiom was readily received, "but," 
 said they, "we have no house." A small slab shanty stood near the river, on 
 the East Side, and Mr. Livings, pointing to it, said that it might well be turned 
 into an alphabet dispensary, and that he would willingly teach there, for 
 three months, if the settlers would assure him twenty-five pupils, at $1.50 each. 
 A subscription paper was circulated and the required sum pledged, but, on
 
 282 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 opening the school, only fourteen children appeared, the entire juvenile force 
 of the village. The school, however, progressed for several weeks, but 
 the measles breaking out among the pupils, it was closed before the three 
 months had expired. The pedagogue betook himself from Aurora to Chicago, 
 where he was subsequently found dead in a hay loft, having committed suicide. 
 
 Two rude houses were subsequently erected, one on the East and the other 
 on the West Side, in the former of which a Miss Julia Brown taught the first 
 term, and has frequently been incorrectly cited as the first teacher in the place. 
 Men were generally employed as teachers in the Winter, and women in the 
 Summer, and, for a number of years, rude huts, built for the purpose, or rooms 
 in private dwellings, were used as school rooms.' The teachers were generally 
 paid by subscription, the present elaborate school law being then unknown. 
 Three Directors were appointed, in Aurora, at an early day, and Burr Winton, 
 one of the first board, says that he was obliged to pay a teacher for one quarter, 
 amounting to about twenty-eight dollars, from his own private purse. 
 
 The old State Line Road between Chicago and Galena crossed Fox River, 
 previous to 1836, at Gray's (now Montgomery), and there was no road between 
 Naperville and Aurora. The mail for McCarty's Mill, as Aurora was then 
 called, was obtained at Naperville. 
 
 In the above mentioned year, however, Samuel McCarty and some of his 
 men staked a road to that place ; also west to Big Rock, and erected rude 
 bridges where they were needed. Mr. McCarty then consulted with the mail- 
 contractor, offering to board his drivers and teams a month, gratis, if he would 
 take the new route. The offer was accepted, and Mr. Winton, who was then 
 living in Mr. McCarty's house, relieved him of part of his agreement, and 
 boarded the drivers during the month himself. 
 
 It was then proposed to have a post office, and at the suggestion of Mr. Win- 
 ton, a meeting (November, 1836) of the citizens was called to take action in re- 
 gard to it. Mr. R. C. Horr was chosen Chairman, and, the assembly declaring 
 themselves in favor of Mr. Winton as their Postmaster, a petition was drawn 
 up, and, with their signatures appended, together with that of the nearest Post- 
 master, according to a common custom, and presented to the proper authorities ; 
 and in March, 1837, Mr. Winton entered upon the duties of the office, which 
 he held for ten years, with honor, at the expiration o which time he resigned. 
 
 It would be natural to suppose that the institution which the pioneers had 
 sought for so long would have received liberal patronage, and that an extra mail- 
 bag might have been required to carry the messages which would pour hourly into 
 its letter-boxes, but such was not the fact, and Mr. Winton states that he be- 
 lieves that the amount due the Department, from the office, during the first 
 quarter, did not exceed $10.00. It must be recollected, too, that it cost twenty- 
 five cents to send a letter then. 
 
 Some difficulty arose in deciding upon a name for the office, a part of the in- 
 habitants being in favor of perpetuating the memory of the friendly old Chief
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 283 
 
 of the Pottawattoraies, by calling it Waubansie, and various other proposals 
 were made, but Mr. E. D. Terry having suggested Aurora, Homer's "rosy- 
 fingered" goddess received the honor, and the village as euphonious and classic 
 a name as could have been conferred upon it. 
 
 In the Fall of 1836, a hotel, 16x31, was put up on the present site of the 
 Tremont House, by E. D. & Richard Terry.* 
 
 Up to this time, plastered walls were unknown in the place, but as it was the 
 general belief that some approach to metropolitan elegance should be attempted 
 in the new building, the limestone with which the river banks abounded were 
 collected in sufficient quantities and burned in a log fire. When this difficulty 
 in obtaining lime was thus overcome, another appeared in the fact that there 
 was neither a plasterer nor trowel nearer than Chicago. There was a black- 
 smith, however, in the person of Mr. King, on the West Side a true son of 
 Vulcan who could make anything which taxed the ingenuity of the heathen 
 patron of his art, except a thunderbolt ; and, an old saw being presented to 
 him, a trowel speedily appeared therefrom, with which Richard Terry plastered 
 the walls. 
 
 At a period a little later, James Leonard put up a building on the West Side, 
 on River street, which was used as a hotel, but in those days every man wha 
 had ten square feet of spare room, kept tavern. 
 
 In the Fall of 1836, a bridge was built across the east channel of the river, 
 by voluntary subscription, but being a light wood structure it was swept away, 
 by a freshet in the following Spring. 
 
 In the Spring of 1838, a subscription paper was circulated to obtain funds 
 to rebuild the bridge. This document is still in existence, and stipulated that 
 the amount subscribed should be paid in four separate payments, the first to be 
 made on the first of April, the second on the first of June, the third in July, 
 and the fourth in August. It cost about $2,000. The McCartys headed the 
 list with $500. This bridge was in turn swept away, and was again rebuilt 
 across the east channel in 1843 (by subscription list). 
 
 Aurora was now on the highway to prosperity, with taverns, stores, shops, 
 a post office, schools, stage route, and everything which betokens the thriving 
 village, when the financial storm of 1837 swept over the country. All North- 
 ern Illinois was flooded with worthless Michigan securities, and many of the 
 inhabitants of the coming city suffered in common with settlers in all parts of 
 the State, but they eventually arose above the tempest. 
 
 The progress of Aurora was at no time stayed, the tide of immigration con- 
 tinuing as before and valuable additions were received this same year to the 
 population, among which we may mention J. G. Stolp, who came from Onon- 
 daga Co., N. Y., in the Spring ; Geo. McCullum, Robert Mathews and his fam- 
 ily, Isaac Marlett, Wm. V. Plum, Clark Wilder, Messrs. Sawtall, Wallace and 
 Campbell. 
 
 * Now living in another county.
 
 284 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Various important topics seem to have agitated the village during the year, 
 prominent among which was the temperance question. A society was organ- 
 ized early in the Winter, with E. D. Terry as President, and Perseus Brown, 
 also known as " Dr." and "Cooper" Brown, as Secretary, and Dr. 0. D. 
 Howell (then a school teacher), acting under its direction, delivered the first 
 temperance lecture in the town. Spirituous liquor was then as common an 
 article of trade as cut nails or calico prints, and the society did not pretend to 
 inculcate total abstinence among its members, but simply the temperate use of 
 alcoholic drinks. But there was one in the society, Mr. Brown, the worthy 
 Secretary, who was as radical in his denunciation of drink and the drunkard 
 as are any of our modern teetotalers. He would neither use the beverage him- 
 self nor in any possible way, however remote, would he assist any one to use it. 
 If a man brought him a barrel to repair, he had been known to ask for what 
 purpose he wished to use it, and if he replied " to hold whisky," some other 
 cooper than " Cooper " Brown must mend it. This eccentric but conscientious 
 man was drowned some years later, by accident, in Fox River. 
 
 The year 1837 also witnessed the building of a carding mill on the upper 
 end of the island, by J. G. Stolp, which was subsequently moved to a point 
 further down the river, where the business developed into its present propor- 
 tions, Stolp's Woolen Mills being now known throughout the West. 
 
 In 1838, Mr. Winton suggested the feasibility of purchasing a Town 
 Library ; and, as the suggestion was favorably received, an association was 
 formed for that purpose, each member paying $2.00 for a share. One hundred 
 dollars were thus raised and expended in the purchase of popular and instruc- . 
 tive works, Harpers' Family Library forming an important part of them. 
 Although the interest in the library diminished to a considerable extent, at one 
 time, it has never been allowed to perish, and during the last fifteen years has 
 been increased by successive additions, until at the present time it contains up- 
 ward of two thousand volumes, embracing all the various departments of litera- 
 ture and science, standard works upon history and philosophy, complete sets of 
 the books of all the best writers of romance and books of reference, many of 
 of which are to be found in no private library in the city. A great advance 
 was made in its history in the fall of 1864,* when a number of the most influ- 
 ential and intelligent men in the city conceived the plan of establishing a read- 
 ing room in connection with it. Previously, the few books which had been 
 collected had been generally kept in the private house of the Librarian, and had 
 often become scattered and many of them lost ; but since the date above named, 
 the library has steadily increased. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 In the Fall of 1837, the first church in the place was organized under the 
 direction of the Methodist Episcopal Conference. Rev. Worthington Wilcox 
 was its first pastor, and the first meeting of the society was held at the house 
 
 * In that year it was chartered.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 285 
 
 of Samuel McCarty. Its first church edifice was erected in 1843, the mem- 
 bership at that time having increased from seven or eight to between thirty and 
 forty. The names of the first Board of Trustees were Samuel McCarty, C. H. 
 Goodwin, Mr. Brown, C. F. Goodwin and John Gilson. The present imposing 
 stone edifice was commenced in 1871 and dedicated December 27th, 1874. It 
 cost about $50,000, and will seat 1,200. Before the Methodists had commenced 
 their first building, the Universalists had established a society, August 8, 1842, 
 and in the same year had built a church. Its rst pastor was Rev. G. W. 
 Lawrence. Their elegant stone building now standing, on the East Side, at the 
 corner of Main street and Lincoln avenue, was erected in 1866. If the moral 
 status of a city is to be measured by the number of its churches, Aurora will 
 rank high among her sister cities, for no less than nineteen buildings dedicated 
 to the worship of God now rise in her midst. The first Baptist organization 
 commenced its existence March 29, 1844. It was established about two miles 
 from the city, in a little school house in Mr. Vaughn's neighborhood. There 
 were at first only ten members, and Rev. J. Blake officiated as pastor. About 
 1847, they decided to hold their services in the village, and in 1851 commenced 
 to build a church, which was completed in the following year, and is still occu- 
 pied by them. Catholic priests from Elgin and Chicago were in the habit of 
 visiting the few members of their church who had settled in Aurora, as early 
 as 1848. They frequently held meetings in school houses or in private dwellings, 
 but it was not until 1849 or 1850 that Bishop Vandeveld purchased of Austin 
 Mann nineteen acres of land for church purposes. This property was situated 
 on Broadway, and is now a part of the tract occupied by the tracks and build- 
 ings of the C., B. & Q. Railroad. A church was erected on this tract about 
 30x40, and, after standing there about a year, was blown down. Father La 
 Bell was the pastor. It was afterward raised again and occupied a short time, 
 but Messrs. Hall having donated to the church two. lots, located on the corner 
 of Pine and Spruce streets, and two more lots having been purchased, a stone 
 building, 102 feet in length by 42 in width, was erected in 1855-6. This 
 edifice remained a number of years ; a pleasant parsonage was built near it, 
 and the society was becoming independent, when it took fire and burned down. 
 A Cathedral was then built on Fox street, which is still occupied. The Ger- 
 man Catholics met for a time with their English-speaking brethren, but in 1859 
 they resolved to erect a separate building, where they might hold worship 
 in the language of " vaterland." Accordingly, two lots were purchased, where 
 the church and parsonage now stand, the former ' being built during the year 
 1860. It is about 50x100 feet. Rev. Father Westkamp was the first pastor. 
 The membership of each of these Catholic Churches is very large. The 
 French Catholics built a church about eight years ago, and are still occupying it. 
 In 1868, forty-three members removed, by letter, from the First M. E. 
 Church to form the Galena Street Church, on the West Side. They now have 
 a fine edifice and are in a prosperous condition. The German Evangelical
 
 286 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Society built, in 1858, on Watson street, on a lot donated by Benjamin Hackney. 
 As their building was small and the society had prospered from the first, they 
 purchased the old building on Main street, of the Universalist Society, after it 
 had been abandoned by the original owners, and have held their services there 
 ever since. On the 4th of November, 1860, the Free Methodists organized a 
 society in Aurora. They occupied a hall on Broadway as a place of worship 
 for three years ; but in October, 1863, they dedicated a commodious brick 
 church on Lincoln avenue. A parsonage was subsequently built, and the soci- 
 ety is now prosperous. The present Presbyterian organization was started in 
 1858. In June, 1859, Rev. A. Hamilton took charge of the society as the 
 first pastor. During the Fall and Winter of 1861, a small house of worship 
 was built. Later they divided, and built a small brick church on the East 
 Side. 
 
 The First Congregational Church was organized in the Presbyterian form, 
 with seventeen members, June 10, 1838, but was changed in name and govern- 
 ment July 1, 1848. Its substantial stone building, on the corner of Main and 
 Park streets, was dedicated in January, 1857. 
 
 On the 1st of July, 1858, a colony of thirty, from the First Congregational 
 Church, left its fold to form the New England Congregational Church. A 
 house was built on Locust street, and Rev. George Hubbard, their first min- 
 ister, commenced his labors therein in March, 1859. 
 
 Twenty-seven members from the First . Baptist Church assembled on the 
 2d day of June, 1857, in the old Congregational Meeting House, and or- 
 ganized the Second or Union Baptist Church. A call was forthwith extended 
 to Rev. Lewis Raymond, of Sandusky, Ohio, and the pastorate was accepted 
 by him. At the close of the first year, they numbered 110, and now form one 
 of the permanent religious societies of the place. The old Congregational 
 Church was purchased and enlarged by them. 
 
 The Episcopal Church is situated on South Lincoln avenue, No. 19. Rev. 
 W. C. Hopkins is rector. It is an old organization, having been commenced 
 on the 25th of May, 1850, under the superintendence of Rev. Henry Safford. 
 
 The German Lutherans first assembled, as a society, in Aurora, December 
 5, 1853. Rev. C. H. Buhre officiated as their first pastor. They struggled 
 along until 1855 without a meeting house, holding their religious services, a 
 part of the time, in the third story of a building then owned by Mr. Harroun, 
 afterward purchased by Thomas Russell ; but in that year they put up the 
 edifice still occupied by them, on the corner of First avenue and Jackson 
 street, on land given them by Benjamin Hackney. 
 
 There is also a Swedish branch of the Lutheran Church, with the church 
 building located at 29 Galena street. 
 
 Rev. J. Schaefer organized the German Methodist Church, in 1859, with 
 only six members, as follows : Messrs. Bauman, Stoll, Eitelgeorge, Wissinger, 
 Ziegler, Shoeberlien and Schmidt. In two years, the membership increased to
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 287 
 
 thirty. The church building was erected during that time. It is located at 
 62 Fox street. 
 
 Aside from the above, there is the African Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 which was organized in July, 1868, and the African Baptist Church, which 
 was organized the year previous. 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 has received no less attention than religion, and Aurora was the very first city 
 in the State to adopt a system of public schools. Her first pioneer efforts in 
 this direction have been already mentioned. 
 
 Late in the Fall of 1839, the earliest substantial school building was erected 
 in the public square, on the East Side, at a cost of over $300, which was 
 raised by private subscription. The building was put up under the manage- 
 ment of Col. Brown, and it was also used for religious assemblies. The first 
 pedagogue who occupied it was a Mr. Moffat. This house eventually became 
 too small, and in 1847, when the number of children in the district was 346, it 
 was thought time to have a new building, but, owing to successive delays in 
 levying money, and various misunderstandings, the proposed house was not 
 completed until 1851. In 1854, it was found to be too small, and an addition 
 was made to it. 
 
 Later, a school house was built in the northern part of the city, and, in 
 1862, two smaller buildings were put upon the lot where the main building stood. 
 
 In 1863, another school house was demanded, and it was urged by many of 
 the citizens that it should be an expensive one, sufficiently ample to supply the 
 demands of a rapidly increasing population. In the Fall of 1864, it was 
 decided that a new site should be purchased and a building of suitable dimen- 
 sions erected. This building, which was of brick, 74x96 feet and four stories 
 high, was dedicated, with appropriate public ceremonies, on the 5th day of 
 September, 1866. 
 
 There are now five school houses on the East Side, as follows : The East 
 Branch, a small wooden building, at the corner of New York and Smith streets ; 
 the Indian Creek School, wood, two rooms ; the Brady School, corner of Supe- 
 rior and Union streets, brick, two stories high, with eight rooms ; the Young 
 School, located at the corner of Fifth street and Center avenue, a brick build- 
 ing, three stories high, having twelve rooms ; and the Central School, brick, 
 four stories high, and containing fifteen rooms, besides an office used by the 
 Board of Education. Over two thousand pupils are enrolled, and thirty teach- 
 ers are employed. 
 
 It would be interesting to note some of the peculiarities of the able system 
 which has been adopted by W. B. Powell, the Superintendent, but our space 
 will not admit of it. 
 
 It will be understood that the above-mentioned buildings are all on the 
 East Side, and that the remainder of the city is under a separate management.
 
 288 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The first school on that side is said to have been opened in 1836, by Miss An- 
 geline Atwater, afterward Mrs. N. B. Spalding, in an old log house on the 
 bank of the river. There were only eight or ten pupils, but the building was 
 not large enough to accommodate even that number. In 1839, a small frame 
 building was constructed for a school house, on land then owned by Mr. R. 
 Wilder. 
 
 The West Side steadily filled up, and again and again the cry was raised by 
 the youngsters for more room, and as often a new school house was given them. 
 In 1852, the school attendance was about one hundred and sixty. In 1867, it 
 was 650. The district is now managed under the School Law of 1872, and it 
 boasts sixteen school rooms, with facilities for accommodating 800 pupils. 
 
 It remains to notice but one other institution of education, viz., Jennings 
 Seminary.* 
 
 As early 'as 1850, Rev. John Clark, an old and honored member of the 
 Rock River M. E. Conference, advanced the idea of establishing a denomina- 
 tional institution in Aurora, for the education of youth in all branches pertain- 
 ing to a liberal education. His plan at first met with but little favor, but still 
 he continued to advance it among the citizens of the town and elsewhere, with 
 the utmost persistence, from year to year, until at length the attention of some 
 of the leading citizens was obtained. Mr. Clark, however, did not live to see 
 the accomplishment of his earnest desires, for, on the llth of July, 1854, while 
 in charge of a Chicago pastorate, he was called from this world to his final re- 
 ward. 
 
 But other able men continued his work, and in February, 1855, a charter 
 was obtained from the Legislature for the institution, requiring, however, that 
 $25,000 should be subscribed, for the erection of the proposed building. In 
 February, 185,6, this sum had been promised, and the Trustees proceeded to 
 take proposals for the work. 
 
 It would be uninteresting to trace the entire history of its progress, and the 
 many threatened failures before the building was finished. It is sufficient to 
 state that the year 1857 had passed before the magnificent pile which now rises 
 on a beautiful knoll, on South Broadway, and overlooks the entire city, was 
 completed. 
 
 The entire cost of house and grounds exceeded $70,000. The main build- 
 ing is 125x40 feet, while a wing extends on the rear, 75x45 feet, and, aside 
 from this, there is a side building, 40x30 feet. The roofs are fire-proof, 
 and the main building is separated from the rear building by fire-proof par- 
 titions. 
 
 G. W. Quereau was elected its first Principal, in October, 1858 although 
 there had previously been a small school in a portion of the house and sus- 
 tained the duties of his position with eminent success until his resignation, in 
 1873. Rev. C. E. Mandeville was elected to fill the vacancy. The seminary 
 
 * Named from Mrs. E. Jennings, of Aurora, its most liberal patron.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 289' 
 
 was closed a year ago for repairs, but was re-opened for the Fall term of the 
 present year (1877) under the superintendence of Rev. M. E. Cady. The cur- 
 riculum comprises an English course, an academic course, the college pre- 
 paratory course, a scientific and commercial course, eclectic course and musical 
 course. 
 
 None but the most accomplished and thorough teachers are employed, and 
 Jennings Seminary ranks ampng the best denominational institutions in the 
 West. 
 
 MANUFACTURES AND RAILROADS. 
 
 But to return to 1837, from which we digressed to trace the educational and 
 religious history of Aurora. In that year, George McCollum built, on his pres- 
 ent stand, a carriage and plow manufactory, which was subsequently operated 
 in the exclusive manufacture of wagons and carriages, and is still in successful 
 operation. From ten to fifteen men are employed. Mr. McCollum came from 
 Susquehanna County, Pa., in 1836, and worked for King, the first blacksmith 
 in the town, during a part of that year. A larger carriage shop was estab- 
 lished fourteen years ago, on the East Side, by Brown & Meyer, who are now 
 doing the most extensive business of the kind in the vicinity. 
 
 During the years 1839-43, inclusive, numerous settlers flocked to Aurora r 
 among whom we notice the names of 0. D. Day, Wyatt Carr, R. C. Mix, 
 Charles Hoyt and the Hall brothers. Hoyt came from Cleveland, 0., in the 
 Spring of 1841, and having bought of Zaphua Lake the land along the west 
 bank of the river, with an undivided half of the water power, built thereon a 
 four-story grist-mill, 40x50 feet in dimensions, and carrying four sets of stones. 
 R. C. Mix was the millwright. This, at the time, was the largest flouring mill 
 on Fox River, and was a landmark all over the West. The flour made ranked 
 with the best in the market, and Blackhawk Mill continued in successful opera- 
 tion, with scarcely a day's interruption, until the morning of October 26, 1875, 
 when the building was destroyed by fire. It was then owned by R. A. Alex- 
 ander. 
 
 Mr. Hoyt had sold it, in 1856, to Squires & Whitford, and had erected, on 
 the land now occupied by Hoyt & Brothers Manufacturing Company, a small 
 shop for the manufacture of stave machinery. The building was subsequently 
 used by Reeves & Carter, manufacturers of the Grouberg Reaper, and later by 
 Carter & Pinney, as a general repair shop, and came into the possession of the 
 present proprietors, sons of Charles Hoyt, in the Fall of 1868. Since then, 
 having been much enlarged, it is devoted to the manufacture of all kinds of 
 wood-working machinery planers and matchers, chain-feed surfacers and re- 
 sawers being a specialty. Over forty hands are usually employed. 
 
 In 1847-8, some of the enterprising business men of Aurora proposed to 
 connect their town by railroad with the Galena & Chicago road, now known as 
 the Galena Division of the Chicago & Northwestern. Hon. L. D. Brady, then
 
 290 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 a member of the Legislature, secured a charter for the Aurora Branch Railroad 
 Company. In 1850. the road was commenced, and finished in the Fall of 
 1851, having cost, with an engine, two passenger and twelve freight cars, about 
 |100,000. Stephen F. Gale, of Chicago, was its first President. In 1852, 
 the charter was so amended that it empowered the company to extend the 
 road "in a southwesterly direction, on the most practicable route, to a point 
 fifteen miles north of LaSalle, and where such extension may intersect any 
 railroad, built or to be built, northward from the town of LaSalle, in LaSalle 
 County, and there to form a connection with any such railroad." The name 
 was then changed to The Chicago & Aurora Railroad, and a conjunction being 
 formed with the Military Tract and Peoria & Oquawka roads, direct railroad 
 communication was opened between Aurora and the Mississippi in 1855. 
 Since this date, her railroad facilities have increased to a remarkable extent, 
 tracks having been laid as follows : First, the main line extension, running 
 direct between Aurora and Chicago, which, with the road running west, now 
 forms the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road; then the 
 Ottawa, Oswego & Fox River Valley Road, built by C. H. Force & Company, 
 to which Aurora subscribed $60,000, the terminus of which is Streator ; the 
 Chicago & Iowa Road, running west to the Mississippi by way of Rochelle, 
 and built by F. E. Hinckley, the citizens of Aurora taking $100,000 stock, 
 and finally an extension of the Ottawa, Oswego & Fox River Valley Road, to 
 Geneva, along the west side of the river. Occupying many acres of ground, 
 on the East Side, on Claim street and Lincoln avenue, are the extensive shops, 
 tracks and depots of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The shops 
 alone give employment to over eight hundred hands. Volumes might be written 
 describing these manufactories and the perfect and systematic order which is to be 
 found in every department of them, but we have only the space to say that the 
 various parts, both wood and iron, of locomotives and coaches are here constructed, 
 and advise the reader to visit them himself. On the 18th day of May, 1873, 
 the greater part of the works were destroyed by fire, involving a loss of a 
 quarter of a million of dollars, but they were immediately rebuilt on a more 
 extensive plan than before. The company is one of the most prosperous in 
 the country. The general agent of its complex business at Aurora is Mr. 
 Wm. H. Hawkins, one of the early settlers, who came to the town in 1837. 
 
 The Aurora Silver Plate Manufacturing Company also deserves mention as 
 contributing essentially to the business prosperity of the city. It was organ- 
 ized in 1869 by a joint stock company, under a charter from the Legislature. 
 Its founders were Chas. L. Burphee, Daniel Volentine, Geo. W. Quereau, 0. 
 N. Shedd, D. W. Young, Chas. Wheaton, Samuel McCarty, J. G. Stolp, M. 
 L. Baxter, Wm. Lawrence, Wm. J. Strong and James G. Barr. The capital, 
 at the present time, is $100,000. They employ sixty-five hands. The build- 
 ing, which is situated on the island, covers 20,000 square feet of floors, and 
 their rolling mill is the only one of the kind found west of Cincinnati. The
 
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 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 239 
 
 Charles Siedel, William Damisch, Christopher Sohle, Fred Fehrman, Adolph 
 Sass, Joe Pabst, Henry Bierman, William Heideman and the Adlers. 
 
 In Dundee, whither they first came in 1853, Fred Haas, proprietor of the 
 celebrated Spring Mills, Henry Plinke. the Lutheran Minister, and Hagen, 
 proprietor of the brick yards, and Geo. Pfisterer. 
 
 The Schochs, a large family and their relatives, settled in the east part of 
 Geneva and adjoining town in Du Page, with several other families from the 
 same part of Germany. 
 
 Fred Drahms, a fine mechanic, came from the shores of the Baltic Sea, and 
 settled in Geneva as early as 1854. His son, August, went into the United 
 States service during the rebellion, while he was a mere boy, so small that his 
 cavalry overcoat dragged on the ground. He subsequently studied for the min- 
 istry and is now an eloquent divine, located near San Francisco. 
 
 In Aurora, the largest number of Germans settled, coming in from 1850 and 
 on. Among them are the following notable ones : The large family of Lies, 
 with their relations ; John Plein, and Reising, the Youngles brothers, and a 
 score or more of the Cassalmans and their kindred, Frieders as many more, 
 Freidweiler, Joseph Deimel, the Wolfs, Lugg, of the firm of Lugg & Plein ; 
 John and Joseph Reising, the merchants; Chas. Blasey, the brewer; Dr. 
 Jassoy, Weise, Encke. Hammerschmidt, Breeswick, John Adam Brunnen- 
 meyer, John Joseph Scharschug, Eitelgeorge, Felsenheld, Morris Henoch, 
 Fred Rang, George Pfaffle, Henry Fickensher, Rutishauser, Goldsmidt, the 
 Metzners, Canisius, Staudt & Karl, the druggists; Rev. Ernst, Henry Buhre, 
 the Lutheran minister; Nicholas Stenger, Leins, the exquisite painter who deco- 
 rates the Pullman palace cars at the car shops, and whose handiwork may be seen 
 and enjoyed in the beautiful frescoes in Staudt's drug store; and lastly Gus 
 Pfrangle, the worthy Postmaster at Aurora. 
 
 In Sugar Grove we find two sturdy farmers, John Banker and Nicholas 
 Henkes, and Ruteshell and Ohlinger are their neighbors across the line in 
 Blackberry. 
 
 A. T. Fischer bought the Elliott farm in Campton, a splendid property, 
 valued at $20,000. 
 
 In Plato, Adam and Randolph Bode, Reibel. Betzlinger and Ripberger and 
 others are the representatives of the Northern Goths that overran Rome. 
 
 Hampshire Collectors gather taxes from Kasermann, Schweiger, Reinike, 
 Shetter Blazer, and others from the Rhine ; and in Burlington, GeQrge E. 
 Schaiver, Grallemont and Meith pay tribute. Anton Loser, J. F. Thorwarth 
 and others are leading merchants in Aurora. 
 
 Among the Germans who have occupied public positions in Kane County, 
 may be named Charles J. Metzner, for several years State's Attorney for the 
 Twenty-eighth Circuit, and his brother Carl, Clerk of the Aurora Court of 
 Common Pleas ; John Reising, Supervisor of Aurora ; John Plain, Collector, 
 and August Pfrangle, Postmaster of the same city.
 
 240 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The tenth and last colonization in Kane County is that of our American 
 citizens of African descent, the bulk of whom came in as contrabands of war 
 during the rebellion caused on their account. There have been colored persons 
 abiding among us ever since the county was organized, in 1836 ; but who the 
 first one was that cast his shadow on, and left his footmark in, the soil of old 
 Kane, it is hard to tell. The first one came by the underground railroad, but, 
 not liking the country, went immediately to Canada. Not being deemed worthy 
 of consideration before they were entitled to suffrage, they existed simply as 
 hewers of wood and drawers of water to the Philistines with whom they sojourned. 
 But times change if men do not, and the day came round when " the might was- 
 with the right," and Sambo was a voter. At once he rose to the level of his 
 citizenship, and from obscurity and disregard he passed into notice and consid- 
 eration. Candidates at once included him among their friends, and shook 
 hands with him and " cow-shedded " him and "stood treat" and cajoled and 
 flattered him, and tried to induce him to vote for them, just the same as they 
 did his white compeers. 
 
 The colored people have the privilege of the schools now, and the rising 
 generation which is coming on thick and fast ought to be intelligent and 
 influential. Many of the. young men among them are educating themselves, 
 and by the excellent progress they have already made, give promise of more 
 than average ability. Young BroAvn, of Aurora, and, Terrell, of Geneva,, 
 are good specimens of their class, and are studious and industrious, and are 
 bound to rise. The colored people are settled mostly in the river towns of the 
 county. They have churches at Elgin, St. Charles, Batavia and Aurora, which 
 are well attended. 
 
 While there never was a regular colony of Englishmen settled in Kane 
 County, yet there have been, in various localities, individuals, sporadic cases, 
 from the land upon whose empire the sun never sets, who are entitled to hon- 
 orable mention in this history. John Smith, with his boys, Henry and sunny- 
 hearted Tilden, were Englishmen, and lived just east of Dundee village, on the 
 farm where Tilden and his father died, and on which Henry now resides. 
 James Knott & Sons were merchants in Elgin, and established an unblemished 
 reputation for integrity and financial ability. Ed. Merrifield also lived east of 
 the city for many years. The father to Ed. and Vinnie Lovell was an En- 
 glishman, and gave to Elgin two remarkably fine sons. Ed. is a rising young 
 lawyer, and Vincent S. (which was his father's name before him) is an equally 
 promising journalist, having held a prominent position on the Albany Argus 
 for several years. John Lovell, an uncle of the above named young men, lives 
 in Plato, and has been and is a prominent citizen of the town. The Meads, 
 Greeks. Marshalls, Pitwoods and Christian came to St. Charles. Dr. Mead 
 became an eminent physician and surgeon, and was most successful in the 
 treatment of insane persons, and many of his ideas have, since his removal from 
 the country, been incorporated in the management of our hospitals for the
 
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 insane. This Dr. Mead must not be confounded with Dr. Thompson Mead, of 
 Batavia, who was a Yankee, or at least American born. Dr. John Thomas, an 
 Englishman, came first to Virginia, thence to Kendall County, and then to St. 
 Charles, where he established, in 1841, a newspaper and called it the St. 
 Charles Patriot, Fox River Advocate and Kane County Herald. If the edi- 
 torials in the paper were as long proportionately as its name, there was more 
 work done on it, editorially, than on all the papers in the county now. Ward 
 Rathbone was an early settler in Geneva, and prominently known throughout 
 the county. Later on, in 18449, there came four brothers from Halifax, En- 
 gland, named James, Joseph, John and Benjamin Wilson. Three of them 
 settled in Geneva, and one in Virgil, but he subsequently moved to Geneva. 
 Two of the brothers were printers, and published successively the Geneva Mer- 
 cury and Advertiser and Kane County Republican. Joseph was clerk for 
 an Charles Patten at the " Old Corner " for twenty years. Benjamin published 
 interlinear translation of the Greek Testament, translated and compiled by him- 
 self, called the "Emphatic Diaglot." It is a valuable assistant to the student. 
 
 In Batavia, Joel and J. 0. McKee and George B. Moss located very early. 
 Joel McKee and Moss run, for several years, the flouring-mills at the north 
 end of the town. Mr. McKee's reputation and character were as white and 
 pure as his flour. He was a Christian gentleman in every sense of the word, 
 and when he died Kane County lost one of her really good and true men. Mr. 
 Moss was very much of a gentleman, and died highly respected by all who 
 knew him. Both gentlemen left sons who are now residents of the county. 
 The McKees were not Englishmen, but were from the Bruce colonies in the 
 north of Ireland. James Risk, formerly Sheriff of the county, also came from 
 the latter locality, as did Dr. H. M. Crawford, of St. Charles. Shepherd 
 Johnston, known as the banker Johnston, and Richard Summers, settled in Big 
 Rock. Johnston was the father of Shepherd Johnston, Jr., for a long time 
 Secretary of the Board of Education of Chicago, and Charles Johnston, 
 formerly Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Aurora. Summers was 
 father of the well-known Dick Summers, " mine host " of the Richmond, in 
 Chicago, for many years before the big fire of October, 1871. 
 
 W. B. West and Peter H. Johnson settled in Blackberry, although subse- 
 quently Mr. West came to Geneva. Mr. West was widely known, having been 
 engaged in banking for many years. He was one who made as good a bargain 
 for himself as he could, but, when once his word was given, it was sure to be 
 made good in the time promised. He never oppressed a man nor pushed him, 
 when he showed any disposition to keep his obligations, and was ever willing 
 to extend the time of payment when the debt could not readily be met at ma- 
 turity, and that, too, when the security was not A 1. His judgment was most 
 excellent, and he met with but few losses in business. Out of a personal estate 
 left by him of $200,000 there was but a small amount that proved worthless, 
 and that, too, after a banking business of forty years. A daughter of Mr.
 
 242 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 West married Hon. N. N. Ravlin, Representative to the State Legislature from 
 Kane County for two terms, and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors for 
 several years. His only surviving son is at present in California, engaged in 
 atlas publishing, with Thos. H. Thompson, a son of another old settler of Kane 
 County, in Dundee. Mr. West was once beguiled, and he often laughingly 
 told the story, though at his own expense. Charley Sexton, a "dead beat," 
 who once lived in Geneva, went to Mr. West to get his note for $50 discounted 
 for sixty days, offering to take $25 for it and leave his watch as security. Mr. 
 West did not exercise his usual caution in examining the security offered, but 
 
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 discounted the note and laid the "collateral" away in his safe. When the 
 note matured, Sexton was non est, and Mr. West, on examination, found the 
 watch left as security to be worth about five dollars. Mr. West acknowledged 
 himself fairly beaten for once, and chai'ged the loan up to profit and loss. 
 
 Peter H. Johnson has one of the finest farms in Blackberry. Johnson's 
 Mound, the highest point of land in the county, is situated on the farm, and 
 Mr. Johnson's dwelling is built on a commanding point on the side of it, and 
 overlooks the country for miles around. It is a great summer resort for pic- 
 nics and excursions. Major J. H. Mayborne, also an Englishman, came to 
 this country in 1825. From that date until 1846, he remained in the State of 
 New York, engaged in the pursuit of agriculture and study of law. Removing 
 thence to Chicago, he remained there until 1848, when he made his home in 
 Geneva, where he has since been well known as an able and honorable attorney. 
 His services, during the war of the rebellion, were important, and he held, at 
 ts close, the rank of Major, by which title he is still familiarly known. Since 
 then, he has held the important civil office of State Senator for four years, and 
 was elected Supervisor in 1872, a position which he still retains. He is re- 
 garded throughout the county as a man of fine legal attainments, and is well 
 known beyond his own immediate section. Mark Yeoman and the Sharps, 
 Reads and Henrys settled in Virgil. Benjamin Boyes, a prosperous merchant 
 in Geneva, came from England to Geneva in 1844, but only stayed till the 
 following Spring, when he went into the town of Northfield, Cook County, 
 where he remained until the year 1863, when he returned to Geneva and 
 embarked in the mercantile business. The first job of work he did in Geneva 
 Wjas to make a pair of boots for David Howard, who was at work at that time 
 (1844) building the stone flouring-mill on the west side of the river. Mr. 
 Boyes had worked one month at the shoemaker's trade in England, but still 
 tried his hand at boot making, and Mr. Howard looked at the work rather 
 doubtfully, but thought they would answer to wear in the water, and accepted 
 them. Mr. Boyes did not make any more boots. We do not know of a descend- 
 ant of the heroic John Sobieski, of unhappy Poland, in Kane County, unless 
 it be our worthy citizen, David L. Zabriskie, of St. Charles. He may be, for 
 aught we know, a true descendant of the iron-crowned king ; but if he is not 
 he is every whit as gallant and courteous a gentleman.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 248 
 
 The great agglomeration of people, from the different nations of the earth, 
 who have made their homes in Kane County, is what has made the old county 
 what she is ; has transformed the virgin prairie and primeval forests into well 
 tilled farms, thriving villages and busy cities ; has brought her from a wilder- 
 ness, traversed only by the feet of the red man in pursuit of game or his 
 enemies, to her rank among the foremost counties in the Empire State of the 
 West. Coming from different countries, speaking different tongues, having dif- 
 ferent tastes, following different customs, yet all have had but one aim, to make 
 the home of their adoption prosperous and happy. To that end they have 
 subdued her soil, enlarged her manufactories, established her beneficent insti- 
 tutions, enhanced her value and extended her political influence, until now, in 
 proportion to her area, she has no superior and but few equals among her sister 
 counties in the State. She has furnished statesmen for the halls of Congress, 
 and Generals and leaders for the armies of the nation. No one class of her 
 varied population can claim all of her virtues, nor is it to be charged with all 
 the vices incident to communities and people. In the war of the rebellion, all 
 classes sprang forward to uphold the flag with rare and noble unanimity, and 
 bore it on to victory on many blood-stained fields. All, all have borne aloft 
 the shield of old Kane, and sung paeans to her praise. 
 
 The native American mind tends to self government as naturally as the 
 babe turns to the maternal font for nourishment ; and the early organization of 
 Kane County into a body corporate with a legal existence, while there were 
 less than two hundred legal voters within its borders, is proof of that proposition. 
 At the time of the first election in Kane County, there was none of the large 
 foreign population in the county which has subsequently settled in it, save the 
 Youngs and Wheeler, of New Brunswick, Germans, and John Glos and John 
 P. Snyder; also Walter Wilson and the Moodys from bonnie Scotland. The 
 organization, with the above exceptions, was entirely the work of the American 
 born population. Kane County, at that time, included in its limits its present 
 territory, all of DeKalb County, a portion of McHenry as now organized, and 
 a portion of Kendall County, but the first election was held at Geneva, in the 
 log house of James Herrington. The election was for county officers to put 
 the machinery of a legal existence into operation, and there were 180 votes 
 polled. .For the office of Sheriff, James Herrington, the father of our Repre- 
 sentative to the General Assembly, received 91, and B. F. Fridley, whose 
 home was then in Oswego, 89 votes. Asa McDole received 115 votes for 
 Coroner, while his opponent, Haiman Miller, received 58. Relief Duryea had 
 96 votes for Recorder of Deeds, the office at that time and up to 1849 being a 
 distinct and separate one from the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and Calvin 
 Pepper one vote. Mark W. Fletcher received 141 votes for County Surveyor, 
 and Colton Knox 29. The vote for County Commissioners, which was the 
 style of county government then, was as follows: Solomon Dunham 155, 'Eli 
 Barnes 172, Ebenezer Morgan 119, E. D. Terry 22, Ira Minard 70, Allen P.
 
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 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Hubbard 2. Allen P. Hubbard, Nathan Collins and John Griggs were the 
 Judges, and James T. Wheeler and Selden M. Church, Clerks of the election. 
 The three Judges are dead, Mr. Wheeler is living on his old homestead just 
 north of St. Charles village. Of the candidates voted for, Fridley and Fletcher 
 are living in the county, the first in Aurora and Fletcher on his original farm 
 north of St. Charles on the east side of the river. The most, if not all, of the 
 others are dead. 
 
 There seemed to be something wrong about this first election, for on the 1st 
 day of August following another general election was held for the same officers, 
 which resulted differently. There were also members of Congress and the 
 General Assembly elected at the same time, and the facilities for voting were 
 increased wonderfully. Instead of all being required to come to Geneva to 
 vote, there were nine voting precincts, viz.: Ellery, which comprised a portion 
 of Kendall County; Orange, which was in the central part of DeKalb and 
 western part of Kane County ; Syckamore (as it is spelled on the returns) ; 
 Pleasant Grove, in the southern part of the present territory of McHenry 
 County ; Kishwaukee, southwest part of Kane and part of Kendall ; Somonauk, 
 in DeKalb; Fox River at Aurora, or McCarty's Mills, as it was then called; 
 Sandusky at Geneva, extending from Clybourne's to near Elgin, and west to 
 what is now Kaneville; and Lake, which included everything north of the last 
 precinct named, to the county line. At this election there were 351 votes 
 polled, as follows: 
 
 FOR CONGRESSMAN. 
 
 William L.May 285 
 
 JohnT. Stewart 66 
 
 FOR STATE SENATOR. 
 
 William Stradden 298 
 
 George W. Howe 50 
 
 FOR REPRESENTATIVE. 
 
 Henry Madden 189 
 
 *John W. Mason 148 
 
 FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Thomas H. Thompson (Dundee) 323 
 
 Claudius Townsend (Aurora) 324 
 
 Mark Daniels (Geneva) 235 
 
 Eli Barnes 65 
 
 Jesse C. Kellogg 22 
 
 FOR SHERIFF. 
 
 F . Fridle 226 
 
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 Ira Minard 
 
 FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS. 
 
 David Dunham 2^5 
 
 Elijah S. Town 35 
 
 FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR. 
 
 Mark W.Fletcher , 242 
 
 Levi Lee 84 
 
 Horatio Gibson 5 
 
 FOR CORONER. 
 
 Asa McDole...., 324 
 
 The abstracts of this election are signed by R. C. Horr, Jonathan Kimball, 
 Justices of the Peace, and Mark W. Fletcher,' Clerk of the County Commission- 
 ers' Court of Kane County. 
 
 Where Mr. Fletcher got his appointment, the records of the county do not 
 show at present, as the records of the County Commissioners have not been in 
 the County Clerk's office far several years, but his bond being filed June 6, 1836, 
 would appear to show that he must have been appointed by the Commissioners 
 themselves. He was not elected by the people until the Fall of 1837, when he 
 was elected both Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court and Clerk of the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 245 
 
 ircuit Court, and held both offices until 1846, when Josiah L. Warner was 
 elected to the former office, and he was Clerk only of the Circuit until December, 
 1848, when he was succeeded by Charles B. Wells, and his long term of official 
 service expired, and he retired to his farm, Cincinnatus-like, surrounded by 
 children and children's children, and enjoying a quiet and serene voyage down 
 the current, into the broad expanse of a limitless ocean. 
 
 Both of the Justices certifying the abstracts are dead, and nearly all of the 
 persons voted for likewise Fridley, Fl'etcher and Town only living in the county 
 .at the present time. 
 
 At this election, the Sandusky Precinct cast 95 votes, Lake 25 (Mr. Thomp- 
 son, with his well known modesty, refraining from voting for himself and getting 
 but 24), and the Fox River Precinct 78. These comprised all or pretty much 
 all of the present territory of Kane County. This was the election which 
 really set up our county government, and from which it has grown to its present 
 splendid proportions. 
 
 Ralph C. Horr and Ebenezer Morgan were elected Justices of the Peace 
 some time previous to July 30th, for that day they, together with Mr. Fletcher, 
 County Commissioners' Clerk, certify to the abstract of votes of a special 
 election, held at T. H. Thompson's house, in Lake Precinct (Dundee and 
 Elgin), for two Justices and Constables, when Wanton Parker was elected 
 Justice in Dundee, and Jonathan Kimball in Elgin, and Seth Green, Constable 
 in the former place, and Samuel J. Kimball in the latter; 35 votes being 
 cast. 
 
 The Judges at that election were Thomas H. Thompson, Jonathan Kim- 
 ball and Thomas Deweese, and the Clerks Isaac Fitts and Wanton Parker. In 
 the Orange District, they elected, on the 1st of August, Mark Daniels, Justice, 
 and Joel Jenks, Constable. On the 7th November following, the people of 
 Lake Precinct wanted more justice, or law, and so they called their Constable, 
 Seth Green, to the bench, giving him a unanimous vote of 29 ballots ; and at 
 McCarty's Mills they had quite a spirited contest over the office, giving B. F. 
 Phillips 39 votes and Jonathan Benney 20 ; George W. Gorton, too, had 44 
 votes for Constable, against 7 votes for Harry White. Ira Minard and Elijah 
 S. Town had, in the meantime, been elected Justices in the central part of the 
 county, and signed the November abstracts. 
 
 Since the 1st of June, the few voters in the county had been keeping track 
 of the various elections which had been held ; but an important one was com- 
 ing, to which, important to them as these had been, they were but as a tallow 
 <lip to a gas jet. The Presidential campaign of 1836 was in full vigor, and 
 "Young Hickory" was pushing the Whigs hard On the 7th of November, 
 the election was held, at which there were only 334 votes polled. The 
 Pleasant Grove returns are not on file. That precinct cast 10 votes in August. 
 The Democratic electors received 235 votes, and Whigs 93. There was an- 
 other set of electors, who received 4 votes, but who they favored is not stated.
 
 246 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Lake Precinct cast 42 votes, only 10 for the Whigs. Sandusky cast 118 votes, 
 97 of which were for the Democratic ticket. Fox River Precinct (Aurora) cast 
 71 votes, and 19 of them were against " Matty Van." Orange gave the Dem- 
 ocrats all but 4 out of 26 votes, and these 4 did not go to the Whigs, but were 
 the only ones in the county cast for the odd lot. 
 
 New names appear on the poll lists at this election which have not been 
 seen before. The Sandusky poll was presided Over by Judge Isaac Wilson, 
 William Van Nortwick, father of Hon. John Van Nortwick. Read Ferson, 
 Mark W. Fletcher and James T. Wheeler were the Clerks. On the Fox River 
 (Aurora) list are the names of Bob Mathews, N. B. Spalding, the Isbells, Nick 
 Gray, Ayers, Van Fleets, Charles Bates and Daniel Eastman. 
 
 To close up the year in good shape, the people in the center of the county 
 held an election for Constables, and managed to get up a nice little fight while 
 it lasted. Wm. B. Arnold and Asahel P. Ward received 21 votes to 18 for 
 David Howard and Charles Ballard. 
 
 In 1837, the elections were still frequent. The newly organized county 
 was rapidly filling up, and special elections for Justices and Constables were 
 held in various precincts, and, August 7th, an election for county officers was 
 held, at which two new officers were added to the roster of the county govern- 
 ment, viz., County Treasurer and Probate Justice of the Peace. The first 
 election of County Clerk by the people was also held at that time. The vote 
 was as follows : Isaac Wilson (father of Hon. I. G. Wilson) received 122 votes 
 for County Treasurer, Joseph W. Churchill had 114 votes for County 
 Commissioner, and Mark W. Fletcher had 119 votes for Clerk of the County 
 Commissioners' Court. 
 
 There were but four precincts where votes were cast Fox River, Sandusky, 
 Lake and Fairfield. The latter precinct included Campton, Plato and vicinity, 
 and cast twenty-two votes. Elias Crary, Joel Harvey (father of George P. 
 Harvey, E. E. and J. D. Harvey) and James Corron were Judges, and Stephen 
 Archer and Henry K. Bartlett were Clerks. Joel Harvey and H. R. Bartlett 
 divided the vote for Justice of the Peace, Harvey leading his competitor a 
 single vote. There was not much canvassing necessary in those days, and can- 
 didates' purses were not exhausted before they made their election sure. David 
 Dunham received a single vote in the county for Commissioner, and that was 
 given in Fairfield by one William Bennett. The voters, in those days, had to 
 declare their preferences openly, as all voting was viva voce. There was no 
 dodging nor smuggling in votes, but every man, when he came to the poll, de- 
 clared the man of his choice, and down it went on the poll list opposite his 
 name. Doughfaces had to run a gauntlet that settled their affinities indisput- 
 ably. At the Sandusky Precinct, Calvin Ward and John W. Russell were 
 elected Constables. At Aurora, Asa McDole was elected Justice of the Peace 
 over E. D. Terry,, who received twenty-one votes. There were nineteen men 
 who declined to vote for county officers, who voted for their own neighbors to
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 247 
 
 dispense justice to them. John Griggs, Sr., was elected Justice in Fairfield, 
 in June. Nathan H. Dearborn was elected Justice, David Howard, Constable, 
 at Sandusky, March 31st, receiving fifty-eight votes, and, in October following, 
 Hendrick Miller was elected Justice, and James Brown Constable, in the same 
 precinct. The latter was a genius in his way. He used to own the farm that 
 Eben Danford now owns. He was once called upon to arrest a suspected 
 criminal, and he summoned a posse to assist in the grave undertaking. They 
 assembled and went into the old hotel, where the object of the august array of 
 the dignity of the people of the State of Illinois was unconsciously smoking, 
 arid the Constable thus addressed him : " We arrest and distrain you in the 
 name of the people. Have you any weapons about you ? " The apprehended 
 said he had a jack-knife. " You will please pass it over, then, and go with me 
 and this 'ere poss. Julus (to one of the posse), you go ahead and I'll bring 
 up behind." And the procession filed away to the county jail. 
 
 In December, Elgin held her first election as a separate constituency, elect- 
 ing James T. Gifford, Justice, and Eli Henderson, Constable, and casting 42 
 votes, among them nine Kimballs and two Giffords, and the heads of the 
 tribes of Merrill, Mann, Jenne, Renwick, Lovell, Welch, Stone and Ranstead. 
 
 In Dundee (still called Lake), Dr. John R. Goodno was elected to the 
 bench, and John Oatinan, Jr., Constable. On the poll list of the latter place 
 are the names of the Carpenters, E. W. Austin and Gen. McClure. 
 
 On the 1st day of May, 1837, the question of a division of the county, 
 forming De Kalb County out of the three ranges west of the present county 
 line and as that county is now organized, was submitted to the people of the 
 county. The election resulted in 171 votes for and 83 votes against division. 
 Sandusky Precinct gave 43 votes for and 30 against. Somonauk, in the terri- 
 tory to be set off, voted solidly against the division 43 votes. Kishwaukee 
 gave 2 votes against, and Sycamore 8 the same way, and Orange, in the same 
 territory, solidly for division. Sandusky was the only precinct voting on the 
 question in the present territory of the county. This was the beginning of the 
 troublesome question of county division in Kane County. That question, and 
 the removal of the county seat, was almost constantly a bugbear in the eyes of 
 the people, until they got a $100,000 Court House as a rider of the question, 
 and that broke down the nag and spoiled him for any future race, and Geneva 
 breathed free, being rid of a horrible nightmare. 
 
 In 1838, the towns began to get into their present boundaries on the river, 
 and new precincts were established. Charleston, as St. Charles was first called, 
 held its first election in August, which was the general election for State 
 officers, Congressmen, county officers, etc. 104 votes. In December, Alex- 
 ander H. Baird was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held uninter- 
 ruptedly nearly, if not quite, thirty years. He is now in Kansas. Dundee 
 gained its present name this year, and elected Zephaniah M. Lott Constable, 
 over his competitor, E. W. Vining, casting 40 votes. Deerfield Precinct comes
 
 248 
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 in, too, which embraced Rutland and Hampshire. On the 6th of August, an 
 election for two Justices was held, and John Van Velzer, Thomas H. Whitte- 
 more and Elijah Rich each received 11 votes. The County Clerk put their 
 names in his hat and shook them up and drew out the lot to settle which two of 
 the three should have the honors and emoluments of the office, and Rice and 
 Whittemore were the lucky men. Philo Noble and William Robbe were elected 
 to execute their commands. Rock Precinct, including Big and Little Rock, 
 elected Archibald Sears as its Judge, in June. In Sandwich, Calvin Rawley 
 was elected Constable in March. He was a character known far and wide by 
 his peculiarity of wearing a sword when in the discharge of his official duties. 
 If he was called on to arrest or summon or subpoena a person, he buckled his 
 good sword on, and, with all the dignity of the commonwealth resting upon his 
 shoulders, he read the warrant or writ in a manner so impressive he com- 
 manded the respect and risibilities of his auditor in equal degree. 
 
 August 6th, 1838, the general election was held, at which the vote in the 
 county was as follows : 
 
 FOR GOVERNOR. 
 
 Thomas Carlin, Democrat 511 
 
 Cyrus Edwards, Whig 323 
 
 FOF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. 
 
 Stinson H. Anderson, Democrat 511 
 
 W. A. Davidson, Whig 321 
 
 FOR CONGRESS. 
 
 Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat 517 
 
 John T. Stuart, Whig 311 
 
 FOR STATE SENATE. 
 
 Allen H. Rowland, Democrat 248 
 
 William Stadden, Democrat 256 
 
 W. Mason, Whig 315 
 
 FOR ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Jos. W. Churclull,Democrat 231 
 
 Geo. W. Howe, Whig 339 
 
 S. S. Jones, 1 
 
 FOR SHERIFF. 
 
 B. F. Fridley, Democrat 552 
 
 Leonard Howard, Whig 129 
 
 Wm. L. Church, Whig 122 
 
 FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Colton Knoi, Democrat 405 
 
 Ira Minard, Democrat 432 
 
 Geo. E. Peck, Democrat 519 
 
 Thomas H. Thompson, Whig 343 
 
 A. P. Hubbard, Whig 418 
 
 James McUlure, Whig 295 
 
 FOR CORONER. 
 
 Asa McDole, Democrat 452 
 
 Samuel Sterling, Whig 340 
 
 At this election, St. Charles supported her own citizen, Leonard Howard, 
 against B. F. Fridley, giving him 92 votes out of her 103 polled. Mr. Minard 
 also led his colleagues Knox and Peck, getting 100 votes, while T. H. Thomp- 
 son had but 6. It looks as though the candidates traded then as they do now 
 sometimes. But in Dundee Mr. Minard received 48 votes to Mr. Thompson's 
 24, and they were both splendid men. Fridley carried off every vote in Dun- 
 dee, while Churchill had only the Democratic poll, 51. Elgin stood 47 Demo- 
 cratic to 26Whig, Sandusky 84 to 57, Aurora 129 to 69, St. Charles 59 to 45, 
 Rock Precinct 55 to 27, Fairfield (Plato and Campton) 34 to 9, and Deerfield, 
 the present and for years past the stronghold of the Democracy in Kane 
 County (Rutland), gave 14 Whig to 9 Democratic votes. Since then, a differ- 
 ent population has moved into that territory. Fridley received every vote, 
 however, and he was the only scratch on the ticket. The returns from Dundee
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 249 
 
 have on them the names of I. C. Bosworth and Dempster, Grant and Rankin, 
 the first comers of the Scotch colony. 
 
 Caleb A. Buckingham, one of the Boston company, kept the poll list at 
 Geneva in his very neat chirography. On the list are the names of Joshua E. 
 Ambrose, the Baptist missionary, and John N. Donals, the father of the present 
 Mrs. James C. Baird, of St. Charles, and whose claim was just south of the 
 Judge Lockwood homestead, and included 160 acres of the best timber in the 
 Big Woods, which remained intact up to three or four years ago, when Mrs. 
 Baird sold it to L. P. Barker, who has bought and cleared off more acres of 
 solid timber, in that grove, than any other man. The Batavia and Black- 
 berry people all voted at Sandusky then. On the Fox River list, the names of 
 three Stolps, J. G., John, Jr., and Joseph, appear; also a Knickerbocker, Plato 
 Judd, and Isbells and a long array of familiar names, and some entirely unfa- 
 miliar, they have disappeared long ago from the records of the county. 
 Silas Reynolds was one of the Clerks of election. The next county election 
 was held in August, 1839, the Democrats electing their candidates by a vote of 
 about 550 to 265 Whig. N. B. Spalding was elected County Commissioner ; 
 Da,vid Dunham, Recorder ; Joel Harvey, Treasurer ; Peter J. Waggoner, 
 County Surveyor ; Horace N. Chapman, Probate Justice, and M. W. Fletcher, 
 County Clerk. Fletcher received 787 votes ; Calvin Ward, 4, and R. V. M. 
 Croes, 1 vote for the latter office. Thomas H. Thompson, of Dundee ; Charles 
 S. Clark, of Geneva ; Harry Boardman, of Batavia ; Nehemiah King, of Au- 
 rora, and A. P. Hubbard, of Batavia, were the Whig standard bearers. Local- 
 ities in those days cut no figure, but the best men they could pick up were taken, 
 irrespective of locality. 
 
 At the August election in 1839, several of the precincts elected Justices 
 and Constables. In Sandusky there were six candidates for Justices, but 
 Charles Ballard, at Batavia, and C. B. Dodson, at Clybourne's, won the 
 titles and emoluments. Dr. Pierre A. Allaire was elected in Ellery Precinct, 
 now Oswego. N. B. Spaulding, who had changed his residence from Aurora 
 to Dundee, was elected Justice in Lake Precinct, against seven other compet- 
 itors ; I. C. Bosworth, now of Elgin, receiving a single vote. His partner, 
 Alfred Edwards, now deceased, also received a similar token of his fitness for 
 the constabulary force. Burgess Truesdell was elected Justice in Elgin, and 
 "Father" Crary, as he was called in later years, received the same position in 
 Fairfield (now Campton and Plato). Robert Corron was chosen *to read the 
 greeting of the people of the State of Illinois to unwilling hearers, in the same 
 bailiwick. William B. Plato was elected to dispense justice to those dwelling 
 where Aurora now sits a queen. 
 
 Blackberry held her first election, as a separate precinct, January 8, 1839, 
 and elected Samuel Platt and Roswell W. Acers Justices ; but in August she 
 voted again for the same officers, and chpse William B. West and Mr. Platt. 
 Mr. West then gained his cognomen of " the 'Squire," which he held until his
 
 250 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 death. The unique signatures of David Wheeler 'and Mr. West are appended 
 to the returns, and show but little change in all the years of their busy lives. 
 
 A vacancy occurred in the office of Coroner, and a special election was or- 
 dered, in November, 1839, to fill it, at which David Livingston was elected, 
 receiving 79 votes, to 69 for James T. Gifford, of Elgin ; Bosworth, 4 ; Ed- 
 wards, 2 ; and Eaton Walker, 2 the three latter all being in Dundee. Drs. 
 Tefft and Root, of Elgin, each also received a vote, and Mr. Plato had 2. This 
 election possessed little interest to the people, but Blackberry, having lately 
 come to her privileges of an independent constituency, did not neglect the 
 opportunity thus offered to make her record among the archives of the county, 
 and she sent in her returns for the day's work, with just five names upon them, 
 to wit: Abner Rawson, David Wheeler, W. B. West, Marcus White and 
 Hiram S. Reed, and these were the Judges and Clerks who certified to the 
 returns. 
 
 In those days, any citizen of the county could vote anywhere he happened 
 to be, and at this election, C. B. Dodson, David Dunham and James Brown, 
 all residents of Sandusky Precinct, are found voting in Fairfield Precinct ; and 
 as Mr. Gifford received every vote cast, the query is raised whether or no they 
 were out on an electioneering trip. Sandusky, also, gave all of her votes to 
 Mr. Gifford, but McCarty's Mills were too much for him, and the candidate 
 from the south part of the county won the contest. 
 
 The election of August, 1840, for county officers was very closely contested, 
 1,291 votes being polled, of which James Risk received 647 and Leonard How- 
 ard, 623 for Sheriff; " Bob " Mathews, 679, and Elijah Lee, 511, for Coroner ; 
 William B. West, .693, and Nathan C. Mighell, 598, for Coun'oy Commissioner ; 
 Dr. Henry A. Miller, 687, and James Brown, 605 votes for County Treasurer. 
 The last two candidates were from Geneva ; Messrs. West and Mighell from 
 the rural districts the "back towns." "Bob" Mathews was from Aurora; 
 Lee and Risk from Batavia, and Howard from St. Charles. Locality had its 
 influence at that election, sure. 
 
 At a special election August 15, this year (1840), Robert Moody was 
 elected Justice of the Peace, and many laughable stories are told of his court, 
 which was a great institution in those early days. S. S. Jones and B. F. Frid- 
 ley were practicing attorneys in the palmy days of Justice Moody, and were 
 almost invariably pitted against each other in the numerous cases they had 
 before the hard-headed Magistrate, whose strong common sense made up any 
 deficiency there might have been in his legal knowledge. " Shortage " in the 
 latter respect was excusable in those early days, when statutes were not as 
 plenty as now, where jobs are so easily smuggled into their printing. On one 
 occasion, when the two lawyers had a trial in his court, before a jury, after the 
 testimony was in and arguments made, the court began to instruct the jury 
 after the manner of Judge Ford, the then presiding Judge of the Circuit 
 Court. Mr. Fridley interposed and said he must not instruct the jury. The
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 251 
 
 court asked why not. Jones, seeing the point for fun, said, certainly, it was 
 quite proper that the court should instruct. Again Fridley interfered, and 
 again the court replied, " Sure, Judge Ford instructs the jury, and why 
 shouldn't I ? " " Certainly, certainly," said the mischievous Jones, " the court 
 can instruct the jury." Again the Justice essays to lay down the law, and 
 again is opposed by the persistent Fridley. At length the court, with his 
 Scotch temper fully roused, says, in his broad Scotch accent, " Weel, Muster 
 Fredley, sin ye are sae strenuous about it, ahll note instruct the jury ; but one 
 thing ah wull say, ye've made a vera bahd case o' it." 
 
 At the August election, Sugar Grove comes in with her first returns as a 
 separate independency, under her baptismal name, which has never been changed. 
 She cast 84 votes, and elected her first Justice and Constable, Isaac S. and Ira 
 H. Fitch being the honored recipients of her ofiicial favors, respectively. 
 
 The Presidential contest of 1840, between Van Buren and Harrison, brought 
 out 1,584 votes, and the military prestige and the high tide of song of 
 
 " Tippecanoe and Tyler too, 
 With them we can beat little Van, 
 Oh! Van, Van, Van is a used up man," 
 
 carried the county for the Whigs by 36 majority. Among the familiar names 
 on the list of Electors are those of John A. Me demand on the Democratic 
 ticket and Abraham Lincoln and "Buck" Morris on the other. Washington 
 Precinct, now Plato, comes to the front and brings her first offering of separate 
 self-government. Among the returns of this election she cast 47 Whig and 32 
 Democratic votes, and elected Joel Root and John S. Lee Justices of the Peace. 
 St. Charles cast 97 Democratic and 93 Whig votes. The poll book, which was 
 made by James T. Wheeler, is a perfect model of neatness. It is ruled on 
 blank paper, and the names of the Electors printed on the head of the sheet 
 with a pen, and the names of the voters written with great care, and not a blot 
 appears on it from first to last. 
 
 The Fox River Precinct cast 118 Democratic and 113 Whig votes, Elgin 110 
 to 97 the same way; Sandusky cast 70 to 77 the other way; Dundee gave the 
 Democrats 49 votes and the Whigs 119; Sugar Grove cast 62 votes and gave 
 the Whigs 33 of them; but Blackberry led her sister town 4 votes and gave 42 
 of them to the opposite party; Deerfield (Rutland) gave but 12 of her 52 votes 
 to the farmer of North Bend, but Fairfield more than paired off with her by giving 
 44 of her 59 votes to the hero ; Big and Little Rock reversed the list again 
 and counted up for the Kinderhook Fox 94 votes to 50 for his military competitor. 
 At the election of August, 1841, another office was enrolled upon the countv's 
 official roster, that of School Commissioner. Ira Minard received 506 votes to 437 
 cast for C. B. Dodson. There were 959 votes polled, and Allen P. Hubbard was 
 elected County Commissioner, Bela T. Hunt Treasurer and William C. Kimball 
 Coroner. James H. Ralston received 497 votes against 476 for John T. Stew- 
 art and 28 for Frederick Collins for Congress.
 
 252 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Dundee outgrew its territorial name of Lake, and took upon herself her 
 new name. The name could not have been distasteful to the Scotchmen whose 
 homes were within her borders. The poll list is made out by Charles B. Wells, 
 and though a younger looking chirography, it is no neater or more uniform 
 than the Captain's is, now albeit thirty-seven years of hard labor have occupied 
 his head and hand since then. 
 
 The election of August, 1842, was for State and County officers and As- 
 semblymen, and also for or against a Convention to amend the Constitution. 
 There were 1,240 votes polled. Thomas Ford, the Democratic candidate for 
 Governor, received 750 ; Joseph Duncan, the Whig candidate, 457, and Chas. 
 W. Hunter, the first standard bearer in the county of the old Liberty party, re- 
 ceived 32 votes. Thirteen of the Liberty votes were cast in St. Charles, and were 
 John L. Wilson, Dean Ferson, Robert Moody, Jr., Millen Bennett, D. W. El- 
 more, Samuel Young, Isaac Preston, Justin Crafts, Robert Moody, Sr., Lu- 
 cius Foote, Reuben Beach, Calvin Ward and Thomas Barland. Elgin gave 
 but 6 votes for the Old Guard, and they were J. H. Scott, Hezekiah Gifford, 
 John W. Hoagland, Abel Walker, Calvin Carr and Ralph Grow. Geneva 
 and Batavia (Sandusky) had 3 votes for the Abolitionists, and they were those 
 of Sylvanus Town, John Gregg and Joseph Worsley. Aurora had 10 men 
 who were brave enough to stand up for freedom for all, black or white, and 
 they were C. Cook, S. K. Ball, B. H. Smith, D. W. Moffitt, Edwin Lockwood, 
 Benjamin Howell, Kimball Favor, Dr. Huson Root, Isaac M. Howell and Lu- 
 cian Farnam. 
 
 The Liberty party had a regular ticket in the field, but not all of the votes 
 polled for Governor were given for the rest of the ticket, the votes being cast 
 more by way of protest than anything else. James T. Gifford received 7 and 
 Sylvanus Town 8 votes for Senator. The county voted 628 votes for, to 171 
 against the Convention. Ira Minard received a majority of the votes for Sena- 
 tor. McHenry, DeKalb and Kane Counties composed the Senatorial District, 
 and Mr. Minard was elected. DeKalb cast 401 votes and McHenry 750 ; 
 Kane casting more than both. 
 
 N. B. Spaulding was elected Sheriff, Shepherd Johnston County Commis- 
 sioner, and Wm. C. Kimball Coroner. Franklin Precinct was set off at this 
 election, and comprised Virgil in its territory. There were 39 votes polled, 
 and Simeon Bean and Henry Krows were elected the first Justices, and Milton 
 Thornton and John V. McKinley, Constables. There were 27 Democratic 
 and 12 Whig votes polled. In October of the same year, the people of the 
 county chose L. Howard Probate Justice of the Peace over S. S. Jones, his 
 competitor. St. Charles, whose citizens they both were, gave Howard a ma- 
 jority of 61. The poll was but 530 votes. Previous to the election of August, 
 1842, Kendall County had been organized, the three southern towns of Kane 
 County taken into the territory of the new county, leaving Kane County as it 
 it is at present constituted.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 253 
 
 The election of August, 1843, was for Congressman and county officers. 
 John Wentworth was the Democratic candidate, on his first term, and 
 
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 beat Giles Spring, his Whig competitor, 247 votes in Kane County. There 
 were 1,468 votes polled, and the Abolitionists had gained a large per centage 
 during the year, casting 175 votes. Fletcher was elected County Clerk ; G. 
 W. Gorton, Recorder ; S. S. Jones, Probate Justice ; E. R. Allen, Treasurer ; 
 and Dr. Hale, School Commissioner, but he would not serve, and a special 
 election was held in the Fall, and Wyatt Carr elected. Thomas E. Dodge was 
 elected County Commissioner. Burlington took her place among her sister 
 towns in the county at this election, and elected Ebenezer Norman and J. C. 
 Ellithorp her first Justices. 
 
 The Presidential election of 1844 was hotly contested. The Democrats 
 carried the day by just one vote less than a majority over Whigs and Aboli- 
 tionists. The Democratic poll was 1,046, the Whig 748, and the Liberty vote 
 299. There are familiar names on the list of Electors. Govs. Wood and 
 French, W. A. Richardson, Col. Dement, Isaac N. Arnold and Judge Purple 
 were among the Democratic Electors, while S. Lisle Smith and J. J. Brown, 
 the brilliant orators, Abraham Lincoln, U. F. Linder, whose names are house- 
 hold words, were among the Whigs. Owen Lovejoy, it is needless to say, was 
 one of the Liberty men. 
 
 S. Lisle Smith and Lincoln were passionate admirers of Henry Clay, the 
 candidate of the Whigs for the Presidency. Smith's eulogy on Clay at Niagara 
 Falls, at the obsequies of the dead statesman, is said to be one of the finest 
 productions in the way of pure eloquence of the age. Smith was quick at re- 
 tort and repartee, and a fine speaker on the stump, and always ready to make a 
 speech. Once, while going down the lakes, he was called on to make a speech, 
 and as his for.te Avas politics, and the campaign was hot, he naturally made a 
 partisan speech, which did noc suit the Democratic part of his audience, and 
 they gathered in the back end of the cabin of the steamer, and at last expressed 
 their dissent to Smith's sentiments by hissing. No sooner had he heard this 
 sign of disapproval than he stopped abruptly in his argument, and, began a.n 
 eloquent recital of the formation of man and his situation in Eden. With 
 glowing and impassioned eloquence he pictured to his rapt auditors the tempta- 
 tion and fall of man. He then drew another scene, the presentation of the Son 
 as a sacrifice for sin, the acceptance of the offer, His life on earth, and His 
 tragic death. " But," said the speaker, his eye kindling as he spoke, and his 
 audience in almost breathless silence, "Death could not hold Him, the fetters 
 of the grave were broken, the rock was rolled away, the Redeemer came forth 
 in immortal youth and vigor, and all heaven rejoiced and all hell .hissed. Re- 
 member that, my hearties, all hell hissed." There were no further interrup- 
 tions to that speech. 
 
 John J. Brown used to practice in our Circuit Court in early days, and as 
 late as 1849-50. He was an able advocate, merciless in his sarcasm, and could
 
 254 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 give and take with the best at the bar or in the hustings. U. F. Linder was 
 known by an expression that was in common use by him, as " For God's sake" 
 Linder. He was a voluble and frothy talker. 
 
 At the election in August, 1844, N. B. Spalding was elected Sheriff; Wm. 
 C. Kimball, County Commissioner; Charles Metcalf, Treasurer, and N. H. Dear- 
 born, Coroner. There were 1,641 votes polled, and the Liberty men cast 268 of 
 them, but the Democracy had a handsome majority over both the opposing par- 
 ties. There were some of the best men of the county candidates for office that 
 Summer. See what an array of men are here: For Sheriff, N. B. Spalding, 
 Gilman H. Merrill and James T. Wheeler; County Commissioner, Wm. C. 
 Kimball, Allen P. Hubbard and Joel McKee ; Wm. G. Hubbard for County 
 Treasurer, and Clement H. Goodwin for Coroner. The candidates for Con- 
 gress were John Wentworth, Buckner S. Morris and John H. Henderson. 
 Long John labored faithfully for his constituents, whether of his political faith 
 or not. Any of them was promptly attended to, to the most minute detail, 
 from a package of seeds to a harbor appropriation. Therefore, he held his 
 position for term after term. His accommodating ways paid him, at elections, 
 heavy interest. 
 
 In August, 1845, Royalton (Kaneville) was set off into a separate constit- 
 uency, and elected Milton M. Ravlin and John Bunker Justices, and R. W. 
 Lee and Robert Carter Constables, to set the judicial life in motion. At the 
 election there were only county officers elected, and the vote was small and 
 scattering, the successful candidates getting but about 400 votes. Silas Rey- 
 nolds, of Sugar Grove, was elected County Commissioner ; Alfred Churchill, 
 School Commissioner, and James Hotchkiss, County Treasurer. 
 
 August, 1846, was a general State and Congressional election, and a full 
 vote was polled, 1,857 votes. The Liberty men, from a so-called handful of 
 fanatics, beneath the notice of the other two parties, had become the second in 
 numbers, casting 533 votes for Owen Lovejoy for Congress, against the Whigs' 
 poll of but 414, and the Democratic vote of 910. Later on, in 1848, this 
 strength was utilized by a coalition of the Whigs and Abolitionists, that put C. 
 B. Wells into the Circuit Clerk's office, and gave B. C. Yates the shrievalty. 
 
 The election of August, 1847, was hotly contested. Three tickets were in 
 the field, and each drew its full party support, varied in some instances accord- 
 ing to the popularity or unpopularity of the several candidates. For Delegates 
 to the Convention to amend the State Constitution, there were nine good men in 
 the field, the district of which Kane County was a part being entitled to three 
 members. B. F. Fridley, Wm. B. Plato and Isaac G. Wilson, were the Dem- 
 ocratic candidates and received 783, 831 and 720 votes respectively. Augustus 
 Adams, of Elgin ; Thomas Judd, of Sugar Grove, and Alfred Churchill, were 
 the candidates of the Whigs, and polled 1,144, 1,051 and 971 votes respect- 
 ively. Allen Pinkerton, Nicholas Hard and J. P. Bartlett were the Liberty 
 men, and received 200, 315 and 318 votes respectively.
 
 
 GENEVA.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 255 
 
 The county officers elected were Josiah L. Warner, Whig, County Com- 
 missioner's Clerk, over A. M. Herrington, Democratic, by 35 majority ; Alex- 
 ander V. Sill, Whig, Probate Justice, over S. S. Jones, by a majority of 199 ; 
 Elijah H. Swartout, Recorder, over Joel McKee, Liberty, by 377, and over G. 
 H. Merrill, Whig, by 203 majority. Thomas H. Whittemore beat his Whig 
 competitor, Thomas H. Thompson, 95 votes, for County Commissioner, and 
 Thomas A. Scott, Democrat, was elected County Treasurer and Assessor by a 
 majority over James Brown, the Whig candidate, of 225. Mr. Scott, who was 
 then and is now a worthy citizen of Geneva, says the County Commissioner re- 
 fused to furnish him with blank books for his use in taking the assessment of 
 the county, but made him take foolscap paper and tie the sheets together in lieu 
 thereof. The stationery bills of a whole year then were not equal to a month 
 now, but there was not anything like the use of it then as now. Then the vote 
 of the county was but 2,000 and now it is three times as many. . 
 
 James Carr, the Democratic candidate for County Surveyor, led all of his 
 colleagues, he receiving 1,037 votes, to 727 for William A. Tanner and 326 
 for W. R. Mann. John W. Hapgood beat Thomas Judd 7 votes in the race 
 for School Commissioner. At this election, the townships or precincts were 
 complete as they now stand, except Geneva and Batavia were still called Sari- 
 dusky Precinct, and voted at Geneva. Hampshire was set off into a separate 
 precinct, and Deerfield (Rutland) was changed to Jackson. 
 
 In 1848, there were four general elections, the first one on March 6th, on 
 the adoption of the new Constitution, which the Convention had framed and sub- 
 mitted to the people for their approval, and the separate provisions to be voted 
 on independently. The second was the regular August election of State and 
 county officers and members of the Legislature. The third and first judicial 
 election held in the county, for Judges and Clerks of the Supreme and Circuit 
 Courts, in September; and the fourth and last, the Presidential election, in 
 November. 
 
 At the constitutional election in March, there were 1,108 votes cast for the 
 adoption, and 348 for the rejection of the new organic act. On the two-mill 
 tax, for the support of schools, there were found 221 persons with hardihood 
 and ignorance enough to vote no, but 1,176 saw its benefits and voted aye. 
 The returns of Burlington did not get in in time to be canvassed. Sugar 
 Grove, which has to-day one of the best public schools in the State, had 2 votes 
 against the two-mill tax; Jackson (Rutland), 26 ; Little and Big Rock, 2; 
 Dundee, 25 ; Sandusky, 42 ; Hampshire, 5 ; Royalton, 5 ; Fairfield, 4 ; Black- 
 berry, 19 ; St. Charles, 20 ; Washington, 6 ; Franklin, 6 ; Aurora, 36 ; and 
 Elgin, 25. These towns would hardly vote so to-day. 
 
 At the August election there was a coalition between the Whigs and 
 Abolitionists, but it did not succeed in placing in office any one except B. C. 
 Yates, and his success was attributable as much to his personal popularity as 
 to the coalition. He had the highest vote of any candidate at the election,
 
 256 HISTORY OF KANE COtfNTY. 
 
 1,034. He was a Whig, but several of the Whigs voted against him out of 
 personal friendship to Jim Hotchkiss, his competitor. Mr. Plato had the next 
 highest vote, 979, for State Senator, against J. F. Farnsworth, who received 
 but 393. From the vote the Abolitionists on the ticket received, it looks as 
 though the Whigs did not fully carry out their agreement. Dr. Dyer, the 
 candidate for Governor, received but 416 votes, and L. C. P. Freer, candi- 
 date for Secretary of State, 414, and the balance of the State officers received 
 the same. The candidates for Congressmen were Wentworth, J. Y. Scam- 
 mon and Owen Lovejoy. Scammon was a Whig and received 543 votes, and 
 Lovejoy, the Liberty candidate, got the straight Abolition vote, 418. For 
 Assemblyman, the Whigs voted for their man, and the Abolitionists for theirs. 
 John Scott, of Plato, and John King, of Aurora, were candidates for County 
 Commissioner, and Scott received 897 votes to 720 for King. Seth Marvin 
 got the regular Democratic vote for Coroner, 909, and Geo. B. Paine, of 
 Batavia, the Whig vote. Andrew Pingree had 899 votes for County Surveyor, 
 and Adin Mann, 679. . Batavia voted separately, at this election, from Geneva, 
 and cast 229 votes. Mr. Plato was elected Senator, and E. W. Austin and 
 Horace W. Fay, Representatives. The district was composed of De Kalb and 
 Kane Counties. 
 
 The new Constitution made radical changes in the government of counties, ter- 
 minating the County Commissioners' Court in 1849, and establishing the County 
 Court, consisting of one Judge and two Associates, after the manner of Ver- 
 mont, which led D. W. Annis to remark that the duty of the Associate Justice 
 was to keep the flies off the Chief Justices. New Justices of the Supreme 
 Court were elected, and also Circuit Judges to hold the Circuit Courts, the 
 Supreme Court Justices .having formerly held the Circuit Courts, and then 
 altogether in banque they formed the Supreme Court, and decided upon the 
 legality or illegality of their own decisions in the courts below. The duties of 
 the Supreme Court Justices were onerous, and not very liberally compensated, 
 $1,200 per annum being paid previous to 1848, but reduced to $1,000. 
 
 The new Constitution went into effect April 1, 1848, and the first election 
 held under it was held September 4th, at which election Theophilus L. Dickey, 
 a most courteous and genial gentleman of good legal standing and a Henry 
 Clay Whig, from Kentucky, was chosen Judge of the Ninth Judicial Circuit,, 
 in which Kane County was situated. Benj. F. Fridley was his competitor. 
 Dickey made a most excellent Judge, dispatched business rapidly, and rarely 
 made an erroneous decision. He took but few cases under advisement, but 
 decided them off hand, his ready memory of the law doing him efficient service 
 in that respect. At one time during his term of office, while holding court in 
 McHenry County, Joel H. Johnson, the Clerk of the Court, was sick, and he 
 sent to Chas. B. Wells, then Clerk in Kane County, to act in his behalf at 
 Woodstock. Mr. Wells responded, and in two days' time Judge Dickey called 
 and disposed of finally, or for the term, 150 cases, and Mr. Wells himself, with-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 257 
 
 out any assistance, had the record fully written up, ready for the Judge's sig- 
 nature, on the morning of the third day, and the court adjourned. 
 
 Judge Dickey was fond of a good story (and is now, and can tell one most 
 charmingly), and often relaxed his dignity, while on the bench, to indulge in 
 something more than a broad grin at the sallies of wit that passed between the 
 counselors at the bar. He had been accustomed to see something of the sports 
 of the ring, in his residence in Kentucky, and one day, while trying a case in 
 the first court house built in the county, on the present site of the Swedish 
 Church in Geneva an old frame building, standing as late as 1850 before 
 Judge Ford, he saw through the window the long, brawny arm of one of the 
 members of the bar of Kane County, then, as now, raised up, with a clinched 
 brown fist at the end of it, m the act of descending upon some object. For- 
 getting the awful presence of the court whom he was addressing, he sprang 
 upon the table to get a better view of the owner of the fist, and shouted out as 
 he saw it descend heavily on the sconce of a brother limb of the law, " A fight ! 
 a fight ! by Jupiter ! " and rushed out of the court room, amid the laughter of 
 the bar. The squabble was over by the time he reached the scene of hostilities, 
 and, coming back into court, he made a graceful apology for his impulsiveness, 
 saying that he " never could see fight without desiring to take a hand in it 
 himself." He took, in later years, a hand in a fight of larger dimensions, mak- 
 ing an honorable record at the head of a regiment of cavalry in the War of the 
 Rebellion. 
 
 Judge Caton was elected, at that same election, the Justice for the Third 
 Division of the Supreme Court, and Lorenzo Leland, Clerk. B. C. Cook was 
 chosen State's Attorney for the Ninth Circuit, and Charles B. Wells, Clerk of 
 the Circuit Court and ex oificio Recorder of Kane County ; Benjamin F. Hall, 
 of Aurora, the founder of the Aurora Beacon, and subsequently lost on the 
 Lady Elgin, on Lake Michigan, was his Democratic competitor. Mr. Wells 
 received 693 votes and Hall, 643. The office of Recorder of Deeds did not 
 attach to the Circuit Clerk, however, until September, 1849, when E. H. 
 Swarthout's term of office expired. 
 
 The fee for recording then was eight cents per folio of 100 words, a regu- 
 lar form of warranty deed costing eighty-one cents, or, as it was expressed cab- 
 alistically on the instrument, "6-6." The forms of deeds, since then, have 
 kept pace with the increase of fees, until both are as long as the purse. Those 
 were the palmy days of the gray goose-quill, the sand-box, the wafer and blue 
 foolscap ; but these things are now kept in some old smoke-browned antiquary's 
 cabinet, having given way and made place for " Gillot's No. 404," blotting 
 pad, mucilaged envelopes and cream-laid legal cap. Then, the clerks plodded 
 over the miscellaneous record, taking everything in its turn, whether warranty 
 or quit-claim, trust-deed or mortgage, articles of agreement or satisfaction piece, 
 and spread them at length on the plain white page, numbered by the copyist as 
 he went along. Now, the different kinds of instruments and their name is
 
 258 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 legion have each their separate form printed, and the blanks are filled up with 
 neatness by the white fingers of dainty misses. 
 
 In the good old days of " Fletch " and Ford, when the jackknife and Vir- 
 ginia plug used to pass back and forth between Clerk and Judge as the docket 
 was being called and cases tried, the floor of the Clerk's office was diversified 
 with lakelets and pools of the juice of the half masticated weed, and the water 
 view embellished with islets of the refuse quids. Now, this office is carpeted 
 with ingrain, upon which the footfalls of the houris that hold their court therein 
 are not heard. Then, the atmosphere was thick and nauseating with the smoke 
 from villainous pipes and more villainous tobacco ; now, the odor is of mignon- 
 ette and jockey club. Then, it was hard to distinguish between judicial swear- 
 ing and the non-judicial oaths that were administered. There are none now but 
 legal oaths in those precincts sacred to the goddesses who dispense to us the 
 luxuries of summons, subpoenas, attachments, ne-exeats, mandamuses, certioraris 
 and fee bills. 
 
 The Presidential election of 1848 brought out the largest vote that had at 
 that time been polled in the county, 2,858 votes being cast. Of these the Free 
 Soil candidates, Van Buren and Adams, carried away the largest number 
 1,220; Old Zach Taylor came next, and scored 855, while Cass and Butler had 
 a moiety of 783. S. A. Hurlbut, U. F. Linder and 0. H. Browning were 
 among the Electors on the Whig ticket; S. S. Hayes, still true to his early 
 teachings, was one of the Democratic electors, and Wm. B. Ogden, Thomas 
 Hoyne and Jonathan Blanchard were among the Free Soilers. 
 
 The vote in the several towns was as follows : 
 
 Whig. Dem. Free Soil. 
 
 Geneva 60 44 46 
 
 Dundee 74 68 131 
 
 Hampshire 56 41 45 
 
 Burlington 18 41 38 
 
 Batavia 53 53 73 
 
 Sugar Grove 62 18 35 
 
 Blackberry 24 18 40 
 
 St. Charles 162 141 159 
 
 Fail-field (Campion) 21 19 50 
 
 Jackson (Rutland) 8 47 13 
 
 Jefferson (Big Rock) 12 35 35 
 
 Franklin (Virgil) 21 23 38 
 
 Royalton (Kaneville) 24 12 18 
 
 Washington (Plato) 20 16 37 
 
 Fox River (Aurora) 100 60 240 
 
 Elgin 140 147 222 
 
 855 783 1,220 
 
 Geneva held her first separate town election this year, and elected Allen P. 
 Hubbard Justice, and Nathan P. Herrington Constable. 
 
 In 1849, the only general election was the regular one on November 6, at 
 which the question of township organization was submitted and adopted by a 
 vote of 1,786 to 34, and county officers were elected as follows: Isaac G. 
 Wilson, County Judge; Andrew J. Waldron and Marcus White, Associate Jus-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 259 
 
 tices; James Herrington, County Clerk; Joseph Kimball, School Commissioner; 
 D. M. Green, County Treasurer, and Andrew Pingree, County Surveyor. 
 There were three tickets in the field, as in 1848, but the old ship swung back 
 to her Democratic moorings, where she remained without change until the gale 
 of 1856, when she broke away from her fastenings and scudded into the Repub- 
 lican harbor, from which she has not ventured at any general election since, 
 although she has made several trial trips at off years, and has become somewhat 
 uncertain on a simple county issue to anxious nominees of the conventions. 
 Judge Wilson received the largest number of votes at the election of 1849, given 
 to any candidate 1,037, being but three more than Mr. Yates received the 
 year before, on the opposite ticket for Sheriff. A. P. Hubbard, Whig, received 
 724 votes, and J. F. Farnsworth 320; James Herrington received 811 votes 
 for County Clerk, T. C. Moore 719, and Paul R. Wright, 548. Both of the 
 latter gentlemen were subsequently elected to the office of Circuit Clerk, Mr. 
 Wright in 1856, and Mr. Moore in 1860. Mr. Wright was an old-line Aboli- 
 tionist, and was the first one of that original party ever elected to a county office 
 in the county. Mr. Wright, despite the opprobrium attached to his political 
 faith, received a handsome plurality at the election of November, 1849, in Elgin, 
 where he resided, and was, of course, best known. In Dundee, also, he led his 
 competitors. Mr. Moore's vote of 30 majority in Batavia, where he lived, also 
 shows in what estimation his friends held him. Mr. Herrington also led his 
 party ticket at his home in Geneva. 
 
 In the Spring of 1850, the first Board of Supervisors was elected, and 
 were as follows : Aurora, Russell D. Mix ; Batavia, M. M. Mallory ; Geneva, 
 W T illiam Cheever ; St. Charles, F. H. Bowman ; Elgin, J. W. Brewster ; Dun- 
 dee, T. H. Thompsom ; Rutland, E. R. Starks ; Plaito, John S. Lee ; Camp- 
 ton, J. P. Bartlett ; Blackberry, R. W. Acers ; Sugar Grove, E. D. Terry; 
 Big Rock, J. D. Dunning ; Kaneville, M. M. Ravlin ; Virgil, J. H. Snook ; 
 Burlington, Cyrus Phelps ; Hampshire. Julius A. Starks. 
 
 The first meeting was held June 4, 1850, and William Cheever, of Geneva, 
 was chosen the first Chairman. The members were not at home on the powers 
 of the Board, but they made a bold front, and resolved they were equal to any 
 emergency that might arise in relation to business heretofore done by the 
 County Commissioners' Court or County Court, and voted to proceed at once 
 to the performance of their duties, " promptly, cautiously and with the utmost 
 economy." Then they appointed a committee to get the opinion of Judge Wil- 
 son, of the County Court, on the power of the Board to settle with the, Sheriff, 
 who was, and had been prior to 1850, the Collector of Taxes. The committee 
 reported, the next morning, that Judge Wilson held that the Supervisors had 
 not power to organize until the first Monday after the general election in No- 
 vember, 1850, and until that time the management of the fiscal concerns of the 
 county remained with the County Court. But the members of the Board did 
 not acquiesce in his honor's views, but went on as they had already resolved,
 
 260 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 and took measures for a settlement with the Sheriff, and allowed bills and drew 
 jurors, and adjourned until the annual meeting, in November. 
 
 The first town meetings held in the county, in 1850, placed the county gov- 
 ernment in the present system, the workings of which are familiar, and com- 
 pletes the history of the organization of the civil life of the county. 
 
 The first court held in the county was a term of the Circuit Court begun on 
 the 19th day of June, 1837. It Was held by Hon. John Pearson, one of the 
 Justices of the Supreme Court, in the log house of Mr. James Herrington, 
 which stood by the big spring that flows out of the ledge, just under the lower 
 terrace, in Geneva. (This old homestead served for hotel, school room, court 
 room, church and public hall for many years.) Alonzo Huntington was State's 
 Attorney in attendance on the court, and Allen P. Hubbard was Clerk the first 
 day, but on the second day Mark W. Fletcher received the appointment from 
 Judge Pearson, and took possession of the office, Avhich he held until the elec- 
 tion of 1848, when he was succeeded by Charles B. Wells. Selden M. Church, 
 however, was the first appointed Clerk, but before court was held he removed 
 to Rockford, and Mr. Hubbard received the appointment, from Judge Ford, 
 September 21, 1836. Mr. Hubbard took his official oath before E. S. Towne, 
 Justice of the Peace. B. F. Fridley was the Sheriff, and gave bonds in $10,000, 
 with Joel Jenks, George W. Gorton, Nick Gray and Dr. Madden as his securi- 
 ties. George W. Gorton was his Deputy. Asa McDole was the Coroner. 
 
 The first Grand Jury impaneled in the county was at this term, and were 
 as follows: Isaac Wilson, Foreman; Sidney Kimball, Allen Ware, J. T. 
 Wheeler, Wm. Van Nortwick, Samuel McCarty, Nicholas Gray, Edward Keys, 
 James Squires, B. F. Phillips, 0. W. Perkins, Ansel Kimball, Wallis Hotch- 
 kiss, John Van Fleet, W. T. Elliott, John Ross, Friend Marks, Solomon Dun- 
 ham, Marshall Stark, George Johnson and Lyman Barber. The grand inquest 
 found five indictments three for larceny and two for riot. The rioting grew 
 out of claim fights in the southwest part of the county, and the parties indicted 
 appeared at the second term of the Court, held in September following, and 
 confessed that they could not deny the charges of the indictment against them, 
 and prayed the mercy of the Court, which they received in the shape of $5.00 
 fine, and costs of court. This procedure on their part was a little different 
 from "Hank" McLean's plea to the indictment found against him in the 
 McHenry Circuit Court for malicious mischief. McLean had a little ranch up 
 above Algonquin, which he had enclosed with an apology for a fence made of 
 brush, and such material as he could get together without much effort. His 
 neighbor kept a flock of sheep, and the fence did not prove to be much of an 
 obstacle to their long legs, and they bothered McLean somewhat, by breaking 
 into his garden. He chased them out several times; and at last, losing his 
 temper, he managed to kill one of the depredators. This raised a storm ; and 
 at the next setting of the Circuit, the aggrieved neighbor went before the Grand 
 Jury, and laid his complaint before that body, and they found an indictment.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 261 
 
 The State's Attorney got hold of the real state of facts, and desiring some sport, 
 drew up a most elaborate indictment. He charged that the defendant, one 
 Henry, alias Hank, McLean, against the peace and dignity of the people of the 
 State of Illinois, with malice aforethought and evil intent, did, with clubs, 
 ^bludgeons, guns, pistols, swords and other murderous instruments, beat, bruise, 
 wound, maim and do to death, certain animals, to-wit : sheep, lambs, rams, 
 wethers and ewes, of the property of Atkinson, living then and there in the 
 peace of the people. As soon as the indictment was filed in the Court, it was 
 whispered around that there would be fun on the trial, and McLean was ordered 
 to be ready, and an early day set for the hearing. The business of the Court 
 -was pushed through rapidly, and the afternoon of the term, when everybody 
 was jolly and ready for fun, the case of the people vs. Henry S. McLean was 
 called and the defendant arraigned, the indictment slowly and measuredly read 
 "by the Clerk, and then the Court, in solemn judicial dignity, asked the ques- 
 tion, "Is the prisoner at the bar guilty or not guilty in manner and form as 
 charged in the indictment?" McLean then arose from his half bent, slouch- 
 ing position, and standing erect, replied, "May it please the Court, if I should 
 say I am not guilty, I should lie; and if I should say I am guilty in manner 
 
 and form as charged in the indictment, I should tell a d d sight bigger lie; 
 
 therefore, I stand mute ! " The roar that shook the building, at this plea, so 
 disturbed the blind and steady handed goddess, she dismissed the case, and her 
 devotees adjourned to the hotel for a jolly wind up of the judicial proceedings. 
 The first Petit Jury of the county was as follows : Calvin Ward, Reed 
 Ferson, Benj. H. Smith, E. K. Mann, S. H. Hamilton, James Latham, Charles 
 Latten, John V. King, Jas. Ferson, John W. Douglas, Asa Merrill and Gideon 
 Young. The term lasted three days, and there were in the time five jury 
 trials, four changes of venue granted, fourteen judgments, amounting to $5,400, 
 rendered, twenty suits continued, and five dismissed. The first order entered 
 on the record was a rule to "plead by to-morrow morning," entered June 19, 
 1887, in the suit of Hugh C. Gibson and three female Gibsons vs. G. W. and 
 Harrison Haynes and John Miller. The same order was entered in the case of 
 seventeen plaintiffs vs. Thomas G. Getman, Thayer and the Haynes. The same 
 seventeen plaintiffs recovered one cent damages and their costs of suit against 
 the defendants. 
 
 Ransom Olds, Aaron Burbank, Jona. Kimball, Elizur Burbank and D. W. 
 Elmore failed to respond to the process of the court, and attachments were 
 ordered against them, but they came in at a subsequent term and purged them- 
 selves of their contempt, and were dismissed with the costs. On motion of 
 Jas. M. Strode, Jacob B. Mills was allowed to practice as an attorney in the 
 court, and H. N. Chapman was similarly privileged on the motion of Giles 
 Spring. John Douglas was the first alien who renounced his allegiance to his 
 native country, and took Uncle Sam for his future Caesar. He was a Scotch- 
 man, and filed his declaration on the second day of the court.
 
 262 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The second term of the court was held in September, 1837, by Judge 
 Thomas. At this court, the afterward famous controversy of Anson Pease vs. John 
 Peter Schneider, and John Peter Schneider vs. Anson Pease, first made its 
 appearance on the docket, from which it did not disappear until after 1850. 
 It grew out of the claim of the water power at Schneider's, now known as North 
 Aurora. Pease was a litigous fellow, and a local rhymester, whose habitat was 
 Aurora, in the early days, thus done him up in verse : 
 
 " Is-c M r 1-t and Anson Pease 
 Are the very d 1 to laugh and tease, 
 Of whisky punch they'll drink enough 
 To fill Fox River from bluff to bluff." 
 
 The County Commissioners' Court had charge only of the fiscal concerns of 
 the county, allowed the bills, levied the taxes and settled with the Sheriff, who was 
 Tax Collector then. The first session of the court was in 1836, and the court 
 was composed of Thomas H. Thompson, Claudius Townsend and Mark Daniels, 
 County Commissioners, with Mark W. Fletcher, as Clerk. 
 
 The Elgin bar has ever been noted for its legal and forensic ability. 
 Among its honored names are the first ones who came to the village, while it 
 was yet a hamlet of but a few houses, and who practiced in the old Thirteenth 
 Circuit, viz. : E. E. Harvey, who went into the military service at the call for 
 volunteers in the Mexican war, and gave his life for the country, dying in 
 Mexico; P. R. Wright, formerly Circuit Clerk, and how a resident of Cali- 
 fornia ; I. G. Wilson, Judge of the old Thirteenth, and afterward the Twenty- 
 eighth Circuit Court, and now an eminent member of the Chicago bar ; Chaa. 
 H. Morgan, formerly Judge of the Elgin and Aurora Courts of Common Pleas, 
 and later U. S. Judge in one of the Territories ; Edmund Gifford, also a Judge 
 in New Orleans ; and last, though not least, Sylvanus Wilcox, who so worthily 
 occupied the bench of the Twenty-eighth Circuit. Judge Wilcox is the only 
 one of the above named eminent lawyers who has an abiding place in Elgin. 
 
 The Probate Court, as first organized, was a very simple institution, con- 
 sisting solely of a Probate Justice of the Peace, who was his own Clerk. No 
 Sheriff or Bailiff guarded his tribunal or made bis presence awe-inspiring by 
 his cry of " Oyez ! oyez ! " but in the simple guise of a Justice of the Peace, 
 he settled the estates of the dead, dividing them among the living according to- 
 law or the will of the decedent. 
 
 The first estate administered upon in the county was that of Archibald 
 Moody, who died July 27, 1836. Letters of administration thereon were 
 granted to Lydia C. Moody, his widow, by Mark Daniels, Probate Justice, 
 June 6, 1837, which was the first recorded act of the court. The Administra- 
 trix gave bonds in the sum of $2,000, Avith Gideon Young as security. 
 
 The first will probated in the court was that of Warren Tyler, of St. Charles. 
 It was dated September 10, 1837, and admitted to record on the testimony of 
 Thomas P. Whipple and Mark Fletcher, November 6, 1837, this being the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 263 
 
 second act of the court, and the first act of Isaac Wilson, Probate Justice. 
 Diadema Tyler and Thomas P. Whipple were appointed Executors, and gave 
 bonds in the sum of $6,000, with Reed Ferson and Ephraim Perkins security. 
 The principal bequest was 360 acres of land, to which decedent held a claim 
 under the claim laws of the country. 
 
 The first letters of guardianship issued were to Moses Shelby, as guardian 
 of Rebecca Gillespie, on November 5, 1838, with Thomas P. Whipple as secu- 
 rity in $200 bonds. 
 
 The old seal of the Probate Court was a copper block, with a weeping wil- 
 low and tomb stone, emblematic, in those days, of the grief for the dead, but in 
 the present it is more impressive of the cost of the funeral, and the wasting of 
 the estate in settlement. 
 
 The Probate Justices gave way to the County Court in 1849, when Isaac 
 G. Wilson, a son of the Isaac Wilson who performed the last two official acts 
 above mentioned, was elected County Judge under the new Constitution, and 
 James Herrington, County Clerk. These officers were elected in November, 
 1849, commissioned in December, and held the first term of the County Court, 
 for county business, the following January, commencing on the 10th day of the 
 month, 1850. The court was composed of Isaac G. Wilson, County Judge ; 
 Andrew J. Waldron and Marcus White, Associate Justices, and James Her- 
 rington, Clerk. The court allowed pauper bills to the amount of $138 ; court 
 expenses, $165, and miscellaneous bills, $13. The court also granted John D. 
 Wygant, of Batavia, and William -G. Webster, of Geneva, grocers' licenses for 
 a year for $25 each. It is needless to say the groceries to be sold were wet gro- 
 ceries. The bonds of the County Judge, County Collector and Justices and Con- 
 stables were approved, except some that were informal, which were rejected and 
 new ones filed. Roads were ordered reviewed and re-located, and an order passed 
 that no more bills for the laying of roads would be allowed by the court. A. 
 P. Hubbard and Thomas A. Scott were appointed a committee to examine into 
 the financial condition of the county, and report its status at the March term 
 of the court, which they did, and their report ordered printed ; but it is not 
 recorded nor on file, and whether the county had much or little indebtedness, 
 we cannot now know. 
 
 Gen. Elijah Wilcox, of Elgin ; Dr. D. D. Waite, of St. Charles, and W. B. 
 Gillett, of Sugar Grove, were appointed a committee to divide the county into 
 towns, according to the terms of Section 6 of the law of 1849, relating to 
 township organization. They made a report and divided the county as it now 
 stands, except as to the division of Geneva and Batavia, which was effected sub- 
 sequently. They called Rutland, Jackson ; Plato, Homer, and Virgil, Frank- 
 lin, but they were soon after changed as they are now known, E. R. Starks 
 giving the name of his native town in -Vermont to Jackson, and the town of 
 Homer being honored with tlie name of our then worthy citizen and State 
 Senator, Plato.
 
 264 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Orsemus Wilson, Esq., Poor Master of Batavia, was directed to get Schultz, 
 a pauper, boarded for less than $1.25 a week, if he could. Wm. R. Parker, 
 Justice of the Peace, was told to hold on and not to issue any capias against 
 Alvin Hyatt, whom he had found guilty of an assault and battery, and fined 
 $15. The Court selected a Grand and Petit Jury for the March term of the 
 Circuit Court, and adjourned. The last term of the court for county business 
 w r as held June -3, 1850, and then the Supervisors took the purse strings of the 
 treasury in hand, and have held them ever since. 
 
 The first settlement of the Treasurer of the county was made December 1, 
 1838, and the whole amount of funds received by him was $548.54, including 
 thirty license fees, and fines. His compensation was $10.87. The County 
 Treasurers, from 1836 to 1841, received as the total amount of revenue of the 
 county during the time the sum of $3,982.07. The commissions amounted to 
 $47. They couldn't afford to pay much to make their election sure. David 
 Dunham was Recorder of Deeds from August 1, 1836, to September 1, 1843 ; 
 but that was not much of a bonanza, for he used to write up his records in his 
 store on rainy days, and other times when business was not pressing. The 
 whole seven years of his official term are comprised in the first three books of 
 the Recorder's office, and number 997 instruments. 
 
 The first tax levied in the county was in the year 1836, and was laid on 
 personal property only, real estate not being taxable until 1847, five years after 
 the land sales in 1842. The amount of the levy was about eight hundred dol- 
 lars, and B. F. Fridleywas Sheriff and ex officio County Collector, and John 
 Griggs was County Assessor. The first tax levied after real estate became taxable 
 was in 1847. The assessment o f lands and village lots amounted to $446,185, 
 and of personal property to $321,320. The taxes levied were for State purposes, 
 $2,839; county purposes, $2,302.54, and for roads, $1,535.01. Total, $6,677.29. 
 
 The first instrument recorded in the county was an agreement for a deed be- 
 tween James Crow and Wallace Hotchkiss, for lands which said Crow claimed 
 300 acres of prairie and 160 acres of timber. The prairie land was on the 
 east side of the Fox River, in Batavia, and the timber was in the Big Woods. 
 The amount of purchase money was $2,000. This instrument was filed for 
 record January 23, 1837, and recorded in book 1, page 1. 
 
 The first village plat recorded was that of Geneva, on May 8, 1837, at 11 
 o'clock A. M., in Book 1, page 9 ; and St. Charles or as it was then called 
 and recorded, Charleston filed her plat the same day, at 2 o'clock P. M., and 
 it follows Geneva in the same book, on page 11. The first deed recorded is one 
 from Richard J. Hamilton and James Herrington, by Mark W. Fletcher, their 
 attorney in fact, to Kane County, for a block of ground in Geneva, known as 
 the public square. This was the original court house block, on which the origi- 
 nal court house was built. 
 
 The first mortgage filed for record was a deed from James Herrington to 
 Jacob Miller, both of Geneva, July 5, 1837. It conveys a two-thirds interst
 
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 in 110 acres of timber on the east side of the river, in Geneva, and was the 
 original claim of Haight and Bird. Miller gave Harrington an agreement to 
 re-convey on the payment of $300 in one year, with 12 per cent, interest, 
 quarterly. This was the only way security could be given on real estate, as 
 the laws of the United States made it unlawful to mortgage the land until 
 patents were issued for it. 
 
 Large tracts of land were entered at the land sale, by parties in trust for 
 others, and bonds given for deeds in payment of the sums advanced, and such 
 interest as was agreed upon. Right here comes to mind an incident growing out 
 of that practice, partially in Elgin, which shows that the confidence game was 
 practiced in early times as well as later in that city. 
 
 In Western New York lived, in 1840-41 arid later, a man named William 
 Mills, familiarly known and called by many of the early settlers in Elgin, as 
 "Billy" Mills. He was a noted man among the people of Elgin, in those 
 early days, and was a man of wealth and good report. Some time in the Spring 
 of 1845 or 1846, a genteelly dressed and self-possessed gentleman came into 
 the stage house at Tibbals', in Elgin, and represented himself to be a nephew 
 of " Billy " Mills, of New York. He had come out to loan money and make 
 investments, and wanted a good room, regardless of expense, and so Tibbals 
 put the best room of his really good hostelry at his service, and treated him as 
 the nephew of as prime a favorite as Billy Mills ought to be shown. 
 
 The news of the arrival of a nephew of Billy Mills was soon noised abroad, 
 and the fact that he had lots of money to loan and invest was as soon known. 
 He was at once the center of attraction. The farmers who had bought their 
 land through others, and were paying 18 to 24 per cent, for the accommoda- 
 tion, immediately began to negotiate with the nephew of his uncle for loans to 
 pay up the said advances, and at much lower rates of interest. Many, too, 
 sought for further accommodations, to reloan the money at an advance on the 
 rate the nephew charged. The days of Spring lengthened into Summer, and 
 the Summer heats began to strengthen, and still the nephew basked in the sun- 
 shine, of " Uncle " Billy's fame and prestige, without a cloud or passing shower 
 to disturb his tranquility. He suggested to his host, from time to time, that he 
 was ready to pay his bill on presentation "expected another remittance from 
 Uncle Billy soon ; had loaned Deacon a little cash to take up the mort- 
 gage on his farm ; would be all right as soon as another letter came," etc. 
 Tibbals said it was all right, and continued to feed him in good style and drive 
 him around the country behind a pair of spanking bays. One day, which he had 
 set for fulfilling his engagement, the people came with their bonds and mort- 
 gages draAvn up in the most approved style, tricked out in sealing wax and red 
 tape, to get the money to consummate the projects of their hearts, and move 
 into the splendid castles in Spain which many of them had already erected. But 
 the mails had failed to come in, and the disappointed ones were put off till an- 
 other day. The day came, and with it again came the people and their secu-
 
 266 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 rities, and also a letter from Billy Mills himself, to some one whose suspicions 
 had been aroused and had communicated with Mills in regard to the "nephew," 
 stating that the "nephew" was no relative of his, but was imposing on the 
 good people of Elgin. The people looked foolish, as their castles disappeared, 
 and especially those who had indulged in such rosy dreams of money loaning. 
 But Tibbals, when the truth flashed upon him, was furious. If " our army 
 swore terribly 'in Flanders," then Tibbals was worthy of a full Brigadier's com- 
 mission in it. He mounted in hot haste his buck-board, and drove off at a slash- 
 ing pace to Geneva to get sundry writs of capias, ne exeat and attachment, 
 whereby he might get indemnity for the outlay he had made for the said 
 nephew's comfort. The writs were duly issued and served upon the boarder, 
 with an unknown alias, and in due course of time the trial came on before the 
 Circuit Court and a jury. John J. Brown, the eloquent advocate in Chicago, 
 at that time was retained by the defendant, and interposed a plea of non compos 
 mentis. He did not try to rebut the evidence that was piled up by the prosecu- 
 tion, but rather sought to make the testimony stronger by the cross-examination. 
 The evidence being all in, and the counsel for the plaintiff having closed his 
 case, the defense took the floor and began one of those impassioned appeals to 
 the jury for which Mr. Brown was so noted. He showed conclusively to the 
 jury and audience that the defendant, instead of being harassed by grasping 
 creditors and unfeeling bailiffs, should be tenderly cared for by Christian men 
 and women! The Court was convulsed with suppressed laughter, the jury and 
 audience were in tears, and Tibbals himself rose and, wiping his eyes, stalked 
 out of the court room, muttering to himself, " I'll be d d if I knew I was such 
 a wretch as to prosecute such a poor fool as that ! " 
 
 Among the first things established in the county for the general good, was 
 the Yankee institution the public school. With the yearning for a wider acre- 
 age and larger gains, was the kindred spirit of knowledge how to attain to and 
 use the increased facilities when they should be in hand. And so, by the time 
 the settlers, in 1834, had built their shanties and staked out their claims, they 
 looked for the school master, and, lo ! he was in their midst, and from the land 
 where the pedagogue, male and female, is indigenous Vermont. In the fall of 
 1834, a Mr. Knowles was enthroned in East Batavia, with the hazel brush as a 
 scepter, to rule over and teach nine infantile subjects. The throne room was in 
 a log cabin on Col. Lyon's claim, about one mile east of the river, and was the 
 first school house built in the county. The school ma'am was but a short way 
 behind, and her name was Prudence Ward, and her kingdom was in Ira E. 
 Tyler's log house, in St. Charles, and she began her reign in 1835. This year, 
 too, a Mr. Livingston taught school in East Geneva. The female pedagogues 
 multiplied in the land greatly, so much so, that the male of the species, for a 
 season, became extinct. Miss Charlotte Griggs, in Plato; Miss Amanda Cochrane, 
 in Dundee ; Miss Harriet Gifford, in Elgin, and Mrs. Sterling, of Geneva, being 
 the first teachers in their respective localities, all before the close of the year 1837.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 267 
 
 The first teachers' institute or normal school held in the county was con- 
 vened in 1850, at the old court house in Geneva, under the fostering care of 
 Father Brewster, who was the School Commissioner. Prof. Sweet was 
 the Director, and John B. Newcomb, of Elgin ; Achsah Waite, of St. Charles ; 
 Miss Fox, of Elgin, and Miss Kidder, afterward the wife of D. L. Eastman % of 
 St. Charles, were chief assistants. The mystery of a minus quantity " one 
 less than nothing" was lucidly explained by Miss Waite to many whose lives 
 since then have been striking illustrations of the theorem. The first institute 
 will never be forgotten by those who participated in it. The Marys and Fannys 
 and Williams and Johns, how they did parse but never declined the verb 
 "to love ! " How they rattled on about the uttermost parts of the earth, and 
 yet thought the sweetest place on earth was just there in the class. How the 
 problem of two and two make four was solved in a twinkling, when the class in 
 arithmetic was ordered to the Unitarian Church, and Mary Ann, of Big Rock, 
 and the little black-eyed Miss W., from Sugar Grove, paired off with the young 
 schoolmasters of Aurora. A certain cosy farm house in the southwestern part 
 of the county will tell how two of these former mathematicians solved that other 
 more difficult problem of life, and demonstrated that three from two make five! 
 Newcomb drilled us all in phonetics, and Sweet " elocuted " for our benefit, and 
 we followed in concert until such a howl rose up the Genevans rushed to see 
 what lunatic asylum had turned its inmates out for a holiday. The school- 
 ma'ams that were, and those that would be, came in such numbers they could 
 not all be accommodated at the residences of the people ; but Father Brewster 
 God bless the good old man was equal to the occasion, and so he called for 
 supplies of bedding and rations, and soon the dancing hall of the Geneva House 
 then occupied and kept by Mr. Sterling was transformed into a dormitory 
 and kitchen, and the girls added to their theories the additional accomplishment 
 of practical living. As we think of the two hundred and more girls, old and 
 young, then present, we ask, with Holmes, 
 
 "Where are the Marys and Anns and Elizas, 
 
 Living and lovely of yore ? 
 Look in the columns of old Advertisers 
 Married and Dead by the score." 
 
 Elgin claims the first academy and the first college in the county. The 
 academy was chartered in 1839, but was not opened until 1855, when the col- 
 lege was built and transferred to the academy, and the two companies merged in 
 one. 
 
 The first sermon preached in the county was by Rev. N. C. Clarke, in 
 1834, in the log house of Christopher Payne, the first actual settler in the 
 county, east of Batavia. Mr. Clarke was one of the early missionaries sent 
 out into the West to tell the "glad tidings " to the pioneers, and gather them 
 into church societies and Sunday schools. He was one of God's noblemen, of 
 a kindly, affectionate manner, truthful and sincere, and one who drew men to
 
 268 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 better things by his own gentle and consistent ways quite as much as by his 
 persuasive exhortations. No breath of suspicion ever attainted him, but he 
 seemed to stand on the mountain top, in the clear sunlight of truth and moral- 
 ity, always, from his first entrance into the county, until loving hands bore him 
 tenderly to the beautiful city of the dead that overlooks his old homestead, in 
 Elgin. 
 
 His colleagues were Elder J. E. Ambrose and Elder Kimball. These men 
 traveled on foot or on horseback, among the early settlers around Chicago, stop- 
 ping where night overtook them, and receiving the hospitalities of the cabin, 
 without money or without price. Reverently asking the blessing of God upon 
 all that they did, their lives were simple and unostentatious, their wants few and 
 easily satisfied ; their teaching plain and unvarnished, touched with no elo- 
 quence save that of their daily living, which was seen and known of all men. 
 Though of different religious sects one being a Congregationalist, one a Bap- 
 tist, and the other a Methodist yet no discord was ever manifested between 
 them, but a united effort was made by them to show men the way to better 
 things by better living, and thus, finally, to reach the best of all, God and 
 heaven. They were not only physicians for the soul's cure, but they sometimes 
 ministered to the body's ailments. They married the living, and buried the 
 dead ; they christened the babe, admonished the young and warned the old : 
 they cheered the despondent, rebuked the wilful and' hurled the vengeance of 
 eternal burnings at the desperately wicked. When other orators were scarce, 
 they sometimes mounted the rostrum on the Fourth of July, and highfaluted 
 for the edification of the people, like other patriotic mortals. Wherever they 
 came they were welcome, and notice was soon sent around to the neighbors and 
 a meeting was held. For years they could say literally, as did the Master 
 before them : " The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but 
 (we) the sons of men have not where to lay our heads." 
 
 Father Clarke, in St. Charles, arid Elder Ambrose, in Elgin, finally settled 
 down and were located over respective congregations of their own faith, and 
 Elder Kimball, the Methodist, in Bloomingdale. Father Clarke has gone to 
 his rest, sincerely mourned by all who had ever known him. 
 
 The first church in the county was organized in Batavia, in 1835. It was 
 of the Congregationalist faith, and another one of the same faith was organ- 
 ized in Elgin, in 1836. The first Methodist Episcopal churches were organ- 
 ized in Aurora and Elgin, in 1837. The Baptists organized a society in 1836, 
 in St. Charles. The Unitarians organized a society in Geneva, in 1837, and 
 about that time the Universalists organized one in St. Charles. The first 
 Roman Catholic gathering was probably in Rutland, though Aurora claims the 
 first church up as late as 1848, or after. The first Congregational minister in 
 the county was Father Clarke; the first Baptist, Elder Ambrose; the first 
 Methodist, Rev. William Kimball ; the first Unitarian, A. H. Conant, and the 
 first Universalists, Andrew Pingree and William Rounseville. The first church
 
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 buildings erected exclusively for worship were those of the Congregationalists 
 in Batavia and Dundee, in 1840, though the Universalists began theirs in 1838, 
 but it was not finished until 1843. Aurora built her first church in 1843, for 
 the Methodists, and Elgin hers, in 1840, for the same society, and Geneva, for 
 the Unitarians, in 1843. In 1850, there were eighteen church edifices, valued 
 at $30,000, and capable of seating about five thousand persons. The first 
 Sunday school in the county was organized in Batavia, in 1835, but the schools 
 multiplied rapidly, one being organized wherever children could be gathered in, 
 even if there were not a half a dozen to begin with. 
 
 Bishop Chase, of the Episcopal Church, the founder of Jubilee College, at 
 "Robin's Nest," near Peoria, held a service under the ritual of that church, 
 in St. Charles, in 1838, in the school house then standing on the corner near 
 Dr. Crawford's present residence. It was quite a noted event in those days. 
 The Bishop was a tall and large man, had white hair and was a very fine look- 
 ing old man, and in his Episcopal robes of scarlet was an august looking person- 
 age. The Episcopalians in St. Charles at that time were Dr. Thomas P. 
 Whipple and R. V. M. Croes, the latter a son of an Episcopal clergyman, of 
 New York City. The Bishop was entertained by Dr. Whipple. The Herring- 
 tons, at Geneva, and Joseph W. Churchill, at Batavia, were also Episcopalians. 
 Churchill was a bluff, nervous fellow, and much attached to the forms of his 
 church. One Sunday, as he and his daughter were going to church, he asked 
 her if she had got her prayer book. She said, "No father, I forgot it," 
 Churchill blurted out : " Forget your prayer book ! Go and get it ! You might 
 as well be in as in an Episcopal church without a prayer book." 
 
 There was a time when a great religious awakening swept over the com- 
 munity, and Father Clarke, assisted by two clergymen from Boston or 
 thereabouts, had charge of the revival. Naughty rumor had been busy with 
 the names of the two men from the old Bay State, and it was whispered that 
 one of them had found it convenient to leave his creditors to get their just 
 claims paid by suffering fifty per cent, loss on the same ; while of the other it 
 was said that he had literally taken to himself a wife, in that he had taken a 
 wife of some other man, and she was then with him in the (then) village of 
 Elgin. These rumors were subsequently found to have more than a mere sub- 
 stratum of truth. 
 
 While the religious awakening was at its height, Mr. Clarke and the two 
 assisting ministers called pastorally on the people, and, among others, visited 
 Mr. P. G. Patterson, and talked with him kindly, admonishing him to try and 
 reform. Patterson listened patiently and quietly to his visitors, and at length 
 Mr. Clarke asked him what he thought of what had been said. Patterson, look- 
 ing up to Mr. Clarke, said, feelingly : " Mr. Clarke, you are a good man and a 
 kind neighbor, and I thank you for your visit, but, as for the other gentlemen, all 
 I have to say is, I pay twenty shillings to the pound, and live with my own wife." 
 The interview closed abruptly, for there was no room for further argument.
 
 270 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 AURORA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Had ancient mythology been ransacked, it would have been impossible 
 to have found a name containing a more pleasing and purely imaginative history 
 than the one which this township bears ; and it may be added with equal truth 
 that the picturesqueness of the valley, stream, prairie and hill with which it is di- 
 versified renders it worthy to be associated with a conception which was the person- 
 ification of ideal beauty. Forty-four years ago, however, the Eos of the Greeks, 
 the Aurora of the Latins, shed her smiles over its fields, now marked with farm- 
 house, granary, mill and village, and beheld only a wilderness. Its broad acres 
 were uncultivated, its forests then magnificent allowed to run to waste and 
 only serving as a home for the Indian and the wolf and their wild neighbors. 
 But the Sac and Fox War was precipitated, and then all was changed. Scott's 
 army was sent in pursuit of the cowardly wretches, who had glutted their 
 vindictive hate with the blood of women and children, and a new era was 
 ushered in. 
 
 SETTLEMENTS. 
 
 Among the earliest ones to avail himself of the return of peace and of the 
 measures on foot to move the friendly Indians under Waubansie from the State, 
 was Jacob Carpenter, who came to Chicago from Logan County, Ohio, in No- 
 vember, 1832. In December of the following year, having spent the Summer 
 and Fall at Naperville, which then contained some half a dozen families, he 
 took up land and built a log house on the east side of Fox River, about half a 
 mile from the spot now occupied by the village of Montgomery. This house 
 was the first in Aurora Township and one of the first in Kane County, and was 
 occupied by Carpenter and his family the week before Christmas. 
 
 In the following April, Elijah Pierce, Carpenter's, father-in-law, also from 
 Logan County, followed him to the new country, and built a second shanty on 
 the same side of the river and nearer the bank than Carpenter's, where for years 
 he kept entertainment for man and beast. There the stage horses on the Chi- 
 cago & Galena Road were regularly changed as long as the route ran by way 
 of Montgomery. His accommodations were not as good as may now be found 
 at the Palmer House, or even in Aurora, but they were the best which could 
 then be obtained nearer than Naperville. His shanty had one room, which 
 served as kitchen, dining room, sitting room, parlor and bedroom; and Mr. Wm. 
 T. Elliott, who came from Tioga County, N. Y., and took up an adjoining 
 claim in June, 1834, says that he has seen forty people men, women and 
 children packed away in promiscuous order for the night, upon the floor of 
 that room. 
 
 At that time, no Government surveys had been made anywhere in the 
 vicinity. All were squatters, and all were obliged to go to Ottawa, for the trans- 
 action of any public business.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 271 
 
 Mr. Elliott, our worthy informant, who still resides, at the age of 67, upon 
 his original claim, is responsible for being the author of the first romance which 
 the annals of the county furnish. He "was a goodly stripling then," and, 
 casting his eyes around among the damsels of the land, he saw none so comely as 
 Rebecca Pierce. It may be a matter of doubt if the country afforded any other 
 damsel during the first year of his residence, but, be that as it may, we have it on 
 good authority that Rebecca iv as fair and seventeen, and willing to place her head 
 in the matrimonial slipping-noose, but here the cruel parent who figures in all 
 romances interposed his veto. It is not material what reasons he urged or even 
 if he urged any at all. His refusal produced the usual effect, and everything 
 went on in the regular order found in any one of Mrs. Southworth's novels. 
 Wm. T. said " Wilt thou cleave unto me in spite of Pa Pierce ? " and Rebecca 
 answered " I will." The next morning a youth might have been seen wend- 
 ing his way along the road which led to Ottawa. He raised his eyes and saw 
 a man approaching. It was Mr. Pierce, the last person whom he cared to meet. 
 Mr. Pierce advised him in a friendly manner, as parents are apt to assume in such 
 circumstances, to make no more attempts to obtain his daughter, as they would 
 be useless, and receiving from Mr. Elliott the gratifying assurance that he would 
 have Rebecca or die in the attempt, he went on his way rejoicing, perhaps. 
 On reaching Ottawa, forty miles from home, the ardent lover proceeded at once 
 to the office of the County Clerk, whose reign extended over a vast territory, 
 but small population, and asked for a marriage license. The lady's age was 
 demanded and the license promptly refused. The Clerk, however, at the request 
 of Mr. Elliott., examined the marriage law, and informed him that he might 
 marry, if he would publish a notice of his and the lady's intentions two weeks 
 previous, in church. He, therefore, returned disappointed and discouraged. 
 Fortune seemed to favor him now, for as he approached his cabin he met that 
 zealous and exemplary pioneer " Father Clark," to whom he unbosomed him- 
 self, and was told that he should be " cried in meetin' come next Sunday." 
 Father Clark published him. as agreed, in Naperville, and, in due time, tidings 
 came to the enraged parent, who vowed that the marriage should never take 
 place. Now, Mr. Pierce went to Chicago for nearly all the groceries used in 
 his business as landlord. Thinking that only one week had expired since the 
 announcement of marriage, he left home with a light heart, it may be supposed, 
 and chuckling, as he rode along over the ruts, to think that the man who so 
 yearned to call him " Father," had walked to Ottawa and back for a marriage 
 license in vain, Wm. T. and Rebecca, meanwhile, were chuckling, too, for on 
 this morn the two weeks had expired. In the afternoon, Rebecca went visiting. 
 There was no suspicion, as her lover, who had a field of wheat near by, had passed 
 the house at noon with his cradle upon his shoulder. Later in the afternoon 
 he returned, met Miss Pierce, and Father Clark united them. When the 
 unreasonable father returned, he felt greatly discomfited, and, though not a man 
 given to unseemly mirth, some say that he danced a horn-pipe many times around 
 
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 272 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 his shanty, but. having thus become calm, he reasoned, after a night's sleep, 
 that it would be the part of wisdom to make no more disturbance. Accord- 
 ingly, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott commenced housekeeping, and their marriage, 
 which occurred August 3, 1835, was the first in Aurora Township. 
 
 Their daughter Emeline now Mrs. Joseph Denny, of Aurora whose 
 birth occurred August 5, 1836, was the first white child born within the limits 
 of the present township. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are among the most respected of the early settlers, 
 and, to all appearances, will witness a score more of years of the progress 
 the town, which they first found containing less than a half dozen of 
 dwellings. 
 
 Land was not dear in those early times", and, as proof of this, it may be 
 stated that Mr. Pierce bought a claim of 380 acres, most of which is now within 
 the city limits, for $7.00. This tract was afterward owned by B. F. Fridley, 
 who came to Aurora in 1835, and is still living in the city. 
 
 On the 20th of September, 1836, Thomas Carpenter died, after a short 
 illness. It is a fact worthy of note, that he was the first settler in Aurora 
 Township, and the first who died there outside of the present city limits. He 
 was also one of the very first who settled in the county, and was only four 
 months later than Christopher Payne, the earliest pioneer. 
 
 Another very early settler in this township was John Peter Snyder, a Ger- 
 man, from Erie County, Penn., who arrived in Chicago with his family July 
 10, 1832. Finding all the country around in confusion from the recent Indian 
 atrocities, and the efforts of the Government to suppress them, he took passage to 
 Michigan, instead of unloading his goods, and remained there until the follow- 
 ing September, and then returned to Chicago, where he lay ill for two weeks or 
 more. He then went to Naperville, where he found a settlement already 
 established, and stayed there during the Winter and the following Summer, 
 and, being a millwright, put up a small saw-mill for one of the Napers. Dur- 
 ing his first Fall there (1832), he had explored the country around North 
 Aurora, in company with Lansing Sweet, a brother-in-law of the Napers, but, 
 fearing the Pottawattomies, had made no claim. In the Fall of 1833, in com- 
 pany with his brother, John Nicholas more popularly known as " Peter John," 
 who now lives near Piano, Kendall County he took up a claim on Blackberry 
 Creek, and built another saw-mill. Indeed, they seem to have had a. peculiar 
 fondness for such work, for, according to John Peter, he and " Peter John" 
 were located, in the Fall of 1834, on land now occupied by the North Aurora 
 Manufacturing Company's Works, hammering away at still another saw-mill. 
 When he arrived there in 1834, he says that the McCartys had commenced 
 their improvements below. Certainly, the country was indebted to the Snyders 
 for some valuable improvements, for after the first explorers have located in a 
 new country, the greatest benefit is conferred, not by the one who erects a 
 school house or a church, but by the man who builds a mill. They precede all
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. ' 273 
 
 other improvements, and are the beacon-lights in the van of civilization. The 
 dam across the river at North Aurora was also built by the Snyders. 
 
 The first mill was burned a number of years after its completion, and John 
 Peter built another, which is still standing. 
 
 Meanwhile other settlers had located in the country around, and at first 
 taking up claims by squatter right, and afterward purchasing of the Govern- 
 ment, the township had become rapidly settled. 
 
 In the Fall of 1835, Daniel Gray, from Montgomery County, N. Y., visited 
 the West, where his brother, Nicholas, had located the previous Spring, on a 
 farm now within the limits of Kendall County. Pleased with the new country, 
 he made immediate preparations to settle there, and in the Fall of 1836, having 
 removed his family from New York, he built the first frame house in the village, 
 which he named from the county he had left. It was located in the south part 
 of the place, near the west bank of the river, was about 22x38 feet, and, having 
 been moved from its original site, is still used as a dwelling. 
 
 MANUFACTURES AND BUSINESS. 
 
 Daniel Gray was a man of indomitable energy and enterprise. Mills and 
 manufactures sprung up at his bidding, as by magic, and Montgomery, al- 
 though the little village has still good prospects for the future, would doubtless 
 have had a far more brilliant history had he lived. No sooner had he settled 
 in the place than he commenced improvements on a grand scale. A store, 
 foundry, reaper and header manufacturing shop over one hundred feet in 
 length, a second foundry built of stone, and one of the best stone grist-mills in 
 the country, appeared in rapid succession, furnishing employment for thirty or 
 more hands, and Mr. Gray was making preparations for still more extensive 
 business operations, in the establishment of a manufactory of stationary engines, 
 when, in the Winter of 1854, he died. The store had burned a number of 
 years previous. The stone foundry has subsequently been used for a short 
 time as a manufactory for cotton batting, but is now idle, as is the large build- 
 ing formerly used as a manufactory. Ti^ flouring mill is now doing a good 
 business, and running twenty-four hours in the day. Hord, Emmons & Co. 
 are the present proprietors, the manufactured article enjoys a good reputation 
 throughout the West, and is shipped in sacks to all parts of Northern Illinois. 
 
 A large cheese factory, built in 1874, and which, we are informed, is doing 
 a good business for the farmers, stands on the opposite side of the street. The 
 place also has a small sash and blind factory, two stores and an excellent stone 
 depot for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, which crosses Aurora 
 Township from east to west, and passes along the edge of the village. 
 
 Turning now for a moment to North Aurora, we find several small manu- 
 factories there which deserve brief mention. The grist-mill, a good wooden 
 building, was commenced in 1862 ; the sash, door and blind factory was built 
 some fifteen years ago : the foundry, now employing about fourteen hands, was
 
 274 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 erected in the Spring of 1874, and a large and elegant building, to be used as 
 a store, was put up the same year. All are owned by the North Aurora Man- 
 ufacturing Company. A cheese factory of magnificent dimensions, the prop- 
 erty of J. H. Boswell, was built in 1875. It has used 6,500 pounds of milk 
 during the past Summer (1877), and manufactured cream cheese, which was 
 shipped to Liverpool, England, during a part of the season. 
 
 The station is thirty-five miles west of Chicago, on the old State Road. It 
 has two stores ; the one on the east side, built in 1874, the other occupying 
 one end of tlie cheese factory. The place is four miles from the city of Aurora, 
 on the branch railroad which connects Aurora with Batavia, on the east side 
 of the river. The railroad company have built a depot there. 
 
 Like Montgomery, North Aurora has excellent water power, and there are 
 a number of residences, in the immediate vicinity, on either side of the river. 
 About half a mile distant, John Peter Snyder still resides, looking as young as 
 many men at 45, although he claims to be 76, and says he has kept his youth 
 so well because he had such easy times when the country was new. The exten- 
 sion connecting Aurora with Batavia and Geneva, by way of the West Side, 
 crosses the township within half a mile of North Aurora 
 
 SCHOOL HOUSES. 
 
 As early as 1839, a small frame school house stood in Montgomery, and 
 the first term was taught in it by a young lady. Mrs. Ellis, then Mrs. Car- 
 penter, now residing in the village, states that her little boys went there to 
 school as early as the winter of 1838. The teacher was paid by subscription. 
 The house is now used us a dwelling by Mr. Harrison Young. Another 
 school was started, at quite an early period, near North Aurora, and others 
 followed throughout the districts more remote from the river, until the adoption 
 of the School Law brought about the present condition., A fine public school 
 building, erected some twenty years ago, stands in Montgomery. 
 
 POST OFFICES. 
 
 An attempt was made by the settlers near Montgomery to obtain a post 
 office as early as 1836, but the stage route being changed about that time, the 
 attempt was given up for full ten years. At length, when the manufactories 
 established by Daniel Gray had made the village of sufficient importance, the 
 project was renewed, and Hiram Border was commissioned the first Postmaster. 
 This post office, and the one at North Aurora, established January 18, 1869, 
 with A. H. Stone as its first Postmaster, are the only ones in the township. 
 
 The village of Montgomery was at first surveyed not long after Daniel 
 Gray's arrival, and it was then laid out at a spot somewhat below its present 
 site. It was in this original plat that the school building was put up, and it 
 has not been removed to the position of the more modern place. The earliest 
 marriage within its present corporate limits was that of Ralph Gray, in 1843 ;
 
 ELGIN.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 293 
 
 above, with the Aurora woolen-mills, mentioned on another page, completes 
 the history of the great manufactories of Aurora. There are several other 
 less noted establishments, but, although each are of importance to the city, 
 and one, at least, employs a number of hands, we can scarcely be expected to 
 notice in a history of the county. 
 
 DEATH OF JOSEPH MCCARTY. 
 
 Before the wonderful progress which we have recorded had been made, 
 and ere the hum of machinery and the scream of the locomotive had resounded 
 through the busy city, its founder, Joseph McCarty, was quietly sleeping in his 
 grave. In 1839, while working in the field, he was suddenly attacked with 
 hemorrhage of the lungs. All possible medical assistance was rendered, but 
 from that day he steadily declined. Being advised to seek a more genial cli- 
 mate, he took with him a friend, Mr. Enoch Terry, still living in the city, and 
 proceeded to the South, where, after wandering in vain in search of health and 
 strength, he died, near the center of the State of Alabama, at the age of 
 thirty-one. 
 
 In 1842, Theodore Lake laid out the village of West Aurora. To illus- 
 trate the rapidity with which real estate arose about that time, we may cite a 
 single case of its transfer. Benjamin Hackney bought a farm on the East Side 
 in 1844, for which he paid $2,500, and after dividing it into town lots, sold it 
 for |50,000. 
 
 NEWSPAPERS. 
 
 The newspaper history of Aurora has been quite interesting. The first 
 publication was a Democratic sheet called " The People s Platform" issued by 
 Isaac Marlett about 1846, but soon removed to St. Charles, then a more impor- 
 tant town than Aurora. " The Weekly Beacon " first appeared June 1, 1847, 
 and was then edited by the Hall Brothers, M. V. and B. F., the former a 
 Whig, the latter a Democrat. It was accordingly conducted on neutral princi- 
 ples, and at one time had two departments, in which the politics of both of the 
 respective parties were advocated. B. F. Hall finally disposed of his share in 
 the concern, when it became a Whig paper. In 1853-4, James W. and Dud- 
 ley Randall purchased it, and soon after removed the office to the East Side. 
 It then passed through various hands in rapid succession, as follows : William 
 Goldy, a good job printer ; the late N. S. Greenwood, of Waterman, DeKalb 
 Co., an intelligent farmer ; George Brewster, a Chicago editor ; until, on 
 the 6th of September, 1856, " The Daty Beacon" appeared, with Hon. A. C. 
 Gibson as editor. The editorship was next assumed by Mr. Brewster, who was 
 followed by one Day, and Day by Augustus Harman, who continued its publica- 
 tion until the consolidation of the Beacon and G-uardian, July, 1851, when 
 J. W. Randall and Simon Whitely became proprietors of the Republican 
 L'nion, as the newspaper was named. This joint proprietorship lasted but a
 
 294 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 single month, when Mr. Whitely took the materials of the old G-uardian, a 
 Democratic sheet which had been established by him in 1852, to his old quar- 
 ters and resumed separate publication under the title of the Republican. The 
 creditors of Mr. Randall took possession of the old Beacon office, and it was 
 sold to pay debts. In September, 1857, Augustus Harman, who had been 
 editor, and 0. B. Knickerbocker, who had been the compositor for J. W. Ran- 
 dall, came into possession of the Beacon material and revived its publication. 
 They continued in partnership until June, 1848, when Mr. Harman retired, 
 and, with Miss Ellen Beard, who afterward became Mrs. Harman, commenced 
 the publication of the Reformer. On the 1st of January, 1859, Mr. George 
 S. Bangs formed a partnership with Mr. Knickerbocker, and the Beacon was 
 enlarged. This proprietorship continued until March, 1866, when Bangs sold 
 his interest to Knickerbocker, and, in October of the same year, J. H. Hodder 
 purchased an interest in the paper, and it has been issued since that date under 
 the proprietorship of Knickerbocker & Hodder. For the history of the Bea- 
 con we are indebted to its editor. The Aurora Herald was established in 
 1866, by Thomas E. Hill, and is one of the permanent institutions of the city. 
 Its present proprietor, Pierce Burton, purchased it in 1871. The Aurora 
 Daily Neivs was first issued on the 18th of March, 1874, by Messrs. Sieg- 
 mund & Faye. On the 1st of February, 1876, Mr. W. B. Hawkins, formerly 
 editor of the Indianapolis Courier, purchased a half interest in the establish- 
 ment. It is the only daily paper published in the city. The Aurora Volks- 
 freund was established in the Winter of 1868, by Peter Klein, its present editor 
 and publisher, and is the only German paper published in the Fox River Val- 
 ley. Klein & Siegmund were the first proprietors, but in the Summer of 1871, 
 Mr. Klein bought out Mr. Siegmund. It is a handsome sheet, and seems des- 
 tined to become eminently successful. 
 
 FLOOD. 
 
 The year 1847 witnessed the greatest flood which has devasted the banks of 
 Fox River since their first settlement. A sudden thaw late in the Winter broke 
 up the ice while it was still thick, and Stolp's Island was completely submerged, 
 while the saw-mill, Eagle Mills, Moore & Howe's wagon factory and the sash 
 factory of Reader & Merrill were all more or less damaged. The total loss- 
 was estimated at $100,000. 
 
 ORGANIZATION AND INCORPORATION. 
 
 In 1845, the village of East Aurora was organized. Her first board of 
 officers were elected to hold office until 1847, and were Daniel Eastman, Presi- 
 dent; Daniel McCarty, Perseus Brown, Luke Wheelock and P. J. Wagner, 
 Trustees. In 1854, West Aurora was incorporated under the general law, and 
 elected Myron V. Hall, President ; D. B. Waterman, B. Street, George Mc- 
 Collum and A. Richardson, Trustees. A charter was obtained, incorporating
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 295 
 
 both sides under one city government, during the session of the Legislature for 
 1856-7, and the first election under the new order was held the first Tuesday 
 of the following March, resulting as follows : For Mayor, B. F. Hall ; for 
 ' Aldermen, J. D. Clark, W. V. Plum, Holmes Miller, J. B. Stolp, William 
 Gardner, R. C. Mix, L. Cottrell and S. L. Jackson. The present Mayor is 
 F. L. Bartlett. 
 
 COURT HOUSE. 
 
 A portion of land on the island was deeded by J. G. Stolp for a Court 
 House, and the ground was broken for the foundation in July> 1859. It was 
 not until 1865 that it was sufficiently completed for the reception of the post 
 office, and during that year the portion of the work which still remained unfin- 
 ished was performed. Most of the work was done in 1864. The building is 
 an imposing stone structure, and was erected at a cost of over $69,000. It 
 contains the post office, court room, a public hall, jail, library room and several 
 other well-finished apartments, rented as offices, and is an honor to the city and 
 a source of commendable pride to its citizens. In 1868, the old wooden 
 
 BRIDGES 
 
 were removed one to Montgomery, the other to North Aurora, where they 
 now span the river ; and in the following year the beautiful and substantial iron 
 ones now crossing the stream at Aurora were put up by the town. 
 
 MEMORIAL BUILDING. 
 
 Shortly after the war, the ladies of Aurora, by various means, commenced 
 raising funds for the erection of a soldiers' monument. Years passed, and 
 successive additions were made to the amount in the hands of their treasurer, 
 until, in 1876, it was resolved to put the original design into execution, or in 
 some other manner devote their savings to the perpetuation of the memory of 
 the brave sons of the town who had given their lives in the defense of their 
 country. Accordingly, architectural designs were obtained, and a small but 
 beautiful stone memorial building was raised upon the island just east of the 
 Court House, at a cost of about four thousand dollars, where it now stands, an 
 appropriate mausoleum. It is intended to use it as a library building, when 
 completed, and the Grand Army of the Republic proposes to place a statue 
 upon the pedestal, upon its summit, which will cost $1,000 or more. 
 
 POSITION, RESOURCES, ETC. 
 
 Aurora is beautifully situated, at a favorable point for commerce and manu- 
 factures, on the gently undulating hills which slope from either bank of Fox 
 River, at a point about forty-five miles from its mouth. It covers an extent of 
 two and a half miles north and south by two and a fourth miles east and west. 
 Its water power is extensive and unfailing ; it possesses excellent quarries of
 
 296 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 building stone, in positions easily accessible ; and, in general, its natural ad- 
 vantages are unsurpassed. Its population, by the census of 1870, was 11,162, 
 since which time it has materially increased, and may safely be estimated at 
 the present time (1876) at upward of thirteen thousand. The assessed valua- 
 tion of its property, in connection with that of the township, was $4,394,431, 
 and it contains, aside from the institutions which we have enumerated, palatial 
 residences and business blocks, hotels, mills, shops, a fire company, a police 
 force, various orders, and all the organizations and advantages usually found in 
 a city of its size and importance. 
 
 BATAVIA TOWNSHIP 
 
 forms the southern portion of Town 39 north, Range 8 east of the Third Prin- 
 cipal Meridian. It is bounded on the north by Geneva, east by Winfield, Du 
 Page County ; south by Aurora, and west by Blackberry, and is crossed from 
 north to south by Fox River, and by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the 
 Fox River Valley and a branch of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroads. 
 Its surface is well watered by small tributaries of the Fox, and diversified, like 
 that of the entire tier of towns along the valley of the river, with low hills, 
 rolling prairies, and occasional patches of woodland. 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 To Batavia and the village in the heart of it belongs the honor of the first 
 settlement in the county that of Christopher Payne, in the Summer and Fall 
 of 1833, a further account of which will be found in the sketch of the village. 
 His claim was on the east side of the river, and his house within the village 
 limits. Some doubt has arisen about Payne's settlement being the first, sev- 
 eral of the old settlers, and among them E. S. Town, Esq., declaring that 
 Payne himself had told them that he had entered the county in June, 1833, 
 and had there found Daniel S. Haight living upon a claim upon the present 
 site of Geneva, afterward owned by James Herrington. But Capt. C. B. 
 Dodson, than whom there can be no higher authority, explains this apparent 
 anachronism by the assurance that Payne had repeatedly told him that he had 
 broken land near the head of Big Woods, in the Summer of 1832, but had 
 made no regular claim at that time, and had left the county and remained at 
 Naperville until the Indian war had ceased. In September of the following 
 year, his family settled at Batavia. Haight, meantime, had left the county, 
 but subsequently returned and was on his claim in the Spring of 1834. As a 
 house was ready, in September, 1833, to receive Payne's family, it is tolerably 
 certain that he had taken up his claim early in the Summer. From these 
 facts, and the general belief of early settlers, we shall agree with previous 
 writers upon the subject, and consider Payne's settlement the first in Kane 
 County.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 297 
 
 Col. Joseph Lyon, from the Empire State, settled in Batavia early in 1834, 
 and remained in the village throughout its settlement and progress until 1875, 
 when he left for Stockton, California, his present home. Few men have ever 
 possessed more fully the esteem of their townsmen. He was a soldier in the 
 War of 1812, and was, for a number of years before his removal to California, 
 the oldest settler in the county. Capt. C. B. Dodson, now the oldest, settled 
 at Clybournville, a mile and a half south of Batavia village, in June, 1834. 
 But Clybournville was only a prospect then, and is only a memory now. No 
 sooner had Capt. Dodson settled than he commenced building the first saw-mill 
 in the county, at the mouth of Mill Creek, and the first store, for trade with 
 the Indians. In the same year, a partnership was formed between himself and 
 Mr. Clybourn, of Chicago, and the settlement at the mouth of the creek was 
 named in honor of Capt. Dodson's partner. Great preparations were made to 
 trade with the Indians, and an old hunter, one Caldwell, from Michigan, was 
 kept^n the swamps with the redskins, as an agent. The store was often filled 
 with the skins which were purchased for almost nothing and sold for but little 
 more. A young Indian chief was obtained to stay in the store, for the purpose 
 of teaching the American clerk his language, and for communicating with his 
 own race as few of them understood the English language well and Capt. 
 Dodson himself soon learned to speak the Pottowattomie vernacular with nearly 
 as much fluency as his mother tongue. His life has been a remarkably event- 
 ful one, both before and after his arrival in Illinois. It required no small 
 amount of courage and determination to settle almost the only European 
 amid hordes of the hereditary enemies of the white race, conciliated within a 
 comparatively recent period, and well aware that the government was plotting 
 "to cheat them out of their land. Capt. Dodson Avas well acquainted with Wau- 
 bansie and Shabbona, and describes the former as a man of splendid personal 
 appearance, who always carried a long spear as a badge of his exalted position 
 in his tribe. He never spoke the language of the conquering race well, but 
 independently used his own, whether in conversation with his tribe or with 
 others. In 1835, Dodson & Clybourn took a contract from the Government to 
 remove the Indians to Council Bluffs and Kansas. Waubansie lingered upon 
 his hunting grounds, reluctant to go, until many of his friends had left, but was 
 at length induced to leave at the solicitation of Capt. Dodson. He was the last 
 of his tribe to go, however, and it may be doubted if he would have gone at all, 
 had not the squaws been induced to take their places in the wagons prepared for 
 them, and the journey commenced. Then he followed, and left the valley of 
 Fox River forever. Previous to their departure, Col. Lyon had made an un- 
 successful attempt to civilize one of them. The result illustrates the lazy na- 
 ture of the race. Neuqua, eldest son of Waubansie, was an intelligent young 
 man and a general favorite among the settlers. As he wandered into a field one 
 day, where Col. Lyon was at work, the latter staked out a small piece of land 
 plowed and -ready to plant, and told him that if he would put the seed in the
 
 298 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 ground, he should have the entire crop for his trouble. The idea pleased him, 
 and he promised to be on hand the next morning. True to his pledge, he ap- 
 peared at the time designated, but with him came a dozen or more squaws, with 
 hoes upon their shoulders. Col. Lyon remonstrated, informing him that the 
 bargain was that he should perform the work himself, and intimated that the 
 land was not staked out to afford him an opportunity to give practical illustra- 
 tions of Avoman's rights. But in vain was the attempt. Neuqua replied, " Me 
 hunt the meat, squaw hunt the corn," and would not touch a hoe. This chief 
 is said to have raised a regiment of Pottawattomies in Kansas, and assisted the 
 Northern army in Missouri during the late war. 
 
 We have it from the authority of 'Squire Town, that James Vanatta was 
 located upon a claim east of Batavia village, previous to January, 1834, and 
 one Corey, about the same time, was settled on a tract adjoining. During the 
 latter part of December, 1833, James Nelson took up a claim and built a cabin 
 in a grove known to the early settlers as Nelson's Grove, about two miles west 
 of the village, and moved into his house in January, 1834. The place is now 
 known as the Carr farm. John Gregg, the first blacksmith in the township, 
 settled on what is now known as the Griffith place, east of the village, early in 
 the Spring of 1834. His services were in great demand, as he was an excel- 
 lent workman, and the prairie breakers used to come to his shop from Rockford 
 a journey which required a week to perform and return to get their plows 
 repaired. 
 
 The first death in the township was that of a child of one Myers, who kept 
 house for Capt. Dodson in 1834, and the first death of an adult, that of Mrs. 
 Ward, in the Fall of the same year. 
 
 Settlers flocked in during 1835, 1836 and 1837, and before the close of 
 the year 1838 we find, aside from those already mentioned, J. W. Churchill, 
 William Van Nortwick, Joel McKee, James Risk, James Rockwell, Dr. D. K. 
 and Horace Town, William Vandeventer, Isaac Wilson, George Fowler and 
 James Latham, all permanently located in Batavia. Clybournville, although it 
 was proposed to locate the county seat there in 1836, never became more than 
 an exceedingly small hamlet, but Batavia village, just north of it, attained the 
 position which the cluster of shanties at the mouth of Mill Creek never gained. 
 The history of that village is the history of Batavia Township, since little of 
 historical importance has transpired in the latter since its settlement. Its fer- 
 tile farms passed from squatter claims to Government purchases without excite- 
 ment, or injustice to any man, since the settlers had formed regular claim or- 
 ganizations, in common with the other townships, and each tract was purchased 
 and retained by the original owner at a dollar and a quarter per acre. From 
 that day to this, the quiet but steady occupation upon which all others depend 
 has been pursued and abundantly rewarded. The assessed valuation of its land 
 in 1876 was $665,007.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 299 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 has received more than usual attention in this township, and it claims the first 
 school in the county. This was taught in a log house on Col. Lyon's claim, a 
 mile east of the village, in the Fall of 1834. The teacher was a Vermonter, 
 by the name of Knowles, and the average number of pupils in attendance, 
 nine. The estimated valuation of school property in Geneva and Batavia, for 
 the year 1876, was $70,000, nearly $40,000 of which is- contained in Batavia. 
 
 WAR RECORD. 
 
 There came a time in Batavia' s history when the usual uneventful course of 
 daily pursuits was broken, and every patriotic soul burned with indignation 
 the day when the wires proclaimed throughout the land that the national flag 
 had been fired upon. Then did the township first in the county in settlement, 
 schools and progress of every description take her place among the first in the 
 defense of the country. Three companies were enrolled in the village during 
 the war one for the Forty-second, one for the Fifty-second and one for the One 
 Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois regiments. Among the officers from 
 Batavia may be mentioned Col. E. D. Swain, now in Chicago ; Major H. K. 
 Wolcott, and Col. D. C. Newton, still residents of Batavia ; Major Adin Mann 
 and Capt. E. S. Stafford, since removed West, and F. P. Crandon, who enlisted 
 in the First Maryland Cavalry. The names of those who fell upon the numer- 
 ous Southern battle fields, or perished in those cursed prisons, we have not the 
 statistics to obtain ; but wherever their graves may lie scattered though they 
 may be throughout the South, or removed to Northern cemeteries a grateful 
 nation honors them. 
 
 " And freedom shall awhile repair 
 To dwell a weeping hermit there." 
 
 CITY OF BATAVIA. 
 
 The manufacturing village of Batavia is situated on both banks of Fox 
 River, about two miles by rail from Geneva, and seven miles from Aurora. 
 
 The first claim taken up within its limits, which is also generally considered 
 the first in the county, was made by Christopher Payne, in October, 1833, 
 on the east side of the river. Much dispute has occurred concerning Payne's 
 nativity, some contending that he was a North Carolinian, and others that he 
 entered the county from nearly every point of the compass ; but E. S. Town, Esq., 
 who settled on the West Side, in June, 1834, upon the plaee now occupied by 
 C. W. Porter, and who was well acquainted with Payne, and possesses an 
 excellent memory of early events, states that he had frequently told him that 
 he hailed from the Empire State, but had been a wanderer nearly all his life. 
 Like the celebrated character whose name, with a varied orthography, he bore, 
 he could say that the world was his home. He came from North Carolina to
 
 300 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Illinois ; and Capt. Dodson states that he entered Kane County and broke land 
 in 1832, but left during the Indian troubles. He was a pioneer by nature, 
 ever hovering on the outer edge of civilization, and seldom remaining long 
 enough in one place to enjoy the fruits of his labors. He had been in Naper- 
 ville previous to settling in Kane County, but had not remained there long. 
 He claimed that he had first entered the county and broken some land near the 
 head of " Big Woods," but that his family had not come until the following year 
 (1833). According to Mr. Town, he was one of the roughest men in the 
 world, but possessed of a generous and kind nature. Capt. Dodson also states 
 that he was one of nature's noblemen. He was extremely hospitable, and his 
 little sixteen square log shanty, the first in Batavia, was frequently crowded 
 with strangers. It has long been torn down and forgotten. It may also be 
 considered the first tavern in the place, as Payne there entertained all the 
 explorers who sought his door as long as he remained in Batavia, and it was 
 the general and only resort. When Mr. Town, Harry Boardman,* afterward 
 well known in Batavia, and a gentleman whose name has no connection with 
 this history, visited the "Big Woods," in June, 1834, they found Payne 
 comfortably located with his family, a parcel of land under cultivation, and a 
 yoke of oxen. That night there were sixteen lodged in his house. As Mrs. 
 Payne was spreading the blankets upon the floor for the guests, one of them 
 remarked that he could not imagine where she could dispose of them all, to 
 which the good woman replied that there would be plenty of room as she had 
 lodged twenty-three there by tucking her children under her own bed. Mr. 
 Town settled in the same month (June, 1834), on the West Side, and during 
 the same year the settlement was increased by the arrival of Col. Lyon, James 
 Latham, Joel McKee, James Risk, Titus Howe, and Wm. Vanderventer, all of 
 whom took up claims near the preseut corporation limits. Col. Lyon arrived 
 on the 24th of April, 1834, and remained in town during its settlement and 
 much of its progress, but is now residing in California. James Latham like- 
 wise removed to California, where he died. Joel McKee died at his residence 
 near Batavia some years ago. James Risk emigrated to Kansas, and Howe 
 and Vandeventer are in their graves. Howe was the first to utilize the water 
 power of the town, by building a dam and a frame for a saw-mill at the lower 
 end of the island in 1835, but the dam was carried away in a flood the follow- 
 ing Spring. The property was purchased by Van JSTortwick, Barker, House & 
 Co., and the saw-mill removed and operated by them further up the stream. 
 
 In 1835, a number of families settled in and about Batavia, among them 
 Judge Wilson, William Van Nortwick and his son, John, and J. W. Churchill. 
 The first was the father of Hon. Isaac G. Wilson, well known through the 
 county, and located on the claim taken by Christopher Payne, the latter re- 
 moving to parts unknown, according to his usual custom. The house which 
 Judge Wilson erected is now occupied as a residence by Frank Snow, on the 
 
 * Died near Naperville, 1877.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 301 
 
 original site. To Wilson, who emigrated from Batavia, N. Y., the name of the 
 town and village is due. 
 
 William Van Nortwick located on the West Side, and is long since deceased. 
 His son is one of the most prominent manufacturers in Batavia, or in the State. 
 J. W. Churchill has emigrated west. 
 
 The settlement of the country occupied by the present village had not been 
 completed, by any means, in 1838, for Mr. J. Rockwell, who came in that year, 
 and is now living in the place, says that there were not more than a half dozen 
 families within its limits at the time of his arrival. Among them were Horace 
 Town, deceased, and (jr. W. Fowler, still one of the prominent business men of 
 the place. 
 
 During the earliest years of the occupation of the "Head of Big Woods," 
 the nearest post office was Naperville. Letters came to that point for settlers 
 in all parts of the region now known as Kane County, and some are now in 
 existence directed "Naperville, Head of Big Woods," and "Naperville, 
 McCarty's Mill." Owing to mistakes which frequently occurred, where so 
 little was known of the country, it was often more convenient to receive mes- 
 sages from civilization at the Chicago office, and Mr. Town states that during 
 his first year in Batavia he went there for his newspaper. But the settlers had 
 not long to endure this inconvenience before a post office was established at 
 Geneva ; and in 1842, Judge Wilson was appointed the first Postmaster in 
 Batavia. 
 
 A school was opened as early as 1835, and possibly in 1834, in a small log 
 house. One Cleghorn was the earliest pedagogue. 
 
 In 1835, Father Clark preached the first sermon, in a grove near Payne's 
 residence ; and in June, of the same year, Joel McKee established the first 
 store in town, on the West Side, near the northern line of the present corpora- 
 tion. 
 
 The first resident physician in the town was Dr. D. K. Town, the commence- 
 ment of whose practice there dates from 1839. He is still a resident of the 
 place, although retired from practice. 
 
 In 1835, J. W. Churchill located in the village as the first attorney, and 
 in the following year was elected to the State Senate. He removed to Daven- 
 port, Iowa, about 1853. 
 
 The original plat of the village was laid out upon the East Side, in 1837, by 
 Van Nortwick, Barker, House & Co. ; that of the West Side in 1844, by John 
 Van Nortwick. 
 
 A bridge was constructed in 1837 across the Fox River, and paid for by 
 subscription ; and in 1843, a second one, further up the stream. In 1854, the 
 bridge from the East Side to the island was built, of the stone for which Batavia 
 is so justly noted. In 1857, owing to some deficiency in its structure, a por- 
 tion of it was carried away by a freshet, but it was immediately rebuilt by the 
 town, in its present durable form, with six arches. It has cost $9,000,
 
 302 HISTORl" OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 but has outlasted all the other bridges of its day in Kane County, and is the 
 only stone bridge ever built across Fox River. Preparations are now being 
 made to erect a similar one from the island to the west bank, and the materials 
 are already on the ground. 
 
 In 1836, an election was held at the house of Judge Wilson, at which Mr. 
 E. S. Town and the late Ira Minard, of St. Charles, were elected Justices of 
 the Peace for Sandusky Precinct, which included Batavia, Geneva and St. 
 Charles, and was bounded by no definite lines. Mr. Town was thus the first 
 Justice in Batavia. 
 
 In the following year, the first hotel in the village if we except Payne's 
 house was opened by Charles Ballard, where ^ the Revere House now stands. 
 
 The first child born in the town, and probably the first in the county, was 10, 
 Dodson Vandeventer, still a resident of Batavia, who dates from October 1834. 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 Since the events recorded above, and within forty years, Batavia has taken 
 an enviable position among the villages of the West. Her manufactures have 
 found their way, not only to all parts of the United States, but to nearly every 
 country on the globe ; and in certain special products she not only leads the 
 county and State, but the world. 
 
 After purchasing the water power of Titus Howe, and removing the saw- 
 mill, Van Nortwick, Barker, House & Co. built, near the site of the Challenge 
 Mills, in 1837, the Batavia Mills, and operated them for a number of years, 
 in custom work. Alison House then purchased them, and in 1850 they were 
 purchased of his heirs by McKee & Moss. An extensive business was carried 
 on until 1872, when the establishment burned down, and has never been re- 
 built. It contained three run of stones, and a capacity of 500 barrels of flour 
 per week. The principal proprietor, Mr. Joel McKee, died a few years later. 
 An obituary writer in the Aurora Beacon paid a splendid tribute to his integrity 
 by the simple statement, "Grain carried to his mill always held out well." 
 
 Saw-Mitts. In 1844, John Van Nortwick erected a saw-mill upon the 
 island. A planing-mill was attached to it at a later date, and the whole oper- 
 ated for several years, then sold to L. & D. Newton, and finally purchased by 
 John Van Nortwick, the original proprietor, in whose possession it remains. 
 
 Barrel Factory. In 1854, an old building which had previously been used 
 as a distillery, standing upon the east side, nearly opposite the office of the 
 Batavia News, was enlarged and converted into a barrel factory by Hoyt & 
 Smith, who continued operations some two years, employing from twenty to 
 twenty-five men. The company then failed, and the property passed into the 
 hands of E. S. Town; was used for a time by A. Palmer, as a manufactory of 
 sorghum, then by J. W. Eddy, as a flax factory, and was at length burned 
 down, about 1864.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 303 
 
 Wagon and Carriage Factory. This extensive establishment was founded 
 in 1854, by L. Newton & Co. Only thirty-six wagons and thirty-five buggies 
 were made during the first year. The business, however, was gradually enlarged 
 in 1857, the firm name was changed to Newton & Co., and in 186 f 8 a great addi- 
 tion was made to their works, which included a magnificent stone front build- 
 ing, sixty feet square and three stories high, erected at a cost of $12,000. In 
 December, 1872, during one of the coldest nights of the year, about two hun- 
 dred feet were burned from the rear of the works, but the proprietors immedi- 
 ately rebuilt, and in the following year the Company was incorporated, with 
 Levi Newton, President ; D. C. Newton, Vice President, and H. K. Wolcott, 
 Secretary. Since then, from eighty to one hundred hands have been em- 
 ployed, and during the year 1877, 1,500 farm wagons, 200 spring wagons 
 and about 100 other carriages were taken from the shops. The work ranks 
 in quality with the best in the market. 
 
 Island Mills. The Island Mills, named from the location on the southern 
 part of the business section of the island, were put up as flouring-mills, in 1859, 
 by Town, Pierce & Payne. After passing through various hands, they became 
 (June 30, 1873) the property of the Batavia Paper Manufacturing Company, 
 who lease to H. Cogger. A steady business is obtained and a good grade of 
 flour made. The building, like so many others in the village, is of Butavia stone. 
 
 Pump Manufactory. Messrs. Norris & Doty are the manufacturers of A 
 No. 1 Pump, and are also engaged in doing a general business in wood-work. 
 The manufacture of pumps is a long established industry in Batavia. 
 
 Batavia Paper Manufacturing Company. The fine stone buildings occu- 
 pied by this company were originally put up (about 1851) by the Fox River 
 Manufacturing Company, for the construction of box cars. They laid idle 
 until May, 1862, when they were purchased by Rowland & Co., and converted 
 into a paper mill. About 1866, the mill passed into the possession of the Chi- 
 cago Fiber & Paper Company, which subsequently went into bankruptcy, and 
 the property was bought, in August, 1870, by the present owners. The main 
 building is formed of cut stone, is two stories high, with basement, and 150 
 feet long. The ground area of the combined buildings, aside from the sheds 
 and warehouses, is 30,760 square feet. More than half of the buildings are of 
 stone. Print paper has been made since 1862 ; from sixty to eighty hands are 
 employed, and six tons of paper manufactured daily. The leading Chicago 
 journals are or have been at various times supplied wholly or in part there. 
 Two paper machines in the main building cost $25,000, and the establishment 
 is the largest one of the kind in Illinois, or throughout the West beyond the 
 Indiana and Ohio boundary. It is under the management of an incorporated 
 company, of which John Van Nortwick is President. 
 
 The U. S. Wind Engine $ Pump Company was started in 1853, for the 
 manufacture of the Halliday Wind Mill, pumps, feed mills, and fixtures. It is 
 said to be the largest and best wind mill factory in the United States, and ships
 
 304 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 the manufactured article to all parts of the civilized world. Mr. Daniel Halli- 
 day, the inventor of the mill, is one of the best known -and most respected busi- 
 ness men in the country, and has contributed largely to the prosperity of the vil- 
 lage. One hundred men are employed on an average in the shops. The com- 
 pany is incorporated and John Van Nortwick is the President. 
 
 Challenge Mills. The Challenge Mill Company, engaged in the manufac- 
 ture of the Nichols Wind Mill, feed mills, corn shellers, and pumps, com- 
 menced operations under the proprietorship of Burr & Armstrong, in 1867. 
 Two hands performed the work at the commencement, but in 1869 the business 
 was enlarged, and from that date to 1871, from thirty to fifty men were em- 
 ployed. On the 10th of March, 1872, the building was destroyed in the con- 
 flagration which also consumed the Batavia Mills. The loss of the Challenge 
 Mills was in the neighborhood of $45,000, $20,000 of which was covered by 
 insurance, but only $150 of the insurance was ever obtained. The company 
 immediately commenced building on a larger scale than before, and on the 
 afternoon of April 24, one month and fourteen days from the time of the de- 
 struction, the wheels were again set in motion. The number of men employed 
 varies from twenty-five to sixty, and the mills made are too well and favorably 
 known to need any praise. 
 
 Batavia Foundry. In 1867, Mr. A. N. Merrill started a small foundry at 
 Batavia. Mr. D. R. Sperry subsequently purchased an interest in the concern, 
 and in 1869 bought out Merrill. The foundry is now worked under the name 
 of D. R. Sperry & Co., and has been engaged for some time in job work. 
 From thirty to fifty hands are employed, and the hollow-ware and other pro- 
 ducts shipped enjoy a wide-spread reputation. 
 
 Osgood $ Shumway's Foundry. In the Summer of 1872, Merrill & Shum- 
 way commenced the foundry business in the stone building on the island now 
 occupied by Osgood & Shumway. The firm was changed to Merrill & Osgood 
 for a period of less than a year, and in 1875 became known under its present 
 name. A machine shop is attached to the foundry, and the number of tons of 
 iron used in the works during the past year (1877) is 600. From thirty to 
 forty men are employed. The business is principally contract work. There 
 are, aside from the above, two other small foundries in the village. 
 
 The Batavia Manufacturing Company is engaged in the construction of 
 Nichols' Centennial Wind Mill, a patent tire-shrinker and several the or small but 
 standard articles. The company has but recently commenced on the island, near 
 Osgood & Shumway's foundry, but the quality of the articles which are presented 
 for the public patronage make the prospects of success extremely probable. 
 
 Cheese Factory. A cheese factory has been opened in a substantial stone 
 building, upon the ruins of the old flax-mill, during the past season (1877). 
 Its cheese is highly recommended by competent judges of the merits of the 
 article, and we are told that the factory has been generally patronized by the 
 farmers of the immediate vicinity.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 305 
 
 QUARRIES. 
 
 To her quarries, next to her great manufacturing interests, has Batavia been 
 indebted for her prosperity. In about 1842, Z. Reynolds opened the first on 
 the West Side, since which time no less than ten have been operated success- 
 fully, so far as success depended upon finding a quality of stone adapted to all 
 building purposes. It is obtained from two inches in thickness to three feet and 
 three inches, and of as large an area as can be moved. Single blocks eight to 
 ten inches thick, nine feet wide and twenty feet long have been shipped from 
 the quarries to Chicago. It is a quality of limestone, and equal to any lime- 
 stone quarried for building. 
 
 Extensive kilns have been built by J. T. & F. P. Brady above one of the 
 quarries which had not proved a financial success ; and from the limestone, 
 which lies ten feet deep above the building stone, they are manufacturing an 
 excellent quality of lime. 
 
 A history of the quarries and their successive transfers from owner to owner 
 to the present time would not interest the general reader. Hundreds of hands 
 have found employment in them, and they have not only contributed to the 
 prosperity of the place by bringing wealth from outside and furnishing employ- 
 ment for its laborers, but by placing at convenient distances, and for a merely 
 nominal sum, a material with which to build its schools, churches, manufactur- 
 ing establishments, business blocks, many of its private residences and the side- 
 walks of its principal streets, lasting as the eternal hills. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 The 0., 0. & F. R. V. Railroad and the C., B. & Q. are sufficiently noticed 
 in the chapter upon Aurora. Each enter Batavia, and each have depots within 
 the corporation limits. In 1873, the Chicago & Northwestern Road, wishing 
 to use the Batavia stone for building its extensive shops in West Chicago, laid 
 a track from Geneva to Batavia and opened a convenient and handsome depot 
 there on the 5th of May. Many of the citizens, who had hitherto shipped 
 their freight over the other roads, immediately commenced business with the 
 Northwestern, and it now furnishes a thoroughfare for the transportation of 
 more than half the freight that leaves the village. The entire business of the 
 branch track amounts to $40,000 per annum ; that of the C., B. Q., from 
 Batavia, $19,000, and the Fox River Valley, about $7,200. Nine trains leave 
 the Batavia depots daily. 
 
 The business of the Western Union Telegraph Company, at the C., B. & Q. 
 depot, amounts to about $50.00 per month. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 West Side, The West Side School is situated in District No. 5, which ex- 
 tends from the Aurora line across the line which separates Batavia from the 
 town of Geneva. A building was erected near the present site, about 1852, at
 
 306 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 a cost of some $1,200 ; but as it became unsuitable to the requirements of 
 the growing village, it was determined by the citizens to erect a structure 
 which should be an honor to their enterprise and' intelligence as long as time 
 permitted it to stand. Accordingly, in 1867, the imposing pile, which is the 
 first object to greet the eye on approaching the village, was commenced and 
 completed in the following year, at a cost of $27,100. It contains four depart- 
 ments, five teachers are employed, and 216 pupils receive instruction there. 
 Present Principal, A. S. Barry. 
 
 East Side. The East Side School, although less ambitious in its architec- 
 ture, is a large structure of the same durable material, completed in 1860 at a 
 cost of about nine thousand dollars. It is located in District No. 6. Six 
 teachers are employed in its several departments, and 472 pupils are in attend- 
 ance. 0. T. Snow is the present Principal. 
 
 CHUKCHES. 
 
 Congregational. Mention has already been made of the early preaching 
 of Rev. N. C. Clark, whose first sermon in Kane County was delivered in Au- 
 gust, 1834, at the house of Christopher Payne. During the following year, 
 the old records state that he again preached in an old school house on the east 
 side of the river, within the limits of a farm now owned by Spencer Johnson ; 
 and that on the 8th of August, 1835, the Congregational Church, known as 
 "Big Woods Church," was first organized as a Presbyterian church, with 
 fourteen members. This was the first organized religious denomination in Kane 
 County. On the 29th of January, 1841, the first Presbyterian Church was dedi- 
 cated in the village, and on the llth of November, 1843, the change was made in 
 name and form, and the church became Congregational. Later, members were 
 dismissed to assist in the organization of churches at Elgin, St. Charles, 
 Geneva and Aurora. In 1853, the old building was enlarged ; and in 1856, 
 the second house of worship was erected, at a cost of about thirteen thousand dol- 
 lars, being at the time of its completion the best church edifice on Fox River. 
 The old building was afterward purchased by the Catholics. The membership of 
 the Congregational Church has been increased from the original fourteen to 200. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal denomination was one of the very earliest to 
 appear in Batavia, as in nearly every other new country. The building now oc- 
 cupied by them was erected in 1852, and cost $4,000. Present membership, 177. 
 
 Baptist. The Baptist Church, called at first the Regular Church of Christ, 
 at Big Woods, was organized June 16, 1836. Its first members were Isaac 
 Wilson and Susanna Wilson, his wife, Major Osborn and Sophia Osborn, his 
 wife, Hiram Park, Maless'on Haynes, Levi Ward, Fanny Wilson, Silas T. 
 Ward, William E. Burt and Lydia Hurlburt. Elder R. B. Ashley was its first 
 pastor. After the Congregationalists had built a church, the Baptists occupied 
 it alternately with them for a number of years, but, in 1850, they built the 
 house of worship which they still occupy. The present membership is 110.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 307 
 
 Episcopal. Many years ago, an Episcopal Church was formed in Batavia, 
 and, in process of time, a wooden building was put up ; this occurred about 
 twenty years ago, but the building, being poorly constructed, was blown down. 
 The organization, however, still exists, and meetings are held in Buck's Hall, 
 the Rector from Geneva, Rev. N. J. O'Brian, officiating. Present member- 
 ship, sixty-eight. 
 
 Catholic. The Catholics organized about 1855, and have since occupied 
 the old Congregational Church. Several years ago, an effort was made to- 
 erect a new building, and the foundation was"* laid on the East Side, but it 
 remains unfinished to date. 
 
 The Grerman Methodist Episcopal organization was formed in Batavia 
 under the name of the German Evangelical Association of North America, 
 about 1860, and their building erected in 1866, which they still occupy. It 
 stands on the east side of the river, and is a small but well-built wooden edifice. 
 
 Colored Methodist Episcopal. No sooner had the result of the late war 
 decided the future destiny of the colored population in this country, than a 
 number of that race flocked to Batavia and, in 1865, put up a small wooden 
 church. Present membership, about twenty-five. 
 
 The Disciples organized in the village with eleven members, in December, 
 1852, and reorganized in February of the following year. M. W. Lord was 
 the first preacher. In 1867, they had attained sufficient strength to build a 
 church, and have continued steadily increasing. 
 
 Swedenborgian. In the Fall of 1868, a Swedenborgian organization wa& 
 formed in Buck's Hall, under the leadership of H. 0. Snow. There were but 
 fifteen members at first, but their numbers have increased slowly, and at present 
 the membership is about twenty-three. In the Fall of 1874, they purchased a 
 lot on the West Side and made preparations to build, but the financial crisis 
 occurring about the same time, and several of the members suffering thereby, 
 the project was postponed and the lot sold. The society still meets regularly 
 in the original place of worship. 
 
 The Free Will Baptists undertook to form a permanent society in the place 
 a few years ago, but, being few and weak in numbers, never attempted to build r 
 and at length discontinued preaching. 
 
 Swedish Methodist Episcopal. In September, 1870, Rev. August Wei- 
 gren preached to a small Swedish congregation in the village. In the follow- 
 ing year, a church having been organized, efforts were made to build, the result 
 of which was the little brown wood church on the West Side, completed in 1872. 
 There are now about thirty-six members. 
 
 Independent Sivedish Evangelical Lutheran. Four members of this branch 
 of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Batavia, used to meet in pri- 
 vate houses for worship in 1870. There were no other members of that organi- 
 zation in the place, but others came, and in 1872, they rented Fowler's Hall, 
 and in 1876, built a small wood church on the West Side. Rev. I. N. San-
 
 308 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 gren was their first preacher. The organization is still small, numbering not 
 more than sixteen members. 
 
 Swedish Lutheran. Fifty-two members were dismissed, in 1872, from the 
 Swedish Lutheran Church, in Geneva, to organize a church in Batavia. The 
 old stone school house was purchased and converted into a very comfortable 
 house of worship, in which Rev. Mr. Lyndale, the resident Pastor in Geneva, 
 preached once in two weeks. The members steadily increased, and at the 
 present time the membership is one hundred, enjoying regular preaching weekly 
 from a resident Pastor, Rev. Mr. Ternstadt. 
 
 In the Spring of 1835, a Union Sabbath School, the first in the county, 
 was organized in Batavia. 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 About ten years ago, a society, formed by the young people of the village 
 for literary purposes, commenced a library. The use of the volumes was lim- 
 ited to members of the organization, and outsiders were not allowed to remove 
 them from the shelves. Several of the intelligent business men feeling the 
 need of a collection of books to which all should have free access, the society was 
 induced to contribute its collection to that purpose, and with liberal subscrip- 
 tions in money from many of the citizens, 700 volumes were obtained. This 
 number has been increased, by general subscriptions, to 1,000. The rules of 
 the association are exceedingly liberal. Any one a resident of the village or a 
 stranger above fourteen years of age, is allowed to remove a volume at a 
 time and retain it for two weeks. It contains many valuable works of romance 
 and books of reference, history and biography. Its officers are John Van Nort- 
 wick, President; J. 0. McClellan, Vice President; Wm. Burnham, Treasurer; 
 F. H. Buck, Librarian. It is supported by subscription, some of the citizens 
 contributing largely for its increase and support. Its President has given $100 
 annually since its organization. 
 
 BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. 
 
 E. S. and Dr. D. K. Town were, from the commencement of the village, 
 among the most enterprising in the promotion of every object which was 
 projected for its prosperity, and accordingly, in 1853-4, they built, with the 
 assistance of others, prominent among whom were John Van Nortwick, Joel 
 McKee and Rev. Stephen Peet, an institution of learning, on the West Side, 
 which enjoyed, for about ten years, a high reputation. The adoption of the 
 school law rendered the continuation of the school less essential to the welfare 
 of Batavia, and the building was, therefore, sold and fitted for a private asylum 
 for the insane It is built of cut stone; cost, originally, some $20,000. 
 and $10,000 have since been expended upon re. It commands a beau- 
 tiful view, and is thus appropriately named. The grounds connected with the 
 building are under excellent cultivation, and the green-houses cover an area of
 
 HON IRA MINARD (DECEASED) 
 ST CHARLES.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 311 
 
 10,000 square feet. No serious accident has occurred since the hospital was 
 opened. It is under the medical care of Dr. R. J. Patterson, formerly Med- 
 ical Superintendent of the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane, late Medical 
 Superintendent of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane, and formerly Pro- 
 fessor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Chicago Medical College. 
 
 The institution is arranged with special reference to the treatment of 
 patients who possess means to defray their expenses, and one of the main ob- 
 jects sought is to give the entire establishment the character of a home, and 
 not a prison. Hence the insane and useless restraints which are often thrown 
 around the unfortunate patient in other hospitals are here removed, together 
 with everything revolting to the senses, while luxury and elegance abound on 
 all sides. "Who enters here bids hope farewell" needs not to be engraved 
 above its doors, as upon a majority of the so-called asylums, and the patient 
 who cannot recover under the kind treatment of its genial owner and Superin- 
 tendent may be said to be indeed incurable. 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 About 1852, a Democratic campaign paper, called the Expositor, was 
 started in Batavia, by James Risk and others, but, before becoming firmly 
 established, it died a natural death. Subsequently, a second attempt, by other 
 parties, to establish a paper proved equally futile ; but, in 1869, Messrs. Roof 
 & Lewis issued the first copy of the Batavia News, which has been published 
 ever since. In May, 1870, Mr. 0. B. Merrill purchased Roof's interest, and, 
 in October of the same year, was bought out by Mr. Lewis, its present editor 
 and proprietor. It claims to be independent in politics, is a six-column quarto, 
 30x44, and is printed on a steam power press. Circulation, 480. The Fox 
 River Times was issued by Roof, Gates & Fox, in the Summer of 1876, and 
 was an eight-column folio, surpassing, in the neatness of its typography, every 
 other paper on Fox River. It died in less than three months. 
 
 INCORPORATION. f 
 
 Batavia was incorporated as a village in April, 1856. Its first Trustees 
 were John Van Nortwick, Orsamus Wilson, M. N. Lord, D. U. Griffin and 
 George E. Corwin. Few villages possess greater advantages, natural or 
 artificial. Aside from those which have been mentioned are its excellent 
 water power and its favorable distance from the great city of Chicago, while it 
 already contains the common protections and social organizations of large cities 
 a fire company, cornet band, Masonic Lodge, and various other associations. 
 
 GENEVA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Geneva occupies the northern part of Town 39, North Range 8 East of the 
 Third Principal Meridian, and contains Geneva village, the county seat. The 
 township is north of Batavia and south of St. Charles ; is crossed from east to
 
 312 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 west by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, along the west side of Fox 
 River by the Fox River Valley Road and the St. Charles branch of the 
 Chicago & Northwestern. 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 Settlements were made along the river banks a year, at least, before those 
 in the country east and west, the first being within the present corporation 
 limits, and mentioned in the sketch of Geneva village. Fox River was no 
 chain of stagnant mill ponds then, but clear as a New England brook meander- 
 ing from its home in the mountains. Its banks were not less beautiful than 
 now, though that beauty was of a milder type. Forests covered the rolling 
 table lands, which were too low to be called hills by the eastern explorer, and 
 too rugged to be designated as prairies by the Western pioneer. The deer still 
 rambled along its slopes, and were hunted by men as wild as they ; and all 
 nature strove to present a combination of varied objects picturesque as fancy 
 can portray, and charming even to the eyes of the settlers who had wandered 
 there from the hills and valleys of the Quaker State, unsurpassed in their 
 majesty and romantic beauty. The living sources of information concerning 
 the settlement of this township can give no record of its events in which they 
 participated previous to April, and but a limited one previous to June, 1834. 
 All prior events are obtained from what was told them when they came by 
 settlers then in the country, and from exceedingly limited and often unreliable 
 written accounts. Such men as Haight, Crow, Corey and Andrew Miles were 
 not literary in their habits. They never questioned whether the " pen was 
 mightier"' than anything or not, nor dreamed that they were making history .- 
 And had they foreseen the future they would no doubt have contented themselves 
 with forming its past without recording it. A drink of whisky or a fight had 
 more charms to them than the perpetuation of their memory by posterity, and 
 had their immortality depended upon themselves, their names would have been 
 stricken from the county records in 1837. They were- a brave, a hardy, an 
 honest class of men, and their vices were such as were common to the border, 
 and which civilization would have removed and replaced, possibly, by more 
 degrading ones. They drank to excess, they fought like Bengal tigers, but 
 always in what they considered a fair way, and deceit or fraud were utterly 
 foreign to their natures. Their word was more binding to them than any 
 written obligation, and countless thousands could be safely trusted in their 
 hands. They were honest men " the noblest works of God." Haight's 
 record will appear in the sketch of Geneva village. Of Crow little is known, 
 except that he took up a claim on the east side of the river in 1833, or early in 
 1834, sold early, and had left the township in the Spring of 1835. Samuel Corey, 
 one of the stalwart Hoosiers from the Wabash, lived on the place now owned by 
 George Acers, on the north edge of Batavia, in June, 1834, wherehehad been 
 living for several months at least Capt. C. B. Dodson states that he often
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 313 
 
 transacted business for him, and that he had trusted him with large sums of gold, 
 and had found him always reliable and trustworthy, but apparently as careless as he 
 was honest. He would ride off over the country with two or three thousand dollars 
 in his saddle-bags, and stopping at one of the rude Hoosier houses would hangup 
 his saddle, wealth and all, out doors for the night. On being cautioned against 
 such a reckless course, he claimed that none would steal traps that the owner 
 appeared to consider worthless. An accident illustrative of his reckless 
 character occurred to him in 1834, and nearly ended his life. One day Capt. 
 Dodson appeared in his presence ready for ajourney. " Where are you going ?" 
 said Corey ; to which Dodson replied, " To the first wedding in the country, 
 that of Volney Hill," who lived in Du Page County. Corey answered him 
 with an oath that he was going too, as he had a pair of steelyards that he had 
 borroAved of Capt. Naper, and which he must return ; "and, by G ," he 
 added, " I'll give you the worst race you were ever led." Dodson informed 
 him that he would be happy to have him undertake it, and mounting their 
 horses they started off at a desperate speed. But Corey, hampered with the 
 steelyards, was soon brought up against a tree, knocked senseless from his 
 horse, and lay like one dead upon the ground. On being restored, his first 
 word was an oath, and an assurance that he would go to the wedding anyhow ; 
 but he was more seriously injured than he at first supposed, was confined to 
 his bed for several days, and wisely refrained in the future from horse races 
 when trammeled with anything more than his own weight. Miles, who is repre- 
 sented by our worthy informant as a good-natured, lazy and ignorant native of 
 Indiana, had taken up a claim upon the East Side, and was living in a miser- 
 able shanty, upon Capt. Dodson's arrival, but was bought out by him previous 
 to 1835. He was one of the earliest settlers in the county, and was doubtless 
 upon his claim late in 1833. But the earliest living informant regarding this 
 region is Mrs. C. B. Dodson, then Miss Warren, who was one of a party of six 
 from near Warrenville, Du Page County, who explored Geneva in a lumber 
 wagon in April, 1834. The party was induced to make the journey from the 
 representations of Frederick Bird, her brother-in-law, who had previously 
 been along the banks of Fox River, and described Geneva as " the most beauti- 
 ful country that lay out doors." He settled in the same year on the farm now 
 owned by Eben Danford, and was residing there in April, 1835, but about that 
 time sold his claim to Samuel Sterling, removed to the vicinity of Rockford, where 
 he subsequently died. He was a native of New York. Capt. Dodson states that 
 upon his settlement at the mouth of Mill Creek, in June, 1834, Wheeler was living 
 upon the Curtis farm, and he represents him as very similar in character to 
 AndreAv Miles, and a native of the same State. According to Hon. James 
 Herrington, the Curtis place was occupied in the Spring of 1835 by Allen 
 Ware, a bachelor from Virginia, who is portrayed by him as in rather better 
 circumstances than his neighbors, living in a comfortable cabin, with a barn 
 good for those days near by, and an orchard of young apple trees near ,his
 
 314 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 door. Just below this place, in June, 1834, lived another Hoosier, Arthur 
 Aken, but his claim was sold early, and he continued with so many of his class 
 to break land for others to cultivate. Ware also left before the country had 
 emerged from its original wild state. Capt. Dodson further states that Edward 
 Trimble, from the Pan Handle part of the Old Dominion, was living on the 
 East Side, upon the farm now owned by Mrs. Sterling, when he arrived in the 
 country, and that during, the same year (1834) his marriage to a daughter of 
 Christopher Payne occurred at the house of the bride's father, where he 
 (Dodson) had the pleasure of dancing at the wedding, on the puncheon floor. 
 Every township claims the first death, marriage and birth in the county, but 
 our informant assures us that this is without doubt the first of the numerous 
 first weddings. Trimble left the country in 1836, and was subsequently killed 
 by Indians in the far West. His brother, William Trimble, settled in the 
 village. The same reliable informant tells us that one Latham settled between 
 Payne and Miles in Batavia, early in 1834, and that late in 1833, James 
 Nelson, the settler in honor of whom Nelson's Grove was named, had built a 
 cabin there, and that the Bowmans and Lairds, from Pennsylvania, had 
 squatted among the Pottawattomies, in Aurora Township, in the same year. 
 
 These earliest settlers were, as has been seen, mainly from Indiana. Sev- 
 eral of them were in the country in 1833, and of these it may now be consid- 
 ered impossible to state which was first. From a statement made by Payne to 
 'Squire E. S. Town and others, Haight is generally considered to have pre- 
 ceded the others ; but, in regard to the priority of time of several of the earliest 
 of those in the present township of Geneva, nothing positive can be stated. 
 They were a simple and generous people, honest themselves, as has been stated, 
 and, as is often the case among such people, believing in the honesty of every 
 one. An illustration of this faith in others is given by the authority who has 
 already been so frequently quoted. Col. Archer, of Indiana, formerly 
 from Kentucky, was a great man in 1836, for he held the high position of an 
 Illinois & Michigan Canal Commissioner, compared with which the Governor 
 of one of the Western States was as a mole hill to the Pharos of Alexandria ; 
 but this potentate was a Hoosier. He was a gentleman, however, possessed of 
 a nature which won the friendship both of the low and mighty ; was possessed 
 of an ample fortune, and an only daughter, whose name was Eliza, whose chief 
 delight was to squander it. This girl was, in many respects, unique among 
 her sex, not in being spoiled by her parents, but in the possession of a stature 
 almost gigantic, a foot which would rival in magnitude a plantation negro's, and 
 a disposition to which fear was utterly unknown. With all these shocking de- 
 formities, Eliza Archer possessed the feminine characteristics of a handsome 
 face and form. Previous to her importation to Chicago, where she was attend- 
 ing school, at the time this incident commences, she had whiled away her 
 leisure hours by riding wild colts, barebacked and unbridled, over the southern 
 fields, and in frightening her unhappy father in various other ways, too shock-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 315 
 
 ing to the modern belle to be here narrated. At school, she did precisely as 
 she pleased lavished money in reckless profusion upon her person, neglected 
 her studies, took off her shoes and stockings in recitation, appeared barefooted 
 in the school room, and was generally decidedly independent. Still, Miss 
 Archer was a good young lady, and the above are merely slight eccentricities 
 which her friends readily forgave. 
 
 Capt. Dodson took a contract, during the year, 1836, to construct the 
 canal, and became acquainted with Col. Archer. At that time, Dodson owned, 
 aside from his Clybournville and Geneva property, a mill on the Kishwaukee, 
 which he wished to dispose of previous to signing the contract. Accordingly, 
 he stated to the Colonel that he would like to wait a few days before concluding 
 their arrangements regarding the canal, and told him that he was going on a 
 journey Westward the next morning. " How far are you going?" said Col. 
 Archer." To Rock River." "Do you know my daughter, Eliza?" Dodson, 
 who had met her while visiting his future wife, who attended the same school, 
 replied that he did. " Well, then," said Archer, "she is going to Rock River, 
 too; can't you take her?" Dodson said he was going horseback. "Just the 
 way she goes," said the Cononel. A party of Chicago's "upper ten" had 
 determined to leave the town the next day on an exploring trip across the 
 prairie, and Capt. Dodson was anxious to accompany them as far as their paths 
 lay in the same direction. The prospect of being delayed by Miss Archer was 
 not at all agreeable, but, rather than displease the genial Colonel, he consented. 
 While eating dinner on the next day, the party passed, and, soon after, Capt. 
 Dodson followed with the lady, who had filled her saddle-bags with provisions 
 for the journey, and hurried on to overtake the advanced company, whom they 
 came up with just in the edge of town. Miss Archer's shoe was down at the heel, 
 as usual, as they approached, and hovered -over the surface of the earth like a 
 gigantic snow-shoe or a small canoe suspended in the upper air from her 
 *oe. Col. Hamilton, one of the party, noticing its peculiar appearance, she 
 explained by saying that those shoes were "old Whitlock's," her land- 
 lord's, and that she had given him hers, as his own were too small for 
 him. 
 
 Col. Hamilton informed them that the best road to their destination was by 
 way of the old army trail, across Kane County, and soon after, the company 
 separated, the two who were bound for Rock River taking the course desig- 
 nated. At night, they drew up at Kent's House, at Mecham's Grove, where 
 the young lady amused the company with her wit and passed for Dodson 's 
 wife, until bedtime dispelled the illusion. 
 
 Arriving, the next day at noon, at the cabin of a Mr. Gifford, many miles 
 west of their lodging place of the previous night, the stubborn damsel refused 
 all entreaties to stop and take dinner, and, hurrying her horse past the place 
 to a grove a mile or more away, dismounted from her horse, " Packenham," 
 and, having secured him, proceeded to unburden the saddle-bags and eat.
 
 316 II [STORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Capt. Dodson followed her example. Then mounting their horses, Miss Eliza 
 held hers long enough to observe that she was dying with thirst, and then 
 
 " loosed him with a sudden lash ; 
 Away ! away ! and on they dash, 
 Torrents less rapid and less rash. 
 Town, village none were on their track, 
 But a wild plain of far extent, 
 And bounded by a forest black " 
 
 They rode till their thirst was insupportable, their tongues swollen and they 
 ready to drop from their steeds, when, turning his eye to the left, Capt. Dodson 
 noticed a little lake almost hidden in the trees, which they had approached and 
 nearly passed. Wheeling his horse, he reeled to the bank and drank as if 
 whole waves could never satisfy him. His rash friend, too, with even less than 
 her usual modesty, stretched herself at full length, drowned her thirst, and then 
 declared that Packenham should go into the water and get cool. But our 
 informant had noticed that the shore was formed of a thin muck, which sunk 
 beneath the slightest pressure, and told her, in decided terms, that she must not 
 attempt to ride in, as the horse could not possibly turn without falling. This 
 was enough to determine her to ride in, if all Illinois opposed her, and in she 
 went, for, on attempting to regain the shore, Dodson's words were verified ; the 
 horse went down and, having her shoe in the stirrup, Miss Archer sailed, with 
 her costly wrappings, into the mud and water ; but, regaining her hands and 
 feet at the moment Packenham arose, she scrambled out ahead of him just in 
 season to escape being trodden beneath his hoofs. "There," she laughed, as 
 she arose from the mud, "I've lost old Whitlock's shoe." But, to shorten a 
 long story, they arrived at the Rock River without any further adventures, Miss 
 Archer having ridden, incrusted in mud, from the little lake in the condition in 
 which she emerged from her involuntary baptism, swam the river, and she was 
 welcomed by her friends on the opposite shore. Mr. Dodson left their house 
 the next day, traveled to his destination, and, after selling his mill property, 
 returned for the lady, whom he had warned to be ready, that he might not be 
 delayed. But upon his arrival she had made no preparation to return, and 
 after her horse had been led to the door she suddenly concluded, at the solicita- 
 tions of her friends, that she would not go. The suggestion of the persecuted 
 Dodson that her father would expect her and require an explanation from him 
 were of no avail, and he was obliged to leave without her. Miss Archer made 
 her appearance some ten days after his arrival in Chicago, greatly to the relief 
 of the Colonel and Capt. Dodson, the latter of whom had, until then, been 
 treated with marked coldness since his arrival without her. This journey was, 
 probably, the most romantic of the early ones across the country. 
 
 Capt. Dodson, the first of the early settlers now living in the county, still 
 resides in the village of Geneva. Mrs. Dodson is also living. Miss Archer 
 subsequently married a planter, and lives in one of the Southern States, and
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 317 
 
 we are informed that Col. Archer, her father, now more than 80 years of age, 
 was a member of the last Illinois Legislature. 
 
 The wonderful strides which have been made in forty years ia the progress 
 of all parts of the county connot be better appreciated than by observing that 
 upon that memorable drive whole townships were passed without the appearance 
 of a house, fence or single evidence of civilization, and there was not a railroad 
 then in the entire State of Illinois. The absence of wood and water deterred, 
 for several years, settlers from locating in Geneva Township east and west of 
 the cluster of pioneers along the river. Particularly on the West Side, where a 
 small prairie stretched away into the present Township of Blackberry, was this 
 absence of woodland calculated to discourage Eastern men ; but before the close of 
 the year 1839 the real value of this section was seen to be superior, in many re- 
 spects, to any other in the township, and the land had been generally taken up. 
 Its value has greatly increased since then, not merely from its being settled 
 and cultivated, but from the disappearance of many of the sloughs, which for- 
 merly rendered large tracts along Mill Creek worthless. This creek was 
 reported by the Government Surveyors as a navigable stream for steamers a 
 statement too prodigiously absurd to require comment, and conclusive evidence 
 to any one who has attempted to cross it, excepting by the regular highways, 
 that the author of it had been "ditched" there. Among the earliest of the 
 immigrants to perceive that the prairie land was worth taking up were a Mr. 
 Cheever, on the place now known as the Lilly Farm ; William Sykes, who set- 
 tled about 1839 southwest of the village, upon the present Town place ; Lyman 
 German, about 1837, on the East Side, upon land now owned by Messrs. Joy 
 Woolston, while John R. Baker was on the banks of the " stream navigable 
 for steamers " previous to the sale of Government land. Scotto Clark, who came 
 from Boston in 1837, and purchased from Wheeler, also Peter Sears, who were 
 early settlers upon the East Side ; Robert Lester, originally from the nor.th of 
 Ireland, later from Canada, settled in the same year upon the same side, having 
 purchased of Julius Alexander, then residing upon the tract, and is living there 
 still, while Eben Danford purchased the old Bird place, upon the opposite side, 
 which is his residence to this day. 
 
 FIRST DEATH AND BIRTH. 
 
 Andrew Mills died in 1836, and was the first adult buried in the old village 
 cemetery. 
 
 In 1835, the first birth in the township occurred, being in the family of 
 Edward Trimble. 
 
 EARLY ROADS. 
 
 In these early times there were few routes of travel, but the whole country 
 lay open to the tramp, and he could take his choice for a footpath. The high- 
 way was bounded by the rising sun on the east and the setting sun on the west,
 
 318 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 instead of fences as now, but there were a few main paths from important points, 
 which even then were followed with little variation. These were at first trails, 
 the origin of which must be sought beyond the limits of history, amid the tra- 
 ditional lore of the Kickapoos or the Pottawattomies, the later occupants of the 
 soil. They existed when the first white wanderer entered Kane County, and 
 for aught that is known to the contrary, some of them were old when La Salle 
 sailed down the Illinois River in the Winter of 1679-80. 
 
 The most noted and doubtless the only one of these trails through Geneva 
 extended from Chicago westward to Geneva village, past the present site of the 
 cheese factory, south of the big spring, near Haight's old house, and thence on 
 across the township to Galena. This trail was traveled by the Herringtons, in 
 1835, and by the earlier settlers, and, a part of it at least was at a later date 
 surveyed and regularly laid out, thus becoming the permanent thoroughfare. 
 
 The road from Geneva to St. Charles, on the West Side, was surveyed by 
 Mark Fletcher, in ]838. It is now one of the most beautiful drives in the 
 country, is graveled from St. Charles to Batavia, and is always good, whatever 
 may be the condition of the highways in other parts of the country. No road 
 in Northern Illinois traverses a more beautiful country or one in which wealth 
 has been more generally expended upon every home. Scarcely a poor dwell- 
 ing appears throughout the entire drive the grounds around nearly all are 
 under excellent cultivation, while the .same uninterrupted elegance and wealth 
 continue to Aurora, a distance of eleven miles. The road follows the various 
 curves of the river during almost the entire distance, and, seen with its ripples 
 sparkling in a Summer's sun, through the occasional openings in the foliage, it 
 recalls to the pleasure seeker the days when a deeper mantle of leaves over- 
 hung its banks and no manufactories or mills blackened its wavelets. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 The first school in Geneva was taught in the Winter of 1835-36, by Mrs. 
 Samuel Sterling, on the place now owned by E. Danford, north of the village. 
 The school house was the Samuel Sterling residence, built of logs, and, unlike 
 the other houses in the neighborhood, had a stone floor of the original limestone 
 flagging, lying just as the last universal convulsion had left it. It stood on the 
 river bank where the ledge lies but a short distance below the surface of the 
 ground. Mrs. S. was hired by Mr. Herrington, and paid by subscriptions 
 from the few settlers in the vicinity, and ruled over about a dozen pupils. 
 
 The next schools were located in the village, and will be noticed under the 
 proper head. 
 
 After the school law went into operation, Geneva became intimately con- 
 nected with Batavia, in the management of her public institutions of learning, 
 and several of her districts lie partly in one township and partly in another. 
 
 There are now nine school districts in the two townships, all of which are 
 supplied with houses and are generally under competent management.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 31i> 
 
 The estimated valuation of the school property in Geneva Township and 
 village is about $30,000. In no one of the institutions indicative of an ad- 
 vanced civilization has progress been more apparent than in the facilities for 
 education in this and the adjoining townships. 
 
 Forty years ago, there were only two schools within an extent of a, dozen 
 miles up and down the river and directly westward to the vicinity of Dixon, 
 and these two were in operation during only four or five months in the year. 
 
 COUNTY POOR HOUSE. 
 
 The county poor farm is situated on the East Side, and extends slightly be- 
 yond the township line of Batavia. It was formerly owned by E. Lee, and the 
 house, once occupied by his family as a dwelling, was fitted for the first poor 
 house, but being found inconvenient for the purpose, both in size and structure, 
 a substantial stone building was put up in 1872, at a cost of about $15,000. 
 The farm occupies 180 acres. 
 
 CITY OF GENEVA. 
 
 As common, in townships containing county seats, the history of Geneva 
 centers in the village of the same name, which lies two miles, by rail, from 
 Batavia, and nearly the same distance from St. Charles. Its streets are laid 
 out with more regularity than those of any other village or city in Kane 
 County, and, though not noted for manufactures or the amount of business 
 transacted in them, they are marked by elegant homes, the owners of which 
 are many of them engaged in business in Chicago, and have never en- 
 deavored to render the village a bustling, noisy place, but simply a quiet 
 suburban retreat a 
 
 " Sweet auburn, loveliest village of the plain." 
 
 Its society is considered among the most cultivated and accomplished in 
 the county, and several of its old families, as the Dodsons, Pattons, Herring- 
 tons, Alexanders and others, have resided within its limits for many years and 
 remember the time when the village contained not a dozen dwellings. An old 
 record of town plats in the Recorder's office shows that the place was surveyed 
 May 8, 1837, by Mark W. Fletcher, County Surveyor, and that the proprie- 
 tors were, then, James Herrington and Richard Hamilton. The original plat 
 contained some 300 acres on the nearly level plain upon the West Side. To 
 Daniel S. Haight, already mentioned, the honor of making the first 
 
 SETTLEMENT 
 
 is due. An authority of unimpeachable veracity* affirms that Haight was mak- 
 ing improvements on the bank of the river in June, 1833, and another equally 
 good informant states that early in the same month and year, Haight and 
 
 * E. S. Town, Esq., of Batavia, who obtained his information from Payne.
 
 320 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 James Brown, who subsequently settled at Nelson's Grove, came on a pros- 
 pecting tour to the banks of Fox River 'valley. The former was one of the 
 most respectable of the Hoosier pioneers is represented as a tall and well- 
 formed man honest, and not given to drunkenness. The early settlers, always 
 selected a position near some good spring as a site for building, and Haight's 
 shanty of unhewn poles or small logs stood just west of where the cheese 
 factory now stands, near one long distinguished from others in the vicinity as 
 the "Big Springs." There is abundant proof that he resided there early in 
 1834, but whether he ever regarded Geneva as his permanent abode may be 
 doubted, since in the Summer of that year he left and was absent in Chicago 
 and Naperville several weeks, returning in the Fall and selling to James Her- 
 rington in the Winter of 1834-5. He subsequently removed to Rockford, laid 
 the foundation of the town on the east side of the river, lived and died there. 
 The next house within the present village limits was put up by. Arthur Akin, 
 near Me Wayne's spring. James Herrington came from Meadville, Pennsyl- 
 vania, with his family, consisting of his wife, five boys and two girls, in May, 
 1833, and stopped in Chicago, where Mary, a third daughter, was born. The 
 great metropolis of the West was then chiefly noted for its low groggeries, and 
 Mrs. Herrington, wishing to educate her family under more moral influences, 
 strongly objected to remaining. No civilization was, in her opinion, preferable 
 to the type there found, and accordingly, in April, 1835, the family removed 
 to the place purchased of Haight the previous Winter. This excellent lady 
 (Mrs. Herrington) is still living in the village, at the age of seventy-eight, pos- 
 sesses a remarkable memory concerning the settlement from 1835, and has been 
 of great service in furnishing items of early history for this chapter. The 
 Herrington residence was built further up the bank, west of Haight's little 
 dwelling and just south of a solitary tree, now standing, which has since 
 grown there. The building was, for a long time, the most ambitious structure 
 to be found in a circuit of many miles, and was built of hewn logs, and on the 
 plan of those so frequently described as "double log houses" in the History of 
 Western Pennsylvania, where the Herrington family were prominent and 
 where the name is still met with among the records of some of the early insti- 
 tutions of Mercer County. A painting of the house is still in existence, in 
 which it is represented as a long, homely structure, with two low stories, while 
 three chimneys project two or three feet from the ridge of the roof and a low 
 porch overhangs the five windows upon the east side. The dwelling was con- 
 structed almost wholly of oak, but had a good white-ash floor and butternut 
 shingles. All the settlers, in 1836, and the years immediately following, found 
 shelter and refreshments therein; there the first election and court in the 
 county were held, and there it was decided what the name of the county seat 
 should be. It was, in short, the first hotel in the village, and in many respects 
 the most important house in the county. It has long been torn down and re- 
 moved. Mrs. Herrington states that the first meal in their new house was
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 321 
 
 cooked and eaten upon a pile of logs, near the spring, which was doubtless a 
 more agreeable place to dine than Haight's vacated shanty, which was con- 
 verted into a store (the first in the place) in the same year, and furnished with 
 a stock pf goods by Mr. Herrington. L. M. Church was the first clerk who 
 sold to the people of Geneva and vicinity, and was followed in the same store 
 by David Dunham, who remained with Mr. Herrington until elected County 
 Recorder. Indians were numerous, and encamped on the island just below. 
 They were excellent customers, when they possessed any article of exchange, 
 but most audacious thieves, and one of them, commonly known as " Indian 
 Jim," after selling his horse for a drink of whisky, to Augustus Herrington* 
 now Solicitor for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad returned the next 
 night and stole the beast. 
 
 /- - Nothing could surpass the river and its wild scenery then. Not an old 
 settler speaks of it without becoming immediately enthusiastic. Hour after 
 hour, in the calm days of Summer, the swarthy Pottawattomie fisherman might 
 be seen in bis light canoe, erect as the spear of a single prong which he poised 
 in his hand, as he glided over the quiet surface of the stream. A thousand 
 fantastic forms appear on either bank as he floats along past the bubbling 
 spring upon his right and the little emerald-crowned island rising like a water 
 nymph on the left ; but his eyes are blinded to all but the finny swarms that 
 revel in the transparent element below. Ten, fifteen, or even twenty feet are 
 no security from his keen eye and unerring aim. and monsters which are never 
 drawn from that river in the present degenerate days were then secured daily. 
 If a single dam presented for a time obstructions to the str6ams of life which 
 ascended from the Mississippi in the Spring, it was merely a temporary one, 
 broken by every flood ; and the old settlers say that it was not unusual to ob- 
 tain, in Fox River, fish weighing sixty or seventy pounds. 
 
 In 1836, a number of immigrants flocked to Geneva, and in the same year 
 Kane County was organized, and named from Hon. Elias K. Kane, one of the 
 first United States Senators from Illinois, upon its admission to the Union, in 
 1818. 
 
 Clybournville contested for the honor of being the county seat with Geneva, 
 but all know the result. Geneva, or Herrington 's Ford, as it was then called, 
 was obviously a more central point, and besides, it had a post office established 
 the year previous, under the name of La Fox, with James Herrington as first 
 Postmaster. " Daddy " Wilson carried the mail on horseback between Naper- 
 ville and Geneva, and made the trip once in two weeks. That belonging to 
 Geneva was carried in his pockets, and they were never weighed down. Sev- 
 eral of the settlers, like those of Aurora, were anxious to have their village 
 called Waubansie, but, as in the sister town, a name much more agreeable to 
 the ears was chosen, at the suggestion of Dr. Dyer, formerly from Geneva, N. 
 Y., and now living in Chicago. 
 
 United States District Attorney, under Buchanan.
 
 322 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 During this same year, James Herrington erected a more convenient store- 
 house in the village. Crawford Herrington, a brother of James, had settled, in 
 the Summer of 1835, upon the claim taken by Arthur Akin, and his son, 
 James, born early in 1836, was probably the first child born in the village. 
 
 Margaret Herrington, a sister of Hon. James Herrington, and whose birth 
 occurred November 3, 1836, was the first female child born in the place, and 
 the first birth after the village was laid out. 
 
 During the same memorable year, N. R. Spaulding, living on the present 
 Clark Wilder farm, in Aurora, came with his betrothed bride, Miss Angelina 
 Atwater, to Geneva, and was married in the village. Their marriage license is 
 said to have been the first granted in the county. 
 
 The first sermon in Geneva was preached during the same year, in James 
 Herrington's house, by Rev. N. C. Clark. In that year, Logan Ross settled in 
 the village, and the clink of the anvil was first heard there. Running horses, 
 foot-racing, wrestling and fighting were at that time the principal amusements 
 of the place, and in all the athletic sports Ross was known far and wide as the 
 champion. 
 
 The year 1837 witnessed the building of the first court house, a small 
 wooden edifice, used until the erection of the stone building, still standing upon 
 the original site, but vacant since the completion of the magnificent structure 
 commenced in 1856, and now occupied for the dispensation of justice. The 
 lower story is used as a jail. 
 
 The second building was commenced in 1843, and completed in 1844, and 
 cost the county only the small sum of about $800, since the citizens generally 
 assisted in labor and by furnishing materials; but the house now occupied has 
 cost the county not less than $125,000. Wm. Derby was the contractor. 
 Twelve sessions three of the Circuit and nine of the County Court are held 
 therein yearly. 
 
 The year 1837 is likewise memorable as the year of the arrival in the vil- 
 lage of a colony, consisting of Caleb A. Ruckingham, Charles Patten and Scotto 
 Clark, from Roston, with Abram Clark, brother to the latter, and his wife, from 
 Westminster, Vt., who left the former place on the 13th of September, by way of 
 the canal to Ruffalo, and thence by steamer to Chicago, arriving on Fox River, 
 at Geneva, upon the 1st day of October. All settled within the present limits 
 of the village, Scotto Clark building just north of where Mr. Relden now lives, 
 and his brother and family living in the same dwelling, and keeping house for 
 him ; while Ruckingham opened the first law office in the place, and practiced 
 with great success for a time, but died in Chicago in 1840, before attaining the 
 eminence to which his brilliant talents would have promoted him but for his un- 
 timely decease. 
 
 In the Winter of 1837-8, Scotto Clark and Charles Patten returned East, 
 the latter for a stock of merchandise, which, upon his return, in the following 
 May, he placed in a small store upon the corner where the block which he now
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 323 
 
 occupies has since been raised. One Isaac Claypool then had a small stock of 
 goods in the village, but remained in business but a short time. 
 
 Among Geneva's prominent men were Dr. Henry Madden, afterward widely 
 known in the county and State. Dr. Henry A. Miller, who married a daughter 
 of Judge Wilson, of Batavia, was the first resident physician in Geneva, and had 
 a wide practice throughout Kane County. At the time of Patten's arrival, Mark 
 Daniels, one of the early purchastrs, was living in the place ; also, Hendrick 
 Miller, Avho built in the village the first distillery on Fox River. Julius Alex- 
 ander, from Southern Illinois, located within the present corporation limits, in 
 July, 1837, upon the East Side, where he built a blacksmith shop the same year. 
 
 There were several arrivals in 1838, among them John Chambers, from 
 Tompkins County, N. Y., and Peter Sears, who was part owner of the claim 
 purchased by Scotto Clark, on the East Side, and came from Boston with the 
 family of the latter. 
 
 About the same time, the first bridge was constructed at Herrington's Ford, 
 by Gilbert & Sterling, but was swept away before completion. Several built 
 since then have met the same fate, and one, erected in 1857, at a cost of $22,- 
 000, was removed to make way for the elegant iron structure, 522 feet long, 
 built in the Winter of 1868-9 ; cost, $16,000. The first dam was built early 
 in 1837, and was immediately followed by a saw-mill, on the East Side, which 
 Mr. James Herrington referred to in a communication to the Chicago Demo- 
 crat, in May of that year, as "nearly completed." Sterling, Madden & Dan- 
 iels were the builders. In 1844, Howard Brothers built the first grist-mill, 
 upon the opposite bank. 
 
 In 1839, the village lost by the death of James Herrington, one of its most 
 energetic and able business men, and as has been seen, one of its earliest settlers. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 The first building in the village used exclusively for school purposes was 
 the wing of the present elegant stone house, and was built upon the same site 
 in 1855. Later, a brick building was put up upon the East Side. Previous 
 to 1873, each side was a part of a separate district, but in that year the build- 
 ing upon the West Side was erected, at an expense of $25,000, the two districts 
 were consolidated, and the old brick building has since been used as a primary 
 department. Both schools are now under the efficient management of Mr. C. 
 E. Mann, the County Superintendent of Schools and one of the most success- 
 ful teachers in the State. The large school contains five departments. Aver- 
 age attendance on both sides, 234 ; total enrollment, 335. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal. In 1837, Hiram G. Warner, a local preacher of the 
 Methodist Episcopal denomination, preached to a small congregation in Geneva 
 in the old court house. In the following year, Revs. Wilson and Gaddis
 
 324 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 visited the town, and a class was formed consisting of three members living in the 
 present limits of the village, whose names were Alison Abbott, Julius Alexander 
 and Marietta Warner, and for some time services were held in the tavern owned 
 by one Hendrick Miller and kept by James Hotchkiss. The class was at 
 length added to the St. Charles Circuit, embracing Aurora, Batavia and St. 
 Charles. In 1844, the first measures toward building a house of worship were 
 taken by Rev. E. C. Springer. A lot was procured from the county, deeded 
 to the Trustees in 1850 for one dollar, and in the same year a building was put 
 up, which was occupied for twenty years, when, in 1870, a larger and more 
 convenient house was first thought of. In the following year, the matter 
 received general attention from the members ; in 1872, the ground was broken 
 for the foundation, and before the end of the year services were held in the 
 new building, which was not finished, however, until 1874. It is a stone 
 structure, and by far the finest church in the place. Present membership, 110. 
 
 Episcopal. The records of this church date back to 1838, when Rev. A. 
 H. Cornish, one of the missionaries, addressed a congregation containing only 
 eight members, but no pastor was located in the village until 1855, when Rev. 
 J. H. Waterbury settled there, and a stone building was shortly erected, cost- 
 ing $8,000. The present membership is twenty-six. W. J. O'Brian is Rector, 
 in connection with church at Batavia. 
 
 Congregational. This was one of the earliest religious societies in the vil- 
 lage, having received its first start from the ministration of Rev. N. C. 
 Clark, as recorded upon another page. It now contains a large and wealthy 
 membership and a good house of worship. 
 
 Unitarian. The constitution of this society was formed in Geneva, and 
 signed by twenty-two members, in 1842. Rev. Augustus Conant occasionally 
 officiated as pastor. Efforts were immediately made to build a church, and on 
 the 24th of January, 1844, the stone one now occupied was dedicated. Rev. 
 Mr. Conant continued his labors as pastor until 1857. In 1874, the church 
 building was repaired, and is now well adapted to the purpose for which it was 
 designed. Rev. R. L. Herbert is the present pastor. The membership is 
 about fifty. 
 
 The Disciples at one time attained the position of an established organiza- 
 tion in Geneva, but of late years the society has been on the decline, and now 
 numbers only a dozen members. 
 
 Free Methodist. About thirteen years ago, a Free Methodist Church was 
 organized within the corporation, and a small stone building erected, where 
 services were regularly held for several years, but, being encumbered, it was sold, 
 in 1873, to the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Society, and the members allied 
 themselves with the Free Methodist Society at St. Charles. 
 
 The Swedish Lutheran Church was established about 1852, in St. Charles, 
 and a building put up a year later. Rev. Erlan Carlson, now pastor in Andover, 
 first officiated to th society, which then contained about fifteen members.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 325 
 
 About 1855, the Church made Geneva its central point. In 1862, Mr. Carl- 
 son was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Sederstam, now in charge of a pastorate in 
 Minnesota, and, in 1867, he was in turn followed by Rev. C. Lendell, now 
 preaching in Chicago. Rev. C. H. Lodergren. the present pastor, followed in 
 1874. There are now 250 members. 
 
 Swedish Methodist Episcopal. Years ago, traveling preachers of the 
 Swedish Methodist Episcopal denomination occasionally addressed diminutive 
 gatherings of their people in Geneva. A society was formed, with some sixteen 
 members, about 1866, but dwindled away until there were but three members. 
 It revived, however, under the preaching of Rev. Albert Errickson, and now 
 boasts about sixty members, who enjoy regular weekly preaching from a resi- 
 dent pastor, Rev. S. B. Newman. 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 In 1850, Eben Danford obtained a patent for the Danford Reaper and 
 Mower, of which he was the inventor, and commenced the manufacture of the 
 machines about 1851, upon the East Side, in partnership with Capt. J. D. 
 Webster ; some fifty men were employed ; but in 1857 the company failed. 
 Danford & Howell opened a foundry in the vacated buildings in 1862, but dis- 
 solved partnership about four years later. The business was then continued in 
 the same site a number of years by W. H. Howell, who at length erected, at a 
 cost of $18,000, including tools, the buildings which he still occupies upon the 
 West Side. From thirty-five to forty hands are employed. The " Geneva 
 Fluting Iron" (of which W. D. Turner is the inventor), smoothing irons, pumps 
 and various fixtures are manufactured. 
 
 The flouring-mills of Geneva form the most important business interest of 
 the village. Three companies are in successful operation Bennett Brothers & 
 Coe upon the East Side, and John Burton on the West Side, who are employed 
 in merchant work ; James T. Hards on the West Side, engaged in the custom 
 business. Elards and Burton occupy separate parts of the same mill the one 
 built by Howard Brothers. In ,1868, it was repaired by Smith, Hards & 
 Wright, and was used both as a merchant and custom mill. Later, the mer- 
 chant portion, which occupies the north end of the building and contains four 
 sets of stones, was used by Smith & Wright, while Hards confined his business 
 to the other portion, which contained but two sets. Smith & Wright's portion 
 subsequently passed into the hands of the present proprietors. Half of the 
 brick mill owned by Bennett Brothers & Coe was erected as a paper mill by 
 Alexander & German in about 1846. It then passed into the hands of 0. M. 
 Butler, was then owned by C. B. Dodson, and purchased from him by the 
 present owners. An addition of equal size was made of brick on the north 
 side of the original part in 1868, and in its furnishings is considered the best 
 flouring establishment on Fox River. It contains nine sets of stone and a 
 capacity for manufacturing one hundred barrels of flour per day.
 
 326 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Geneva was organized under the general statutes in 1856, later by special 
 charter, and is governed by a President and a board of four Trustees. Capt. 
 C. B. Dodson was the first President. 
 
 AVAR RECORD 1860-65. 
 
 An independent cavalry company was organized in the village by Capt. 
 C. B. Dodson, in 1861, and was assigned as a body-guard to General Steel, 
 remaining with him until discharged. William Wilder, now in Honolulu, was 
 First Lieutenant ; John Bundy, afterward Major, and now editor of the Re- 
 ligo-Philosophical Journal, Second Lieutenant, and Charles Herrington, after- 
 ward killed in the employ of the C., B. & Q. Railroad Company, Orderly 
 Sergeant. Company D, of the Fifty-second Illinois, and Company G, of the 
 One Hundred and Forty -first, were, also, enrolled in the place. In the former, 
 Judge Isaac G. Wilson, now in Chicago, was Colonel ; Nathan Herrington, 
 now of Blackberry, Captain ; Louis H. Everts, First Lieutenant, who returned 
 as Major, and is now principal partner in the firm of L. H. Everts & Co., of 
 Philadelphia, one of the leading publishing companies in the East. In this 
 regiment, Joseph Kessler returned as Lieutenant and C. B. Wells, Commissary. 
 
 Company G, of the One Hundred and Forty-first, was enlisted by Captain 
 Charles Herrington. George Gilman, from Blackberry, where he still resides, 
 First Lieutenant ; Chester Steward (deceased), Second Lieutenant. 
 
 Aside from these, Hon. J. H. Mayborne now one of the most eminent 
 members of the Kane County bar went to the war as Paymaster, with the 
 rank of Major; Thomas Clark as Captain in a colored regiment, and Frank 
 Clark as a Lieutenant. Four of the sons of James Herrington, Nathan, 
 Alfred, Charles and Thaddeus (deceased), served their country through its years 
 of peril, and returned in safety ; and there were many more, who occupied 
 lower ranks, but rendered equally efficient service, to whom their country will 
 forever remain indebted. 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 In 1851, the Wilson Brothers established a small sheet in Geneva called 
 The Advertiser. In about 1867, the name was changed to The Geneva Repub- 
 lican, which passed into the possession of S. L. Taylor in 1870, and was sold 
 to Tyrrell & Archer in the following year. Tyrrell left the company in 1873, 
 when the paper went into the hands of McMaster, Archer & Wheeler, who 
 published it until 1875, when Charles Archer became the sole proprietor and 
 editor. It is a neatly printed folio, 24x36, circulation about 500. 
 
 The Chicago $ Northwestern Railroad, already mentioned in the foregoing 
 sketch of the township, has an excellent stone depot in the village, 112 feet in 
 length, and corresponding in its other dimensions. 
 
 The population of the village, as nearly as can be estimated from returns 
 examined, is about 1,670.
 
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 N. E.PLATO TOWNSHIP.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. b29 
 
 ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Settlements were made in St. Charles Township early in 1834. John M. 
 Laughlin, now residing at Round Grove, just across the boundary line of St. 
 Charles, within the limits of Du Page County, was living in Coles County, 111., 
 in the Spring of 1834. Setting out from thence to visit his native home in 
 Virginia, he retraced his way through Lawrence County, Indiana, where he 
 found a colony preparing to make a settlement in Northern Illinois. Possessed 
 of an adventurous spirit, and being urged by several of the company to cast his 
 lot with them, and assist in driving their cattle, he complied, and to him we are 
 indebted for a history of the settlement which followed. The party consisted 
 of Elijah Garton and family, comprising wife and six unmarried children ; John 
 W. Gray and wife, who was a daughter of Garton ; Albert Howard and family 
 of six children, Thomas Steward and four children, and our informant. They 
 were far better prepared than most emigrant parties for life on the prairies, as 
 Garton drove 100 sheep, an equal number of cattle, six pairs of oxen, and eight 
 span of horses, to Round Grove, where they arrived on the 8th of May. Garton 
 settled upon the south side of the timber, in St. Charles, and immediately com- 
 menced a log cabin on the edge of the prairie, which is still remaining in a tol- 
 erable state of preservation the oldest house in the township. Gray settled in 
 Du Page County, where Laughlin now lives, and Howard on the northAvest 
 corner of the grove, on land at present occupied by Mark W. Fletchei . Early 
 in the same Spring, Rice Fay, from the "Bay State," took up his claim and 
 built a little below the site now occupied by the residence of John Keating, at 
 Fayville, but did not settle until the following Fall. His tract lay upon Scott's 
 old trail, which crossed the township from east to west. About the same time, 
 a man named Brigham, a bachelor, settled upon the west of Fay. One of the 
 Trimbles was then living just within the edge of St. Charles, south of the 
 Geneva line. 
 
 Summer passed, and early Autumn found several other squatters and per- 
 manent settlers in different parts of the township. Foremost of these arrivals 
 w.-is that of Friend Marks and family, from the State of New York, who 
 squatted on the farm now owned by George Plummer, and built at the north- 
 east corner of the grove. Then followed William Arnold, from Indiana, who, 
 with wife and children, located not far from the present site of John C. Wil- 
 son's stone house, where he laid claim to about four hundred acres ; and Alex- 
 ander Laughlin, from the same State, who took up the tract now owned by 
 Moses Colton. Walter Wilson and family, from Glasgow, Scotland, founp 
 their way to the Western wilds in the same year, and, stopping a few days at 
 Jacksonville, whither his son and son-in-law Thomas Wilson and Thomas Barlan 
 had wandered in 1833, they then proceeded together to St. Charles Township, 
 where they arrived early in September, and settled on the place since known as
 
 330 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 the Ponsonby farm, on Section ly. Marks had at that time completed the 
 body of a large house at Plummer's Grove, but it was still roofless ; while 
 Arnold's family were living in their wagon, on the West Side, near the site now 
 occupied by. the residence of William McWilliams ; and Alexander Laughlin 
 had but just arrived. 
 
 Wild was the life they led then. Not a road, or even cow path, crossed St. 
 Charles, and, with the exception of the one in the northern part of the town- 
 ship, no very clearly marked trails. Just before the arrival of the Wilson 
 family, John C. and Thomas had been sent ahead to spy out the land, and, in 
 company with a gentleman of color, who bore the appellation of Harry, they 
 crossed the river at Payne's, and, following up until they came to a little brook 
 flowing into a creek, took up their claim. While they were exploring the land, 
 Harry wandered away up the river and became lost in the woods. Night came 
 on, and he was unable to retrace his steps. Picking his way in the darkness 
 and through the mazes of the forest, he suddenly observed a light ahead of 
 him, and a few moments later, came to a halt near a camp of Pottawatomies, 
 The warriors, wrapped in their blankets, lay dozing around their camp fires in 
 lazy abandonment, while the hard working, abused and greasy looking squaws 
 waited upon them, bringing sticks to replenish the embers, or now and then 
 throwing a fresh morsel of dog flesh or a plump rat or gopher into the boiling 
 kettle, while snarling curs contested for the refuse morsels, It was a romantic 
 scene, as the curling smoke arose in serpentine windings and mingled with the 
 dark leaves of the oak or the maple foliage gilded by the early frost. And 
 Harry crept nearer, until the crackling of a stick brought the watchful dogs 
 with angry yelps to his heels. "Ugh!" grunted the warriors, and with one 
 single motion stood before him. Questions were asked and answered satisfac- 
 torily, and the terrified African was invited to partake of their hospitality. All 
 night he lay among them, scarcely daring to stir, for whenever he turned upon 
 his hard bed or moved hand or foot a bark from the dogs was immediately 
 responded to by a grunt from some suspicious warrior, and the attention of the 
 whole company was immediately fixed upon him. Never, he used to affirm, 
 after his return, did he pass so restless a night. Sleep left his eyelids, and 
 upon the earliest break of day he arose and followed the river and creek back 
 to the Wilson claim. 
 
 Charles B. Gray, now on the southeast' corner of Section 23, who came to 
 the township in May, 1835, states that he has seen a column of Indians march- 
 ing in single file, according to their usual custom, which extended from the 
 corner near the residence of William Matteson eastward to Round Grove. They 
 were always treatedj with wholesome respect by the settlers, and never com- - 
 mitted more serious depredations than by occasionally stealing corn and pump- 
 kins. They were not addicted to anything akin to modesty, however, and one 
 of the company which Mr. Gray mentions left his column, and approaching the 
 point where he stood observing them, requested a donation of watermelons, and
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 331 
 
 as this festive fruit was not to be obtained, contented himself with confiscating 
 the cucumbers in the vicinity. 
 
 Indian camps were located upon the present site of the city of St. Charles, 
 and our informant states that he has seen 200 warriors, squaws and papooses 
 where the clink of the hammer and anvil and the hum of the milU are now 
 heard. And other native vagrants were not less numerous throughout the 
 township. 
 
 Wolves carried off the sheep, howled beneath the cabin windows, and were 
 shot within twenty feet of the doors. Mr. Laughlin states that during the year 
 after their arrival, one of Mr. Garton's cattle died, was dragged forth upon the 
 prairie, and seven wolves successively shot while devouring the carcass. Fifty 
 deer were frequently seen in a single herd, and the same informant states that 
 he shot them upon the Garton farm in numbers too great to present to the 
 skeptical eye of the modern reader. 'He had brought from the South two mag- 
 nificent grayhounds, which, to use his own expression, " could run down any 
 animal that ever walked ;" and in brilliant colors does he portray the excitement 
 of the chase as witnessed from the old cabin door. Pointing out the deer, 
 bounding leisurely along the prairie, to his canine companions, they would 
 leave him as an arrow let loose from the bow. They seemed to fly, only touch' 
 ing the ground at every tenth or twelfth spring. Soon the deer, becoming 
 alarmed at the approaching messengers of death, quickens his pace, and anon 
 makes his strongest and swiftest bounds, but an in vain. The hounds are upon 
 him, and one of them seizing him by the muzzle, he is flung to the earth, while 
 the other fastens his jaws upon his throat, and he roams the prairies no more. 
 Shortly after the Wilson settlement, but during the same Fall, a colony arrived 
 from New Brunswick, consisting of Mrs. Young, Stephen and Joel Young and 
 his sister Jerusha, D. C. Young, Robert Moody, wife and two children ; Samuel 
 Young, wife and one child, and J. T. Wheeler, having left home in July and 
 landed in Chicago the 19th of September. The last settled upon a farm upon 
 the West Side, just north of the city, and still resides there. Robert Moody 
 and Samuel Young located within the limits of the present city, and will be 
 mentioned on another page, while Joel Young took up his abode upon the 
 present Park's farm, between St. Charles and Geneva. The company stopped 
 between Naperville and Warrenville, with Gideon Young, who had previously 
 settled there, but who removed in the Spring of 1835 to the farm now owned 
 by A. G. Fowler. John Kittridge, from New Hampshire, was building a house 
 upon the farm now owned by N. C. Joy, in the Fall of Wheeler's arrival, and 
 the latter, with Joel Young, obtained their bread there of Mrs. Kittridge, while 
 Wheeler's house was being put up. They slept on the ground. In the same 
 Fall, T. A. Wheeler, from Vermont, visited the township and took up a claim 
 now owned by heirs of Joseph Switzer,but being injured in assisting James 
 T. Wheeler to build his house, he returned to his eastern home and sent out 
 hi* brother Richard to hold his claim. He afterward returned, and the brothers
 
 332 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 both lived many years in the township. Richard is now living in Michigan, 
 while his brother's widow resides upon a farm on Section 26, east of the city, 
 owned by her husband previous to his decease. The land upon that side along 
 the timber was generally taken up in 1834. Joseph Pemberton, a bachelor, 
 from Coles County, Illinois, settled early upon the place now owned by Ben- 
 jamin Vinicke and Joseph Crawford; also a bachelor located with one Lee, on a 
 claim which included the present Disbro farm. Nathan Perry took up the land 
 now owned by Mark Dunham during the same year, and built thereon an 
 exceedingly primitive cabin, with neither glass, nails nor boards in the entire 
 structure. The inconveniences incident to the isolated position of the settlers 
 at that time can scarcely be exaggerated. During the Winter of 1834, supplies 
 began to fail the party from Lawrence County, and Garton and Howard drove 
 to La Fayette, on the Wabash, with ox teams, to replenish their store. During 
 the greater part of the distance, the temperature was between twenty and thirty 
 degrees below zero. Much of the prairie which is now arable and contains 
 some of the most valuable land in the country then lay throughout a large 
 part of the year submerged beneath the waves, and when, in the following 
 June, Laughlin made a journey to Chicago with two yoke of oxen, he was 
 obliged to wade the entire level country east of Oak Ridge and swim the Des 
 Plaines River. Wm. Welch, from Michigan, and his son-in-law, Tucker, also 
 James Davis, all found homes on the East Side in 1834. During the year 
 1835, settlers and land speculators poured into the township in swarms, and by 
 the close of the year 1837, we consider it safe to state that there was not an 
 acre of land worth taking, in St. Charles, unclaimed. To accommodate the 
 herd of immigrants westward and bring custom to his doors, Friend Marks 
 broke a road during rainy days from his house to Herrington's Ford, in 1835. 
 This track was traveled for many years, was probably the first regularly laid 
 road in the township, and led to the first tavern, at Mark's. The unfortunate 
 landlord fell into the hands of land sharks when the Government sale took 
 place, lost his claim, left the township and shortly afterward died. Walter Wilson 
 died in the township some ten years ago. His son, John C., lives on the 
 southwest section, on a farm recently purchased of Hugh Huls, having 
 remained upon the first claim over twenty years, and erected nearly all the 
 Buildings now standing thereon. 
 
 Thomas Wilson married the only daughter of Alexander Laughlin, removed 
 with him to Whiteside County, after remaining a short time in St. Charles 
 Township, and is still living, although Mr. Laughlin has been dead several 
 years. 
 
 William Arnold sold his claim to Levi Brown, about 1840, and removed to 
 the banks of Rock River, where he died the same year. The honest old pio- 
 neer. Garton, and his wife both rest in the ancient graveyard near the camp 
 ground. But the earliest death in the township was that of Stephen Young, 
 who departed this life May 8, 1835, was buried on the north line of the J. T.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 333 
 
 Wheeler farm, and afterward removed to the first burying ground in the city, 
 which stood on the site of the West Side school. The first sermon delivered 
 upon the west side pf the township was preached at his funeral by a Congrega- 
 tional clergyman named Perry, a relative of the Perrys upon the East Side, 
 then living upon the Mark Dunham farm. He subsequently preached a num- 
 ber of times at Mr. Wheeler's house. Religious services had previously been 
 initiated at the house of John Kittridge, by the organization of a Bible class, 
 early in the same year. There were not more than seven members at first, hut 
 their numbers increased, as time went on, and the services, which originally 
 embraced merely singing, prayer and the study of the Scriptures, were rendered 
 more interesting for those who participated in them by the reading of a sermon 
 every Sunday. The place of worship, too, was frequently changed, as the 
 country filled up, and each family of those who attended was expected to furnish 
 accommodations occasionally. 
 
 At that time, the borders of Person's Creek were entirely covered by a thick 
 growth of blue beech, and in this wood the Indians were encamped. While the 
 Wheeler family were away at church, one Sunday, a party of these red skins 
 came to the house, and, with their usual modesty, demanded a pipe and tobacco 
 of Mrs. Young, who was, ere this, Mr. Wheeler's mother-in-law by his marriage 
 with her daughther, Jerusha, at Warren ville, on the 1 5th of the preceding Jan- 
 uary. Mrs. Young answered their importunity by lending them her own pipe, 
 for she was an elderly lady, and addicted to the use of the narcotic weed. The 
 Indians smoked until satisfied, and then walked away without returning it. But 
 the brave old lady was not to be baffled in this manner. Following them and 
 shouting at the top of her voice until they halted, she immediately seized the 
 pipe, which was held in the mouth of one of the astonished warriors, and ordered 
 him to give it up. The coAvardly always feel awed by the bravery of the 
 brave, and an Indian is a coward by nature. Therefore, instead of resisting 
 and walking on, or hurling the old lady to the earth, he quietly yielded, and 
 Mrs. Young returned with the precious property, from which the sweet incense 
 arising soon testified to the satisfactory result of the only collision between one 
 of the representatives of the white and Indian races recorded in the annals of 
 St. Charles Township. 
 
 In the Fall of 1835, death visited the Garton family, and Alzira, a twin 
 sister of Mrs. C. B. Gray, was laid in the grave the first in the old burying 
 ground at Round Grove. 
 
 In the same year, Rev. N. C. Clark, also Rev. Jesse Walker, a missionary 
 to the Pottawattomies and Kickapoos, preached several times at the house of 
 Elijah Garton, and in January, of the same year, John M. Laughlin married 
 Emily, the daughter of Elijah Garton, at the house of the bride's father. The 
 ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Hubbard, Baptist preacher, from War- 
 renville. This was the first marriage in the township. The earliest birth was 
 that of a child of Samuel Young, in the Spring of the same year.
 
 334 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 On the 8th of May, upon the day of Stephen Young's death, Solomon 
 Dundam, from the State of New York, arrived on the place now owned by his 
 son Mark. Mark Fletcher also purchased the farm where he still resides, in the 
 same season, but remained a number of years in Geneva before settling upon it. 
 
 The year 1835 was rendered memorable by the arrival of Daniel Marom, 
 the first blacksmith in the township, who built a shop in the timber at Norton's 
 Creek. Also, of Thomas Steward, in the Fall, while Nathan Pierce, whose son, 
 James Pierce, is now a resident of Aurora, was an early settler upon the Hoag 
 place. 
 
 In 1836, crowds came, and from that date the history of St. Charles be- 
 comes one of a whole community and no longer of individuals. But there was 
 one who settled in June of that year, upon the farm now owned by his son, who 
 deserves special notice Rev. D. VV. Elmore, a graduate of Union College, a 
 man of splendid education and of opinions far in advance of his age, who pur- 
 chased 100 acres at Fayville, of one Brigham, a bachelor, who had squatted 
 there the previous year and built a log house. The pet object of Mr. Elmore's 
 life was the establishment of an industrial or manual-labor school, in which im- 
 pecunious young men might obtain the means for a liberal education by working 
 certain hours in each day upon a farm connected with the proposed institution. 
 For this purpose, he took Up 300 acres of land adjoining the Brigham claim, 
 wrote much and talked more upon the subject, but, to their shame be it said, 
 many of his cotemporaries regarded his philanthropic schemes as the- dreams of 
 a visionary, and his hopes were never realized. While working in the field, on 
 the 29th day of July, 1854, a terrific storm arose, lightning struck upon three 
 separate places on his farm, and, one of the bolts having pierced him, he passed 
 forever beyond the disappointments of this world. 
 
 A majority of the remaining American settlers in the township came from 
 1837 to 1845, and among them may be mentioned, in the former year, Amos 
 Stone, from Massachusetts, now of Belle Plaine, Iowa, who located upon land 
 in Sections 4 and 5, worked his farm by day and made shingles for a living by 
 night, until the roofs of nearly all of his neighbors' houses were furnished ; the 
 Bisbys, in the same year, in the western part of the township ; George Plum- 
 mer, who settled where he now lives, in 1844 ; Harlow Hooker, in October, 
 1839; Stephen Fellows, deceased; and Robert Lincoln, deceased, on the farm 
 now occupied by his sons. 
 
 A colony of Swedes arrived about 1852, which has since received occasional 
 additions by new emigrations from the Scandinavian Peninsula. Among the 
 
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 first of this race who appeared in the township may be mentioned Charles Sam- 
 uelson, now a resident of Elgin ; John Colson, at present with L. C. Ward, of 
 St. Charles ; and, in 1853, Peter Lungreen and sons, August, who is also with 
 Ward, and Swantey, who has since removed to Elgin. 
 
 One of the earliest stone houses in the township was erected by D. W. El- 
 more, in 1841, at Fayville, and is' still occupied as a dwelling. Rice Fay's
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 335 
 
 stone house, now owned by John Keating, was put up shortly after, and stran- 
 gers were frequently entertained there during the following years. Much his- 
 torical and romantic interest centers around this section. Villages without a 
 name are sometimes found by the wanderer through the earth's broad expanse, 
 but here we find no less than three names without a village. 
 
 Shortly after Mr. tlmore's arrival, he laid out a number of lots at the bend 
 in the river, and named the position Asylum ; a few of the lots were purchased, 
 a post office established named Fayville, and kept, at different times, by Messrs. 
 Fay, Nelson, Wait and Elmore, and a small saleratus factory started by Elmore 
 & Burdick, which, however, continued in operation but a short time. The post 
 office was discontinued, and, at a later date a another established and called Sil- 
 ver Glen, which has met a similar fate. 
 
 During the most halcyon days of the place, which people once dreamed 
 would arise, a stone house, which now stands in ruins, a little west of John 
 Keating's mansion, was put up and occupied several years, for various purposes, 
 being used at one time by Russell & Calhoun, as a blacksmith shop, and then 
 passing into the hands of a man named Acres, whose spouse kept a low 
 groggery therein and sold " reaming sweets that drank divinely," to the youth 
 far and near. After making night hideous with their unholy orgies, for a 
 number of weeks, and disturbing the slumbers of good people, the den was at 
 length closed, and the inmates turned upon the cold world, in consequence of 
 an unusually sanguinary drunken row, in which a young man working for Mr. 
 Elmore was killed. 
 
 Tradition says that, after hearing of the affair, a reverend father of the 
 Catholic Church visited the spot, and, indignant at the brutal lawlessnes of cer- 
 tain of his flock, who had been frequent visitors at the house, cursed it in the 
 name of his God, and no man, continues our informant, has ever inhabited it 
 from that day to this. The roof is fallen in, and its deserted walls stand, a 
 habitation for the owl and the bat. 
 
 "And over all there hangs a cloud of fear ; 
 A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, 
 And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, ' , 
 ' The place is haunted.' ' ' 
 
 The region is peculiarly interesting to an admirer of the beauties of nature. 
 The ground is rugged on both sides of the river, which makes an abrupt curve 
 to the west a mile above, and at this point resumes its southerly course. Sev- 
 eral little islands darken the transparent stream, and one, the upper, is covered 
 with a luxuriant growth of low reeds and willows ; a natural but thin covering 
 of trees softens the rude angles in the hills, from whose rocks two noisy brooks, 
 one above and the other below the Elmore farm, leap from successive terraces, 
 forming sparkling cascades, on their way to the river; and the resi- 
 dences in the vicinity all of stone quarried from the ledges which form their 
 adamantine foundation present, when seen through the leafless branches of
 
 336 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 December, and contrasted with the shadows of the trees inverted in the still 
 water, along the river bank, a view as pleasing, in all its outlines, as any 
 which will be found in a journey through the country 
 
 Far away to the north, the smoke wreaths from the manufactories of 
 Elgin may be seen in a clear day, while the spires of St. Charles rise on the 
 south. 
 
 The earliest saw-mill outside of the city limits was erected about 1845, by 
 Lewis Norton, on Norton Creek. The builder left his home in the following 
 year for the Mexican War, and but little work was ever performed in the new 
 building. 
 
 Claim organizations were common in St. Charles previous to the land sale, 
 and were productive of some good and some evil results. Jumping of claims was 
 never tolerated, and records are not wanting of settlers visiting a pseudo-claim- 
 ant en manse, and leveling his shanty to the ground, or setting fire to it. On 
 the other hand, a great evil was done when Section 16, which the government 
 had set apart for school purposes in each township, was sold to claimants in St. 
 Charles for the mere pittance of ten shillings per acre, thus cheating the town 
 out of not less than $9,600. 
 
 Schools were organized, as elsewhere in the county, long before there was 
 any regular district organization. In 1839, a little log school house stood just 
 inside the line of the fence now surrounding Jerome Elmore's yard. Schools 
 were taught later in various houses within the neighborhood, for a time in an 
 old log building on the present Foley place, in the deserted stone house and in 
 Amos Stone's barn. But in 1857, a stone house, expressly designed for school 
 purposes, was built in Fayville, or District 2, as it had then become, and is 
 standing there to this day. A wood building was erected not far from the resi- 
 dence of Harlow Hooker (District No. 3,) at a very early day, but was replaced, 
 in 1876, by a new house, the most elegant one in the township, at a cost of 
 $1,500. District No. 1, on the road to Elgin, on the west side of the river, 
 contains an old wood building, valued at $600. District No. 9 has a brick 
 building, in good condition, worth $800, built ten or twelve years ago. District 
 No. 4 has a wood building, on the West Side, valued the same as District No. 9, 
 and District No. 6 contains the neat white school house opposite the Widow 
 'Wheeler's place, valued at the same sum. The entire school property of the 
 township may be estimated at $5,100. 
 
 The assessed valuation of the township in 1877, at fifty cents on a dollar, 
 was : Real estate, $472,836 ; personal property, $71,464. 
 
 In 1851, the cemetery, now owned by William Irwin, was laid out upon 
 the 'East Side. It contains ten acres, and is beautifully located, thirty-two feet 
 north of the corporation limits. The lots are laid out ten by twelve feet, a 
 road, fifteen feet wide, surrounds it upon the inside of the fence, and two of the 
 same width cross it, one from east to west, the other from north to south. The 
 grounds are well shaded, and several beautiful monuments arise among the trees.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 337 
 
 The manufacturing interests of the township are confined to the products of 
 the dairy. In the Spring of 1869, Martin Switzer opened a cheese factory 
 near his place, on the west side of the river, and operated it until October, 
 1876, when it was sold to Robert Wright, and worked by him until May, 1877, 
 and 'was then closed. 
 
 The Spring Brook Factory was first built and operated in 1867, by Mr. 
 Larkin ; was then continued, with rather indifferent success, by various parties, 
 until purchased by Newman & Thompson, who, in 1876, built a new factory 
 upon the old site, and supplied it with all the modern improvements. It stands 
 in the front rank among establishments of the kind, and is doing an excellent 
 business. 
 
 The township is noted principally for grain raising and the manufacture of 
 butter and cheese. It lies south of Elgin, north of Geneva, east of Campton 
 Township and west of Du Page County, and is crossed on the northeast cor- 
 ner by the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. 
 
 CITY OF ST. CHARLES. 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 Dean Ferson is now the earliest settler living in St. Charles city or town- 
 ship. Starting with his brother Read from Weathersfield, Windsor County, 
 and Ira and George Minard from Windham County, Vermont, he came to Chi- 
 cago in September, 1833. After stopping a few days, Read and the Minards 
 returned, the former appearing again in Chicago in the following May, and Ira 
 Minard in August. Shortly after Read Ferson's arrival, and during the same 
 month, the two brothers set out for Fox River, crossed at Batavia, stayed over 
 night with Nelson at the Grove, thence passed to Geneva, where they stopped 
 with Daniel S. Haight, and next day, coming to St. Charles, took up the 
 claim where the stone house owned by George Ferson now stands, on the west 
 side of the river, and built a log shanty. There were at that time six houses 
 in the present corporation limits, including Ferson's, wholly or partially com- 
 pleted. First; of these was the nearly finished hut belonging to one Chunn^ 
 and standing near the little run on the east side of the river. Of the owner 
 but little is known, excepting that he came early in 1834 possibly late in 
 1833 and left before the county had been generally settled. The body of a 
 log house built by a man named Crandall, from Ohio, stood near the present 
 site of the residence of Capt. Bowman, was purchased by James Herrington, 
 and subsequently sold to one of the Youngs. Another roofless cabin, built by 
 a native of the Buckeye State, who had left the country and never returned to 
 make good his settlement, stood just east of the place recently purchased by 
 George Minard of Gen. J. F. Farnsworth. Ephraim Perkins Avas located upon 
 the East Side, just west of the George Minard place, and William Franklin had
 
 338 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 a log house upon the Bridges farm. Evan and Newton Shelby laid claim to 
 all East St. Charles about the time of the arrival of the Ferson brothers, who 
 assisted the former, late in May, in building his log house, which stood near 
 the place now owned by Dr. Crawford. This was the seventh house in the 
 future city. The Shelbys and Franklin* had left their homes in Indiana just 
 previous to the Garton and Laughlin party, but were overtaken by them at 
 Lockport, Indiana. Franklin's house may be considered the first permanent 
 residence in the place, since, if there were any settlers previous to him, they 
 never completed their dwellings, and left within a year after arriving. It may 
 also be stated that there was not a settler within the limits of the city with 
 the very doubtful exception of Chunn previous to the Spring of 1834. 
 Franklin sold his claim early, and located upon the farm now owned by Charles 
 B. Gray. All of these old dwellings were torn down many years ago. Ira 
 Minard arrived with his wife in October, 1834, returned East, but came back 
 in the following December, and lived with Read and Dean Ferson until April, 
 1835, when he built a cabin upon a claim where the State Insane Asylum now 
 stands, at Elgin, and removed there. But in the following year, we find him 
 again in St. Charles, which thenceforth became his home until his recent death. 
 His name, however, was well known in business circles throughout Northern 
 Illinois, and the field of his operations was never limited by any narrow town- 
 ship bounds. He moved to a small log house upon the river bank, on the 
 East Side, in the Spring of 1836, and about the same time purchased the part 
 of the Shelby claim lying south of Main street, while the part north of that 
 street, bordering upon the river and comprising about nine acres, was sold by 
 Calvin Ward, from Massachusetts who had obtained it from Evan Shelby to 
 Minard, Ferson and Hunt. 
 
 Ward had settled with his family, in the Fall of 1835, in a cabin near the 
 position now occupied by Doyle's blacksmith shop, his purchase being the part 
 of the Shelby claim lying north of Main street and extending from the public 
 square to the river. 
 
 B. T. Hunt came from Massachusetts, in 1836, and is still in business in St. 
 Charles. 
 
 The West Side was settled by Robert Moody, Gideon, Samuel and Joel 
 Young, although claims had previously been made upon the land as above men 
 tioned. 
 
 In May, 1835, Warren Tyler and his son Ira D., with their families, from 
 Cayuga County, N. Y., moved to Naperville, and in the following August con- 
 tinued their journey to St. Charles, where they settled the former upon the 
 claim purchased of John Hammers, a very early settler upon the East Side, 
 where he had built a " double log house," without nails or glass; and the latter 
 upon a tract previously taken up by a squatter named Isaac Rice. Both settle- 
 ments were upon the extreme eastern limits of the present city. 
 
 *John M. Laughlin.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 339 
 
 Alexander Ferson, father of Read and Dean, came with his large family in 
 June of the same year, and settled in the township near the present Bryant Du- 
 rant place. Among his sons were Robert and George, now engaged in the grain 
 business in the town. 
 
 In 1836, the settlement was further increased by the arrival of Leonard and 
 David Howard ; William G. Conklin, in July ; Joseph Sibley, John Andrus and 
 the Bairds, all from Buffalo ; Horace Bancroft and Dr. Nathan Collins, N: H. 
 Dearborn, in the Summer, from Plymouth, N. H. ; Asa Haseltine, from Ver- 
 mont, in the Fall, and William Dickinson. Valentine Randall was also an early 
 settler about this time. 
 
 Leonard Howard's first settlement was made at Geneva, on a claim purchased 
 of Edward Trimble, but he was frequently in St. Charles, from the time of his 
 arrival in Kane County ; and in 1837, having sold to Scotto Clark and purchased 
 a claim of Gideon Young upon the West Side, he settled thereon. He now re- 
 sides upon the East Side, having taken a prominent part in the building up of 
 the town. His brother is also living. 
 
 William G. Conklin also resides upon the East Side. Sibley is now in Kan- 
 sas ; John Andrus, the Bairds, N. H. Dearborn and William Dickinson are still 
 residents of St. Charles. ; Horace Bancroft recently died in Michigan, and Ha- 
 seltine many years ago in St. Charles. 
 
 Among the settlers, about 1837, may be mentioned James Lovell, now in De 
 Kalb County ; Rev. N. C. Clark (deceased) ; Keyser, of pottery notoriety, and 
 John Scott, who died during the past year (1877). 
 
 The Pennys, from Maine, were early in the town ; and John Glos, the first 
 German settler. 
 
 1838 brought, in March, Aaron Blanchard, well known throughout the city. 
 In June, the late S. S. Jones ; while Asael Bundy and Abel Millington came 
 during the same year. 
 
 Dr. DeWolf came from Western Pennsylvania, in 1840. 
 
 P. J. Burchell (deceased), R. J. Haines and Judge Barry were early comers ; 
 while William Marshall, from England, commenced as a blacksmith in the vil- 
 lage, in 1848, with scarcely a penny, and now owns a good farm between St. 
 Charles and Campton. 
 
 But long ere this latter date, scores of immigrants had arrived, whose names 
 cannot now be given ; and it becomes inconvenient to form complete lists of the 
 settlers later than 1836. 
 
 NAME. 
 
 The town was christened Charleston,* by Minard and Ferson, but since it 
 was afterward discovered that there was another Charleston in Coles County, a 
 meeting was called in 1839, to re-christen the village. Various names were 
 suggested, and many of the New Yorkers were in favor of Ithaca, while John 
 
 * From Charleston, N. II.
 
 340 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Glos, the enterprising German already mentioned, was positive that none of 
 his countrymen could ever be induced to immigrate to a place the name of which 
 was cursed with a th sound, and suggested one which he considered more eupho- 
 nious, but upon which there arose a diversity of opinion. At length, S. S. 
 Jones having mentioned the name of " St. Charles " as a compromise, it re- 
 ceived a majority of the votes, and St. Charles it remains. 
 
 FIRST MARRIAGE, BIRTH, BURIAL, ETC. 
 
 Dean Ferson and Prudence Ward were married at the log house of the 
 bride's father, by the Rev. D. W. Elmore, September 14, 1836 being the first 
 couple married in the place. 
 
 On Christmas Day, 1887, David Howard's first child was born and named 
 Frances Christmas, in honor of the holiday. This was the first birth within 
 the present corporate limits. 
 
 The old grave yard upon the East Side was given to the town by Ephraim 
 and Otho W. Perkins, Minard, Ferson and Hunt, in 1838 ; and the first person 
 buried there was James Wright, in the Fall of the same year. 
 
 S. S. Jones, one of the ablest men who has called St. Charles "home," was 
 its first attorney ; was subsequently editor of the Religio-Philosophical Journal, 
 was eminently successful both as a lawyer and a writer, but met a violent death 
 in 1876. 
 
 The earliest physician in the town was Dr. Nathan Collins, the date of 
 whose arrival has already been mentioned. 
 
 Several professional men appear in the new town about the same time and 
 a little later, among them Lawyer Miller, Mr. Clark, the first resident clergy- 
 man, Doctors G. W. Richards, Waite, DeWolf, and Crawford. 
 
 The name of Dr. Richards is now remembered by the early settlers, from 
 the riot which his practices occasioned and which resulted in the death of him- 
 self and one of his students. The doctor was a man of undoubted ability, but 
 extremely independent and radical in his views. He neither feared his fellow 
 man nor regarded their prejudices, and where it was possible to choose between 
 two lines of action preferred to astonish and shock rather than to conciliate. 
 He had opened a medical school at St. Charles, where it had long been rumored 
 by many of the people that his students were possessed of hyena proclivities. 
 At length positive proof was obtained that the body of a Mrs. Runyon, a young 
 married lady, who had recently died near Sycamore, had been removed from 
 the grave and taken to his dissecting table ; the robbers were tracked to Rich- 
 ards' doors, and the indignant father and husband of the deceased spread the 
 story of the outrage throughout the northern part of DeKalb County. An 
 armed mob, composed of some of the most respectable citizens of that county, 
 joined by a delegation from Geneva, swelling the ranks to about three hundred, 
 marched to the doctor's residence, formed in the street in line of battle, and 
 appointed a committee to wait upon him and demand the body. They were
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. ,341 
 
 not only refused but treated with the utmost contempt. Shots were exchanged ; 
 John Rood, one of the doctor's students, was mortally wounded through the 
 body, and Richards was so iujured by a ball through one of his lungs that he 
 died, in Dubuque, four years later, from its effects. There has been some diver- 
 sity of statement regarding the person responsible for the first shot, but it is 
 the general belief that it was fired from the house. After these warlike meas- 
 ures, it was promised that the body should be given up to the friends of the 
 deceased. A number of the students and others were despatched to remove it 
 from the place where it had been secreted and it was delivered to the relatives 
 at a designated spot between St. Charles and Geneva. The school was closed, 
 and the young student who was wounded died a few days later. 
 
 EARLY DWELLINGS AND INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 A company under the name of Minard, Ferson & Hunt was formed in 183b, 
 and laid the foundation of the new town. A store* built by them in the Spring 
 of the year, where Minard & Osgood's Block now stands, was the first frame 
 building in the place. During the same season, the company built a dam 
 across the river, and erected a saw-mill on the East Side, just above where the 
 ruins of the carding mill now stand. The old building remained there a 
 number of years, but was taken down about 1850. The earliest frame dwelling 
 house was erected by N. H. Dearborn, just opposite the present site of the 
 bank. The building is still standing, and used as a barn. Minard, Ferson & 
 Hunt's old store is also in existence. 
 
 In 1841, the first brick dwelling in the place was built by B. T. Hunt, 
 from a kiln of brick manufactured by John Penny in the public square, upon 
 the East Side. 
 
 The earliest hotel had been raised four years previous, by David Howard, 
 and, with an addition upon the west end, was known in later years as the the 
 St. Charles Hotel, and kept by the late P. J. Burchell. William Knight 
 kept tavern in it for a time, and was followed by B. T. Hunt, who completed 
 and dedicated it on the 4th of July, 1838, by the first public ball in St. Charles. 
 
 The Western Enterprise and Franklin Houses were built about 1840. The 
 former, by James Mead, is now used as a barn by Edgar Dunning ; the latter, a 
 brick building, is standing upon the West Side. 
 
 The Mallory House, formerly the Howard House, was built by Leonard 
 Howard, in 1848, and, having been in the possession of various parties, is now 
 kept by B. D. Mallory. It is a brick building, of convenient dimensions. 
 
 The intelligence of the early settlers in this city is denoted by the circum- 
 stance that one of the first schools in the county was taught there in the Fall 
 and Winter of 1835-36. The building was Hammer's old log house, then 
 owned by Warren Tyler, and the teacher was Prudence Ward, now Mrs. Dean 
 Ferson. 
 
 * Thomas E. Dodge was the builder.
 
 342 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 A little slab school house was built in the Winter of 1836-37, on Pierce 
 & Adams' corner, and. in 1839, the citizens raised by subscription a sufficient 
 fund to build a single-story frame school house on Lot 5, Block 23, just west 
 of the Universalist Church, and hired as their first pedagogue a young man 
 named Knox, who had been clerk in the store of Minard, Ferson & Hunt. 
 While employed in his new vocation, Mr. Knox died. Other teachers took 
 his place, and schools were continued during the following years until the build- 
 ing became inconvenient. Several successive private or public schools Avere 
 then opened one in the basement of the Methodist Church, another in the 
 Universalist, and others in the Baptist and in this manner education was 
 obtained under difficulties, until 1854-55, when the Public School building 
 was put up on the West Side. Two years later, the one on the East Side 
 was erected. Both are of brick, large and convenient. The former, in 
 District No. 8, is valued at $16,000 ; the latter, in District No. 7, is val- 
 ued at $15,000. 
 
 Some difficulty was experienced by the early settlers in obtaining a' post 
 office, as St. Charles was not upon any regular mail route. It was at length 
 voted, however, to obtain the mail from Elgin, at the expense of the citizens. 
 The first Postmaster, Horace Bancroft, was appointed in 1837, and brought 
 the first mail from Elgin in his pocket handkerchief. His office stood upon 
 the present site of McKeever's store, and was built by Leonard Howard. The 
 Postmasters who followed were, in their order of succession, C. A. Brooks, 
 P. J. Burchill, J. T. Durant, P. C. Simmons, Albert Hayden and A. V. Lill ; 
 the latter, one of the early settlers, was appointed in 1861, and has retained 
 his position, with honor, for seventeen years. 
 
 Bancroft was also the -first blacksmith in the village, and made the irons for 
 the first saw-mill, which was in operation in November, 1836. He likewise 
 had an ear for other melody than anvil choruses and brought the first piano to 
 .the place. 
 
 Abel Millington was a man of more than ordinary energy, and had no 
 sooner settled in the growing town than he commenced, in the Spring of 1838, 
 the erection of one of the most essential elements to its success, a grist-mill, 
 upon the West Side, upon a claim purchased of Gideon Young. The foundation 
 was laid by Leonard Howard. Unfortunately for the town, Mr. Millington 
 died in the Fall of the same year. The mill is now owned by R. J. Haines. 
 
 The original plat of the town was surveyed and laid out for *Ira Minard, 
 Read Ferson, Calvin Ward and Gideon Young, in the Spring of 1837, by 
 Mark W. Fletcher, County Surveyor. Numerous additions have since been 
 made upon both sides of the river. 
 
 The earlier settlers of the town crossed the river by means'of a ferry ; but 
 in the Summer of 1837, business had increased to such an extent that a bridge 
 was deemed a necessity, and accordingly a wooden structure was raised, at a 
 
 * We give the names of the proprietors as they are given upon the plat in the Recorder's Office.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 34$ 
 
 cost of about $700. It was subsequently carried away, and several have since 
 been built in the same place, one of which was put up about 1857, at a cost of 
 $5,000, and was replaced, at a cost of $8,500, by the elegant iron one which 
 still spans the river. 
 
 About 1838, Joseph Keyser, from Pennsylvania, who arrived in the town 
 the previous year, started a pottery, and commenced the manufacture of brown 
 earthenware, on the south side of the lot now owned by J. S. Christian. But 
 the business not proving as remunerative as he had expected, he loaded his 
 goods into a small boat, and, with his family, sailed down the river, and was 
 seen in St. Charles no more. 
 
 A. N. Locke built a carding-mill in 1837, which for a time succeeded, 
 and gave employment to about twenty-five hands, but is now standing va- 
 cant, upon the East Side. 
 
 Ira Minard took an active part at this time in all the enterprises for the 
 promotion of the welfare of the town, was elected one- of the first Justices 
 of the Peace, in 1836, and to the State Senate in 1842. In the latter year, 
 he started, in company with L. B. Flint, a castor and linseed oil manufactory, 
 between the paper-mill and Miller's blacksmith shop ; but the business was 
 unsuccessful, and the building was sold for a store, to 0. M. Butler, about 
 1850, and burned down some years later. 
 
 In 1840, Read Ferson built a blacksmith shop on the East Side, which was 
 converted, in the following year, into a paper-mill, by William Debit. Paper 
 is said to have been made in it for some time by hand, but Debit soon quit 
 the business, when the property was owned for a short time by R. J. Haines 
 and P. C. Simmons, and at length by Butler & Hunt, who first fitted it with 
 suitable machinery. The West Side paper-mill was built by Butler & Hunt, 
 1847-8, and was subsequently greatly enlarged, but was nearly destroyed by 
 fire in the Summer of 1856. It was repaired, however, and great additions 
 made ; was employing eighty hands, and making 7,000 pounds of print paper 
 per day, when it was again burned, February 5, 1866, and has never been re- 
 built. The stone walls alone are standing, and the property has been in liti- 
 gation for ten years. The East Side grist-mill was built about 1845, by E. C. 
 Chapman. 
 
 The first house of worship was the little school house upon Adams & 
 Pierce' s corner, which was used by all societies, and was soon abandoned for 
 school purposes. Father Clark first preached in it, but long before its erection, 
 and some say as early as 1 834, there had been preaching in the vicinity. On 
 the 4th of March, 1837, the Congregational Church was organized, Avith nine 
 members, to wit : Robert Moody, Elizabeth Moody, Alexander Ferson, Abigail 
 Ferson, Dean Ferson, Prudence Ferson, John Fisk, Calvin Ward and Abby 
 Ward. The meeting for organization and the first communion service was held 
 at the log house of Robert Moody. Father Clark met for worship with this 
 small flock for nearly a year, in private houses. His pastorate continued for
 
 344 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 three years and a half, during which time he gathered a church of about twenty-five 
 members. In July, 1841, he resigned, to accept a call from the church at Elgin. 
 In 1842, preparations were made to build, which resulted in the completion of 
 the present edifice, in November, 1848. In 1844, twenty members were dis- 
 missed, to form a church at Wayne Center; and in 1851, eight more were dis- 
 missed to form the church at Campton. Present membership about 140. 
 
 The Baptist Church was organized in the Winter of 1835. in the house of 
 John Kittredge, and comprised, during the years immediately following, mem- 
 bers from St. Charles, Dundee, Elgin and Campton, who held their central point 
 at Rice Fay's double log house, at Fayville. While meetings were held there, 
 churches were organized, at Elgin, Dundee and Campton (then Fail-field), from 
 this single germ. The parent church was then moved to St. Charles, where the 
 building now occupied was erected, about 1853, and repaired and enlarged in 
 the Summer of 1876. 
 
 A Universalist society existed in the place at a very early day, and the build- 
 ing commenced in the Fall of 1839 was the first in the place, and probably the 
 first in the State. Rev. William Roundsville, who organized the society, was 
 the first pastor. Preaching was held for a time in the old school house, previous 
 to building, and Rev. A. Pingree, now of Pingree Grove, Avas active in establish- 
 ing the organization. It ran down, however, about 1857, and for years the 
 building has been closed. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal Society was one of the first formed in the village, 
 and commenced a church building about 1843, which has since been, greatly im- 
 proved. As its early records have been lost, or destroyed, we have no means of 
 obtaining an extended account of the organization of the society. It is prosper- 
 ous, and one of the largest religious denominations in the city. 
 
 In 1859, according to the statement of a reliable Free Methodist, a number 
 of the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church became unusually noisy from 
 ''getting blessed." The pastor, D. C. Howard, unused to such a racket, under- 
 took to keep them quiet, but signally failed. They objected to his interference ; 
 a meeting was called to take their case in hand, and twenty-one of them were 
 expelled. Organizing immediately, under the celebrated Dr. Redfield, they re- 
 solved themselves into a Free Methodist Church. Their building was originally 
 an elevator, belonging to T. A. & R. A. Wheeler, and standing just north of 
 where S. S. Jones' vacated elevator now stands. It was purchased of the orig- 
 inal owners June 20, 1860, and is still used as the house of worship. There are 
 now between fifty and sixty members. 
 
 In 1843, mass was held in the house of Michael Flannery, by Father Keegan ; 
 but previous to this date. Father O'Donnell, from Joliet, had visited the Catholics 
 of St. Charles occasionally, and administered to their spiritual wants. In 1851, 
 a stone church, the only one of this material in the place, was commenced, on 
 the West Side. The membership is large, and the number on the increase. 
 
 The first bell in the town was placed upon the Congregational Church, in 1847.
 
 JAMES MANN 
 BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 347 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 Journalism commenced in Kane County with the publication at St. Charles 
 of a small sheet devoted mainly to the presentation of certain religious views of Dr. 
 John Thomas, its editor, who had moved to the place from Kendall County, and 
 brought a small press with him. It was short lived, however, and about the 
 Fall of 1841, Dr. Thomas commenced the publication of the St. Charles Patriot, 
 Fox River Advocate and Kane County Herald, which eventually failed per- 
 haps from a lack of vital energy to keep its name before the public but after 
 continuing a number of years. In' the fall of 1842, it was burned out and the 
 press destroyed, but Ira Minard purchased another for the good of the place, 
 and the paper was issued as The Fox River Advocate for some time, by Dr. D. 
 D. Waite. The Prairie Messenger was started in 1846, by Smith & Kelsey, 
 changed hands several times, and went down like its predecessors. In the years 
 which followed there successively appeared The People's Platform, The Demo- 
 cratic Platform, The Kane County Democrat, The Democratic Argus, The 
 /St. Charles Argus, and The St. Charles Transcript. It should also be men- 
 tioned that a Universalist paper was started in January, 1842, by Rev. William 
 Rounsville and Seth Barnes ; was continued for about a year, when it was 
 removed to Chicago, where it was published in the following years under the 
 title of The New Covenant. The St. Charles Transcript commenced its career 
 under S. L. Taylor, March 1, 1871. Having received a bonus of about $400 
 from the Citizens of the town in consideration of its establishment, the editor 
 placed it under the able management of Samuel W. Durant, to whom whatever 
 merit it possessed was due, as but a small part of Mr. Taylor's energies were 
 devoted to it. In July, 1871, it was purchased by Tyrrell & Archer, who pub- 
 lished it until June, 1873, when it was sold to Frank McMaster and H. N. 
 Wheeler. It was then a seven-column folio, with a circulation of about 300. 
 The name was changed to The Northern Grranger in the same Fall, and again 
 to The St. Charles Leader, in December, 1874, when it was enlarged to a six- 
 column quarto. Since then it has been steadily increasing in influence and im- 
 portance, and in November, 1875, was for the first time issued from a cylinder 
 power press, having been previously struck off on one of the dimunitive and 
 bungling hand concerns. In 1876, one of its able editors, Frank McMaster, 
 sold his interest to his partner, who remains the sole editor and proprietor. In 
 June, 1877, a new departure was taken in country journalism, by introducing 
 upon its title page an elegant engraved heading, the design being one of especial 
 local interest. In politics the Leader is Democratic, its circulation is about 
 1,200, while its rank among the papers of the county, in energy, vigor of thought 
 and the independence of its views, is clearly indicated by its title. Its office is 
 also one of the best in the county in the convenience of its equipment for news- 
 paper and job work. In September, 1874, a dimunitive publication was com- 
 menced by Tyrrell, the former editor of the Transcript, but it went out after a 
 six months' struggle.
 
 348 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 FIRES. 
 
 Several destructive fires have occurred aside from those already mentioned. 
 Two stores have been destroyed upon the site of the building afterward erected 
 by Minard & Osgood, and now occupied by W. F. Osgood & Co. ; and a con- 
 flagration, in 1843, destroyed the buildings west of Hunt's Mills. Epidemics 
 have also visited the place and spread destruction in their track, and at this 
 point a few brief remarks upon the prevailing 
 
 DISEASES 
 
 of the county when first settled, and their modifications and successors, will not 
 be irrelevant to the subject under consideration, since no other town in the 
 county suffered as much from them at one period as did St. Charles, although 
 its location is generally speaking extremely healthful. As in other regions 
 of the West, intermittent and remittent bilious fevers sorely afflicted the 
 pioneers, and probably shortened the lives of many; yet, when "there were 
 scarcely well people enough to take care of the sick," the mortality from the above 
 diseases was surprisingly light. Their effect was rather to postpone improvements 
 and retard labor. But pernicious fevers properly belong to a lower latitude. 
 Dysentery and erysipelas were far more malignant and fatal than now. About 
 1847, the intermittents began to give way to typhoid fevers rare previously 
 and, though generally mild, the latter carried off quite a number, until about- 
 1857, when diphtheria and cerebro-spinal diseases displaced it to a marked extent. 
 From 1857 to the present time, diphtheria has made many households desolate ; 
 while its ally and next of kin, scarletina, has been increasing the bills of infantile 
 mortality. It would seem that the most striking change of diseased action 
 was a relief from bilious and malarious maladies, and an increase of those affect- 
 ing the blood and nerves. Since the abatement of malaria, consumptive disease is 
 also probably a little on the increase. These discouraging statements are more 
 than offset, however, by the increasing vigor of the general population, and by 
 the, rapidly diminishing death rate from infantile dysentery and cholera in- 
 fantum, which are not one-fourth as prevalent nor one-tenth as fatal as in 1845. 
 Then, these complaints commenced in May, but now, they are deferred until 
 August, and "Dr. Frost" comes to the relief of the juvenile sufferers. On the 
 whole, the health of the people has steadily improved since the first settlement, 
 and St. Charles and the vicinity are now and ever have been as salubrious, 
 at least, as any locality in the State. Malarious diseases yielded to the lower- 
 ing of the beds of the river and water courses, constantly going on, thus in- 
 creasing the rapidity of their currents ; the cultivation of the soil, the thinning 
 of the densest strips of timber, prairie fires, better water, and other causes ; and 
 the hope will be doubtless realized that blood and nervous diseases will also yield 
 to hygiene when more generally taught in the public schools. 
 
 The above meager notice will be more complete by adding a short account 
 of the visit of Asiatic cholera to Kane County, which first appeared in Aurora
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 349 
 
 in 1849, and, invading all the river towns with more or less fatal results, disap- 
 peared in 1854. It may be safely estimated that from three hundred to three 
 hundred and fifty victims yielded to the cold embrace of the destroyer in the 
 above period, within the limits of the county. Two-thirds of these were foreign 
 emigrants, who brought the seeds of the disease with them. This was notably 
 the case in St. Charles, where the Swedes suffered the most the cholera 
 decimating a small colony. We have it on the best authority that cholera killed 
 far more people than is now commonly imagined, as its presence was often de- 
 nied by well meaning people, and physicians denounced for calling public atten- 
 tion to genuine cases. This policy was sometimes suicidal. It was at first 
 hoped and believed that -Dr. Eastman, a talented physician, of Aurora, had hit 
 upon an efficient treatment, but events proved that no physician in the county 
 or elsewhere could boast of signal success in staying its ravages where it had 
 once appeared ; and more than one of Dr. Eastman's own family fell victims to 
 the epidemic. A few dozen sporadic cases, so-called, occurred in Elgin, 
 Batavia, Clintonville, and even in Geneva, during the Summers of those five 
 years, and quite a number of them were fatal ; but, in 1852, St. Charles had 
 to bear the brunt of the disease, which appeared there in its most malignant 
 form. 
 
 The name of Dr. H. M. Crawford deserves honorable mention here for his 
 faithful treatment of the sufferers, and for the warning which he sounded in 
 season and in the face of strong opposition, thus preventing, in a great measure, 
 the fearful spread of the contagion which must otherwise have occurred. No 
 doubt there are many who daily walk the streets of St. Charles whose lives 
 were saved by him at that time ; and he risked his own for the .public welfare, 
 as so many zealous physicians have done from time immemorial. As already 
 mentioned, the Doctor was one of the last of the early settlers, having sailed 
 from Ireland, where he had received a thorough education at various colleges, 
 and arrived in New York in the Spring of 1848. Forming an unexpected 
 liking for the Americans, he made the tour of the States, and, being delayed in 
 St. Charles by a snow storm, in the Fall of the above year, he was induced to 
 settle in the town and practice his profession. He soon established a reputa- 
 tion, scarcely paralleled in the State, as a surgeon and physician, and his prac- 
 tice has been unsurpassed, at least for devoted and laborious philanthropy. In 
 July, 1852, a case of cholera occurred on the East Side, the patient being one 
 of the first arrivals of a considerable body of Swedes. Dr. Crawford, who was 
 called to attend him, quietly advised his immediate isolation, and also the sep- 
 aration of the sick from the well in other families suspecting the existence of 
 cholera germs among them. The suggestion was disregarded. "It is only 
 typhus" said some, and the cold pestilence was allowed to take refuge by other 
 firesides. As many as 1 a dozen of those exposed to the contagion took refuge 
 in an abandoned cooper's shop, which was soon a hospital, while other houses 
 occupied shortly presented the same appearance. Dr. Crawford and one faith-
 
 350 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 ful nurse stood to their posts, night and day, unaided and alone, for nearly a 
 week, until some benevolent ladies came to the rescue with full hands and kind 
 hearts, and the village authorities, with their eyes now opened by the death of 
 some five citizens and nearly twice as many Swedes, hastened to establish a 
 hospital, and appointed Dr. Crawford as physician in charge. These hastily 
 improvised shanties stood on the Aldrich place (then woods), north of the town, 
 and, although the death rate was high, the needed generosity of the St. Charles 
 people was nobly exhibited, and all done which could be done under the cir- 
 cumstances. 
 
 The nurse who assisted Dr. Crawford in the first outbreak sacrificed her life 
 to save her suffering friends and neighbors, and the writer regrets his inability 
 to ascertain her name. After a first attack of cholera, she relapsed from go- 
 ing to her work too soon and despite the best efforts of her physician, succumbed 
 among those she had helped to save. The annals of the human race present few 
 instances of a more exalted heroism than that exhibited by this nameless woman, 
 and her memory should be forever embalmed in the hearts of the citizens of St. 
 Charles. The glory of the conqueror or the statesman is mean and contempt- 
 ible compared with hers, for personal interest could have had nothing to do with 
 her devotion. When the inevitable decay which awaits all that man can build 
 has become the last inhabitant of the village in which she suffered and died, and 
 its shapely masses of material shall have crumbled back into the original dust 
 from whence they arose, let her faithfulness be remembered. Especially should 
 her own countrymen honor her with an immortality which the granite shaft or 
 marble mausoleum can never confer. Let them teach her story to their children as 
 soon as they are old enough to understand the meaning of words, as one of the 
 rarest recorded exhibitions of philanthropy, and let them in turn continue its rehear- 
 sal to their offspring, from generation to generation, down to the most distant ages. 
 
 At least seventy-five persons lost their lives at this time in the city and 
 township of St. Charles alone ; and it is clear that as many more would have 
 died had it not been for the heroic devotion of a few who made an unselfish effort 
 in their behalf. 
 
 During this epoch, several cases of an amusing as well as tragic character 
 occurred. One illustrates the toleration of u heroic " and even poisonous doses 
 by cholera patients. John Maguire, living east of St. Charles, came home from 
 Chicago in the clutches of the prevailing disease. His son hastened to St.. 
 Charles, only to see Dr. Crawford taking his departure, on a fleet horse, in a 
 furious rain storm. A vial dropped unbroken from his pocket in a pool of water, 
 and, seeing that he could not overtake the doctor, the young man hied home 
 with the medicine. The father, in the agony of the disease, seized the vial as 
 the son approached and swallowed at a dose the contents, viz., one oz. of lauda- 
 num and an equal amount of creasote. He is still living, in the State of Iowa. 
 
 A powerful Swede, fifty years of age, would trust to nothing but prayer and. 
 water, and waded, while in cholera, into the middle of the river and raising his
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 351 
 
 hands in supplication to Heaven, fell into the deep water. He was rescued from 
 the stream only to die of the disease in a few moments after being conveyed to 
 the old "cooper shop " for medical treatment. 
 
 A family of Pennsylvania^ by the name of Camp, consisting of husband, 
 wife and six children, passed through St. Charles, westward, in July of the fol- 
 lowing year, when they were attacked with cholera on the road west of the town. 
 Three, including Mr. C., died on the road in a deserted log shanty, which stood 
 above King's Mill Creek, near where Lake's cheese factory now stands, in 
 Campton Township. When under the shelter of this poor refuge the balance 
 of the family were gathered, the insatiable monster was not at all contented 
 with his havoc, but immediately siezed upon all the others. The neighbors 
 bravely flocked to their assistance. Dr. Crawford was called, and at the end of 
 three days and nights of unremitting labor pronounced all safe, with careful 
 management. One interesting and beautiful girl of 19, who had hung trem- 
 blingly in the balance between life and death for three days, was cheerful again 
 and convalescent. The mother was ordered to see to it that no food should be 
 given unless by the hand of the doctor, and she was not to be raised in the bed. 
 But no sooner did the uncontrollable sleep overcome for a few minutes the giver 
 of this order, than the poor girl, yielding to the morbid desire for food, per- 
 suaded her mother to fetch her a tin cup of bread and milk, a large spoonful of 
 which she greedily swallowed. A faint cry awoke the doctor, whose head had 
 rested against a projecting log, the cup was snatched from the trembling hand 
 and the head quickly lowered, but all efforts at resuscitation were unavailing, 
 and Annie Camp, like a rosebud stricken from the stem by some rude blast, 
 was laid with her father and three brothers on the north bank of the little 
 stream. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 The railroad history of this city is of melancholy interest. After the Chi- 
 cago & Galena Railroad Company had extended their track from Chicago to 
 Turner Junction, the people of St. Charles began to discuss the prospect of ob- 
 taining a further extension to their own town. Ira Minard was active in advo- 
 cating the feasibility of the plan, and subsequently liberal in securing its opera- 
 tion. 
 
 In 1849, a road was commenced from the city to connect with the Chicago 
 & Galena track, three miles northwest of the Junction ; and on the 12th of Decem- 
 ber, in the same year, the first train entered St. Charles, and the scream of the 
 locomotive was heard for the first time in Kane County, or in the Fox River Valley. 
 In the following August, the Chicago & Galena Road completed their track to 
 Elgin, and changed their route from St. Charles to that place. The citizens of 
 St. Charles, seeing that the salvation of their town depended upon the thorough- 
 fare which they had opened, took the matter into their own hands and ran two 
 trains a day from their town to the Junction. Ira Minard controlled it until
 
 352 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 October, 1856, when it passed into other hands. The depot stood upon the 
 East Side, just east of the position now occupied by the Free Methodist Church. 
 B. D. Mallory was the Agent from August to November, 1850, and Leonard 
 Howard from the latter date until 1857. 
 
 In 1853, Minard and others obtained a charter for the St. Charles & Galena 
 Air Line Road, into w r hich the charter previously granted for the Branch Track 
 was merged. Ira Minard became President of the company, and heavy stock 
 was taken all along the line ; while at Galena the people contributed handsomely, 
 as the road would, when completed, furnish them a competing thoroughfare with 
 the Chicago & Galena Road and the Illinois Central, as well as a more direct 
 route to Chicago. 
 
 The Chicago & Galena Road, commenced with the ostensible purpose of ex- 
 tending to Galena, had never approached nearer that town than Freeport, but 
 from there had depended upon the Illinois Central track. The inhabitants of 
 the place, groaning under the monopoly of a single thoroughfare, rejoiced at the 
 prospect of completion. In an evil hour, one E. C. Litchfield, from Cazenovia, 
 N. Y., appeared in St. Charles, representing that he and his friends possessed 
 sufficient means to build the railroad if he was allowed to take a controlling interest 
 in the stock. He was permitted to subscribe for it, the thoroughfare was commenced 
 and graded from Chicago to St. Charles, /the culverts were generally built ; 
 also, the piers and abutments for a bridge across Fox River, and the track was 
 laid for nine milos from Chicago. Minard had staked his whole ample fortune, 
 $80,000, upon the success of the enterprise, while hundreds of poor men all 
 along the line had taken stock for all they owned. It must be understood that 
 Litchfield had promised that the road should be finished, and that it should not 
 previously pass out of his hands into the possession of the Chicago & Galena, 
 or any other competing line. 
 
 Never was a villainous scheme more successfully executed. When the con- 
 troller of the stock had crippled the only man who had any power to oppose 
 him, and was assured that any opposition to his own designs would result in that 
 man's ruin, he coolly informed Minard that he had concluded to sell his stock 
 to the Chicago & Galena Company, and promised to make ample reparation 
 for any personal inconvenience which such a course might occasion him, if he 
 would raise no objections. He was thus permitted to take his choice when 
 there was no choice to take. The refusal and loss of his property could not 
 have helped his friends, who were already ruined, nor saved his town, which 
 was then doomed ; and he, accordingly, took the course which any other sane 
 man would have taken. The road ended at the Des Plaines River, and the 
 grading upon the west bank of the Fox River, since it was not for the interest 
 of the Chicago & Northwestern Company to continue it ; $700,000, paid by the 
 hard-working farmers and industrious mechanics across the State, was lost, and 
 many families reduced from wealth to poverty, and the useless piers stand to 
 this day in Fox River, appropriate monuments to the perfidy of E. C. Litch-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 353 
 
 field. Minard has been unjustly blamed for his course in the disaster, but it is 
 sufficiently apparent from the above that he was guiltless. The loss of the 
 railroad was the severest blow ever given to the prosperity of St. Charles. It 
 nearly annihilated the village for more than fifteen years. She had arisen tri- 
 umphantly from pestilence and repeated conflagrations, but now many false proph- 
 ets gravely shook their heads and quoted, with a dolorous whine, Byron's line, 
 
 " 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more," 
 
 and declared that she would never rise again. But prophets are sometimes 
 mistaken, as the sequel shows ; and intelligent manufacturers were not so blind 
 to their interests as to overlook such water power as the river affords at this point, 
 nor were families of means and culture, who chanced to visit the town, unsus- 
 ceptible to the charms of its natural surroundings. Glancing carelessly from 
 the hill, on the West Side, up the river beyond the great stone piers, " to him 
 who in the love of nature holds communion with her visible forms," the view is 
 one which will never be forgotten. And then, where in Northern Illinois can 
 the spot be found which rivals in beauty the grounds on the opposite bank, 
 belonging to L. C. Ward, with the residence which rises above them, recalling in 
 its commanding position and graceful architecture the stories of the Alhambra ? 
 Such scenery had its effect, and the town gradually awoke. In 1870, in con- 
 sideration of an agreement entered into with the * Chicago & Northwestern Rail- 
 road, by which the company promised, for the sum of $35,000, to be paid by 
 the citizens of St. Charles, to build and operate perpetually a track connecting 
 the place with the main line at Geneva, trains again entered the village. The 
 entire cost of the road, including right of way, exceeded $45,000. The depot 
 still used is a reconstructed dwelling, built by Capt. Richard Sargent. Since 
 the completion of this track, business, which had already given some indications 
 of reviving, has more than doubled, and the town may be considered in a more 
 prosperous condition than ever before. In 1875, the place, which had formerly 
 been under village government, became a city under the general statutes, and 
 elected a Mayor and Board of Aldermen. The first Mayor was Dr. J. K. 
 Lewis, one of the early physicians, the son of an old settler, and a man in 
 every way qualified to hold the position. 
 
 MILITARY RECORD. 
 
 Few cities of its size in the State present a more brilliant war record than 
 St. Charles. The names of all her soldiers appear upon another page in this 
 work, but a few deserve special notice. Among these Gen. J. F. Farnsworth 
 occupies the front rank. By him the Eighth Illinois Cavalry was organized, in 
 1861, a regiment the most active of all the cavalry regiments in the Army of 
 the Potomac. The General went out as Colonel, but was subsequently promoted. 
 J. S. Van Patten, now in the Kane County Bank, was Quartermaster. Com- 
 
 * The new name for the old Chicago & Galena Railroad
 
 354 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 pany A was raised in the city, and Company I in the county. Of the former, 
 William G. Conklin (Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Illinois during the Mexi- 
 can war) went as Captain, was promoted to the office of Major and resigned. 
 The Colonel of the regiment (Farnsworth) served from 1861 to 1863, was in all 
 the battles in front of Richmond, in 1862 ; at Antietam, Fredericksburg, South 
 Mountain, and many of the smaller cavalry skirmishes, but in 1863 resigned to 
 take his place in Congress, where he had been a Representative for four years 
 before the outbreak of the rebellion, and where he remained for ten years after 
 leaving the army. Previous to the great struggle, he had figured in the organ- 
 ization of the Republican party, was a strong Abolitionist and contributed in 
 no small measure toward the Anti-slavery movement. He still resides in St. 
 Charles. It should here be mentioned that Capt. Conklin did gallant service 
 in the Mexican Avar, as did Lieut. Lewis Norton, now in California. Thirty- 
 four men of the ninety-four who enlisted for that struggle in the company 
 formed in St. Charles, were killed or died of diseases contracted during their 
 absence. In the Seventh Regiment (war of rebellion) we notice the names of 
 George Sill and D. B. Chamberlin, still residents of the place. The Seven- 
 teenth Illinois Cavalry also rendezvoused at St. Charles in the Fall of 1863, 
 where they were organized by Gen. Farnsworth. In the Thirty -sixth A..H' 
 Barry, well known at the Kane County bar and at present a resident of Elgin, 
 was Major, and John Elliott, one of the first Board of Aldermen in St. Charles, 
 was First Lieutenant. The latter was captured by the rebels and had many 
 thrilling adventures and hair-breadth escapes. The laws of the South were at 
 that time the "Laws of Draco," and on one occasion Mr. Elliott was delivered 
 to the civil authorities for some trivial offense and sentenced to be hanged. He 
 escaped by breaking through a box-car, in which he was confined, and still pre- 
 serves an unbroken spinal column in the city where he enlisted. 
 
 In the Fifty-second, Capt. F. H. Bowman, now in the hardware business, 
 H. N. Wheeler, editor of the St. Charles Leader, and Frank McMaster, now in 
 Colorado, may be mentioned. 
 
 Dr. H. M. Crawford went as Surgeon in the Fifty-eighth, and found abun- 
 dant scope for his high talents at Fort Donelson and Shiloh, where he earned an 
 enviable record. At the battle field, the the regiment was broken up and deci- 
 mated, and the doctor was assigned to the post of Chief Operator and to the 
 charge of general hospitals, until its re-organization, in 1864. At the hospitals 
 of Monterey and Corinth, he exerted himself so arduously in the care of the sick 
 and wounded, that his health became seriously impaired. By a leave of absence, 
 however, after the second battle of Bull Run, it was recruited, and he returned 
 to the appointment of Chief Surgeon in Hospital No. 4, in Jackson, Tenn., and 
 was subsequently promoted to Chief of Hospitals at La Grange, Tenn., where 
 he again injured his health by his unremitting labor for the comfort of his 
 patients. Light duties at Vicksburg were imposed in place of the laborious 
 ones at La Grange. He was next Brigade Surgeon on Sherman's raid to
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 355 
 
 Meridian, then Division Surgeon on Red River Expedition, and was Chief 
 Operator for A. J. Smith's corps after Pleasant Hill and Yellow Bayou. From 
 thence he again joined his regiment, and, after filling various other appointments 
 with credit to himself, was honorably discharged in the Spring of 1865. 
 
 N. T. Roach was Commissary in the same regiment. 
 
 Capt. Richmond, now of Chicago, was a favorite of the One Hundred and 
 Twenty-seventh, and well deserving of the good will of his regiment, while 
 Samuel W. Durant attained an honorable record in the same regiment a& 
 Quartermaster. 
 
 ST. CHARLES TO-DAY. 
 
 The cloud of desolation which at one time threatened to envelop all the 
 interests of the town has, as we have seen, passed by, and the streets, from the 
 crevices of whose sidewalks the grass was beginning to grow, are now thronged 
 daily with life and activity, while several important manufactories are in suc- 
 cessful operation. Prominent among these is the Hardware Company, repre- 
 sented and controlled by S. L. Bignall, which gives employment tofifty-five men, 
 and melts 1,000 tons of iron a year. The iron business was commenced about 
 1844, by Burdick & Clark, who built a small foundry, which subsequently 
 passed into the hands of John Lloyd, who remained sole proprietor or partner in 
 the business until his death, when, after some changes in ownership, it became 
 the property of S. L. Bignall & Co., who sold, in 1876, to the S. L. Bignall Hard- 
 ware Company, the stock company by which it is now owned. Pumps, wind- 
 mills, grind-stone fixtures, sad irons, corn shellers, and various articles for 
 which Mr. B. possesses letters patent are manufactured. The buildings have 
 recently enlarged to more than triple their original size, and the foundry and 
 machine shops, combined, rank as one of the great manufactories of Fox River. 
 Brownell & Miller's paper mill, which is the old Debit mill enlarged, is oper- 
 ated in the manufacture of straw wrapping paper, of which about a car load is 
 shipped weekly to Chicago. The quality is said to be as good as any in the 
 market, and the company employ eighteen hands. The present proprietors 
 purchased the building of 0. M. Butler in 1867, and Mr. Miller states that it 
 was the first manufactory of the kind west of the Ohio. 
 
 The St. Charles File Company J. P. Doig and J. T. Gallagher com- 
 menced operations in St. Charles in June, 1877, in the large stone shop back 
 of Haines' mill, having previously been in the same business, between six and 
 seven years, N in Chicago, and gained in the meantime a No. 1 reputation for 
 their files, which have, in a great measure, superseded the English ones, with 
 which the Western market was previously stocked. They employ twenty-two 
 skilled workmen. 
 
 Louis Klink's Wagon and Carriage Shop, commenced in 1866, was the 
 first establishment of the kind which has made that industry successful in St. 
 Charles. His sales during the past year amounted to $20,000. The Doyles
 
 356 
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 also have a similar manufactory, upon the east side of the river, and are consid- 
 ered excellent workmen. 
 
 St. Charles Mills, on the East Side, and already referred to, were purchased 
 from William G. Conklin, in September, 1877, by A. Fredenhague, who oper- 
 ates them for both custom and merchant work. The building contains three 
 run of stones, and four hands are employed. 
 
 R. J. Haines' mill, upon the West Side, has received mention upon another 
 
 page- 
 One of the great interests of the city is the dairy business, and farmers for 
 a circuit of five miles send milk here to supply the cheese and butter factories. 
 The building of the St. Charles Dairymen's Association, upon the East Side, 
 one of the finest cheese factories in the United States, was erected in the Spring 
 of 1872, cost $11,500, and has since received additions and improvements to 
 the amount of $3,500. The association was chartered by the State, in April, 
 1877, and operates the factory for the patrons, making and selling the products, 
 and deducting from the market price two and one-half cents per pound for the 
 manufacture of cheese, and five cents for butter. 
 
 The following statistics will convey to the reader a clear understanding of 
 the extent of its patronage : 
 
 REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1877. 
 
 
 No. Pounds No. Pounds. No. Pounds 
 M'lk Cheese ' Butter ; 
 Received. ; Made. , Made. 
 
 
 |No. Pounds 
 Milk 
 Received. 
 
 1 
 
 No. Pounds 
 Cheese 
 Made. 
 
 No. Pounds 
 Butter 
 Made. 
 
 January 
 
 192,000 , 
 215.000 
 288,000 
 319,000 
 502,000 
 652,000 
 
 14,907 
 16,037 
 21,511 
 22,841 
 40,883 
 54,331 i 
 
 5,443 
 5,800 
 7.325 ' 
 7,611 
 8.388 
 9,356 , 
 
 July 
 
 ...J 609,000 
 
 48,994 
 45,009 
 35,402 
 28,000 
 24,000 
 24,000 
 
 8,993 
 8,564 
 10,751 
 9,000 
 7,750 
 7,750 
 
 February 
 
 August 
 
 ....! 548 000 
 
 March 
 
 September 
 
 1 465 000 
 
 April 
 
 October 
 
 . i 360 000 
 
 May 
 
 
 .. ' 310 000 
 
 June 
 
 December 
 
 1 300,000 
 
 Within the past Summer (1877), Martin Switzer has erected, upon the West 
 Side, on the bank of a never-failing spring-brook, a stone cheese factory of vast di- 
 mensions, which will doubtless eventually obtain much of the patronage of that 
 part of the township. As it has only been operated a part of the season, no 
 fair estimate of the amount of its yearly business can be presented. 
 
 Leaving now the manufactories for the mercantile interests of the town, we 
 find several large and elegant business blocks : W. F. Osgood's, L. C. Ward's 
 and the one built on the West Side by John Gloss, during the Summer of 1877 ; 
 also, on the East Side, the gigantic pile of stone which William Irwin, one of 
 the early settlers, has been more than a score and a half of years in rear- 
 ing. " You'll never again see the man," observed its honest and industrious 
 builder, as he pointed to it, " who has piled up such a mass of material as that 
 with his own fingers ; " and we left him, convinced of the truth of his 
 statement.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 857 
 
 ELGIN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Solitary wanderers, returning to New England firesides, from prospecting 
 tours to the Great West, in 1832-3, were regarded with a feeling akin to 
 superstition by the neighbors, who flocked to hear their reports. The inter- 
 est manifested by the dwellers beyond the sea, for the navigators from the New 
 World, in the early part of the sixteenth- century, could not have far exceeded 
 theirs, for they beheld in the voyagers, whom they quizzed with Yankee perti- 
 nacity, men who had reached the end of the world and had seen sights never 
 before beheld by any but the semi-barbarous trappers, Indians, a few explorers 
 and military expeditions. Even those who studied the primary geographies, 
 among those Eastern hills, at a more recent date, can remember when Indiana 
 was regarded as the last State within the confines of civilization, while Minne- 
 sota was the grand "jumping off place" "that undiscovered country from 
 whose bourne no traveler returned." No reports from the West could be too 
 exaggerated to find ready believers ; and despite his proverbial shrewdness, many 
 a credulous Yankee was firmly convinced that herds of wild buffalo thundered 
 through the streets of Chicago by day, and 'prairie wolves howled under the 
 windows of Peoria by night. Stories of the climate and soil were equally ex- 
 aggerated and one of these, portraying Michigan as the long lost Garden of 
 Eden, at length reached, in 1833, a little village in New Hampshire, where there 
 lived, in rather straitened circumstances, a young man by the name of Isaac 
 Stone. With a friend, E. K. Mann, he took his carpet bag and bid farewell to 
 the Green Mountains, the White Mountains and the purling brooks of those 
 mountains, and went forth in quest of the fortunes that were to be obtained in 
 Michigan, "without money and without price." 
 
 In process of time, the young men reached a place called White Pigeon 
 Prairie, and there they halted, and, having hired as laborers to the farmers of 
 that country, remained until the following year, when they were attacked with 
 intermittent and bilious fevers, and, if Mr. Stone is not mistaken in this part 
 of his narrative, "shook down two or three log shanties," and thus rendered 
 themselves unpopular. " I liked the country," said he, " and I liked the peo- 
 ple, but I never did like ague," and therefore they left the State; Mann, 
 wlio.se condition had become dangerous, returning to his Eastern home, and Mr. 
 Stone proceeding to Chicago. 
 
 Finding nothing in that place to induce him to remain, he continued West- 
 ward, and after much wandering up and down the country, found himself, early 
 in the Spring of 1835, upon the bank of Fox River, at Elgin, where he says 
 that he found a pioneer named Ransom Olds,* residing in the northern part of 
 
 * Further investigation has convinced us that Mr. Stone's statement concerning this man is correct ; and Ran- 
 som Olds' cabin was the first one erected by a white man within the present limits of Elgin city or Township. 
 He arrived there early in 1835, and left the town years ago.
 
 358 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 the present city limits, in a finished 'log house, upon a claim afterward owned 
 by Reuben Jenne. Proceeding southward, he came to the claims taken by the 
 Giffords, who will be further mentioned in the chapter upon the city. These men 
 were building their first log cabin. Mr. Stone further states that Olds sold his orig- 
 inal claim about a year later, and took up the land now owned by Oscar Lawrence. 
 
 Journeying from the river to the west, Mr. Stone came to the tract where 
 he now resides, a mile and a half from the spot afterward occupied by the post 
 office of Udina, and being pleased with the situation and convinced that it was 
 far enough removed from the river to insure freedom from the prevailing dis- 
 eases of Michigan, he staked out a large claim and built his cabin. 
 
 A little later, Mr. Mann, who had recovered and learned of his comrade's 
 settlement, made his appearance and took up his abode in the same cabin, hav- 
 ing previously come to an agreement in regard to a division of the claim, when 
 either one should take unto himself a wife. Thus they lived several years, par- 
 ticipating in the hardships of their wilderness home ; and here for a time we will 
 leave them to follow the fortunes of other settlers in the township. 
 
 While Stone and Mann were in Michigan, an enterprising young man from a 
 section far removed from New Hampshire was preparing to settle in the same 
 Western State, which seems to have had peculiar attractions for pioneers from 
 every part of the country. This man was Joseph P. Corron, of Nicholas Co., 
 Va. (now West Virginia), who left his home in 1834, and proceeded to the Wol- 
 verine State, remaining a year in Cass County, and then, with a brother-in-law, 
 Jacob Amick, and one John Donalds, betook himself to the Fox River, which he 
 reached at Batavia, April 28, ] 835. Donalds had been at this place in the 
 previous year, and taken a claim a little below the present site of the village. 
 Early in the history of the settlement, he left his land and traversed almost the 
 entire West, from Texas to Oregon, and never returned. Mr. Amick took up a 
 claim at Plato Corners, in the Spring of 1836. 
 
 From Batavia, Mr. Corron journeyed to the Garton settlement at Round 
 Grove, and thence to the land where he now resides, near South Elgin, and 
 took up the claim which joined one just taken by Mr. Laughlin, who now occu- 
 pies the old Garton farm. 
 
 At this time, George Tyler was living just north of Elgin, on land now 
 owned by McNeal and McAllister ; and later in the Summer of 1835, John 
 Spitzer located in St. Charles Township. Still later, in the Fall of the same 
 year, Mr. Corron was rejoiced at the arrival of neighbors, Anson Leonard, from 
 the State of Ohio, and a man named Duncan, from New York, who took up 
 adjoining claims. 
 
 In October, 1835, Mr. Corron married Miss Hannah A. Tucker, the 
 daughter of a family who had settled just the other side of the township line on 
 the south. The marriage ceremony was performed in Chicago. 
 
 In the meantime, other settlers were coming ; and prominent among them 
 was Dr. Joseph Tefft, still an honored resident of the city of Elgin. Leaving
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 3~>9 
 
 Madison Co., N. Y., with a colony composed of himself and wife, his father and 
 family, Dr. Nathan Collins and family, and P. C. Gilbert, with their teams, 
 he had stopped for a time at a place known as. Yankee Settlement, upon the 
 Des Plaines River, and from thence the male members of the company went West, 
 prospecting crossed Fox River at Aurora, the'n visited the small settlement at 
 Blackberry, and afterward returning to the river, followed it to Herrington's 
 store on the present site of Geneva, where they were assigned a lodging in the 
 storeroom, and left there during the night. Dr. Tefft still expresses himself 
 astonished at the unsuspicious nature of a man who would trust entire strangers 
 alone with his valuable stock of goods. From this point they struck north, to 
 the settlement of Ira Minard, on the present Asylum farm, and finally settled 
 in the vicinity ; Dr. Collins taking a claim upon the west side of the river, 
 where South Elgin now stands. Dr. Tefft was upon the opposite side, and 
 Jonathan Tefft, his father, another about a mile east of Elgin, within the pres- 
 ent limits of Cook County. This was late in the Fall of 1835. The party 
 had passed the Kimball emigrants, when on their way to the Des Plaines, but 
 upon arriving in their cabins in December, they found them already located in 
 Elgin. 
 
 Great annoyance was experienced by the Teffts and Collinses, from the delay 
 of their goods, which had been shipped to Chicago. Many times they went to 
 that frog pond by the lake to inquire for them, but for a long time no tidings 
 were received, and they failed to arrive in port until the following June, when 
 the most of them were found to be spoiled from a bath taken during a gale in 
 Lake St. Clair. Such a loss at that period of the settlement was almost irre- 
 parable. Supplies of all kinds were obtained at the expense of long journeys 
 to some of the earlier established towns ; and some, flour for example, could 
 not be obtained at any reasonable price. But the peopling of Elgin progressed 
 steadily, the settlers contenting themselves with the coarsest kind of fare in the 
 absence of the comforts of their Eastern homes ; and the last months of the 
 year 1836 found cabins dotting the prairie from South Elgin to Dundee. 
 Early in that year, Asa Gifford, now a resident of Cook County, had located 
 on a claim south of and adjoining that of his brother, Hezekiah, who was the 
 first claimant in the Bluff City, although not the first to build there. During 
 the Spring of the same year, Truman Gilbert settled upon the farm which he 
 still occupies, at South Elgin. 
 
 Though far inferior, now, in population, the prospects of that village were 
 fully as good then as were those of Elgin. 'A number of settlers had clustered 
 around it, shops and mills arose nearly as early as in the place whicli was des- 
 tined to eclipse it, and for more than two years the only physician in the vicinity 
 was settled there. A school house also arose in the edge of the woods, just east 
 of the place, upon the Laughlin claim, in 1837 ; and there Miss Maria Tefft 
 gathered the little boys and girls from throughout the neighborhood and taught 
 them the three R's ("reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic"), until she herself entered
 
 360 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 the matrimonial school as the wife of E. K. Mann, in the following year. The lit- 
 tle log school house was erected by Isaac Spest and Thomas Mitchell, who pur- 
 chased the Laughlin claim, in 1836 ; Joseph and James Corron, the latter 
 having settled near his brother's claim, in the same year; and the Teffts. 
 James Corron has been years in his grave, and the same may be said of Thomas 
 Mitchell. Mrs. E. K. Mann also died long ago, in Beloit, Wis., and her hus- 
 band, more recently, in extreme poverty, in Kane County. 
 
 In the Fall of 1836, a dam was commenced by Gilbert Tefft, about eighty 
 rods below the present one, at South Elgin, and the place which it was hoped 
 would arise was called Clintonville, from De Witt Clinton, the eminent New 
 Yorker. During the Winter, the dam was finished, but was carried away the 
 next Spring. It was well built, but a mistake was made in constructing it 
 upon the sand instead of placing it on the rocks above. In the following year, 
 therefore, a second one was commenced by Gilbert, Tefft & Collins, and this 
 time placed in the proper position. As a result it remained, and, in 1838, a 
 saw-mill was built upon the East Side, and was soon in operation removing the 
 forests in the neighborhood ; and three frame dwellings soon took the place of 
 log ones. And now a long period ensued, when Clintonville remained station- 
 ary. True, about 1838, the industries of the settlement were increased, as 
 well as the noise, by the arrival of Samuel Hunting, a blacksmith, but further 
 than this little worthy of note occurred until July 3 and 4, 1847, when the 
 village was laid out on the West Side for Dr. Tefft and B. W. Raymond, by 
 Adin Mann, County Surveyor. It was the design of Mr. Gilbert, who laid out, 
 the East Side somewhat later, to build up a temperance town, and he therefore 
 ascertained the intentions of purchasers previous to selling them lots. The first 
 one which he disposed of was bought by a young mau in whom he had perfect 
 confidence, but was immediately deeded to one Nathan Williams, from Elgin, 
 who put up a distillery near the line afterward taken by the railroad, and com- 
 menced the manufacture of liquors. Rather discouraging for temperance. It 
 was likewise discouraging for the village, and may be said to have partially 
 paralyzed it. ,Its history henceforth became one of distilleries for a number of 
 years. Williams was was in the center of the place, and the owner not making 
 the business successful, soon sold ; and others followed him, each successive 
 owner* leaving the buildings in a worse condition than the last, until hopes were 
 entertained by temperance people that the business would never be revived in 
 them. About this time, one Mason, from Chicago, appeared upon the scene, 
 purchased the decaying buildings for a trifle, and rebuilt them at an enormous 
 expense. Probably not less than $50,000 was devoted to the preparation for 
 the manufacture of alcohol. But he had scarcely commenced operations when 
 officials detected him in an attempt to defraud the Government, and his plans 
 were suddenly nipped in the bud. The buildings again went to waste, and 
 were at length burned down, having been supposed to have taken fire from a 
 passing locomotive.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 361 
 
 But previous to these events, a man of great enterprise had become iden- 
 tified with the village, and did much to make it an important town. About 
 1848, G. M. Woodbury proposed to the owners of the place to take the water- 
 power and keep the dam in repair forever, and erect a flouring-mill upon either 
 side, upon condition that he should -be granted mill sites and water privileges. 
 The offer was accepted, and a stone mill, 40x60 feet, and three stories high, 
 arose upon the East Side, in accordance with the terms of the contract. The 
 privilege upon the opposite side was sold to H. Brown, and the agreement in 
 regard to it was likewise fulfilled. Woodbury attached a stone distillery to his 
 mill about 1850, and operated both for several years ; but subsequently left the 
 township, and the property was in litigation until a comparatively recent period. 
 
 In 1849, a store was built by Woodbury upon the East Side, and supplied 
 with a stock, such as is usually found in country establishments of the kind. 
 The building is now standing, and used as the office of the Steel Company. 
 
 While the foregoing events were taking place, a settlement was being estab- 
 lished at Udina, commenced in 1836 by one of the Merrills, from the Granite 
 State, and followed by his father, brothers and uncle, their names being Richard, 
 two Asas, Gilman and Jesse. Richard died after a short residence in the West. 
 As their settlement was upon the Chicago and Galena stage route, they had the 
 benefit of stages in 1837, and of a post office, which was named Udina, about a 
 year later. Asa Merrill was the first Postmaster, and his office was a log house, 
 standing where John and James Robinson now live. Not one representative of 
 the family can now be found in the vicinity of their old settlement. The post 
 office was the first in Elgin Township. The office at South Elgin, or Clinton- 
 ville as it was then called, was established about the time that the railroad was 
 laid. The first preacher was one of the itinerant representatives of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church, who traveled through the county in 1835. The first 
 birth was that of a child of Sidney Kimball, born in November, 1837, in a house 
 situated on land now owned by C. H. Larkins. Returning to South Elgin, we 
 find a bridge constructed across the river at the point where Woodbury Mill 
 stands, about 1850. A portion of it was subsequently carried away by a 
 freshet, and repaired. Later, the entire structure was removed and the present 
 iron one erected. In 1852, a paper-mill was commenced in this village, by Dr. 
 Erastus Tefft, and operated for several years, first in the manufacture of 
 wrapping and later for roofing paper ; but at length it collapsed. During all 
 the early years of the history of this village, B. W. Raymond took a prominent 
 part. Dr. Joseph Tefft, however, is the most closely identified with its rise 
 and progress. Dr. Collins soon removed to St. Charles, and left him the only 
 physician in the township. A physician's practice then varied considerably 
 from that of the present day. The doctor's extended from the south line of 
 the township northward for twenty miles or more, and so far east and west. 
 There were no good roads, and his journeys were made upon an old gray horse, 
 which the settlers still living remember well. He rode at all seasons, and was
 
 362 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 often obliged to swim streams, as bridges were unknown in the township when 
 he begun his practice, or cross trackless prairies in the darkest nights, with no 
 landmark but, the light from some distant cabin, glimmering like a sickly fire- 
 fly, or befogged will-o'-the-wisp. In 1859, the Free Methodist Society had 
 sprung up and become sufficiently strong to erect the church edifice still stand- 
 ing in South Elgin. About this time, the dairy business began to receive 
 attention. Previously there were not over 800 cows in the entire township. 
 Now there are at least 12,000. The country, which was every acre of it 
 claimed at that time, produced only about 4,000 pounds of butter and 1,000 
 pounds of cheese per annum. Now there are 2,000,000 pounds of cheese, and 
 550,000 pounds of butter made annually in the same area. Aside from the 
 vast amount of milk required in the manufacture of these luxuries of civiliza- 
 tion, three car loads are sent daily to Chicago, and the condensing factory uses 
 the milk from 1,000 cows. The first butter factory in the West was the one at 
 Elgin, now under the management of the Elgin Butter Company. Now the 
 reputation of both the butter and cheese of this city is known from Liverpool 
 to San Francisco, and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. The cheese factory 
 at Udina was erected by a stock company, composed of the farmers in the 
 neighborhood, in 1870, and has been in operation ever since. Only a small 
 business has been done during the years 1876 and 1877, owing to the financial 
 troubles, which have injured all the industries of the country. The factory at 
 South Elgin was opened in the Spring of 1873, by Tefft & Hoag, the present 
 proprietors, in a building now occupied as a store by Charles Hoag. In March, 
 1874, the building now used Avas put up, and there the great celebrity of the 
 butter and cheese manufactured by the company has been attained. The factory 
 possesses peculiar advantages from having three large springs near at hand, of 
 unusual size and containing water at a very low temperature, while the amount 
 of milk received compares favorably with that of any other factory in the 
 United States. A variety store was opened in Udina some fifteen years 
 ago by Wesley Fletcher, and is now used as a dwelling by Milton Harger. 
 There is now but one store in that part of Elgin, and it is kept by Charles 
 Bean. 
 
 The South Elgin Fork Factory commenced operations April 1, 1875, under 
 the proprietorship of James H. Gifford. Ten hands are employed, and 200 dozen 
 hay, manure and spading forks manufactured per month. The business has proved 
 successful and the forks hold a high rank in the market. Iron rakes are like- 
 wise made in great numbers. The machinery of the establishment is operated 
 by water power. 
 
 In 1876, the South Elgin Steel and Malleable Iron Works commenced the 
 manufacture of skates and small castings, under the control of a joint stock 
 company, with an authorized capital of $15,000. At one time about thirty 
 men were employed. The foundry was entirely new, with blast furnace and 
 capacity for forty molders. A very superior skate was made, probably the best
 
 UNIVERSALIST MINISTER OF PINGREE GROVE

 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 365 
 
 in the market for the price, but owing to general mismanagement, as all the 
 stockholders freely admit, the machinery and buildings were recently sold at 
 Sheriff's sale. 
 
 Mr. Panton, the present owner of the West Side Flouring-mill, has a cheese 
 and butter-tub factory which gives employment to six coopers and which con- 
 tains machinery operated by a shaft extending from the adjoining mill. 
 
 Another general cooper shop, in the same village, is owned by Charles 
 Klock steam being the motive power and requires the services of twelve 
 workmen. According to the testimony of Mr, Hoag, of the neighboring fac- 
 tory, Mr. Klock makes a very superior butter tub. 
 
 Aside from the above, South Elgin possesses a tannery, owned by Gahan & 
 Hutchins, employing five men : also three stores, two on the East and one on 
 the West Side. 
 
 It now remains for us simply to notice the progress made in the schools of 
 the township since the days when its institutions of learning were limited to 
 the little log school house in the grove near South Elgin. There are now nine 
 school districts outside of the city limits, all of which contain comfortable 
 houses and support schools during the greater part of the year. They are 
 numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11. District No. 2 contains a brick edi- 
 fice a number of years old. All the other houses, including No. 8, the one in 
 South Elgin, are built of wood. The estimated valuation of school property is 
 $25,300. 
 
 Elgin Township is Congressional Township 41, North Range 8, East of the 
 Third Principal Meridian. It contains thirteen and a half miles of railroad ; 
 Fox River crosses it further to the east of the center than in any of the other 
 river townships in the county. Tyler Creek traverses its northern sections ; 
 while other small streams flow from the center southward. It is thus well 
 watered, but contains little waste land and is peculiarly adapted to the dairying 
 business, which has been pursued by the inhabitants with such magnificent 
 results. 
 
 CITY OF ELGIN. 
 
 With some unimportant changes in the relative positions of the savage hordes 
 who occasionally made it their hunting ground, the land now occupied by the 
 city of Elgin remained, in the early Spring of 1835, as it had been since the 
 discovery of the continent. 
 
 Early explorations had been confined to the east and south, and, though 
 Scott's army had cleared the way three years previously, the vast resources of 
 this valley were at that date undeveloped ; no cabin appeared with the curling 
 smoke from the fire of the pioneer, and no claim lines betokened the earliest 
 settlement. Desolation reigned in the midst of the "Garden of the World," 
 and silence, interrupted only by the chirp of some feathered songster, the bark
 
 366 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 of the prairie wolf or the triumphant yell of the dark hunter, as he brought 
 down the vigilant buck. 
 
 But the settlers were on their way, and in order to fully comprehend the 
 immediate causes which led to the peopling of Elgin, it will be necessary to 
 retrace our steps to the previous year, when there dwelt in the county of 
 Oneida, State of New York, a man by the name of Hezekiah Gifford. Having 
 heard of a land in the West, fertile beyond all that he had ever seen, wealthy 
 in water privileges, and abounding with ample supplies of wood, " a land of 
 streams," of fields already cleared for the harvest and waiting for the plowman, 
 he sold his property in the East and repaired to Buffalo. Taking passage 
 thence on a steamer for Detroit, with a Mr. Duryea, with whom he had formed 
 an acquaintance in Buffalo, he arrived, after a stormy voyage, went by stage 
 thence to St. Joseph, when he boarded a schooner and was landed in due time 
 safe in the native mud of Chicago. That city now the pride of the West was- 
 then scarcely a suitable dwelling-place for a colony of prairie dogs or gophers. 
 Its dirt-begrimmed cabin walls and vile streets, in which pigs and geese wal- 
 lowed in filthy happiness, presented no attractive features for any higher orders 
 of creation ; while in place of theaters during the week, and churches on Sun- 
 days, the inhabitants enjoyed daily dog-fights and drunken rows. There were, 
 however, some good and law-abiding citizens even in that hamlet, and the gen- 
 erally depraved condition was owing, in great measure, to the lower classes of 
 emigrants who sought refuge there, and the reeking saloons which were kept 
 open for their especial benefit. While wending his way along the streets of 
 this "beautiful West," Messrs. Gifford and Duryea descried a man approach- 
 ing with a yoke of oxen, and hailing him ascertained that his name was Ferson r 
 and that he lived upon the banks of Fox River, the goal for which they had 
 started when they left New York. They accordingly secured places in his cart r 
 and, taking the old army trail, after a weary journey, in which they were fre- 
 quently obliged to walk, were at length landed at the log hut owned by Mr. 
 Ferson and his brother, on the west side of the river, where St. Charles now 
 stands. Having partaken of their hospitality in the shape of some good veni- 
 son steaks and coffee, and obtained the rest of which they were so sorely 
 in need, they proceeded down the river, following an Indian trail to Aurora, 
 where they found a lone cabin and its owner, Joseph McCarty, near by digging 
 granite boulders to form the first dam. From this point, they went to the pres- 
 ent site of Yorkville, thence to Indian Creek and Somonauk, and finally to 
 the vicinity of Blackberry, where they found a man by the name of Hollen- 
 beck, comfortably settled; and having taken up claims near him, returned to 
 New York, where Mr. Gifford directed his steps to the home of his brother, 
 James T. Gifford, in Yates County, and related the story of his adventures. 
 
 In such vivid colors did he portray the beauties of the Fox River country, 
 that James T., who was a man of unusual energy, determined to sell his farm at 
 the earliest opportunity and emigrate West in the Spring. Meanwhile, Heze-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 367 
 
 kiali visited his father's family, in Oneida County, and some friends, in Che- 
 nango County, where he married, and, returning to his brother, who had dis- 
 posed of his property during his short absence, both started with a team and 
 lumber wagon, \vhich was loaded with tools and provisions for man and beast, 
 and arrived in Chicago on the 24th day of March, 1835, having driven the 
 entire distance. Having received glowing accounts of a place then called Mil- 
 waukee Bay, now Milwaukee, they directed their course northward from Chicago 
 with a man named Goodwin ; they did not meet a single soul on the way, and 
 were so poorly supplied with the necessaries of life, they were obliged to divide 
 their few biscuits with their horses. Arriving at their destination, they ascer- 
 tained, to their great disappointment, that all the land about the present city of 
 Milwaukee had been claimed, and accordingly formed the determination to pro- 
 ceed southwesterly to the country visited by Hezekiah in the previous season. 
 The horses which they had ridden from Chicago were accordingly delivered to 
 Mr. Goodwin, who was about to return, and the Giffords took up their line of 
 march across the country, but were soon obliged to return, having lost their 
 way ; and, wandering to the south of Milwaukee, reached the lake at the 
 site of the present city of Racine. Here they became acquainted with one Jack 
 Jumbeau, one of the waifs which the earlier French occupancy had left upon the 
 shore of life, a half-breed trader and trapper, and a fair type of the coureurs du 
 bois, so frequently alluded to in Parkman's admirable History of the Conspiracy 
 of Pontiac. Jack told them that he knew the country well, and that by taking the 
 trail from his door they would reach Fox River in half a day. They, therefore, 
 made the attempt again, and this time successfully, for, at the period stated by 
 the trapper, the stream appeared in the distance, and they were soon upon its 
 solitary banks. Following it to the south, they walked for miles without meet- 
 ing a sign of human habitation or of life until, as they were beginning to be 
 wearied by their tedious journeyings, they discovered a lone Indian in a canoe, 
 whom they hailed and induced to convey them to the opposite bank. Their 
 inquiries of this dusky Charon in regard to settlers were answered unsatisfac- 
 torily, and, night coming on, they slept upon the ground without supper. Upon 
 the earliest break of day, they were up and on the march. Creeks were waded 
 and marshes crossed, yet still nothing but a wilderness spread out before them. 
 At length, after they had been some thirty hours without a morsel of food, 
 Hezekiah Gifibrd observed a small hut in the distance. With quickening paces 
 they hastened to obtain the succor which it promised, but the " ancient mari- 
 ner's " disappointment awaited them. There were no children playing near its 
 doorway, no obstreperous cur ran out to meet them. " The silence was un- 
 broken," and when they shouted, there was no response. Approaching and 
 peering in, they beheld the body of a dead Pottawattomie warrior, in a sitting 
 posture, wrapped in his blanket and adorned with many trinkets, indicative of 
 his rank and importance. This was all that the hut contained, and it was 
 merely a rude sarcophagus, common among the Indian tribes. Their feelings
 
 368 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 can better be imagined than told, for they were nearly famished, and starva- 
 tion stared them in the face. 
 
 Weakened by hunger and travel, they continued southward. Night again 
 settled around them, and with it rain, and they awoke, wet and chilled, from a 
 sleep disturbed by the howling of wild animals near their cold couch. Early in 
 the day, they came to Nipersink Creek, in the present county of McHenry, and 
 were obliged to wade the stream, which was waist-high, holding their clothes 
 above their heads. Having reached a point near the present town of Algon- 
 quin, they were rejoiced at the sight of a human figure moving in the distance. 
 Approaching, they found, to their great joy, that the stranger was a white 
 man, who was at the time engaged in the pioneer employment of splitting rails, 
 and informed the travelers that he worked for Samuel Gillan, whose cabin was 
 near. James Gifford was so rejoiced to hear this that he exclaimed in ecstacy, 
 " Oh, now we'll have a good meal ! " and the hired man conducted them to the 
 door, where they were kindly received by Mr. and Mrs. Gillan, and were soon 
 enjoying the good meal anticipated. After a refreshing sleep and a hearty 
 breakfast, they left the dwelling of their liberal host, and a few miles further 
 brought them to the present' site of the city of Elgin, where they were enchanted 
 with the beauty of the scenery the rapidity of the clear stream, the woodland 
 on either bank, almost free from underbrush, and the fields as beautiful as if 
 already waiting the harvest and here they determined to locate. Accordingly, 
 James T. laid claim to the land still known as " James T. Gilford's plat 
 of Elgin," Avhile his brother took up a tract further south, upon the same side 
 of the river (east), and including the grounds now occupied by the National 
 Watch Factory. Having learned from Mr. Gillan that a Mr. Welch was living 
 at the head of Little Woods, within the present limits of St. Charles Township, 
 they then proceeded to his place, as a mere act of courtesy, and afterward re- 
 turned to Chicago for their horses and wagon. As they were about to leave 
 that place, two days after, on their return, a man stopped them on Randolph 
 street ; stated that his name was Joseph Kimball ; that he was looking for a 
 mill site ; inquired if they knew of a good location, and their place of residence. 
 On being told that they came from Fox River, the gentleman inquired the way 
 there, received his directions, and the GiffbrJs started for their claims. It may 
 here be mentioned that James T.'s cabin was built within the present limits of 
 the little triangular square near the present residence of Mr. Davidson. 
 
 A description of the mode of constructing the houses in the Elgin of that 
 day may not be uninteresting, as contrasted with the modern architecture. The 
 shanties were built of logs, unhewed, and consisted of one or two rooms, accord- 
 ing to the amount of time at the disposal of the builder. In case there were 
 two, they were known as double log houses, and were constructed by piling up 
 two pens side by side. The roofs were f shingles, two feet long and more, 
 split from oak logs, and generally unshaved, and, there being no nails in the 
 settlement, they were bound down by poles laid across them and extending the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 369 
 
 full length of the roof, each tier of shingles resting upon two similar poles 
 which formed the rafters, and ran lengthwise, instead of obliquely, as in these 
 dangerous days. The first binding-pole, and the nearest to the eaves, was held 
 in its place by resting upon two or more wooden pins driven through the 
 shingles, the next one depending for support upon several sticks of proper 
 length, the lower ends of Avhich rested upon the lower pole, while the upper 
 ends formed a base. Thus the entire row of poles were held in position by the 
 pins underneath the lower one. The floors (when they had any) were of 
 puncheons, and the doors, of the same material, were hung upon wooden 
 hinges. Uncouth as these first cabins must have been, they are said to have 
 afforded excellent shelter for the inmates. The grotesque roofs seldom leaked, 
 and the corn dodgers eaten by their ample fire-places tasted (according to the 
 testimony of the old settlers) as good as the finer fare of the present day by a 
 modern coal stove, behind the solid protection of brick walls. 
 
 Mr. Hezekiah Gifford's cabin was built near where the residence recently 
 owned by George S. Bowen stands. The Giffords had not long returned from 
 Chicago when Samuel J., G. W., Russell and Jonathan Kimball, parties with 
 whom Joseph Kimball had communicated, made their appearance at the settle- 
 ment, and announced their intention of making claims in the vicinity. The two 
 previous settlers were, of course, rejoiced at this prospect of having near neigh- 
 bors, gave the visitors a hearty welcome, and the claim lines were soon staked 
 out, Mr. Samuel J. Kimball choosing the land now owned by Walter and Joseph 
 Kimball, his house being still in existence near the residence of the latter; 
 while Mr. Jonathan Kimball also took up a tract upon the West Side, within 
 the present corporation limits. G. W. Kimball settled at first a number of 
 miles south, but subsequently moved to Elgin, where he has since died. Russell 
 Jumball also settled within the city limits, but removed at an early day. Mr. 
 Joseph Kimball, who had made the inquiries of the young men in Chicago, died 
 while on a journey East for his family. During the early Spring of this year, 
 the Giffords went to a small settlement upon the banks of the Du Page and 
 purchased four yoke of oxen, and from thence James T. went to Chicago, where 
 he found his brother ,Asa* and Mrs. Hezekiah Gifford, who had just arrived 
 from the East. Accompanying him back to Fox River, Mrs. Gifford was for 
 six weeks the only white woman in the settlement. She had but just established 
 herself in her new home when a company of the " noble sons and daughters of 
 the forest" called upon her not for the purpose of paying their respects, as 
 civilization would have suggested to their untutored minds but to beg for flour 
 and other supplies, which the savage is unable to obtain save by trade with the 
 settlers. Often they would bring her fish and venison, which they would offer 
 to exchange for these products so rare among them as to be regarded as dainties, 
 and on one occasion when the lady was alone a band of about twenty walked 
 into the cabin and one essayed to help himself to flour. Mrs. Gifford, although 
 
 * Now living in Cook County.
 
 370 HISTORY OF KANK COUNTY. 
 
 nearly frightened to death, assumed a bold air, and gave the audacious gentle- 
 man a push which sent him reeling across the cabin and produced shouts of 
 laughter from his companions, who always admire a brave "squaw." They 
 soon left the dwelling without taking further liberties, but meeting Mr. Gifford, 
 were conducted back and presented with all the flour that he could spare. 
 Indeed, it may well be doubted if any could be dispensed with for a less impor- 
 tant consideration than the friendship of the savages, for the scarcity of mills 
 throughout the country was sorely felt at this time. Journeys were made to 
 Green's Mill (now Dayton), and a settlement near Joliet, where a set of mill 
 stones had been attached to a saw-mill, but both of these buildings- were contin- 
 ually crowded with customers, and grain was not unfrequently stored in them 
 for a week, awaiting the proper time for grinding. As a previous writer has 
 suggested, they "ground slowly," like the mills of the gods, but, unlike them, 
 not particularly small. But Mr. James T. Gifford, equal to any emergency, 
 conceived the idea of constructing a cheap substitute, for pulverizing the wheat 
 and corn nearer home. An immense stump was hollowed out to form a mortar, 
 within which a huge pestle was fitted, and attached to a long pole, balanced 
 upon a post like the well-sweep which raised the "old oaken bucket;" and here 
 the grain was pounded as occasion demanded. 
 
 And now the settlers began to feel the need of a road to the outer world, 
 and accordingly one was staked to Meacham's Grove, since known as Blooming- 
 dale. Late in the same Spring, James Gifford visited his former home in the 
 East, and upon his return was accompanied by his family, consisting of hi*, wife 
 and five children, and also by his two sisters, Experience and Harriet, the latter 
 of whom still resides in Elgin. 
 
 In June, 1835, P. J. Kimball, Sr., settled upon the spot where Mr. Bor- 
 den's dwelling now stands, and with him came two ladies rare accessions to 
 the Fox River settlements then Mrs. Kimball and her daughter. And now 
 the hope, presumptuous though it at first seemed, began to dawn that there 
 might one day be a town in that beautiful valley, and Mr. James T. Gifford 
 startled his brother and sister-in-law one day by saying, without previous warn- 
 ing, u What shall we call the town ? " Hezekiah arose in astonishment, while 
 his wife nearly fainted, but, regaining her breath, she gasped some reply which 
 indicated that she was not a credulous woman and was not to be imposed upon. 
 " Well," said James T., " I have a Scotch name for it, and a short one, 
 ' Elgin.' ' It should here be observed that Mr. Gifford was very fond of the old 
 tune by the same name, which Burns has immortalized, and likewise of old 
 " Dundee," and that he had previously applied the latter to a small village in 
 New York. But Mrs. Gifford could not recover in a moment, and now ven- 
 tured to inquire if they really supposed stages would ever run there. " To 
 be sure we do," replied both the brothers, and, in 1837, the energetic James 
 T. having laid out in the previous year the Gale.na road as far as Belvidere, 
 Mrs. Gifford saw two stages pass in one day into Elgin. Mr. Gifford had
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 371 
 
 labored diligently to secure the passage of the stages through the town, as there 
 was some effort made to establish the line by way of St. Charles. He even 
 went to Washington and spent several weeks there, at his own private expense, 
 presenting inducements for a mail route through his place. His labors were 
 signally successful, and the place formerly know as State Road became legally 
 Elgin. The first post office was established in his house in January, 1837, the 
 mail being carried a short time from Chicago on horseback. The same log 
 building served also as the first school house in the Summer of 1836, Miss 
 Harriet Gifford being the " wielder of the birch and rule." Her juvenile mon- 
 archy contained but ten subjects, who are said to have been governed with skill 
 and kindness. 
 
 Religious exercises commenced in Elgin upon the first Sunday after the 
 arrival of the Gifford family, when Miss Harriet Gifford read a sermon in her 
 brother James' log cabin. Later, regular services were held each Sabbath in 
 the same dwelling, conducted by Russell Kimball or Deacon Philo Hatch, the 
 latter having settled upon the East Side, upon the lot since known as the Webb 
 place. The James T. Gifford house seems to have been the first public build- 
 ing for all purposes preaching, courts and public meetings and was even 
 of more importance than town houses to larger places. 
 
 On the 4th of July, 183b', the first celebration of the people of Elgin, or 
 " State Road," as it was still called, occurred, as follows : The road previously 
 blazed to Meacham's Grove was such that the wayfaring man might err therein 
 unless diligent attention was given to the blazed trees through the woodland and 
 the furrows across the prairie. Accordingly, several teams were attached to a 
 fallen tree at Elgin, and the settlers, turning out en masse, drove them to a 
 point half way between the two places, leaving a deep track the entire way, 
 and were there met by a delegation from the grove with a similar path marker, 
 and all were refreshed by an Independence dinner of corn cake, cold bacon and 
 coffee. 
 
 At an election held for Lake Precinct, at the house of Thomas H. Thomp- 
 son, within the limits of the present township of Dundee, on the first day of 
 the same month, Jonathan Kimball was chosen Justice of the Peace, and S. J. 
 Kimball Constable for Elgin. 
 
 On the 10th of October following, the first election in the town of Elgin 
 was held, at the public House of Hezekiah Gifford, erected the same year, upon 
 the site afterward occupied by the Presbyterian Church. Political life, thus 
 commenced, received new vigor on the 9th of October, in the following year, 
 when the second election in the place occurred at the same hotel, which was 
 then owned by Eli Henderson. On this occasion, James T. Gifford was elected 
 Justice of the Peace, and Eli Henderson, Constable. 
 
 The year 1836 is remembered as the date when the first religious society 
 was regularly organized in the town. In February of that year, Rev. John H. 
 Prentiss, of Joliet, and Rev. N. C. Clark, then of Naperville, met, by invita-
 
 372 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 tion, a small congregation at the house of J. T. Gifford, where, after a sermon 
 by the former gentleman, it was determined to form a church as soon as con- 
 venient. 
 
 In the following May, the determination was carried into effect, under the 
 direction of Father Clark, of the Congregational denomination. Mr. Clark 
 subsequently removed to Elgin, where he enjoyed for many years the love and 
 reverence of all his townsmen, and died lamented by all. 
 
 The first male white child born in Elgin appeared upon the stage of life 
 November 28, 1836, and is now well known to the citizens of the place as 
 Joseph Kimball. The first death, that of Miss Mary Ann Kimball, a daughter 
 of P. J. Kimball, occurred in May of the same year ; and the first marriage, 
 at the house of Jonathan Kimball, when his daughter was joined in wedlock 
 with Sidney Kimball. It will be observed from the above that the Kimball 
 family was sufficiently numerous to form a respectable hamlet by themselves. 
 
 The first cemetery was situated upon land now owned by Mrs. Horace 
 French, and there the body of the lady mentioned above was buried. The later 
 burying ground was laid out in 1844, and the remains of many of those depos- 
 ited in the former ground were disinterred and removed there. Through the 
 care of a former sexton of this necropolis, a perfect record has been kept of all 
 bodies deposited therein a volume which cannot be too highly appreciated. 
 
 In 1836, the Indians left, to the great joy of the settlers ; for, although 
 friendly and generally harmless, they were a source of constant dread to the timid, 
 and were more bold and impudent in their importunity than the tramps who 
 now traverse the country, from Maine to California. The thought that a 
 licensed rattlesnake sleeps upon the doorstep is not pleasant to a brave man, 
 even if he knows that the reptile may be propitiated by an abundance of food, 
 and by carefully observing the rule to go around him ; and a very similar senti- 
 ment may be said to have existed in the minds of the early pioneers toward 
 their red neighbors. They dared not use them otherwise than respectfully. 
 Their demand for " pennyack," " quashkin " and " goonatosh " always received 
 an answer of peace and a liberal donation, even if the settler had scarcely 
 enough of these supplies to last his own family a single day, for he knew that 
 the slightest insult would rouse the war hounds from the lair. Despite all the 
 sentiment which has been wasted upon them, a careful study of their habits, 
 from the most favorable reports of those acquainted with them, will convince 
 any sane man that the " abused " Pottawattomies were, even in the most favor- 
 able ligut in which we can view them, a lazy rabble of armed thieves and va- 
 grants. In the. year of their departure, the Elgin people received a terrible 
 fright, by a courier arriving in the village, from the north, with a report that 
 the Chippeways had dug up the hatchet, and were on their way toward Fox 
 River in overwhelming numbers. A public meeting was called and measures 
 of defense at once taken, but the Indians failed to make an appearance, and the 
 settlement was troubled with reports of them no more.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 373 
 
 In the Fall of 1836, a frame addition was made to Gifford's Tavern, which 
 was originally of very moderate dimensions for a public house, being only 16x24 
 feet. Until April, 1875, this addition was standing. 
 
 Not long after this, the Elgin House, kept for many years by a man by the 
 name of Tibballs, was erected by William S. Shaw, at the corner of Chicago 
 and Center streets, where it was considered one of the most magnificent hotels 
 in the West. A part of it is now the Elgin House, kept by William Spend- 
 love. Tibballs left Elgin when the railroad came, confident that grass would 
 thenceforth grow in the streets ; and in the Spring of 1851, the hotel was con- 
 verted into a seminary, under the management of Misses E. and E. E. Lord, 
 now of Chicago. 
 
 The closely contested election for Governor, in 1837, and the Congressional 
 contest between Stephen A. Douglass and John T. Stewart, aroused a vast 
 amount of enthusiasm in Elgin, and nearly every legal voter is supposed to have 
 cast his ballot. The election was held at Eli Henderson's house, and resulted 
 in 47 votes for Carlin and Anderson, Democratic candidates for Governor and 
 Lieutenant Governor ; while Edwards and Davidson, Opposition, received 26 
 votes. The number cast for Douglas was 45, to 26 for Stewart. The Con- 
 gressional District included nearly all Northern Illinois. 
 
 In 1837, Mr W. C. Kimball came to the growing hamlet and set about 
 developing its resources with Mr. S. J. Kimball and James T. Gifford. A dam 
 was built across the river by Folsom Bean, a mill-race dug upon the West Side 
 by Mr. Kimball and upon the east by Mr. Gifford, while the former put up a 
 saw-mill and the latter quite a good grist-mill, which stood for years at the head 
 of the race. Later, it was used for a slaughter-house, and finally burned by 
 incendiaries. An old settler states that it required all the men then living be- 
 tween St. Charles and Alconquin to raise the saw-mill. It is still standing. 
 
 In June, 1838, Dr. Tefft, who, as has been heretofore seen, had been in the 
 township since 1835, removed to the village, where he built the first frame house 
 in the place, upon land now occupied by the market. About the time of his 
 arrival, another physician, Dr. Elmore, settled upon the place now occupied by 
 Mr. Carpenter. In the following year he commenced keeping hotel in the house 
 built by Hezekiah Gifford for that purpose, and left the town shortly after. 
 
 About the same year, one Judd, Elgin's first blacksmith, made his appear- 
 ance in the village. Previously, a brother of Judd had preceded him and burned 
 a coal-pit for the coming smith. While engaged in this work, a small shanty 
 provided for his accommodation caught' fire and burned down. This was the 
 first conflagration in Elgin. The blacksmith left about 1839, and was followed 
 by another worker in iron and steel Jason House by name. 
 
 Several other arrivals should be noticed at this^time, among them B. Healy, 
 the first harness-maker ; Harvey Raymond, Burgess Truesdell, Alfred Hadlock, 
 William Shaw, John and Vincent Lovell. Elgin people, as we have seen, had 
 suffered great inconvenience, during the early years of the settlement, from the
 
 374 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 lack of a bridge. On one occasion, it is said that two young ladies, who Were 
 visiting upon the West Side, were obliged to take off their shoes and stockings 
 and wade the river to reach the opposite bank. Such a state of affairs began to 
 appear extremely scandalous to the village, and the citizens resolved upon the 
 immediate erection of a bridge. A rude wooden structure was accordingly 
 raised in 1837, one of the abutments standing immediately in front of, and 
 within two or three feet of, Healy's shop, so much has the channel of the stream 
 been narrowed since that day. In 1849, the bridge was carried away by a 
 freshet, and was replaced by a more substantial one of the same material, which 
 remained until 1866, when it was removed for a handsome iron one. The Elgin 
 people now imagined that they had secured for themselves a permanent bond 
 between the river banks, and one which would defy alike the wear of time and 
 the fury of the elements. What, then, was their disappointment when it went 
 down beneath the weight of a drove of cattle, and when, after being replaced, a 
 portion of the new structure shared a like fate on the 4th of July, 1869. The 
 curse of Sisyphus seemed to have been imposed upon them ; but they bravely 
 recommenced their work, and this time with success, for, after the third 
 attempt, the bridge has held itself in place. A new iron bridge of different 
 design was constructed in 1870 -from a point near the watch factory to the oppo- 
 site side. 
 
 Mercantile enterprise was first displayed in Elgin by the appearance, in 1836, 
 of a frame store on Block 9, upon the north side of Chicago street. In the 
 same year in which it was raised, Samuel Stoars commenced selling goods in a 
 small log store, and was soon after joined in business with F. Bean, the partner- 
 ship continuing for several years. The dam, built by the latter, went out the 
 following April, but was replaced by another during the Summer. 
 
 Chicago was now beginning to rise from the mud, and a market could 
 generally be found there for all the Western products. A reliable authority 
 states that from 1838 onward, wheat never sold for less than thirty cents, nor corn 
 for less than twenty cents per bushel, and pork was often firm at $1.50 ; and at 
 that time prices seldom rose far above these figures. Let farmers who complain of 
 the present hard times read this and be happy. As early as 1835, Mr. 
 J. T. Gifford had sketched a plan of that part of the city now known as 
 J. T. Gifford's plat of Elgin, extending from Division street on the north, 
 to Prairie street on the south, and from Chapel street to the east bank of the 
 river ; but there is no record of a survey among the plats in the Recorder's 
 office until August 3, 1842, where we are informed that a described tract upon 
 the east side of the river was regularly laid off in lots and streets, for the proprietor, 
 James T. Gifford, by J. P. Wagner, County Surveyor. On the 12th day of Feb- 
 ruary, in the following year, a similar service was performed by the same gentle- 
 man for W. C. Kimball, the proprietor of the West Side. Settlers for all points 
 West had been pouring into Elgin almost daily for more than a year, when, in 
 1838, B. W. Raymond and his partner, S. N. Dexter, appeared in the village 

 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 375 
 
 and bought one-half of the J. T. Gifford claim. To Mr. Raymond Elgin is 
 greatly indebted for many of the improvements which followed, for although 
 not an actual resident, he displayed a remarkable interest in its progress, 
 contributed liberally for the establishment and support of the Elgin Academy, 
 was for a long time one of the leading merchants, was a partner in the foundry 
 of Augustus Adams & Co., instrumental in establishing the woolen mill built 
 by S. N. Dexter, in 1844, and in securing the location of the watch factory, of 
 which he became President. During the year 1838, the Baptists, who had met 
 for some time in the house of Hezekiah Gifford, organized a society under the 
 Rev. J. E. Ambrose, and for several subsequent years met with other religious 
 organizations in a frame building, 25x30 feet, which stood at the northeast cor- 
 ner of Du Page and Geneva streets, and is still well remembered by the Elgin 
 people as the Elgin Chapel. It was raised principally through the liberality of 
 Mr. Gifford, and was used both for church and school purposes, and was sur- 
 mounted by a small tower, and the first bell hung in the village. Several 
 denominations were nurtured during their infancy within its walls. We will 
 have occasion to allude to it again. From 1839 to 1840, no extensive ' enter- 
 prises were launched, but the steady growth of the town continued during the 
 interval, and new arrivals constantly appeared. In the latter year, great interest 
 was taken in the Presidental election, the Whig element having attained con- 
 siderable strength in the village. As a list of the voters may be of interest as 
 illustrative of the increase in the population during five years, and the political 
 changes since that day, we give the following as recorded. The names prefixed 
 with a W. represent those who voted the Whig ticket : 
 
 Colton Knox, Edward E. Harvey Geo. W. Renwick, David Hunter, (W.) 
 Erasmus Davis, Philo S. Petterson, (W.) Benjamin Hall, (W.) Thomas Frazier, 
 (W.) Wm. V. Clark, (W.) Thomas Hammers, (W.) James P. Corron, Wm. Conley, 
 Thomas Calvert, Aaron Harwood, Lewis Ray, Charles H. Hayden, Joseph S. 
 Burdwick, Anthony Phillips, Caleb Kepp, W. S. Shaw, (W.) Luther C. Stiles, 
 Asahel B. Hinsdell, Seth Green, George Hammer, Justice Stowers, Hiram 
 Williams, Jonathan Kimball, Joseph Tefft, Wm. C. Kimball, (W.) Burgess 
 Truesdell, (W.) Charles W. Mappa, (W.) George Hassan, (W.) Asa Merrill, John 
 W. Switzer, James Hoag, (W.) Otis Hinckley, (W.) Abel Walker, Francis Wells, 
 Samuel Waterman, David Hammer, David Welch, John Hill, (W.) George E. 
 Smith, (W.) James Sutherland, (W.) Finley Frazier, Daniel B. Taylor, Geo. W. 
 Hammer, Geo. R. Dyer, (W.) Lorenzo Whipple, (W.) Erastus Bailey, (W.) Ly- 
 man Rockwood, Guy Adams, (W.) Myron Smith, (W.) Lewis Tupper (W.), 
 Ralph Stowell, Whitman Underwood, (W.) Hal.sey 'Rosenkrans, Lyman 
 Williams, Jonathan Tefft, Jr., (W) Moses Wanzer, (W.) Norman Stephens, (W.) 
 S. A. Wolcott, Ransom Olds, Jas. M. Howard, (W.) Ralph Grow, (W.) Perry 
 Stephens, (W.) Calvin Carr, Ira Earl (W.), Solomon Hamilton, (W.) Asa Gifford, 
 John B. Scovell, (W.) John Lowell, (W.) E. A. Mittimore, William B. Howard, 
 ( W.) Aaron Bailey, Alfred Hadlock, Wm. W. Welch, (W.) Harvey Gage, Elisha
 
 376 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Sprague, John Flinn, Pierce Tobin, (W.) Benjamin Burritt, (W.) N.- C. Clark, 
 (W.) Walcott Hart, Benjamin Williams, Geo. W. Kimball, (W.) Harvey Ray- 
 mond, (W.) Charles B. Tucker, Jesse Abbott, Isaac Stone, John S. Calvert, (W.) 
 Hezekiah Gifford, Amos Tefft, (W.) Win. R. Mann, Lewis Eaton, Abraham 
 Leatherman, (W. ) Peter Burritt, Daniel Leatherman, Samuel Parker, Nathan 
 E. Daggett, (W.) Craig Duncan, (W.) Thomas Mitchell, (W.) Calvin Hall, Adin 
 Mann, Isaac West, Jonathan Tefft, A. W. Hoag, ( W.) Anson Leonard, John 
 Guptill, Joseph Corron, (W.) L. S. Tyler, George Hammer 2d, Amos Clark, 
 Elijah Clark, (W.) Philo Sylla, (W.) James H. Scott, (W.) Philip H. Sargent 
 (W.), Solomon H. Hamilton, (W.) John Ternworth, (W.) Vincent S. Lovell, 
 Sidney Heath, (W.) James Parker, (W.) Orange Parker, James Todd, (W.) 
 Chaplin W. Merrill, Horace Heath, Richard A. Heath, Hiram George, (W.) 
 William A. Moulton. Simon Deke, W. M. Bellows, Abel Pierce, (W.) Joshua 
 E. Ambrose, Benjamin Adams, Samuel Minard, (W.) Asa Rosenkrans, (W.) 
 P. J. Kimball, Jr., (W.) Charles Merrifield, (W.) Byron Smith, (W.) John 
 June, S. P. Burdick, Owen Burk, Aurelius Barney, Chas. S. Tibballs, (W.) 
 Artemus Hewett, (W.) Christopher Branham, Daniel Guptail, (W.) Humphrey 
 Huckins, (W.) Henry Serman, Marcus Ranstead, (W.) A. D. Gifford, (W.) 
 Alphonso Whipple, Josiah Stephens, (W.) Alfred Gurlean, (W.) Geo. Sawyer, 
 Samuel Kimball, Geo. F. Taylor, (W.) P. M. Goodrich, (W.) Anson Under- 
 wood, (W.) Jas. H. Rowley, (W.) John Cromer, (W.) David Corlis, (W.) Geo. 
 W. Rowley, (W.) Alexander Plummer, Wm. W. Welch, Luther Herriek, (W.) 
 Halsey Adams, Alfred C. Ordway, Samuel Hunting, Russell F. Kimball, 
 Abraham Cawood, (W.) E. K. Mann, N. K. Abbott, (W.) Horace Benjamin, 
 (W.) Thomas Bateman, Samuel J. Kimball, Berry Branham, Wm. Plummer 
 Kimball, A. S. Kimball, Joseph Kimball, Charles Kimball, (W.) Aaron Porter, 
 (W.) Gould Hinman, (W.) A. R. Porter, Jason House, (W.) Jarvis Smith, 
 (W.) Seth Slawell, Franklin Bascomb, Mark Adams, (W.) Stephen De Long, 
 James West, Thomas Burbanks, Moses Gray, Elijah Waterman, Almond Fuller, 
 (W.) Jas. T. Gifford, John Ranstead, D. B. McMellen, Isaac Hammer, (W.) 
 Isaac Otis, Rowland Lee, Alexander McMellen, Folsom Bean, Judah H. 
 Fuller, Philo Hatch, Amos Stone. It will be seen that this list contains the 
 voters of the entire township. 
 
 In the same year (1840), the legal profession was first represented in Elgin, 
 the practitioner being Edward E. Harvey, a former student of Joseph Churchill, 
 Esq., of Batavia, and a brother of Geo. P. Harvey, still a resident of the city. 
 Mr. Harvey was a good speaker and a successful lawyer, remaining in Elgin 
 until 1847, when, having received a commission as Captain, he raised a company 
 of volunteers and led them to the seat of war in Mexico, where he died in the 
 following year, near Cerro Gordo, at the age of 32. In 1841, Isaac G. Wilson, 
 the son of Judge Wilson, of Batavia, settled in Elgin and commenced the legal 
 practice. He was a thoroughly educated attorney, being a graduate of the 
 Cambridge, Mass., law school, and held the office of Clerk of the Circuit Court
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 377 
 
 in McHenry County. Having practiced in Elgin until 1849, he was then elected 
 Judge of the County Court, and in 1850 removed to Geneva. In 1852, he 
 was elected Judge of the Circuit Court, which office he held until 1867 ; he is 
 now practicing his profession in Chicago. From 1846 to 1850, Judge Wilson 
 and Sylvanus Wilcox were law partners. The practice thus ably commenced 
 was continued by Edmund Clifford, from 1845 to 1861 ; Paul R. Wright and 
 A. J. Waldron; Charles H. Morgan, from 1847 to 1863; E. S. Joslyn, from 
 1852 to the outbreak of the rebellion; John S. Riddle, from 1857 to 1862; 
 Thomas W. Grosvenor, from 1858 to 1861 ; Joseph Healy, E. W. Vining, A. 
 H. Barry, R. N. Botsford, J. W. Ranstead, Wm. H. Wing, W. F. Lynch, 
 Eugene Clifford, Henry B. Willis, Cyrus K. Wilbur, John McBride and others. 
 Many of the above left their professions to serve their country in the late war, 
 and some died from wounds received upon the battle field. 
 
 Several of the medical profession have already been noticed. Among others 
 who followed, Dr. Anson Root deserves especial notice as one who assisted in 
 building up the town, having purchased one-fourth of the original James T. 
 Gifford claim and settled with his family, about 1839, in a log house, which 
 occupied a position near the present residence of J. A. Carpenter. His death 
 occurred in Elgin in February, 1866. In the following years (from 1839), Drs. 
 Treat, Fairie, R. S. Brown, E. Tefft, C. Torry, J. Daggett, E. Sanford, V. C. 
 McClure, 0. Harvey, T. Kerr, Paoli, E. Winchester, Peebles, B. P. Hubbard, 
 E. A. Merrifield, B. E. Dodson, Wetherel, D. 0. B. Adams, N. F. Burdick, 
 Fred Bartels, Berkhauser, George Wilbar, Cutts and Pulaski successively 
 appeared in the town, and forming leagues with the naturally salubrious climate, 
 have generally succeeded in keeping the population in an excellent state of 
 preservation. But in 1845, intermittent and bilious fevers, which had so afflicted 
 all the settlements, became epidemic and raged with fearful havoc. The inhab- 
 itants became panic-stricken, and fled the place ; nearly every remaining settler 
 was prostrated with the prevalent disease, and it is even asserted that one man, 
 whose wife had died from its effects, could with difficulty find sufficient assistance 
 to bury her in a decent manner. James T. Gifford removed to a little village in 
 Wisconsin, with the hope of protecting his children from the general destruction, 
 but the pestilence followed him, and two of his family died there. Returning 
 after the health of the village was restored, he remained in active business until 
 August, 1850, when he fell a victim to the Asiatic cholera. He was one of the 
 noblest and most generous men that ever lived, a philanthropist by nature, and 
 his memory is still cherished by the inhabitants of the city, to the prosperity of 
 which he contributed so largely. The spot where his cabin stood, although now 
 in the heart of the town, has been set apart from the encroachments of business 
 blocks and dwellings, and is devoted to the public, as was the life of the truly 
 good man who once dwelt there. 
 
 But, returning to 1840, we find an important change in process in the 
 business part of Elgin. Previous to that date, it was believed that the " hub "
 
 378 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 of the town the grand center from which all the mercantile interests were to 
 radiate was .to be the part of Center street near its intersection with Chicago 
 street, but about this time Mr. Raymond erected the store formerly occupied by 
 Stewart's bakery, and, subsequently, business centered there. The post office 
 was also moved to the building since known as Roberts' meat market, which 
 also served as the office of Judge Wilson. A little later, great financial difficul- 
 ties arose, and threatened, for a time, to suspend the progress of the town. The 
 Illinois State Bank, the great source of supply to the West, refused to redeem 
 its notes, and went down amid the ruin of thousands ; but the Marine and Fire 
 Insurance Company's notes were substituted as legal tender, and Elgin once 
 more continued in her upward career to success. About 1 840, Burgess Truesdell 
 established an extensive cocoonery in the village, and quantities of the silk 
 manufactured went into the market, but not proving financially successful the 
 enterprise was relinquished. 
 
 The first train entered Elgin early in February, 1850, and the occasion was 
 one of great rejoicing to the inhabitants. The village remained for two years 
 the western terminus of the Chicago and Galena track, and the swarms of ex- 
 plorers, settlers and pleasure-seekers for all points West were landed at her 
 depot, where crowds of hackmen met them with their discordant yells and 
 efforts to carry them to any hotel in town, or wherever they might wish to 
 travel west of the place. The old depot still stands near the building recently 
 erected near the old Raymond store, used later by the Stewarts as a bakery. 
 That corner is historic, and those years were years of wonderful progress for 
 Elgin. Hotels sprang up. business prospered, and the streets were filled with 
 residents and strangers daily. Among the new public houses was the one 
 erected by P. J. Kimball, Jr., near the depot, and, when the road crossed the 
 river, Mr. W. C. Kimball built the Waverly House, still well-known through- 
 out the Northwest. But like all the towns along the river, Elgin was doomed 
 to a season of great business stagnation, and the night was approaching. The 
 railroad was continued west, business left with it. and during the years which 
 followed, the only life which the village contained proceeded from several im- 
 portant manufacturies, among them an extensive tannery, owned by B. W. 
 Raymond. For a time, it was hoped that the Fox River Valley Road would 
 be completed to the great lumber districts of Wisconsin, and thus open a trade 
 in that product, but the road ended at Geneva, Wis., and the village sunk down 
 deeper than ever into the lethargy which the removal of the western terminus 
 had produced. Great manufacturing companies, however, were induced, by 
 the favorable situation and the wise liberality of the citizens, to establish their 
 shops and factories in the town, and thus, as will be seen, the dying commercial 
 interests were revived. 
 
 In February, 1854, Elgin became a city, with Dr. Joseph Tefft for the first 
 Mayor, and Charles S. Clark, R. L. Yarwood, L. C. Stiles, P. R. Wright, 
 E. A. Kimball and George P. Harvy the first Board of Aldermen. The gen-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 379 
 
 eral financial cloud of 1857 lowered gloomily over the young city, but she had 
 begun to recover her wonted prosperity, when the news of the capture of Fort 
 Sumter threw the entire place into the wildest indignation. In one week after 
 the tidings were received, the first company for the first regiment of Illinois 
 volunteers was ready to leave for the battle field. No town in the county has a 
 more glorious war record than Elgin, as will appear upon a careful scrutiny of 
 statistics given upon another page of this work. The first company was mus- 
 tered into the service upon the 15th of April, 1861, and was again mustered 
 in, after its first term of service had expired. Another company entered the 
 service from Elgin, with the Thirty-sixth Regiment, in 1861 ; a third was con- 
 tributed to the Fifty- second in the same year, and later in the Fall, a fourth to 
 the Fifty-fifth. The Forty-eighth Regiment was enrolled in 1862, and in it went 
 a large quota from Elgin. She also contributed a company to the Sixty-ninth 
 Regiment three months men and on the 5th of September, 1862, sent two 
 companies for the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh. The Elgin Battery was 
 mustered into the service in the Fall of the same year ; and in the Summer of 
 1864, two companies left the place with the One Hundred and Forty-first Reg- 
 iment. Aside from the above glorious list, individuals left as volunteers in other 
 regiments, throughout the entire struggle. Scarcely a battle was fought, with- 
 out some representatives of the patriotic little Bluff City participating therein, 
 and the names of some of them are immortal. But long before the outbreak 
 of the war, and years previous to other events above recorded, the 
 
 SCHOOLS 
 
 of Elgin were firmly established, and scores of the men aud women of the 
 present city were obtaining within them the intellectual culture which has con- 
 tributed to give the place a front rank among the river towns. 
 
 In 1838, Miss Gifford, who had taught the first school during the previous 
 year in her brother's log house, was seated,upon the throne in the Elgin chapel, 
 or Union Church, where many little boys and girls were taught the rudiments 
 of an education. 
 
 Some three years later, Mr. Adin Mann taught in the new church which 
 the Methodists had recently erected ; and, later, Rev. Mr. Bolles and others 
 wielded the ruler in the same building. 
 
 During the Winter of 1841-2, Miss Ballard, now Mrs. Nathan G. Phillips, 
 had opened a small school, south of the business part of the town, in an unoc- 
 cupied dwelling belonging to Horace Heath. 
 
 But each of these institutions was merely temporary, and no suitable house 
 was dedicated exclusively to education until 1844, when one was completed, by 
 private subscription, upon the lot now occupied by the residence of Dr. Tefft. 
 Miss Harvey, afterward Mrs. P. R. Wright, was the teacher for a number of 
 years ; but, in 1845, additional accommodations being found to be necessary, 
 Mr. R. W. Padelford circulated a subscription paper, and, as a result, the brick
 
 380 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 school house was commenced, which was completed two years later and dedi- 
 cated in January, 1848. It was then the most elegant school house in the 
 northern part of the State. Mr. Ballard was employed as Principal, on a 
 salary of $400 a year, while Mrs. Ballard and Miss Graves, now Mrs. J. J. 
 Town,- were assistant teachers. 
 
 About three years later, the School Law was adopted, and then the day of 
 subscriptions for the support of education was at an end. Each man's tax was 
 henceforth apportioned, and since that day there has been no interruption in 
 the steady progress of the Elgin schools. 
 
 In 1854, they were by special charter placed under the control of the city, 
 Edmund Gifford being elected Superintendent ; Mr. Curtis, Principal in Dis- 
 trict No. 1, and Mr. Cole in District No. 2. Various changes have since been 
 inaugurated. 
 
 In November, 1855, the new school house was dedicated in District No. 3, 
 and Mr. Daggett opened the school as its first Principal. In 1857, the new 
 brick building was erected, for the occupation of the high school, and was dedi- 
 cated in the Fall of the same year. 
 
 About this time, the citizens, after discharging several teachers, began to 
 observe that competent instructors could not be secured upon the same scale of 
 prices paid for splitting rails or for farm labor, and, accordingly, we find Mr. 
 Heywood receiving the once fabulous compensation of $1,000 per annum. 
 
 Nine schools were taught in the city during the successive years, from 1859 
 to 1836, and ten teachers employed. The average attendance ranged from 
 427 to 468. Two new school houses were built about 1867, one in the First, 
 the other in the Sixth Ward. 
 
 During the year 1869, the schools were re-graded and a complete census of 
 the pupils taken by Mr. C. F. Kimball, the Superintendent, and also Principal 
 of the high school. The result was as follows : White children, from 6 to 21 
 years, 1,545 ; colored children, from 6 to 21 years, 30 ; total, 1,575. At this 
 time the entire white population of the city was 4,804 ; colored, 91 ; total, 4,895. 
 
 At the same time, more school room being needed, the old church formerly 
 occupied by the Ba'ptists was purchased by the City Council for $5,000, and 
 three schools were opened therein, in 1870, enrolling nearly 200 pupils. In 
 1873, the schools passed from the municipal control and adopted the general 
 school law of the State. A new school house, two stories high, was raised the 
 same year, adjoining the high school. At present there are sixteen schools in 
 successful operation upon the East Side, with nineteen teachers, while the West 
 Side supports three schools, with four teachers. Mr. W. H. Bridges is the 
 Superintendent of the whole.* 
 
 Aside from the public institutions of learning, several have been established 
 by private enterprise, at various times. Of these, the Elgin Seminary, started 
 in the Spring of 1851, by the Misses Lord, now of Chicago, should be noticed. 
 
 *For the above educational items we are indebted to Mr. C. F. Kimball, the former Superintendent.
 
 AURORA.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 401 
 
 Among the earliest marriages in the township were those of Alexander 
 Gardiner with Sallie Miller (1837), and Capt. Jamison to a daughter of Gen.- 
 McOlure. The first physician was Dr. John R. Goodnow, from New Hamp- 
 shire, who purchased a claim, embracing about eight hundred acres, of Thomas 
 Deweese, in 1837. 
 
 In 1839, G. W. Bullard, from Massachusetts, settled on the East Side. 
 Mr. Dempster states that, of those in the township when he came to the 
 country, scarcely an individual is now living. This genial Scotchman is a 
 brother of the celebrated ballad singer and composer, W. R. Dempster, and 
 many of his townsmen contend that, in his younger days, his voice was fully 
 equal to his more illustrious kinsman's. It was customary, years ago, to call 
 for a song from him on general public occasions, and he invariably elicited the 
 heart-felt applause of the assemblies. Once, he had hurried from home to at- 
 tend a political meeting, forgetful that he was liable to be called upon, and 
 without doffing his farm suit. When it became known that he was present, 
 some merciless granger shouted the name " Dempster ! " and it was immedi- 
 ately taken up on all sides, and he was obliged to emerge from his place of con- 
 cealment and go to the front in his old clothes. " He appeared confused, at 
 first," said our informant, "as he commenced to sing 'A Man's a Man /or a' 
 That,' but as he came to the line ' Our hodden gray, and a' that,' he raised his 
 head and sung as he had seldom sung before. Clear and full rose his voice, 
 and many an old settler hears the echoes of that song to this day. The man 
 was the man for a' that, and he was a man possessed of all the generous 
 impulses and the high sense of honor peculiar to the true sons of Old 
 Scotia." His fiery temper and impulsive nature often caused him trouble, 
 but he was ever ready to make full reparation for any wrong committed under 
 their influence, and several amusing anecdotes are told illustrative of this 
 disposition. 
 
 On one occasion, while he was busy near his house, a neighbor's horse, 
 which had given him great trouble, came near him and commenced pilfering. 
 Mr. Dempster dropped his axe, and, driving him away, returned again to his 
 work. Raising his head, after a few moments, he beheld the horse returned 
 and again in mischief. Without a moment's thought, he hurled the axe at him. 
 It described a number of curves through the air and, descending, hit the beast, 
 severing the hamstring and entirely ruining him. The unfortunate perpetrator 
 of the deed, who had repented before the helve had left his hand, went immedi- 
 ately to his neighbor and frankly related the whole circumstance, offering to 
 pay for a portion of the horse, as he looked upon the act as accidental. But 
 the provoked neighbor failed to discover the accident, accused him of wilfully 
 destroying his property, and claimed restitution for the full value. Mr. Demp- 
 ster then agreed to pay whatever arbitrators, chosen by each of them, should 
 decide would be right. The men were named, and, having rendered a verdict 
 to the effect that he was holden for the entire cost of the animal, about $125,
 
 402 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 he paid it without a murmur. It must be understood that such a sum was 
 enormous to a settler of only limited means. 
 
 On another occasion, an ox, belonging to Mr. Russell, had given Mr. 
 Dempster much annoyance, by breaking down his fence and eating his corn. 
 He had repeatedly complained to the owner, and at length told him, that if his 
 ox broke into his field again, he would make beef of the animal. Mr. Russell 
 laughed at him, not thinking, for a moment, that he would put the threat into 
 execution. Mr. Dempster found the ox in the corn field, the next morning, eat- 
 ing, as usual; and without a moment's reflection, seized his rifle and shot him 
 through the body. As in the horse trouble, he went immediately to the owner, 
 and offered to pay all damages ; but Mr. Russell was not so easily conciliated. 
 He was a powerful man, while Mr. Dempster was rather beneath the medium 
 height, and he accordingly proposed to take vengeance upon the spot. Mr. 
 Dempster, knowing that he was no match for his angry neighbor, excepting in 
 a foot-race, led him a journey up a neighboring" hill, in which the more portly 
 man soon lost breath, and he was able to talk with him in safety. It was then 
 agreed that the ox should be butchered ; that Mr. Dempster should purchase a 
 quarter of the beef, and that the remainder should be peddled out -among the 
 neighbors. In this manner, more than the estimated value was obtained. 
 
 O * 
 
 About half a mile below the village of Dundee, one Davis attempted to build a 
 dam at a very early day hired a number of men to work for him, and partially 
 dug a mill-race but possessing no means sufficient to complete it, he suddenly 
 left the country and his debts, and hied him for parts unknown. The township 
 of Dundee was surveyed under the direction of the United States Government, 
 by William Melbourn, in April, 1840.* Some years after this event, an inci- 
 dent occurred near Dundee Village, which awakened the sympathy of the entire 
 neighborhood. Mr. James Howie was splitting rails near the river, when his 
 son, about 14 years old, entered a boat with a boy about his own age, the son 
 of James Sherrer. Mr. Howie cautioned them, and then continued his work, 
 while the boys rowed to the opposite bank, amused themselves there for a short 
 time, and started to return. When they had nearly reached the land, Mr. 
 Howie's attention was attracted by an unusual splashing. Raising his eyes, he 
 observed the boys tetering the boat in sport, from side to side, and while he yet 
 looked, it capsized. Neither of the boys could swim ; and after a short strug- 
 gle, both of them drowned. The bodies were recovered, and buried with 
 unusual ceremony. 
 
 About twenty-four hours after the burial, three medical students from a col- 
 lege which need not be named called upon Dr. Abner Hager, who was living in 
 the village, was well acquainted with the occurrences, but not bound by ties 
 of relationship, or especial friendship to the families of the deceased, and rep- 
 resented to him that they wished his assistance in obtaining the bodies secretly 
 for the dissecting table, as they were in perfect health until the accident occurred, 
 
 *From a copy of the Surveyor's field notes, in the possession of Rev. A. Pingree, of Pingree Grove.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 403 
 
 and were therefore unusually valuable from a scientific standpoint. Powerful 
 inducements were offered for his cooperation, but to his lasting honor, be it told, 
 he refused, threatening exposure if they made the attempt. They left him with 
 execration, and Mr. Jesse Oatman having been informed of their designs, 
 watched the graves until no further protection was necessary. The doctor is 
 now living in Marengo, McHenry County. The first school in Dundee was 
 taught in 1838, upon the hill on the east side of the river, by Miss Amanda 
 Cochraue, now Mrs. Moses Wanzer, who had come to the township late in the 
 Fall of the previous year, with Marshall Sherman and Cyrus Larkin, who set- 
 tled two and a half miles west of the village. Since then, the township has 
 steadily progressed in its educational facilities. It contains at present twelve 
 school districts, three having been consolidated to build the graded school house 
 in Dundee Village. Three of the school buildings are constructed of stone, two 
 of brick and the remainder of wood. . The school tax for the year 1877 was 
 $8,075. 
 
 A cheese factory was erected in the Spring of 1877 by Sidney Wanzer, two 
 miles and a half from the village, on the West Side. It is a good wooden build- 
 ing and has a fair patronage. Another was bdilt in the same year and on the 
 same side of the river, four miles from the village, by J. T. Mason. It is a 
 large wood and stone structure and is doing an extensive business. Milk is 
 purchased of the patrons. The year 1877 seems to have been unusually pro- 
 ductive for cheese factories, and on the 1st of May one built by Jesse Oatman 
 & Sons commenced operations on the West Side, nearly opposite Carpentersville. 
 It is 28x44 feet in dimensions, exclusive of the engine room, and has a capacity 
 for 10,000 pounds of milk per diem. The proprietors purchase of the farmers. 
 Dundee is one of the best dairy townships in the United States, and further 
 statistics of the vast quantities of milk manufactured and shipped from its 
 depot will be found in connection with the village history. Many of the farms 
 are excellent, and one owned by Mr. William Sutfin has taken the premium as 
 the best kept farm in the county. 
 
 Passing up the east bank of the river from Carpentersville, the tramp will 
 behold a peculiar building, among the trees, upon the opposite side. The dome 
 which comprises the entire structure is covered with tin, which, glistening in the 
 sunlight, renders it visible for a long distance. It was built in 1856 as a Spirit- 
 ual church, under the direction of a medium. E. W. Austin, Leister Woodard 
 and Henry Petrie were the Trustees. It cost about $1,000 ; was built by sub- 
 scription, but never successfully used for the purpose for which it was designed, 
 and is now a dwelling. 
 
 The township is the most northeasterly in the county, is crossed by the Fox 
 River Branch of the Chicago and North- Western railroad, is bounded on the 
 north by McHenry County, on the east by Cook, on the south by Elgin Town- 
 ship, and on the west by Rutland, and contained, by the census of 1870, 
 -.079 inhabitants.
 
 404 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 4 
 
 DUNDEE VILLAGE 
 
 was laid out in 1836, for John Oatman and sons, Thomas Deweese and Thomas 
 L. Shields, by Mark W. Fletcher, County Surveyor. Oatman and Shields had 
 come from McLean County, 111., in the same year, the former being the father- 
 in-law of both Deweese and Shields. Joseph Russell was the first settler in the 
 village. In the Spring of 1836, Thomas Deweese commenced the erection of 
 the Spring Mills, which are still in successful operation. The motive power 
 was obtained from several large springs upon the East Side, a much cheaper 
 mill site than the rive'r bank, as the power in that stream at this point is not 
 good. The Spring Brook, however, tumbles down a height of forty feet, fur- 
 nishing excellent facilities for moving an overshot wheel, and thousands of bush- 
 els of grain have been ground there since operations were first commenced in 
 the old building. The settlers hailed its establishment with rejoicing, for no 
 other institution was as much needed. It passed from Deweese's possession into 
 the hands of Isaac Rice, since which time it has been owned by various proprie- 
 tors, and is now operated by Charles Nolte, who uses steam power during a part 
 of the year. 
 
 The Oatman family was one of the most prominent among the early settlers 
 in this region. They came, originally, from Kentucky, and at the time of their 
 immigration to Dundee, consisted of John Oatman and wife, sons Joseph, Har- 
 din, Clement, Jesse, Ira, William, James, John, Jr., Pleasant and three daugh- 
 ters. The family, with the exception of Jesse, removed, in company with 
 Deweese and Shields, to Texas in 1849, where John, Sr., died November 29, 
 1877, near Austin, at the age of 90. Joseph, also, has been in his grave for 
 many years. Clement is a clergyman in Texas ; Hardin is a physician in Mis- 
 souri, and John, Jr., a farmer in the same State. Jesse, who came to the village 
 in 1837, is a merchant in Dundee, and the traveler may wander the country 
 through without finding a more genial gentleman or one more generally respected 
 in his town. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and assisted in 
 burying the mutilated victims of the Indian Creek massacre in what is now 
 Freedom Township, La Salle County. Ira Oatman is now an eminent physi- 
 cian in Sacramento, Cal. ; William is practicing the same profession in Austin, 
 Texas, and Pleasant is a resident of Denver, Colo. Solomon Acres and Seth 
 Green were among the settlers whom they found in Dundee Township at the 
 time of their arrival. The Oatmans brought a small stock of goods to the 
 place, when they came, which they offered for sale in the first building erected 
 upon the West Side, or Dundee proper. This house was a frame one, no log 
 cabin having been built, at any time, within the limits of that village. It stood 
 on the northeast corner of Block 12, across the street from where the Baptist 
 Church now stands. It changed proprietors several times, and finally burned, 
 L. N Bucks being the last owner.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 405 
 
 The first hotel upon the same side of the river was opened by Hardin Oat- 
 man about 1838, who was succeeded by Henry Townsend. About 1840, a 
 hotel was opened on the opposite side by David Hammer. 
 
 In 1838, Increase Bosworth opened a store, and subsequently forming a 
 partnership with Mr. Edwards, sold a large amount of goods during the following 
 years. The first bridge at Dundee was built in the Winter of the same year. 
 It was a wood structure, and, having been carried off in a freshet, was replaced 
 by one which was at length removed for the iron one which still spans the 
 stream. A grocery and liquor shop was opened by David Hammer, near the 
 Spring Mills, about the time that the hands were engaged in building the latter. 
 About this time it became apparent to the few settlers in and about Dundee 
 that the place might, at some future day, need a name. A meeting was accord- 
 ingly called for the partial purpose of determining what it should be. Various 
 ones were suggested, but when at length a young Scotchman, named Alexander 
 Gardiner, a laborer upon the mill, suggested " Dundee," the name of the place 
 that from whence he came, it received a majority of votes. It was on this occasion 
 the building was erected afterward converted into a hotel, and kept for many years 
 by Jesse Oatman. Among the settlers who came while the mill was in process 
 of completion was one who hired as a day laborer, pretending to no special 
 skill of any kind. It was soon discovered, however, that he was an educated 
 man and a good physician. His name was Goodnow, already mentioned as the 
 first physician in the town. He was elected one of the first Justices of the 
 Peace, presided over many claim trials, and was long well known in the northern 
 part of the county. Seth Green was also a Justice of the Peace as early as 
 1837. About 1838, Rev. D. W. Elmore, from Fayville, preached the first 
 sermon in the village, in Messrs. Oatman's store. The first teacher has already 
 been mentioned. The second was a Mr. Burbank, who came to the place with 
 Dr. Goodnow, and is now Dr. Burbank, of Chicago. In the Spring of 1839, 
 several of the settlers clubbed together and built the first school house in the 
 village. The next building of the kind was constructed of brick, and built 
 upon the land now occupied by the residence of George H. Bullard, the builder 
 being A. C. Kibby, who still lives in Dundee. It was put up by a tax upon 
 the district, and used until the erection of the elegant Union School, which is 
 now the pride of the town, and was the result of a combination for building 
 purposes of Districts 5, 8 and 9, or East and West Dundee and Carpentersville. 
 It was built in 1872-3, stands in the north part of the village, on the west side 
 of the river, cost $20,000, is well graded, and under the management of Prof. 
 M. Quackenbush. 
 
 The last claim-fight in this township, so noted at an early day, for difficulties 
 of the kind occurred early in 1839, when Eaton Walker, from one of the New 
 England States, settled on a fractional eighty on the East Side, lying partially 
 within the present village limits, and previously claimed by Thomas Deweese. 
 There had been no improvements upon the land, and Mr. Deweese had not the
 
 406 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 slightest right to it. After Walker had commenced the foundation of a house, 
 he was visited by the man who claimed the greater part of the township, and 
 informed that he was trespassing upon his property, and advised him to leave it. 
 Walker replied that his own right was superior, as he had made the first im- 
 provement and held possession. A short time elapsed, when David Hammers 
 appeared upon the scene, claiming that Deweese had deeded the property to 
 him, and ordering Walker to leave. But the unterrified Yankee continued his 
 labors, assisted by his brother-in-law, Mr. Hemenway. Threats and maledic- 
 tions were poured upon him, but in vain; and the cellar of the house had been 
 nearly completed, when a gang of men, with teams and rails, came on from the 
 country and commenced fencing the field. Thomas Deweese headed them, and 
 they were well supplied with liquor and exceedingly noisy. Mr. Walker 
 repaired to Elgin and procured the assistance of a young Constable, John Lovell. 
 but the rioters only laughed at him and proceeded with the fence. It was about 
 9 o'clock in the morning when they commenced there were between fifteen 
 and twenty of them and they continued their operations, meanwhile reviling 
 Walker and Hemenway until about 2 in the afternoon, when the former, who 
 was a man of few words, told them to " quit." As no notice was taken of this 
 order, Mr. Lovell was requested to perform the duties of his office, in which he 
 signally failed, being shoved back with contempt by the mob, while Sol Acres 
 and Sam Hammers commenced making warlike demonstrations toward Walker, 
 Deweese standing near, meanwhile, and urging them on. Walker defended 
 himself with ease, for he was one of the most powerful and athletic men in that 
 region, when Hammers picked up the limb of a tree and broke it over his arm, 
 and Acres joined in the attack without further hesitation. Deweese had been 
 approaching Hemenway during this time, and now, having reached a favorable 
 position behind him, dealt him a blow upon the cheek which knocked out one of 
 his teeth and laid him senseless upon the ground. Just as he fell, he states 
 that he saw Walker, who was still struggling against the two brawny assailants, 
 draw a -knife from his pocket and plunge it into Acres' neck. A stream of 
 blood gushed from the wound, and he dropped without another blow. Walker 
 raised the knife again to deal a quietus to Hammers, but that worthy, thinking 
 that "discretion was the better part of valor," wisely withdrew. Not so with 
 Deweese, however. He was as bold a man as the country afforded, terrible in 
 a fight, and accordingly he seized a rail and would have leveled Walker to the 
 ground had he not rushed toward him and caught it as it was descending, and 
 stabbed him twice upon the head. Deweese was then content to stand back, 
 with threats that he would kill Walker and assurances that he was not afraid of 
 him. Walker assured him that he would not leave a breath in the body of the 
 next man who approached him with malicious intentions. The rioters took their 
 wounded from the place, and he was left in possession of the field. An attempt 
 was afterward made to indict Walker for assault with murderous weapons. 
 Deweese was one of the Grand Jury, but was excused from taking part in the
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 407 
 
 consideration of the case, and a verdict of no cause of action was the result. 
 This was the most sanguinary claim fight which ever occurred in Kane County. 
 Walker died at his home in the village in the Fall of 1876, and Deweese has 
 slept in a Texan grave for years. His family still reside in Texas, and one of 
 his sons was a Captain in the Confederate army. Mr. Hemenway is Postmaster 
 in the office which was established in the village upon its removal from McClure's 
 Grove. When past 50 years of age, he enlisted and served throughout the late 
 war without losing a day in the hospital. 
 
 Company I, of the Fifty-second Illinois, organized in Geneva, was composed, 
 to a great extent, of Dundee men, who did gallant service for their country in 
 her life struggle. 
 
 A Congregational Church was organized in the place about 1839, followed 
 a little later by one of the Baptist denomination. In 1841, the former had 
 become sufficiently strong to build a house of worship, which was abandoned 
 for a new brick building, erected in 1853. There were but eleven members at 
 the time of the organization. Now there are about one hundred. The Baptists 
 formed a church early, and built a frame edifice in the same year as the Congre- 
 gationalists, but have rebuilt since the war. The Methodist Episcopal Society 
 erected a cheap building about 1844, and in 1856 replaced it by the frame 
 church still used. As early as 1848, the Episcopalians held their first religious 
 services in Dundee, Rev. Mr. Philo officiating ; but it was not until 1864 that 
 regular services were commenced by Rev. Peter Arvedson, in the Congregational 
 Church. When the Baptists left their building, it was purchased by this society 
 for $450, and repaired. There are now about twenty communicants. The 
 Rector from Elgin officiates. The German Methodist Episcopal organization 
 purchased, in 1874, a church built years before by the Scotch Presbyterians, a 
 society which had been but short lived. At the time of the purchase, the Ger- 
 man society had been in existence in the place a number of years. Rev. F. 
 Mertin was the first preacher. There were now about twenty members, the 
 number having remained nearly unchanged since the organization. The 
 German Lutheran Society was established some two years previous to the above 
 denomination, and held the first preaching in the school house on the East Side, 
 the first clergyman being Rev. Henry Serfling. In 1864, a house of worship 
 was built of the beautiful brick for which the town is so justly noted, and the 
 church has probably the largest membership of any in Dundee. The same 
 society erected a school house in 1874, on the East Side, in which instruction 
 is given in the German language, by two teachers, to about seventy-five pupils. 
 Among the first Germans who came to the village were Henry Havercampf, 
 Henry Bartling, Anton Bummelman, John Bauman and Charles Rover. At 
 present, the East Side is settled mainly by the Teutonic race. The Dundee 
 people claim that they cannot support a lawyer, and the facts seem to justify 
 the statement. It is a village where peace and harmony prevail ; still in the 
 years which have passed several gentlemen of the legal profession have made
 
 408 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 their homes there. And whether the town was more prone to iniquity then, or 
 whether their presence rendered it less so, doth not appear. The first of these 
 gentlemen was C. B. Wells, about 1841, and since then C. C. Hewitt and E. 
 W. Vining have successively taken his place for limited periods. The first 
 cooper was Allan Pinkerton, whose fame as a detective has since spread to 
 every hamlet and house from Nova Scotia to Texas. At the time of his arrival 
 in Dundee, his goods were left at the hotel, about a block from Oatman's corner, 
 where his shop stood, and he had not sufficient money to hire them carted, but 
 took them to their destination on a wheelbarrow. 
 
 In 1842, H. E. Hunt drove a team from the State of New York to the town- 
 ship, and three years later, commenced keeping grocery in a store built at a cost 
 of only $75, where his dwelling stands. He now occupies the finest business 
 block in Dundee, which was erected in 1871, on the West Side. It is built of the 
 Dundee brick; contains Hunt's extensive dry goods store, a bank, and the 
 printing office of the Dundee Record. The manufacture of brick has been, 
 during the past, the most important industry of Dundee. The clay is of a 
 superior quality ; and the brick, when burned, are of a delicate cream color. 
 The business was commenced as early as 1852, near the house of Jesse New- 
 man. Subsequently, Hull & Gillett manufactured them for a time, upon the 
 West Side; and later, the same parties operated a yard where the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church now stands, on the opposite side. About twenty-five rods 
 south of this point, E. H. Hager Co. are now manufacturing them. Several 
 millions of brick, from Dundee, were used in the building of the Insane 
 Asylum, at Elgin. From three to four millions of them have been made in the 
 village yearly, and the clay^is practically inexhaustible. About 1844, a foundry 
 was built on the East Side, by A. C. Kibby and William Carley, who operated, 
 for a short time, employing five or six hands ; but the business proving unsuc- 
 cessful, was discontinued, and the building is now used as a pump factory, by 
 Mr. D. Waterman. 
 
 The newspaper history of Dundee has been extensive, considering the size 
 of the town, and commenced about 1855, when a Mr. Farnham published, for a 
 short time, the "Dundee Advocate" Some eleven years later, the "Dundee 
 Weekly" was commenced by Mr. P. Sevick, and was continued a number of 
 years, being owned, at one time, by C. P. Thew, and purchased of him, in the 
 Spring of 1871, by R. B. Brickley. In 1875, the "Dundee Citizen" formerly 
 the Algonquin Citizen, commenced its brief career in the village, under the 
 editorship of George Earlie ; but after a single year, was removed to the center 
 of journalism, Elgin, and sold, at length, to J. Stoddard Smith, who published 
 it, until recently, as the Elgin Free Press. It is now owned by Taylor & Van 
 Gorder. On the 29th of March, 1877, S. L. Taylor, of Elgin, published the 
 first number of the "Dundee Record" Dr. Cleveland, of Dundee, a gentle- 
 man of rare culture, was employed as editor, and later, in the same year, pur- 
 chased the establishment of the proprietor. It is now an eight-page paper, with
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 409 
 
 a supplement, containing scientific, educational and home departments each 
 under special assistant editors and as a family paper, is one of the best of the 
 numerous publications in the country. Circulation, about 500. 
 
 As already shown, Dundee is one of the greatest dairy regions in the coun- 
 try. Aside from the butter and cheese factories already mentioned, one was 
 built in the village, in the Spring of 1874. It is a large building, constructed 
 mainly of wood and owned by a stock company. The stock is valued at $6,000, 
 and the patronage extensive. Six or seven of the largest dairies in the town- 
 ship send their milk to the condensing factory, in Elgin, and the freight upon 
 the milk shipped direct from the Dundee depot to Chicago may be seen by the 
 following statistics : 
 
 For January, 1877 $1,774 08 
 
 February, 1877 1,714 68 
 
 March, 1877 2,041 38 
 
 April, 1877 2,003 76 
 
 May, 1877 2,348 28 
 
 June, 1877 2,403 72 
 
 For July. 1877 $2,445 30 
 
 August, 1877 2,207 70 
 
 September, 1877 1,835 46 
 
 October, 1877 1,918 62 
 
 November, 1877 1,728 06 
 
 December, 1877 1,919 76 
 
 A single milk ticket, paying for the transportation of eight gallons, costs 
 nineteen and four-fifths cents. 
 
 In 1877, a steam grist-mill was built upon the East Side, near the railroad 
 depot, and is operated by George Taylor. Previous to its last erection, it was 
 twice destroyed by fire within the space of a year. 
 
 Dundee, East and West, is composed of two separate villages, having a 
 President and Council for each side, but they are so closely connected geograph- 
 ically and socially, that it has been deemed expedient to devote but one chapter 
 to both. They are situated southeast of the center of the township, about five 
 miles north of Elgin, in a portion of the valley unusually rugged and beautiful. 
 
 VILLAGE OF CARPENTERSVILLE. 
 
 A mile northwest of Dundee lies the Village of Carpentersville. Here the 
 valley widens, and the railway which followed the river to the village below 
 diverges to the east at that point, leaving the more northerly place with no 
 thoroughfare but the wagon road. Yet Carpentersville possesses advantages 
 which more than offset this inconvenience and has gained a name as a manufac- 
 turing center. The village was first settled in 1837, by Daniel G. and Charles 
 V. Carpenter. In the Spring of 1838, John Oatman & Sons and Thomas L. 
 Shields built a mill-dam there, with the intention of conveying the power to 
 Dundee, and about the same time erected a saw-mill and commenced converting 
 the surrounding forests into lumber. Valuable black walnut logs were drawn 
 there from Plum Grove, Cook County, and the patronage was equally extensive 
 upon all sides. The mill was sold early to George J. and S. H. Peck, who sold 
 it to Joseph Carpenter, from Providence, R. L, uncle of the present proprietor.
 
 410 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 In 1844, a carding-mill and cloth-dressing establishment was started between 
 Dundee and Carpentersville, by William Dunton, who operated it for five or six- 
 years, and then sold it to J. A. Carpenter, who removed it to Carpentersville, 
 where it was continued as a cloth-dressing factory for some time ; was finally 
 enlarged and converted into a manufactory of stocking yarn and flannel. It 
 went into the possession of the present stock company in 1866. From twenty 
 to thirty hands are employed, and the stock is valued at about $25,000. J. A. 
 Carpenter owns an extensive part of it, and of nearly every manufacturing and 
 business establishment in the village. 
 
 The grist-mill, still running upon the East Side, was erected about 1845, 
 and is now owned by Mr. Carpenter. 
 
 The village was surveyed and laid out July 15, 1851 ; and about the same 
 time, the first bridge was built, by subscription, Mr. Carpenter defraying nearly 
 the entire expense. It was replaced by an iron one in 1869. About 1855, a 
 school house, two stories high, was built, the upper part being used as a hall by 
 the Sons of Temperance, who have succeeded in maintaining an active organi- 
 zation in Carpentersville since 1851. 
 
 But by far the most important institution in the place is the mammoth man- 
 ufacturing establishment of the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company. In 1853, Mr. 
 George Marshall opened a shop for the manufacture of reapers and agricultural 
 implements. The business was continued, in a small way, until 1864, when a 
 radical change was made, a joint stock company formed, and the manufacture 
 of thimble skeins, sad irons, pumps, copying -presses, garden and lawn vases, seat 
 springs, etc., commenced. The buildings are of vast proportions, including a 
 foundry and machine shop. The main structure is of brick, and was erected in 
 the Summer of 1871. In the following season, a wooden building, where the 
 large brick office now stands, was destroyed by fire, and replaced, the same year, 
 by the present one. 
 
 A brick foundry was built, in 1875, in connection with the larger shop. 
 The stock amounts to $110,000, of which Mr. Carpenter owns a controlling 
 interest, and became Manager, in July, 1868. Over 120 hands are employed, 
 and the annual sales amount to $200,000. The manufactured articles are sold 
 from Maine to California. 
 
 The Star Manufacturing Company (agricultural works) was established in 
 1873, in a large building belonging to J. A. Carpenter. It is a stock company, 
 employing about twenty hands, engaged in making horse powers, cultivators 
 and feed cutters. These, with a small planing-mill, upon the East Side, com- 
 plete the main manufacturing establishments of the place. 
 
 The post office was established in the village about 1866. The mail is 
 obtained from Dundee. 
 
 During the Fall of 1877, the appearance of Carpentersville was much im- 
 proved by an elegant business block, built by T. L. Whitaker, who has an ex- 
 tensive trade in dry goods and groceries.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 411 
 
 The vast deposits of peat, extending over several hundred acres, east of Car- 
 pentersville, have received some attention during the past year, and the propri- 
 etors entertain the hope that in the near future, the demand for it as an article 
 of fuel may be sufficient to warrant them in making efforts for its removal. 
 
 SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 As a Congressional township, Sugar Grove is known as Township 38 north, 
 Range 7 east of the Third Principal Meridian. It occupies a position west of 
 Aurora, north of Kendall County, south of Blackberry and east of Big Rock 
 Township. Its surface, though gently undulating, presents more of the features 
 of the prairie than that of the adjoining township on the east, and its name, 
 Sugar Grove, was given by the Indians, from a beautiful grove of sugar maples 
 situated mainly in Section 9. The earliest settlers recollect seeing the remains 
 of sugar camps, scars upon the trees, and sap troughs strewn upon the ground, 
 at the time of their arrival in the country, and there is no doubt that the Pot- 
 tawattomies had manufactured there, as late as 1833, the saccharine food, which 
 they seem to have relished next to whisky. >The first 
 
 SETTLEMENT 
 
 in the township was made by a party from Ohio and New York, composed of 
 James, Isaac C. and Parmeno Isbell, James Carman, an old gentleman by the 
 name of Bishop and Asa McDole. All but the last hailed from Medina County, 
 Ohio, and on their way to the new country, in a cart drawn by two yokes of 
 oxen, had overtaken, at a place then known as the Black Swamp, in Wood 
 County, Ohio, Asa McDole, who had left his home, in the State of New York, 
 several weeks previous, and was also traveling toward the setting sun. They 
 agreed, therefore, to cast their lots together, like the company who lay " at 
 Southwark at the Tabard," some five centuries before, and thus continued their 
 journey to Oswego. 
 
 Mr. James Isbell, who owned one of the *ox teams, and was our worthy in- 
 formant, states that there were then but two houses in the place, one on each 
 side of the river. Crossing there, they proceeded to the northwest, and arrived 
 in Sugar Grove on the 10th day of May, 1834, eighteen days after the Ohio 
 party had left home. Taking up their abode in a vacated Indian wigwam, 
 which stood in the edge of the grove, they commenced building a more conven- 
 ient residence, and early in the Summer occupied it. This shanty was the first 
 built by white men in Sugar Grove Township, and was located within the limits 
 of Section 9. 
 
 Later in the same Summer, Mr. Bishop left the settlement and took up his 
 abode further south. 
 
 *The other belonged to Lyman Isbell. James Isbell also drove in four cows, two belonging to himself, the others 
 to Lyman.
 
 412 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 As Lyman Isbell, an older brother of Isaac and James, was expected, with 
 their mother, sister and his own family, consisting of his wife and two children, 
 a log house was built, on a more ample plan, to receive them. It stood not far 
 from the residence of P. Y. Bliss, and some of the logs from its walls are still 
 in existence. 
 
 In due time the expected friends came and took possession of the house, dur- 
 ing the month of July. They drove into the township a span of horses, the 
 first seen there ; while it is supposed that no white woman or children had 
 crossed its boundaries previous to the arrival of Mrs. Lyman Isbell and her 
 children, old Mrs. Isbell and her daughter, Miranda. It may be well here to 
 state that the Ohio parties now remaining in Sugar Grove were all related ; 
 James, Isaac C. and Lyman Isbell being brothers, from Granger Township, 
 Ohio, while Parmeno was their nephew, from Copeley Township, and Carman, 
 a brother-in-law of Lyman Isbell, had left a home in Bath. 
 
 On the Fourth of July, James Isbell went to Oswego, purchased a bottle of 
 whisky, and returning, drank it with his friends.* There were five persons 
 at this celebration, and it was the first held in Sugar Grove. 
 
 Of the original settlers, Asa McDole now sleeps in the graveyard, near the 
 residence of P. Y. Bliss. Parmeno and Carman have also gone to their final 
 resting place; and I. C. Isbell, now in California, and James Isbell, our in- 
 formant, now living in Batavia, at the age of 77, are all that are left. Lyman 
 Isbell is likewise in his grave. 
 
 During the Winter of 1834-5, Joseph Ingham settled on the creek, east of 
 the place now owned by Esquire Densmore. A number followed in the Spring 
 and Summer of 1835, among whom we may mention a Mr. Gould, who located 
 near the Densmore farm, and returned East after a few years. Rodney Mc- 
 Dole, first settler, now living in the township ; Cyrus Ingham, a son of Joseph, 
 mentioned above, who came out, bringing his father's family, and Harry White. 
 Many others flocked in in rapid succession during this and the years immedi- 
 ately following. Silas Reynolds, a native of Sullivan County, New York, who 
 still resides near Sugar Grove post office, and who settled in the township on a 
 tract which he still owns, in the Spring of 1836, states that he found, upon his 
 arrival, the following men living around him, aside from those already named : 
 Silas Gardner, Samuel Cogswell, Joseph Bishop, Samuel Taylor, Silas Leonard, 
 Isaac Gates, Nathan H. Palmer and Lorin Inmann. The Barnes', too, were 
 early settlers on Blackberry Creek, as was a Mr. Horr, west of the present site 
 of the cheese factory, and Jonathan Gardner, from the shores of Lake Ontario. 
 The latter became homesick, after a short residence in the West, pined for the 
 fishing coasts of his native bay, and, after sighing through the settlement for a 
 time that he would rather have what "gudgeons" he could catch from the 
 shores he had left, at a single haul, than all the land in Illinois, he returned 
 home, where he no doubt remains, still fishing. But the land in Illinois is 
 
 *This was the first celebration in Kane County.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 413 
 
 worth more than his fish, now. Thomas Judd, from Franklin County, in the 
 old Bay State, settled in Sugar Grove, in the Fall of 1836. Land had begun 
 to rise even at that date, and Mr. Judd paid I. C. Isbell $200 for his claim, 
 forty acres of which was timber. In the same Fall, H. B. Densmore located in 
 the township, where he still remains. In 1857, Mr. Densmore was elected 
 Town Clerk, and has retained the office ever since. P. Y. Bliss, one of the . 
 oldest and most respected residents in Sugar Grove, who settled on his present 
 location in 1837, states that, in riding from his residence, in the following year, 
 direct to Geneva, he passed not a house, furrow nor fence of any kind, and that 
 the old Court House at the county seat was the first building which appeared to 
 his view. In the year of his arrival, B. F. Fridley was High Sheriff, being the 
 second elected in the county. Several settlers took up claims, that same year, 
 in the vicinity of Jericho. Reuben Johnson, I. S. Fitch, the Austins and 
 Capt. Jones were among them. A number of settlers flocked in during the 
 year 1838, and among them Ira M. Fitch, now a Justice of the Peace in 
 Aurora, and the founder of the Fitch House, in the Spring of 1867. 
 
 CLAIMS. 
 
 The land throughout this and the adjoining townships had not been surveyed 
 by the Government at the time of its settlement, but was taken up by the 
 pioneers, and staked out in farms of such shape as suited their convenience, the 
 main consideration being that there should be a grove of good timber included 
 within the limits. The beautiful and fertile prairie farms, which are now the 
 most valuable in the country, were then considered almost worthless, and were 
 the last to be claimed. The various tracts were known as " squatters' claims," 
 and they were cultivated and eventually fenced with the same zigzag boundary 
 lines which are found in all the farms, toAvnships and counties in the Eastern 
 States to this day. But in 1839 and '40, the United States Surveyors came and 
 placed those inflexible lines which swerved not for farm, house nor garden, and 
 in June, 1842, the sections were sold at auction in Chicago. Parts of several 
 claims were thus frequently embodied in one section, and sold to a single pur- 
 chaser. Much injustice might thus have arisen from settlers losing their improve- 
 ments, had they not formed regular claim organizations, placing themselves 
 under bonds to observe certain salutary measures for the general welfare. A 
 special agent was selected to bid in the sections or parts of sections for $1.25 
 per acre, on the day appointed for the sale, naming as the purchaser in each 
 case that settler who owned the largest share in the tract sold. At the end of 
 the sale, each settler Avho had purchased any portion of his neighbor's farm 
 deeded it back to him at the same price which was paid for it. Col. S. S. Ing- 
 ham was the purchasing agent of the farms of Sugar Grove. From the above 
 explanation, the reason why none of those farms have straight section lines will 
 be evident. It is impossible to repress, if we would, a sincere admiration for the 
 calm and philosophical course pursued by the settlers of this township during
 
 414 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 its entire history. They were men of more than common intelligence, possessed 
 of broad and liberal ideas upon all subjects, and a far-reaching sagacity. Hence 
 there has never been any narrow and suicidal policy, nor grappling for spoils in 
 any of their public acts, while the efforts which have been made to promote gen- 
 eral intelligence would have been creditable to a city containing many times 
 the population of Sugar Grove, which has not a single village. Peace and good 
 order prevailed through the period when many sections are scenes of violence 
 and crime. For years there was nothing like an aristocracy to be found within 
 its limits, and Mr. Densmore, who passed through there, says "they were the 
 happiest days in the country." Harmony and a general reciprocation of good 
 services was too common to be generally noticed, and Mr. P. Y. Bliss gives the 
 following as an illustration of this statement: Mr. I. C. Isbell called at hi* 
 store one morning and announced that, as he intended to kill a steer on the fol- 
 lowing Saturday, Mr. B. might tell any of the neighbors who happened around 
 to call at his house and get a piece of beef. On the day named, a number of 
 the settlers appeared and found the steer slaughtered and the quarters standing 
 out against a post waiting for them, with a knife and hatchet near at hand with 
 which to cut off whatever part they wished. Thus the meat was divided among 
 them gratis. 
 
 FIRST DEATH, BIRTH, MARRIAGE, ETC. 
 
 Death commenced his work among the settlers before they had completed 
 their second year in the West. The first to fall was a child of Carman's, in 
 1835. Others followed, and a broken and disfigured slab lying upon the 
 ground in the old graveyard, near the residence of P. Y. Bliss, states that Asa 
 McDole, one of the founders of Sugar Grove, died September 16, 1839. On 
 the 7th day of August, two years previous, he had been elected the first Justice 
 of the Peace in the township, while Sugar Grove was still a part of the old 
 Fox River Precinct. 
 
 In the Fall of 1835, the first marriage in the township, that of Dr. N. H. 
 Palmer and Miranda Isbell, occurred ; and on the 19th of August, in the same 
 year, Charlotte, a daughter of I. C. Isbell, was born. This has been generally 
 considered the first birth in Sugar Grove, although the McDoles and some 
 others claim that the birth of A. G. McDole, a son of Rodney McDole, was 
 prior to it. It is safe to say, at least, that McDole's was the first male, and 
 Isbell's the first female child. 
 
 ROAD, TAVERN, POST OFFICES, STORE, ETC. 
 
 A road ran through Sugar Grove, on the way from Chicago to Dixon, as 
 early as 1834, and, in 1836, a tavern stood upon the route on Section 14, and 
 was kept by Robert Atkinson. The old building is now used as a dwelling, on 
 the original site. 
 
 Several years more passed before a post office was obtained, and it was not 
 until 1840 that one was established, near the center of Section 15, at the house
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 415- 
 
 of Thomas Salter, its first Postmaster, who still lives in Aurora at the advanced 
 age of 89. About two years later, one was located at Jericho, I. S. Fitch be- 
 ing in charge of it. These offices are" still known as Sugar Grove and Jericho, 
 the former having been removed to Sugar Grove Station. Later, the Grouse 
 and Winthrop offices were established, but the latter is now no longer in 
 existence. 
 
 On the 22d day of November, 1838, a man popularly known as " Boss " 
 Read, who still lives in Blackberry, erected for P. Y. Bliss a frame house, 
 which is still occupied by its original owner, on its original site. In the Spring 
 of 1839, the Methodists held their quarterly meeting in one of its rooms, before 
 it was quite completed ; but religious exercises had beerj introduced into the 
 township some time previous, the first sermon having been delivered by the 
 devout and conscientious/' Father" Clarke. 
 
 On the 1st of June, 1839, Mr. Bliss filled the new building with such goods 
 as are demanded by the country trade, and opened the first mercantile estab- 
 lishment in the township. Its trade extended over a territory reaching from 
 Dundee to Yorkville, and from the borders of Kane County on the east to 
 Johnson's and Shabbona Groves, DeKalb County, on the west. No other store 
 in Kane County ever drew such a wide range of custom, and, according to Mr. 
 Bliss, the annual sales exceeded those of any other in the county by thousands 
 of dollars. In order to have exceeded the sales of any establishment by thou- 
 sands, the population must have increased very rapidly during the two or three 
 preceding years, for when, in 1837, a vote was taken for the division of Kane 
 and De Kalb Counties, the ballot stood 170 for to 83 against the erection of 
 the proposed new county. It is known, however, that it had increased thus 
 rapidly, and that real estate had become proportionately dear, while, in the 
 main, other property which had been previously introduced into the settlements 
 at a greater expense had become relatively cheaper. 
 
 u In 1836," says Mr. Silas Reynolds, " a calf was worth $10 in Sugar 
 Grove, while in 1837 a yearling, in 1838 a two-year-old and in 1839 a three- 
 year-old sold for the same price." Not at all encouraging for the farmer who 
 had kept the calf, in 1836, with the hope that it would increase in value. 
 
 Ths first cemetery in the township was situated, in 1839, in the low ground 
 near the slough, east of the residence of P. Y. Bliss, but, after interring one of 
 the old settlers there in a grave half filled with water, the neighbors of the de- 
 ceased unanimously concluded that it would be sacrilege to bury another friend 
 in such a location, and, accordingly, a burying ground was purchased a little 
 north of the former position and in a place adapted for the purpose. It is now 
 surrounded by a good stone fence, and contains several elegant and costly 
 monuments. 
 
 Sugar Grove has, at various periods in its history, established organizations 
 which 'are seldom found in rural districts, and never excepting among a popula- 
 tion of superior intelligence. Prominent and first among these was the
 
 416 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 FARMERS' INSTITUTE, 
 
 organized in 1841, for mutual improvement, by the interchange of ideas upon 
 agriculture and every theme of general interest. The proceedings of its first 
 meeting were published in the first number of the Prairie Farmer, and many 
 useful ends were accomplished under its direction in the following years, which 
 it would have been difficult to effect by any other means. The business 
 statistics of the township, collected by the Club, and read by Mr. Thomas 
 Judd before a meeting called in St. Charles to consider the feasibility of ex- 
 tending the Chicago & Galena Railroad west of that place, were taken as a 
 basis on which to compute the estimated products of the other townships, and 
 had their due proportion amid the various other considerations, which led the 
 company to extend it. The second State Fair in Northern Illinois Avas held at 
 Aurora. In the previous year it had met at Naperville, with the promise by the 
 citizens of that place that a free dinner would be given on the grounds. The dinner 
 was a failure. The citizens of Aurora resolved to excel their sister town, and not 
 disappoint the assembled multitudes, and, accordingly, announced that on that 
 occasion all should eat and be filled. The day approached, and the farmers of 
 Sugar Grove were called upon to assist in the preparations. Several of the 
 delegates from the Institute, who met with Aurora to consider the matter, pro- 
 posed a warm dinner, but this proposal seemed so utterly impracticable to the 
 people of Aurora that they laughed at them. But Sugar Grove resolved that 
 there should be hot tea and coffee, and warm vegetables, with meats enough to 
 supply the State, if necessary, and to this end a plan of operations was 
 arranged by the Farmers' Institute. A steer, three years old, was dressed, and 
 sent around the township in parts to be cooked, while pigs, turkeys and chickens 
 were killed without stint. Coffee and tea were boiled in huge brass kettles, and 
 vegetables cooked in caldron kettles on the ground, and after all had enjoyed a 
 repast such as Kane County never furnished before or since, Mr. Judd states that 
 "they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets, and distributed 
 them to the citizens of Aurora." When Kansas, suffering from drouth and 
 anarchy combined, sent a wail eastward for help, the Farmers' Institute of 
 Sugar Grove donated 1,000 bushels of wheat and sent them to her. Two 
 
 PUBLIC LIBRARIES 
 
 have exercised an important influence in the mental culture of the inhabitants 
 of the township. According to some of the early settlers, sectional jealousy 
 was first introduced through them ; but be that as it may, their beneficial effects 
 can scarcely be over estimated. Sectional feeling must have appeared of 
 necessity, as the entire township became settled, and the fact that it was 
 ushered in with the first library should count for naught in a consideration of 
 the value of the library itself. The first one was organized in the winter of 
 1843, by the farmers resolving themselves into a company of stockholders. 
 Three of them headed the list by purchasing shares to the amount of ten dollars
 
 
 . .xfe^^y 
 
 ELGIN "
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 383 
 
 It was first opened in the basement of the Congregational Church, and a house 
 on DuPage street, now owned by Mr. C. K. Anderson, served as the boarding 
 department. It was designed, principally, for the education of young ladies, 
 although several young men were admitted during its history. It was removed 
 to the Elgin House in 1852, which was fitted for its reception, with the house 
 now standing next east of it, and there continued until 1856. During the inter- 
 vening years, it attained a high reputation under the management of Rev. Daniel 
 S. Dickinson (deceased), A. R. Wright (now of Sioux City) and others. The 
 original charter of the Elgin Academy was granted to Solomon Hamilton, Col- 
 ton Knox, George McClure, Vincent C. Lovell, Luther Herrick, Reuben Jume 
 and Burgess Truesdell, by act of the Legislature of Illinois, approved February 
 22, 1839. After an unsuccessful attempt, in 1843, to erect a building and 
 establish a school under this charter, the lot owned by the Free Will Baptists 
 was purchased, in 1855, by a stock company organized under the charter as 
 amended February 14 of the same year. This amended charter still remains 
 in force, the peculiarly liberal spirit of which may be seen by the following 
 extract : 
 
 " SEC. 7. The said institution shall be open to all religious denominations; and the profes- 
 sion of no particular religious faith shall be required either of officers or of pupils." 
 
 Previous to the sale of their lot, the Free Will Baptists had laid thereon the 
 foundation of an institution of learning, to be called the Northern Illinois Col- 
 lege, and upon this arose the Elgin Academy. The school was opened for stu- 
 dents December 1, 1856, with Robert Blenkiron, a teacher of great ability and 
 culture, as its first Principal. He was followed successively by James Sylla, 
 Clark Braden, C. C. Wheeler, Dr. Nutting, W. T. Bridges, B. C. Cilley, A. S. 
 Barry and A. G. Sears. 
 
 The war record of the Academy was a glorious one, sending, as it did, seven 
 commissioned officers, six non-commissioned staff officers, twenty-one non-com- 
 missioned officers and twenty-three privates. 
 
 In 1872, the course of study in the normal department was enlarged by the 
 addition of the natural sciences, physiology and laws of health branches which 
 have been retained in the course ever since. 
 
 In the years 1873-4, $1,500 were expended in beautifying the grounds and 
 in making the school building more suitable to the purpose for which it was de- 
 signed. A heavy debt with which the institution had been incumbered was liqui- 
 dated during those years, and the year 1875 opened with renewed prospects of suc- 
 cess, and since then has been steadily advancing. The course of study embraces all 
 the higher branches required by the students desiring a liberal education ; also, 
 the fine arts, music, drawing and painting. Since September, 1870, A. G. 
 Sears has been the Principal.
 
 384 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The foregoing notice of the educational facilities of Elgin would be incom- 
 plete without a sketch of the rise and progress of the 
 
 TOWN LIBRARY. 
 
 In March, 1872, the General Assembly of Illinois passed an act providing 
 for the support, by taxation, in each town, city or village, of a public library, 
 under the control of six Directors. Section 6 of this act reads as follows : 
 
 " Every library or reading room established under this act shall be forever 
 free to the use of the inhabitant^ of the city or township where located, 
 always subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the library board 
 may adopt, in order to render the use of said libraiy and reading room of the 
 greatest benefit to the greatest number." 
 
 On the 2d day of April, 1872, the town of Elgin voted to organize a library 
 under the above act, and, on the following April, a Board of Directors were 
 elected at the annual town meeting, as follows : Zebina Eastman, I. C. Bos- 
 worth, E. C. Lovell, J. A. Spillard, J. W. Ranstead and W. H. Hintze. 
 s A tax of $8,000 was collected in the same year, and a correspondence 
 opened with some of the leading publishers of the world, by a committee of two 
 of the Directors. 
 
 In December, 1873, the books and furniture of the Young Men's Christian 
 Association library, previously formed in Elgin, was purchased by the Board of 
 Directors, for $250, and removed to the third story of the Bank Block, on the 
 corner of Chicago street and Douglas avenue, where rooms were, leased and 
 fitted for the use of the library. 
 
 In February, 1874, the circulating library of Denison & Burdick, contain- 
 ing 700 volumes, was purchased for $500 ; and other purchases were made in- 
 Chicago, which swelled the number of volumes to 2,000. 
 
 In 1875, Mr. E. C. Lovell made the tour of Europe, and was directed by 
 the Board to expend a certain amount for the library. The result was the pur- 
 chase of the entire Tauchnitz edition of British writers, and many other valu- 
 able works some of them exceedingly rare. The selections, from the com- 
 mencement, have indicated unusually good taste in the Directors. While all 
 the standard and popular authors of English and American fiction and poetry 
 are to be found upon the shelves, history has been made the specialty, and there 
 is scarcely a work in the English language, of any special merit in that de- 
 partment, which may not be found in this valuable collection. Science, too, 
 has not been overlooked, and all the more popular works under this head may 
 there be found. Books of reference, comprising lexicons of the various lan~ 
 guages, atlases and cyclopaedias, astonish the visitor with their vast amount of 
 erudition upon every conceivable subject. Several of the most frequently 
 quoted authorities upon English and American law have been gathered in, and 
 a room is devoted to works prepared under the direction of the United States. 
 Government, comprising State papers, agricultural reports, geological surveys,
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 385 
 
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 etc. There are now between 4,000 and 5,000 volumes in the entire library 
 1500 of them having been obtained by the Lovell purchase. The annual 
 tax for the support of the institution is $2,100. In addition to this, donations 
 are received from any individuals disposed to assist by money or books. Not 
 less than 120 persons attend the reading rooms daily, which are kept open until 
 10 o'clock at night ; and where all the news of the world may be found, as 
 given by 25 weeklies, 8 dailies, 16 monthly journals, and the North American 
 Review. 
 
 In the Spring of 1874, Mr. Louis H. Yarwood was appointed sole librarian, 
 an office which he still retains, having contributed much by his industry and 
 good sense to render the benefits of the library available to all. The present 
 Board of Directors are J. S. Wilcox, E. C. Lovell, W. H. Hintze, J. A. Spill- 
 ard, Geo. D. Sherwin, and D. F. Barclay. 
 
 THE PRESS. 
 
 No place in the county has been so productive of newspapers as Elgirf. 
 Their name is legion, and they commenced in 1845, with the publication of a 
 Baptist and Anti- Slavery sheet, by a joint stock company composed and edited 
 \ by Spencer Carr, Rev. A. J. Joslyn and Rev. Wareham Walker. It was sub- 
 sequently removed to the State of New York, and was succeeded in Elgin, in 
 1847, by the Elgin Gazette, which continued until consolidated with the Advo- 
 cate, in 1874. In 1851, the Fox River Courier commenced its brief existence 
 in support of the political views of the Whigs, but, never proving a financial 
 success, the publication was soon suspended. The Elgin Palladium followed, 
 in 1853, edited by Mr. Hough, and was changed about three years later to the 
 Kane County Journal, published by Lyman & Smith. In 1858, a Democratic 
 paper was established by Grosvenor & Willis. In 1865, the Second Distrivt 
 Democrat took its place, succeeded in turn by the Elgin Chronicle, edited by 
 Ed. Keogh, and finally merged into the Watchman, after being purchased by 
 E. C. Kincaid. The Lady Elgin, a monthly paper, under the control of 
 operatives of the watch factory, commenced her career in .1872, edited and pub- 
 lished by Bertha H. Ellisworth, Alida V. Ahle and Lydia A. Richards. It 
 afterward passed through some important changes, and had attained a circula- 
 tion of 1,500, when its publication ceased during the past year. The publishers 
 of the Dundee Citizen issued an edition in Elgin in the Fall of 1874, and called 
 it the Elgin Republic. It continued to be published until the Spring of 
 1877, when it became the Elgin Free Press, with C. Stoddard Smith, editor and 
 publisher. Since then it has been steadily gaining ground and now claims & 
 circulation of 1,000. Its size, 28x44, folio. The office is well arranged for 
 
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 job work. The Elgin Advocate Avas established in 1871, by S. L. Taylor, its 
 j (resent editor and proprietor, and has proved the most successful newspaper enter- 
 prise launched in the city. It absorbed the Gazette in 1874, and since then 
 had an uninterrupted career of prosperity. The newspaper work of the office
 
 386 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 is but a small fraction of the entire business book binding, blank book manu- 
 facturing and job printing requiring the services of sixteen hands. Its office 
 occupies a front rank among those west of Chicago, both in its favorable loca- 
 tion and the convenience of its furnishings. The circulation of the Advocate 
 is between 2,000 and 3,000 ; its size a seven-column quarto ; politics, Repub- 
 lican. The Elgin Times was established by Ed. Keogh, in 1874. No changes 
 
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 have occurred in its management, and it now claims a circulation of 600. It 
 is an eight-column folio, 24x36, and politically "Greenback." In December, 
 
 1874, Dudley Randall issued the first number of the Daily Bluff City, sus- 
 pended its publication for a few days, and recommenced it in January, 1875. 
 In the following August, W. J. Christie purchased a half interest, and in the 
 Fall of th same year it was enlarged from a three to a four-column folio. 
 In June, 1876, it was again enlarged by an additional column, and became a 
 six-column folio in the following Fall. It is now owned by W. J. Christie & 
 Co., C. E. Gregory, editor. A daily paper was started by Dudley Randall, in 
 
 1875, but scarcely survived the first quarter. The Elgin Daily News was first 
 issued June 17, 1876, by the Elgin Printing Company, with F. H. Taylor as 
 manager. It is a five-column folio, and Republican in politics. Its job printing 
 establishment is quite extensive, six men being employed in the office. Two 
 monthly papers are also issued from Elgin, both commenced in 1874 the 
 Informer and the Gospel Trumpet. Each has a large circulation. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 As has been already seen, the Congregational Church was the first organized 
 in Elgin, and dated May 12, 1836. We copy the following from the records: 
 
 ELGIN, May 12, 1836. 
 
 . A number of members of Presbyterian and Congregational Churches met, 
 by appointment, at the house of James T. Gifford. The meeting was opened 
 by prayer. Rev. N. C. Clark was chosen Moderator, and James T. Gifford, 
 Clerk. On motion, Resolved, that it is expedient to have a church formed in 
 this place, and that its form of government be Congregational. The Rev. N. C. 
 Clark then proceeded to organize "a church, composed of the following members, 
 who presented letters from sister churches, gave their assent to the Articles of 
 Faith, which were adopted as the Articles of the church, and solemnly entered 
 into covenant : 
 
 George McClure, Philo Hatch, Laura Gifford, Relief Kimball, Sarah E. 
 McClure, Reuben Jume, Experience Gifford, Mary Ann Kimball, Julia Mc- 
 Clure, James T. Gifford, Ruth G. Dixon. The first house of worship was the 
 Elgin Chapel, occupied, jointly, with the Baptists, but in 1843, the Congre- 
 gationalists sold their interest to the Baptists, and in July, of the same year, 
 the present building was commenced. It was enlarged, however, and repaired 
 in 1869 and 1870; is now in a very prosperous condition, and has enjoyed 
 many seasons of revival. The membership is 300 ; and the'Pastors, in their
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 387 
 
 regular succession, from its commencement, Rev. Nathaniel C. Clark, from 
 September 1, 1837, till June 13, 1845; Rev. Marcus Hicks, from July 17, 
 1845, to April 19, 1847; Rev. N. C. Clark, from July 29, 1847, till July 13, 
 1851 : Rev. William H. Starr, from September 1, 1851, until his death, March 
 6, 1854; Rev. William E. Holyoke, from March 20, 1854, till September 14, 
 1858; Rev. J. T. Cook, from April, 1859, till the same month of the following 
 year; Rev. N. C. Clark, from May 1, 1860, until September 1, 1862; Rev. 
 Fred. Oxnard, from September 1, 1862, until November 1, 1866 ; and lastly, Rev. 
 C. E. Dickinson, the present Pastor, who commenced his labors May 12, 1867. 
 Baptist. On the Sabbath following the 12th day of September, a relig- 
 ious meeting was held at the cabin of Hezekiah Gifford, and, as stated on a 
 previous page, a sermon read by Miss Harriet Gifford. About the 1st of 
 October, in the same year, Hezekiah, Asa and Harriet Gifford met with a few 
 other Baptist brethren and sisters, at the house ofMr. Kittridge, in St. Charles 
 Township, for devotion, and were organized into a Baptist Church, under the 
 name of the Little Wood Baptist Church. The Elgin Baptists continued to 
 meet with this congregation, near, and subsequently, at Fayville, until the 14th 
 of July, 1838, when Rice Fay, Esther Fay, Asa Gilford, Marietta C. Gifford, 
 Abel D. Gifford, Harriet E. Gifford, Hezekiah Gifford, Luther Herrick, Sarah 
 Hamilton, Samuel J. Kimball, Clarinda J. Kimball, Nancy Kimball and 
 James C. Stone, having taken letters of dismissal, met at the house of Heze- 
 kiah Gifford, where a church was organized, called the Baptist Church of Christ 
 of Elgin. Luther Herrick (Cook County) was the first Deacon, and Hezekiah 
 Gifford, Church Clerk. Rev. Joshua Ambrose was employed to preach every 
 alternate Sunday, for $150 a year, while Mr. Clark, the Congregational Pastor, 
 preached during the remaining Sabbaths. During the year 1838, under the 
 ministration of the Rev. R. B. Ashley, a great revival swelled the ranks of the 
 church members. The sincerest friendship and good will prevailed during these 
 early years, while the two Christian societies worshiped together. This may 
 be illustrated by the fact that the Baptist and Congregational Pastors were met 
 upon the Sabbaths by nearly the same congregations. The glory of God was 
 then sought in preference to the up-building of any sect ; and the conversion 
 of members, nearly every year, testified that the object was fully attained. 
 During the Winter of 1842-3, the coldest since the first settlement of the 
 country, an addition, 24x20 feet, was made to the chapel, and in the following 
 Spring the Congregational interest in the building was purchased by the Bap- 
 tists. Here they continued to meet regularly until 1849, when the cobble-stone 
 building was erected, which remained their spiritual house for twenty-one years, 
 at the expiration of which time it was converted into a school building. The 
 Pastors, in their order of succession, have been Revs. A J. Joslyn, Levi 
 Parmley, C. N. Chandler, Levi Parmley, Benjamin Thomas, A. J. Joslyn 
 (supply), Charles K. Colver, Wm. P. Everitt and L. M. Woodruff, now in 
 charge. During the pastorate of Mr. Everitt, extending from 1869 to 1872,
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 the present brick edifice was erected at a cost of over $35,000, and dedicated 
 on the 5th of October, 1871. It is the most imposing edifice of the kind in 
 the place. The membership exceeds 400. 
 
 Methodist. A sermon was preached by a Methodist minister in Elgin in 
 1835, and a class formed by settlers in the township, and across the line in 
 Cook County. In the following year, a sermon was preached by Rev. Washing- 
 ton Wilcox west of the city, and occasional sermons followed in various parts of 
 the circuit until 1839, when the church was located for a time in the village, at 
 
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 the Union Chapel, a part of which is now the residence of Dr. Jaeger. A 
 camp meeting held the same year greatly increased the membership by addi- 
 tional converts. In 1840, a church was completed 25x42, on land donated by 
 James T. Gifford. Diminutive as was this chapel, it was amply large for the 
 congregation. The land upon which it stood is still the qhurch lot. The timber 
 was given by the Messrs. Hammers ; George Hammers made the oak shingles, 
 and Horace Benham did the carpenter work for $150. When the brick 
 church now occupied by the society was built, in 1866, the former was sold to 
 the colored Baptists, removed and occupied by them until destroyed by fire 
 March 28, 1875. The membership is now about four hundred. 
 
 Catholic. Rev. M. De St. Palais, a zealous and devout priest of the Cath- 
 olic Church, and now Bishop of Vincennes, was the first who addressed congre- 
 gations of his faith in Elgin. For about four years, he labored in the place, 
 administering to the spiritual wants of his flock once in two or three months, 
 and at the expiration of that time was followed by Father Doyle, after whom 
 came Rev. Wm. Feely, who was priest in Elgin from 1845 to 1852. During 
 his pastorate, a lot was donated to his church by James T. Gifford, and a church 
 edifice, still occupied, was immediately commenced thereon. From 1852 to 
 1857, Rev. James Gallagher officiated as Pastor, and was succeeded in the two 
 following years by Rev. M. Carroll. Next followed the long pastorate of Rev. 
 A. Eustace, from 1859 to 1868, succeeded by Rev. T. Fitzsimmons, an earnest 
 temperance worker, who accomplished much good in the city. In addition to 
 his efforts in behalf of morality, Father Fitzsimmons inspired his congregation 
 with a sufficiency of his own zeal to undertake the building of an academy on 
 Center street, at a cost of $15,000, to be managed by a religious community of 
 sisters, to whom he donated a house upon Gifford street, where they intend to 
 board a number of the young lady students after the academy has been opened. 
 
 Universalist. A liberal movement was instigated, principally by the 
 Universalists and Unitarians, in the years 1847-8, resulting in the erection of 
 the church on Center street, now occupied by the Free Methodists. Rev. Mr. 
 Conant was the first Pastor. The church was soon sold, and preaching was 
 afterward hehUin the Masonic Hall, and later in the Free Will Baptist Church, 
 where Rev. 0. A. Skinner officiated for some time as Pastor. Mr. Skinner 
 being called to the Presidency of Lombard University, the church declined, and 
 no meetings were held until the Winter of 18656, when Rev. H. Slade re-
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 389 
 
 organized it, and the edifice now occupied at the corner of Center and Du Page 
 streets was built. In 1871, Mr. Slade left, and was succeeded by Rev. W. S. 
 Balch, who in turn resigned in 1876. At present, Mr Slade is supplying the 
 church, which numbers about one hundred members. 
 
 Presbyterian. The Presbyterian Church, of Elgin, was formed by the Chi- 
 cago Presbytery (N. S.), February 8, 1853, with twenty-five members from the 
 Congregational Church. A small building, standing on Center street, south of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church, was purchased, and Rev. A. W. Henderson 
 commenced his pastorate therein in June, 1854. Leaving, in August, 1856, 
 he was succeeded, in March, 1858, by J. V. Downs, who remained until 
 March, 1861. The organization, meanwhile, flourished ; but, owing to re- 
 movals about this time, became weakened, and was dismissed. 
 
 The present organization called " The First Presbyterian Church of Elgin " 
 was organized on the 4th of May, 1855, by the Chicago Presbytery of the Re- 
 formed Presbyterian Church, with twenty-five members. The first Board of 
 Elders was composed of James Christie and George Kilpatrick. Rev. J. B. 
 McCorkle was elected to the pastorate in September, 1855, and administered 
 to the wants of the congregation until April, 1864. The house of worship, at 
 the corner of Center street and Dexter avenue, was erected in the Spring of 
 1856. After the resignation of Mr. McCorkle, a vacancy occurred in the 
 church for three years, during which it Avas supplied by the Presbytery. At 
 the expiration of that time, Rev. D. C. Cooper was called to the pastorate, in 
 May, 1867, and served until September of the following year. On the 18th of 
 August, 1867, the congregation, with their Pastor, Mr. Cooper, withdrew from 
 the Synod of the Reformed Church, and united with the General Assembly of 
 the Presbyterian Church (0. S.) Rev. Samuel Hare then supplied them, from 
 October, 1869, to January, 1871 ; after which, Rev. Donald Fletcher supplied 
 them, until October, 1872. During Mr. Fletcher's stay, the old church on 
 Center street was sold to the Swedish Evangelical denomination, for $3,000, 
 and an elegant new church erected on the corner of Chicago and Center streets, 
 at a cost of nearly $15,000. It was beautifully furnished, and contained one of 
 the most elegant chandeliers west of Chicago, and was surmounted by the finest 
 bell in the city. It was dedicated to the service of God July 11, 1872, but, by 
 a mysterious dispensation of Providence, took fire, December 5, and burned 
 down. Its destruction was a severe blow to the society, but the present chapel 
 was immediately commenced, and is very neatly furnished, and designed merely 
 as a lecture room of a larger structure to be built in the near future. Rev. 
 Robert McKenzie followed Mr. Fletcher to the pastorate, and was succeeded, 
 in February, 1874, by Rev. W. L. Boyd, who remained until February, 1876, 
 when a vacancy occurred until the following October. The present Pastor, 
 Rev. Alexander Alison, then accepted a call from the congregation, and under 
 his ministration the church has doubled during the past year. The member- 
 ship is at present 160.
 
 390 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Grerman Evangelical Association. In 1855, Rev. Mr. Logscliute, a mis- 
 sionary of the German Evangelical Association, visited Elgin and preached twice 
 at the house of Henry Runge. Later in the same year, Rev. A. Schnacke 
 addressed congregations of Germans in the city, and was followed by Revs. 
 Authis, George Vetter, G. V. Lechler and Ragatz, during whose preaching 
 camp meetings were held and a number of souls converted. The meetings were 
 much disturbed, at first, by certain of the rabble and nondescript vagabonds 
 who are always found about the streets of cities ; and, on one occasion, an at- 
 tempt was made to burn the preacher's stand, upon the camp ground ; but these 
 annoyances disappeared as their numbers increased. In 1859, under the pas- 
 torate of Rev. H. Hintze, a house was purchased of B. W. Raymond and D. 
 Hewitt for $300, and fitted up for a church. This meeting house stood opposite 
 the Congregational Church, on Center street, had previously been occupied by 
 other religious denominations, but had passed into the hands of private owners. 
 Revs. E. Schneider, Mussulman and Carl Gaztstadter followed, and afterward 
 came Rev. C. Wagner, from 1863 to 1865, under whose pastorate the Sunday 
 school was organized. Revs. John Kiest, V. Forkel and E. M. Sindlinger suc- 
 ceeded, the ministration of the latter extending from 1867 to 1869, followed by 
 Christian during the two following years. The Free Methodists having mean- 
 while erected a house of worship for which they were unable to pay, it was ex- 
 changed, in 1870, with the Evangelical Association for their small building and 
 $3,000. The pulpit has since then been filled in succession by Revs. M. Stumm, 
 B. C. Fehr, T. Alberding, who was retained for three years, and F. Busse, the 
 present Pastor. Membership, 150. 
 
 Episcopal. There are no records in existence stating when church services 
 were first held by the Episcopal denomination in Elgin. The parish was or- 
 ganized on Ash Wednesday February 17, 1858. Rev. J. H. Waterbury, now 
 of Boston, was the first Rector, remaining with the parish for eighteen months, 
 and the first services after the organization were held in the Free Will Baptist 
 Church. Rev. F. Esch was next employed, and, after a vacancy extending 
 over a short period, was followed by S. D. Pulford, who remained until 1860. 
 A vacancy in the pastorate then occurred, until 1866, when Rev. D. C. Howard 
 officiated for a few Sabbaths, but left during the year. From that date until 
 
 1870, the church continued to decline, but during that year aroused, tem- 
 porarily, and employed Rev. George Wallace as Rector, who remained only until 
 
 1871. S. J. French officiated from 1874 to 1875, when, after a short interval, 
 Rev. W. W. Estabrooke, the present Rector, succeeded. Number of communi- 
 cants, eighty. 
 
 Grerman Lutheran Evangelical, St. John's. This church was organized 
 upon the 1st of October, 1859. Revs. Winder and Muller were the earliest of 
 its preachers in Elgin. On the 26th of February, 1860, the first election of 
 Trustees took place, L. Schneidwend, John Long and Frederick Fehrman 
 being selected to fill the important position. The building formerly occupied
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 391 
 
 by the Free-Will Baptists was purchased for $550, and was used until 1876, 
 when the brick edifice now used was erected upon the same ground, at a cost of 
 about $10,000. The old house of worship is still standing and used for Sabbath 
 schools and business meetings. The names of the Pastors who have succes- 
 sively addressed the congregation are : Revs. F. Renecke, R. Dulon, Chas. 
 Israel, W. Buhler, F. W. Richmann and H. F. Fruchtenicht, the present Pas- 
 tor, who has officiated since 1875. 
 
 German United Evangelical, St. Paul's Church, separated from the above 
 organization, in Elgin, on the 1st of October, 1875. Preparations were im- 
 mediately made to erect a house of worship, which was commenced the same 
 year, and finished upon the 23d of July, 1876. It cost, with the lot, $10,000. 
 The membership has increased since its organization, from seven to thirty. 
 Rev. R. Katerndahl was the first Pastor, followed by Rev. Gustav Koch, who 
 still officiates. 
 
 Free Methodist. In the Fall of 1865, Rev. C. H. Underbill, organized a 
 Free Methodist Church, in Elgin, with four members, and, subsequently, con- 
 tinued his labors in the city until the Spring of 1867. Meanwhile, an elegant 
 church building was erected on a lot purchased at the corner of Milwaukee 
 and Center streets. This house was 40x60 feet, and building and lot cost 
 about $7,000. The membership had been increased at that time to forty-five, 
 and the society continued to prosper during several successive administrations. 
 In 1870, Rev. D. M. Sinclair was appointed to fill the pastorate, and, in con- 
 sequence of his mismanagement, the church greatly declined, resulting in the 
 final disposal of their building in exchange for the one formerly occupied by 
 the German Evangelical denomination. The present membership is about 
 twenty. 
 
 The Swedish Evangelical Church was organized in January, 1870, and, in 
 September, 1871, purchased the church formerly owned by the Presbyterians, 
 at the corner of Dexter avenue and Center street, for $3,000. The member- 
 ship, which was at first forty-five, has now greatly increased. 
 
 African Baptist. One hundred gentlemen and ladies of color arrived in 
 Elgin from the sunny South, in the Autumn of 1862, and their number was largely 
 increased by arrivals in subsequent years. In 1866, the Second, or colored, 
 Baptist Church was formed, Rev. A. J. Joslyn ministering as Pastor for some 
 time. A portion of the old Methodist Church was purchased, fitted as a house 
 of worship and occupied until it was destroyed by fire, on the 28th of March, 
 1875, since which time the Court House has been used for the same purpose. 
 The present membership is about thirty. 
 
 The Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane is situated in Section 23, 
 about a mile southwest of the business portion, but within the city limits of 
 Elgin; and the farm connected with the institution embraces 510 acres, of 
 which 150 were donated by the citizens of Elgin, and the remainder purchased 
 by the State. The buildings stand upon an elevation 3,000 feet from the river
 
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 392 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 bank, and seventy above the water level, thus affording a pleasing view from 
 the upper portico of the river bend upon the east, the railroads following either 
 bank, the smoke clouds rising from the manufactories of South Elgin below, 
 and the clustering spires and dwellings of the more ambitious town on the north. 
 The slope to the river bank is very gradual, and the scenery in the vicinity is 
 of the quiet and cultivated cast so often met with in this State. The main 
 river road passes through the farm in front of the hospital. The ground plan 
 of the entire edifice includes a main or center building, occupied by the officers 
 and employes, two irregularly shaped wings, of which one is occupied by male^ 
 the other by female patients, and a rear building for the domestic department and 
 machinery. The entire frontage of the building, including the wings, is 1,086 
 feet; that of the main building, sixty-two feet. The main structure is four 
 stories, the wings three stories, and the material is Dundee brick, with stone 
 caps and sills, which give the whole an imposing appearance. There are twenty- 
 four wards twelve in each wing light and airy, and supplied with bay win- 
 dows and conservatories for flowering plants, while the entire hospital is equipped 
 with all modern appurtenances for convenience, safety and health, including hot 
 and foul-air ducts, fire apparatus, railways, and dumb-waiters for the distribu- 
 tion of food, dust-flues, speaking tubes, double-bladed iron fans, for forced 
 ventilation, etc. The outline and arrangement of the Government Hospital for 
 the Insane, in Washington, universally acknowledged as one of the best in the 
 world, has been carefully observed in the construction of the Asylum at Elgin. 
 The buildings were originally designed for the accommodation of only 300 
 patients ; but, when completed, it was found that they were amply sufficient for 
 the demands of 500, as shown by a recent report of the Trustees. In 1869, the 
 Legislature made the first movement toward the establishment of the Hospital, 
 by enacting a law providing for the necessary appropriation. A commission of 
 nine persons, to wit : Samuel D. Lockwood, of Kane County ; John H. Bry- 
 ^ant, of Bureau; D. S. Hammond, of Cook; Merritt L. Joslyn, of McIIenry; 
 Augustus Adams, of DeKalb; Benjamin F. Shaw, of Lee; William Adams, 
 of Will ; William R. Brown, of Massac, and A. J. Matteson, of Whiteside, 
 was appointed by Governor Palmer, in accordance with the provisions of this 
 statute, for the purpose of selecting a suitable location for the proposed North- 
 ern Hospital. 
 
 Various towns of the northern counties having been visited, a careful con- 
 sideration of the advantages offered by each resulted in the selection of the site 
 now occupied. The inducements offered by the citizens of Elgin included 160 
 acres of land, valued at $16,000, a spring valued at $2,500, and freightage 
 over the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad to the amount of $3,000. Three 
 Trustees were now appointed by the Governor, to adopt plans for the buildings, 
 and superintend their erection. The original board consisted of C. N. Holden, 
 of Chicago ; Henry Sherman, of Elgin, and Dr. Oliver Everett, of Dixon. 
 In 1873, Hon. C. W. Marsh, of Sycamore, was substituted for Dr. Everett, and
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 in 1875, Edwin H. Sheldon, of Chicago, was appointed in the place of Mr. 
 Holden. The north wing was completed first, and was opened, to receive 
 patients, April 3, 1872, after a public and formal inspection on the 2d of Feb- 
 ruary, when the Governor of the State and many distinguished guests were 
 present, and were regaled with a complimentary dinner by the ladies of the city. 
 
 The main or center building was finished in April, 1874, and the south 
 wing was ready for use in the following July; but, owing to a neglect on the 
 part of the Legislature to appropriate a fund for the support of the patients, 
 it was not opened until April, 1875. The present census of the Hospital is 500, 
 equally divided between the sexes. 
 
 The following is a list of the officers : 
 
 President Hon. C. W. Marsh, Sycamore. 
 
 Trustees C. W. Marsh; Frederick Stahl, Galena; I. 0. Bosworth, Elgin. 
 
 Secretary R. W. Padelford, Elgin. 
 
 Treasure? Hon. J. A. Carpenter, Elgin. 
 
 Resident Officers E. A. Kilbourne, M. D., Superintendent; Richard S. 
 Dewey, M. D., John J. Crane, M. D., Assistant Physicians ; C. H. Woodruff, 
 Clerk ; Mrs. F. M. Porter, Matron ; Edward Wellinghoff, Lizzie Dougherty, 
 Supervisors. 
 
 THE ELGIN AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
 
 is a stock company, organized in the Fall of 1869, with a capital of $10,000. 
 Forty-two acres within the city limits were immediately purchased, and inclosed 
 by a fence eight feet high. The floral hall is one of the finest in the State, and 
 the race-course and amphitheater are in an excellent condition, while the fairs, 
 which are held annually, have always proved successful. At present the com- 
 pany is composed of about 300 members. 
 
 BOARD OF TRADE. 
 
 The first attempt to establish a Board of Trade in Elgin was inaugurated by 
 Dr. Tefft during a meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen's Association, assem- 
 bled in that city. A committee was appointed, at his suggestion, composed of 
 three persons, viz. : Dr. Stone, Mark Dunham and C. C. Church, to meet at 
 Dunham's house and form a constitution for an association, whose object should 
 be the trade in dairy products. Twenty-seven cheese and butter factories in 
 Kane County, and a still larger number in adjoining counties, now dispose of 
 their products through this channel ; and the organization is well known both 
 in this country and in Europe. The sales during the year 1877, to December 
 12, as obtained from Dr. Tefft, who has been the President since the commence- 
 ment of the organization, amounted to $1,059,000. 
 
 MANUFACTURES. 
 
 We now approach the great industries of Elgin, to which her prosperity is 
 due. Prominent among these, though one of the more recent in the date of its
 
 394 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 establishment, is the Elgin National Watch Factory. Several residents of 
 Chicago organized, in 1864, a joint stock company, called the National Watch 
 Company, and acting under a charter granted by the Legislature. The citizens 
 of Elgin, being informed of these proceedings, and learning that no location for 
 manufacturing had been decided upon, appointed a committee to ascertain the 
 inducements necessary to secure the establishment of the buildings in their city. 
 The committee consulted with B. W. Raymond, the President of the company, 
 and always, as heretofore seen, the friend of Elgin ; an examination of grounds 
 about the place followed, resulting in the conclusion that those at present occu- 
 pied would be satisfactory, and the offer by the company to locate thereon, if 
 thirty-five acres were donated and $25,000 of stock taken in Elgin. Consider- 
 able difficulty was experienced in meeting these conditions, but it was at length 
 surmounted through the wise liberality of Henry Sherman, Benjamin F. Law- 
 rence, Walter L. Pease and Sylvanus Wilcox, and in 1866 the company moved 
 into the new establishments, which comprised a central building three stories high, 
 witli basement 40x40 ; a two-story and basement south wing, 28x87 ; a west 
 wing of the same height, 28x100 ; a one-story west wing, extending from the south 
 wing, 25x35, for a dial room, and a one-story wing on the west, opposite the 
 dial room, 30x65, for the engine and boiler room. A west wing was added 
 to the front, 28x100, two stories, with basement, in 1868, and two years later 
 the south wing was extended, 28x100, two stories, with basement. The build- 
 ings were again greatly enlarged in 1873-74. During five years and ten months 
 from the date of the charter, the company manufactured their machinery, erected 
 their buildings and placed 42,000 watches in the market. In five years from 
 the commencement upon the first watch, 125,000 were manufactured, and a 
 world-wide reputation attained. Six hundred hands are employed, nearly 
 one-half of whom are ladies. 
 
 A Woolen Mill was erected in 1844, five stories high, 80x34 feet, and for 
 three years employed a large force of operatives. In 1856, it was sold to 
 Harvey & Renwick. The latter then became the sole owner, and for some time 
 previous to 1866, it had been on the decline. In that year it was purchased 
 and enlarged by the Fox River Manufacturing Company, which has since then 
 employed from forty to fifty hands, and made from 300 to 500 yards of cloth 
 per day. The machinery is valued at $100,000. A brick block, 50x80 feet, 
 was erected by the Company in front of the factory, in 1870, and is used for 
 stores and newspaper offices. 
 
 Gronberg, Bierman & Co., commenced the manufacture of agricultural im- 
 plements on River street, near Division street, in 1870. Their specialty is the 
 National Combined Reaper and Mower, but a large amount of general casting 
 and repairing is likewise done. 
 
 In the same year, 0. Barr & Son commenced the making of agricul- 
 tural implements on the same street, and have won a deserved celebrity for the 
 manufactured articles.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 395 
 
 The year 1870 seems to have been unusually productive of manufacturing 
 establishments, which brought wealth and a name to Elgin, for aside from the 
 above the Elgin Iron Works were, established during that year, and have since 
 employed about thirty hands regularly. 
 
 The Elgin Butter Company also dates from 1870, and has made an aggre- 
 gate of 144,000 pounds of butter and 190,000 pounds of cheese per annum. 
 The former commands the highest price in market. 
 
 The Milk Condensing Factory commenced operations four years earlier, 
 under a company of which Gale Borden, whose name will be handed down to 
 posterity as the inventor of the process, was President. In 1868, Mr. Borden 
 and his associates in New York purchased thte stock, and the company name be- 
 came "The Illinois Condensing Go." The same Company controls the Borden 
 Condensed Milk Company, the New York Condensed Milk Company both in 
 New York and the Borden Meat Preserving Company, at Borden, Texas. The 
 factory at Elgin is the largest of these establishments, employs thirty men and 
 twenty-six women, and pays out $8,000 per month. 
 
 Mr. Borden died in 1874. His biography will be found upon another 
 page. 
 
 The vast proportions which the dairy business has assumed in Elgin have 
 given employment to several companies, established for the manufacture of 
 dairy goods, viz.: vats, engines, boilers, cans, churns, pails, etc. 
 
 The Elgin Packing Company, established in 1870, is devoted to canning 
 fruits and vegetables, and employs about one hundred and fifty men, women and 
 boys during the packing season. 
 
 Besides these, there is a great array of manufactories of various products, 
 some of them extensive, but which our limited space will prevent us from more 
 than merely mentioning. Among them are two tanneries, one of which employs 
 from eighteen to twenty hands ; the boot and shoe manufactory of Russell Weld, 
 established by Groce Brothers & Co. in the Fall of 1873, and which employs 
 ten workmen ; a number of large wagon and carriage shops ; three flouring 
 mills, and minor shops in almost endless variety. In fine, there are few cities, 
 large or small, which possess so many institutions as Elgin calculated to bestow 
 a universal fame. Her streets are well paved, and lighted by the Elgin Gas 
 Company, her business blocks imposing, her schools and churches an honor, 
 her opera house, erected in 1870, unusually good for a place of the size, while 
 no less than four fire companies and a police force protect her property. Sev- 
 eral secret societies furnish social enjoyment for the few, a number of the more 
 public associations form resorts for the many, a military company, and last, 
 but not the least important, three good cornet bands delight the ear with music. 
 
 No accurate census reports of the population can be referred to, but it may 
 be safely estimated at between 7,000 and 8,000.
 
 396 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 DUNDEE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Joseph Russell arid Jesse Newman, from La Porte County, Indiana, accom- 
 panied by the wife of the latter, who acted as their cook during the journey, 
 came to Fox River in October, 1834, and at length found their way to land, now 
 farming a portion of the township of Dundee, where they took up a claim. 
 After remaining a few days, they retraced their steps to the Hoosier State ; and, 
 having spent the Winter there, returned about April (1835), with their families, 
 thus becoming the first white settlers of the township. While preparations 
 were being made for building a house, the families lived in a tent pitched on a 
 tract of land near Carpentersville, upon which the residence of Mr. Marshal) 
 was erected in later years. 
 
 Mr. Jesse Miller, who settled in 1834, in Cook County, and now resides in 
 Algonquin, McHenry County, states that he assisted Newman in raising a log 
 cabin upon that tract during the Spring of 1835, and that there was then not 
 another house in Dundee. There were wigwams, however, and they were still 
 inhabited when the Oatmans arrived, a year later, as will hereafter appear. 
 Some time after Newman's habitation had been completed, Mr. Russell built a 
 log cabin upon the East Side, which remained until within three years, a few 
 rods below the brick yard. Newman died after a residence of a few years. 
 Like a majority of the other settlers, the Newmans and the Russells were in 
 only moderate circumstances at the time of their arrival, and had left civiliza- 
 tion with the hope of bettering their condition. They, therefore, experienced 
 most of the inconveniences incident to new settlers, but possessed an advantage 
 over some, from the fact that they owned teams and a few cattle ; both families 
 were scions of the " Old Dominion " stock. 
 
 Later in the Summer of the same year, Thomas Deweese, living in McLean 
 County, Illinois, left his home without any previous preparation, informing his 
 wife that he was going bee-hunting. Days and weeks passed before he returned, 
 and then he appeared as suddenly as he left, and told of adventures which he had 
 had in an unsettled part of the country several days' journey to the North, 
 whither he had resolved to immigrate. This unsettled region was the present 
 township of Dundee ; and before Fall he had removed all of his effects there. 
 Few men figured more extensively in the early settlement. He was exceed- 
 ingly enterprising ; possessed of an adamantine constitution and all the hardy 
 qualities which contribute to form the successful pioneer ; but his friends say 
 that he was unscrupulous in many of his proceedings. Arriving early, as has 
 been seen, he laid claim to a vast extent of territory, embracing all the best 
 claims in the township, upon which he erected, or pretended to erect as proofs 
 of his ownership, a log house, a majority of which could not have been used as 
 habitations by any forms of animal-life, requiring more extensive shelter than 
 the native wolves or -gophers. He then surrounded himself with a gang of
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 397 
 
 pugilists, plug-uglies and nondescript vagabonds, who obeyed him in all things ; 
 and, with their aid, expelled from his claims any man attempting to settle 
 thereon without first having purchased of him. This custom gave rise to many 
 broils and fights, but by far the greater number of the settlers preferred to buy 
 of him rather than defy his wrath. 
 
 In May, 1835, Mr. A. R. Dempster located on the East Side, on a farm 
 now owned by George Giddings. Mr. Dempster is still one of the most re- 
 spected residents of Dundee Village, and we are indebted to him for some of 
 the incidents of pioneer life which follow. He states in an article entitled 
 " Reminiscences," which recently appeared in the Dundee Record, that after 
 crossing Fox River, at Ketchum's Woods, the first man whom he met was Mr. 
 Newman, and that the names of the settlers within three or four miles were Mr. 
 Russell and wife, son Joseph and son-in-law Jesse Newman, John Jackson, Dr. 
 Parker, Mr. Moore, Mr. Burbank and George Taylor on the West Side, while 
 upon the East Side were Benjamin Irick, Mr. Van Asdell, Jesse Miller, at 
 Miller's Grove, and the Hawleys, a little north of that point. Thos. Deweese, 
 already mentioned, came that Summer, as did Gen. McClure, who became the 
 first Postmaster, at McClure's Grove, in 1837, and John M. Smith, to the north 
 of him. 
 
 The post office took the name of the grove, and the Postmaster's record may 
 be found in the annals of the last war with Great Britain. At Hoosier Grove, 
 southeast of Dundee, there were several settlers at this time, among -them the 
 Hammers, Branhams and others, from Indiana. 
 
 Prominent among the Pottawattomie Indians, who still lingered, in meager 
 numbers, along the river, was a chief by the name of Nickoway, who, with his 
 followers, inhabited a cluster of wigwams a little below where the brickyard 
 now lies. This once powerful tribe had dwindled to an insignificant hamlet of 
 hucksters and beggars. They visited the whites almost daily, bringing honey, 
 game and fish, which they willingly exchanged for flour, rum and tobacco, gen- 
 erally giving the settler a good bargain. But they were no less importunate 
 when they had no articles of exchange, and deemed beggary as honorable a& 
 trade. 
 
 Mr. Jesse Oatman, who will receive further notice in the sketch of Dundee 
 Village, relates a curious incident of a visit which he and several of the other 
 settlers made to the Indian wigwams, shortly after his arrival. They found the 
 families comfortably situated, for Indians,' with four or five acres of land in 
 cultivation, about eighty rods below the brickyard. There were six huts and 
 perhaps twenty-five Indians. As the strangers entered the dwelling of the 
 principal warrior, the mother of the family was engaged in plucking the feathers 
 from a sandhill crane, which one of her relatives had shot. This operation 
 was quickly performed as she merely pulled the larger feathers from the wings 
 and tail. She then poured a few beans into a kettle of water, doubled up the 
 bird, without any further dressing, and with head, smaller feathers and entrails-
 
 398 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 in their natural position, placed it upon the beans, to stew, and hung the kettle 
 over the fire. This was the first Sunday dinner which Mr. Oatman saw pre- 
 pared in Dundee, and it is scarcely necessary to add that he took occasion to 
 leave before it was cooked, regardless of the earnest solicitations of the hospita- 
 ble squaw that he should remain and eat. 
 
 Another settler states that, upon stopping, at a somewhat later date, at the 
 Indian settlement, a younger and fairer Pocahontas was busy making corn 
 bread. The dough was placed in the pan or kettle, and as it was not sufficiently 
 moist to be readily moulded into a smooth surface, the tidy maiden spat upon 
 her hands and thus worked it into the proper shape. Each of these anecdotes 
 is fairly illustrative of the real domestic habits of the many Minnehahas im- 
 mortalized in song ; while, for a true portrait of " Lo " himself, a darker chap- 
 ter would be required than can be given in a History of Kane County. 
 
 About 1835, Henry Smith and Mr. Freeman located west of Dundee Village, 
 where George Giddings now' lives. The Ashbaughs, upon what is now the Mc- 
 Neal place, were likewise among the earliest in this region. On the 28th of June, 
 1835, Catharine Dempster, afterward Mrs. Malcomb McNeal, now deceased, 
 was born at her father's old homestead, and was the first white child born in 
 Dundee Township. At this time, there was no physician for a circuit of many 
 miles, the man mentioned above as Dr. Parker not being a regular practitioner. 
 His wife, however, had attained some reputation among the pioneers as an 
 accoucheure, and was generally employed in their families. 
 
 About 1836, the population of the township was increased by the arrival of 
 the Bucklins, Mr. Manning, George W. Browning, George Hall, Mr. Bangs 
 and the Perrys. John Allison and William Wilburn were in the township, and 
 assisted in building Deweese's mill, the same year. Mr. Welch settled with 
 his large family upon the East Side. 
 
 The first death in the township was that of the aged father of Thomas 
 Deweese, in October, 1836. The body was laid at rest on the East Side upon 
 a hill which overlooks the surrounding country, and now forms a part of the 
 Hull estate. A marble slab was raised to mark the spot, and, although no 
 fence protected it and the lot at length became a pasture, the time-blackened 
 stone stood unbroken through the storms and changes of more than forty years 
 until, in 1877, it was removed, with the remains, to the burying ground. 
 
 A number of new arrivals, in 1837, rejoiced the earlier squatters with the 
 hope that Dundee might at one day be as populous as the Eastern and Southern 
 homes which they had left. Among these new comers were William Hall, a 
 Scotchman, who founded the fine nursery ; G. Hoxie, who settled in the Fall 
 on a farm now owned by William Lampkin, and T. H. Thompson, who settled 
 on the West Side and was for many years County Commissioner, the first 
 Supervisor, and a man highly honored. The year 1838 witnessed the arrival 
 of C. V. Carpenter, Daniel, his brother, and W. R. Heminway, now Post- 
 master in Dundee Village.
 
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 DR. JOSEPH TEFFT 
 PRESIDENT ELGIN BOARD OF TRADE
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 419 
 
 each, and others followed with smaller sums. The books were first kept at 
 the house of S. Or. Paull, Section 16, and the collection bore the name of 
 Farmers' Library. The old records show that the books were most indust- 
 riously read, and additions were occasionally made to their number until, in 
 1851, there were 264 volumes, embracing valuable works upon a variety of 
 topics. Many of them are now in the school house, in District 7. The second 
 library was known as the Independent Farmers' Library, and was established 
 during the Winter following the organization of the first. It was kept at Col. 
 Ingham's, two and a half miles from the other. The books have now become 
 scattered. 
 
 In 1846, the first 
 
 BRICK HOUSE 
 
 in the township was built, by Silas Reynolds, on Section 10, where it is now 
 used as a dwelling, by Millard Starr. Previous to that time, a peculiar 
 
 TRAGEDY 
 
 was enacted near Jericho, which may be mentioned, as it resulted in the death 
 of one of the earliest settlers in that vicinity. Mrs. I. S. Fitch had taken a 
 young and friendless girl into her family, and had cared for her as a mother 
 until she arrived at a marriageable age, when she became the wife of Reuben 
 Johnson, who has been mentioned as one of the early settlers near Jericho. 
 Mrs. Johnson had occasionally shown symptoms of insanity, but no danger was 
 apprehended from her, and when suffering from her temporary attacks she had 
 been allowed her liberty, and had generally taken refuge with her old friend 
 Mrs. Fitch, whose house was near her own. On the day on which the following 
 events occurred, Mrs. Fitch was alone in her house employed about her domestic 
 duties, when Mrs. Johnson entered in a high state of excitement. Mrs. Fitch, 
 however, being accustomed to see her thus, continued with her work, and was 
 busied with her back turned toward the young woman, when she crept slyly 
 behind her with a razor, and cut her throat from ear to ear. The unfortunate 
 lady ran to the door screaming to her son, who was at work in the field near by. 
 He hastened to the house and, by holding the severed arteries, prevented the 
 flow of blood until surgical aid could be obtained, but while the wound was 
 being dressed she died. More than thirty-five years have passed since that day, 
 and Mrs. Johnson, still a raving maniac, lives at her home in Jericho. Mrs. 
 Fitch was buried in a field near her house, but a number of years afterward her 
 remains were exhumed and placed in the cemetery. On raising her coffin from 
 the grave, the attention of her son was directed to the enormous weight which 
 it appeared to contain, and on removing the lid the body was found to be a solid 
 mass of stone! 
 
 It was in 1847 that the delegates were chosen to form a new Constitution for 
 the State of Illinois, but it was not until August 2, 1850, that the first town 
 meeting, under the new Constitution adopted, met at the house of S. G. Paull to
 
 420 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 elect officers for Sugar Grove. Ira Fitch was chosen Moderator, and W. B. 
 Gillett (now of Aurora), Clerk. The following officers were then elected (we- 
 give their present residence after their names ; if deceased, it is also denoted) : 
 
 Supervisor E. D. Terry (Kendall County). 
 
 Town Clerk Henry Nichols (California). 
 
 Assessor S. S. Ingham (deceased). 
 
 Overseer of Poor Ezekiel Mighell (Aurora). 
 
 Commissioners of Highways Jesse McDole (deceased), Ephraim Case 
 (Aurora), S. G. Paull (deceased). 
 
 Justices of the Peace Ira Fitch (Aurora), Wm. Thompson (Aurora). 
 
 Constables Charles Abbott (deceased), I. J. Sanford (Iowa). 
 
 Collector Ira Fitch. 
 
 Supervisors of Roads Joseph Inmann (Iowa), Ira Fitch, J. J. Denny 
 (deceased), L. Nichols (gone West), Wm. Thompson, R. Smith (gone East), 
 E. D. Terry, A. Casselman (Sugar Grove), S. G. Paull, L. Benjamin (Sugar 
 Grove), I. Barnes (deceased). 
 
 It was also voted that the town meetings be held in future at the Center 
 School House, whicK was built in the Fall of 1848, and was located in District 
 No. 7. The number of voters, as shown by the records of the first meeting, 
 was 102. 
 
 EDUCATION 
 
 early received attention from the citizens of Sugar Grove. A number of the 
 settlers, in the years 1835-67, came from New England, celebrated from 
 a time " beyond which the memory of man runneth not to the contrary " as the 
 home of education and intelligence. They brought with them the ideas native 
 to the soil of Massachusetts and Vermont, and hence schools and teachers came 
 with them. 
 
 The township now contains seven schools, all of which are in successful 
 operation. One of them as it is, no doubt, far in advance of any other dis- 
 trict school in the State deserves special notice. We refer to the one in Dis- 
 trict No. 7. All of the branches usually taught in high schools and academies, 
 with the exception of the languages, may there be pursued, if desired ; but the 
 special aim has been to furnish a course adapted to an intelligent farming peo- 
 ple. Its history is brief: With one of the citizens of Sugar Grove, Mr. 
 Thomas Judd, the idea of an agricultural school had long been a favorite one. 
 Mr. F. H. Hall had, for a number of years, been in charge of the West Side 
 School, in Aurora, and being possessed of a nature which led him to seek " the 
 low of cattle and song of birds," etc., he had purchased a farm in Sugar Grove, 
 where he was in the habit of repairing for health and recreation. The farmers 
 of the township, believing that Mr. Hall was the man to make a district school 
 successful, if any one could, at the suggestion of Mr. Judd a proposition was 
 made him to leave his position at Aurora, and he at length consented to do so
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 421 
 
 if a building 36x54 feet and two stories high were furnished him, and he could 
 be insured $150 per month. 
 
 About this time, the question of a new town house began to be agitated, 
 the farmers from the northern part of the township desiring to have it located 
 about 100 rods north of the location occupied by the old building, erected in 
 1848, while the balance of the township insisted that the former site should be 
 retained. The contest grew warm, and a town meeting was called for a general 
 ballot. 
 
 Mr. Judd, wishing to assist in securing his favorite scheme and at the same 
 time prevent the perpetuation of sectional jealousy, announced a picnic for the 
 same day, and all the township was invited. At the same time, Mrs. Snow, 
 one of the most enthusiastic converts to the school project, extended invitations 
 to many of the principal business men of Aurora. 
 
 The day arrived, and with it a crowd. During the entertainment, Mr. 
 Hall presented to the assembled multitude the object of the picnic, and called 
 for subscriptions. $1,400 were taken on the spot. This, with subsequent do- 
 nations from residents of the township, and the district tax, swelled the sub- 
 scriptions to $4,500. 
 
 The house was commenced in the Fall of 1875, and, with a good barn and 
 horse shed, is paid for. Mr. Judd and L. H. Gillett subscribed $500 each, and 
 the former contributed the land upon which the building stands, and in 187<) 
 erected, for the accommodation of pupils coming from a distance, a hotel, at a 
 cost of $12,000. The school is supplied with a library of 500 volumes, and 
 excellent philsophical and chemical apparatus. The regular course of study 
 includes agricultural chemistry, breeds of cattle, and all studies which pertain 
 directly to farming. Forty teams are fastened in the stalls daily, and a major- 
 ity of the pupils from outside of the district come a distance of ten miles. The 
 system upon which the school is managed is probably the most successful to be 
 found in any district school in the State, and the normal class from the institu- 
 tion is furnishing the surrounding country with teachers, who will, it is hoped, 
 introduce as far as possible the same admirable methods in other districts. In 
 nothing is reform more imperatively demanded than in the common schools of 
 this and other States ; and any institution which has for its object, in part, the 
 accomplishment of this end, should meet with the approbation of every intelli- 
 gent citizen. 
 
 The assessed valuation of the school property of Sugar Grove is $9,800. 
 The new town house was erected near the school house, in District No. 7, at a 
 cost of about $1,500. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 The only church standing wholly within the township was commenced in 
 , Jericho in May, 1855, and completed and dedicated the following Winter, at a 
 cost of about $2,500. A subscription to the amount of about $500 was obtained 
 from the farmers in the immediate neighborhood ; from $250 to $300 from a fund
 
 422 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 procured by the Congregational Society in the East to aid weak societies in the 
 West, and the balance was furnished by Deacon Reuben B. Johnson. The 
 building was dedicated as Mount Prospect Free Mission Church. The Methodist 
 Episcopal Society has occupied it part of the time, but the building has gener- 
 ally been considered a Congregational Church. Both societies are now extinct, 
 and no regular services have been held in the house for a number of years. It 
 is used principally for funerals. The burying ground for the southern portion 
 of the township lies just adjoining. 
 
 CHEESE FACTORY, 
 
 in Section 14, was built about 1865. Although a small building, a good busi- 
 ness is done. 
 
 Sugar Grove Township furnished her full quota of soldiers for the late war, 
 and their record was glorious in the Forty-second, Fifty-second and One Hun- 
 dred and Twenty-fourth Regiments. 
 
 The township contains some of the best farms in the State, is well supplied 
 with timber and water, is crossed from east to west by the Chicago & Iowa Rail- 
 road, thus giving easy facilities of transportation for its abundant produce ; is 
 inhabited by a wealthy and intelligent population, and is admitted to be the ban- 
 ner township of Kane County. Its population in 1870 was 792. The assessed 
 valuation of its property in 1876, $674,127, and the average assessed valuation 
 of its land, $24.91 per acre. 
 
 KANEVILLE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Kaneville, like Virgil, was one of the latest settled townships in the County. 
 Several farms remained unsold as late as 1845, while at the public Government 
 sale only forty acres of its unsurpassed prairie lands were disposed of. Yet 
 Kaneville was partially populated years before. 
 
 Job Isbell, a bachelor, from Ohio, settled in the Fall of 1835, on what is 
 now the Owen estate, erected the body of a log cabin, cut and stacked a quantity 
 prairie hay, and returned to his home in the Buckeye State, where he died. 
 James Isbell, his brother, who was then living in Sugar Grove Township, re- 
 moved in the Spring of 1837, to his vacant claim, and commenced improv- 
 ing it. 
 
 But, previous to this, the first permanent settler had established himself in 
 the township. This man, who is still living upon his original claim, and is by 
 no means an old man yet, is known throughout the vicinity as Amos Miner 1 
 In 1836, he resided in Wayne Co., N. Y.; his worldly possessions consisted of 
 a wife and one small child, Rosaline, a hoe and an axe ; and finding the finan- 
 cial outlook black, as it always is for a man in his circumstances, he determined 
 to make a desperate move. A friend, Levi Leach, was about immigrating, with 
 his family, to Michigan : he accordingly cast his lot with him, traveled by way
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 423 
 
 of the Erie Canal and the Lakes to Detroit, and thence by teams to a point in 
 Calhoun County, about one hundred miles distant. After a short delay at this 
 place, Mr. Leach went on a prospecting tour to Fox River, purchased a claim in Du 
 Page County, and returned for his family. His representations of the climate and 
 soil of Illinois were so favorable that Mr. Miner, who had found no inducements 
 to remain in his present location, resolved to accompany him to his new home. 
 But here a difficulty arose. Mr. Miner's assets were not far in excess of his 
 liabilities, and he found it impossible to hire a passage for his family to Chicago. 
 Mr. Leach's condition was more favorable ; he possessed some money, ox teams 
 and goods, and, in Mr. Miner's trouble, offered to convey Mrs. Miner and her 
 daughter over the country with his own family. The proposal was gladly 
 accepted. Mr. Miner found it more convenient to make the journey by way of 
 the great lakes, and, bidding farewell to his family, walked back to Detroit, and 
 took passage on a steamer about the middle of July, for Chicago. A voyage 
 through the straits of Mackinaw was a dreary one then, and the ports at which 
 the boat stopped were nearly as desolate as they had been since the creation. 
 Ft. Machilimackinac was not materially different from the fort captured by the 
 Indians in 1763. A number of squalid Indians lay upon the beach ; the 
 houses were few and small, and the garrison had nothing to do but go through 
 the daily routine of military duty, which was scarcely sufficient to keep them 
 awake from morning till night. Further up Lake Michigan, Mr. Miner found 
 Milwaukee, containing nothing but two or three shanties, inferior to many 
 settlers' huts to be seen even at that day in the wilderness of Illinois. In due 
 time, the traveler was landed at the head of the Lake, in the hamlet since 
 known throughout the habitable world, and thence walking to Mr. Leech's 
 claim, near Warrenville, he found no tidings of his friends, who had gone from 
 Michigan by the more direct route. After waiting a week in anxiety for their 
 arrival, he started on foot to meet them, and after walking eight miles, arriving 
 within two miles of Naperville, he found the party encamped. 
 
 They had traveled through the marshes of Indiana, enduring incredible 
 hardships ; had often been swamped and obliged to haul their loads from the 
 mire by attaching the cattle to the hind ends of the carts ; had camped in 
 sloughs among snakes and mosquitoes, and, on reaching a point near La Porte, 
 had been obliged to stop on account of the illness of Mrs. Miner and Mr. 
 Leech's aged mother. After the invalids had recuperated, they had proceeded 
 on their way and met Mr. Miner as stated above. 
 
 Such were the hardships of thousands who settled in the Great West. It 
 was August before the friends met, and the entire party proceeded to Mr. 
 Leech's claim, where Mr. Miner remained until October, when a Mr. Sperry, 
 who had taken land in Blackberry Township, called at the settlement to pur- 
 chase a team which Mr. Leech had advertised for sale. Having concluded a 
 bargain, and desirous of a teamster to drive one of his yoke of oxen back to 
 Blackberry, Mr. Miner offered his services and after a tedious drive, fording the
 
 424 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 river at Aurora, readied Mr. Sperry's partially built house, which, owing to the 
 cracks between the logs admitting daylight from all sides, was afterward known 
 far and wide as " Sperry's light-house." 
 
 The next day was Sunday, and Mr. Miner having heard of unclaimed land 
 in the West, walked to the Smith, Platt and Vanatta settlements, all of which 
 were in Blackberry Township, thence to Lone Grove, where he took up the 
 claim, embracing a liberal strip of timber, where he now resides. 
 
 It is a peculiar circumstance, but one easily explained, that nearly all of the 
 earlier settlers selected timber or rolling lands instead of prairie. They were 
 Eastern men, and naturally prejudiced in favor of Eastern scenery ; and then 
 their distance from lumber markets made it essential that there should be some 
 wood upon their tracts with which to build their first cabins and supply them 
 with fuel. At that time, the magnificent timber with which the groves abounded 
 was no minor inducement. Those who have only seen Northern Illinois in 
 its present aspect will be inclined to regard this statement with astonishment, 
 since scarcely a tree above mediocre size can be found in an entire grove; but 
 then, entire forests of the choicest oak and black walnut towered for a hundred 
 feet above the surrounding prairie. 
 
 After marking his claim, Mr. Miner returned to Du Page County, where he 
 employed himself at such odd jobs as the primitive condition of the country 
 afforded until February, 1837, when Mr. Vanatta came to the settlement, beg- 
 ging assistance for Mr. Lance, of Batavia, whose house had recently been de- 
 stroyed by fire, one of his children, 7 years old, perishing in the flames. Upon 
 his return, Mr. Miner accompanied him, walking from Mr. Vanatta's house to 
 his own claim, wading Blackberry Creek, which had frozen and recently thawed, 
 and cut a sufficient number of logs to build a house, sleeping upon the ground 
 and living upon cold lunches in the meantime. In April, with the assistance of 
 some of the Blackberry settlers, his house was raised, and on the 10th of May, 
 1837, his family occupied it. For two years he had no team, and was obliged 
 to pay a man five dollars an acre for breaking the first five acres of land which 
 he cultivated, and drive the team besides. As he had no money, he split 2,500 
 rails to satisfy the prairie breaker's demands ; and in the same season completed 
 his house, fenced his land and raised a good crop of sod corn, buckwheat, beans 
 and vegetables. His first cow was purchased four miles east of Warrenville, 
 and paid for during the summer by working in the harvest fields for farmers in 
 Sugar Grove. Mr. Leech signed a note with him as security. While Mr. Miner 
 was away at work, his wife and child were left alone for a week at a time. The 
 price paid for binding was twelve shillings a day. Thus, like Robinson Crusoe, 
 all his comforts and luxuries came directly from his own labor. During the 
 Summer, there was only one neighbor, James Isbell, nearer than Blackberry 
 Township, but in the Fall, Mr. Alfred Churchill, from Batavia, N. Y., pur- 
 chased, for fifty dollars, a claim which had been taken up by John B. Moore, 
 who, subsequently, settled in what is now Virgil Township. Mr. Churchill was
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 425 
 
 a prominent man among tKe early settlers ; an early Superintendent of Schools, 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention and an actor in various responsible 
 positions. He remained in the township until his death, in 1868. Shortly 
 after the arrival of the Churchill family in their new home, an event of great 
 importance, in an unsettled country, occurred at the house of Mr. Miner in the 
 birth of a daughter, Mary, on the 27th of November, 1837. She is still living, 
 and is now Mrs. Robert Alexander, of Campton Township. 
 
 The Summer of the following year found several other families located in 
 the neighborhood, first of whom were the Inmans, from the State of New York, 
 and later, Daniel Wentworth, from New Hampshire, who settled upon the bank 
 of the creek, on a place now occupied by Silas Hayes. The McNairs were, 
 likewise, early residents of the town. 
 
 On the 24th of February, 1838, the first marriage in the township took 
 place, James Isbell and Sarah Moore being the couple. The bride, who was a 
 daughter of J. B. Moore, of Virgil, died many years ago, but Mr. Isbell is still 
 living at Batavia. John Bunker settled about this time on a claim now owned 
 by Mr. Hoyt. 
 
 In 1839, Miss' Fayetta R. Churchill now Mrs. David Hanchett taught, 
 in her father's house, the first school in the township, and during several suc- 
 ceeding Winters was the only schoolma'am in Kaneville, or Royalton, as the 
 township was then called. Miss Churchill was, also, the first teacher in the 
 first log school house, which stood near the center of the township, on a place 
 now owned by Mr. Hough. The old building is now gone from the memory of 
 the younger inhabitants, but was considered a suitable dwelling place for learn- 
 ing in its day. It was built of logs, Messrs. Churchill, Miner and Isbell being 
 mainly instrumental in its construction. Mr. David Hanchett made his home 
 in the township in 1847- 
 
 Unfortunately, although Kaneville was settled by an intelligent people, and 
 was, as already noticed, one of the later townships to be taken up, its records 
 are far from satisfactory, from a historical point of view. The minutes of the 
 proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Schools, which were doubtless one of the 
 most valuable sources of information, have either been lost or destroyed, and 
 the records of the earliest church organization are frequently indited by a gen- 
 tleman of exceedingly emotional nature, who has made note of the spiritual 
 status of the members rather than of the times and places of holding the meet- 
 ings. Enough still remains, however, from the recollections of early settlers 
 to show that a Sabbath school was commenced in the house of Mr. Bunker, 
 previous to the formation of a church of any denomination ; that a Christian 
 minister, by the name of Van Deuzer, delivered the first sermon in the township, 
 at the house of Mr. Alfred Churchill, and that Rev. Augustus Conant preached 
 at the same place later in the year. There was no regular place in the town- 
 ship for divine worship until 1847, when the members of the Baptist Church, 
 previously formed in Blackberry Township, began to meet in the first frame
 
 426 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 school house in Kaneville. Mr. James Lewis, from X)hio, originally from Con- 
 necticut, was an active member ; and there were a number of communicants 
 from several of the adjoining townships Big Rock, Sugar Grove and Black- 
 berry. But there had been preaching previously by the same denomination in 
 Kaneville, when Elder Whittier officiated at the house of Mr. Bunker, October 
 20, 1844. Rev. Thomas Ravlin, of Kaneville, commenced his pastorate in the 
 same church, and died,* before the expiration of a year, September 6, 1846. 
 
 During the year 1845, a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal denomination 
 addressed a small congregation at the old school house, and afterward at Mr. 
 Miner's residence. A number of years followed before any society erected an 
 edifice dedicated exclusively to the worship of God. Meanwhile, various im- 
 portant events occurred ; foremost among which must be reckoned the establish- 
 ment of a post office, called Avon, at the house of Mr. Churchill. During the 
 previous years, there had been no office nearer than Blackberry, but now settlers 
 were accommodated once a week with mail brought to their own neighborhood. 
 Mr. Churchill was both Postmaster and mail carrier from the Blackberry office. 
 Mr. Miner went to Naperville for his first mail in 1887, a distance of over, 
 twenty-five miles. 
 
 In June, 1845, H. S. Gardner, the first blacksmith in the township, settled 
 near its northern boundary, where he still resides. The first frame house 
 in Kaneville was the one built by Mr. Bunker immediately after his arrival. 
 Mr. Bunker was a very tidy and practical farmer, and an honored resident of 
 the township in which he settled, until 1862, when he fell dead in his house. 
 Mr. Churchill's death was equally sudden. The rights of the settlers in Kane- 
 ville, as elsewhere in the county, were protected by claim organizations. Many 
 were too poor at the time of the land sale to purchase the farms upon which 
 they had made improvements, and, but for a general union between them for 
 mutual protection, strangers might have purchased their dwellings, land and 
 crops at the price of unimproved sections. Under the claim societies, however, 
 such an act of injustice toward any squatter would have brought upon the 
 offender the vengeance of the entire settlement. Attempts to defraud a claimant 
 of his land, whether authorized by law or not, were therefore generally unsuc- 
 cessful. But one project of this kind was not altogether a failure, and occa- 
 sioned discord among neighbors for years. It occurred as follows: James 
 Isbell's tract had extended over a portion of Section 16, which the law of the 
 State had set apart, in each township, for school purposes. This section, in 
 Kaneville, had been divided into ten and twenty -acre lots and offered for sale by 
 the town, at low rates, in order that claimants might not lose their improvements, 
 made before the survey of the land. Two ten-acre lots were upon Isbell's claim, 
 arid had been appraised at six and seven dollars per acre, with the understanding 
 that in the auction sale no one should bid above those figures. But several of 
 the neighbors of Mr. Isbell, desiring the valuable timber with which, the land 
 
 * This was probably the second death in the Township. J. B. Moore's, who died at the house of his son-in-law, 
 was the first.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 427 
 
 was covered, raised his bid, and obliged him to pay over sixteen dollars an acre 
 for one of the lots, while the other was raised to such a high price that he refused 
 to contend for it longer, and it was struck off to another man. Mr. Isbell was 
 naturally enraged, and, going to Chicago upon his earliest opportunity, entered 
 at the land office the claims of his neighbors who had wronged him, and pur- 
 chased them at Government rates. The owners declared him a thief, and threat- 
 ened to shoot him, but he coolly replied that he would re-deed the land on con- 
 dition that the balance above the appraised sum which he had paid for his 
 ten acres should be returned to him, together with the price which he had paid 
 for their land. Resistance was useless, and the gentlemen reluctantly con- 
 sented. 
 
 Even at that early time, malefactors had begun to disturb the peace of the 
 generally tranquil township, and there is a report of money having been stolen 
 from one of the settlers and an innocent man being charged with the offense. 
 Hog and stock thieves were not uncommon in the county previous to 1840, and 
 .Kaneville had her quota. The anecdotes of their unlawful proceedings are, 
 some of them at least, amusing, and two of them, although the scenes recorded 
 occurred outside of Kaneville Township, may be recorded here. The name of 
 Rev. Mr. Elmore is prominent in the history of the northern part of St. Charles 
 as an educated and philanthropic preacher of the Baptist persuasion. He was 
 never wealthy, although his acres were broad and fair, and he was often per- 
 plexed, during the first years of his residence in the county, to obtain a com- 
 fortable subsistence for himself and family. One Fall, in regard to the date of 
 which deponent testifieth not, he had prepared several hogs for the market, and 
 was nearly ready to butcher them, when on an evil morning he awoke, and, 
 proceeding to feed them according to his usual custom, he found no trace of 
 them left. He rubbed his eyes to be sure that he was awake, and then exam- 
 ined the premises, but with no satisfactory results. There was not a single clue 
 to the mystery. They had gone, and had evidently " gone up," too, for there 
 was no indication of their having escaped upon the surface of the earth. He 
 had read of children being " spirited " away, but the thought of three or four 
 hogs, each weighing 500 pounds, being conveyed from this world in that 
 manner was of itself sufficiently absurd, and was forthwith dismissed. After a 
 few inquiries among his neighbors, he gave up all hope of recovering the prop- 
 erty, offered a prayer for the thief, we suppose, as was his duty, and settled 
 down to the practice of the more careful economy which his reduced circum- 
 stances necessitated. Years rolled on, successive Autumns changed to Winters, 
 Winters to Springs, and Summers to Falls, but the lost pork never returned 
 and was at length forgotten. Nearly a decade had passed, and Mr. Elmore's 
 land had increased in value and his condition in life become more favorable, 
 when a stranger approached his gate one day with a flock of sheep. 
 
 " I believe these sheep belong to you," said the man. 
 
 "You must be mistaken," replied Mr. Elmore. "I have bought no sheep."
 
 428 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 "Do you remember, a number of years ago," continuned the stranger, 
 " that you lost some fat hogs one night ? " 
 
 The reverend gentleman assured him that the circumstance was still vividly 
 impressed upon his mind. 
 
 "Well, "he replied, "the man who stole those hogs lives jn Wisconsin, 
 During the years which have elapsed since that night, the crime has rankled in 
 his bosom until he has been driven to seek peace of mind by making ample 
 restitution. He accordingly presents you with these sheep, sufficiently valu- 
 able to pay the principal and interest for the pork, and requests that you will 
 accept them, asking no questions, and thus restore him to the condition from 
 which he fell when he stole those hogs." 
 
 He opened the gate, and the sheep ran into the yard, while Mr. Elmore 
 again rubbed his eyes, not quite sure that 'he was awake. Then, bidding him 
 good day, the man walked rapidly off, and Mr. Elmore never saw him again. 
 
 Aurora and the vicinity were notorious as the abiding places of thieves and 
 robbers, who carried on a good trade in ill-gotten spoils. One of them, a lank 
 and ungainly reprobate, "stole a pig and home he ran." He was arrested and 
 indubitable evidence given of his guilt. B. F. Fridley was engaged to defend 
 him, and, if the story is true, informed his client that his only hope was in 
 taking "leg bail." The day of the trial arrived, witnesses were called and 
 examined, and a clear case proven against the defendant. The counsel for the 
 plaintiff deemed it unnecessary to say a word, and delivered the case to the 
 jury without any attempt to influence them. Fridley then arose and delivered 
 an eloquent harangue. He ranged the fields of law from the days of Black- 
 stone to his own times, he reveled amid the clouds of fancy, built up men of 
 straw and knocked them down again, and ended with a splendid peroration in 
 which he appealed to the jury, in the name of the American eagle and the 
 principles of eternal justice, to protect accused innocence from the defaming 
 tongue of slander. "Now," said he, "gentlemen of the jury, I have proven 
 this man's innocence beyond the possibility of a reasonable doubt ! " and with 
 this he emphasized his last word by a tremendous blow upon the table, which 
 knocked it over in front of the Sheriff, whereupon the " innocent client" darted 
 from the door as if all the warlocks and witches in " Kirk Alloway" were at 
 his heels. He had gained at least a half mile before the Court awoke from his 
 astonishment, and then pursuit was useless.* 
 
 One of the earliest roads in the County was laid through Kaneville Town- 
 ship, from Sugar Grove to Ohio Grove. The first claim mentioned as pur- 
 chased at the Government sale by James Isbell was located on Section 21. 
 M. M. Ravlin and John Bunker were the first Justices of the Peace, and were 
 elected in 1845, under the old precinct division of the county. In the same 
 year, Rev. Thomas Ravlin purchased the claim on which Kaneville village now 
 stands of Willard Inmann, for about three dollars per acre, and afterward 
 
 * We give this story merely ag one of the popular legends of the county, not believing for a moment that so hon- 
 orable a gentleman as B. F. Fridley ever connived at the escape of villainy from justice.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 429 
 
 entered and purchased it of the Government. His house stood near the present 
 site of the Baptist Church. The Avon post office was short lived, and, in 1848, 
 the office at Kaneville village was established under N. N. Ravlin, and was at 
 first supplied by the Sugar Grove office. The name of the township was 
 changed upon the year of its establishment as follows : Nearly all Northern 
 Illinois formed at that time one Congressional District, and " Long John" 
 Wentworth was the member of Congress from that district. A petition was 
 presented for a post office, to be called Rpyalton ; but upon making the appli- 
 cation it was ascertained that there was another office of the same name in the 
 State. Not wishing to disappoint his constituents, Long John substituted, 
 upon the spur of the moment, the name of Kaneville, and told the people that 
 they might change it at their convenience if it was not satisfactory. It met 
 with general approval, and instead of changing the name of the office, the town- 
 ship also was henceforth known as Kaneville. The village has been supplied 
 with daily mails and stages for about fifteen years from Blackberry Station. 
 About 1852, William Hall built a small hotel, which was the only public place 
 of entertainment in the village until 1869, when B. & A. Carey erected the 
 present ample addition. In 1855, preparations were made by the Baptist 
 Society to build its first house of worship, which was dedicated in October of 
 the same year. The church has greatly increased since its organization, and is 
 now prosperous. A Methodist Episcopal Church was organized early at Black- 
 berry, and removed to Kaneville about the same time as the Baptist organiza- 
 tion, where for several years it enjoyed, with the latter congregation, alternate 
 preaching at the old village school house. A church edifice was at length 
 erected, in which Rev. S. Stover preached the first sermon, and this building 
 was replaced in the Fall of 1875 by the present elegant structure. The old 
 school house was superseded in the Summer of 1857 by the building still in use, 
 in which N. F. Nichols, now a lawyer in Aurora, was the first principal. The 
 first store in the village, as well as iu the township, was built in the Fall of 
 1852, by one !oodwin, sold to Hathorn, and at length went into the possession 
 of B. A. Coy, who sold to J. H. Scott, the present proprietor. It has been 
 much enlarged since its erection by Goodwin, and contains an unusually large 
 stock of goods for a country store, the sales amounting to from $35,000 to 
 $40,000 per annum. Frank Perry started in business at his present stand, on 
 the opposite side of the street in 1874. A Catholic Church was organized 
 early in Kaneville Township, and subsequently removed to Lodi, in the history 
 of which a sketch of it will be found. The township contains at the present 
 time eight school houses, all frame buildings, and a majority of them well 
 adapted to the purpose for which they were constructed. The one in District 
 No. 8 was put up in 1872, at a cost of $1,000 ; and the one in District No. 3 
 in 1876, at about the same price. The entire valuation of school property is 
 $6,500 ; the assessed valuation of the township, $586,542. The farms of Kane- 
 ville Township are surpassed by few in the world, and the farm houses are
 
 430 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 among the most elegant in the county. The original houses of the old settlers 
 have disappeared, as the above statement would imply, and owing to the excel- 
 lence of the soil, stimulated by the wise and frugal management of the land- 
 owners, they were able, when the time came, to rebuild, to replace the log huts 
 and slab shanties by mansions, many of which might well be used as archi- 
 tectural models by the farmers throughout the entire country. Their clean 
 white walls may be seen across the rolling prairie for miles, contributing to the 
 general beauty of the scene, and contrasting strongly with the dark fields of 
 corn which every Autumn sun will find waving around them. The population 
 of the township, by the census of 1870, was 1,003. It lies south of Virgil, 
 joins Blackberrry upon the west, and is Congressional Town 89, North of 
 Range 6, East of the Third Principal Meridian. 
 
 VIRGIL TOWNSHIP. 
 
 The Spring of 1837 found' the territory now embraced within the township 
 of Virgil unsettled, save by three isolated families who had sought homes there 
 during the previous season. The extensive sloughs spread over the region 
 traversed by the crooked and insignificant Kishwaukee had delayed the peopling 
 of these otherwise rich and desirable sections for many moons after the alluvial 
 lands along Fox River had been subjected to the plow and the smoke had 
 arisen from settlers' cabins throughout the entire valley, from Algonquin to 
 Ottawa. The old Oregon and St. Charles Road had been laid out two years 
 before the period of which we write, and traversed for miles a country in which 
 there was not a single white inhabitant. North of this, and likewise extending 
 from east to Avest, the road from St. Charles to Coltonville, the defunct capital 
 of De Kalb County, was surveyed by Capt. Barnes, in 1837. Thus Virgil be- 
 came one of the few townships in the county which had roads before it con- 
 tained inhabitants. Aside from the cause mentioned which retarded the settle- 
 ment, and which has now in a great measure disappeared, leaving Virgil one of the 
 best farming townships in Northern Jllinois, there was one proceeding from other 
 than natural sources. Early in 1836, Luther Merrill, with his family, from 
 the State of New Hampshire, found his way to the eastern edge of the town- 
 ship, south of the center, and, having erected a miserable log hut, laid claim to 
 all the country extending from the southern line of the town north to Lilly 
 Lake, near the residence of James Outhouse, and west to De Kalb County. 
 An old settler declares with reckless hyperbole that his claim included all 
 God's creation, and that he would have taken De Kalb County in addition if 
 the rest had not been all that he could conveniently watch. The general ver- 
 dict of those who knew him pronounced Mr. Merrill a man of unusual energy. 
 His family has now left the country. The land monopoly which he formed had 
 the effect which might have been expected, until settlers utterly disregarded his
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 431 
 
 claim, as they should have done from the first, and established themselves upon 
 reasonably large tracts, without asking his consent or paying his exorbitant prices. 
 Itinerant preachers had visited Virgil previous to 1837, and it is difficult to 
 decide who was the first of these missionaries. Though not inspired with the 
 zeal of the Jesuits who had entered Illinois more than a century and a quarter 
 before, they were still, as a class, devout and conscientious men, working for 
 the glory of God and the good of their race rather than for any personal ambi- 
 tion or emolument. We will start with one who left St. Charles in the Fall of 
 1838, on the Oswego Road, and, following him on his journey to De Kalb 
 County, will there leave him to pursue his way, but will rejoin him as he enters 
 Virgil on his return trip by way of the only remaining road across the town- 
 ship at that time. He is an honest and consistent follower in the path that 
 John Wesley laid out, and as he enters upon an old gray horse the country 
 since named Virgil, his eyes are opened for sinners to save. It is late in the 
 Fall, and the occasional patches of woodland, dyed in carmine and gold, and 
 resplendent beneath the last ray of the setting sun, inspire his mind with vague 
 fancies of the beautiful as he rides along. He is not a man of sentiment or one 
 accustomed to commune with Nature, yet even for him the glory of the scene 
 through which he passes has its inspiration. But the thought that the hour of 
 supper has arrived inspires him more, and now, a small cabin appearing, he de- 
 termines to alight and ask the hospitality which his stomach demands. He is 
 kindly received, as all travelers were in those days, and is soon seated by the 
 rude fire-place, asking questions. From the replies given he ascertains that the 
 name of his host is John B. Moore, former resident of Wood County, Ohio, and 
 that he came to Chicago, with his family, consisting of wife and nine children, 
 in July, 1836, and, continuing his journey thence without delay, crossed the 
 Fox River at Geneva, and at length reached the residence of an old friend, 
 James Isbell, in Sugar Grove, where he stopped two or three weeks. Finding 
 much of the land there claimed, and hearing of the rich tract at the north taken 
 up by Merrill, he had determined to proceed thither. With his large family of 
 sons and the Isbells, he had mustered quite an army, arid, without asking leave 
 of any one, had built his cabin and established himself in the new quarters. 
 Mr. Merrill had visited him while he was erecting his abode, but, seeing so 
 many men engaged in the work, had made no objections ; and from that day 
 the Merrills and Moores had continued the policy of carefully avoiding each 
 other. Mr. Moore further informs his guest that it was a wild country when 
 he came, and that he had seen 500 Indians encamped just south of him, in 
 1836. Having remained until morning, and performed the ceremonies which 
 his piety suggested, the preacher continues his journey with refreshed body 
 and a self-satisfied mind. Mr. Moore remained upon the place Tjhere he 
 found him until about 1841, when he died. His son, John 0. Moore, now 
 resides a little west of the old farm which is the present home of Thomas 
 Anderson.
 
 432 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 But the missionary proceeds on his tramp. He has made inquiries of Mr. 
 Moore, concerning all the settlers across the country to the DeKalb line, and 
 already feels quite well acquainted with them ; so he ought, for he knows their 
 family histories better than they do themselves. He soon approaches the res- 
 idence of the first one, which is of logs, like the one just left, while various 
 improvements in the vicinity indicate that the settlement was made at least two 
 years before. , And such our friend knows to be the fact, for the house was 
 built by James Outhouse, a previous owner, who had come from St. John, 
 New Brunswick, in the Fall of 1836, with his wife and two children, and hav- 
 ing learned of the Merrill claim, had left his family at Blackberry, and traveled 
 across the country to the cabin of the pretended owner of some thirty-six 
 square miles, where he was informed that he could have 300 acres for $300, 
 and not a cent less. With this assurance he returned to Blackberry, and was 
 told by D. W. Annis, that he would not pay any such outrageous price; that 
 $100 was enough, and that if Merrill was not satisfied with that amount, he 
 would furnish men enough to build a log house upon any part of the land which 
 Outhouse should select, and help him to defend it. Accordingly Mr. Outhouse 
 presented this view of the case to Mr. Merrill, telling him that the land which 
 he claimed had never cost him a cent, and that he might take $100 for 200 
 icres, or he should take the land by force, and pay him nothing for it. After 
 due consideration, Merrill concluded that he would accept the offer. Outhouse 
 moved to the land already mentioned, but sold, in 1837, to William Kendall, 
 who immediately disposed of it to two Pennsylvania Dutchmen, Mallo and 
 Spangler, who were in possession when our missionary passed it, and who 
 resided there some five years. Mallo was noted throughout the township as the 
 first brickmaker. It appears that the brick which he manufactured were not 
 used in building any houses in the neighborhood, but merely for chimneys and 
 wells. Next west of this land, arose the low shanty of one Klinepeter, another 
 Pennsylvanian, who had come to the country about the same time as his coun- 
 trymen on the east; but before reaching his house, the traveler had passed a 
 sight very common in that part of the country then, but uncommon to him, as 
 he had recently come from the East. Looking off to the south, a dark cloud 
 appeared spread over the prairie, but moving rapidly toward the spot where he 
 was concealed by some low bushes along the road side. Drawing his reins, he 
 waited for the nearer approach of the objects, to solve the mystery. In a few 
 moments a vast herd of deer was clearly distinguished; and as they approached, 
 the reverend gentleman counted forty-five* before they took fright, and changed 
 their course for the nearest grove. The traveler watches them until they dis- 
 appear, and then drives on. The man who was then occupying the neighboring 
 shanty remained upon the place until his death ; and several years later, his 
 widow married a Mr. Smith, who now occupies the farm. Here the traveler 
 bids farewell to the settlements of Kane Caunty, and a little later crosses the 
 
 *Several of the settlers have assured us that they have seen as many as fifty in a single erd. 
 
 I
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 433 
 
 line. Returning several days later, upon the other road, he arrives in the mid- 
 dle of the afternoon at the cabin of Milton Thornton (who removed from hi& 
 original claim some four years ago to Geneva), and there our traveler inquires his 
 way, and asks about the settlers along the home route, then drives along to the 
 residence of the Read family, of whom he has learned everything of the last 
 stranger, for he is an inquisitive man, as has already appeared. He has learned 
 that the father's name is Joshua, and that he has but recently arrived from 
 New Brunswick with his family of seven sons and several daughters, and that 
 one of the older daughters is the wife of James Outhouse, who had sold his- 
 claim to his father-in-law, and removed to the farm which he now owns in 
 Campton Township. Musing on the changes constantly going on in this west- 
 ern country, the parson draws his horse up at the house ; to obtain a drink. 
 While he is thus employed, we will give a brief sketch of the Reads, who settled 
 a large part of the township. 
 
 The original homestead was situated upon Section 24, where Charles, the 
 second son. now resides. Eliphalet, the oldest son, located on land purchased 
 of Mr. Hackett, and lying partly in Campton the portion in Virgil being 
 upon Section 24. Charles purchased, at an early day, a claim on Section 29, 
 of Henry German, a brother of Lyman German, now of Geneva, both of whom 
 settled in Virgil in 1837, Lyman's claim being just north of his brother's, on 
 Section 20. Joseph Read, the third son, was a mechanic in New Brunswick 
 when the remainder of the family left, and was unable to come to Illinois until 
 1840. In 1859, he died in Missouri. Richmond, the fourth son, took up the 
 claim which he still owns in the northern part of the township, Section 12. 
 Otho took the tract where he still resides, on parts of Sections 21, 22 and 28. 
 George purchased the farm on which Charles first settled, and Albert settled on 
 Section 1-3. 
 
 Having satisfied both his .own and his horse's thirst, the missionary hastens 
 on as it is becoming late, and passes, on a brisk trot, the shanty of Henry 
 Whitmarsh, from New York, whose settlement, he had learned, only dated from 
 the previous year ; and, in the course of a half hour's drive, arrived at the cabin of 
 the original claimant of all the land which he had passed during the previous 
 hour and a half. Although the earliest settler in the township, Mr. Merrill's 
 habitation was no better than those of the settlers who had but just arrived. It 
 was built of rough logs like all the rest, but, unlike some of the others, it had 
 no floor but the native prairie mud, in which the children of the proprietor 
 burrowed like pigs in the sty. Believing from what he saw and had heard, that 
 prayers would be as needful in that locality as anywhere, our missionary dis- 
 mounted and was met at the door by a lady, who was evidently above her un- 
 favorable surroundings, and he was here permitted to remain until morning. 
 Some of the good brethren in Virgil Township had given notice, in expectation 
 of his arrival, that upon the following day, which was Sunday, there would be 
 preaching at a designated place in the neighborhood. The orthodoxy of that
 
 434 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 day was tedious to unbelievers, and our missionary's sermon was divided into 
 no less than twenty-four heads, all of which were elaborately subdivided. Mr. 
 Merrill was doing his fall plowing, but decided to rest during part of the day 
 from courtesy to his guest. He accordingly plowed until meeting time, then he 
 hitched his horses to a tree and was an attentive listener until the preacher had 
 reached his " Tenth" or " Twelfthly," when he yielded to the suggestions of 
 the evil one and returned to his work.* In fine, it may be doubted if the 
 labors of the good missionary on this occasion met with more than moderate suc- 
 cess, since his hearers were more interested in the unregenerated gentleman in the 
 neighboring field than in the labored discourse of the zealous preacher. It is a 
 fact worthy of note, that of all the claim speculators scarcely one died in comfort- 
 able circumstances ; and Merrill was no exception to the rule. About 1838, 
 he built a frame house in the place of his original cabin, and some years later 
 removed to Iowa, where he became poor previous to his death. Joseph Gray 
 now lives upon his old homestead in Virgil. Israel Seaton was the builder of the 
 old frame house, which was probably the first in the township. There was much 
 speculation in claims in Virgil in 1837, many of them being sold for three times 
 as much as they were worth, after the land sale in 1842. Merrill found a ready 
 market for his land during the former year, for it was then that the greatest 
 number of settlers came to the township. Among them may be mentioned, 
 aside from those already given, Daniel Smith, who located just north of 
 John B. Moore, Daniel McKinley (deceased) and Harrision Chambers, now in 
 Batavia. John McKinley settled west of the Kishwaukee timber, and later, 
 about 1840, his father-in-law, Henry Krows, received part of his claim and 
 settled thereon. Nearly all in that part of the township were New Yorkers. 
 Lyman German's log house, erected in 1837, upon the bank of the creek, was 
 standing until about three years ago. Just south of Daniel McKinley, a young 
 man, named Massicar, built a house at an early day, but never lived there, 
 having disposed of his property to one of the early purchasers. Just north of 
 the Merrill homestead, Jeremiah Massingham settled, and sold, while the 
 country was still new, to A. Dobson, a foster son of Jqshua Read. Massingham 
 became widely known among the settlers from driving a breaking team in con- 
 nection with the Hacketts. West of him, and near the Kishwaukee timber, 
 was John Scott, a great man in his day, for he was County Commissioner before 
 the township organization, and early Supervisor, Notary Public, etc. He died 
 in St. Charles in the Fall of 1877. A nomadic hunter, by the name of Chap- 
 man, lived east of Mr. Scott, but left the country early, having sold to a gentle- 
 man from Canada named Seaton. These, with Silas Shumake and Daniel 
 Smith, who settled on the place now owned by his heirs, complete the list of the 
 early settlers from 1836 to '38. 
 
 The traveler through the township at that day would have noticed that the 
 chimneys to the houses were nearly all constructed upon the same plan, being 
 
 * Fact ; on good authority.
 
 SHERIFF OF KANE COUNTY.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 437 
 
 built upon the outside and with great care and skill. They were the workman- 
 ship of Daniel McKinley, who had made the building of chimneys his trade. 
 The lower parts of these chimneys, for which McKinley claimed the copyright, 
 were built of clay up to the summit of the fire-place. Wooden moulds were 
 used for this purpose, in which the clay was placed and pounded down until it 
 formed a solid mass, when the board siding was removed and the structure was 
 completed with small logs, between which the spaces were filled with " cat-and- 
 clay," instead of mortar. This " cat-and-clay " consisted of finely cut straw 
 mixed with clay, and formed in districts where lime was wanting a good sub- 
 stitute for the compound which has now generally superseded it. The lower 
 part would last a hundred years, if properly used. 
 
 Joshua Read made an innovation in architecture, a few years after his arri- 
 val, by building a frame house from which the chimney projected from the root 
 instead of rising from the ground upon the outside, according to the common 
 custom. 
 
 There are some who claim that this was the first frame building in the town- 
 ship, but Mr. J. 0. Moore, the first of the settlers in the township now living, 
 gives the priority in them to Merrill's. Read's was erected about 1839, on the 
 old farm, was 18x24 feet in its dimensions, contained not a single sawed stick 
 in the entire frame ; and is now standing. Many a party has danced within 
 its weather-beaten walls, and laughed defiance to the whistling storm without. 
 
 Probably the first ball in the township was there ; and there, too, one of 
 the earliest marriages took place. Orson Kendall and Maria Read were the 
 devoted pair, and Esquire West, of Blackberry, had the honor of uniting them. 
 
 The first birth in the township was that of a daughter of Seth Merrill, in 
 the Summer of 1837. 
 
 No township in the county possesses more accurate records than Virgil. 
 Through the good sense of Mr. Otho Read, the proceedings of all the school 
 meetings, from 1841 to the present day, have been carefully preserved. It was 
 not unusual to record such proceedings, but far from preserving them, it was com- 
 mon for school boards to instruct their Secretaries annually to destroy all their 
 records. 
 
 We learn that in 1839, the intelligent farmers from New Hampshire 
 assembled on Section 24, near the present site of Joseph Woodman's house, 
 and built the first log school house in the township. 
 
 In the Winter of 1839-40, the first term was taught by Simeon Bean, a 
 native of the Granite State, whose reputation is rather that of a profound thinker 
 and scholar than of a disciplinarian. As the latter qualification is more essen- 
 tial than the former in the management of the common country school, Mr. 
 Bean's experience might have been more successful than it was. The little 
 boys and girls shot paper wads at him, " cachinated and skyfungled," while he 
 was treading the intricate labyrinths of Euclid or soaring among the stars with 
 Kepler and Copernicus.
 
 438 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 After the opening of this school, followed a district organization, in 1841, 
 From the old book now in Mr. Read's possession, it appears that the first pro- 
 ceedings were kept upon scraps of paper or in some smaller book, and afterward 
 copied into the volume which now contains them ; and which bears the follow- 
 ing entry upon the fly leaf. We copy verbatim et literatim : 
 
 " A Book of records for Trustees of School Land Township 40 Range t> 
 East. Bought By S. Johnson Treasurer for trustees of school land, price 37i 
 cents." 
 
 "January 14th 1843 
 
 This clay received this book of S. Johnson & paid for the same. 
 
 WILLIAM H. ROBINSON, 
 
 Treasurer." 
 
 The first record bears date more than a year previous, and reads as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 '" At a meeting of the Trustees of school lands, held at the school house- 
 in Township 40, Range 6 east, on the 27th Nov., 1841, Trustees William 
 H. Robinson, Daniel Smith and John Scott present, the said Trustees ap- 
 pointed Spencer Johnson, Treasurer, at the same time and place ; and the said 
 Town was divided into destricts in manner following : School destrict No. 1 to- 
 consist of Sections 25-26-27, and the south half of Sec. 22-23-24. Dist. 
 No. 2 to consist of the north half of Sec. 22-23-24 ; also, from 1 to 15 inclu- 
 sive. Des. No. 3 to consist of Sec. 19-20-21-28-29-30-31-32. Dist. No. 
 4 to consist of Sec. No. 33-34-35-36. The trustees appointed Daniel Mc- 
 Kinley, David Brown & Henry Krows, Directors in School Destrict No. 3 : 
 also, William Spangler, Henry Shumake & Abner S. Rand, Directors in Dist, 
 No. 4." 
 
 A certificate, at the close of the year 1841, places the number of children 
 in Washington Township, as Virgil was then called, at ninety-five. In accor- 
 dance with the provisions of an act passed by the Legislature, February, 1841, 
 the town was incorporated, for school purposes, on the 30th day of April, 
 1842. 
 
 Upon the same day, a vote was carried to change the name of the township from 
 Washington to Franklin ; and Simeon Bean, Luther Merrill, John Scott, Henry 
 Krows and Daniel Mallo were elected Trustees of Schools. At a meeting of 
 the Trustees, held January 2, 1843, the former arrangement was declared null 
 and void, and the entire township resolved into a single district. Up to this 
 time, it appears that there was only one school house, as " the school house in 
 Township 40 " is mentioned. 
 
 The consolidation of the districts proved unsatisfactory before the close of 
 the year ; and accordingly, on the llth of November, Sections 19, 20, 21, 28, 
 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 were set apart as District No. 2. At the end of the year 
 the number of children under 20, 114, shows a marked increase in the popu- 
 lation.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 439 
 
 In 1844, great excitement arose over the school election. Informality was 
 claimed, and a new election demanded, which resulted in Luther Merrill, Joseph 
 Jenkins, Henry Krows, Robert Kemp and Noah Lakin becoming the Trustees. 
 Section 16 (the school section) had been sold the previous December, at an av- 
 erage of $1.25 per acre. With the proceeds arising therefrom the Trustees felt 
 that they represented a wealthy organization, and accordingly appropriated $55 
 for a Summer school, in 1844. During the same year, the present District 3 
 was formed as a union district, with a part of Fairfield (now Campton) Town- 
 ship. The census, at the close of 1845, states the number of children to be 202. 
 
 In April, 1846, the present Districts Nos. 4, 5 and 6. were formed ; and in 
 the Spring of 1847, a union district was set apart, with a fraction of Burling- 
 ton Township. At the close of the latter year, the township census returns 
 show an increase of thirty children over the one taken two years before. In 
 the Fall of this year, a union district was formed with a portion of Kaneville, 
 since which there have been no radical changes, although some slight variations 
 in boundaries have followed. 
 
 School houses had, in the meantime, sprung up all over the township. The 
 first built after the regular school organization is the wood building now used 
 in District No. 1. The District No. 2 house is likewise old. No. 3 is a brick 
 building, which has seen a number of years of service. Nos. 4 and 6 are 
 frame buildings, which have also been used a long time, the latter having been 
 built in 1858. No. 5 is a good frame structure, built in 1875 ; and Union No. 
 6 house was erected in 1876, at a cost of $1,400. Union No. 7 is the Lodi 
 District, which will be again mentioned ; and Union No. 9 contains a good 
 brick building. The estimated valuation of school property is now $5,000. 
 The number of children in the Fall of 1877 was 531, and of 'these, 375 attend 
 school. $2,371 were paid to teachers during the same year. 
 
 The name of the township became Virgil at the time of the regular town- 
 ship organization. 
 
 The first tavern in Township 40 was opened as early as 1840, in a little 
 log house on Section 17. The first store was a diminutive grocery establish- 
 ment, started some four years later, by a Mrs. Groves, north of the tavern. 
 
 There was regular Baptist preaching, by .Rev. Mr. King, in the old log 
 school house, from 1840 to 1842. 
 
 About 1845, Joseph Jenkins opened a blacksmith shop, upon the farm now 
 owned by Jackson Downing. 
 
 A post office was established under the name of New Virgil, a mile north- 
 east of Lodi, at the house of Milton Thornton, about 1847. It was subse- 
 quently removed to the residence of W. H. Robinson, who was Postmaster 
 until it was discontinued. The Ohio Grove post office, four mile north of Lodi, 
 was started about 1854, with James A. Richardson as Postmaster, and was 
 withdrawn by the Government about 1860. The citizens formerly accommo- 
 dated at these offices now obtain their mail at Lodi.
 
 440 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 This completes the institutions of the rural portion of this quiet country 
 township, and it remains simply to notice briefly the rise and progress of the 
 
 VILLAGE OF LODI. 
 
 The charter of the Chicago & Galena Railroad required the company to 
 have their track completed and in condition for trains to run to Hickory Grove 
 on the 1st day of January, 1854. The letter, but not the spirit, of the charter 
 was complied with, for late in 1853 the work was hurried through at a desper- 
 ate speed, and finding that with all their exertions it would be impossible to 
 complete the work to the designated point in the required time, the ties were 
 laid loosely upon the frozen prairie during the last three miles, the rails hur- 
 riedly placed upon them, with a nail or two to each, and on New Year's Day 
 an engine slowly puffed to the Grove, where, rejoiced at having complied with 
 the requirements of the law, the conscientious company indulged with the sur- 
 rounding grangers in a sumptuous regale. It was while these exertions were 
 in progress that the road passed the present site of the village, in 1853. Stop- 
 ping merely long enough to raise a station shanty west of the site now occupied 
 by the depot and name the prospective place Lodi, the company continued its 
 progress. The track then laid was not formed with the elegant u T " rail now 
 in use, but was pimply parallel square iron bars, such as are still common upon 
 coal roads. 
 
 In March, 1854, James Watson, with his family located in the edge of 
 DeKalb County, just outside of the limits of the present village, where he still 
 resides. At that time, there was not a house built in the place, but, soon after- 
 ward, Heath & Hathorn (who had purchased the tract upon which the village 
 stands of a Frenchman named Louis Cota, who in turn had derived his title 
 from one Charles Sheldon, the original purchaser) laid out the place * and 
 erected a store where the drug store now stands. This was the first building 
 erected in the village. A little later, James Haines put up a house, which is 
 now occupied as a residence by Mr. Sunlie, and used it for a short time as a 
 hotel, but finally disposed of it, and, about a year later, built the National 
 Hotel. Mr. Watson's store, erected immediately after his arrival, should be 
 mentioned in connection with the early institutions of Lodi, although the build- 
 ing stands just across the line. 
 
 Previous to the surveying of Lodi, a post office had been established at the 
 house of Spencer Baker, about a mile west of the present village, and named 
 Line Post Office, from its location. After the plat of the town was laid, it was 
 removed to the store of Heath & Hathorn, and has remained in the village 
 ever since. 
 
 From the commencement, the place had a rapid growth. 0. S. and F. T. 
 Miner raised a blacksmith shop in the Fall of 1854; B. W. Lyon came in 
 1855, and built a small store where Kline is now located ; and, about the same 
 
 , Lodi was laid out and surveyed March 20, 1854, for Heath & liathorn, by Andrew Pingree, County Surveyor 
 .Several additions have since been made.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 441 
 
 time, a fine building was erected by a stock company and designed, at first, as 
 an academy, but finally sold to the District and since used as a public school 
 house. At the close of the year 1856, the village could boast a population of 
 450 ; but now came a sudden change in its prospects. 
 
 A reliable authority states that Heath & Hathorn laid out the place in 1854, 
 and that the financial crash laid it out again in 1857. For several years it re- 
 mained in a dormant condition, from which it was at length roused to life and 
 activity by the booming of the first shot fired at Fort Sumter. Many a young 
 man from Lodi and the neighboring country hastened to offer his services to 
 his menaced country, and many gave their lives in the sacred cause. Among 
 them may be mentioned the builder of the first dwelling in the village, who 
 perished near Vicksburg. 
 
 Business interests revived as the war proceeded. In 1861, a new depot 
 was built, but was destroyed by fire four years later, only to be replaced by a 
 larger and more convenient one. 
 
 Religion also revived in 1861, and early in that year the Baptist Church, 
 which had originated, years before, in the northern part of the township, com- 
 menced a church edifice, which was dedicated in October. 
 
 A little later, the Catholics commenced their building. This society was a 
 branch of the church which had been formed between Kaneville and Lodi as 
 early as 1849, under the missionary labors of Father Fehlie, and known as 
 Blackberry Mission. Father Dwyer followed him, and when the new building 
 at Lodi was completed, Father Murry, from DeKalb, had the honor of dedi- 
 cating it. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal building was put up in 1862, and the Free Meth- 
 odist in 1866. In the latter year, the large store now occupied by Brown 
 Brothers was also erected. 
 
 The first attempt to incorporate the village had been made two years before, 
 when the general law for the government of incorporated towns had been sub- 
 mitted to a vote of the inhabitants, and the result had shown a majority in 
 favor of its adoption. City Fathers were elected, but many of the citizens 
 declared that the proceedings of the election had been irregular, and after sev- 
 eral arrests for breach of village ordinances, so strong a sentiment was mani- 
 fested against the village government that it became impossible henceforth to 
 enforce its acts. In 1858, a majority of the people at an election declared the 
 proceedings of the election of 1856 null and void, and great rejoicing followed 
 this result, for the village government had become generally obnoxious. All 
 the old shotguns and anvils were brought out, and a grand racket followed ; 
 but in the height of the commotion an anvil burst, breaking and mangling one 
 of Dr. Kennedy's legs, and inflicting a mortal wound upon George Brooks, one 
 of the village boys. Thus the celebration ended in grief. No attempt was 
 made to revive the subject of incorporation for six years, but in 1865 it began 
 again to receive general attention, and although much opposition arose, it was
 
 442 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 overcome honestly, and Lodi became a village, with full power to enforce its 
 laws, on the llth day of March, 1865. After this event the place prospered, 
 and a number of new buildings were put up. Two thousand dollars were raised 
 among the business men in 1869, and paid to G. W. Bunda, of Ithaca, N. Y., 
 as a bonus for establishing a manufactory of agricultural implements. Five 
 thousand dollars' worth of machinery were purchased, including a good engine, 
 and an extensive business was expected. But the proprietor seems to have 
 lacked the requisite qualifications to make the enterprise successful, and in 1871 
 sold out to E. J. Austin. The manufactory was never operated with any energy, 
 and is now forgotten by the citizens. A carriage shop, started in 1870 by F. 
 0. Rood, has been more prosperous, as has been the cheese factory, which has 
 become one of Lodi's permanent institutions. In the Fall of 1871, the large 
 store on the present site of the drug store was destroyed by fire but was shortly 
 replaced. Mr. Watson's old stand is now occupied by Shoop & Hoyt, dealers 
 in almost everything required by farmers. The streets of Lodi are regularly 
 laid out, and its location is said to be an exceedingly healthy one. 
 
 The first physician to locate in the town was Dr. Strong, who came about 
 1856, and was followed in 1857 by Dr. Wm. Kennedy, the father of W. H. H. 
 Kennedy, Esq. Dr. K. was a thoroughly educated practitioner, and continued 
 to deal out prescriptions in accordance with the teachings of the Allopathic 
 school until his death, which occurred in the Fall of 1862. Dr. McNair took his 
 place, and Dr. Thompson came in 1875, both of whom still remain in the village- 
 
 The legal profession was first represented in Lodi, at its commencement, by 
 W. J. Brown, the son of an early settler in Virgil. Mr. Brown remained until 
 1861, took part in the war which followed, and settled at Geneva after his 
 return. W. H. H. Kennedy commenced studying with him in 1858, was 
 admitted to the bar in 1860, and since 1861 has been settling the disputes which 
 are said to arise occasionally, even in Lodi. 
 
 Several orders have arisen in the village at various times in the past, and 
 once a literary society flourished, and collected a library containing some $200 
 worth of books; but the societies have become dispersed, owing generally to 
 removals to other places, and the volumes of the library are scattered. The 
 village is important as a railway station, since it contains large water tanks and 
 a coal depot. Its situation is fifty miles west of Chicago, five miles from the 
 nearest village, and it is surrounded by one of the richest farming sections in 
 the State. The assessed valuation of the entire township, including the village, 
 as estimated at fifty cents on the dollar, is $451,383. The population of the 
 township, including the village, is 1,274. 
 
 RUTLAND TOWNSHIP 
 
 is located in the northern tier of townships of Kane County, and is known as 
 Township 42, North Range 7, East. The surface of the country is uneven and
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 443 
 
 rolling, with occasional high points or bluffs rising rather abruptly. It is well 
 timbered, with oak mostly, and the soil of the higher lands produces all the root 
 crops in abundance, while the more marshy lands are in demand for meadow 
 and pasturage. 
 
 The first settlement in Rutland Township was made by E. R. Starks and 
 Elijah Rich, the former of whom is, probably, the oldest living inhabitant in 
 the township. He (Starks) came from Rutland County, Vt., when but 22 years 
 of years, and took up a claim in the Fall of 1835. After making his claim, he 
 went to DuPage County, where he spent the Winter with a former acquaintance 
 one Samuel Goodrich then living two miles from the present village of 
 Naperville. He returned to his claim in the Spring of 1836 and commenced 
 preparations for improving his newly-selected home. Elijah Rich, mentioned 
 above, and an uncle to Starks, came out in the Spring of 1836, and took up an 
 adjoining claim south of Starks, and the preliminary steps taken for the first 
 settlement. Both these men were, originally, from Massachuselts, but had 
 resided in Vermont for years previous to emigrating westward. Rich was a man 
 of family and well advanced in life when he first visited the land and took up 
 the claim destined to be his future home. 
 
 The first house, or, rather, hut, was built of logs, unhewed, on land now 
 owned by Starks and where his orchard now stands. This was the " claim hut," 
 and was the very first in the township. Soon after, a log stable was put up 
 by Starks and Rich, also on Starks' claim, in which both lived during the Sum- 
 mer and Fall of 1836, Starks playing the housewife and doing the cooking and 
 general housework of their s bachelor family. Nathaniel Crampton owned a 
 claim in the northern part of the township in 1836 ; Noble King owned one, 
 also, near him at the same time, and both men boarded, during the Fall, with 
 Rich and Starks in their log stable. The next year Mr. Rich brought his fam- 
 ily out from the East and located permanently on his claim, and where he died 
 in November, 1871. 
 
 In 1838, Mr. Starks went back to Vermont and married, and brought his 
 young wife out to his new home. A tender and delicate flower, she survived 
 the rigors of the wild West but a few years. Indians were numerous when 
 Starks first located, but were a rather lazy and harmless set, but great beggars, 
 and lived principally by the latter vocation. In the Fall of this year, Andrew 
 McCornack and family came and took up claims in the township. They were 
 from Scotland, and the elder McCornack, who died three years ago, was upward 
 of 90 years of age. Arnold Hill came the same year, and died but recently at 
 the advanced age of 90. William Moore was also in the township in 1838, as 
 was William Lynch, who was a brother-in-law to Moore, and a man by the name 
 of Seymour was living in the western part of the township. These families 
 came direct from Ireland and took up claims, upon which they made permanent 
 settlement. Andrew and Daniel Pingree, brothers, came, this Fall, from New 
 Hampshire and took up claims in the vicinity of what is now known as Pingree
 
 444 HISTORY OF KA^E COUNTY. 
 
 Grove. Straw and Francis Pingree, two other brothers, had come out in the 
 previous Spring, but had made few improvements when the others arrived. 
 
 The following Spring, Andrew Pingree went back to Belfast, New Hamp- 
 shire, and taught there and in Maine until 1844, when he again visited his 
 claim in Rutland, and settled there permanently. Wm. C. Pingree, a fifth 
 brother, and a mere boy, came the previous year and remained, and the entire 
 family came out in 1844. Andrew Pingree, Sr., the father and head of the 
 family, who was quite an old man at the time they came out, died in March, 
 1846, about two years after coming to the town. Doctor Daniel Pingree (who 
 had not taken up the medical profession at that time, and who will receive 
 further notice in the history of Plato Township) traveled extensively after 
 1838, spending several years in the Southern States, and also in California, 
 still retained his claim here, to which he finally returned and settled, about 
 1860. Andrew Pingree, a minister of the Universalist denomination, and one 
 of the most noted and eminent men of Kane County, and whose biography 
 appears in another part of this work, is still living on his original claim made 
 in 1838, and at present owns about 1,200 acres of land. Francis settled in 
 Iowa in 1853. Straw died on his original claim a few years ago. William, the 
 youngest scion of this good old stock, after attaining his majority, went to Cali- 
 fornia, where he is now living. In the first settling of the township, and pre- 
 vious to 1838, the settlers did their milling in Du Page County, but afterward 
 a mill was erected in Elgin, which on account of its convenience received almost 
 their exclusive patronage. There were at this period (1838) but three little 
 little log huts between Pingree Grove and Elgin, to relieve the dreary monotony 
 of the lonely wilderness. Dr. Mc'Kay was the first physician in the township, 
 and was here as early as 1847. He was born and educated in the North of 
 Ireland, and for many years practiced his profession in Rutland. Owen Burke 
 came from Ireland in 1836, and settled originally in Elgin, but bought land and 
 settled in Rutland Township in 1842, where still lives. 
 
 THE NAME OF RUTLAND 
 
 was attained in the following manner : Half of Dundee Township and Rutland 
 were known originallv as Deerfield Precinct.- In 1848, the State was divided 
 
 O v 
 
 into townships according to Government survey. At a meeting of the citizens, 
 when the subject of a name came up, the Scotch suggested the name of some 
 town in Caledonia, now forgotten ; the Irish clamored for Rose Green, a name 
 dear to the "exiles of ould Erin," while the "nation born sons of the soil,' r 
 who were (as were the Scotch and Irish elements) overwhelmingly Democratic, 
 wanted it called Jackson, after the hero of New Orleans, which was finally 
 agreed to. At the first meeting of Supervisors it appeared that there was 
 another Jackson Township in the State, which had a precedence of this, and 
 that this must be changed. E. R. Starks, one of the Supervisors (the first of 
 Rutland Township), and already mentioned as one of the earliest settlers, still
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 445 
 
 retaining a great regard for the "old hills," suggested Rutland, from Rutland 
 County, Vermont, his native place, which was unanimously adopted. 
 
 A POST OFFICE 
 
 was established in Deerfield Precinct (now Rutland Township) about the year 
 1838 or 1840, which was called Deerfield Post Office. It was held at the house 
 of one Standish, who lived about two miles west of where Pingree Grove Station 
 is located, and survived but a fewyears. In September, 1848, the post office of 
 Pingree Grove was established. Andrew Pingree, Postmaster, an office he held 
 without interruption for fourteen years, when he was succeeded by W. S. Eakin, 
 who in turn was succeeded by J. J. Brown, and he again by Pingree. A. W. 
 Kelley now holds the office. A post office was established at Gilbert's Station 
 ( Rutland ville), in this township, on the Galena Division of the Chicago & 
 Northwestern Railroad, about the year 1852, and within the past few years 
 another has been established at the Holstein Cheese Factory, in the north- 
 western part of the township, and bears the same name Holstein. 
 
 THE FIRST DEATH 
 
 in Rutland was Mrs. Hannah Rich, the mother o Elijah Rich, already men- 
 tioned as one of the earliest settlers, who died in 1838, and was buried in the 
 old grave-yard, on the farm of Mr. Starks. In 1840, Mrs. Starks (wife of E. 
 R. Starks) died, and was the second interred in the Starks' burying ground. 
 These were the first two mounds raised in this little " City of the Dead," to which 
 have since been added many of the old pioneers of the early settlement. Adelia 
 Rich, daughter of E. Rich, was born February, 1837, and was the first white 
 child born in the township. The first marriage was that of Lewis Bandal and 
 Miss Brady. They were married in 1839 by Elijah Rich, the first Justice 
 of the Peace of the Township. 
 
 THE OLD STATE ROAD, 
 
 from Chicago to Galena, was the the first highway through Rutland Township, 
 and the great thoroughfare of travel between east and west, and was crowded 
 with travelers of every class from " early morn to dewy eve," from the emigrant 
 to the seeker after pleasure. A more complete account of this road is given in 
 another part of this history. 
 
 THE RAILROADS 
 
 of the township are the Chicago & Pacific and the Galena Division of the 
 Chicago & Northwestern. The last mentioned road was built through the 
 township in 1852, and crosses in an almost northwest direction. The following 
 anecdote is connected with the building of the road through this section : After 
 the road had been graded, there came quite a freeze, on the breaking up of 
 which a large hole " fell in " on the present site of Gilbert's Station, and in the 
 graded work. It seemed to be without bottom, and the more they tried to fill
 
 446 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 it the less progress appeared to be made. Entire trees were dumped into it, 
 and all kinds of rubbish poked into its capacious maw with little avail, until 
 some of the more superstitiously inclined decided that, if it was not the bottomless 
 pit itself, it must be the famed " Symmes' Hole." Finally, after industriously 
 employing the whole corps of workmen for several days upon it, they succeeded 
 in filling it. A large amount of freight is daily shipped from Gilbert's Station, 
 consisting chiefly of milk sent to Chicago. This alone is an important item, and 
 for the year 1877, the amount paid for freight, on milk exclusively, was as fol- 
 lows : January, $862.00; February, $865.00; March, $1,009.00; April, 
 $1,046.00; May ; $1,130.00; June, $1,179.00; July, $1,022.00; August, 
 $1,108.00; September, $978.00; October, $985.00; November, $939.00; 
 December, $864.00, making a total of $11,987.00. Other freights are light, 
 as milk is the main staple of this community. 
 
 Gilbert's, or Rutlandville, comprises the east half of the southeast quarter of 
 Section 23, and west half of Section 24. It was surveyed in June, 1875, and 
 laid out in village lots by Andrew Pingree, and is owned, principally, by him 
 and Elijah Wilcox. There is in the place one general store, kept by John 
 Kelley, who is Postmaster .and Express Agent, and is doing a very good busi- 
 ness ; one steam feed-mill, owned by Messrs. Eatinger, Mason & O'Brien, and 
 which is crowded to its utmost capacity to supply the demand for this class of 
 feed. It has, also, two blacksmith shops, one wagon shop, and the best school 
 house in the township. The post office was established here at an early date, 
 as noticed further back. John Mann was the first Postmaster, and, after hold- 
 ing the office for some years, was succeeded by John McGraw, and he by 
 Nicholas Freeman ; John Martin succeeded Freeman, and, after serving for 
 six years, was succeeded by Mr. Kelley, the present Postmaster. 
 
 THE CHICAGO & PACIFIC RAILROAD 
 
 was built in 1874. It had a hard struggle for existence, and every influence 
 was brought to bear in opposition to the project. The company did not even 
 receive the right of way, except at the highest market value, from a single in- 
 dividual, after leaving Elgin, until reaching the lands of Andrew and Doctor 
 Pingree, who, in addition to donating the right of way, contributed some fifteen 
 hundred dollars in cash. Quite a strong contest for the depot came up. Some 
 wanted it east, and some west of its present location. It was finally decided 
 by the Pingrees, who not only donated the ground, but built the depot, which 
 is an elegant one, at their own expense. They have made the station what it 
 is, and justly merit the reward of giving to it their family name. A great deal 
 of freight is shipped from Pingree Grove Station ; but, like Gilbert's, the bulk of 
 it is milk, and goes mostly to Chicago. The receipts for freight shipped during 
 the year 1877 are as follows : For milk, $4,085.80 ; for other freights, $833.35 ; 
 total, $4,919.15. Freight and travel are rapidly increasing from this point, which 
 is destined, in our opinion, to become one of the main stations on the line.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 447 
 
 Pingree Grove has one general store, owned by Mr. Alfred W. Kelley, of 
 the firm of Kelley & Hart, of Elgin, and is doing an extensive business. The 
 post office is kept in this store. Mr. Kelley owns a magnificent hay barn here, 
 with one of the largest and best hay-presses in use attached. It is employed 
 during the hay shipping season at its full capacity. The school house, which 
 is owned jointly with Plato Township, and is exactly on the line, is a comforta- 
 ble and commodious edifice, and cost $700. It is attended, on an average, by 
 about fifty pupils. 
 
 Professor Hood, formerly of St. Charles Township, is putting up an elegant 
 school building and residence combined. Hannigan's steam feed-mill is doing a 
 large business in grinding stock feed, and is quite an institution in the neighborhood. 
 
 THE HOLSTEIN CHEESE FACTORY, 
 
 located four miles from Pingree Grove Station, and in the northwestern part of 
 the township, was erected in the Spring of 1875, by James H. Gage, who is 
 still the proprietor of it. It is an elegant two-story and basement building, the 
 two stories being frame, while the basement is built of brick, and is larger than 
 the average of buildings of this kind. The Holstein Factory is doing a good 
 business, running, upon an average, up to its full capacity, and is under the 
 management of one of the most skillful cheese makers in the country. A part 
 of the milk is bought direct, while a part is worked up for his patrons, as is 
 the usual custom with the factories in the county. A very great portion of the 
 milk of Rutland Township is shipped to other points. Some is shipped from 
 Pingree Grove, some from Gilbert's Station, while a large portion is taken to 
 factories across the lines. The milk and dairy business comprises the principal 
 source of industry, and is increasing in volume every year. 
 
 THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE 
 
 was a log one, built by the inhabitants en masse about the year 1838 or 1840, 
 in the southwest corner of the township. No school was ever kept in it ; as the 
 township appears to have been, at that remote period, one of the bachelors, 
 who, however, seemed to anticipate the time when such a building might become 
 useful. There are now ten School Districts entirely in Rutland Township, and 
 three union districts, all having good, substantial frame buildings, with an 
 assessed valuation of $3.500. The first entry in School Records now existing 
 i* dated November 2, 1842. It was then ordered "that Francis Pingree be 
 Treasurer." At a meeting held at the house of Robert Eakin, John L. Rowe and 
 John Flynn were elected Trustees of Schools, in the place of Mason Sherburne 
 and Joseph Randall, resigned.- At that meeting, it was ordered that the town- 
 ship be divided into five School Districts. There were no schools established 
 in the town previous to 1842. It was voted May 20th, that M. M. Marsh and 
 Daniel Pingree circulate a petition for the sale of School Section (Sec. 16). 
 There seems to have been some trouble, at this time, about the name of the 
 town, for we find an isolated entry in the School Records, as follows: "Num-
 
 448 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 ber of voters in favor of naming this town, 3 ; number of voters against naming 
 this town, 7 ; number for naming it Meriden, 3 ; number of votes for the name 
 Cumber, 1." At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held at the house of 
 Thomas Fraser, April 1, 1848, it was ordered "that all papers out of date, and 
 of no use, be committed to the flames." 
 
 Mr. Samuel Eakin has held the office of Township Treasurer for twenty-two 
 years in succession. The school funds, when he obtained the books, were but 
 $26.00; now they amount to the sum of $4,300. Rutland has a school fund 
 which ranks among the highest in the county, and it seems to have been well 
 managed by the efficient Treasurer. In 1848, S. B. Eakin, Alexander McCor- 
 nack and Daniel Duff were elected Trustees. July 7, 1849, there were eight 
 districts, which turned out school children as follows: 
 
 District No. 1, 36; No. 2, 106; No. 3, 34; No. 4, 67; No. 5, 55; No. 5 
 East, 15; No. 5 West, 7; No. 6, 64; Total, 384. And in April, 1850, the 
 number of children entitled to school privileges was : District No. 1, 42 ; No. 
 2, 84; No. 3, 40; No. 4, 78; No. 5 East, 29; No. 6, 87; No. 7, 13; No. 5 
 West, 77 ; Total, 450. 
 
 The following teachers had presented schedules : J. Sprague, Betsy Pingree, 
 Jeremiah Boggs, Mary J. McLord, Lavina J. Eakin, Betsy N. Pingree. 
 
 In 1855, there were eleven districts, and 619 children within the pre- 
 scribed ages. 
 
 THE FIRST CHURCH 
 
 erected in Rutland Township, and the only one existing to-day, is of the 
 Catholic denomination, and located at Gilbert's Station. The present edifice was 
 built in 1855, on ground donated for the purpose by Andrew Pingree. It is 
 an elegant building, of modern architecture, and cost $2,000. The society was 
 organized several years previous to this, and built a small church about tow 
 miles east of the present one, at what is known as the " old Catholic burying 
 ground." This house was built of lumber sawed on Tyler's mill, one of the 
 first saw-mills built in Elgin Township. Father John Guigin (a Frenchman) 
 was the first officiating priest, but was succeeded in a few years by Father 
 Scanlon, formerly of Elgin, but now living in Chicago. After the new church 
 was built at Gilbert's, it was for many years in charge of Father Gallaher, who 
 administered spiritual consolation to the full satisfaction of his flock. A few 
 years ago, the society divided, and a large number went to Huntley, just over 
 the line in McHenry County, to worship. About fifty families still remain in 
 the old mother church, comprising about two hundred members, and are under 
 the pastoral charge of Father Gormley. 
 
 IN POLITICS, 
 
 Rutland has always been a straight Democratic town, never having given a 
 majority to one of any other political faith for an office of consequence ; and 
 socially, her citizens are intelligent, enterprising and honorable.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 449 
 
 PLATO TOWNSHIP. 
 
 So far as can be ascertained with any degree of correctness, the first settle- 
 ment was made in Plato Township in the early part of 1835. In the Spring of 
 this year, John Griggs and son, also named John, came from Ohio and took up 
 claims adjoining each other in the southwest part of the township. They had 
 lived for some time in Du Page County, but came here, as above stated, in the 
 Spring of 1835, and made permanent settlements. A man named Judkins 
 located a claim this same Spring, and built on it, but sold out soon after and 
 returned to his old home in Indiana. He and Griggs, Sr., built about the 
 same time, and to one of them, but which one cannot now be determined, be- 
 longs the honor of erecting the first house in Plato Township. That built by 
 the elder Griggs is still standing, having survived the sunshine and the storms 
 of more than forty years, that of its builder more than a decade. He kept the 
 first tavern in the township, a small log house, and as it was on the direct stage 
 line from St. Charles to Galena, he in that early time had plenty of patronage. 
 As "mine host," he entertained his guests with plenty to eat and to drink, 
 and his hospitality was proverbial far and wide. He died in 1861. John 
 Griggs, Jr., still owns his original claim made in 1835, but has recently moved 
 to Genoa, and his son, Eugene Griggs, occupies the old homestead. 
 
 John S. Lee, another of the early settlers, when about 19 years of age, 
 came to Kane County from Putnam County, N. Y., in July, 1835. In the 
 December following, he made the claim upon which he still lives. He owns a 
 fine farm of over five hundred acres. 
 
 There were then but three log huts in the entire settlement, and the few 
 families there did their milling in Du Page County, near Naperville, until sev- 
 eral years later, when they went to Boardeman's, on the east side of the river, 
 near Batavia, and, later still, to Elgin. 
 
 Mr. Lee was elected Justice of the Peace in 1840, and was the second in 
 the township (John Griggs, Sr., was the first), and, after holding the office nine 
 years, resigned. 
 
 Dr. L. S. Tyler came to Udina, in Plato Township, from Orange County, 
 Vt., early in 1836, and located a claim. John Ranstead came about the same 
 time, and took up a claim near Tyler's, and for a while both lived together. A 
 family of Merrills were living near Udina at that time, but of them nearly all 
 trace is lost. Mr. Ranstead died a few years ago, and his son-in-law, Mr. 
 Britton, now lives on the old original farm. Dr. Tyler, finding no opening in 
 Chicago, came to this township and went to work. He was eight years at 
 Udina, and was the first regular physician in the town. 
 
 The following anecdote is illustrative of the hardships of those early times : 
 In December, 1836, Dr. Tyler had been to see a man named Moore, between 
 his claim and Dundee, and had gone in a wagon drawn by two horses. They
 
 450 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 (Ranstead was with Tyler) started to return home about 4 o'clock in the even- 
 ing. Three miles distant, they came to Tyler Creek, so called from two fami- 
 lies of Tylers who had settled near its mouth, in Elgin Township. It was 
 frozen, had partly thawed, and dropped down so as to form a letter V. It was 
 a very cold night, and the moon shone clear. After some deliberation, they 
 concluded to see whether the horses would break in, and so took them from the 
 wagon for that purpose. Ranstead led in first, and the horse broke in. Tyler 
 then led the other, a rather poor old horse, into the creek. He was badly shod, 
 and, his feet slipping from under him, he fell twice, when he gave up. Ran- 
 stead went to Olds', who lived a mile distant, for oxen to pull the horse out, 
 while Tyler remained, in water up to his waist, and held up the horse's he^ad, 
 meantime, to prevent him drowning. A rather worthless cur, with somewhat 
 questionable habits, which was with them, when the oxen came seized one of 
 them by the nose, which set up a hideous bellowing and ran home. They then 
 bethought themselves to fasten a rope to the horse in the creek, and haul him 
 out with the other, which they successfully accomplished, and, leaving him on 
 the bank, wrapped in blankets, they went to Olds' to supper, having previously 
 given the horse the remainder of a bottle of whisky which Olds had that day 
 bought in Elgin, and was thoughtful enough to bring to the rescue. After 
 supper, they went home, and it was so cold that, next morning, the ice would 
 bear the wagon and team, and they were crossed over in safety. Dr. Tyler 
 moved to Elgin in 1849. 
 
 Dr. Daniel Pingree came to Plato Township, in 1838, from New Hamp- 
 shire, as noticed in the history of Rutland Township. After taking up his claim, 
 he spent several years in traveling, and in teaching in the Southern States, mostly 
 in Tennessee, occasionally visiting his claim in Illinois. He studied medicine, 
 and graduated in February, 1849, at the Indiana Medical College, when he 
 went to California, and practiced his profession in the Golden State for several 
 years. He returned, in 1860, and located permanently on his claim in Plato 
 Township, where he continues the practice of medicine. He has devoted con- 
 siderable attention to the raising of Norman horses, and owns some fine speci- 
 mens of that famous breed. 
 
 William Hanson, a native of England, came to this township, in 1839, and 
 took up a claim one mile south of Plato Center, upon which he is still living. 
 He is Town Treasurer, an office he has held without change since 1844. 
 
 Thomas Burnidge, when but a minor, came with his parents from Massachu- 
 setts, and settled at Plato Center, in 1840. He is still living, but the old 
 couple " sleep with their fathers." 
 
 Indians were plenty in the country at the time of the early settlement of 
 the township. When Mr. John S. Lee came to the town, in 1835, there were 
 large numbers, he informed us, in this section. Though perfectly harmless at 
 that time, they were rather disposed to be lazy, were arrant beggars, and re- 
 quired watching, owing to a slight disposition on their part to take little things
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 451 
 
 not strictly belonging to them. The last of them were removed to their reserva- 
 tion, in 1836, made them by the .United States Government. 
 
 The first birth, or one of the first, in the township, was Abijah Lee, born 
 September 4, 1839, Avho, from the best information to be obtained, is believed 
 to have been the first white child born in the new settlement. One of the most 
 noteworthy facts connected with this, the first-born, is that he entered the 
 army of the Union, at the commencement of the late war, where he continued 
 faithfully serving his country until peace crowned her arms. 
 
 John S. Lee, already mentioned as one of the earliest settlers of Plato, and 
 Miss Perry, of Campton, were the first couple married. 
 
 The u grim monster " appears to have favored this community, for no death 
 had occurred until the population had increased to such an extent that the 
 event was not felt nor noticed as it would have been in a more sparsely settled 
 neighborhood, and there is no one now who remembers the first to cross the 
 dark river. 
 
 A post office was established at Plato Corners, near the south line of the 
 township, somewhere between 1840 and 1844, but was discontinued, after a few 
 years, since which time the citizens of that Section have mostly gotten their 
 mail from Elgin. In 1854, they obtained an office at North Plato, of which 
 Freeman Temple was the first Postmaster. Three years after, he was succeeded 
 by C. M. Campbell, who held the office until 1859, when it was discontinued. 
 It was re-established in 1869, with H. Eastman as Postmaster. After holding 
 the office for four years, he was succeeded by L. E. Bamber, who held it 
 until 1876, when he in turn was succeeded by Charles Cole, the present in- 
 cumbent. A post office was established at Plato Center, with Thomas Bur- 
 nidge as Postmaster, during the Presidential term of Andrew Johnson, but, after 
 existing for seven years, was discontinued. In 1877, they again petitioned 
 for an office, but from some cause failed to obtain it. 
 
 The first store in Plato Township was established at Plato Corners in 1848 y 
 by Levi Jackman, of Elgin, who, after a few years' business, closed it out and 
 returned whence he came. The next of which we have an authentic -account 
 was opened in North Plato in 1854 by Freeman Temple, who continued it about 
 four years, when he was succeeded by other parties, who, with some changes, 
 have kept it in operation to the present day. 
 
 The cheese factories in this township are three in number. The first was 
 built in 1866, two and a half miles southeast of Plato Center, and was run by 
 Duncan Johnson, who finally became the owner of it. It was consumed by fire 
 in March, 1876, and so speedily rebuilt that it was in operation again in two 
 months from the burning. Soon after rebuilding, he sold this factory to Haw- 
 thorne & Brother, of Elgin, who are still running it and doing a good business, 
 Sometime before making this sale, Johnson built a factory at Plato Center, 
 and commenced business in March, 1874. It is a good and substantial framy 
 building, two stories high, and runs, upon an average, up to its full capacity.
 
 452 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 In 1873, Peck & Son built a factory at North Plato. It is a stout frame two- 
 story and basement, and remains in good condition. Messrs. Peck & Son are 
 still the owners, but for the two past seasons it has been operated by R. R. 
 Stone, of Elgin. It is doing a very good business, but at present is not run- 
 ning up to the average capacity. These factories make up most of the milk 
 for their patrons, but what is not thus made up is bought from them direct. A 
 large portion of the farmers in Plato Township are having their milk worked 
 up at home ; only a few along the north boundary shipping from Pingree 
 Grove. 
 
 The first church in the township was built at Udina, by the Congregational- 
 ists, in 1852. The society was originally organized in 1848 by Rev. N. C. 
 Clarke, of Elgin, and the first preacher in charge of the little flock was Rev. 
 Mr. Taylor, who, after one year's services, was succeeded by Rev. Mr. French. 
 He remained in charge three years. Up to this time, the society had worshiped 
 in the school house, but this year (1852) a good, comfortable frame building was 
 erected, and formally dedicated by Rev. Mr. Clarke, who became the first Pastor 
 of the society in their new temple. The church at present numbers 62 mem- 
 bers on its roll of membership, and is under the pastoral charge of Rev. Mr. 
 Sawers. A few years subsequent to the building of the church at Udina, the 
 old Scotch Presbyterian, or Covenanters, erected a church in the " Northeast 
 Corner ' ' of Plato, near the line of Rutland Township, known as Washington 
 Church, a name it still bears. Rev. Mr. Stewart was their first minister. Rev. 
 Mr. Gaily is at present in charge. Sometime about 186567, the younger 
 element, becoming more liberal in their views and dissatisfied with some of the 
 extreme tenets of the old church, seceded and built a church of their own but 
 a few rods distant, and which goes by the name of American Presbyterians. 
 Being young and weak both in numbers and in finances, they feel themselves 
 unable to support a preacher exclusively, and their pulpit is filled by Rev. Mr. 
 Sawers, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Udina. Both of these Pres- 
 byterian Churches are near the Rutland line, and are supported principally by 
 the Rutland people. The Methodist Episcopal Church, at Plato Center, is an 
 elegant frame edifice, built in 1859. The first sermon preached in it was by 
 Rev. T. M. Eddy, of Chicago, who formally dedicated it to the worship of God 
 on the 7th day of December of that year. The ministers in charge during its 
 first year of existence were Revs. Woolsey and Call. The society was organ- 
 ized about the year 1848, and worshiped first in the Town House and afterward 
 in the school house, which they occupied until the building of the church. It 
 is in a flourishing condition, has a large membership and is under the spiritual 
 guidance of Rev. Mr. Whitcomb. 
 
 A church was built at North Plato, in 1873, by the Scotch Presbyterians. 
 It is a handsome edifice, and cost about $3,000. Rev. Mr. McDougall was 
 the minister in charge at the time of its erection. Other societies were formed 
 there several years anterior to this period, viz., Baptists, Free-Will Baptists,
 
 BURLINGTON.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 455 
 
 Methodist Episcopal, Free Methodist, etc., who worshiped in the school house. 
 All of these societies have either dwindled away or been merged into the Free- 
 will Baptists, who alone now occupy the church. The Presbyterians still hold 
 the church property, but from some cause have not used it for the past year. 
 The first preacher permanently stationed in the town was Rev Mr. Elmore, a 
 sort of missionary sent hither by the Baptists, about the year 1845. Transient 
 ministers, however, had occasionally preached in the township previous to his 
 coming. He organized a society at Plato Center about that time, but how long 
 it existed no one now living can tell. A school house was built at Plato 
 Corners in the year 1840. It was a log structure, and the walls of it are still 
 standing. This was unmistakably the first school house built in the township. 
 The first school was a general subscription school, and was taught by Charlotte 
 Griggs. In examining the old school records, the first entry we find is as 
 follows : " At a meeting of Trustees of Schools, held at the house of Solomon 
 Ellison, October 23, 1841, there were present Stephen Archer and Franklin 
 Bascom, Trustees, who appointed J. S. Burdick Treasurer." The bond 
 required by law, as the records of that date further show, was duly made by 
 him and accepted by-the Trustees, they themselves being "qualified according 
 to law by John S. Lee, Justice of the Peace." At a meeting held November, 
 1841, the Trustees " proceeded to lay off said Township into School Districts, 
 as follows, to wit: Sections 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 22, 23 and 24 
 shall be known as District No. 1 ; Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17 and 18 as 
 District No. 2 ; Sections 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 us District No. 
 3, or Chicken Grove ; Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 and 36 as District No. 4 or 
 Otter Creek." After which the Trustees proceeded to appoint Directors for 
 each district as laid out. At a meeting held December, 1841, " It was ordered 
 by the Trustees, at the request of the legal voters of said township, that the 
 Treasurer give legal notice that an election be held on the 8th of January, 1842, 
 for the purpose of incorporating said township," and at a meeting held on the 
 day named, at J. S. Burdick's, " It was unanimously resolved that the town- 
 ship be incorporated." Signed by L. S. Tyler, David Bogue, Russell Throll, 
 John S. Lee, J. S. Burdick, School Trustees, who were elected for the town- 
 ship at this meeting. 
 
 The following teachers also received certificates of qualifications : D. Mc- 
 Nichols and Sarah Ann Burdick. 
 
 The following is a list of the children coming under the School Law, accord- 
 ing to the report made May 1, 1843 : District No. 1, 24 ; District No. 2, 28 ; 
 District No. 3, 23 ; District No. 4, 46 ; District Union 3, 30 ; District Union 
 5, 25 ; total, 176. 
 
 The report made October 1, 1847, showed the number of districts to be 
 eight, with a total number of children under 21 years of age, 407. At a sub- 
 sequent meeting, the following teachers received certificates of qualifications : 
 Mary Field, Maria Harpending, Olivia Watkins, Martin Burdick.
 
 456 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 At a meeting, January 6, 1844, William Hanson was elected Treasurer, 
 and "his bond accepted." 
 
 The following report of schools was made in 1851 : Number of schools. 7 ; 
 number of male teachers, 4 ; number of female teachers, 3 ; highest compensa- 
 tion paid per month, $12.00 ; lowest compensation paid per week, $1.50 ; num- 
 ber of scholars attending, 250 ; number of districts, 10 ;, number of school 
 houses, 5 ; number of frame school houses, 3 ; number of log school houses, 2 : 
 amount of school funds, $1,582.47 ; children under 21 years of age, 417. 
 
 The report made in 1877 showed nine districts wholly in the township, 
 with three union districts, all with good substantial frame buildings, and the 
 estimated value of school property, $5,400.00; estimated value of school libra- 
 ries, $70.00; present school fund, $3,180.08. 
 
 Plato Township compares favorably with any in the county as regards edu- 
 cational facilities. 
 
 The Railroads of Plato are few and far between. About a half mile or per- 
 haps a mile of the Chicago & Pacific Railroad burdens its soil, just clipping 
 off the northeast corner of the town. Pingree Grove station, on the above road, 
 is near the township line, however, and affords the citizens convenient facilities 
 for shipping. 
 
 The old State road, from Chicago to Galena, which was the first road built 
 through this section, likewise takes off a very small corner of the township. 
 But the first road of any consequence to the town was the stage road from St. 
 Charles to Galena, intersecting the old State road at Belvidere, and was the 
 road on which Griggs' tavern stood, as mentioned further back. 
 
 Plato Township is known as Township 41 North, Range 7 East, with an 
 assessed valuation, in 1877, of $460,244.00. 
 
 Originally, Plato, Burlington, with portions of Campton and Virgil, were 
 known as Campton Precinct. It was divided in 1840, and Plato and Burling- 
 ton called Washington Precinct. 
 
 In those primitive days, there seems to have been wire-pulling in political 
 circles as well as in these corrupt times, as evidenced in the fact that at the elec- 
 tion of 1840, the Whigs, who were vastly in the minority, the town being Dem- 
 ocratic, succeeded by some political hocus pocus in electing their petty officers. 
 There not being offices enough to accommodate all who desired those little hon- 
 ors, the precinct was again divided in 1844, Plato still retaining the name of 
 Washington. 
 
 In 1848, when the State was divided into townships, by Government sur- 
 vey, this township was called Homer, but at the first meeting of the Board of 
 Supervisors, it was found that there was another Homer in the State, and this 
 must be again changed. Bent upon having a name, however, memorable in 
 ancient lore, the name of Plato was suggested, ostensibly for Willliam B. Plato, 
 of Geneva, but more particularly, perhaps, for the ancient philosopher. The 
 name was unanimously adopted and has been retained to the present day.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 457 
 
 The hamlets of Plato Township are Plato Center and North Plato, situ- 
 ated wholly in the township, and Udina and Pingree Grove, located astride the 
 lines. The last two named have been mentioned, the one in the history of the 
 Rutland and the other of Elgin Township. 
 
 Plato Center has a store, recently opened by Luzi Schneller ; a steam feed- 
 mill, owned and operated by Fred Van Nostrand ; a grocery store and cheese 
 factory, by Duncan Johnson, and an excellent school house. 
 
 North Plato has a store, by C. M. Campbell ; a post office ; a blacksmith 
 shop ; a cheese factory, owned by Peck & Son, and a good school house. 
 
 Cemeteries, of which the township has several, though they are rather small 
 and thinly inhabited ; that adjacent to the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Plato 
 Center, is well kept and quite a beautiful place. The first burial within its 
 precincts was a child of George Abbot, in 1853. 
 
 The burying ground of the Congregational Church at Udina is a lovely spot, 
 beautifully ornamented with shrubs and evergreens. The first occupant was 
 Benjamin F. Knapp, buried there in 1842. 
 
 Politically, Plato Township is Republican, though in the old days of Whig- 
 gery, it was largely Democratic. 
 
 Its war record is good, turning out, as it did, its full complement of soldiers 
 to battle for the old flag, several of whom rose in rank to important official 
 positions. 
 
 HAMPSHIRE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 This township is in the extreme northwest corner of Kane County, and is 
 known as Township 42 North, Range 6 East. It had a population in 1870 01 
 1,049, with an assessed valuation in 1877 of $592,037, The surface of the 
 country is rolling, the soil fertile and well watered and produces corn and hay 
 in plentiful profusion. 
 
 The first settlement was made in 1836, by Lenas Allen. Mr. Allen came 
 from the State of Vermont to Chicago, in June, 1835, when that great city 
 was little else than a kind of marshy bog, or one immense frog pond. He re- 
 mained in Chicago until the latter part of the Summer of 1836, when he came 
 to this section and took up a claim in the south part, upon which he built a 
 rough log house. This was the FIRST HOUSE erected in what is now Hamp- 
 shir,e Township. A portion of the walls of the old building are still standing, 
 but are rapidly crumbling into decay, and in a few years more it, too, will be 
 gone, with other relics of this early day. A year or two after making his first 
 claim, he removed a few miles to the north and made a permanent settlement, 
 where the remainder of his life was .spent in agricultural pursuits. His son, 
 John A. Allen, now lives on the old homestead, while grandsons occupy the 
 land embraced in Allen's original claim, and are respected citizens of the com- 
 munity.
 
 458 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 Thomas E. Whittemore came from New Hampshire, and Samuel Hawley 
 from Connecticut, and made settlement in this township in 1836, and for many 
 years were identified with the affairs of the settlement. Whittemore seems to 
 have been a man of considerable prominence and a kind of leader among his 
 neighbors. 
 
 The next year, Daniel Hall came from New York, and in 1838, William H. 
 Seymour and S. A. McApes, from the same State, located claims in this town 
 and settled permanently. Mr. Seymour is still living in the old town or village 
 of Hampshire, and Mr. McApes near Bloomington, Wis. 
 
 In 1840, Levi Willard and three sons, George, Stephen and William T., 
 came from Michigan and settled in the northern part of the township ; of these, 
 George and Stephen live in Dundee Township, William T. remains on the site 
 of the original settlement, while the aged patriarch sleeps beneath the sod in 
 the old graveyard. 
 
 Rev. Robert Williams, Enoch 0. Garland, from New Hampshire ; Joseph 
 Dalby, from England ; William Trumbull and Isaac Paddock, from New York ; 
 John Aurand, from Germany, and Hilda Coon and Stephen Haviland, all took 
 up claims and settled permanently in the township in 1838-40. Lucien Bald- 
 win, from the county of Bennington, Vt., took up a claim in Hampshire Town- 
 ship in 1842, upon which he is still living. 
 
 Samuel C. Rowell left his home in the Old Granite State, when a youth of 
 18, and went to Kentucky, where he spent about three years. Not alto- 
 gether satisfied with the " Dark and Bloody Ground," he mounted his horse, 
 then the usual mode of locomotion, and struck out across the Hoosier State 
 toward the setting sun, to select a home in the "Far West." Mr. Rowell's 
 description of this trip, as related to us, is highly entertaining, and would make 
 the hair rise on the heads of the tender youths (hot-house plants) of the pres- 
 ent day. 
 
 Grand Prairie, southwest of Danville, 111., at this remote period, had but 
 one house for a distance of forty miles ; and his wits were often exercised to 
 the utmost to secure shelter for himself and horse, other than the blue sky. 
 In those early days, it was the fashion, in the Eastern States, for men to wear 
 long hair ; and in conformity with that custom, Mr. Rowell wore his far down 
 on his shoulders, and it being rather black gave him quite a brigandish appear- 
 ance. In crossing Big Foot Prairie, in Wisconsin, when bringing up for the 
 night he was informed that the tavern was full, and he would have to seek ref- 
 uge farther on. At the next, and the next, the same excuse was made, with 
 rather suspicious glances, which seemed to indicate that all was not right, and 
 when 9 o'clock had come, and still found him without a shelter for the night, 
 he determined to know the cause of so many refusals. He had been directed, 
 at the last tavern where he had tried for lodging, to a house a little off the 
 road, where strangers were sometimes entertained when the tavern was over- 
 crowded, but another refusal was the result. It was 9 o'clock at night, eight
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 459 
 
 miles to the next habitation, and every appearance of an early thunder shower. 
 The man of the house was not at home, and the lady very positively declined 
 to allow him to remain, and asked why he had not stopped earlier in the even- 
 ing. He told her of his ineffectual efforts to procure lodging for the night, 
 which seemed to confirm her in her refusal. But, nothing daunted, he renewed 
 his appeal. He told her that he came from a land where the weary, way-worn 
 traveler never sought refuge in vain, nor the poorest were denied shelter from 
 the storm. Something in the appeal struck a sympathetic chord in the woman's 
 heart, who, after asking a few questions, recognized in him a son of one of her 
 old neighbors. She had moved into the neighborhood after Rowell went to 
 Kentucky, and had heard many accounts from his parents of their distant 
 boy. 
 
 He received shelter, not -only for the night, but remained with the family 
 for several days, during which time was developed the secret of his many fail- 
 ures to obtain lodging. A short time previous to his appearance, a number of 
 blacklegs and thieves had passed that way, and had stolen a lot of horses, with 
 which they had made off. They wore long hair, and hence the suspicious 
 glances cast upon him, and the abrupt refusal to his request for a night's lodg- 
 ing. He had his hair trimmed the next day, and says he has never worn long 
 hair since that eventful period. 
 
 After traveling some 800 miles over the West on horseback, Mr. Rowell 
 finally came to Hampshire Township, in 1843, where he took up a claim and 
 made a permanent settlement. He went back to Kentucky in 1844, where he 
 married, and returned, with his wife, to his new home, where he continued 
 farming for years. In 1850, he embarked in the mercantile business at the old. 
 town of Hampshire, where he remained until a few years ago, when he removed 
 to the new village of Hampshire, and is one of the solid men and prosperous 
 merchants of the town. 
 
 Henry Doty came from Ashtabula County, Ohio. After the great crash of 
 1837, finding times hard and dull in the old Buckeye State, he cast about him 
 for a means of bettering his condition and his worldly prospects. Owing to 
 the very bad name which Illinois at that time bore, in regard to her financial 
 condition, being, as he informed us, several millions in debt, he went on to 
 Kenosha, Wis., with the determination of settling in that region. Having a 
 brother in this township, however, who insisted on his making a tour of inspec- 
 tion here before locating permanently, he finally concluded to act upon his 
 advice, and came overland in wagons from Kenosha, arriving here on the 3d 
 of December, 1843. He found snow on the ground a foot deep, a wild, dreary 
 waste, and as cheerless a prospect as one might well wish to see. He lost no 
 time, however, but took up a claim at once, upon which he is living at the 
 present time. 
 
 Of these early pioneers many have gone to the "land of shadows." Lenas 
 Allen, the first in the settlement, died February 15, 1848, at a ripe old age.
 
 460 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 His wife, who was the first white woman in the township, still lives, and is 
 enjoying very fair health. Thomas E. \Vhittemore died on his orignal claim 
 several years ago, leaving a vacancy not easily filled. Daniel Hall, who came 
 to the town at the same time, died in Elgin, 1875. Samuel Hawley, known 
 in those early days as "Father Hawley," and Stephen Havilland rest in the 
 old grave yard at Doty's school house. Both died on their original farms 
 Hawley in 1858, and Havilland in 1872. Joseph Dalby lives just over the 
 line in McHenry County, at the village of Huntley. Rev. Robt. Williams, 
 the first preacher in the township, finished up the work of his Master, and 
 passed to his reward a short time ago. E. 0. Garland died in Hampshire 
 Township, and Paddock went to California, where he died a few years ago. 
 William Trumbull and Lucien Baldwin are still living upon their original 
 claims. Aurand, Coon and Willard rest after their labors under the weeping 
 willows. 
 
 Those were the " times that tried men's souls," and the struggle for a home 
 in the wild wilderness, often a prolonged and bitter one, and one in which the 
 hardy pioneer went down with his aim unaccomplished, his goal unreached. The 
 farmers of to-day know little of what the early settlers of the country had to 
 contend with. What would the world think to see a train of wagons, laden 
 with wheat, coming into Chicago drawn by oxen ! And yet a third of a 
 century ago, that was the usual mode of transportation (as an old farmer 
 informed us) from this section. The snort of the iron horse has at length 
 driven the slow, plodding, patient ox from the track, and the railway .car has 
 taken the place of the road wagon ; the old time way of doing business has 
 become obsolete has passed away "among the things that were," and still the 
 world is moving on. People did their milling in the early settlement of Hamp- 
 shire Township mostly at St. Charles, until a mill was built at Elgin, when their 
 custom was transferred to that place. A few had occasionally made trips to 
 Boardeman's Mill near Batavia, and once in a while one had gone to Belvidere, 
 but the building of a mill at Elgin brought " the war into Africa," or a mill 
 to their doors, as it were, and forever put a stop to the long and uncertain trips 
 to distant mills. 
 
 There were still a few Indians of the Pottawattomie tribe in this section 
 when the first settlers came in 1836, but they were apparently harmless, and 
 left soon after for the reservation made them by the Government. 
 
 The first road in the township of Hampshire was the old State road from 
 Chicago to Galena, already referred to in this work. Another road, from St. 
 Charles to Marengo, ran diagonally across the township. These were the great 
 thoroughfares of travel in those early days, and were often the scenes of 
 crowded caravans that would astonish us were we to witness such spectacles at 
 the present day. An old settler informed us that he had often known as many 
 as two hundred wagons to pass over the Chicago and Galena road in one day. 
 And it was no uncommon occurrence for fifty and sixty wagons to camp over
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 461 
 
 night at the old village of Hampshire, known familiarly at that early day by 
 the sobriquet of " Hen Peck." It was then that there was kept at Hen Peck 
 a kind of summer bar room, for the accommodation of thirsty travelers. The 
 village at that period was composed of a cool, clear pond of water, upon 
 the banks of which stood a large and beautiful shade tree. These were origin- 
 ally the inducements which lured the jaded teamsters to the spot, until it became 
 known far and wide as a general camping ground. Finally, with an eye to 
 business, and a mind to turn an honest penny, William H. Seymour, already 
 mentioned as one of the early settlers of the town, and an enterprising individual, 
 conceived the idea of opening a saloon under this old shade tree. Driving a 
 couple of posts into the ground, and putting a board across from one to the 
 other for a counter, with a jug of whisky behind the structure, he was ready 
 for business; and many a"fourpence" and "bit," or "shilling" as the 
 small change was denominated in those days passed over this unique counter 
 in the course of a day. This was the first saloon, and probably the com- 
 mencement of the liquor traffic in Hampshire Township. When the jug was 
 emptied, it was refilled at the stillhouse, and thus the trade went on. 
 
 Garland's Tavern was probably the first in the township, and was on the 
 Chicago and Galena road, fourteen miles west of Elgin, and one mile west of 
 the old village of Hampshire. It was kept by E. 0. Garland (who also kept 
 the stage stand in connection), about the years 183840. McApes also kept a 
 tavern near by about the same time. In 1845, W. N. Humphreys, from Elgin, 
 opened a tavern at the old village, which continued many years. 
 
 Dr. Thomas E. Fowler, who came from Ohio in 1850, was the first practic- 
 ing physician in the town. After following his profession in the community for 
 twenty years, he went to Iowa, where he died but a short time ago. 
 
 Thomas E. Whittemore was the first Justice of the Peace, and held the 
 office at the same time with Elijah Rich, of Rutland ToAvnship, when this and 
 Rutland were known as Deerfield Precinct, and entitled to but two Justices be- 
 tween them. 
 
 A post office was established in 1840, at the old stage stand, and was the 
 first post office in the township. E. 0. Garland was Postmaster, and kept the 
 office until 1848, when it was removed to the village of Hampshire, and W. N. 
 Humphreys made Postmaster. In 1875, it was removed to the new village of 
 Hampshire, and S. C. Rowell became Postmaster. Recently, there has been 
 an office re-established at the old town. 
 
 Rev. Robert Williams, already mentioned as one of the early settlers and a 
 local minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was the first preacher in the 
 township, and preached the first sermon heard in the infant settlement ; and 
 the first church built in the township was the German Evangelical, situated 
 in the "northeast corner" of the town, and was erected in 1852. It is 
 a plain, well-arranged frame building, 30x40 feet, and cost about $2,000. The 
 society was originally organized in 1842, and, previous to the building of the
 
 462 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 church, worshiped at the neighbors' houses, principally at Mr. Aurand's, and was 
 under the spiritual charge of Rev. Mr. Dikover, now of Chicago. Rev. Mr. 
 Kellar is the present pastor, and he has 150 names upon his roll of membership. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal Church, in the new village of Hampshire, is a hand- 
 some structure and of the latest style of architecture. It is large and roomy, well 
 finished, and cost $2,400. It was erected in 1876, has a membership of thirty- 
 five, and is in charge of Rev. B. H. Cartwright, a lineal descendant of the 
 renowned Peter Cartwright, whose fame as an evangelist and a preacher of 
 great power is a household word throughout the country. The church was or- 
 ganized in the township about 18567, in the school house at the old village of 
 Hampshire, where it remained until the building of the church in the new 
 village, in 1876. 
 
 The Roman Catholic Church, in the new village, was erected in the Sum- 
 mer of 1877, at a cost of $2,000. It is of modern architecture, well and sub- 
 stantially built, and, withal, quite an imposing structure. It is in a flourishing 
 condition, drawing a large membership from Burlington, as well as from this 
 township, and is in charge of Rev. Father Gormley, of Huntley. 
 
 The first birth in the town was Jane A. Seymour, a daughter of William 
 H. Seymour, and occurred in 1840. The first death in the little settlement 
 was that of a Mr. Bass, in 1838, who seems to have been a transient man, as no 
 record can be obtained of him at the present time, except that he died in the 
 township at this early day. The increase in the population of the town, since 
 the original settlement, indicates that there has been " marrying and giving in 
 marriage," and is evidence that there was a first marriage, but who the high 
 contracting parties were, it is impossible at this time to say. 
 
 The first store was opened by Solomon Freightine, at the old village of 
 Hampshire, in 1845, where a store is still in existence, though with many 
 changes in proprietors and in other respects, since its original establishment. 
 
 The schools of Hampshire compare favorably with those of any township in 
 the county. The first school house built was in what is now District No. 1, 
 and was near where the Bean school house stands. It was a small log struc- 
 ture, and was built on Whittemore's land. " Not one stone is left upon another" 
 nor a single trace remains of this early temple of learning to tell where it stood, 
 but a modern frame edifice occupies very nearly the original site ; nor can 
 any one at this late day tell who taught the first school in it. Through the 
 courtesy of Mr. Baldwin, the Treasurer, we were shown the old school records, 
 but the examination elicited no information of any particular interest. The 
 early records were poorly kept, and are somewhat indefinite and obscure on 
 many points. Under date of February 12, 1842, we find that Lenas Allen, 
 Samuel Hawley, and T. C. Whittemore were elected School Trustees. At a 
 meeting of the Trustees, held at the house of E. 0. Garland, E. A. 'Allen was 
 appointed Treasurer, and the township divided into three school districts. The 
 following Directors were appointed for each of the districts : District No. 1, E.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 463 
 
 0. Garland, Levi Willard and N. Penniman ; District No. 2, Isaac Paddock, 
 Benjamin DeWitt and William Pierce ; District No. 3, A. G. Allen, Hilda 
 Coon and Norman Hawley. At this meeting, " It was ordered that, at the re- 
 quest from the legal voters, an election be held on the 5th of March, 1842, for 
 the purpose of incorporation;" and on that day the records show that the 
 "town was incorporated." January, 1845, the children subject to the School 
 Law were as follows : District No. 1, 28 ; District No. 2, 36 ; District No. 3, 
 28 ; District No. 5, 22 ; total, 114. 
 
 At the report of April, 1850, there were eight districts, and 430 children 
 under 21 years of age. In 1871, the following was the school report: No. of 
 schools, 8 ; No. of pupils enrolled, 330 ; No. of children under 21 years, 600 ; 
 No. of teachers, 18 ; No. of school houses, 8 ; No. of districts having libraries r 
 2 ; No. of volumes in libraries, 100 ; amount of special tax, $11,035.19 ; 
 amount paid teachers, $1,410,52. 
 
 The following was the report in 1878 : No. of districts, 8 ; No. of school 
 houses, 8 ; value of school property, $5,100 ; value of libraries, $10.00 ; school 
 fund, $2,065.89; No. of children under 21 years of age, 635. 
 
 The new school building, in Hampshire village, is an elegant frame edifice, 
 of modern structure, and specially adapted to school purposes. It was built 
 in 1876, at a cost of $3,500. Prof. Gardiner is Principal, and has, for assist- 
 ants, Misses Mary and Lucy Whiting, and Jessie Rowell. An average of 125 
 pupils are in daily attendance. 
 
 Hampshire Lodge, No. 443, A., F. & A. M., was organized in 1864, at the 
 old village of Hampshire, by H. G. Reynolds, Grand Master. James Sutfin 
 was the first Master, and S. C. Rowell, first Secretary. It was moved to the 
 new village, in 1875, and N. S. Carlisle is the present Worshipful Master. 
 S. C. Rowell is still Secretary. It has a membership of thirty-five. 
 
 Cheese Factory. There is but one cheese factory in Hampshire Township, 
 though there are quite a number around, just outside the lines, that draw largely 
 from this township for their supply of milk. This factory was built and is 
 owned by Hathaway & Co., who make up the milk principally for their patrons. 
 The factory is doing a fair business, though not running up to its average 
 capacity. It is a two-story, frame building, well and substantially put up. A 
 large portion of the milk of this township is shipped from Hampshire Station 
 to other points mostly to Chicago. The dairy business is extensively followed, 
 and pays better, perhaps, than any other pursuit the farmers could engage in. 
 
 The first mill, and the only one in the town making breadstuff's, was built 
 in 1875, and is owned by William Rinn. It is of combined steam and wind 
 power, with the old fanciful pattern of wind attachment, after the kind that 
 Don Quixote and his man Sancho Panza used to go forth to do battle with, in 
 thegood old days of chivalry. It is well patronized, and kept pretty busy, to 
 supply the wants of the surrounding community. A feed mill is embraced in 
 the mill proper, which does a large business.
 
 464 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 An institution of the township, deserving of notice, is the planing-mill of 
 George Kettelwell, in the new village of Hampshire. It was built in the Fall 
 of 1877, and is designed to be, when completed, a planing-mill, machine shop, 
 lathe, etc., and will give employment to a number of hands. A feed-mill is 
 .also attached, and kept busily engaged, grinding feed for the neighboring 
 dairyman. 
 
 The Hampshire Gazette, a live little newspaper, published by C. E. Howe, 
 was established in the village of Hampshire, in the Fall of 1877. It is devoted 
 to the interests of the town, and is liberally supported by the citizens. 
 
 The Chicago & Pacific Railroad crosses Hampshire Township from east to 
 west, dividing it very nearly through the center. The road met with a hearty 
 support here, very unlike to that extended to it in the more eastern section of 
 the county. A substantial endorsement was given it by this township, in the 
 shape of $26,400 stock, individually subscribed by the citizens. Mr. Jacob 
 Rinn, alone, subscribed $10,000. The first train passed over the road through 
 Hampshire, in May, 1875, and doubtless would have been serenaded, could the 
 delighted inhabitants have kept up with it. Although the road has not yet 
 been in operation three years, the following statement of the business done at 
 Hampshire station (the only station in the township) shows, very conclusively, 
 the advantage it has been to this section of country. 
 
 Forwarded in 1877 : 
 
 Freight on Milk $2,331.00 
 
 Other Freights Forwarded 4,343.43 
 
 Receipts from Passengers 2,270.75 
 
 Total $8,945.18 
 
 Freights Received 6,290.23 
 
 Excess of Freights Forwarded $2,654.95 
 
 The villages of this township are Old and New Hampshire. The old town, 
 in the zenith of its glory, never exceeded two or three stores, a tavern, black- 
 smith shop, and a post office. One small store, a school house and a post office, 
 with one mail a week, now comprise the town. But associated with it are some 
 of the tender reminiscences of the early settlers, that will fade only with their 
 lives. Here was the first store, the first tavern, and the first post office; and 
 here, after the toil of the week was ended, the farmers congregated to gather 
 the news ; to discuss the events of the day over their evening grog, and recount 
 the hardships of pioneer life. 
 
 The new village of Hampshire is one of those mushroom towns that spring 
 up, as if by magic, on new railway lines. Three years ago, there was not a 
 house in the section where it is situated, except a few farmhouses. In October, 
 1874, it was surveyed by W. H. Pearce, for Andrew J. Willing and Ceylen A. 
 Fasseth, who owned north of the land. It was laid out, the next Summer, as a 
 village ; and after the Chicago & Pacific Railroad, upon which it is located, was 
 built through, its growth was rapid. It was incorporated in October, 1876, and
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 465 
 
 Philip Doty, S. C. Rowell, E. W. Whelpley, J. S. Wychoff, Henry Rinn and 
 A. R. Fremen elected Trustees, who organized, by making S. C. Rowell Pres- 
 ident of the Board, and J. S. Wychoff, Clerk. The population, January 1, 
 1878, was about 600. It has two churches, one school house, one cheese fac- 
 tory, one steam flouring-mill, two steam feed-mills, one planing-mill and machine 
 shop, five general stores, one grocery store, two hardware stores, one drug store, 
 one bakery, two hotels, one restaurant, two butcher shops, one newspaper, five 
 blacksmith shops, three wagon shops, one lumber yard, two agricultural stores, 
 two livery stables, four saloons, three billiard halls, two shoe shops, one harness 
 shop, one millinery store, three doctors, one lawyer, one preacher, etc. The 
 buildings are all new, and of a better class than the majority of young railroad 
 towns. To sum up, in a few words : The village of Hampshire is a busy, 
 thriving place; its citizens industrious, wide awake and enterprising, and deserv- 
 ing of the greatest prosperity. 
 
 The name of Hampshire was bestowed on the township, in commemmoration 
 of the Old Granite State, from whence came many of its early setttlers. This, 
 with Rutland Township, was, in the early settling, Deerfield Precinct. When 
 organized into townships, in 1848, under government survey, and the question 
 of a name came up, there chanced to be a majority who were natives of New 
 Hampshire, and so carried the day, so far as the naming of the township went. 
 Politically, Hampshire is largely Republican ; though, in the days of Whigs and 
 Democrats, it was pretty evenly contested on the questions at issue. 
 
 CAMPTON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 Campton, the central township of Kane County, lies west of St. Charles 
 and east of Virgil, is bounded on the north by Plato and south by Blackberry, 
 and is Town No. 40, Range 7 east of the Third Principal Meridian. 
 
 John Beatty, from Crawford County, Penn., came to Chicago April 20, 1834, 
 and, remaining there until March, 1835, proceeded westward, and reached Fox 
 River at the present site of Geneva, where Bird, Haight and Aken were then 
 living. Early in the season, he traveled northwestward, and, entering the 
 present township of Campton, took up ft claim of prairie where C. H. Shaw 
 now resides. Returning thence to Geneva, he remained in the vicinity for 
 about two months, when he again sought the wilderness toward the setting sun, 
 and this time, proceeding further, took up a tract composed of both prairie and 
 timber, upon which the widow Burr now resides, and built thereon the first log 
 cabin in the township. Not feeling satisfied with his first claim, owing to the 
 scarcity of timber and running water which was abundant upon the latter one 
 he subsequently sold the former to one Archie, who settled and remained 
 upon it for several years. Mr. Beatty did not locate upon his land for more than
 
 466 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 a year after it was taken, and, meanwhile, several settlers arrived. Foremost 
 among these were Henry Warne, in the southwest part of the town ; John 
 Whitney, from New York State, who lived where his son Melvin now resides, and 
 took up a claim embracing a thousand acres or more ; Culverson, where Robert 
 Garfield lives; James Hackett, from Ohio, who located where C. Cooley now 
 resides ; Luke Pike, from the same State, upon the present Chaffee homestead, 
 and Charles Babcock, on the Stewart place. All of the above took up their 
 claims in 1835. 
 
 When Mr. Beatty came to the township, he states that an Indian trail 
 extended across it upon the south from Ohio Grove, thence east past Lilly 
 Lake, across the Robert Garfield farm, thence through the lot now occupied by 
 the cemetery to a point about a mile and a half east, where it branched, one 
 fork bearing southward to Waubansie Town and the other reaching the river a 
 little south of St. Charles. 
 
 About 1838, a company from St. Charles, including Ira Minard and Daniel 
 Marvin, drove an ox team attached to a fallen tree to the settlement of Oregon, 
 on Rock River, thus marking a road the entire distance, a portion of which lay 
 in Campton. 
 
 Prairie breaking was an important industry in those days, as many of the 
 settlers were but illy supplied with teams and plows. The prairie breakers 
 traveled the entire country with ox teams, and plowed wherever their services 
 were required. Mr. Beatty broke extensive tracts in the Summer of 1836. 
 His team consisted of six yokes of oxen, and the price charged was $3.50 per 
 acre. He states that he plowed the first furrow in the township. 
 
 The settlers early turned their attention to the education of their children, 
 and, accordingly, we find a log school house in 1836 on land now owned by a 
 Scandinavian named Lawson, and in it a Mrs. McClure was installed as teacher. 
 The building was the result of the united efforts of Messrs. Pike, Hackett, 
 Archie, Culverson, Ryder and others, and the flock of little boys and girls who 
 gathered there at the opening of the first term was small in numbers, but the 
 following year found them more than doubled. 
 
 In the Winter of 1837, Mr. Beatty remained upon his claim, having passed 
 the two previous Winters in Geneva. During the previous season he had 
 assisted in conveying the portion of the Pottawattomie Indians living in Indi- 
 ana to their reservation across the Mississippi, and, during the same Spring and 
 Summer, numbers of settlers had arrived. Among these were Harry and Spald- 
 ing E. Eddy, brothers, from Genesee Co., N. Y. 
 
 The latter informs us that upon his arrival one Trow was living upon the 
 farm owned at present by Augustus Fisher ; John Hogoman or Hagarman, a 
 Dane, upon a claim still owned by his descendants ; Thomas E. Dodge upon 
 the claim afterward purchased by Garret Norton ; Ansel Lake upon his pres- 
 ent homestead ; John Tucker, deceased, where his heirs reside ; Geo. Thomp- 
 son, of Ohio, the father of Charles Thompson, of St. Charles, was living upon
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 467 
 
 the Hitchcock farm, and E. Reed and James Outhouse were cultivating the 
 banks of Lilly Lake, where they have remained ever since. 
 
 Edward Page and Edmund Elliott were early settlers from the State of New 
 Hampshire. The former died upon his claim, in 1838, of small pox. 
 
 Previous to this, however, death had appeared in the township and in 1837, 
 a Mrs. Burgess had been laid at rest in the old burying ground near King's 
 mill. Mrs. J. Whitney was likewise called to her final reward, in the Eall of 
 the same year. 
 
 The first marriage was that of Mark Whitney and Caroline Ward, about 
 1838. 
 
 John Durant should be mentioned as one of the earlier residents in the 
 eastern part of Campton. 
 
 Mr. Beatty, the first settler, is still living in the township, at the age of 80 
 years, and possesses a memory peculiarly clear regarding events which occurred 
 during the early years of the settlement. 
 
 William Kendall was the first settler at Canada Corners, where he claimed 
 a vast tract of land. 
 
 James Ward, from the State of New York, settled where the Shavers now 
 live, in the Spring of 1836. 
 
 SCHOOLS. . 
 
 As already shown, the first public institution established in Campton Town- 
 ship was a school house. Later, in the Winter of 1837-38, Miss Mary Lee 
 taught in the house of James Ward, and about a year from that date the settlers 
 erected a log school house on land now forming a portion of the county near 
 the residence of A. Fisher. 
 
 In 1841, we find a Board of Trustees organized, composed of E. Chaifee, 
 Charles Fletcher, Thomas E. Dodge, Ansel Lake and Hylas T. Currier, with 
 Nelson Walker, Clerk. 
 
 The records have been carefully preserved, and exhibit a division of the en- 
 tire region now occupied by Campton into districts, as follows : District 1 
 was composed of Sees. 1, 2, the east half of 3, 10, 11, 12, 13. 14, 15. and the 
 north half of 22, 23, 24 and 25. District 2 embraced the west halves of Sees. 
 3 and 10, Sec. 4, the north half of 9 and northeast fourth of 8. District 3 
 embraced Sees. 5 and 6, the northwest fourth of 8, the north half of 7 and a 
 fraction of Township 41. District 4 included the south halves of Sees. 7, 8 
 and 9, and Sees. 17, 18 and 19. District 5 was formed of the south half of 
 Sec. 22, Sec. 21, the east half of Sec. 20, the south half of Sec. 25, and Sees. 
 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35 and 36. 
 
 Aside from the above, there was a Union District, embracing the west half of 
 Sees. 20, 19, 29, 31 and 32 in Township 40, and several sections in what 
 is now Virgil. These six original districts were afterward increased in number, 
 and in 1847 there were not less than thirteen.
 
 468 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 School houses were built as necessity required, and, before the year 1850, 
 there was not an urchin in the thirty-six square miles of Carapton but possessed 
 the opportunities for acquiring the rudiments of an education near home. At 
 present there are eight good frame buildings in the township, dedicated to 
 learning. Several of them were built a number of years ago, but have since 
 been repaired and all are now comfortable, and several elegant structures. As 
 an example of the latter, the one in District 9 may be cited, which was erected 
 at a cost of $1,600. The estimated valuation of school property is $5,000. 
 
 NAME, TOWN HOUSE, ETC. 
 
 The history of Campton refutes the old saying that " There's nothing in a 
 name," since its citizens have deemed it necessary to change its name for the 
 sake of convenience. It was known at first as Fairfield, having been named by 
 Timothy Garfield, who had purchased of Culverson, of Ohio, and had come 
 from the town of Fairfield, Vt. By this name it was called until 1850, when 
 it was ascertained that there was another Fairfield in the State, and a change 
 was demanded. Various names were offered and there are two records in exist- 
 ence, dated early in the above year, in which the township is designated as 
 Milo township. But this name seems to have been speedily dropped, and since 
 December, of the same year, the township has been called Campton. The town 
 was surveyed in August, 1842, for the Government, by Silas Reed.* 
 
 Town meetings were held^for many years in the house of Eber Chaffee, after- 
 ward in various school houses, but in 1874, the inhabitants, with their charac- 
 teristic enterprise, having determined to adopt a permanent location for the 
 future, erected the beautiful town house now in use. It stands upon Section 
 22, is a frame building, and with its clean white walls contrasted with its dark 
 green blinds, presents a peculiarly neat appearance, and may be taken as a 
 model country town house. But few of the townships in the county, west of 
 the river, possess buildings erected for a similar purpose. 
 
 The earliest roads in the township were the one from Geneva to Rockford, 
 extending past Friend Marks, and thence by King's mill, and the one from St. 
 Charles to Oregon, both of which were laid out before the town was generally 
 settled. The vast amount of teaming across the town at an early day rendered 
 the hotel business important, and accordingly we find a log one kept by Elias 
 Crary on the St. Charles and Geneva road at the south end of Chicken Grove. 
 It was replaced at a later period by a frame building, where entertainment was 
 offered to the traveler, for a number of years. Timothy Garfield also opened a 
 public house on the road from St. Charles to Sycamore, as early as 1839. About 
 this time, or a little later, there were forty-one hotels between the present resi- 
 dence of Spalding Eddy and Randolph street, Chicago ; so great was the travel 
 from the present metropolis to the towns west of Kane County. Prominent 
 among these inns was the Fairfield Exchange, kept by B. D. Mallory, and 
 
 * From a copy of the Surveyor's field notes, in the possession of Rev. A. Pingree.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 469 
 
 located where the residence of George Norton now stands. It was originally a 
 log house built by Albert Dodge, and was purchased by Mallory, who made 
 frame additions upon all sides as well as on the top of it. The original building 
 has long since disappeared, but several of the frame portions still exist, the 
 parlor being a kitchen in the house of the present owner, .while, the bar-room 
 has been degraded to serve as a hennery. Many a scene of revelry and mirth 
 has that small apartment witnessed as filled with jolly teamsters, in a heaven of 
 tobacco smoke, 
 
 " The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter." 
 
 Glorious crowds assembled there, and not unfrequently their numbers were 
 so great that some of them were obliged to sleep upon the floor! This deficiency 
 in lodging accommodations was more than offset, however, by the excellent table 
 for which Mr. Mallory is still noted and which would have satisfied the demands 
 of the most fastidious epicurean. The fare for the teamster and team was four 
 shillings sixpence, and a "receipt" was always given in the shape of a glass of 
 good Bourbon. In the course of time, a plank road was laid from St. Charles to 
 Canada Corners, with the design of extending it to Sycamore, but as it did not 
 promise to become a profitable enterprise, it was never completed, and Avas 
 merely graded to the proposed terminus. With the appearance of railroads, the 
 extensive wagon travel ceased, as well as the taverns in Campton. 
 
 SAW-MILLS. 
 
 A steam saw-mill was built near the old homstead of the Chaffees, for the 
 purpose of sawing the plank for the road which passed there, but it was never 
 used for any other purpose. Previous to its erection, Dr. John King had built, 
 on Lilly Lake Creek, a mill which contained a single up-and-down saw, and was- 
 operated occasionally for several years, but, the power being insufficient, it 
 never sawed a great amount of timber. Dr. King was both a physician and 
 preacher, and the first resident professional gentleman in the town. He left 
 the county at an early day. 
 
 POST OFFICES AND STORES. 
 
 The Campton people went to St. Charles or Virgil, at first, for their mail. 
 The earliest post office in the township was kept in the extreme southwestern 
 part by Henry Warne. It was called the Fairfield office, but the name was- 
 finally changed to Swinton, and it was at length removed to Blackberry Station. 
 A post office was established, under Dr. King, at an early day, at King's Mill, 
 by which name it was known. At a later period, it was removed to Gray Wil- 
 low, where it still remains. The Campton office, at '* Canada Corners," was 
 established about 1845, and has since been discontinued and revived. It i& 
 now supplied from Blackberry. 
 
 The Corners is the most extensive hamlet in the town. As early as 1853, 
 Eldridge Walker, a Canadian, kept a store there, stocked with a few dry goods- 
 and groceries. The Woolcotts and Lindseys were early at that point, and
 
 470 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 t 
 
 were also from Canada whence the name of the settlement. It now contains 
 a church, school house, store, two blacksmith shops, a paint shop, and fourteen 
 dwellings. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 Rev. D. W. Elmore planted the germ of a Baptist Church in Campton, at 
 an old log dwelling, near King's mill, as early as 1838. The same organ- 
 ization continued to flourish for many years, under the ministration of Dr. King 
 and several other preachers, but at length became weakened, and had ceased to 
 exist, when, in 1872, the church at " Canada Corners" was commenced. The 
 society was then revived, and several members contributed liberally to the 
 church, where the Baptists now hold meetings alternately with their Methodist 
 brethren. 
 
 A Congregational Church was established very early in the Stewart neigh- 
 borhood, formerly known as the New Hampshire settlement. Father Clark 
 was an early preacher ; also, Rev. Mr. Warner, who lived where Orus Hitch- 
 cock now resides; but the membership was never sufficiently strong to erect a 
 house of worship, and in process of time, they became scattered, many of them 
 uniting with the church in St. Charles. 
 
 The Methodist Episcopal society was organized at the old log school house, 
 in the Eddy District ; early removed to the Corron school house and Canada 
 Corners, and in the Fall of 1872, built with others the Union Church at the 
 latter place, at the cost of about $2,500. The membership is about thirty-five. 
 
 CHEESE FACTORIES. 
 
 About 1868, a small cheese factory was built at Gray Willow, by the Lar- 
 kins Brothers, and was sold, at length, to George Lake, and ceased operations 
 in 1875, when the fine building was erected for a similar purpose, near the old 
 site of King's mill. In the Fall of 1877, Mr. Lake disposed of the property, 
 and the business is now continued by Duncan Johnson, who has since manufac- 
 tured both butter and cheese, from 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of milk per diem. 
 In the Spring of 1870, Edward Thornton built a butter and cheese factory on 
 the west side of the township, and has worked it ever since, obtaining, on an 
 average, the milk from 400 cows daily. The building, like the above, is of 
 wood, well furnished, and cost $6,000. 
 
 TOPOGRAPHY AND POPULATION. 
 
 Campton Township is well diversified between prairie and wood land, and 
 contains but few tracts of the former which are not under excellent cultiva- 
 tion. It ranks as one of the best towns in the county, both in agricultural 
 resources and the intelligence of its inhabitants, and like all the others, is stead- 
 ily progressing. Its population, by the last census, was 960.
 
 R. B. CH1SHOLM 
 
 ELGI N.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 473 
 
 BLACKBERRY TOWNSHIP. 
 
 Town 39 North, of Range 7 East, of the Third Principal Meridian, more 
 familiarly known as Blackberry Township, was surveyed in August, 1842, by 
 Silas Reed, one of the surveyors in the employ of the Government.* It lies 
 south of Campton and north of Sugar Grove, and is bounded on the east by 
 Geneva and Batavia, and on the west by Kaneville. The township is crossed 
 from north to south by Blackberry Creek, which, with several small tributaries, 
 are fringed with a thick growth of oak and other timber, which originally 
 extended over the entire western third of the town, and was early named. 
 Lance's Grove. The surface in this region is unusually rugged for Kane 
 County, the creek in some parts of its course meandering through deep gorges, 
 like the mountain streams of the Eastern States. Two isolated mounds or hills in 
 the vicinity rise to a height overlooking allHhe surrounding country, and are 
 considered stupendous eminences by those whose wanderings have been limited 
 by the limits of this Prairie State. The eastern portion of the township 
 possesses more of those features of scenery common to the best part of 
 Northern Illinois. Nelson's Lake lies partly in Blackberry and partly in 
 Batavia, and its outlet, Lake Run, flows to the southwest into Sugar Grove 
 Township, where it unites with Blackberry Creek. The township contains but 
 little lowland, but the streams- referred to furnish, with their affluents, water in 
 sufficient quantities, and the soil is of an excellent quality. The Chicago & 
 North- Western Railroad crosses the north tier of sections, and two of its stations, 
 Blackberry and La Fox, are located in the township. 
 
 SETTLEMENT. 
 
 The first settlement in Blackberry was made by William Lance and his son 
 John, early in May, 1834. The father was a native of New Jersey, but had 
 been for a number of years a pioneer, his last dwelling place being in the State 
 of Indiana. Starting thence, upon the opening of Spring, with the above 
 named son, his daughter Mary, now Mrs. John Souders, and a younger son, 
 Charles, he drove with eight yoke of oxen to the bank of Fox River, at 
 the Big Woods. Here Mr. Lance was delayed by illness for a few days ; and 
 John, leaving the company, encamped in the wagon, crossed the river, and 
 journeying west past Nelson's Grove, selected the claim where Charles Souders 
 now resides. The Spring of 1834 is said to have been one of the mildest on 
 record in the State, and vegetation was already far advanced when the Lances 
 arrived on the banks of the river. This fact lent a peculiar charm to the scenery 
 where the young man decided to make his home a spot which, even in the 
 dreariest season of the year, is by no means devoid of romantic beauty and 
 he marked the spot under the firm impression that it was the most picturesque 
 
 * From a copy of the Surveyor's field notes in the possession of Rev. A. Pingree.
 
 474 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 land upon which the sun ever shone. Having returned to the other side of the 
 river, he guided the remaining members of the party to the place, where the 
 Lance family finally claimed between 70 and 8000 acres. For several days they 
 lived in their wagon, engaged meanwhile in building the first log house in the 
 town. Mrs. Souders is supposed to have been the first white woman in the township. 
 
 On the morning of the third or fourth day, the settlers noticed smoke aris- 
 ing from the south, and while still speculating upon the probabilities of its 
 issuing from a pioneer dwelling or an Indian wigwam, a horseman appeared upon 
 a distant hill, riding toward them, who, upon his arrival, introduced himself as 
 Mr. Isbell, and explained that he had just arrived with a party from Ohio, and 
 that the smoke arising in the distance came from his camp fire. He had noticed 
 smoke at the north of him, and, impelled by curiosity, had ridden to discover 
 from whence it came. As may be supposed, the Lances were much rejoiced to 
 learn that they were not alone on the frontier, and mutual congratulations were 
 exchanged. A few days later, the Lances had their house ready to raise, and it 
 was located very near the spot where C Souders now lives. After its erection T 
 they broke and fenced forty acres of land, and planted a portion of it with 
 corn. It should here be stated that Isaac Waltrup accompanied Mr. Lance 
 from Du Page County, and took up the claim of which George Gould now 
 owns a portion. He was never a resident of the township, however, returning 
 to Du Page in August in the year in which he had taken the land, and later 
 sold it to Hiram Hall. In the Fall, the Lances, father and son, returned to 
 Indiana, leaving Mary and Charles at Peter Dodd's, a brother-in-law, in Du 
 Page County. Dodd had taken up his claim in March of the same year, but 
 eventually sold it and settled in Blackberry. Late in the Fall of 1834, John 
 Lance and his sister Margaret were married, the latter to David Beeler, who 
 accompanied the entire family back to Illinois, arriving on Christmas, and set- 
 tling on a place now known as Johnson's Mound. The Lances and Beeler were 
 the only settlers in the township during the Winter of 18345. 
 
 During the summer of 1835, important accessions were made to the settle- 
 ment around the Grove. The township, from the first, presented inducements 
 to immigrants which they were not slow in perceiving. A high table-land 
 above the fevers and chills of the river bottoms, and possessing all the fertility 
 of the lower sections, with timber in abundance the indispensable considera- 
 tion in the mind of a Yankee and a powerful one to the Hoosier, as well a 
 land of hills and streams, resembling more than those of any other town in the 
 county the Eastern country, it was the first of the back townships to be settled. 
 
 To the native of hills and valleys, the boundless prairies appear unspeakably 
 flat and dull when viewed for the first time, and it often requires weeks and 
 months to remove this first impression. The variety of surface in Blackberry, 
 on the contrary, was the exact reverse of the extensive plains, dreary in their 
 changeless beauty, which the pioneers had crossed on their way thither, and r 
 consequently, many of them remained.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 475 
 
 Among those who settled in the above-mentioned year, were Harry White, 
 Hiram Hall, David W. Annis, George Trimble and L. D. Kendall. White 
 located at the south part of the Grove. Annis came from the State of Vermont, 
 and located on land now owned by his heirs. He was a noted man in the town- 
 ship during its infancy ; was County Commissioner and held several positions 
 less important. It is said that he never sought for a public position and pos- 
 sessed none of the contemptible qualities of the scheming politicjan. 
 
 In the Spring of 1835, John Souders, from Ohio, took up the claim where 
 he now lives. At that time, Mr. Souders was a bachelor, possessing only a 
 small amount of wealth, and worked for the farmers in the neighborhood. 
 Late in 1835, between Christmas and New Year's, he married Mary Lance. 
 The ceremony was performed at the log house of the bride's father, by Esquire 
 Morgan, from near Yorkville, as there was no Justice of the Peace in the town- 
 ship at that time. The marriage certificate was obtained in Ottawa, and an 
 unsuccessful attempt was made to secure the services of a magistrate in Aurora, 
 but none could be found in that place qualified to serve. In the same Fall, 
 Martha Beeler now Mrs. Cooledge, of Oregon a daughter of David Beeler, 
 was born. This was the first birth in the township. After his marriage, Mr. 
 Souders settled ,upon his claim. His land has never been transferred nor mort- 
 gaged, and the title is, therefore, one of the best in the county. John Vanatta 
 settled in Blackberry in 1836, on land now owned by Mrs. D. Beeler. R. 
 Acers was one of the proprietors, following Vanatta. Among the first 
 settlers at the head of the grove were Messrs. Corey and S. Kendall. J. G. 
 Acers, from the State of New York, took up the land where he now lives, in 
 June, 1836, and James Smith, S. Platt and J. Calkins were in Blackberry, 
 previous to the close of the year 1837. Mr. Sperry was likewise an early 
 settler, as were Messrs. Larkin and N. B. Spalding, near the present site of 
 Blackberry Station. As might have been expected, the grove was entirely 
 claimed, before settlers began to establish themselves upon the open prairie, 
 and there were not a few of the pioneers who believed that much of the land 
 which is now the most valuable in the State would never be inhabited. 
 Taking a claim without timber or running water seemed to them an under- 
 taking sufficiently wild to warrant the indictment of a man for insanity. It 
 was cutting apart from all moorings. Still the prairie was, in process of time, set- 
 tled, and many claims had been made upon it, at the time of the public land sale. 
 
 FIRST DEATH. 
 
 The first death of which we find any record in Blackberry occurred under 
 unusually distressing circumstances. Mrs. William Lance was one of the 
 numerous good women whose minds have been wholly absorbed within the lim- 
 its of their own homes. She, therefore, found but little time to visit her neigh- 
 bors, although one, Mrs. Vanatta, had frequently urged her to call at her place. 
 At length, she determined to comply; and on the 2d day of February, 1837,
 
 476 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 she left her five younger children at home, with one James Dawson, who boarded 
 at hef house, and in company with her husband, proceeded to the Vanatta claim. 
 The chimney of the Lance house was built upon the Hoosier plan, with one of 
 the wide-mouthed fire-places, so familiar among the pioneers. The members of 
 the family left at home retired early, while Mr. and Mrs. Lance remained with 
 their friends until late in the evening. A coal rolled from the fire-place upon 
 the floor. The young man Dawson and the children were all asleep, and the 
 house was soon in a blaze. One of the little girls, Sarah, awoke and aroused 
 the others, who ran out of doors; but the terrified and bewildered child, to 
 whom the others owed their lives, remained upon the bed, and the flames 
 enveloped her. Pamela, -the eldest of the children, saw her sister's danger, and 
 running to the portion of the low roof above her, uncovered it, and reaching 
 over into the smoke, had succeeded in touching her hand, when a gust of air 
 sent a cloud of smoke and forked flames toward her, obliging her to desist from 
 the brave efforts. Dawson, who was a youth of eighteen summers, did nothing 
 to assist the little girl, or quench the flames, but according to tradition, sat 
 upon the fence and watched the building burn. The child perished ; and her 
 parents, returning from their pleasant visit, discovered, with agony, the charred 
 remains of their daughter amid the ashes of their dwelling. She was buried 
 in the old grave yard, upon the farm now owned by C. Souders. The neigh- 
 bors circulated a subscription paper for Mr. Lance, gave liberally, and rebuilt 
 his house, thus restoring his property ; but the greatest loss no generous friend 
 could return, and the horrible manner in which the child perished saddened, 
 for years, the previously happy home. Mr. Lance died in 1873, at the age of 
 102, his life having been shortened by a cancer. His memory remained clear 
 to the last. 
 
 FIRST ROAD, MILLS, ETC. 
 
 The earliest road through Blackberry was laid from Sugar Grove to Chicken 
 Grove, about 1837, and was surveyed by Mr. Tanner, now a hardware merchant 
 in Aurora. The first mills were wooden mortars scooped from oaken blocks, 
 while common iron wedges served for pestles. Thus the grain was pounded, and 
 the cake made therefrom was appropriately called pound cake. When grinding 
 was required on a more extensive scale, the settlers made journeys to the distant 
 hamlet now known as Dayton, but then called Green's mill. Here they were 
 often obliged to wait for a number of days, as customers were invariably ahead 
 of them, and the small establishment was patronized for a distance of over forty 
 miles on all sides. They were joyful days for the Blackberry people when mills 
 began to appear along the river in Kane County ; and Aurora, St. Charles, 
 Geneva and Batavia thenceforth furnished them with the staff of life until the 
 village of Blackberry became the business center of the town. 
 
 One of the earliest Justices of the Peace, as well as one of the best known 
 settlers of Blackberry, was William West, who located on a tract near the grove
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 477 
 
 now occupied by his heirs. He afterward removed to Geneva, opened a bank 
 and became one of the fixtures of the capital, where he died a number of years 
 since. 
 
 CLAIM ORGANIZATION. 
 
 At an early day, the settlers of Blackberry, in common with those of Sugar 
 Grove, established a claim organization. In this organization, they bound 
 themselves, under bonds of $2,000, to protect each other from claim jumpers. 
 Asa McDole, a Justice of the Peace in Sugar Grove Township, drew up the 
 writings, and Banker West bid off the claims at the land sale. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS INCIDENTS. 
 
 A cheese factory is in the process of erection at Ball Mound and will soon 
 be running and in operation. 
 
 The Blackberry people originally obtained their mail at Geneva (La Fox 
 post office). The first in the township was at Blackberry Center. 
 
 One of the first churches built in Blackberry Township was a Union church, 
 on the edge of this township, in or about 1853. And among the first preach- 
 ers were Rev. Mr. Springer, of the M. E., and Rev. Van Deuser, of the Chris- 
 tian Church. 
 
 BLACKBERRY VILLAGE 
 
 is situated 44 miles west of Chicago, and nine miles west of Geneva on the 
 Iowa Division of the Chicago & North- Western Railroad. The original plat was 
 made in 1854, by Jacob Johnson, and contained 40 acres. Since that period, 
 additions have been made by Andrew Johnson, Horace Willis, Gates and L. 
 K. Reed. The first house within the corporation was a small station house, built 
 in the Fall of 1854. A Mr. Vandevere, at that time Station Agent, built a 
 shanty just south of the railroad track, which is still standing, though recently 
 moved to another part of the village. A store was built on the east side of Main 
 street, by Henry Remington, in the Fall of 1854, and occupied by him for some 
 time with dry goods and groceries. It was the first lot sold in the place, and 
 has since changed hands several times, and was owned at one time by A. T. 
 Gray, now of the firm of Gray & Warne. It finally came into the possession 
 of John McElliott, and was burned about 1868. A house was built on south 
 side of railroad in 1854, by M. D. Frary, which is still standing, but has been 
 moved across the street, and is now owned by George Corby. The drug store 
 of Dr. McNair 40 feet of it was built by Fuller & Owen, in 1855, and occu- 
 pied as a general store, such as are usually found in small country towns, by them 
 for a number of years. The Free- Will Baptist Church and also the Christian 
 Church were built during the Summer and Fall of 1856. At the close of this 
 year, there were only five or six dwellings inside of the corporation. The ware- 
 house now owned by Willis & Swain was built in the Summer of 1856, by J.
 
 478 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 and A. Stewart, as a grain warehouse, and long used in that capacity. 
 Another grain ' warehouse was built in 1861, by N. L. Barber. These ener- 
 getic men also opened the first lumber yard in the village. Gleason built a 
 tavern on the spot now occupied by the hotel known as Kurd's Hotel, 
 in 1858. H. S. Read built extensively in Blackberry at an early day. He 
 built the handsome Read brick block, by far the best in the village, in 
 1860, in which are several business firms, together with the Masonic Lodge. 
 E. Warne built an agricultural warehouse in 1866, which has been occupied as 
 such ever since. Gray & Warne built the store, now occupied by them, in the 
 year 1866. The store in which the post office is at present kept was built by 
 John Scott, in or about 1856. 
 
 THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE 
 
 in the village of Blackberry was a small house, 22x24 feet, and had been 
 in a union district of Blackberry and Campton Townships, and stood in the 
 south part of the latter. Was bought, in 1860, by Blackberry, and moved over 
 into the village, but has lately been degraded by being used as a hog pen. 
 In 1860, an elegant frame school house, two stories high, and specially- adapted 
 to school purposes, was erected in the village at a cost of $3,000. It is daily 
 attended by an average of 200 pupils. Miss Hattie Smith taught the first 
 school. 
 
 The church organizations in the village are the Methodist Episcopal, Free- 
 Will Baptist and Catholics. The Christians also had an organization some 
 years ago, but it has gone down, and their church, at present, is used as a 
 concert hall and theater, occasionally. The Catholics have a good stone church, 
 built in ] 868, in the south part of the village. It is well attended, and has a 
 large membership. The Methodists have about 60 members, an elegant church 
 edifice, which was built in 1862, and are in a flourishing condition. When the 
 church was built, the Rev. Mr. Webster was Pastor, and so continued for years. 
 He took charge of the little flock with a membership of sixteen, which, at present, 
 number as above. The Free- Will Baptist Church was built in 1857, and their 
 society in the village organized in the same year. The first preacher was the 
 Rev. Mr. Coulton ; and the society, when formed, had some twenty -five or thirty 
 members. At present, the attendance is regular, and a large congregation 
 gathers every Sunday to hear the Word expounded. 
 
 The Masons, Odd Fellows and Good Templars have flourished successively 
 in Blackberry village, but none of them exist here at the present day, save the 
 Masons. Their hall is in Read's brick block, and is known as Blackberry 
 Lodge No. 359, A., F. and A. M. 
 
 THE CHEESE FACTORY 
 
 was built in 1877, by Daniel Johnson, and is a good, substantial building. He 
 receives about 2,000 pounds of milk per day, which is mostly worked up for
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 479 
 
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 his patrons. He designs increasing his capacity for the coming year, and of 
 doing a larger business than he has done hitherto. 
 
 A post office was started here in 1854, of which William Ross was the first 
 Postmaster. It was known as " Blackberry Station " office, at that early day. 
 
 The war record of the village was good, and a hearty response made to every 
 call for soldiers to maintain the old flag. The names of some of those enlisted 
 are as follows : H. and W. Tracy, N. D. Frary, Z. Hayes (deceased), A. S. 
 Fuller, John Johnson, Reuben Fellows, and Jacob Matthewson, present Post- 
 master, all served in the Eighth Illinois Regiment; Walter Ottway, H. Z. Tyde- 
 man, W. H. Tydeman and J. W. Swayne served in the Fifty-fith Regiment. 
 
 Dr. Smith was the first located physician in Blackberry, and came in 1856. 
 He, however, remained but a short time in the place, and was soon followed by 
 Dr. Samuel McNair probably about the Spring of 1860. 
 
 The first burial in the present village cemetery was Herbert Frary, a son 
 of N. D. Frary, but the first death occurring in the village was Mrs. R. David- 
 son. A. S. Fuller and Miss Hannah Johnson were the first couple united in 
 the holy bonds of wedlock, within the corporate limits of the town of Blackberry. 
 
 The legal profession was represented by A. S. Babcock, first about 1858, 
 and, at a later day, by C. H. White and F. G. Garfield. But the citizens are 
 quiet, honorable and upright, and are not the most liberal supporters in the 
 world of those " learned in the law." 
 
 Joseph Smith built the first blacksmith shop in 1854, which was torn down 
 eome years ago. It stood on the north side of the railroad, and was well patron- 
 ized by the neighboring farmers. 
 
 To sum up : Jacob Johnson made the original plat of Blackberry in the 
 Fall of 1854, as before stated, having bought the land from John Calkins, the 
 original claimant. The next plat was the addition of Anderson, who was a 
 Norwegian by birth ; and soon after Gates and Willis also made additions. 
 Willis was 'a very benevolent man. and an enterprising one withal. He did 
 considerable toward the improvement of the place, and contributed liberally to 
 the building of the churches. He also built one or two dwellings. In 1868, a 
 large steam flouring-mill was erected, to which the town gave $2,500. It is 
 a large and substantial building, and is doing a good business. 
 
 LA FOX 
 
 is also a village of Blackberry Township, and is some three miles east of the 
 village of Blackberry, on the railroad. It is a small place and situated too near 
 Blackberry to ever grow to an immense size. The station was at first called 
 Kane Station, and was established about 1858. Afterward changed to corre- 
 spond with the name of the post office, which had been established under the 
 name of La Fox. It was moved from Geneva, and new equipments sent there
 
 480 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 about 1859, and B. F. Dean was appointed the first Postmaster. The office is 
 yet in existence and furnishes mail matter to quite a large scope of country. 
 
 THE CHEESE FACTORY 
 
 was built at La Fox, in the Spring of 1869, by Potter & Barker, who have 
 operated it ever since. It is a large two-story building of about the average 
 capacity. Most of the milk is bought direct from the farmers, and about one 
 hundred thousand pounds of cheese is manufactured annually. They commenced 
 the manufacture of butter in the Fall of 1877, and now run that branch of busi- 
 ness pretty extensively. 
 
 The Potter & Barker elevator was built in 1868, by Dean, who then owned 
 the place. It is a capacious building, and specially arranged for grain 
 storage. It holds some 6,000 or 7,000 bushels. 
 
 The store, the only one in the village, is owned by B. F. Dean, and was 
 commenced when the station was first located. 
 
 The first storehouse was a small, insufficient building, owned by Mr. Carlow, 
 but in 1873 Potter & Barker built the present handsome store now occupied by 
 Mr. Dean. The annual sales of the store are about $15,000. 
 
 The village has a splendid school house two stories high and containing all 
 modern improvements and conveniences. It was built late in the year 1870, 
 and is occupied during the entire school season. The very best of teachers are 
 employed and particular attention given to all the branches of modern education. 
 
 BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP 
 
 is on the western line of the county, and is known as Township 41, north Range 
 6 east. It is an agricultural region, and equals in wealth any township, as de- 
 void of towns and villages as it is, in Kane County. The population in 1870 
 was 919, and the tax book of 1877 shows the equalized valuation of taxable 
 property to be $371,749.00. 
 
 From the most authentic information now attainable, there seems little doubt 
 that Stephen Van Velzer made. 
 
 THE FIRST CLAIM 
 
 in the section of country now composing the Township of Burlington. He came 
 in 1835, and located a claim twelve miles square, in which was embraced the 
 larger part of this township. 
 
 The mode of making claims to land in that day was, it seems, for the party 
 first in the field to claim as large a tract as he could plow around in one day. 
 This is said to have been Van Velzer 's title to his twelve miles square. 
 
 Allison Banker came from New York the same year, and took up a claim in 
 this township, shortly after Van Velzer had settled. He married a daughter of
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 481 
 
 Solomon Wright, who came from Putnam Co., N. Y., in the following year 
 (1836), and settled near Huxley's Corners, in Burlington Township. 
 
 Mr. Wright had three sons, Baldwin, Elisha and D. C. Wright. Elisha is 
 dead ; Baldwin lives in Plato Township, while D. C. and their sister, Mrs. Ban- 
 ker, still live in Burlington, near the original settlement. 
 
 P. R. Joslyn, a kind of migratory character, but a good man withal, settled 
 in the town in the early part of 1836. He was originally from New Jersey, 
 but had lived in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, From the latter State he came 
 to Burlington. He had some difficulty with Van Velzer, in regard to his claim, 
 who attempted to collect a sum of money from him as a bonus for the privilege 
 of settling on it. Upon inquiry, he learned that Van Velzer had no just grounds 
 for such demands, and so he settled upon the claim selected, in open defiance of 
 him. His son, Riley Joslyn, came the next season, and took up a claim in the 
 township. 
 
 In 1836, 0. H. Ellithorpe came to Chicago, from Franklin Co., Vt., with his 
 brother, T. C. Ellithorpe. They remained in Chicago three weeks, when they 
 came out to Geneva, and stopped over night with one Herrington. From Her- 
 rington's they went up the river to St. Charles, and from thence out to 
 Esquire Griggs', who lived in Plato Township. They next went to William 
 Paddock's, who lived six miles east of Geneva, in De Kalb County, and who- 
 was the only settler then between Burlington and Genoa. They had started 
 for Galena, but turned back at Paddock's, and finally came and settled near 
 Griggs', but over in what afterward became Burlington Township. Griggs had 
 settled in 1835, as previously mentioned in the history of Plato Township. Mr. 
 Ellithorpe made a permanent settlement a claim upon which he lived many 
 years. He is at present living in Elgin. 
 
 John Holden, from Pennsylvania, Asa W. Lawrence, from New York, 
 and C. M. Andrews, from Hampshire Co., Mass., came out in 1837, and took 
 up claims in the town, where some of them are still living. 
 
 Stephen Godfrey came from Orange Co., Vt., to this township, in 1839, and 
 bought a claim from Van Velzer. This was in the Fall, and after hiring a piece 
 of ground broken, he returned to Vermont and remained over Winter. In the 
 Spring following, he brought his family to his new home and located perma- 
 nently, where his widow is still living, with their only surviving son, Charles B. 
 Godfrey. Mrs. Godfrey said that in those early days she used to get so lonesome 
 and so blue and discontented that it seemed almost impossible to remain a mo- 
 ment longer in their cabin. In such moods she would go out and take a walk 
 around their little patch of cultivated ground. After a few such turns, she 
 would enter the house in a very complacent frame of mind, and perfectly con- 
 tented with her lot. 
 
 In 1842, B. F. Chapman, from Canada West, and Stephen R. Ellithorpe, 
 from Vermont, took up claims and located in Burlington Township, where both 
 still live.
 
 482 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 James Roseborough, from the North of Ireland, settled in 1843, and is still 
 living on his original claim. 
 
 David Sholes, from Genesee Co., N. Y., came to Illinois in the latter part 
 of 1840, and after spending about a year in Knox County, and a like period in 
 Galena, finally settled in this township, and at present owns and lives on the 
 original site of Van Velzer's first settlement. 
 
 James Mann came from Wyoming County, New York, in the Fall of 1843, 
 and bought a claim of 1,000 acres in the township, and after breaking a piece 
 of ground and planting out an orchard, returned to New York and spent the 
 Winter. In the following Spring, he brought his family to the West, and made a 
 permanent settlement. He is -still living on his original purchase an old man, 
 feeble in bodily health, but with a mind undimmed by the lapse of time. He 
 celebrated his 84th birthday, which occurred on the 1st day of January, 1878, 
 at the -residence of his son, S. D. Mann, who gave the entertainment in com- 
 memoration of the event. His children were all gathered around him, save one 
 son living in Elgin, and two daughters who reside in Lockport, New York. Mr. 
 Mann was likewise married on his birthday, and celebrated the 63d anniversary 
 of his marriage, conjointly with his 84th birthday. When he came to the town- 
 ship in 1843, Mr. Mann found, in addition to those already noticed, Eben 
 Norton, Elder Isaac Newton, Spafford, Orlin and Joel Root, who came from the 
 State of Ohio ; John and Stephen Ellithorpe, and J. W. Hapgood, from Ver- 
 mont, all of whom had taken up claims and made settlements. 
 
 In 1849 Mr. Mann made a visit to his old home in New York, accompanied 
 by his wife and two youngest children, in an open carriage. While absent 
 from home, his house was burned to the ground, together with all his worldly 
 goods contained in it at the time. When he returned from the East, he built an 
 elegant brick residence on the ruins of the one destroyed by fire. It is still 
 standing in a state of good preservation, and is occupied by one of his sons. 
 
 The claim law, at a very early day, was used in Burlington, and often to 
 excess. We alluded, a little space ago, to the manner and mode of laying claims, 
 by plowing around a certain tract of land. After one had made a claim of this 
 kind, woe betide the individual who had daring sufficient to set his flimsy title 
 at defiance. An instance was related to us of a man by the name of McClena- 
 than, who had sold to one Mason a yoke of oxen for $100. Mason after- 
 ward took advantage of the Bankrupt Law, and McClenathan, in order to get 
 pay for his oxen, went to Chicago and got bond for deed of land that Mason 
 held as a claim, and had improved to some extent. This was considered sharp 
 practice on the part of McClenathan, and Mason determined on revenge for 
 what he considered an outrage. He gathered a number of his friends around 
 him for the purpose of giving him (McClenathan) a taste of claim law, or more 
 correctly termed mob law. They stripped him and, after breaking the ice, 
 "ducked" him time and again, until the poor fellow was half drowned, when 
 he succeeded in escaping from the mob, who pursued him hotly to the village of
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 483 
 
 Burlington. The Manns and their friends resolved to protect McClenathan, 
 and so stood by him, and when his pursuers came, absolutely refused to give him 
 up. High words followed, and savage threats were indulged in by the mob, 
 but produced no effect. The mob disappeared for a while, but soon returned 
 with forces augmented. Numbering fully fifty desperate fellows, they demanded 
 their man, with an assurance that if their wishes were not complied with, the 
 whole village should be treated to a coat of tar and feathers, while one, zealous 
 in the cause, and more thoughtful than the others, nourished a rooster he had 
 brought purposely to supply the feathers. But finding that McClenathan's 
 friends were as determined as themselves, and moreover had the advantage of 
 fighting behind the walls of their own castles, the mob finally withdrew, mutter- 
 ing curses dark and dire upon the village and all connected with it. They 
 never succeeded in forcing McClenathan to re-deed the land to Mason. In 
 fact, many of the parties were arrested, and others, fearing prosecution, left 
 the country. They came very nearly ending McClenathan's earthly career, 
 and, as a consequence, suffered the penalty of their violence. 
 
 THE FIRST DEATH. 
 
 Each moment, in dying, bears with it a dead human being. Flowers perish 
 and spring again, suris set at eve and rise again in the east, but the dead render 
 not up their dead to mortal eyes. Death, the grand leveler of human greatness 
 and human ambition, entered the infant settlement at an early period of its 
 existence. Van Velzer's wife was the first victim of the grim tyrant. She 
 died in 1837, and was buried amid the. wild flowers of her prairie home. A 
 native of the sunny South, her tender frame was unable to withstand the fierce 
 winds of a colder clime. Others of the early settlers in time followed her to 
 the better land. Joslyn, perhaps, was one of the first, and died about 18467. 
 Stephen Godfrey died on his original claim in 1857, and Holden in 1875. Van 
 Velzer sold out and moved into De Kalb County, where he died about the year 
 1867. Solomon Wright died many years ago, on the place where he first settled. 
 Many of the early settlers mentioned in these pages have removed to other sec- 
 tions, and it may be that a number of them have made their last journey. All 
 trace of them is lost, and whether they be in the land of the living or of the 
 dead, we are alike ignorant. Upon those still surviving, the rolling years have 
 written their record, and the hand of time silvered their hair with the frosts of 
 Winter. 
 
 A post office was established in 1848, which was the first in the township. 
 S. S. Mann was the first Postmaster, and held the office for a number of years, 
 when he was succeeded by his brother, Franklin Mann, who held it but a short 
 time, when S. S. Mann again took it ; then John Ellithorpe was Postmaster 
 for a while, then Henry Manchester, and he was followed by Walter Scott ; 
 finally the office went to A. J. Mann, who is Postmaster at present. Another 
 post office was established, in 1868, at East Burlington, in the southeast
 
 484 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 quarter of the township. It was originally called Berkshire post office, but 
 latterly changed to its present name. 
 
 The first frame house built in the township was put up by James Mann, in 
 1845, aftd was the one consumed by fire while the owner was absent in New 
 York, as already noticed. He also erected a large frame barn in 1844, the 
 first of the kind ever built in the town, and which is still standing. 
 
 His eldest son, Franklin Mann, and Gideon Sherman built the first saw-mill. 
 This mill Avas put up in 'the village of Burlington in the Summer of 1850. It 
 did faithful work for about seven years, when, having accomplished its day, 
 it was sold, taken, down and moved away. It cut the lumber for the plank road 
 from Elgin to Geneva, a part of which only was ever built. 
 
 The first road through the township of Burlington was the old Territorial 
 road from St. Charles to Galena, and was the regular stage line between those 
 points. In the early settlement of the place, this road, together with the main 
 line, leading from Chicago to Galena, were the only outlets from this section, save 
 across the almost unbroken wilderness. On this road (St. Charles and Galena) 
 Ezra Hanson kept tavern in a small log building, which was the first house of 
 public entertainment ever opened in the township. But the continuous stream 
 of travel pouring along this highway daily, induced other enterprising individuals 
 to embark in a similar enterprise, until nearly every farm house on the road 
 was a hotel, and every cabin a place furnishing " entertainment to man and 
 beast." 
 
 The first place where the early settlers could exchange their superflous farm 
 products for "store truck" was where Burlington Village now stands. At this 
 point, S. S. Mann opened a store, in 1847, which was the first in the township 
 by several years. In this store was kept, by ,Mr. Mann, as already stated, the 
 first post office. With some changes in proprietors, and considerable changes 
 in outward improvements, the store, as an institution, is still in existence, near 
 the original location. The little frame building, in which it was first opened, 
 has given place to a large and commodious brick structure, well filled from floor 
 to ceiling. The present firm, Mann, Hapgood & Co., are doing a thriving 
 business, and own the only store in the township. 
 
 The first church in Burlington Township was the Congregational Church, 
 at Burlington Village. This edifice was constructed on as liberal principles, 
 perhaps, as any church to be found in the country. It has been occupied by 
 various denominations, without any regard whatever to their particular dogmas. 
 The building was commenced in 1853, but was not completed until five years 
 afterward. And although put up as a Congregational Church, and principally 
 by that denomination (the elder Mr. Mann alone contributing about $400), yet 
 it seems to have been used for years after its completion by the Free- Will Bap- 
 tists. It was formally dedicated and opened for worship by the Baptists, in 
 1858, under the ministerial charge of Rev. Mr. Baxter. The Congregational 
 Society was first organized in 1853, about the time the church building was
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 485 
 
 commenced, but had become lukewarm and dormant at its completion. Hence 
 its early occupancy by the Free- Will Baptists. The Congregational Soqiety 
 revived and prospered for a while, but at present is nearly extinct, and their 
 church is occupied alone by the Baptists. The building is a large and com 
 fortable one, about 30x40 feet, and well finished up. 
 
 The Free Methodists have a plain, but substantial church building, on the 
 south line of the township. It is in a flourishing condition, and has a large 
 membership. Long before a church was built in the township, Methodist 
 circuit riders preached at farm houses, and even held protracted meetings. For 
 several years, Godfrey's was used as a regular preaching place, and the Revs. 
 Swift and Styles proclaimed the word of God there many years before the 
 township boasted of a church. 
 
 The first preacher in the township was Elder Eaton, of the Free-Will Baptist 
 denomination. He came from Ohio early in 1840, and organized a church, or 
 rather a society, at the old log school house soon after. This was the first sanctu- 
 ary of worship, and within its walls was preached the first sermon ever heard 
 in Burlington Township. The shepherd of this early flock finished the work 
 given him to do, and has long since gone to his reward. 
 
 The first doctor was I. W. Garvin, who practiced in this township for 
 several years. What year he came to the settlement, and where from, could 
 not be obtained. He went to California in 1849, where he remained for a time, 
 and then returned and settled in the town of Sycamore, where he still lives. 
 
 CHEESE FACTORIES. 
 
 The dairy business, so extensively carried on in Kane County, is repre- 
 sented in Burlington Township by three large cheese factories. The first one 
 built was that at the village of Burlington, erected in 1871 by a stock company, 
 Uriah Thomas taking $1,000 stock, and assuming the business management of 
 the concern at the time. It is a two-story frame building, of the capacity of a 
 majority of the factories in this section. It is doing a good business, but 
 running somewhat below its average, and is owned at present by Mann & 
 Roseborough. They make up the milk exclusively. In 1872, a factory was 
 built at East Burlington, by Kraft Parks. It is a large two-story frame, 
 with stone basement, and is doing a flourishing business. It is owned at 
 present by Duncan Johnson, a man heavily interested in cheese manufacturing 
 in the county, and mentioned frequently in this history in connection with 
 different factories. 
 
 Edward Jackson, in 1874, put up a factory on the south line of the town- 
 ship. It is a two-story frame building of the usual style, and is doing a very 
 good business. He makes up the milk for his patrons, and still owns and 
 operates the factory. Nearly all of the milk produced in Burlington Township 
 is manufactured at home, but a very small portion of it being shipped to other 
 points.
 
 486 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 The first school house in the township was built between 1840 and 1844, by 
 Root & Eaton. It was a small, log affair, and built on Section 10, on 
 the St. Charles and Galena road, about one mile from the present vil- 
 lage of Burlington. Who taught the first school in this house is, at 
 the present time, a question involved in some doubt. A Miss Larrabie taught 
 there at an early day, as also did Miss Nancy Hill. But to which one, or 
 whether to either, belongs the honor of teaching first in this rude temple of 
 science, cannot now be determined. Mrs. Catharine Ellithorpe, wife of John 
 W. Ellithorpe, it seems, from the best information to be obtained, taught the first, 
 school in the township. She taught a school in her own house, in 1839, a year 
 or two before the log school house was built. This method of schooling was 
 often resorted to by the early settlers, when school houses were scarce, and 
 educational facilities almost unattainable. Mrs. Godfrey taught a school at 
 home, in 1840, when there was no school house in the township but the one 
 before alluded to, which was not within the reach of the neighborhood where 
 the Godfreys lived. Miss Fannie Putnam taught a Summer school, in 1842, 
 in Van Velzer's barn. The present generation would doubtless turn up their 
 indignant noses in lofty scorn, at the idea of becoming scholars under such dif- 
 ficulties. Yet, little more than a quarter of a century ago, school houses were 
 few and far between, in the great State of Illinois, and the people of those days 
 snatched eagerly, at every opportunity to obtain an education. 
 
 The present schools of Burlington Township seem to be in a very flourish- 
 ing condition, and to compare favorably with those of any other township. 
 But of their history, from the early period of schools down to the present time, 
 but little definite information can be obtained. Their records have all been 
 destroyed previous to 1870, and nothing remains but the remembrance of some 
 of the more important events connected therewith, in the minds of those 
 directly interested in the matter. The following is the school report of 1871 : 
 No. of school districts, 10 ; No. of pupils enrolled, 278 ; No. of teachers, 12 ;. 
 No. of school houses, 10; No. of school libraries, 6; No. of volumes in libraries, 
 300; amount of school tax, $3,271.02; amount paid teachers, $1,288.00. 
 
 In 1877, there were eight school districts, wholly in the township of Bur- 
 lington, and two union districts. These all have good, comfortable frame build- 
 ings, with sufficient capacity to accommodate all who are entitled to their 
 benefits. Franklin Mann is the present School Treasurer, recently having 
 been elected to that office. The report of 1877 was as follows: No. of school 
 houses, 10; No. of pupils enrolled, 313; No. of children under 21 years, 
 40i; value of school property, $6,700.00; present school fund, $1,300.00. 
 
 The first marriage in Burlington Township was John Holden, one of the 
 early settlers, and Miss Hannah Van Velzer, in 1840 or about that time. It is 
 supposed that they were married by Esquire Griggs, who lived in Plato Town- 
 ship, and who appears to have been in the habit of performing that duty as fre- 
 quently as the sparsely settled community would admit of.
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 487 
 
 The first birth in the township is a little obscure, as to date and to whom 
 the honor belongs. Some claim that it was a child of Van Velzer, by his second 
 wife (he having married a second time, in 1839), while others maintain that 
 Mrs. Banker gave birth to the first white child born in the township. 
 
 Eben Norton and T. C. Ellithorpe were made Justices of the Peace, when 
 this township was first divided from Plato, it and Plato formerly comprising 
 Washington Precinct. 
 
 When the State was organized into townships under Government survey, in 
 1848, Washington Precinct was divided into two townships. 
 
 At a meeting held for the purpose of organizing, the subject of a name came 
 up, when Mr. Hapgood, a native of Vermont, and still cherishing a venera- 
 tion for the old Green Mountain State, moved the name of Burlington, which 
 carried unanimously. 
 
 When Van Velzer came to Burlington Township, in 1835, he brought with 
 him a negro female slave, but which became free according to the laws 
 of Illinois. She remained, however, with the family for years, displaying 
 all the devotion to them characteristic of that perculiar race. But longing for 
 the old plantation where she was born, after the death of her first mistress 
 Mrs. Van Velzer she wandered back to the old Southern home. 
 
 BURLINGTON VILLAGE 
 
 was surveyed by Andrew Pingree, in 1851, for James and S. S. Mann. Though 
 about twenty-seven years old, it has not grown to a city, but is still a small, un- 
 pretentious village. Considerable business, however, is done every year. 
 
 There is one large store, comprising a general and complete stock of goods, 
 owned by Mann, Hapgood & Co.; one cheese factory, owned by Mann & Rose- 
 borough ; one wagon and blacksmith shop ; one church ; one school house, and 
 a post oifice. 
 
 East Burlington consists merely of a post office, a school house and a cheese 
 factory. 
 
 Burlington Lodge No. 637, A., F. & A. M., was organized in 1867, in the 
 village of Burlington. It was organized as Willing Lodge, U. D., but when 
 chartered, some eighteen months subsequently, the name was changed to Bur- 
 lington. 
 
 After the Masonic Lodge in Hampshire Township was removed frqm the old 
 to the new village, the two being so near together, it was deemed advisable to 
 discontinue Burlington Lodge, No. 637, and accordingly they surrendered their 
 charter in the latter part of 1877. 
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 Burlington Village has a beautiful little cemetery, handsomely laid off and 
 neatly kept. The first to occupy this necropolis was Miss Julina Mann, who 
 died April 26, 1847.
 
 488 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 There is another small cemetery on the south line of the township, not far 
 from the Free Methodist Church. 
 
 There are also several private burying grounds on plantations in different 
 parts of the town. 
 
 Politically, Burlington Township is Republican. In the old times, however, 
 it gave a large, in fact almost unanimous, Whig majority. 
 
 BIG ROCK TOWNSHIP. 
 
 The settlement of Big Rock is historically interesting, from its having been 
 one of the earliest in Kane County, and from its position, which was adjacent to 
 one in Kendall, of still more venerable date. As early as 1834, claimants had 
 taken up large tracts in Little Rock, the adjoining township upon the South, and 
 it is not at all improbable that some of them wandered, during that year, over 
 the territory which forms the subject of this chapter. The first actual white 
 settler, of whom any satisfactory records or traditions remain, was found occu- 
 pying the banks of Big Rock Creek, in 1835. How long previous to that year 
 he had been there with his family, it is difficult to determine, as there was no 
 one in the country for a circuit of many miles, when he came ; and he seems 
 never to have wasted any time in bragging that he was the oldest inhabitant. 
 Esquire Mulkey, of Little Rock, states that when he first became acquainted 
 with the country north of him, the settler was there, and Mr. Mulkey's arrival 
 on the borders of Kendall County dates from 1834. Even the name that the 
 man's mother gave him is involved in doubt and uncertainty. His family name 
 was Cook ; and the people who purchased a portion of his vast claim say that 
 he was generally known by the meaningless nickname of " Santy " Cook. His 
 family was large in more senses than one, for they were all, like himself, gigan- 
 tic in stature, and were numerous. They came to Illinois from Kentucky, and, 
 for some time, lived in a tent on the creek, about a mile south of the spot 
 now occupied by the little village of Big Rock. Justice Ament, who came in 
 the Fall of 1835, found them there, and John Pierce, now a resident of the 
 township, states that upon his arrival, the following year, the Cook family occu- 
 pied a tent upon his original claim. Again, in 1837, we hear of them from L. 
 J. Lamson, who came from New York City, and took up the claim upon the west 
 side of the creek, which he still occupies. Mr. Lamson arrived late in the even- 
 ing in the township, having made the journey from Chicago by stage, and was 
 deposited, at his own request, near the creek. Wandering thence along the 
 unknown stage road, he noticed a light in the distance, and approached it with 
 the hope of obtaining comfortable lodging. Knocking at the door, he was 
 received by a tall and uncouth individual who towered a foot or more above him, 
 and was evidently suffering acutely from toothache. All of the rest of the 
 family had retired, he stated, and, with Southern hospitality, invited him to do
 
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 DUNDEE TOWNSHIP
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 491 
 
 the same, adding that he might take his place, as his sufferings would not allow 
 him to sleep. Accordingly Mr. Lamson laid down upon a space on the floor, 
 which the young man assigned him, amid a number of recumbent forms only 
 partially distinguishable in the dim light. Morning revealed to him a scene 
 which he had not discovered the night before : Men and women lay promiscu- 
 ously under their blankets, upon the floor, like savages in a wigwam ; the cabin 
 was a wretched one in every respect, and there was a general lack of furniture 
 and every comfort peculiar to civilization. All the men and women stood far 
 above him as they arose, and all the family had reached maturity. 
 
 Some two years later, Shepard Johnson arrived from the East, and purchased 
 a thousand acres of Cook. He returned to the East and went on a trip up 
 North River, and was never heard of afterward. 
 
 The following June, Lamson went back to New York, and when he came 
 West again, brought a stock or lot of goods for his brother, which they stowed 
 away, during the night, in a stable belonging to L. D. Brady. They were 
 broken into and stolen. This was the first theft committed in the township. 
 
 Matthew H. Perry, more commonly called Hale Perry, and his brother 
 William Perry, from Berkshire County, Pennsylvania, went to New York in 
 1813, and in 1835 came West and settled in Big Rock Township. Hale Perry 
 entered a large claim, on which he remained a number of years, when he sold 
 out and removed to Burlington Township, where he still lives, enjoying a reason- 
 able state of health. 
 
 In the Fall of 1835-6, Justice Ament came from the State of New York 
 with his wife and four children. There were at that time but two families in the 
 township Hale Perry's and Cook's. He settled about a mile from the village, 
 where he died some twelve years ago, on his original claim, which had been pur- 
 chased from a man living just outside of the township. 
 
 John Pierce came to the township in 1836 ; Joseph Summers came with 
 him, and also, Robert Nash. Indian Jim, a noted character, lived in the 
 vicinity where Pierce located, and often did work for him. 
 
 James W. Swan, originally from Vermont, came from Chautauqua County, to 
 Michigan, where he remained but a short time, when he came with his wife to 
 Big Rock Township, arriving in January, 1836 ; Percy Taylor, from New York, 
 came with Swan to Big Rock. Mr. Swan bought his claim from Hale 
 Perry, as also did Taylor. In addition to Hale Perry, Justice Ament, Jos. 
 Summers, Nash, Pierce and Whiddon were all in the township when Swan 
 came. 
 
 James Hatch, from Oneida County, New York, came out, arriving in Chi- 
 cago, in September, 1837. He went to Oswego, where he worked for some time 
 building a grist-mill, but returned to his claim during the Winter. He had bought 
 his claim from one Enos Jones, who lived over the line in Little Rock, in 1840. 
 James Dundee came from Ireland at an early day, and- took up a claim, on 
 which he lived some years. He died several years ago, in the State of Nebraska. 
 
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 492 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY 
 
 He was the inventor of one of the riding cultivators now in use and so popular 
 in the Western States. 
 
 Daniel and David Evans and Thomas Jones came at an early day, and set- 
 tled in the township. Ellen Jones, living in Blunt, is 97 years old ; Mary 
 Jones now Mrs. Pierce came to the township in 1840. These parties all 
 came from Wales. 
 
 In 1836, Robert Fisher, a native of Scotland, came to Big Rock, and set- 
 tled in the northwest corner of the township, just below where Lamson was then 
 living. S. Samson, who came from New York, in 1839 (now deceased), Robert 
 Norton and Silas Long, from Ohio, were living near where Fisher settled. 
 Perry, Taylor, Ament, Rhodes and the Swans lived on the west side of the 
 timber in 1840. Rhodes bought his claim of Hale Perry, amounting to near 
 500 acres, where Blunt now stands, for the sum of $200. It was near Big Rock 
 Creek, and to-day is worth, perhaps, one hundred times what Rhodes paid for it 
 at that early period. 
 
 L. D. Brady, now living in Aurora, and Jesse Brady, living in Piano, came 
 from New York, in 1837, and settled in this township, and bought their claims 
 from the old man Cook, in the southwest part of the town, on the south side of 
 Big Rock Creek, just north of Esquire Hatch's. 
 
 A man named Picksly came previous .to the Spring of 1838, and settled 
 near Robert Fisher. 
 
 Dr. J. T. H. Brady, a brother to the other Bradys, came in the Spring of 
 1838, and was the first doctor in the township. He did not commence a gen- 
 eral practice of the healing art until the Summer of 1846, and soon after re- 
 moved to Little Rock. 
 
 Dr. S. 0. Long came the same year from Massachusetts. After practicing 
 his profession some years in the township, he died. 
 
 One Matlock took up a large claim in 1837-38, where the Longs afterward 
 settled, on the west side of the creek. A sharp turn in the stream about three- 
 quarters of a mile west of Blunt is called Matlock 's Point to this day. 
 
 Alexis Hall came at the same time as Matlock, and made a settlement. 
 
 Edward Whiddon and Maurice Price came as early as 1837. Rexford also- 
 came in 1837-38, and settled near Swan and Taylor. 
 
 Thomas W. Glasspool came to the township from " Merrie England," at an 
 early period. He was married to Katie Cook, in 1838. George Peck's account of 
 the marriage runs somewhat as follows : Glasspool took his bride elect and struck 
 out for the Esquire's in the dead of the night. On arriving at the house of that 
 functionary, who had retired for the night, and knocking at the door, received 
 the inquiry, " Who's there ?" "Glasspool." " What do you want ?" " To- 
 get married." " Come in." The Esquire drew the bed-curtains for a moment, 
 tumbled into his breeches, if such could be, and came forth looking as dignified 
 as possible, and proceeded: "You, William Glasspool, etc., etc.," "and you, 
 Katie Cook, etc., etc." " So help you God ; and may the Lord have mercy on
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 493 
 
 your souls." The night of Glasspool's wedding was one of the coldest of the 
 Winter. 
 
 Paul Colburn, now living in Big Rock Township, came from New York, in 
 1836, and made his present settlement. 
 
 Richard Morrison came from Wales, and settled in the township in 1840. 
 
 The first birth in the township of Big Rock was Edward Pierce, born in 
 1836. Calista Ann Ament was born in the township, November 13, 1837. 
 This was the beginning of the fulfillment of the passage of Scripture, "Be 
 fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth." And Big Rock has continued 
 to do its duty in that respect down to the present time. 
 
 The first marriage was doubtless Glasspool and Miss Cook, as we have no 
 account of one previous to that time. 
 
 From the green mounds and marble slabs to be found rather thickly grouped 
 together in different spots of the township, we conclude that death has not been 
 idle. Who the first was to meet it, we were unable to learn ; but the fact is 
 evident to all, that many of the early settlers mentioned in these pages have 
 gone to their eternal rest. " There shall be funerals hereafter, for many are 
 laid out," and death, the grand level er of human greatness, will sooner or 
 later lay us all side by side. 
 
 In 1865, two daughters of James Davis (one of them now Mrs. James 
 Davis, the other Mrs Edward Pierce) took the first and second premiums in 
 horsemanship, at Chicago. They broke their own horses, and that, too, with- 
 out saddles. Their debut in the city created a great sensation, which is not 
 yet forgotten. They had their horses so well trained that they could make 
 them kneel while they mounted. 
 
 A post office was established at the village by Brook & Hoskins, in 1837, 
 and was at first called Acasto, afterward changed to Big Rock. This was the 
 first post office in the township, and Orson Brooks was the first Postmaster. 
 These parties also started a hotel, and were soon followed by Livingstone, 
 Shepard Johnson and others. Johnson had money, but the others, except 
 Thomas Meredith, possessed little of the world's goods. 
 
 The first tavern in the township was kept by Joseph Summers, on the 
 Chicago and Galena State road, which passed through the township. Summers 
 also kept a post office at one time at his tavern. 
 
 The first blacksmith in the township was Willard Coon. Isaac Hatch 
 learned the trade from Coon, and afterward kept a shop on his claim. These 
 men kept the first shop in that section, and worked for a large scope of country. 
 
 The first store opened in the township was about the year 1855, by a man 
 named Walby. It was a frame building, and did not have a very long life. 
 Rhodes' store was the first in the village, and was opened there for business in 
 1873. 
 
 Joshua F. Rhodes was the first acting Assessor for the township. He was 
 elected to the office in 1850. He was also appointed the first Postmaster in the
 
 494 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 vicinity of Big Rock Village, in 1861. He kept the post office in his own 
 house when first established. J. D. Denny was the first Supervisor of the 
 township, and was appointed to the office- in 1850. 
 
 A saw-mill was built in 1837, by Coon & Mussy, on Big Rock Creek, just 
 below Rockville (then called Catsville), which continued in active operation for 
 a number of years. 
 
 A very large grain elevator was built in 1875, by Maltby & Co., which has 
 always done a very fair business. H. A. Denny, in 1871, put up a wagon 
 shop, and two years later, a good substantial steam feed-mill, which is kept 
 pretty steadily running to supply the demand. A number of other shops were 
 put up in the Fall of 1875. 
 
 The road from Aurora to Sugar Grove was laid off by the following Com- 
 missioners, years ago : Joshua F. Rhodes, Thomas Meredith and Ira Hodges. 
 The road staked out at an early day ran directly through Big Rock Township. 
 It passed Cook's house and entered the section of Little Rock. 
 
 THE RAILROAD. 
 
 The Chicago & Iowa Railroad was completed and commenced running 
 trains through the township of Big Rock in 1871. Since that time, there has 
 been a marked improvement in all the business and resources of that section. 
 Lands have increased in value, the farming interest almost doubled, and a large 
 amount of freights are annually shipped from Blunt Station. 
 
 Isaac Hatch was elected Justice of the Peace in 1842, and was probably the 
 first to hold that office in the town. A house built for school purposes in 
 1844-5 was moved into the township in 1847. It was built of hewed logs, 
 and stood on land now owned by E. Widding. But the first school house in 
 the township was built in 1841, and the first school taught by Colin Ament. 
 This primitive temple of learning was built of rough logs, with a log sawed out 
 for a window, slab door, slab writing-desk, slab seats, slab floor, slab everything, 
 and was raised by a bee of the neighbors, and stood on Rhodes' claim. The 
 present school house in the village was built in 1859, and cost about $1,200. 
 The school records in Big Rock Township, known as Township 38, north 
 Range 6, east of the Third Principal Meridian, are preserved since 1842. In 
 March of that year, the following men were School Trustees : Alexis Hall, Joseph 
 Summers, James E. Smith, Samuel W. Lamson (resigned) and James W. Swan. 
 At a meeting held March 14, 1842, the township was divided. into four 
 school districts, and Directors appointed for each district. The school house in 
 District No. 3 is mentioned in the record as early as 1843, at the July meeting. 
 At that meeting, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted : 
 
 " WHEREAS, We, the Trustees of Township 38, North Range 6, East of Third Principal Merid- 
 ian, and of the County of Kane, State of Illinois, deeming it necessary that there should be 
 some by-laws adopted for our regulation, which authority for so doing is implied in the law of 
 the State, therefore do resolve: 
 
 "Section 1, etc."
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 495 
 
 Here follow thirteen sections of iron clad by-laws for the government of 
 this august body, which wind up as follows : 
 
 " We do solemnly agree to submit and bind ourselves by the above laws, and to which we do 
 now affix our names and seals this 15th day of July, 1843. Signed, 
 
 JAMES SMITH [L.S.] J. W. SWAN [L. s.] A. REED [L. s.] 
 
 A. HALL [L. s.] JOSEPH SUMMERS [L. s.] 
 
 A record of the schools in the townships : 
 
 For 1841, District No. 1, 29 ; No. 2, 34 ; No. 3, 50 ; No. 4, 24 ; total, 137. For 1843, District 
 No. 1, 24 ; No. 2, 35 ; No. 3, 49 ; No. 4, 24 ; total, 132. For 1845, District No. 1, 24 ; No. 2. 
 39 ; No. 3, 61 ; No. 4, 32 ; total, 156. For 1848, District No. 1, 72 ; No. 2, 65 ; No. 3, 49 ; No' 
 4, 58; No. 5, 35 ; total, 279. L. LA.MPSON, Treasurer. 
 
 The school section was divided into sixteen lots of forty acres each, and sold, 
 the amount it brought being $1,191.20. 
 
 On the 5th of April, 1845, on account of the settlements of the vacant sec- 
 tions, the entire township was divided into four equal districts, and were re- 
 arranged in 1846. 
 
 Shepard Johnson was a man of intelligence, and a zealous patron of schools. 
 The records kept by him are unusually correct. 
 
 In 1856, there were in the township seven school districts. And in 1864, 
 there were in the town 383 children entitled to school privileges. In 1869, 
 there were 400 children in the town under twenty-one years. 
 
 THE CHURCHES. 
 
 In the township of Big Rock are the Welsh Congregational and English, 
 and the Baptist. The Welsh Congregational Church was dedicated in 1854, 
 the Rev. John Daniel being the first Pastor. In 18423, George Lewis, who 
 lived on land now owned by John Whiddon, preached for about two years there. 
 The church had but 13 members, when first organized in Mr. Pierce's house, by 
 the Rev. Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Morris, about the year 1853. Now it has about 
 30 members. In 1858, a division occurred in the church, and the Congrega- 
 tional Church was formed in Big Rock ; the year afterward, built a church. 
 The preacher and part of the society left the Welsh Church to form a new one. 
 Rev. Mr. Evans was the minister at that time. 
 
 The Baptist Church was completed in Big Rock, in the Winter of 1 874-5, 
 having been previously moved from west of the village, where it had been stand- 
 ing for many years. It is at present in a flourishing state. Services are held 
 every two weeks and the attendance unusually large. There are 25 names on 
 the roll of membership. 
 
 The war record of the township was not quite so good as some of the other 
 townships in the county, but upon the whole, creditable at least. Charles 
 Schryer enlisted as a private in Capt. James Hayden's Company of Zouaves. 
 Re-enlisted in Company F, First Illinois Cavalry, in same year. He after- 
 ward became Captain of Company F of the One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh 
 Illinois Regiment. D. E. Schryer, David Vaughn, Henry Houghtaling, War-
 
 496 
 
 HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY. 
 
 ren, Dick and Henry Colson, all from Big Rock Township, were in same regi- 
 ment. Many others also from this section were in the One Hundred and 
 Twenty- Seventh. The Fifty-Second, Fifty-Seventh and Thirty-Sixth likewise 
 had a few from Big Rock. Schryer commanded the One Hundred and Twenty- 
 Seventh Regiment nearly a year during Sherman's campaign. He was in 
 command at the battles of Jonesboro and Bentonville, and acquitted himself 
 with honor, as well as the brave boys under his command. 
 
 BIG ROCK. 
 
 The name of Big Rock was the Indian name of the creek, and at the time 
 of township organization in 1848, under Government survey, it was bestowed 
 on the township, a name it has ever since borne. Politically, Big Rock, like 
 the majority of townships in Kane County, is Republican, but was Whig in 
 old times by almost as much of a majority as it is Republican at the present 
 day. 
 
 As an agricultural region its soil is rich, well watered and productive. Corn 
 is the principal crop, though other crops are cultivated to a considerable extent.
 
 COUNTY 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 BR EVICTIONS. 
 
 Adjt. 
 Art... 
 
 Adjutant. e enlisted. 
 
 .. Artillery. excd exchanged. 
 
 Col Colonel. inf. infantry. 
 
 Capt Captain, i kid killed. 
 
 Corpl Corporal. | m. o mustered out. 
 
 Comsy Commissary. 
 
 comd commissioned. 
 
 cav cavalry. 
 
 captd captured. 
 
 consdn consolidation. 
 
 prmtd promoted. 
 
 prisr prisoner. 
 
 rect recruit. 
 
 Regt Regiment. 
 
 read resigned. 
 
 disabled. Sergt Sergeant. 
 
 disab 
 
 disd discharged. wd wounded. 
 
 THIRTY-SIXTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (Three Years.) 
 
 The Thirty sixth Infantry Illinois Volunteers 
 was organized at Aurora, Illinois, in Septem- 
 ber, 1861, by Col. Nicholas Greusel, and mus- 
 tered into United States service by Capt. A. G. 
 Brackett, U. S. A., September 23, 1861. 
 
 Sept. 24th, ordered to Quincy, 111., by rail, 
 and thence to St. Louis, where the regiment 
 was armed. Twenty-ninth was moved to Rolla, 
 where the regiment remained until Jan. 14, 
 1862. Marched to Lebanon. Remained until 
 February 10th. Entered Springfield on the 
 13th. Proceeded to Bentonville, Ark., and 
 were engaged in the fight there, March 6th. 
 The regiment was engaged in the battle of 
 Leetown, March 7th, and of Pea Ridge, 8th. 
 Marched via Keitsville, Cassville, Cape Fear, 
 Galena, Forsythe and West Plains, Missouri 
 and Salem, Ark., to Batesville, Ark. Were 
 then transferred to the Department of the 
 Mississippi, and marched, under Gen. Asboth, 
 to Cape Girardeau, Mo. Embarked for Ham- 
 burg Landing, Tenn., and were, on arrival, 
 assigned to Gen. Pope's command. On evac- 
 uation of Corinth, marched to Booneville and 
 back to Rienzi, remaining until Sept. 6th. 
 Moved to Cincinnati, via Corinth, Columbus, 
 Cairo, Odin and Seymour. Moved from Cov- 
 ington, via Indianapolis, to Louisville, and 
 remained until Oct. 1st, when it marched with 
 Gen. Buell's Army, Gilbert's Corps, Sheridan's 
 Division, Col. Greusel's Brigade, the regiment 
 being commanded by Capt. Silas Miller, via 
 Bardstown and Springfield to Perryville, where 
 it met the enemy. In this action the Thirty- 
 sixth lost seventy-five killed and wounded. 
 
 Moved thence, via Danville and Lancaster, to 
 Crab Orchard ; thence, via Lancaster, Danville, 
 Lebanon, New Market, Cave City and Bowling 
 Green, to Nashville, near which place it en- 
 camped. The Brigade Commanders have been 
 Cols. Osterhaus, Greusel, Hansendifel and Kno- 
 blesdorf. Division commanders, Gens. Sigel, 
 Asboth, Jeff. C. Davis, Gordon Granger, and 
 Sheridan. Corps commanders, Gens. Cur- 
 tis, Pope, Granger, Gilbert and McCook. De- 
 partment commanders, Gens. Fremont, Hun- 
 ter, Haileck. Grant. Wright, Nelson, Buell and 
 Rosecrans. The Thirty-sixth Illinois was en- 
 gaged in the battle of Stone River, from 
 Dec. 26, 1862, until Jan. 2, 1863, coming out 
 of the action with only 200 men. Says Col. 
 Greusel : 
 
 ".At daylight on the 31st, the regiment was 
 assaulted by a rebel brigade, under Gen. 
 Weathers, and being supported by the Eighty- 
 eighth Illinois, Col. Frank Sherman, on its 
 left, they were soon driven back to the woods ; 
 but again and again, they were rallied, every 
 time meeting the same fate, until thirty-eight 
 of that fine brigade were all that were left to 
 tell where their rebel comrades had fallen. 
 The Thirty-sixth charged them at the point of 
 the bayonet twice in succession, driving them 
 back. Forty-one of the poor boys lay dead on 
 their faces on less than one acre of ground. 
 The wounded is large, and, in fact, the killed 
 and wounded are the largest in the whole 
 division. At 8 o'clock A. M., 31st., received 
 notice of the death of Gen. Sill, and the com- 
 mand of the brigade devolved upon me. All our 
 brigade commanders were killed. Here it was 
 that Herrington fell. Only half of the division, 
 Sheridan's Third, were left. My brigade went
 
 498 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 into action 2,210 strong, and came out 1,008 
 rank and file. My officers, with one excep- 
 tion, stood their ground. First Sergt. Orrison 
 Smith, for bravery during the battle, maintain- 
 ing his position in the company, although 
 wounded in three places, I made him a Second 
 Lieutenant in front of the whole regiment." 
 "My regiment," continues Col. Greusel, "is 
 in a crippled condition. Only ten officers are 
 left. Nine wounded and taken prisoner by 
 the enemy, one killed, and one mortally 
 wounded." 
 
 The Thirty-sixth, as appears from the official 
 report of Lieut. Col. Porter C. Olson, bore an 
 honorable part in the battle near Chicka- 
 mauga Creek, on the 20th and 21st September, 
 1863. Sept. 19th, the regiment, Col. Miller 
 commanding, marched from Pond Springs to 
 Gordon's Mills, a distance of ten miles. At 2 P. 
 M., went into position, near Gordon's Mills, 
 with one company thrown forward as skir- 
 mishers. At 5 o'clock P. M., fell back to the 
 timber, about 200 yords, and remained during 
 the night. At 4 o'clock A. M., 20th, marched 
 two miles and a quarter to the left, and formed 
 in the second line. At 11 A. M., after some 
 skirmishing, ordered forward to the support of 
 the center. Formed on the brow of a hill un- 
 der a most terrible fire, but in perfect good 
 order, and engaged the enemy fiercely, check- 
 ing his advance. At this juncture the enemy 
 appeared on the left, and, turning the flank, 
 subjected us to a murderous enfilading fire, 
 against which we could offer but little resist- 
 ance. The regiment was ordered to fall back. 
 Gen. Lytle being killed, Col. Miller took com- 
 mand of the brigade, and Lieut. Col. Olson of 
 the regiment. The regiment made another 
 stand, but was overwhelmed by numbers, and 
 compelled to fall back. Marched to Rossville, 
 and encamped for the night. 21st, in position 
 on the Chattanooga road. 22d, moved into 
 Chattanooga. Mustered out Oct. 8, 1865, at 
 New Orleans, La., and arrived at Camp Butler, 
 111., Oct. 17, 1805, for final payment and dis- 
 charge. 
 
 Col. Nicholas Greusel, e. Sept. 23, 1861; resigned Feb. 
 
 7, 1863. 
 Col. Silas Miller, e. as Captain Co. B, Aug. 20, 1861; 
 
 prmtd. to Major Sept., 1862; to Colonel Feb. 7, 1863; 
 
 and died at Nashville, Teun., July 27, 1864, of wounds 
 
 received at Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864. 
 Col. Benj. F. Campbell, e. as Second Lieut., Co. B, Aug. 
 
 20, 1861; prmtd. to Captain, Sept. 18, 1862 ; to Lieut. 
 
 Colonel, Nov. 30, 1864 ; to Cotonel, May 10, 1865; m. 
 
 o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Lieut. Col. Edward S. Joslyn, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd.Sept. 
 
 18. 1862. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Albert Jenks, e. Sept. 18, 1862; resigned Feb. 
 
 24. 1863. 
 
 Major Alonzo H. Barry, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 18, 
 
 1862. 
 Major G. D. Sherman, e. Aug. 8, 1861, as First Sergt. 
 
 and prmtd. to First Lieut. Co. A, Oct. 19, 1861 ; to 
 
 Captain, June 8, 1862 ; to Major, Feb. 7, 1863 ; m. o. 
 
 Dec. 12, 1864. 
 Adjt. G. A. Willis, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; prmtd to Captain, Co. 
 
 A, Cav. 
 Q. M. I. M. Buck, e. Ang.20, 1861 as Second Lieut. Co. A; 
 
 read. March 3, 1862. 
 
 Surg D. \V. Young, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; resd. Feb. 23, 1863. 
 Surg J \. Hatch, e. Dec. 11, 1802 as Second Asst. Surg. ; 
 
 pnntd to First Asst. Surg. Feb. 16, 1863, to Surg. April 
 
 8, 1865 ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. _ 
 
 First Asst. Surg. S. B. Hawley, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; resd. Sept. 
 
 3, 1862. 
 Sergt. Major L. P. Ticknor, e. a Corpl. Aug. 8, 1861; prmtd. 
 
 Sergt Major ; m. o. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Q. M. Sergt. A, D. Keyes, reduced and returned to Co. 
 Q. M. Sergt. C. W. Bhodes; m. o. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Hosp. Steward J. H. Karl ; Disd. July 22, 1862 ; disabled. 
 Prin. Musician T. P. Matteson ; m. o. March 3, 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. M. B. Baldwin, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; resd. June 8,1862, 
 Capt. L. M. Kelley, e Aug. 8, 1861 aa private; re-e as vet; 
 
 was promtd to First Lieut. Jan. 1865, to Capt. June 
 
 21, 1865 ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 First Lieut. E. S. Chappell, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; died Oct. 16, 
 
 1861. 
 First Lieut. Leroy Salisbury, e. as Corpl. Aug. 8, 1861 ; 
 
 prumtd Second Lieut. Feb. 7, 1863. to First Lieut. Sept. 
 
 3, 1863; term expd. Jan. 18, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. W. S. Smith, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; resd. July 
 
 9, 1862. 
 Sergt. A. C. Lynd, e. Aug. 8, 1861; disd. June 12, 1863, 
 
 disabled. 
 Sergt. Alex. Robinson, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. A.pril 25, 1863, 
 
 disablde. 
 Corp. W. J. Ordway, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. vet.; died June 
 
 12. 1864, wounde<l. 
 
 Corp. J. W. Aldrich, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re^e. vet.; kid. May 
 
 19, 1864. 
 Corp. B. D. C. Rowland, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. June 17, 
 
 1864 for promotion. 
 
 Corp. J. S. Long, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Corp. F. B. Perkins, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; trans, to 52d 111. Inf. 
 
 June 9, 1862. 
 Musician C. B. Stiles, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Musician Brayman Loveless, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 
 
 22, 1864, term expired. 
 
 Andrews, Albt., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died Oct. 10. 1862, wds 
 Adams, B. N., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 3, 1862, disab. 
 Brown, D. W., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 Brannon, Patk., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 1, 1863, wd. 
 Baker, C. P., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 8, 1864, term exp. 
 Bluckman, Jno., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Bartholomew, L., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet.; m. o. Oct. 
 
 8, 1865. as First Sergt. 
 Dean, C. F., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died at Nashville, Jan. 14, 
 
 1863, wd. 
 
 Dade, Wm., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; deserted Oct. 10, 1861. 
 Gibbons, Patk., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; kid. at Stone River, Dec. 
 
 31, 1862. 
 Harpending. A. S., e. Aug. 8, 1861; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, 
 
 term exp. 
 Hall, J. C., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; Corp.; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, 
 
 term exp. 
 
 Hoxie, D. B., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 8, 1864. 
 Henderson, A. F., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died Jan. 16, 1863, wds. 
 Hewett, J. A., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 18, 1864, as Cor- 
 poral, term exp. 
 Krahan, Fred., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died while prisoner of war 
 
 Dec. 1, 1863. 
 Knowls, Geo. H., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, 
 
 teim exp. 
 
 Keyes, A. A., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. for promotion. 
 Little, Peter, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Manahan, Alex., e. Aug. 8, 1861; disd. June 10, 1863, disab. 
 Miller, Tobias, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. at vt.; m. o. Oct. 8, 
 
 1865 as Corporal. 
 
 Miller, L. F., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 2'2, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Mann. L. W., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 8, 1864, term exp. 
 Murus, Dorus, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died March 4, 1863, wds. 
 Nicholas, F. J., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet., deserted 
 
 June 5, 1865. 
 Olsyeski, Chas., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet.; died Jan. 13, 
 
 1865, wds. 
 Ritze, Augustus, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet.; trans. June 
 
 10. 1865. 
 
 Raymond, F. W., e. Aug. 8,1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Raymond, F. A., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; promoted Sergt. Major. 
 Sylla, W. F., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 25, 1861, disab. 
 Seisloff, Michael, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. vet.; m. o. Oct. 8, 
 
 1865 as Sergt. 
 
 Stanton, Tolmas, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; kid. Dec. 31, 1862. 
 Shaw, Adelbert, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, term 
 expired.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 499 
 
 Vining, J. M., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disci. Sept. 22, 1864; term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Wickwise, E. J., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. May 19, 1862 ; disab. 
 Wilcox, H. H., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. (Corporal; ; 
 
 absent at m. o. of regt. 
 
 Deill, H. E., e. Feb. 29, 1864; rect.; m. o. Oct. 8, 1866. 
 Deill, Albert, e. Feb. 22 1864; rect.; disd. June 5, 1865; 
 
 disab. 
 Salsbury, G. M , e. Aug. 1, 1862; rect.; disd. Aug. 8, 1863; 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Shaw, F. F , e. Feb. 17, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Scott, J. F., e. Aug. 1, 1862; rect.; disd. Aug. 8, 1863; term 
 
 expired. 
 Samis, Henry, e. Feb. 16, 1864; rect.; died at Nashville 
 
 July 24, 1864. 
 Shaw, O. D., e. Feb. 20, 1864; rect.; Corporal ; missing 
 
 Nov. 30, 1864. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Capt. W. H. Dugan, e. Oct. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 
 
 1864 ; was prtntd. to First Lieutenant April 3, 1863, 
 
 to Captain Nov. 30, 1864 ; m. o Oct. 8, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. H. Wacker, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; dishonorably 
 
 dismissed April 30, 1863. 
 First. Lieut. G. B. Douglas, e. as First Sergeant April 8, 
 
 1861 ; was prmtd. to Second Lieutenant Sept. 18, 1862, 
 
 and to First Lieutenant April 30, 1863. 
 First Lieut. Owen Hughes, e. Aug. 8, 1861, as Corporal; 
 
 re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1861 ; was prmtd. to First Lieuten- 
 ant Nov. 30, 1864; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Secoud Lieut. Saml. Hitchcock, e. Aug. 8, 1861, as Sergt 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. April 30, 1863 ; commission 
 
 declined; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, as Sergt. ; term expired. 
 Sergt. Abner Field, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Corp. Wm. Wanner, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 7, 1862. 
 Corp. E. \V. Parker, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; kid. at Chickamanga 
 
 Sept. 20, 1863. 
 Corp. W. F. Blakesly, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; died of wounds 
 
 March 8, 1863. 
 Corp. J. H. Grouberg, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Corp. E. D. Houlton, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 Corp. Thos. Flynn, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 22, 1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 Musician Geo. Brewer, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; dtsd. Aug. 18, 
 
 1862, for promotion. 
 Musician Willard Pettingill, e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. May 
 
 9, 1863, disab. 
 Wagoner J. F. Lilly, e. Aug. 13, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 22, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 Alcott, Henry, e. Aug. 8, 1861; disd. at Nashville June 
 
 10, 1864, wd. 
 Ansorge, E., e. Sept. 3, 1861 ; kid. Sept. 3, 1862, at Perry- 
 
 ville, Ky. 
 Ayers, C. G., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. as Corp., Sept. 22, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Brandon, W. H., e. Sept. 9, 1861; disd. disab. Oct. 7, 1861. 
 Broger, Rudolph, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Brunnemeyer, C., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. June 23, 1864, 
 
 disab. 
 Barnes, G. H., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 3, 1864; term 
 
 expired. 
 Camp, Arba, e. Sept. 21, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Davis, Danl., e. Sept., 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 8, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Drane, Robt., e. Aug. 8, 1861; disd. Nov. 8, 1864; term 
 
 expired 
 
 Dugan, Frank, e. Aug. 31, 1861 ; died of wds. Oct. 3, 1863. 
 Eckhart, Carl, e. Aug. 10, 1861; deserted Dec. 31, 1862. 
 Edwards, J. W., e. Aug. 18, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 
 Eddy, Jas., e. Sept. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864. 
 Eddy, Jno., e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Emde, F., e. Se.pt. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864. 
 Evans, J. W., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Fife, Juo., e. Aug. 19, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 8, 1862 ; wd. 
 Hartless, W. H., e. Aug. 15, 1861; disd. Aug. 20,1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 Harvey, C. M., e Aug. 8, 1861 ; trans, to Company K 
 
 loth 111. Cav. 
 
 Heine, Fred., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; died Feb. 9, 1864. 
 Heinze, C. G., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. -.a vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 kid. July 23, 1864. 
 Hodges, Dow, e. Sept. 20, 1864 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Hornby, T. E., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 
 Jackson, Wm , e. Aug. 18, 1861 ; disd. Sopt 22 1864. 
 Karl, J. H., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; prmtd.to Hospital Steward. 
 Kendall, S. E., e. Sept. 20, 1861 ; re e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, ai Corporal. 
 
 Latham, H. B., e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 22, 1864. 
 Leet, Franklin, e, Aug. 13, 1861. 
 Leroy, Henry, e. Sept. 23, 1861 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Logan, Robt , e Sept. 1,1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; m. 
 
 , o. Nov. 8, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Lloyd, Brayton, e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; died Jan. 6, 1864. 
 Mahew, Elihu, e . Aug. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 McGee, Jos., e. Sept. 21, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Miller, G. W., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 9, 1861 ; disab. 
 Moore, N. M., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864; term 
 
 expired. 
 Ott, Wm., e. Sspt. 9, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; term 
 
 expired. 
 Ott, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; m. 
 
 o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 
 Pelican, Poter e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864. 
 Pierce, Edward, e Sept. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Race, Van Wyck, e. Sept. 3, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Reed Jeff., e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Reitz, Henry, e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; kid. Oct. 8, 1862. 
 Reitz, Adam, e. Sept. 13, 1861; disd. May 1, 1863 ; disab. 
 Reitz Geo., e. Sept. 13, 1861; disd. Sept. 22, 1864; term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Ribby, H. L., e. Sept. 18, 1861; kid. June 19, 1864. 
 Roberts, D. B., e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; trans. May 1, 1864. 
 Sears. C. W., e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864. 
 Scheffer, W., e Aug. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864. 
 Sedgwick, T. W., e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Stevens, F., e. Aug. 15, 1861. 
 
 Strong, C. E., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 10, 1862 ; disab. 
 Toby, W. A.,e. Aug. 15, 1861; disd Aug. 10, 1862 ; disab. 
 Terry, Dan'l, e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; disd. March 2. 1863. 
 Thompson, F., e. Aug. 19, 1861; kid. Dec. 13, 1862. 
 Thompson, R. N., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd. for promotion. 
 Travis, C. W., Aug. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; m. 
 
 o. Oct. 8, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Van Ohlin, Wm., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; disd. May 13, 1863 
 
 disab. 
 Waterman, W. S., e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 20, 1862 ; 
 
 disab. 
 
 West, A. J., e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1864. 
 Wilder, J. J., e. Aug. 11, 1861 ; disd. disab. 
 Winn, Jacob, e. Aug. 11, 1861; missing. 
 Weeden, E. S., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; transferred. 
 Woodward, J. H., e Aug. 11, 1861 ; died May 8, 1863. 
 Wokersein, F., e. Aug. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. e. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Zimmer, Chris., e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1,1864; 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Tuffee, J. P., e. March 4, 1864; vet. rect.; disd. June 8, 
 
 1865 ; disab. 
 
 Jones, J. N., e. Feb. 23, 1864, m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Snell, H. A., e. May 22, 1862 ; in. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Terry, Dan'l, e. May 26, 1863 ; vet. rect ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, 
 Way, J. E., e. Feb. 23, 1864; m. o. Oct. 4, 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Keck, Ethan, e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 - r 
 
 m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Miller, Ralph, e. Aug. 23, 1861 ; died Oct. 16, 1862; wd. 
 Reeder, W. V., e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; died Dec. 13, 1863; wd 
 Reeder, Carvasso, e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 King, M. E., e. Feb. 29, 1864; rect.; m. o. June 22, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Blu, Mat , e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; term 
 
 expired. 
 Johnston, Peter, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 20, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Winans, Stephen, e. Sept. 2, 1861; disd. Nov. 6, 1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 Henning, James, e. Sept. 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 Jenkinson, Jos., e. Feb. 29, 1864 ; m. o. Sept. 30, 1865.
 
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 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Belden, L. E., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 
 
 m. o. as First Sergeant Got. 8, 1865. 
 Dessalet, G. W., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Green, Jno., e. Sept. 12, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 kid. at Dallas, Ga., May 7, 1864. 
 
 Huggett, W. G., e. Sept. 9, 1861; died Jan. 10, 1863; wd. 
 Hall, J. H., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; Corporal ; kid. at battle of 
 
 Chickamauga. 
 Johnson, Alfred, e. Sept. 9, 1861; disd. Sept. 22, 1864 ; 
 
 term expired. 
 Jackson, W. E., e. Sept. 10, 1S61 ; kid. at Perryville, Ky., 
 
 Oct. 8, 1862. 
 
 Lamb, John. e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 1, 1863. 
 McClary, Wm., e. Sept. 9, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb. 20, 
 
 1864; m. o. Oct. 8. 1865. 
 Nelson, N. L., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; Corporal ; kid. at Perryville, 
 
 Ky., Oct. 8, 1862. 
 Olson, J. W., e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 22, 1864, as 
 
 First Sergeant; term expired. 
 
 Orstad, Thos., P. Sept. 9, 1861 ; disd. May 31, 1862 ; disab. 
 Peterson, S. W., e. Aug. 13, 1861; disd. March 23, 1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Phillip, Peter, e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; died Dec. 1, 1863. 
 Partridge, W. E., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m o. Oct. 8. 1865. 
 
 Riggs, Alf., e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; Corporal ; kid. at Stone River. 
 Sly, F. W., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 7, 1863 ; disab. 
 Sweetland, C. F., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; m. o. July 15, 1865 ; was 
 
 prisoner of war. 
 Siflect, James, e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; died at Nashville Jan. 8, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Thompson, Wm., e. Sept, 9. 1861 ; kid. in battle. 
 Van Order, A. P., e. Sept. 9, 1861 ; kid. in battle. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Musician Day Elmore, e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 1, 1864, as Sergeant; died Dec. 9, 1864, of wounds. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Roush, Jno., e. March 8, 1864; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, as Corp. 
 Shields, Jno., e. March 9. 1864; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Smith, I. P., e. Feb. 22, 1864; m. o. Aug. 2, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Corp. Edward Reeder, e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 
 
 1864. 
 Burroughs, Allen, e. Aug. 26, 1861; kid. in battle of 
 
 Chickamauga. 
 Burnett, Peter, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Clark, Jno., e. Aug. 31, 1861 ; disd. April 6, 1863 ; disab. 
 Downey, James, e. Aug. 20, 1861; m. o. June 26, 1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Glove, Thos., . Aug. 20, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 10, 1862 ; disab. 
 Hall, G. S., e. Aug. 20, 1861; kid in battle of Stone River. 
 Lerican, Jos., e. Aug. 20, 1861; m. o. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Lyon, G. G., e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; appointed Chaplain Aug. 
 
 20, 1861. 
 
 Lenhart, G. B., e. Sept. 23, 1861 ; kid. at Stone River. 
 Lenhart, J. P., e. Sept. 23, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Mongerson, Chas., e. Aug. 21, 1881 ; m. o.; term expired. 
 Moffett, Thos., e. Aug. 12. 1861 ; kid. at Perryville, Ky. 
 Mayberry, E. H., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; missing at Chickamauga. 
 Minor, C. J., e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; disd. April 9, 1863, wds. 
 Millay, E. J., e. Aug. 20, 1861; died May 6, 1862. 
 Vail, G. W., e. Sept. 21, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Bogardus, Hiram, e. Oct. 13, 1863, rect. ; m. o. July 
 
 15, 1865 ; prisr. of war. 
 
 Guss, James, e. Oct. 16, 1863, recruit; m. o. Nov. 16, 1865. 
 McFarland, John, e. March 8, 1864, recruit. 
 O'Connor, Patrick, e. Oct. 21, 1863, recruit; disd. May 3, 
 
 1865, disab. 
 Paquette, Peter, e. Sept. 4, 1863, recruit ; m. o. July 15, 
 
 1865 ; was prisr. 
 
 Slate, Harlow, e. Aug. 24, 1861, recruit; missing in action. 
 Watkins, H. F., e. Oct. 3, 1863, recruit; m. o. Oct. 8, 1865. 
 Forbes, Henry, e. Dec. 10, 1863, unassigned recruit. 
 Kelsey, Lewis, e. Dec. 10, 1863, unass. recruit. 
 Lowry, J. B., e. April 4, 1865, recruit ; m. o. May 11, 1865. 
 Lowry, Geo., e. April 4, 1865, recruit ; m. o. May 11, 1865. 
 Powell, John, e. Oct. 12, 1863, recruit. 
 Winn, E. R., e. March 7, 1864, recruit. 
 Welch, John, e. Aug. 27, 1864, sub. 
 Gregory, Samuel, Co. D, 39th Inf., e. Aug. 16, 1861 ; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; m. o. Dec. 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Bour, Henry, Co. F, 39th Inf., e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; disd. for 
 
 disability. 
 Peters, M. V. B., Co. F, 39th Inf., e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; re-e. as 
 
 vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; trans, to V. R. C. March 17, 1865. 
 
 FIFTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 The Fifty-second Infantry Illinois Volun- 
 teers was organized in Geneva, Kane County, 
 111., in November, 1861, by Col. J. G. Wilson, 
 and mustered into United States service Nov. 
 19, 1861, by Lieut. J. Christopher. Nov. 28th, 
 moved, with 945 men, to St Louis, Mo., and 
 went into quarters at Benton Barracks. Here 
 Col. Wilson resigned. Dec. 8th, the regiment, 
 Lieut. Col. J. S Wilcox commanding, moved 
 to St. Joseph, Mo. Jan. 16, 1862, moved to 
 Cairo, via Palmyra, Quincy and Mississippi 
 River. Jan. 24th, to Smithland. Feb. 7th, 
 T. W. Sweeny was commissioned Colonel of the 
 Fifty-second. Feb. 10, 1862, embarked for 
 Fort Donelson, and arrived 17th ; Iflth, was sent 
 with prisoners to Chicago. March 7th, arrived 
 at St. Louis. March 13th, left for Army of 
 the Tennessee, and 20th, disembarked at Pitts- 
 burg Landing, and were assigned to Third 
 Brigade, Second Division, Col. Sweeny com- 
 manding brigade, and Gen. Smith the 'division. 
 
 The regiment took a prominent part in the 
 battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th, losing 170 
 killed, wounded and missing Major Stark 
 commanding first day, and Capt. Bowen on the 
 second. The regiment was engaged in the 
 seige of Corinth, May, 1862. Pursued the re- 
 treating enemy to Booneville, Miss . and re- 
 turned to Corinth, where the regiment re- 
 mained until the battle of Corinth, Oct. 3d and 
 4th. Was heavily engaged in this action. Col. 
 Sweeny commanding the regiment, the los? 
 being 70 killed and wounded. Pursued the 
 retreating enemy as far as Ruckerville, and 
 turned 12th. Oct. 13th, moved to Hatchie 
 River, and returned. Dec. 9, 1862, moved 
 with an expedition to Alabama. Met the en- 
 emy near Little Bear Creek, drove him fifteen 
 miles, and returned to Corinth, arriving 14th. 
 Dec. 19th, under command of Lieut. Col. Wil- 
 cox, left Corinth, with the expedition of Gen. 
 G. M. Dodge, to intercept Forrest. Marched 
 100 miles, in four and one-half days, and re- 
 turned, weary and foot-sore. Jan. 2, 1863, 
 moved to Tennessee River, to intercept For- 
 rest, as he had already crossed at Crump's 
 Landing. Expedition returned. 
 
 Jan. 26th, move d to Hamburg, Tenn. ; 
 embarked on a little steamer, and on the next 
 day disembarked and returned to Corinth. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1863, moved, Major Brown com- 
 manding regiment, Col. Sweeny commanding 
 expedition, to Jacinto, Miss. Arrived 27th. 
 Remained until March 4th, when it returned 
 to Corinth. On the 15th of April, Lieut. Col. 
 Wilcox commanding regiment, moved with an 
 expedition of four brigades of infantry, one of 
 cavalry, and fourteen pieces of artillery, Brig. 
 Gen. G. M. Dodge commanding, to Northern 
 Alabama. Marched to Burnsvilte on the 15th ; 
 through luka on the 16th ; crossed Bear Creek
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 501 
 
 on the 17th Col. Cornyn's cavalry skirmish- 
 ing with the enemy. April 20th, Col. Sweeny 
 promoted to Brigadier General ; 23d, the whole 
 force advanced, driving the enemy. That night, 
 lay in line of battle ; 24th, moved forward and 
 entered Tuscumbia, Ala. April 27th, moved 
 toward Courtland. Met the enemy at Town 
 Creek, and skirmished till night ; 28th, gained 
 possession of the railroad bridge, effected a 
 crossing, and drove the enemy three miles : 
 29th, returned, arriving in Corinth May 2, 
 1863. Aug 18th, moved to Germantown, and 
 regiment assigned to guarding railroad. 
 
 Oct. 29th, moved to luka; 3lst, bivouacked 
 three and a half miles east of luka. Nov. 6th, 
 the whole left wing of the Sixteenth Corps 
 moved eastward. Arrived at Eastport, and 
 crossed the Tennessee. Nov. llth, arrived at 
 Pulaski, Tenn. Remained, doing provost duty. 
 
 Jan. 9th, three-fourths of the regiment hav- 
 ing re-enlisted, it was mustered as a veteran 
 organization. Started for Illinois, and ar- 
 rived at Chicago Jan. 17th. Proceeded to 
 Geneva, Kane County, and was furloughed 20th. 
 
 Feb. 24th, moved for Pulaski, Tenn., under 
 command of Lieut. Col. E. A. Bowen, Col. 
 Wilcox having resigned. Arrived at Pulaski 
 29th. April 29th, in Col. E. W. Rice's brigade 
 (First Brigade), Gen. Sweeny's division (Sec- 
 ond), left wing, Major Gen. G. M. Dodge, Six- 
 teenth Army Corps. Moved southward, ar- 
 riving at Chattanooga May 2d. 
 
 May 3, 1864, commenced the Atlanta cam- 
 paign. The regiment participated in the bat- 
 tles of Snake Creek Gap, Resaca, Lay's Ferry, 
 Rome Cross Roads, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, 
 Nickajack Creek, Decatur. July 22d and 28th, 
 before Atlanta and Jonesboro, and went into 
 camp at East Point. Sept. 26, 1864, the Sec- 
 ond Division, left wing, Sixteenth Army Corps, 
 was transferred to Fourth Division, Fifteenth 
 Army Corps, moved to Rome, and, by rail, to 
 Cartersville ; and from thence marched to Alla- 
 toona. Arriving too late for the battle, it 
 returned to Rome. Oct. llth, Lieut. Col. 
 Bowen being mustered out, Major Boyd took 
 command. The regiment marched with the 
 division, Brevet Major Gen. J. M. Corse com- 
 manding, to Savannah, Ga. Dec. 18th, the 
 non-veteran officers were mustered out, and 
 J. D. Davis, having received a commission as 
 Lieutenant Colonel, took command of the regi- 
 ment. Dec. 21, marched into Savannah. Jan. 
 29, 1865, started on the Carolinas campaign. 
 Was present at the battle of Bentonville, and 
 arrived at Goldsboro March 24th. April 10th, 
 marched to Raleigh. Lay at Morrisville during 
 Johnston's surrender. Marched, via Rich- 
 mond and Alexandria and was in the grand 
 review at Washington May 24, 1865. June 2d, 
 moved to Louisville, Ky. July 5th, mustered 
 out of United States service. Moved to Camp 
 Douglas, Chicago, 111., and received final pay- 
 ment and discharge July 12, 1865. 
 
 Col. J. S. Wilcox, e. Sept. 14, 1861, as Captain Co. K ; was 
 prmtd. to Lieutenant, Colonel Oct 14, 1861, and to 
 Colonel March 11, 1B3; read. Feb. 20, 1864. 
 
 Col. J. D. Davis, e as Corporal Sept. 11, 1861; prmtd. to 
 Sergeant; to Second Lieutenant Sept. 3, 1862; to 
 First Lieutenant Feb. 3, 1864; to Lieutenant Colonel 
 Oct. 24, 1864; to Colonel May 11, 1865 ; m. o July 6 
 1865. 
 
 Adjt. E. J. Allen, e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; resd. Sept. 12, 1862 ; 
 
 Adjt. E. S. Wilcox, e. Oct. 16, 1861, as Second Lieutenant ; 
 was prmtd. Nov. 1, 1861, t-i First Lieutenant ; to Ad- 
 jutant Oct. 18, 1862 ; resd. June 29, 1864. 
 
 Q. M. C. B. Wells, e. in Co. I, 52d Regt. Ills. Vols. Aug., 
 1861; comd. First Lieut, and Reg. Q. M. Sept. 13, 
 1861 ; Cipt. and Comsy. of Subsistence Nov. 12th, 
 1862, on Maj. Gen. John A. Logan's staff; appointed 
 Post Commissary at Vicksburg, Oct. 28, 1864 ; comd. 
 Brevet Major July 11, 1865 ; honorably discharged 
 from service July 15, 1S6.S. 
 
 Q. M. Fulton Gifford, e.as Q. M. Sergt. Sept. 6, 1861 jjwas 
 prmtd. to Q. M. Dec. 1, 1862 ; term ex. Nov. 20, 1864. 
 
 Surgeon L. H. Angel, e. Oct. 2, 1861; resd. March 7, 1862. 
 
 Surg. Edgar Winchester, e. March 15, 1862 ; resigned 
 April 23, 1864. 
 
 Chaplain Benj. Thomas, e. Oct. 14, 1861 ; prmtd. to 9th 
 Louisiana Vol. A. D. Nov. 6, 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. S G. Ward, e. Aug. 2, 1861; hon. disd. Oct. 7, 1862. 
 Capt. G. E. Young, e. Oct. 1, 1861, as First Lieut; was 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. Oct. 7, 1862 ; term expired Oct. 1 4, 1864. 
 Capt. Chas. Barnett,'e. as private Oct. 13, 1861; re-e. as 
 
 vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergeant and to Captain 
 
 Oct. 14, 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 First Lieut. C. R. White, o, Oct. 1, 1861. as Second Lieut. ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. Oct. 7, 186'<! ; resd. Dec. 26, 1863. 
 First Lieut. T. W. Mack, e. as private Aug. 24, 1861 ; was 
 
 prmtd. to Sergt., and to Second Lieut , Oct. 7, 1862, and 
 
 to First Lieut. Dec. 26, 1863; term expired in 1864. 
 First Lieut. G. L. Kinnear, e. Aug. 26, 1861, as private; 
 
 re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; prnrtd. to Sergeant and to 
 
 First Lieutenant Oct. 31, 1864; m. o. July 6,1865. 
 Second Lieut. H. 0. Perry, e. as private Aug. 15,1861 ; re- 
 
 e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergeant and to 
 
 Second Lieutenant July 5. 1865; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 First Sergeant J. P.Snell, e. Aug. 22, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 
 
 1861. 
 Sergt. Jas. Cran-lall, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 
 25, 1863 ; prmtd. to Second Lieutenant of 8th U. S. 
 
 C. H. A. Sept. 15, 1864. 
 
 Sergt. C. P. Taft. e. Aug. 15, 1861; m. o. Dec. 3, 1864. 
 Sergt. W. H. Fifteld, e. Aug. 24, 1861. 
 Sergt. Jos. Payro, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Corp. Jacob Snell, e. Aug. 20. 1861. 
 
 Corp. Henry Ellithorpe, e. Aug. 26, 1861 ; died Oct. 30, '61. 
 Corp. Freeman Woodman, e. Aug. 24, 1861; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Dec. 25, 1863 ; m o. July 6, 1865. 
 Corp. Henry Richardson, e. Sept. 19, 1861. 
 Corp. J. F. Strohecker, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 
 25. 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Corp. Geo. Haven, e. Aug. 20, 1861; m. o. June 7, 1865; 
 
 was prisoner. 
 
 Wagoner Benj. Snow, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Avard, Samuel, e Sept. 14. 
 Austin, Jas., e. Oct. 14. 
 Allen, Ira, e. Oct. 14. 
 Baker, Allanson, e. Oct. 6; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25,1863; m. 
 
 .>. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Baker, C. W., e. Oct 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. as Sergeant July 6, 1865. 
 Buchem, Jas., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 5, 1865. as Corporal. 
 Bushman, Peter, e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 5, 1865. 
 
 Baker, G. B., e. Sept, 25, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Blackman, David, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; transferred to I. C. 
 Clark, Ezekiel, e. Sept, 16, 1861. 
 Cary, Abram, e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Chaple, Chas., e. Sept. 3, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Cadwell, B., <>. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m.o. July 6, 1865. 
 Crance, S. A., e. Sept. 20. 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 kid. in railroad accident June 13, 1864. 
 Davis, Jno., e. Oct. 10, 1861. 
 Dooley, Timothy, e. Oct. 13, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Wagoner. 
 Doty, Chas., e. Oct. 4, 1861; deserted Oct. 26, 1861. 
 Dooley, Jas., e. Sept. 20, 1861 ; deierted Oct. 26, 1861. 
 French, L. B.,e. Sept. 11. 1*61. 
 Giles, I. W., e. Sept. 16, 1861 ; deserted Oct. 26, 1861.
 
 502 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Graves, Jas., e. Oct. 25, 1861. 
 
 Hamilton, Henry, e. Oct. 14, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Harmon, Henry, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; disd. May 26, 1865. 
 Hayden, Andrew, . Aug. 26, 1861. 
 Halsted, C. H., e. Oct. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Jones, Jno., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Jones, David, e. Aug. 22, 1861. 
 Jones, Walter. 
 Jewett, Hiram, e. Oct. 14,1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1861 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Kelly, Chas., e. S -pt. 30, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Kiernan, John. e. Sept. 24, 1861. 
 Knickerbocker, Chas.. e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 
 25, 1863 ; in. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 King, Gustavus, e. Auz. 26, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Keene, Jess", e. Aug. 25, 1861. 
 Kanler, Geo., e. Aug. 26, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 26, 1863; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant. 
 Koskle, Daniel, e. Sept. 14, 1861. 
 Lindsay, W. W., e. Aug. 24, 1861. 
 Lartz, Chas., e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o July 6, 1865. 
 Layham, Chas., e. Oct. 14, 1861. 
 Miner, Wallace, e. Aug. 2, 1861. 
 Ottawa, Walter, e. Sept. 1, 1861. 
 Owen, John, e. Sept. 15, 1861. 
 Pooler, Andrew, e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 6,1865. 
 Pinftrel. David, e. Sept. 1, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Pinney, E. D., e.Sept. 20, 1861. 
 Rood, Edw., e. Oct. 4, 1861. 
 
 Rice, William, e. Sept. 23, 1861 ; m o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Swartz, Henry, e. Aug. 15. 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; prmtd. to Commissary Sergeant. 
 Snell, Danl., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o.July 6, 1865, 
 Sheldon, Eber, e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Smith, David, e Sppt. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Smith, R. J., e. Oct. 8, 1861. 
 Scott, Augustus, e. Oct. 14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Scott, John, e. Oct. 8, 1861 ; deserted Oct. 26, 1861. 
 Smith, Webster, e. Aug. 24, 1861. 
 Shambon, Levi, e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Thompson, David, e. Oct. 14, 1861. 
 Towle, Sherman, e. Oct. 8, 1861. 
 Tydeman, H. G., e. Sept. 19, 1861. 
 Wagner, C. E., e. Sept. 17, 1861. 
 Ward, E. S., e. Oct. 1, 1861; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Ward, J. L., e. Oct 5, 1861. 
 Woodman, Ira, e. Aug. 24, 1861. 
 Whitney, J. H., e. Aug. 24, 1861. 
 Whitcomb, 0-car, e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 26, 1864. 
 Woodard, Geo., e. Sept. 20, 1861. 
 Wallen, G. A., e. Sept. 1, 1861. 
 
 Ames, D. C., e. Jan. 2, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Abbott, Danl., e. March 13, 1865, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Coats, Wm., e. Jan. 18, 1865, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Colling, Geo., e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Colling, Wm., e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Coats, Geo., e. Nov. 20, 1861, rect. ; re-e, as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Denney, A. J., e. Nov. 11, 1861, rect. ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 6,1865. 
 
 Dodds, J. H., e. Nov. 11, 1861, rect. ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Dacons, Elder, e. Sept. 27, 1862, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Empey, Silas, e. Nov. 6, 1861, rect. 
 
 Elkins, Henry, e. Nov. 24, 1861, rect.; m o. Oct 24, 1864. 
 Flynn, James, e. Nov. 5, 1861, rect. 
 Gee, C. A., e. Sept. 20, 1861, rect. 
 Gooro, George, e. Feb. il, 1864, rect. ; deserted March 1, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Hayes, J. D., e. Jan. 20, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Hoyt. G. E., e. Jan. 27, 1864, rect. ; died at Chattanooga, 
 
 Oct. 8; 1864. 
 
 Harding, Zora, e. Nov. 18, 1861. rect. 
 Lebkisher, John. e. Jan. 18, 1865, rect.; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Le Baron, Eugene, e. March 13, 1865, rect. ; died June 28, 
 
 1865, at Washington, D C. 
 
 Miner, M. A., e. Jan. 27, 1864, rect. ; m. . July 6, 1865. 
 Munger, Henry, e. Feb. 15,1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Moore, John, e. Nov. 1, 1861, rect. ; m. o. Jan. 5, 1865. 
 Perry, Franklin, e. Men. 13, 1865, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865 . 
 Quinn, Peter, e. Oct. 4, 1861, re.ct. ; died at Andersonville 
 
 Prison, Oct. 8, 1864 ; number of grave, 10,531. 
 Reeves, Sam'l, e. Feb. 19, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Swan, A. W.,e. Jan. 23,1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Seeley, Oscar, e. Nov. 26, 1861 ; rect. 
 Tydeman, Harvey, e. Feb. 19, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Tydeman, Wm., e. Jan. 9, 1864, as vet; rect.; m. o. July 
 
 6, 1865. 
 Woodman, John, e. Feb. 18, 1864; rect.; disd. May 26, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Brown, Wilson, e, Feb. 23, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Coffey, Jas., e. Feb. 19, 1864; rect.; m. o. June 28, 1865! 
 was prisoner. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Baker, J. O., e. Sept. 15, 1861 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Williams, C. E., e. Sept. 15, 1861. 
 
 Groves, E. J., e. Feb. 20, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Capt. Jacob Grimes, e. Sept. 23, 1861 ; resigned Dec. 14, 
 
 1861. 
 Capt. De Carlos Newton, e. Sept. 23, 1861, as First Liu- 
 
 tenant; was prmtd. to Captain Dec. 14,1861; term 
 
 expired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 Capt. Alexander M. Watson, e. Sept. 10, 1861, as private; 
 
 re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergeant and 
 
 to Captain Nov. 9, 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 First Lieut. Louis H. Everts, e. Sept. 23, 1861, as Second 
 
 Lieutenant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant Dec. 14, 
 
 1861 ; prmtd. to Assistant Adjutant General. 
 First Lieut. Joseph J. Kessler, e. Sept. 10, 1861, as First 
 
 Sergt.; prmtd. to Second Lieut. Dec. 14, 1861; to 
 
 First Lieut. Jan. 13, 1863 : term expired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 First Lieut. Lawrence N. Woolcot, e. Sept. 10, 1861, as 
 
 private; re-e. Dec. 26, 1863; prmtd. to Sergeant and 
 
 to First Liautenant Nov. 19, 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Sergt. Geo. Spalding, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Sergt. Jas. P. Prindle, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Sergt. Adolphus Latham, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Dec. 25, 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Sergt. Thos. N. Poor, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Corp. Jas. Kelly, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Corp. Edmund R. Blanchard, e. Sept. 10. 1861 ; re-e. as 
 
 vet. Jan. 17, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Musician Chauncey Burr, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Musician Henry W. Strong, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Wagoner Nicholas Johnson, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 
 
 18, 1864. 
 
 Andrews, Thos,, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Benedict, A. K., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Barlow. B. P., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Carey, J. L., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Carey, J. H., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. as Corporal July 6, 1865. 
 Canfield, S. W., e. Sept 10, 1861 ; died at Chicago Oct. 15, 
 
 1863. 
 Corwin, S. A., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 
 
 disd. June 24, 1865. 
 Carver, J. H., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Carter, Fred., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Carroll, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Carl, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Curtis, E. E., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Dickerson, J. S., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Derrick, Edmund, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Davis, David, e. Sept. 10, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o.July 6, 1865. 
 Fletcher, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 
 Hodkinson, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 19, 1864. 
 Hight, Eli, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Leeding, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863, in confinement at Dry Tortugas. 
 Lamb, W. H., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Lyman, Elijah, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Milgate, E. C. e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Mailor, Jno.,e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 
 
 m. o. July 27, 1865. 
 Osgood, Henry, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 503 
 
 Ott, Frederick, e. Sept. 10, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Prindle, J. R., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 0, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Prindle, A. L., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Prindle, Lagon, e Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Peterson, N. E.. e. Sept. 10, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec 25, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 6,1865. 
 Palmer, John, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Roberts, Richard, e. SepJ. 10, 1861. 
 Roots, S. J., e.Sept. 10,1861. 
 Shields, Charles, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Scott, W. M., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Smith, A. A., e. Sept. 10, 1861 , re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Smith, Richard, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Sheperdsen, J. C., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Short, Alfred, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865 as Wagoner. 
 Smith. Hosea, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Tromley, Joseph, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Titus, Uriel, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Tromley, Alex., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; in. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Vandeveer, Arthur, e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Watson, W. H., e. Sept. 10, 1861. 
 Wallin, G. A., e. Sept. 10, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Wilsin. Frederick, e. Sept, 10, 1861. 
 Willard. H. M., e. Sept. 10, 1861 
 Williams, G. L., e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 2i, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Burr, Webster, e. Sept. 10, 1861, rect. 
 Blain, Stephen, e. Sept. 10, 1861, rect. 
 Carl, Henry, e. Jan. 30, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Gorman, J. H., e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect. ; m. o. May 23,1865. 
 Curtis, R. T., e. Sept. 10. 1861, rect. ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1H65, as Corporal. 
 Gilbert, Wm., e. Feb. 17, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Griffin, W. W., e. Jan. 17, 1864, rect. ; disd. June 8, 1865, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Hall, W. F., e. Jan. 27, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Morey, Stephen, e. Feb. 17, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6. 1865. 
 O'Brien, Jno., e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Poor, T. W., e. Aug. 24, 1862, rect. ; m. o. May 29, 1865. 
 Shoemake, Frank, e. Feb. 17, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Thatcher, G. W., e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Von Vlnck, C. E., e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Zimmerman, Jno., e. Feb. 10, 1864, rect ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Gronbug, Otto, e. Oct. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Ponsoby, Thos., e. Oct. 1, 1861 
 Roberts, Erastus, e. Oct. 1, 1861. 
 Woodworth, Chas., e. Oct. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Free, Wm., e. Feb. 23, 1S64, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Second Lieut. A. P. Vaughn, e. Oct. 1, 1861, as Sergeant; 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant, March 7, 1862; term ex- 
 pired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 
 Corp. John M. Ferris, e. Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 Dodd, Jeremiah,-e. Oct. 1, 1861, 
 
 Megison, Root, e. Oct. 1, 1861. 
 
 Wheeler, Keuben, e. Oct. 1, 1861 ; m. o. May 31,1865. 
 
 Carter, Frederick, e Dec., 1863; vet; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Hartinck, Frederick, e. Feb. 27, 1864 ; vet. ; m. o. July 6, 
 1865, as Corporal. 
 
 Limond, Elijah, e. Dec. 25, 1863 ; vet.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Reed, Geo., e. Dec. 25, 1863 ; vet.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. F. H. Bowen, e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; resd. Oct. 19. 1862. 
 
 Capt. W. H. Wilcox, e. Oct. 15, 1861, as Second Lieuten- 
 ant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant April, 19, 1862; 
 term expired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 
 First Lieut. Jas. Davidson, e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; prmtd. to 
 Sergeant and to First Lieutenant April 19, 1862 ; term 
 expired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 
 Sergt. 0. F. Lawrence, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Corp. J. H. Burley, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Corp. F. S. Rockwell, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Corp. J. H. Andrus, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Able, Mortimer, e. Sept. 25. 1861. 
 
 Atkinson, Isaac, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Bimtall. H. C., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Bird, W. E., e Sept. 25, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1868; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Brown, W. H., e. Sept. 25, 1863 ; trans, to I. C. March 
 
 10, 1864. 
 Cole, Noble, e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Downey. H. H., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Diamond, Wm., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Furnall, E. F., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 Huntley, M. H., P. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Holgate, D. L., e. Sept. 25, 1861. . 
 Hall, C. H., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; m. o. June 1, 1865. 
 Kingsbury, Oliver, e. Sept. 25, 1861; m. o. Nov. 25, 1864. 
 Lewis, N. B., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 Mock, Geo., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Mock, Wm., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Phelps, Walter, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Pierce, S. S., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Phillips, Seth, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Riggs, W. H., e.Sept. 25, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Sperry, Jno., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Shattuck. Wm., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 j m. o. July 6, 1865, as First Sergeant; comd. 
 
 Second Lieutenant, but not mustered. 
 Sullivan, Jas., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Wheeler, H. N., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 Watkins, F. N. H. H., e. Sept. 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 
 25, 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Walker, Eugene, e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Whiteaell, Wm., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 Able, Walter, e. Jan. 23, 1864; died at Rome, Ga. 
 Bishop, G. H., e. Feb. 12, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Hawkins, Thos., e. Sept. 29, 1862 ; died May 29, 1865. 
 McMahon, Pat., e. Nov. 19, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 28, 1864. 
 McMasters, B. F.. e. Nov. 19, 1861. 
 
 Sabins, J. A., e. Feb. 13, 1865 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corp. 
 Smith, C. M., e. Feb. 11, 1865 ; trans. to'V. R. C. in June, 
 
 1865. 
 Thiese. Adolph, e. Feb. 11, 1865; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Capt. A. P. Moffatt, e. Oct. 1, 1861 ; resd. April 8, 1862. 
 
 Capt. L. C. Lee. e. Oct. 1, 1861, as First Lieutenant ; 
 prmtd. to Captain April 8, 1862; resd. Nov. 7, 1862. 
 
 Capt. M. J. McGrath, e. Oct. 1, 1861, as Second Lieuten- 
 ant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant April 8, 1862, and to 
 Captain Nov. 7, 1862 ; term expired Jan. 23, 1865. 
 
 Capt. H. C. Williamson, e. Sept. 28, 1861, as private; re-e. 
 as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergeant and to Cap- 
 tain Nov. 19, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 First Lieut. Cornelius Snyder, e. as First Sergt. Sept. 28, 
 1861 ; prmtd. to Second Lieut. April 8, 1862, and to 
 First Lieut. Nov. 7, 1862; term expired Dec. 18, 1864. 
 
 Second Lieut. Alfred Billing, e.Sept. 28, 1861, as Sergeant; 
 prmtd to Second Lieutenant, Nov. 7. 1862 ; time ex- 
 pired Dec, 1864. 
 
 Second Lieut. Elijah Perrigo, e. Sept. 28. 1 861, as Corporal ; 
 re-e. vet Dec. 27, 1863 ; comd. Second Lieutenant, 
 July 5, 1865. but not muitered; m.o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. Wm. Pruitt, e. Sept, 28, 1861. 
 
 Sergt. Geo. Rogers, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Sergt. J. H. Snell, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 23, 
 
 , 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Corp. T. S. Chapel, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 
 Corp. Noyes B. Wood, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Corp. N. J. Terry, e. Sept 28, 1861. 
 
 Corp. Henry E. Perrin, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 1864 ; in. o, July 6, 1865. 
 
 Corp. Clark Smith, e. Sept, 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 27, 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Corp. Ripha Warden, e. Sept, 28, 1861 ; m. o. Dec. 31, 1864. 
 
 Corp. C. T. Douglass, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Musician Jas. P. Wightman, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Armstrong, Samuel, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Bills. Geo H., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 163 ; 
 m. o.July 6, 1805 
 
 Billing, Wm. H., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; died at Rome, Ga., 
 Aug. 29, 1864.
 
 504 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Bowers, Jas., e. Sept 28, 1861 ; died at Aurora, 111., Oct. 1, 
 
 1863. 
 Brooks, J C., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; m. o. July 15, 1865; was 
 
 prisoner. 
 
 Bronson, David, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Breeze, R. S., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Beecher, Jacob, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 28, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Cassalman, G. J., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as yet. Dec. 27, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Musician. 
 Cassalman, Geo., e. Sept. 28, 1861.' 
 Cuthbert, Thos., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Dawson, Jesse, e. Sept. 28, 1861 : kid. in action Oct. 3, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Deal, Adam, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Duncan, L. A., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Divine, John, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 Edwards, A. A , e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Fitzgerald. Thos., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Gushline,H.J., e.Sept. 28, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 27,1863 
 
 m. o. July 6. 1865. 
 Gibbons, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Gerber, Fredk., e. S?pt. 28, 1861. 
 Kerns, Patrick, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. April 
 
 12, 1864. 
 Kilborn, Thos., e. Sept. 28,1861; re-e. as vet. Dec 25 18 : ; 
 
 m. o. July 6. 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Lewis, Lawrence, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Jackson, C. H.. e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Martin, A. S., e. Sept. 28. 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 18, 1864. 
 Martin, Amos, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 27, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Miller, Nelson, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Marlett, R. D., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; trans, to Co. A Cav. 
 McLellen, Alex , e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Miller, Hiram, e. Sept. 28, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 26, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Wagoner. 
 Miller, Amos, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 McNaughton, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Nelson, Jacob, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan . 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1867 as Corporal. 
 Meisner, Jacob, e. Sept, 28, 1861. 
 O'Hern, Dennis, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Pruett, Thos., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Putnam, Ransom, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Price, Jacob, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Row, Jas. e. Sept. 2 , 1861. 
 Ray, D. W., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; m. 
 
 0. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Ray, Wm.. e. Sept. 28,1861. 
 
 Randall, F. J., e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps, May 
 
 1, 1864. 
 
 Raymo, Alex., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Smith, Hiram, e. Sept. 28, 1861 ; deserted Nov. 5. 1861. 
 
 Satterneld, N. M., e. Sept. 28. 1861. 
 
 Steinhauser, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Stickles, Nelson, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Stevens, Wm., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Stickler, Washington, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 
 Terry, Justin, e. Sept. 28, Is61. 
 
 Terry, Amos. 
 
 Thompson, Jas., e. Sept 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863; died July 21, 1864. 
 Van Raalt, Peter, e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Williams, Jno., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Young, T. P., e. Sept. 28, 1861. 
 Curry, Marion, e. Feb. 23, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Davis, Loren, e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect. ; died May 10, 1864. 
 Erkenbrack, Wm., e. Feb. 4, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 Eastman, Eugene, e. Dec. 31,1861, rect.; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 1, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865 
 
 Hecker, Francis, e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; in. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Kennedy, Hiram, e. Feb. 9, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 0, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Newell, W. D., e. Feb. 20, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Orr, J. H , e. Feb. 9, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6. 1865. 
 Orr, C. P., e. rect. ; re-e. as vet. March 2, 1864 ; prmtd. 
 
 to First Lieutenant from Sergeant. 
 Orbin, Francis, e. Feb. 1, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Rose, William, e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Superman, Horatio, e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865 
 Stearold, Christopher, e. Feb. 17, 1864. rect. ; m. o. July 
 
 6, 1865. 
 
 Sander, Alex., e. Feb. 16, 1S64, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Stickler, Jonathan, rect. 
 Williams, Roswell, e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Williams, Henry, e. Nov. 24, 1861, rect.; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 1, 1864; m. o. July 6,1865. 
 Wildrick, Lud., rect. ; re-e. as vet. March 2, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 July 6, 1865. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. J. T. Brown, e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; hon. disd. Feb. 3, 
 1864. 
 
 Capt. T. H. Thompson, e. Sept. 11, 1861, as Sergeant; 
 prmtd. to Second Lieutenant April 18, 1862 ; to First 
 Lieutenant Sept. 2, 1862; to Captain Feb. 3,1864; 
 term. ex. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Capt. A. W. Welbern.e. Sept. 11, 1861, as Sergeant; re-e. 
 as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; prmtd. to Sergeant and to Sec- 
 ond Lieutenant Feb. 3, 1864 ; to Captain Dec. 24, 1864 . 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 First Lieut. C. B. Wells, e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; prmtd. to Quar- 
 trmaster Sept. 13, 1861. 
 
 First Lieut. J. W. Acker, e. Sept. 11, 1861, as private; 
 re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; prmtd. to Sergeant and to 
 First Lieutenant Oct. 24, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Second Lieut. LeRoy Powers, e. Sept. 11, 1861, as pri- 
 vate; re-e. as vet. Feb. 1, 1864; comd. Second Lieu- 
 tenant but not mustered ; m.o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 First Sergt. Samuel Andersen, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Sergt. C. P. Bailey, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Sergt. J. W. Sharp, e. Sept. 11. 1861. 
 
 Corp. F. B. Dowan, e. S;-pt. 11, 1861. 
 
 Corp. W. G. Stanford, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Corp. A. E. Rose, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Corp. W. J. Dempster, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Corp. J. J. Rose, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Corp. G. R. Van Driesen, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Abbott, Frank, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Musician. 
 
 Batterman, Henry, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Binner, John, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Bowen, Edgar, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Bryan, John, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Caraby, W. A., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863; disd. March 13, 1865, as Sergeant; disab. 
 
 Campbjll, Chas., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Cockerton, J. C., e. Sept. 11. 1861. 
 
 Davis, A. J., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1364. 
 
 Davenport, H. W., e. Sept. 11, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863 : m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Dempster, John, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863 ; prmtd. to Hospital Steward. 
 
 Durban, Hugh, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Edwards, H. C., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Eggleston, Elisha. e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m.o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Fitts, E., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Gorom, David, e. Sept. 11,1861 ; disd. June 20, 1864, disab 
 
 Harlow, W. H., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25- 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Hawley, E. J., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Heath, Newton, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Haven, J. N., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Hilgenfeld, F., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps 
 April 18. 1864. 
 
 Holden, H. S., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Huntley, W. S., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Huntoon, J. F., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 James, Jones, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Kendall, G. S.. e. Sept, 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Kendall, H. W., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m.o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Lowe, Anson, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Lake, John, e. Sept. 11, 18H1 ; m. o. Nov. 2, 1864. 
 
 Miller, James, e. Sept, 11, 1861. 
 
 Moore, Imogene, e. Sept. 11,1861 ; re e. as vet. Dec. 25. 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Moore, G. W., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Manning, Daniel, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863; m.o. July 6,1865. 
 
 Mite ell, Joseph, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 2, 1863, 
 disab. 
 
 Gates, Robt. e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o.Oct. 24, 1864. 
 
 Perry, J. P., e. Sept. 11,1861; re-e. as vet Dec. 25, 1863 ; 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 Parmely, C. H., e. Sept. 11,1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Pounder, GBO., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Robinsou, Jefferson, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 25, 1863.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 505 
 
 Bose, H. P., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Scholts, Fred., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corp. 
 Scholts, Peter, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Sherman, M. L., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; disd. May 23, 1865, disab. 
 Shaw, J. E., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Shoveland, Mich., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Simpson, J. H., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; m. o. Nov. 7, 1864, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Smith, 0. M., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Spicer, Solomon, e. Sept. 11. 1861. 
 Sprague, C. W., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Trausue, H. W., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Wunger, 8. L., e. Sept. 11,1861; disd. Oct. 20, 1861, disab. 
 Ward, Waldo, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Watts, Joseph, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Western, H. F., e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Wisner, W. E., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Walover, James, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 Walover, Clark, e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Walover, Wm., e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Walover, Jacob, e. Sept. 11, 1861. 
 
 Aldrich, Ezra, e. Jan. 25, 1864, reel; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Barnard, A. M., e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect. ; absent without 
 
 leave since June 20, 1865. 
 
 Barter, G. W., e. Feb. 6, 1864, reel.; m. o. July 6,1865. 
 Buck, A. J., e. Aug. 15, 1862, rect. ; m. o. May 28, 1865. 
 Barnes, Win., e. Nov. 1, 1861, rect. 
 
 Conrad, G. W., e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Duff, Robt., e. March 1, 1865, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Ehorn, Chas., e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Gaut, Philemon, e. Jan. 23, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Guptiel, L. C., e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Hietz, Nelson, e. Feb. 6, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Hoxie, E. E., e. Jan. 3, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Kendall, F. C., e. Jan. 25, 18<54, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Maeor, David, e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Merrill, J. N., e. Jan. 25, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Moore, J. S., e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 OH, Chas., e. Feb. 13, 1864. rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Perry, Henry, e. Feb. 12, 1864. 
 Peck, S. J.. e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Quinlan, John, e. Aug. 30, 1862, rect.; m. o. May 28, 1865. 
 Russell, Z. T., e. Jan. 30, 1864, rect; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Schuckneck, Jos., e. Jan. 25, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Scott, Chas., e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Sprague, Henry, e. Aug. 29, 1862, rect.; kid. at Atlanta, 
 
 Ga., Aug. 13, 1864. 
 
 Stickle, Griffin, e. Jan. 27, 1864, rect. 
 Walls, Fred., e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Wells, Hubbard, e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Webb, Wm., e. Aug. 29, 1862, rect ; m. o. May 28, 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. Alphonzo Barto, e. Sept. 14, 1861, as Second Lieut.; 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. Oct. 16, 1861. 
 Capt H. N. Patchin, e. Seft 6, 1861 as Corp.; re-e. vet. 
 
 Dec, 29, 1863 ; prmtd. to First Sergt. and to Capt. Oct. 
 
 24, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 First Lieut. E. J. Allen, e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; prmtd. to 
 
 Adjt. 
 First Lieut. H. S. Doty, e. Sept. 6, 1861 as First Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Nov. 1, 1861, and to First 
 
 Lieut. Oct. 18, 1862; term expired Oct. 24, 1864. 
 First. Lieut. J. M. Vote, e. Sept. 7, 1861 as private; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Dec. 29, 1863; prmtd. to Corp., to Sergt. 
 
 and to First Lieut. Oct. 24, 1864; m. o. July 6, 1866. 
 Second Lieut. Chas.Isbell, e. Sept. 6, 1861 as private ; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Jan. 25, 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865 as First Sergt.; 
 
 comd. as Second Lieutenant but not mustered. 
 Sergt. Thos. Clark, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Sergt. J. S. Dorman, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Sergt. V. J. Lowe, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Sergt. David Curtis, e.Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Corp. Geo. Ostrander, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Corp. R. C. Burns, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Corp. David Corsair, e. Sept 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 6, 1865 as Sergeant. 
 Corp R. W. Stone, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Corp. Timothy Silver, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Musician T. E. Lawrence, e. Sept 6, 1861. 
 Musician Wm. Wells, e, Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Allen, Wm., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Allen, David, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Baldwin, Chas., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. ai vet. Dec. 28, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865 as Corporal. 
 Bennett, Chas. e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Barret, Wm., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 4, 1864 ; m. 
 
 o. July 6, 1865. 
 Bennet, Loren, e. Sept. 6, 18lil ; re-e. Dec. 29, 1863 ; m. o. 
 
 July 6, 1865 as Sergeant. 
 
 Boyington, N. B., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Coon, C. M., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Cutting, Dean, e. Sept. 6, 1861; disd. in 18^2, disab. 
 Clute, Thos., e. Sept. 6. 1861. 
 Campbell, C. M., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Currier, W. R., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 DeWolf. J. A., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Doty, Edward, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Ellis, J. S., e. Sep*. 6, 1861. 
 Edwards, David, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Gustafson, Chas., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Garner, Frank, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Haines, John, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Hanvan, Peter, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865 as Sergeant. 
 Hoagland, J. B., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Isabel, Chas., e. Sept. 6, 1861 : re-e. as vet. Jan. 25, 1864 ; 
 
 promoted. 
 Johnson, Geo., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Jones, Jeremiah, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Kennedy, W. W., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Ketsel, Michael, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Lightfoot, Jno., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Lightfoot, J. B., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Morgan, Leroy, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Morris, Saml., e. Sept 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 4, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Murry, Patrick, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Murry, Jno., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 McGowan, Lawrence, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 25, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Pitcher, A. J., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Pierce, Jas., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Peek, G. M., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; prmtd. to Com. Sergeant. 
 Parker, E. F., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; disd. Oct., 1861, writ of ha- 
 beas corpus. 
 Patchin, Ed., e Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Peck, G. H., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Reams, F. B., e. Sept. 6, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Robinson, C. C., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Roberts, W. P., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 4, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Reams, S. A., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Reberger, Anson, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Swadling, Jno., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Siddons, Thos., e. Sept. 6. 1861. 
 Sackett, E. C., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Sherman, M. L., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Sherman, Hugh, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Tuck, Wm., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Tyler, S. P., e. Sept. 6. 1861. 
 Tyler, O. W.. e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 29, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Thomas, Benj., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; prmtd. to Chaplain. 
 Tyler, Cummings, e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Underbill, Geo., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Vail, G. W., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 2, 1864, to re-e. 
 Walters, Wm., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 
 Walters, Cuthbert, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Witcomb, Geo., Jr., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Whitmire, W. A., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 24, 1864. 
 Williams, Thos., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Young, D. L., e. Sept. 6, 1861. 
 Aurand, Abrana, e. Aug. 11, 1862; rect.; disd.; term 
 
 expired. 
 Batterman, Henry, e. Feb. 13, 1864; rect; m. o. July 6, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Brayman, Ambrose, e. Feb. 4, 1864 ; rect, m. o.July 6, '65. 
 Cole, M. B., e. Feb. 8, 1864 ; rect ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Eaton, Jno., e. Jan. 17, 1865 ; rect ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 French, J. M., e. Feb. 4, 1864; rect; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Getzelman, M., e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; rect; re-e. as vet. Jan. 4, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 Klick, Jonathan, e. Feb. 10, 1864; rect; m.o. July 6, 186F.
 
 506 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Kohler, Danl., e. Feb. 5, 1864; rect.; died at Dallas, Ga., 
 June 4, 1864. 
 
 Litner, W. H., e. Feb. 5, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Larking, Jno., e. Fi-b 4, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865 
 
 McCarthy, M., e. Feb. 10, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 McGohey, S., e. Feb. 8, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Munch, Philip, e. Nov. 1, 1861; rect. 
 
 Mooth, Antone, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; rect. 
 
 Pfister, Sebastian, e. Feb. 1,1864; rect.; m o. July 6, 1865 
 
 Beam, Levi, e. Feb. 1, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Reinhart, Jno., e. Feb. 1, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Skinner, 0. B., e. Sept. 16, 1862; rect.; disd ; term expd. 
 
 Schuesse, Chas., e. Feb. 15, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. * 
 
 Tyson, Peter, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; rect. 
 
 Tyler, H. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; rect.; disd.; term expired. 
 
 Tyler, F. W., e. Aug. 11, 1862. rect.; disd i term expired. 
 
 Van Ocker, A., e. Feb 12, 1864 ; rect.; m. o. July 6, 1865. 
 
 Vote, Wm., e. Feb. 2, 1864 ; rect.; died at Marietta, Ga., 
 Aug. 12, 1864. 
 
 VanVleet, John, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; rect ; disd ; term ex- 
 pired. 
 
 Whitcomb, Wm., e. Nov. 25, 1861 ; rect. 
 
 Whitmire, Earnest, e. Feb. 8, 1864 ; rect ; m. o. July 6, 
 1865. 
 
 Clark, T. J., e. Aug. 30, 1862; unassigned rect. 
 
 Doty, C. E., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; unassigned rect. 
 
 Ellithorp, D., e. Sept. 16, 1862; unassigned rect. 
 
 Long, Robert, e. Aug. 30, 1862; unassigned rect. 
 
 Yedhon, S., e. Feb. 2, 1864; unassigned rect; deserted. 
 
 Second Lieut. Hugh Kennedy, 53d Inf., Co. B., e. Nov. 
 23,1861; re-e as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; prmtd. to Sergeant 
 and to Second Lieutenant May 19, 1865; m. o. July 
 22, 1865. , 
 
 FIFTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. 
 
 The Fifty-eighth Illinois Infantry Volunteers 
 was recruited at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 111., 
 on the llth of February, 1862. The regiment 
 left Camp Douglas, 887 strong, via the Illinois 
 Central Railroad, for Cairo, 111., and reported to 
 Brig. Gen. E. A. Paine on the 12th. Was imme- 
 diately furnished with arms and started from 
 Cairo about midnight, with orders to proceed 
 up the Ohio to Smithland, Ky. ; thence up 
 the Cumberland to the vicinity of Fort Don- 
 elson, and to report to the officer in charge of 
 United States forces. Arrived near Fort Don- 
 lson on the night of the 13th, and disem- 
 barked at daybreak the 14th, having been as- 
 signed to the Third Brigade, Third Division, 
 Col. J. M. Thayer, First Nebraska, command- 
 ing. 
 
 Was temporarily assigned to the Second Di- 
 vision. Gen. C. F. Smith commanding On re- 
 porting to Gen Smith, was assigned to the 
 brigade of Col. Lauman, of the Seventh Iowa, 
 and about 11 A. M., 14th, was in position, 
 subject to considerable annoyance from the 
 enemy's shell from the fort. In the afternoon, 
 two companies were deployed forward, and 
 were briskly engaged for a short time. The 
 men suffered exceedingly from the intense 
 cold, no fires being allowed. The men were 
 poorly prepared for the severe task imposed 
 upon them very few having seen service. 
 The arms furnished them had been condemned 
 and thrown aside by other regiments, and 
 there was, in short, no confidence in them 
 whatever. A few casualties occurred during 
 the evening and night. On the morning of 
 the loth, was re-assigned to the Third Brigade, 
 Third Division. Was under fire a short time 
 in the morning and in the evening. While at- 
 tempting to secure an advanced and desirable 
 
 position, was considerably cut up and thrown 
 into confusion by a masked battery, upon 
 which it approached to within 250 yards. For 
 a few moments the ranks were considerably 
 broken, the fire being entirely unexpected. 
 By moving to the right, however, a short dis- 
 tance, it was protected from the sweeping fire 
 of grape and cannister, and re-forrned, though 
 then exposed to a murderous fire from the 
 enemy's sharpshooters (who swarmed every 
 tree) and skirmishers. Threw out skirmishers 
 and drove back the enemy, and held the same. 
 Night now closed around. When leaving the 
 boats, the Commissary was directed to bring to 
 the regiment rations for three days, they being 
 unprovided with havers-icks. In the many 
 changes made, the Commissary Sergeant was 
 unable to find the regiment, and the men got 
 no rations from Friday morning till Sunday 
 morning, when they were procured from the 
 Division Commissary at daybreak. On the 
 morning of the 16th, Sunday, a white flag was 
 seen waving over the fort, denoting its sur- 
 render.) 
 
 The conduct of the men on this occasion was 
 remarkable. Raw men, without rations, and 
 armed with the most worthless guns, they be- 
 haved as well as veterans of a hundred battles. 
 Remained at Fort Donelson till the afternoon 
 of Tuesday, the 18th, when it moved out about 
 four miles en route for Fort Henry. Camped 
 for the night, and at 7 A. M. the next dny 
 resumed the march, and arrived at Fort Henry 
 about noon. The roads were almost impassa- 
 ble, and, consequently, the march was a most 
 difficult one. Remained at Fort Henry till it 
 embarked on the transport "Boston" and 
 went up the Tennessee with the troops com- 
 manded by Maj. Gen. Smith. Arrived at 
 Crump's Landing, about four miles above 
 Savannah, and disembarked. Were at once 
 moved out about eleven miles into the neigh- 
 borhood of Purdy. During the march, it 
 rained incessantly. Remained all night, re- 
 turning to transports about 9 P. M. Men 
 very much exhausted. Made a capture of 
 a few rebel pickets. Remained on trans- 
 port till morning, then disembarked, and went 
 into camp about one-half mile from the land- 
 ing. Remained in camp for several days, 
 drilling and completing organization of the 
 regiment. 
 
 On the 29th of March, embarked on steamer 
 and went up to Pittsburgh Landing. Having 
 been re-assigned to the division of Gen. C. F. 
 Smith, was directed to report to Col. Sweeny, 
 of the Fifty-second Illinois, and was assigned 
 to his brigade. Went into camp quite near 
 the river, not over one-third of a mile distant. 
 Proceeded to change arms, secured transporta- 
 tion, and in every way completed the organ- 
 ization. On the morning of Sunday, the 6th 
 of April, was awakened by heavy tiring from 
 the front ; received orders to fall in and 
 await further orders. About 8:30 A. M., was 
 moved out one mile and a half, when orders 
 were received from Gen. Grant, in person, to
 
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 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 509 
 
 take position across a roaa and hold that posi- 
 tion. Immediately changed front and took 
 the position, as directed. With some slight 
 changes in position, mainly to the front and 
 perpendicular to the front, it occupied the 
 same ground all day. From the time of going 
 into the fight, about 9 A. M., it was almost 
 continually under fire. About 4 P. M., the 
 right and left were giving way ; but orders 
 were imperative to hold position. At length 
 it became evident that unless some change was 
 made, ths regiment would be taken prisoners. 
 The regiment stood alone. Charge after charge 
 was made by the stubborn and determined foe. 
 To prevent being flanked, the order was given 
 to fall back to the brow of a hill in the rear. 
 Arrived there, found the enemy on our rear 
 (now front), on all sides, and the regiment ex- 
 posed to a continuous firr. Disorganized por- 
 tions of regiments were then in the utmost 
 confusion. Orders were given to forward, and 
 cut its way out ; which could have been done 
 with less loss than was suffered afterward in 
 Southern prisons. About 2,300 officers and 
 men were captured in this fight by the enemy. 
 The surrender did not all take place the same 
 time. The surrender of the Fifty-eighth was 
 made a few minutes before 6. The loss in this 
 engagement was frightful, amounting, in killed, 
 wounded and prisoners, to upward of 450. 
 More than three-fcurths of those taken prison- 
 ers were wounded, and only 218 were taken 
 prisoners. The fact of the regiment being 
 taken was, undoubtedly, in a great measure, 
 the salvation of the army. The right and left 
 were entirely turned, and the enemy on one 
 wing only needed to know of the success of 
 the other to press on ; but while the center 
 held out, they could not know their success. 
 And when, at last, this small band was forced 
 to succumb, night closed her mantle over the 
 scene, and the haughty victors could pursue 
 their advantage no further. Suffering all the 
 privations and hardships which the rebels 
 knew so well how to inflict on their helpless 
 victims, for about seven months, the prisoners, 
 or what was left of them, about 130 men, were 
 paroled and allowed to go North. The few 
 men left in camp were strengthened by men 
 returned from hospital and sent from the State 
 as recruits, and participated, with credit, in 
 all the skirmishes and battles consequent on 
 the siege of Corinth. Was engaged at the 
 battle near luka, and lost twenty-three out 
 of thirty-one in killed, wounded and pri- 
 soners. 
 
 In December, 1862, different detachments of 
 the regiment were concentrated at Camp But- 
 ler, near Springfield, 111. Remained at Camp 
 Butler, recruiting, and guarding rebel prison- 
 ers, until June, 1863, when the regiment was 
 sent to Cairo, to garrison that post. Remained 
 at tha place till Jan. 1, 1864, in the mean- 
 time garrisoning Mound City, 111., and Paducah, 
 Ky., for the greater part of the time. Some 
 of the companies had a skirmish near Obion 
 River, Ky., in October. Companies A and B 
 
 garrisoned May field. Ky., and had several 
 slight encounters with rebels at that place. 
 
 On the 21st of January, embarked on trans- 
 port, and went to Vicksburg, Miss. Was as- 
 signed to the First Brigade, Third Division, 
 Sixteenth Army Corps, and, on the 3d of Feb- 
 ruary, left Vicksburg, Miss., for Meridian, 
 Miss. Was the first regiment to cross the Big 
 Black, the first to engage the enemy at Queen's 
 Hill, and the first infantry regiment to enter 
 Meridian, Miss. During this expedition, the 
 men were seventy hours with but one day's 
 rations, with which they marched forty-seven 
 miles and destroyed seven miles of railroad. 
 Returned to Vicksburg, and was sent, with the 
 troops of Gen. A. J. Smith, to participate in 
 the Red River campaign. Arrived at Simuis- 
 port on the evening of the 12th of March. Dis- 
 embarked to cook, etc. 
 
 On the morning of the 13th, moved out 
 from Simmsport about five miles, and took 
 possession of two field works, which the rebels 
 evacuated on the approach of the regiment. 
 Returned to the boats in the evening, and at 8 
 o'clock, the same night, started for Fort De- 
 Russey. Arrived at the Fort, which it in- 
 vested, about 4 P. M. on the 14th. A san- 
 guinary struggle ensued ; but, after a stubborn 
 resistance, the enemy surrendered. The col- 
 ors of the Fifty-eighth were the first planted 
 on the works. The boats having come up, the 
 troops were embarked and proceeded to Alexan- 
 dria. After great and unnecessary delay at 
 Alexandria, moved up the river (by land 
 about twenty miles, the remainder by water) 
 to Grand Ecore : there disembarked, and re- 
 mained until the 7th of April, when the army 
 of Gen. Smith moved out On the Shreveport 
 road, preceded two days by the Army of the 
 Gulf. t During the afternoon of the 8th, heavy 
 firing 'was heard in the advance, and, on ar- 
 rival at Pleasant Hill, learned that a severe 
 engagement had taken place, in which the 
 troops of General Banks had been signally de- 
 feated, and were then falling back. A council 
 of war having been held, it was decided to 
 give the enemy battle, and early on the follow- 
 ing day the lines were formed. About 4 P. M., 
 the rebels, flushed with the victory of the pre- 
 vious day, 1 and heavily re-enforced by fresh 
 troops from Texas, threw themselves upon the 
 line. A brigade of Maine troops, on the right, 
 was speedily driven from the ground. The 
 Fifty-eighth occupied the extreme left of the 
 line, and, as the brigade of Eastern troops 
 gave way, charged on the enemy, and poured 
 upon them an enfilading and rear fire, which 
 at once turned their flank. Following up this 
 advantage, the regiment captured over five 
 hundred prisoners, and recaptured from the 
 enemy a battery belonging to the First United 
 States Artillery, which had been taken from 
 Gen. Banks' troops. In this engagement the 
 loss was very heavy. The utmost gallantry 
 was shown, both by officers and men ; and to 
 the Fifty-eighth is due the credit of having 
 given the first check to the foe, and of taking
 
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 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 five-sixths of the prisoners captured during 
 the engagement. Many of the prisoners here 
 taken were the same the regiment guarded in 
 Camp Butler. Though the enemy was most 
 signally defeated, the command was ordered to 
 retreat, and at 3 o'clock A. M. of the 10th the 
 army fell back, leaving the dead and wounded 
 on the field, to be cared for by an enemy who 
 was then some sixteen miles distant, retreating 
 as rapidly as possible. Reached Grand Ecore 
 on the 12th, and went into camp. 
 
 Mustered out at Montgomery, Ala., April 1, 
 1866, and ordered to Springfield, 111., for final 
 payment and discharge. 
 
 Col. W. F. Lynch, e. Jan. 25, 1862 ; term expired Feb. 
 7. 1865. 
 
 Maj. Thos. Newlan, e. Jan. 25, 1862 ; resd. Aug. 20, 1864. 
 
 Q. M. N. T. Roche, e. Oct. 1, 1861 : prmtd. to Quarter- 
 master Sept. 10, 1863 ; m. o. Feb. 9, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. H. M. Crawford, e Jan. 25, 1862 ; term expired 
 Feb. 7, 1865. 
 
 First Asst. Surgeon E. A. Merrifield. e. Jan. 25, 1862; 
 prmtd. to Surgeon 44th Regt. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. John Murphy, e. Sept. 8. 1861, as First Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. July 1, 1862, to First Lieut. 
 
 Oct. 12, 1862, and to Capt. Aug. 20. 1864; trans, as cons. 
 First Lieut. Eugene Lynch, e. Dec. 24, 1861 ; resd. Oct. 2, 
 
 1862. 
 Dickson, Daniel, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; kid. at Fort Donelson, 
 
 Feb. 15, 1862. 
 
 Fitzgibbons, Edward, e. Nov. 14, 1861 ; desd. in April, 1862. 
 Haugh, Patrick, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. and trans. 
 
 to Company A as consol., Jan. 1, 1864; m. o. April 1, 
 
 1866, as First Sergeant. 
 Hannigan, Alpheus, e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; died. June 16, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Hinds, Peter, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; disd. July 18, 1862, disab. 
 Hilbert, J. C. B., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; kid. at Fort Donel- 
 son Feb. 15, 1862. 
 
 Kelly. Bartholomew, e. Sept. 18, 1861; kid. at Fort Don- 
 elson Feb. 15, 1862. 
 Leonard, Jos , e. Oct. 20, 1861 ; trans, to Company A, as 
 
 consol , Oct. 30, 1861. 
 Murphy, Daniel, e. Sept. 18, 1861; re-e. as vet, Feb. 26, 
 
 1864; trans, to Company A, as consol., Feb. 26, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. April 1, 1866, as Corporal. 
 
 Mallory, C. A., e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; prmtd. to Q. M. Sergt. 
 Munan, Dennis, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; deserted Feb., 1862. 
 Overton, Francis, e.Oct. 10,1861; tn. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 O'Brien, Jno., e. Nov. 1, 1861; re-e. as vet. and trans, to 
 
 Co. A as consol., Jan. 1, 1864; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 Rumble, Fred., e. Nov. 8, 1861 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Rumble, H. J., e. Nov. 8, 1861 ; disd. Oct., 1862; disab. 
 Smith, D. M., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; deserted Feb. 11, 1862. 
 Wright, Richard, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; deserted Feb. 11, 1862. 
 Walsh, Wm., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; deserted Feb. 11, 1862. 
 Carty, Barney, e. Jan. 13, 1864, rect. ; trans, to Co. A as 
 
 consol., Jan. 13, 1864, ; died at Greenville, La., Sept. 
 
 17, 1865. 
 Gage, W. L., e. Feb. 28, 1863 ; rect. ; trans, to Co. A as 
 
 consol. ; m. o. April 20. 1865. 
 Jones, Thos., e. Jan. 1, 1862 ; rect. ; disd. June 16, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Kinney, Jas., e. Jan. 25, 1864 ; trans, to Co. A as consol. ; 
 
 absent without leave since March 19, 1865. 
 Montgomery, B. F., e. Dec. 17, 1863; rect.; trans, to 
 
 Co. A as consol. ; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 Sayers, Jno., e. Feb. 2, 1864 ; rect. ; trans, to Co. A as 
 
 consol . ; m. o. May 24, 1865. 
 Smith. Jno. ; rect. ; prmtd. to Wagonmaster. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Capt. D. J. Lynch, e. Dec. 24, 1861, as Second Lieut. Co. I ; 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. Co. B July 3, 1862 ; resd. Nov. 5, 1864. 
 Armon, Michael, e. Men 1,1863 ; rect. ; desd. Men. 15, 1863. 
 Burr, Lyman, e. March 30, 1863 ; rect. ; trans, to Co. B as 
 
 consol.; m. o. March 29, 1865. 
 Deal, Adam, e. March 13, 1863; rect; trans, to Co. B as 
 
 consol. ; disd. July 18, 1865, disab. 
 
 Edwards, Jno., e. Jan. 7, 1863; rect; deserted Jan. 22 r 
 
 1863. 
 
 Hudson, Tobias, e. Mch. 17, 1863 ; rect. ; desd. Mch. 29, 1863. 
 Hamilton, Wm., e. Jan. 5. 1863 ; rect. ; trans, to Co. B as 
 
 consol. ; died July 21, 1865. 
 Price, Jno., e. March 19,1863; rect; trans, to Co B na 
 
 consol. 
 
 Sheady. Jno., e. Dec. 18, 1863; rect.; died May 25, 1864. 
 Sweet, Jas., e. May 20, 1863; rect. ; died March 24, 1864, 
 
 of wds. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Abbott, Nath.,e. Nov. 22, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 31, 1861 ; minor. 
 Fenton, Merritt, e. Oct. 18, 1861 ; disd. March 20, 1862 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Gobble, Fred., e. Nov. 22, 1861 ; disd. for wds. April 6, 
 
 1862. 
 Harris, Daniel, e. Oct. 18, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 trans, to CtV C as consol. ; died July 8, 1865. 
 Hitchcock, E. R., e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. Nov. 
 
 15, 1864. 
 
 Reed, Geo.. e. Oct. 18, 1861 ; deserted June 15, 1862. 
 Wilson, Oliver, e. Dec. 7, 1861 ; kid. at Shiloh, Tenn., 
 
 April 6, 1862. 
 Chapman, C. H., e. Jan. 1, 1862; rect.; deserted Jan. 25, 
 
 1863. 
 
 McNall. J. M,, e Jan. 1, 1862; reot. ; died June 3, 1862. 
 Plant Jos., e. April 17, 1863 ; rect. ; accidently kid. May 
 
 1, 1863. 
 Tarbell, Elisha, e. Jan. 1,1862; rect.; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 1, 1864 ; trans, to Co. C as consol. ; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 Tarbell, Abijah, e. Jan. 15, 1862; rect. ; m.o. Jan. 18, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Capt. G. C. Kothe, e. Jan. 28, 1862, as Second Lieutenant ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant April 18, 1862; to Captain 
 
 Jan 27, 1863; m. o., term ex. 
 Sergt. Fred Schulz, e. Oct.'15, 1861 ; kid. at Shiloh April 
 
 6, 1862. 
 Beuchler, Jno., e. Dec. 7, 1863, rect. ; trans, to Co. D, as 
 
 consol. ; disd. Sept. 13, 1865 ; disab. 
 Elchroth. Jno., e Dec. 7, 1863, rect ; kid. at Old Town, 
 
 Miss., July 14, 1864. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Smith, R. V., e. June 1, 1863, rect. ; deserted April 8, 
 
 1864. 
 Shafer, Jesse, e. Jan. 20, 1864, rect. ; trans, to Co. D, a 
 
 consol.; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Bronson, Wm., e. Aug. 26, 1863, rect. ; trans, to Co. C, a9 
 consol.; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 First Lieut. R. H. Winslow, e. as Second Lieutenant 
 
 Dec. 31,1861; prmtd. to First Lieutenant April 8, 
 
 1862 ; resd. Jan. 26. 1863. 
 
 Cole, S. B., e. Dec. 12, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Cole, Cyrus, e. Dec. 12, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5. 1862. 
 Champlain, Edward, e. Dec. 10, 1861 ; trans, to Co I Jan. 
 
 5, 1862. 
 ! Connery, Thomas, e. Dec. 15, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 
 
 1862. 
 Collins, Richard, e. Dec. 17, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Ellis, Solona, e. Dec. 15, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Fairbanks, Asa, e. Dec. 21, 1861 ; died Nov 9, 18R4. 
 Flebom, Wm., e. Dec. 20, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Gifford, David, e. Dec. 22, 1861 ; disd. May 12, 1862; disab. 
 Golden, James, e. Dec. 10, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Gibbs, Chas., e. Dec. 5, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1861. 
 Oness, Jno., e. Nov. 15, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I March 2 r 
 
 1862. 
 
 Oness, Wm., e. Nov. 15, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I March 2, 1862. 
 Parker, Edwd., e. Dec. 12. 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Rose, Joe, e. Dec. 20, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Russell, A. B., e. Nov. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. in Co. B, a 
 
 consol. 
 
 Smith, Duane, e. Dec. 10, 1861; deserted Feb. 8, J862. 
 Wildrick, Lud, e. Dec. lo, 1861 ; deserted Feb. 8, 1862. 
 Walkley, S. S., e. Dec. 18, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. &, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Wilson, Jno., e. Deo. 20, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Clegg, William, e. March 10, 1863, rect.; trans, to Co. B, 
 
 as consol.; deserted.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RKCORD. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Burr, Herman, e. Oct. 18, 1861 ; disd; served with Co. I. 
 Foster, A. B., e. Nov. 9, 1861; died at Memphis Feb. 28, 
 
 1863. 
 Shever, Geo., e. Nov., 1861 ; disd. April 25, 1862; disab. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. P. R. Herlow, e. Dec. 24, 1861 ; in. o., term ex. 
 Bradley, David, e. Oct. '23, 1861 ; ace. kid. Dec. 29, 1864. 
 Burns, James, e. Dec. 16. 1861 ; died prisr. of war. 
 Belt--, Thomas, e.-Oct. 10, 1861 ; disd. March 14, 1863, wds. 
 Costello, James, e. Sept. 8, 1*61 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Coleman, Pat., <-. Dec. 6, 1861 ; disd. for disability. 
 Copias, Joseph, e. Dec. 4, 1861; disd. Feb. 22, 1862; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Dunn Wm., e. Dec. 3, 1861 ; trans, to Co. G Jan. 5, 1862. 
 Gallagher, Ed., e. Nov. 13, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 28, 1862 ; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Gartland, Mich., e. Nov. 17, 1861; drowned March, 1862. 
 Given, Wm., e. Dec. 9, 1861 ; died Feb. 12, 1862. 
 HefferBian, Jas., e. Oct. 24, 1861; First Sergeant ; kid. at 
 
 Shiloh April 6, 1862. 
 Hamblin, Dennis, e. Dec. 7, 1861; trans, to Co. G Jan. 5, 
 
 1862. 
 McBriarty, Antony, e. Oct. 20, 1861 ; trans, to Co. G Jan. 
 
 5, 1862. 
 
 McKennn, Thos , e. Dec. 3, 1861 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 186i. 
 Maybee, Jesse, e. Nov. 19, 1861 ; disd. May 26, 1862 ; disab. 
 Morris, J. H. e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; absent sick at m. o. of regt. 
 McEvoy, Patrick, e. Nov. 23, 1861 ; deserted March. 1863., 
 Nichols, A. S., e. Nov. 4, 1861 ; trans, to Co. G Jan. 5 
 
 1862. 
 
 Nelson, G. P., e. Nov. 7, 1861. 
 
 Phillips, Albert, e. Dec. 6, 1861 ; deserted Feb.,1863. 
 Phillips, Jerome, e. Dec. 6, 1861 ; deserted Feb., 1863 
 Ryan, John, e. Nov. 13, 1861 ; disd. for disability. 
 Scott. Edm., e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; trans, to hosp. April 6, 1862. 
 Scanlan, Jas., e. Dec. 10, 18K1 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 Willie, W. R., e. Dec. 22, 1861. 
 
 Coles, Cyrus, e. Dec. 12, 1861, rect.; disd. for disability. 
 Champlin, E., e. Dec. 10, 1861, rect. 
 Connery, Thos., e. Dec. 15, 1861, rect. 
 Downey. Pat., e. Jan. 29, 1862, rect.; trans, to Co. B, as 
 
 cons. 
 
 Dickinson, E. 0., e. Dec. 20, 1861, rect. 
 Ellis, Solona, e. Dec. 15, 1861, rect. ; deserted Feb. 1, 1862. 
 Freborn, W., e.Dec. 20,1861, rect.; disd. May 21, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Gibbs, Chas., e. Dec. 5, 1861, rect.; disd. May 20, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Graham, Pat., e. April 20, 1863, rect. ; deserted Nov. 20, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Jones, John, e., rect. ; died Dec. 4, 1862. 
 Jones, Thos., e. Dec. 17, 1861, rect. 
 Keating, Ed., e. Men. 28, 1863, rect. ; desd. May, 1864. 
 Kinney, Pat., e. Jan. 24, 1864, rect.; trans, to Co. D as 
 
 consol. 
 Oness, John, e. Nov. 15, 1861, rect.; disd. Oct. 20, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Ouess, Wm., e. Nov. 15, 1861, rect. ; re-e. vet. trans, to Co. 
 
 I> as consol. 
 
 Parker, Edward, e.Dec. 12, 1861, rect.; desd.Feb 20,ie62. 
 Painter, Wm., e. Dec. 17, 1861, rect.; desd. Feb. 26, 1862. 
 Rose, Joseph, e. Dec. 20, 1861, rect; deserted Feb., 1863. 
 Sowles, Wm., e. Dec. 17, 1861, rect. ; disd. Oct. 20, 1862, 
 
 diaab. 
 
 Wilson, John, e. Dec., 20, 1861, rect. 
 Walkly, S. S., e. Dec. 18, 1861, roct.; re-e. as vet. trans, 
 to Co. D as consol. 
 
 (As Consolidated.) 
 
 Col. Wm.F. Lynch, e Feb. 7, 1865; muster in May 27, 1865. 
 Lieut. Col. John Murphy, e. as Capt. Co. A Aug. 20, 1864; 
 
 prmtd. to Maj. May 19, 1865, and to Lieut Col. Sept. 
 
 5,1865; cash, as Mnj. Oc'. 8,1865; disab, removed 
 
 Feb. 7, 1866. 
 
 Scanlan, John, Co. A, e. Dec. 13, 1863 ; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 First Lieut. Alonzo B. Russell, Co. B, e. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 prmtd to Second Lieutenant Jan. 26, 1865 ; to First 
 
 Lieutenant Jan. 8, 1866; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 Corp. Jno. Price, Co. B e. Mch. 19, 1863 ; m. o. Mch. 19,1866. 
 Corp. W. R. Wylie, Co. B,e. Jan. 1, 1864; absent, sick at 
 
 m. o. of regt. 
 
 Johnson, S. M., Co. B, e. Oct 1, 1864; m. o. June 6, 1865. 
 Love. Robter, Co. B, e. Dec. 7, 1863; m. o. April 1, 1866 as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Summers, Robt. Co. B, e. Feb. 12, 1863; m. o. Feb. 11, 
 
 1866. 
 
 Taylor, Thomas, Co. B, e. Jan. 1, 1863; m. o. April 1, 
 1866. 
 
 Harris, Daniel, Co. C, e. Jan. 1, 1864 ; died July 8, 1865. 
 
 Tarble, Kl Mia. Co. C, e. Jan. 1, 1864 ; m. o. April 1, 1866. 
 
 Shafer, Jesse, Co. D, e. Jan. 20, 1864; m. o. April 11, 1866. 
 
 Thompson, John, Co. D, e. June 10, 1863 ; killed at Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1864. 
 
 Blair, Laban, Co. D, e. March 9, 1863 (unassigned rect). 
 
 Williams, John, Co. D, e. Jan. 2, 1863(unassigned rect). 
 
 EIGHTY-NINTH INFANTRY. 
 
 The " Railroad Regiment " was organized by 
 the railroad companies of Illinois, at Chicago, 
 in August, 1862. Capt. John Christopher, 
 Sixteenth United States Infantry, was ap- 
 pointed Colonel, and Charles T. Hotchkiss 
 Lieutenant Colonel. It was mustered into 
 United States service Aug. 27th. Ordered to 
 Louisville, Ky., Sept. 4th, and was assigned, 
 by Maj. Gen. Wright, commanding Department 
 of Ohio, to Third Brigade, Col. Woodruff; 
 Second Division, Gen. Cruft ; Army of Ken- 
 tucky, Gen. Nelson. Assigned, Oct. 1st, to 
 Sixth Brigade, Gen. Willich ; Second Division, 
 Gen. Sill; McCook's Corps of Buell's Army. 
 The regiment, on leaving Louisville, started 
 in pursuit of the rebel fores under Gen. 
 Bragg, and, after a fruitless and wearisome 
 march of a month, reached Bowling Green, 
 Ky. At this point, the tenth Company, F, 
 joined the regiment. When in the service but 
 about four months, it took an important part 
 iu the memorable battle of Stone River, where, 
 by its gallant conduct, the men soon became 
 classified among the old, tried soldiers. It did 
 well, and among the heroes who that day die I 
 in liberty's cause was Capt. Henry S. Willett, 
 of Company H. On the 7th, of January, 1863, 
 Col. Christopher, who had never joined the 
 regiment, resigned. The line of promotion 
 then ensuing made Capt. William D. Williams, 
 of Company F, Major. At Liberty Gap, 
 another loss was sustained : Capt. Herbert M. 
 Blake, Company K, a truly brave and efficient 
 officer, fell mortally wounded. Cliickamauga 
 seemed to affix the seal of its devotion. There 
 fell Lieut. Col. Duncan J. Hall, Capts. Rice, 
 Spink and Whiting, and Lieut. Ellis, besides 
 the scores of brave men who fought with noble 
 heroism, and who dared to "do and die" in 
 defense of the "old flag." Upon there-or- 
 ganization of the Army of the Cumberland, the 
 regiment was transferred, with Willich's com- 
 mand, to its new position in the First Brigade, 
 Third Division, Fourth Army Corps. At Mis- 
 sion Ridge, it again encountered the foe. 
 scaling the enemy's intrenchments and driv- 
 ing him from them. In this charge, fell those 
 gallant officers, Lieut. E. 0. Young, Company 
 A, and Capt. Henry L. Rowell, Company <J. 
 It then marched to the relief of Burnside, 
 besieged at Knoxville. This accomplished, it 
 moved on with the brigade, in the marches 
 and countermarches through East. Tennessee. 
 
 Early in April, 1864, it marched with the 
 command to Southern Tennessee, preparatory 
 to Gen. Sherman's glorious campaign through 
 Northern Georgia, for the occupation of
 
 512 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Atlanta. With the brigade, it participated 
 in the splendid victories of Rocky Face, Resaca, 
 Pickett's Mills, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree 
 Creek and the flank movement of Atlanta, and 
 pursued the routed enemy in his retreat to 
 Jonesboro and Lovejoy's Station. On this cam- 
 paign, Lieut. Nathaniel Street, of Company D, 
 and Capt. William Harkness, Company A, of- 
 fered their lives a sacrifice to their beloved 
 country. 
 
 After the unsuccessful attempt of the rebel 
 forces to destroy the railroad communications 
 of the army between Atlanta and Chattanooga, 
 the regiment rendered very important service, 
 while on detached duty, in repairing the dam- 
 ages on the railroad inflicted by the enemy. 
 
 On the 30th of October, 1864, it was ordered 
 to rejoin the command at Pulaski, Tenn. It 
 participated in ihe brilliant achievements of 
 Spring Hill, Columbia, Franklin and Nash- 
 ville, in the latter of which fell Lieut. P. G. 
 Taite, of Company G, pierced by caunon ball. 
 Subsequently, it pursued Hood's shattered 
 forces, in their flying retreat across Tennessee. 
 
 It passed winter quarters at Huntsville, Ala., 
 in January, 1865, and on the 1st of February 
 traveled by railroad for Nashville, and after 
 lying there five days, returned to Camp Green. 
 About the middle of March, the command em- 
 barked on the cars for East Tennessee, to re- 
 establish communications through to Virginia, 
 and prepare to repel rebel invasion. On the 
 surrender of Lee's army, further movements 
 in that section were abandoned, and the 
 Fourth Corps returned by cars to Nash- 
 ville, to muster out of service its non-veterans. 
 On the 10th of June, 1865, the regiment was 
 mustered out of the United States service, in 
 the field, near Nashville, Tenn. Left there 
 June 10th, by the Louisville, New Albany & 
 Chicago Railroad, and arrived in Chicago on 
 the night of June 12th, 1865, and was dis- 
 charged at Camp Douglas, on the 24th of June, 
 1865, making its term of service two years, 
 nine months and twenty-seven days. 
 
 Maj. Bruce H. Kidder, e Aug. 25, 1862, as Captain of Co. 
 
 E; prmtd. to Major Sept 20, 1863; honorably disd. 
 
 March 14, 1865. 
 Surgeon Samuel F. Hance, e. Aug. 25, 1862 ; resd. March 
 
 29, 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Second Lieut. J. N. Hopper, e. July 29, 1862, as Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Sept. 4, 1862 ; resd. Jan. 26, 
 
 1863. 
 Corp. Geo. W. Videtto, e. July 25, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 13, 
 
 1863, disab. 
 Corp. Moses Plunmer, e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. Dec. 26, 
 
 1862, disab. 
 Corp. Jay Lowry, e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1864, as 
 
 prisr. of war. 
 Corp. Levi C. May, e. July 25, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 Sept. 20, 1863. 
 Chattle, W. H., e. Aug. 12, 1862; trans, to Eng. Corps 
 
 July 30. 
 Northan, Richard, e. Aug. 23, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 31, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Bardes, Geo., e. Dec. 1, 1863; rect; died at Anderson- 
 
 ville Aug. 26, 1864 ; No. of grave, 5,457. 
 Darous, Chas., e. Aug. 14,1863; rect.; died July 4, 1864, 
 
 of wounds. 
 Farrar, Lyman, deserted May 14/1864. 
 
 Hibbard, M. C., e. Aug. 20, 1863 ; rect.; trans, to 59th 
 
 111. Inf. 
 Newter, Ruell, e. Jan. 5, 1864: rect.; disd. April 3,1865, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Powers, John, e. Aug. 17, 1863 ; rect.; desd. Oct. 18, 1863. 
 Slawson, J. L , e. Dec. 17, 1863 ; rect.; was prisr.; trans. 
 
 to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Valentine, Arthur 0., e. Dec. 5, 1863; rect.; died May 27, 
 
 1864, of wounds. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Hagan, Thomas., e. Jan. 11, 1864; rect.; trans, to 59th 
 
 111. Inf. 
 
 Johnson, John, e. Jan. 11, 1864; rect.; deserted. 
 Patterson, Hugh, e. Sept. 6, 1863; rect.; trans, to 59th 
 
 111. Inf. 
 Sullivan, W. M, e. Aug. 28, 1863; rect.; deserted. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Black, R. M., e. Aug. 10, 1862; rect.; kid. June 24, 1864. 
 Burlingham, John, e. Sept. 6, 1863; rect.; deserted Sept. 
 
 30, 1863. 
 
 Pearce, Wm., e. Aug. 10, 1862; rect.; deserted Oct. 1, 1862. 
 Gadbury, Wm.,e. Aug. 10, 1862; rect.; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Wade, P. B., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; rect.; died at Chattanooga 
 
 June 30, 1864. 
 Welch, Richd., e. Aug. 7, 1862; rect.; Corp.; desd. Oct. 2, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Hellixon, Matthew, e. Sept. 1, 1863; rect.; died Jan. 31, 
 
 1864. 
 Hattendorf, Henry, e. Aug. 17. 1863 ; rect.; trans, to 59th 
 
 111. Inf. 
 Lyons, Jas., e. Aug. 17, 1863; rect.; disd. Sept. 6, 1864. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Capt. John W. Warren, e. Aug. 1, 1862, as Sergeant ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant Jan. 28, 1863, and to Cap- 
 tain Sept. 20, 1863; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 First Lieut. John B. Watkins, e. Aug. 25, 1862; resd. 
 
 Jan. 28, 1863. 
 First Lieut. Robcirt Miller, e. Aug. 1, 1862, as First Sergt. ; - 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. June 18, 1863, and to First 
 
 Lieut. Sept. 20, 1863; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. Geo. W. White, e. Ang. 25, 1862; cashiered 
 
 June 18, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. O. C. Pease, e. Aug. 21, 1862, as Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Sept. 20, 1863; m. o. June 
 
 10, 1865. 
 Sergt. Samuel Ebereoll, e. Aug. 1, 1862 ; died at Chicka- 
 
 mauga Sept. 21, 1864. 
 Sergt, C. R. Taylor, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. Dec. 28, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Corp. Geo. Shears, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865, as 
 
 private. 
 Corp. Frank Marlet, e. Aug. 2, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 
 Corp. Andrew Golden, e.Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Corp. H. M. Titsworth, e. Aug. 10,1862; m. o. June lu, 
 
 1865, as private. 
 
 Corp. Albert Marney, e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 10, 
 
 1865, ai Sergeant. 
 
 Black, R. M., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Blake, Wm., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; deserted Dec. 6, 1862. 
 Brooks, C. B., e. Aug. 5, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Bryant, C. W., e. Aug. 4, 1862; deserted Jan. 15, 1863. 
 Cogswell, J. C., e. Aug. 1, 1862; died at Nashville Jan. 
 
 1, 1863. 
 
 Clark. Thos. W., e. Aug. 4, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Cousins, Wm., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Carman, Geo., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; Corporal ; died June 8, 
 
 1864, of wounds. 
 
 Evans, H. L , e. Aug. 4, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Egglestou, S. G., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865, wd. 
 Evans, C. G., e. Aug. 4, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Gadberry, W. M., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Gates, 0. B., e. Aug. 5, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Goodwin, Edwin, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 Green, Winfield, e. Aug. 7, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. Oct. 
 
 22, 1864. 
 Hufl, J. T., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; trans, to Miss. Mar. Brig. 
 
 Dec. 15, 1862. 
 Miller, Stephen, e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865, as 
 
 Bugler.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 513 
 
 Lacy, D. M., e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. March 16, 1863; diab. 
 LaCoste, J. M., e. Aug. 7, 1872 ; died of starvation in An- 
 
 dersonville Prison Aug. 6, 1861 ; No. of grave, 7,927. 
 Love, Peter, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Lund, F. A , e. Aug. 5,1862; m. o June 10, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Mahony, Thos., e. Aug. 3, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 McKinley, Jno , e. Aug. 1, 1862; disd. Sept. 28, 1862 
 McKenzie, Alex., e. Aug. 3, 1862,, as Sergeant; died Dec. 
 
 3,1864, of wcls 
 McCullough, S. A., e. Aug. 5, 1862; Corporal; trans, to 
 
 Eng. Corps July 27, 1864. 
 Meyers, Frank, . Aug. 6, 1862 ; died at Chattanooga 
 
 Jan. 24, 1863, of wds. 
 Michard, I., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died at Nashville, Tenn., 
 
 Dec. 12, 1864. 
 
 McGrath, P., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. March 25, 1863, wds. 
 Paradis, A., e. Aug. 8, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. May 31, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Pearce, Wm., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Pinegar, Jno., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; deserted June 1, 1863. 
 Richard, G. L.. e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; disd. May 9, 1863, as Cor- 
 poral, disab. 
 Reedy, P. J., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; Corporal ; died July 2, 
 
 1864, of wds. 
 
 Shugar, F., e. Aug. 4, 1862 ; disd. May 9, 1864, wd. 
 Saterfield, A. E., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Slo*son, S., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Smith. J. P., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. April 7, 1863; disab. 
 Shaw, Jubol, e. Aug. 3, 1862 ; died of starvation in Ander- 
 
 sonville Prison, July 21, 1864 ; No. of grave 2,647. 
 Stop, L. W., e. Aug. 8, 1862; died of starvation in Ander- 
 son ville Prison, July 15, 1864; No. of grave 4,724. 
 Simms, Samuel, e. Aug. 8, 1862; trans to Eng. Corps 
 
 July 27, 1864. 
 Willis, H. H., e. Aug. 2, 1862; disd. June 1, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Wilder. G. A., e. Aug. 5, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Whipple, D., e. Aug. 5, 1862; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 W 7 ildrick, Jas. e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Wentwortb, J. P., e. Aug. 7,1862; disd. May 20, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Welch, Richard, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Wllch, Chas., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. April 14, 1803; disab. 
 Wade, Jas., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Wade, Peter, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Bagg, G. W, e. Aug. 17, 1863, rect.; trans. to V. R. C. 
 
 Nov. 1, 1864. 
 
 Burns, Alex., e. Aug. 26, 1863, rect.; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Barry, F. M., e. Dec. 5, 1863, rect. ; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Conant, Daniel, e. Aug. 27, 1863, rect. ; disd. April 19, 
 
 1865; wd. 
 
 Duncan, L. A., e. Aug. 17,1863, rect. ; trans. 59th 111. Inf. 
 Gibbons, C. H., e. Aug. 24, 1863, rect.; trans. 59th III. Inf. 
 Hosley, A. J., e. Aug. 17, 1863, rect.; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Howard, Henry, e. Sept. 6, 1863, rect.; captd. Dec. 2. 
 
 1863 ; supposed kid. 
 
 Hunter, H. S., e. Aug. 28, 1863, rect.; deserted. 
 Hughes, Jas., e. Aug. 27, 1863, rect. ; desrrted Dec. 30, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Jorsted, J. S., e. Oct. 21, 1863, rect. ; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Jenks, G. M., e. Aug. 17, 1863, rect. ; trans. 59th 111. Inf. 
 Russ, Wm., e. Sept. 1, 1863. rect.; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Scott, H. C., e. Aug. 24, 18G3, rect. ; trans, to 59th 111 Inf. 
 Sweet. W. C., e. Aug. 25, 1863, rect. ; died at Anderson- 
 
 ville Prison April 12, 1864; No. of grave 505. 
 Williamg, Wm., e. Aug. 29, 1863, rect.; trans, to 59th 
 111. Inf. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Handley, Anthony, rect, ; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 Morrison, Wm., e. Dec. 2, 1863, rect. ; died Aug. 26, 1864, 
 of wds. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Anderson, Forgust, e. Aug. 26, 186:5, rect. ; vet. vol. 
 
 Ducat, Andrew, e. Aug. 26, 1863, rect. 
 
 Nisley, W. H., e. Aug 29, 1863, rect. 
 
 Stauser, Geo., e. Oct. 2 ', 1863, rect. ; trans, to 59th 111. Inf. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Corp. Lennis Stewart, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. Oct. 22, 1862 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Aikens, Wm., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; killed at Chickamauga 
 
 Sept. 19, 1863. 
 Bradley, C. G., e. Aug. 7,1862; killed at Chickamauga 
 
 Sept. 19, 1863. 
 
 Dohig, Jas, e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; deserted May 15. 1865. 
 Eastman, Milo, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 11, 1863, disab. 
 
 Grash, J. M., e. July 30, 1862 ; prmtd. to Sergt. Major, 
 
 and prmtd. to Adjt. Dec. 28, 1863 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Hutchinson, Andrew, e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. March 27, 
 
 1863, disab. 
 Matherson, J. J., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Reed, W. H., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Rogers, Tims., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died in rebel hospital, 
 
 Oct. 25, 1863. 
 
 Reason, Josiah, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Scott, 0. P., e. June 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, 1865. 
 Stewart, Wm., e. Aug. 6, 1862; trans, to Eng. Corps 
 
 July 27, 1864. 
 
 Scott, H. A., e. Aug, 7, 1862 ; m. o. May 15, 1865. 
 Sharp, Levi, e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; trans, to 55th 111. Inf. 
 Wilder, J. K.. e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; deserted Dec. 12, 1862. 
 Howard, N. H., e. Dec. 29, 1863, rect; died Mch. 11, 1864. 
 Hugedon, G. W., e. Dec. 29, 1863, rect. ; died Mch. 12, 1864. 
 Hickey, Patrick, e. Dec. 8, 1863, rect.; trans, to 59th 111. 
 
 Inf. 
 Murray, J. M., . Dec. 21, 1863, rect. ; trans, to 59th 111. 
 
 Inf. 
 Presher, Palmer, e. Dec. 2, 1863, rect.; trans, to 59th 111. 
 
 Inf. 
 
 Snell, T. W., e. Nov. 2, 1863, rect.; disd. Dec. 20, 1864. 
 Baker, A. W., e. Jan. 20, 1864 nnassigned rect.; disd. 
 
 July 25, 1864. 
 Hughan, Thos., H., e. Jan. 20, 1864, unassigded rect. ; disd. 
 
 July 25, 1864. 
 
 Currie, G., 90th Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; deserted 
 
 Aug. 15, 1862 
 Hopkins. Patrick, 90th Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; m. 
 
 o. June 15, 1865, as Corporal, wd. 
 Maguire, Jas., 90th Inf.. Co. H, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; deserted 
 
 June 20, 1863. 
 Lansing, A. W., 92d Inf., Co. H, e. Feb. 18, 1864, rect. ; 
 
 trans, to Co, G, 65th 111. Inf. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- 
 FOURTH INFANTRY. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Infan- 
 try Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp 
 Butler, 111., in September, 1862, by Col. Thomas 
 J. Sloan, and was mustered in Sept. 10th, by 
 Lieut. DeCourcey. 
 
 Moved from Camp Butler, Oct. 6th, arriving 
 at Jackson, Tenn., on the 9th. Was assigned 
 to Third Brigade, First Division, Thirteenth 
 Corps. Moved to LaGrange, Nov. 4th. On 
 28th, drove the enemy across the Tallahatchie, 
 and advanced to the Yocona River. 
 
 The regiment, was in First Brigade, Col. John 
 E. Smith: Third Division, Brig. Gen. John A. 
 Logan commanding ; Seventeenth Army Corps, 
 Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson command- 
 ing. December 24th, arrived at Tallahatchie 
 River, and Jan. 7th, 1863, at LiGrange, Brig. 
 Gen. I. N. Haynie took command of the 
 brigade. On the 23d of February, 1863, moved 
 down the river from Memphis to Lake Provi- 
 dence. On March 15th, Col. Sloan took com- 
 mand of the brigade. On the 17th, went into 
 camp, at Berry's Landing. April 18th, moved 
 to Milliken's Bend. On the 25th, commenced 
 the campaign against Vickshurg. On the 30th, 
 crossed the river, sixty miles below Vicksburg, 
 and, May 1st, was engaged at Thompson's Hill. 
 The One Hundred and Twenty-fourth was 
 engaged in the battles of Raymond, May 12th ; 
 at Jackson, 14th; at Champion Hills, 16th; 
 and during the entire siege of Vicksburg, in- 
 cluding the charge on the fortifications, May 
 22d, and assault on Fort Hill, June 26th. 
 During the latter part of the siege, Brig. Gen. 
 M. D. Leggett commanded the brigade.
 
 514 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 On the 31st of August, went on campaign to 
 Monroe, La., Brig. Gen. John D. Stephenson 
 commanding. Oct. 14th, on McPherson's cam- 
 paign to Brownsville, and was in the battles at 
 that place of Oct. 16th and 17th. On Nov. 
 7th, moved camp to Blnck River. On the 
 25th of November, the regiments of the 
 First Brigade, viz., Twentieth, Twenty-ninth, 
 Thirty-First, Forty-fifth and One Hundred 
 and Twenty-fourth Illinois, and Twenty-third 
 Indiana, engaged in a prize drill the Thir- 
 ty-first Illinois excelling in drill, and the 
 One Hundred and Twenty-fourth in picket 
 duty, etc. But at a subsequent contest for a 
 prize banner, offered by Brig. Gen. Leggett, 
 commanding division, the One Hundred and 
 Twenty-fourth received the banner, inscribed 
 " Excelsior Regiment, Third Division, Seven- 
 teenth Army Corps," from the hands of Maj. 
 Gen. McPherson, for excelling in soldierly ap- 
 pearance, discipline and drill. 
 
 On Feb. 3, 1864, commenced the raid to 
 Meridian. On the 14th, had a severe skirmish 
 with the enemy, at Chunky Station. Returned 
 to Vicksburg, March 4th. On May 4th, under 
 Brig. Gen. McArthur. moved toward Benton 
 and Yazoo City. Was engaged at Benton, on 
 the 7th and 10th, and returned on the 21st. 
 
 From July 1st to 9th, the regiment moved, 
 with Gen. Slocum, on his Jackson campaign, 
 and was engaged in the sharp fights at Jackson 
 Cross Roads, July 5th and 7th. From Oct. 
 14th to 26tb, was in campaign to White River 
 and Memphis.' Remained at Vicksburg, on pro- 
 vost duty, until Feb. 25th, 1865, when the reg 
 iment moved to New Orleans, and was assigned 
 to the Third Brigade, Col. James A. Geddes, 
 Eighth Iowa, commanding; Third Division, 
 Brig. Gen. E. A. Carr commanding ; and Six- 
 teenth Corps, Maj. Gen. A. J. Smith command- 
 ing. On March 12th, embarked for Mobile. 
 Moved to Dauphin Island and up Fish River, 
 and commenced siege at Spanish Fort, March 
 29th. The regiment was the extreme left of 
 the investing line, and, with one-half deployed 
 as skirmishers, drove the enemy within their 
 fortifications. The brigade consisted of Eighth 
 Iowa, Eighty-first, One Hundred and Eighth 
 and One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois. 
 Was engaged until the surrender of the fort. 
 On the 13th of April, started for Montgomery. 
 On July 17th, 1865, started home for muster 
 out. Arrived at Chicago, 111., Aug. 3d, and 
 was mustered out Aug. 15th, 1865, by Capt.. 
 George W. Hill, United States Army. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Adin Mann, e. Sept. 10, 1862, as Captain of Co. 
 B; prmtd. to Major July 9, 1863; to Lieutenant 
 Colonel July 29, 186 >; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 
 Major Rufus P. Pattisoti, e. Sept. 10, 1862 ; dismissed July 
 9, 1863 ; revoked Nov. 3, 1863. 
 
 Surg. L. H. Angel, e. Oct. 4, 1862 ; hon. disd. June 4. 1864. 
 
 Second Asst. Surg. John Jassoy, e. Jan. 14, 1863 ; dis- 
 honorably dismissed Nov. 17, 1864. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Capt. Edwin F. Stafford, e. Sept. 10, 1862, as First Lieut ; 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. July 9, 1863; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 First Lieut. F. 0. -Van Vlack, e. Sept. 10, 1862 as Second 
 
 Lieutenant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant July 9, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 
 Second Lient. Christopher H. Keller, e. Aug. 11, 1862, as 
 Sergeant; prmtd. to Second Lieutenant April 30, 
 1864 : m. o. Aug. 15, 1865 
 First Sergt. H. E. Abbott, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disd. March 2, 
 
 1863. 
 Sergt. F. D. Vnulin, e Aug. 6,1862; disd. June 19, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 Sergt. J-liu-i G. Brown, e. Aug. 6, 1862, disd. May 24, 
 
 1865, as private. 
 Sergt. Jaa. Bradley, e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. May 24, 1865, as 
 
 private. 
 Corp. .las. Hanes, e. Aug. 11, 1862, Sergeant; died at 
 
 Vicksburg May 27, 1864. 
 
 Corp. N. L. Shult/., e. Aug. 3, 1862; disd. May 24, 1865. 
 Corp. T. N. McAuley, e. Aug. 12, 1862; m. o. Aug. 
 
 15, 1865. 
 Corp. H. A. Lewis, e. Aug. 3, 1862 ; disd. July 10, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 Corp. E. L. Hunt, e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 pyivate. 
 Corp. J. H. Morse, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 Corp. S. B. Town, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 23, 1865, 
 
 disab. 
 Musician John Ballard, e. Aug. 9^1862; disd. Feb. 22, 
 
 1863, disab. 
 Musician C. F. Robertson, e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Feb. 1, 
 
 1863, disab. 
 Acox, Cleveland, e. Aug. 14, 1862; died at Clinton, Miss., 
 
 March 7, 1864, wd. 
 
 Austin, J. D , e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Binglwm, W. A., e. Aug. 3, 1862; disd. Feb. 3, 1864, for 
 
 promotion in col'd regt. 
 
 Bawl, Saml., e. Aug. 7, 1862; died at home Feb. 22, 1863. 
 Ball, T. T., e. Aug 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Ball, J. S., e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. Dec. 16, 1862, disab. 
 Bassett, C. E., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Black, Juo., e. Aug. 8, 1862. 
 Boardman. Wm., e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Jan. 20,1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Black, H. H., o. Aug. 9. 1862; disd May 24, 1865. 
 Brown, Jno., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Boyd, F., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died at Mamphis June 23, 1863 
 Bradley. E., e. Aug, 14, 1862; disd. Aug. 20, 1865. 
 Barrett, Jos., e. Aug. 14, 1862; died Aug. 29, 1863. 
 Beverly, M., e. Aug. 14, 1862; died July 13, 1863. 
 Bucker, C. A., e. Aug. 6, 1863 ; disd. Feb. 22, 1863, disab. 
 Croaks, Jno., e. Aug. 4, 1862. 
 
 Custey, Emory, e. Aug. 6, 1864; m. o. Aug. 15,1865. 
 Cook, C. W., e. Aug. 11, 1862. 
 Cleaveland, C , e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. June 3, 1865. 
 Conley, R., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 Cooley, 0. T.. e. Aug. 6,1862 ; kid. June 8, 1863. 
 Douglas 0. B., e. Aug. (i, 1862; disd. Feb. 22, 1865. disab. 
 Derosier, L. A., e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. May 24, 1865. 
 Fisk. Rasalva, e. Aug. 6, 1862; Corporal, died April 21, 
 
 1865, wd. 
 Frydendall, H., e Aug, 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 18a5, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Grover, C. V.. e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 12, 1864, disab. 
 Greeg, Geo. W., e. Auz. 6. 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Helmer, Harlow, e. Aug. 6, 1862. 
 Hedges, I. S., e. Aug 6, 1862 ; Corporal; died Aug. 15, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Henrie, J. C., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Hawks, F. S., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Hollister, W. J., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Hovy, Jackson, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. Aug 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Johnston, Albert, e. Aug. 9, 1862; disd. June 14, 1865. 
 Joy, H. C.. e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Johnson, Wm , e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Jenkins, Hiram, e. Aug. 13, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Jones, M. C., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; died Aug. 3, 1863. 
 Jordan, Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Kelsey, A. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Keefe, Cullin, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Le Roy, Andrew, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 22, 1863, wds. 
 Lumm, J. W., e. Aug. 13,1862; disd. June 3, 1865. 
 Mann, F. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. May 24, 1865. 
 Miller, F., e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. Oct. 10, 1863, wds 
 Morris, F. V. L., e. Aug. 3, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Monroe, Noah, e. Aug. 9, 1862; disd. May 24, 1865. 
 Mole, J. H.. e. Aug. II, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as Corp. 
 McCauley, W. M., e. Aug. 12, 1862; detchd. at m. o.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 515 
 
 Martin, James, e. Aug. 13. 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Noakes, Isaiah, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; died Oct. 4, 1862. 
 Noakes, Wm., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; sick at m. o. of regt. 
 O'Connor, Thomas, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. May 24, 1865. 
 Panl, S. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862; died Feb. 15, 1863. 
 Reed, Wm., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. Feb. 28, 1863; disab. 
 Stone, E. P., e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. April 25, 1863; disab. 
 Stevenson, J. K., e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Sept. 11, 1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Stone, M. L , e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; died April 21, 1863. 
 Sturges, E., e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Feb. 22, 1863; disab. 
 Tulloch, Wm., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Updyke, S. M., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; died May 15, 1863. 
 Voorhees, Geo., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. , 
 Waite, Curby, e. Aug. 3, 1862; died March 2, 1863. 
 Weaver, Orson, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aua;. 15, 1865. 
 Wood.Theo , e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. for prom. July 20, 1864. 
 Whipple, Dan'l, e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. Jan. 20, 1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Welch, Pat., e. Aug 14, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. as Corp. 
 Walrod, Wm., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Young, G. W., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Anderson, Andrew, e. rect ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Brown, H. P., e. Aug. 6, 1862, rect; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, 
 
 as First Sergeant. 
 
 Benedict, E. M., e. rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Coolidge, J. S., e. rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Cleveland, J. H., e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. 
 
 Inf. 
 
 Dean, D. E., rect.; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Davis, Michael, e. March 24, 1864, rect ; trans, to 33d 111. 
 
 Inf. 
 
 Fish, E. F., e. Feb. 27, 1865, rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Joy, F. F., e. March 2, 1865, rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Lappin, Cha^., rect. : trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Massee, Russell, rect. ; trans, t > 33d 111. Inf. 
 Manning, F. L., rect. ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Malls, C. H., e Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 McMasters, J. T., e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 McDonald, V., e. Feb. 13, 1864; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Price, Wm. H., e. ; trans, to 33d III. Inf. 
 Ratcliffe, N., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Boff, C. R., e.; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Reynolds, W. J., e. Oct. 19, 1864; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Stevenson, F. G., m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Victor, P., died Oct. 16, 1863. 
 
 Williams, E. A., e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Wood, Clark, e. March 29, 1864; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Carroll, A. J., e. March 1, 1864; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 First Lieut. H. J. Brockway, e. Aug. 2, 1862, as Sergt. ; 
 
 pnntd. to First Lieut. July 24, 1863 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Corp. F. B. Reeves, e. Aug. 17, 1862; disd. Nov. 18, 1863; 
 
 wounds. 
 
 Corp. W. E. Tollhurst, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Oct. 21, 1862. 
 Brown, Daniel, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; disd. Sept. 18, 1863 ; disab. 
 Dunton, A. M., e. Aug. 13, 1862; disd. Oct. 27, 1864- wd. 
 Goodwin, J. W., e. Aug. 7, 1862; died of wds. May 16, 1863. 
 Gibbs, Albert, e. Aug. 13. 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Harris, M. G., e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Houghton, S. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. Oct. 12, 1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Kelsey, L. C., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd. July 7, 1865. 
 Saterlee, J. L., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. June 5, 1865. 
 Brower, J. D., e. Oct. 8, 1864; rect; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Capt. W. B. Sigley, e. Sept. 10, 1862; resd. June 27, 1864. 
 Capt. R. L. Merriman, e. Aug. 6, 1862, as Sergeant ; prmtd. 
 
 to First Lieutenant July 24. 1863; to Captain June 
 
 27, 1864 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. H. Blackmore, e Sept. 10, 1862 ; resigned 
 
 Sept. 24, 1863. 
 
 First Lieut. W. H. Anderson, e. Aug. 15, 1862, as Ser- 
 geant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant July 27, 1864; m. 
 
 o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. Osborn Wilson, e. Sept. 10, 1862; resigned 
 
 July 13, 1863. 
 First Sergt. H. J. Howland, e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; died May 3, 
 
 1863, of wds. 
 Corp. H. J. Elliott, c. Aug. 7, 1862 as Sergeant; disd. for 
 
 promotion Oct. 9, 1863. 
 
 Corp. H. J. Hall, e. Aug. 22, 1862, as Sergeant ; disd. for 
 
 promotion Jan. 5, 1864. 
 
 Corp. R. B Stevens, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Dec. 5, 1862. 
 Corp. Jno, Fairweather, e. Aug 15, 1862 ; disd. for promo- 
 tion Aug. 14. 1863. 
 Corp. Jonathan Crosby, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. May 29, 1865, 
 
 as private. 
 Musician Frank Pinney, e. Aug. 22, 1862; disd. July 26, 
 
 1864, for promotion. 
 Wagoner Fowler Erwin, e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 15, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Atwood, N. P., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; disd. Oct. 22, 1862 ; disab. 
 Cheney, C. L.. e. Aug. 5, 1862; died in Jackson, Tenn., 
 
 Oct. 24, 1862. 
 
 Cuthbert, T. D., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Dickson, Henry, e. Aug. 22, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Dunning, S. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 22, 1865 ; 
 
 prisoner. 
 
 Dodge, Justus, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Dorn, Marshall, e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15. 1865. 
 Esdskin, S. D , e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Emerson, S., e. Aug. 11, 1862; deserted Oct. 6, 1862. 
 Fitzgerald, P. M., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15,1865, aa 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 French, J. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862, died Nov. 15, 1864. 
 Garnse.v, A. M., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Hale. Wm.. e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Himu in, Larison, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. March 5, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Hartinan, C'has., e. Aug. 22, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Jenkins, Daniel, e. Aug. 14,1862 ; died at Vicksburg Jan. 
 
 11, 1864. 
 
 Karney. Jno., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Lusk, J. W., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 12, 1865, as Corp. 
 Loutz, J. L., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. Oct 16, '63 
 Lane, Herbert, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Martin, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862; kid. May 12, 1863. 
 McGlynn.Ed., e. Aug. 11, 1862; died Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Maloney, Michael, e. Aug. 12, 1862. 
 Miller, D. S., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 McGlaughlin, N., e. Aug, 14, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Morey, A. B., e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. Aug. 16, 1865. 
 Mears, Wm., e. Aug. 4, 1862; disd. Sept. 14, 1864; disab. 
 McKay, Horace, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Miller, J. R., e. Aug. 7, 1862; died at Vicksburg July 
 
 28, 1863. 
 Miner, Horace, e. Aug. 22, 18H2; trans, to V. R. C. June 
 
 30, 1864; m. o. July 5, 1865, as First Sergeant. 
 Newman, J. D., e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; m. o. July 29, 1865. 
 Plummer, C. M., e. Aug. 29, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 April 2, 1864. 
 Powers, H. B., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 First Sergt. ; comd. Second Lieut, but not mustered. 
 Rockmeyer, Peter, e. Aug. 7, 1862; died at Memphis 
 
 June 10, 1863. 
 Race, E. D., e. Aug 6, 1862 ; Corporal ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 April 6, 1863. 
 Ryan, M. C., e. Aug. 13, 1862; disd. Dec. 30, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Roach, J. E., e. Aug. 8, 1862; disd. April 15, 1863, disab. 
 Roach, A. N.. e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; died April 22, 1863. 
 Smith, Wm., e. Aug. 10, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Speer, D. D., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; disd. Sept. 17, 1864, disab. 
 Stage, M. L., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. Oct. 29, 1864, disab. 
 Smith, N. J., e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Aug. 1, 1863, for pro- 
 motion. 
 
 St. Martin, John, e. Aug. 22, 1862. 
 Thompson, J., e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Thompson, R. S., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Vinter, Wm., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. Dec. 18, 1862, disab. 
 Vincent, D., e. Aug. 4, 1862 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Webber, H., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; deserted Oct. 10. 1862. 
 Ward, J. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862; trans, to V. R C.; m. o. 
 
 June 25, 1865. 
 
 Wilym, John, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 18i',5. 
 Wei'gler, David, e. July 22, 1862; m. o. Aug 15, 1865. 
 Yaggy, J. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Hinkston, N. W. (Musician); rect.; disd. April 15,1863, 
 
 Howard, A. V., e.Oct. 1,1864; rect ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Ankel, Henry, e. Oct. 1, 1864; rect.; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Allbee, Joseph, e. Oct. 1, 186-1, rect.; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Nehring, A., e. Oct. 1, 1864 ; rect.; trans, to 33d 111. Inf.
 
 516 
 
 WAR, HISTORY A*D RECOIID. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Capt. J. W. Kendall, e. Sept. 10, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. D. Andrews, e. Sept. 10, 1862; resd. Jan. 
 
 28, 1863. 
 First Lieut. Theodore Potter, e. Sept. 10, 1862, as Second 
 
 Lieutenant; prmtd. to First Lieutenant Jan. 28, 
 
 1863 ; rsd. Dec. 26, 1863. 
 First Lieut. G. A. Spear, e. July 23, 1862, as Sergeant; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieutenant Feb. 15, 1863, and to 
 
 First Lieutenant Dec. 26, 1863 ; died Oct. 26, 1864. 
 First Lieut. F. L. Campbell, e. July 26, 1862, as Sergt. ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. Oct. 26, 1864 ; m. o. Aug.15, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. J. J. Tarble, e. July 22, 1862, as Sergeant; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Jan. 28, 1863; deed, com.; m. 
 
 o. May 28, 1863, as private. 
 Second Lieut, a. M. Cronk, e. Aug. 2,1862; prmtd. to 
 
 First Sergeant and to Second Lieutenant July 26, 
 
 1865 ; m. o. Aug. 16, 1865. 
 First Sergt. G. S. Prindle, e. July 25, 1862; disd. May 12, 
 
 1863, tor promotion. 
 Sergt. Melvin Tarble, e. July 28, 1862; disd. Aug. 31, 
 
 1863, for promotion. 
 
 Corp. Levi Morgan, e. Aug. 6, 1862; disd. July 6, 1865. 
 Corp. 0. D. Bonney, e. July 25, 1862; Sergeant; disd. 
 
 July 13, 1864, for promotion. 
 
 Corp. C. E. Otis, e. July 25, 1862 ; m. o. June 2, 1865. 
 Corp. A. A. Page, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Nov. 23, 1862. 
 Corp. G. R. Robinson, e. Aug. 6, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 Jan. 15, 1864. 
 
 Corp. R. Richardson, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. May 28,1865. 
 
 e. Jul 
 1865, as Sergeant. 
 
 . . , . 
 
 Corp. Samuel Milner, e. July 29, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 
 
 Musician J. E. Merrill, e. July 29, 1862; prmtd. to Prin- 
 
 cipal Musician. 
 Musician Beher Kenophen, e. July 29, 1862; disd. Jan. 
 
 19, 1864, for prom, as Chief Bugler for 3d U. S. C. C. 
 Waeoner A. E. Albee, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Allison, 0. C., e. July 28, 1862; died Aug. 16, 1863. 
 Allen, M., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Allaire, C. B., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; prmtd. Sergeant Major. 
 Anutt, G., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. May 28. 1865. 
 Anderson, R. T., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. Nov. 21, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Banner, T., e. Aug. 2, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Baker, W. W., e. Ang. 7, 1862 ; m. o. May 31, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Baker, G. H., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; disd. March 29, 1863, disab. 
 Bailey, Frank, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Campbell, S. A., e. July 26, 1862; disd. Jan. 4, 1864, for 
 
 promotion as First Sergeant, 3d U. S. C. C. 
 Church, J. D., e. July 31, 1862 ; m o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Cassala, Wm., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Carpenter, Wm., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Crossby, W. H., e. Aug. 9, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Crossby, F. M., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 10, 1864, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Chideeter, J. R., e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Daniels, H. E., e. July 29, 1862 ; did. Dec. 11, 1863, to re-e. 
 Drake, H. M., e. Aug. 2, 1862; m o. May 3, 1865. 
 Dennison, S. S., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. Dec. 13, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Ensign, W. H., e. July 26,1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Eglcston, J. A., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. Aug 26, 1863, 
 
 Edson 8 Chas., e. Aug. 15, 186?; disd. May 7, 1863, disab. 
 Evans, H. H., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865 / 
 Franshaw, H., e. July 22, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Ferrin Wm., e. Aug. 5,1862; detached atm. o. 
 Fisher, J. F., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Gaines, T., e. July 28. 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C., April 2, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Golden, T., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Gould M. J., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Gillett, J. R., e. Aug. 5, 1862; disd. Jan. 3, 1863, disab. 
 Gardner, W. A., e. Aug. 1, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Gregory, J., e. July 23, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Hurlbut, Wm., e. July 29, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Hatch, A P., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 7, 1863, disab. 
 Hurd, J. H., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as Corp. 
 Harris. Danl., e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o Aug. 15, 186. 
 Judd, A., e. Aug. 11, 1862; disd. Jan. 2. 1864, for prom. 
 Kennedy, H., e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Lenox M., e. July 31, 1862 ; kid. May 16, 1863. 
 Murray, W. T., e. July 25, 1862; m. o. June 17, 1865. 
 Morton, H. J., e. July 29, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Miles, John, e. Ju'y 31, 1862; died April 14, 1865. 
 
 Miller, J. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. Oct. 
 
 28, 1863. 
 McCollum, 0. J.,e. Aug. 2, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. Jan. 
 
 15, 1865. 
 
 Ormes, Geo., e. Aug. 2. 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Pinney, E, e. July 28, 1862; m. o. Aug 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Parsons, D. H., e. Aug. 5, 1862; dif d July 23, 1864. 
 Potter, J. J. e. Aug. 6, 1862; died Aug. 12, 1863. 
 Rake, G. W., e. Aug. 4, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, a 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Rice, Alphonzo, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; kid. May 16, 1863. 
 Slate, G. W., e. July 29, 1862 ; disd. Oct. 8, 1864, disab. 
 Stickles, Albert, e. Aua; 2, 1862; m.o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Snow, G. A., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; kid. May 16, 1863. 
 Sneidecker, C. H., e. Aug 4, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 186\ as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 Snow, Byron, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 Seymore, H. S. e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; disd. April 2, 1864, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Seymore, W. A., e.Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Shyler, P. F., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; kid. May 16, 1863. 
 Smith, L. J., e. Aug. 7, 1862; drowned Sept. 29, 1863. 
 Smith, David, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. April 25, 1864, wd. 
 Sedgwick, Jos , e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Tarble, M. J., e. Aug. 5, 1862; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Tillsworth, Chas., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died June 23, 1863 r 
 
 Van Sickle, Wm., e. July 29, 1862 ; disd. Oct. 20, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 White, G. A., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; m. o. May 23, 1865. 
 Waldvogel, Jno., e. July 28, 1862 ; disd. Nov. 18, 1862 
 
 disab. 
 
 Wright, Wm., e. July 29 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Wilder, Wallace, e. July 29, 1862; died March 16, 1865. 
 Woodward, Jno., e Aug. 4, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 26, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Woodward, Chas., e. Aug. 11, 1*62; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Waterman, E. M., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; disd. March 6, 1863 - t 
 
 disab. 
 
 Westover, A. A., e. July 26, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Woodcock, Harvey, e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 15, 1865. 
 Toung, Henry, e. July 25, 1862; disd. Dec. 3, 1863; disab. 
 Loomis, Henry; disd. Feb. 26, 1863; disab. 
 Trask, L. M., e. Sept 8, 1863 ; died Dec. 5, 1863. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Brown, H. P., e. Aug. 6. 1862 ; trans, to Co. B. 
 Malls, Chas., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; trans, to fo. B. 
 McMasters, J. T., e. Aug. 6, 1862 ; trans, to Co. B. 
 Katliff, N., e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; trans, to Co. B. 
 Williams, E. A., e. Aug. 9, 1862; trans, to Co. B. 
 Hosier, Wm., unassigned rect.; disd. May 14, 1864. 
 Moore, Jno., unassigned rect. 
 Tompkins, C. M., unassigned rect. 
 Tompkins, Wm., died at Camp Butler April 9, 1864. 
 Terwilliger, F., unassigned rect. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- 
 SEVENTH INFANTRY 
 
 The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Reg- 
 iment was organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, 
 and mustered into service on the 6th of Sept., 
 1862. On the 9lh of November. 1862, it started 
 for the field, numbering 887 officers and men. 
 On the 20th of December, the regiment started, 
 in company with Gen. Sherman, on his Vicks- 
 burg expedition, and on the 28th, took part in 
 the Chickasaw Bayou fight. The regiment was 
 next engaged with Gen. McClernand, in the 
 capture of Arkansas Post. After this, it 
 was sent to Young's Point, and from there 
 up Steel's Bayou and Deer Creek, to relieve 
 Commodore Porter's fleet. From this expe- 
 dition it returned to Young's Point, and on 
 May 7th, started on the Grand Gulf cam- 
 paign, taking part in the battle of Champion 
 Hills, and fighting the enemy at Yicksburg.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 517 
 
 It, took part in all the battles incident to the 
 capture of Jackson. On Oct. 17th, it marched 
 to the relief of Chattanooga, and afterward to 
 the relief of Burnside, at Knoxville. It was 
 engaged in the battle before Dallas, at Kene- 
 saw Mountain and around Atlanta; also, at 
 the battle at Jonesboro. On Oct. 4th, it started 
 on the great campaign against Hood and Sa- 
 vannah. At Fayetteville, March 11, 186x and 
 at Bentonville, March 19th, it lost heavily. 
 On the 10th of June, 1865, the regiment reached 
 Chicago, for muster out and discharge, return- 
 ing with only 231 men, of 887 who started out 
 in 1862. During its term of service it marched 
 over 3,000 miles, and participated in over 100 
 battles. 
 
 Maj. F. C. Gillette, e. Sept. 5, 1862, as Captain ot Co. E ; 
 
 promtd. to Major July 11, 1864; m. o. July 11, 1865. 
 Adjt. A. A. Keys, e. March 9, 1863; prmtd. to Captain Co. 
 
 H May 19, 1863; resd. Aug. 3, 1864. 
 First Assistant Surg. A. L. Clark, e. Sept. 6, 1862 ; m. o. 
 
 June 5, 1865. 
 Q. M. S. W. Durant,e. as Q. M. Sergt; prmtd. to Regimental 
 
 Q. M. July 9, 1863 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Q. M. Sergt. 0. J. Lent; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Hospital Steward C. H. Duck, e. Sept. 6, 1862 ; disd. Nov. 
 
 1, 1863. 
 
 Hospital Steward S. E. Weld, m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Prin. Musician H. C. Elliott, m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Prin. Musician Jos. Smith, e. Sept. 6, 1862 ; died June 16, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Davis, Mills, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; died Jan. 1, 1863. 
 Young, Franklin, e. Aug. 9,1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. J. S. Kiddle, e. Sept. 5, 1862; resd. July 22, 1863. 
 Capt. Wm. Warner, e. Sept. 5, 1862, as Second Lieutenant ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant March 2, 1863, and to Cap- 
 tain July 22, 1863; m. o. April 7, 1866. 
 First Lieut. Thos. Clark, e. Sept. 5, 1862 ; resd. March 2, 
 
 1863. 
 
 First Lieut. L. B. Patchin, e. Aug. 7, 1862, as First Ser- 
 geant ; prmtd. to Second Lieutenant March 2, 1863 ; 
 
 to First Lieutenant July 22, 1863 ; resd. Jan. 8, 1865. 
 Sergt. E. Wheedon, e. Aug. 7, 1S62 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Sergt. A. S. Patten, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; trans, to I. V. C. Dec. 
 
 2, 1863. 
 Sergt. C. W. Guptill, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 
 Sergt. T. Kenwick, e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Corp. Cullen Allen, e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 8, 1865, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 Corp. J. L. Sheehan, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; absent, wd., at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 
 Corp. Clark Bradon, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; disd Dec., 1862. 
 Corp. R. F. Boreinan, e. Aug. 7, 1862; detached at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 
 Corp. B. Hewitt, e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. Aug. 29, 1863. 
 Corp. L. Patchin, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; absent, wd., at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 Corp. D. W. Chapman, e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. Feb. 14, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Corp. Henry Hadlock, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1866. 
 Bennett, Thomas, e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. Dec. 29, 1863. 
 Bartlett, J. H., e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; died July 27, 1863. 
 Ballinger, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, wds. 
 Bowen, Emmer, e. Aug. 20, 1862; traus. to I. V. C. Jan. 
 
 10, 1865. 
 
 Church, F. F., e. Aug. 7, 1862; died June 11, 1863. 
 Cox, J. W., e. Aug. 19, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Dooley, P. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted. 
 Daggett, W. D., Jr., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; died June 29, 1863. 
 Doherty, E., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp. 
 Dennis, Alex., e. Aug. 15, 1862; died July 28, 1864. 
 Darville, Henry, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Earl, P. S., e. Aug. 20, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Eaton, B. G., e. Aug. 7, 186'J ; deserted. 
 Foge, Wm., e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. Feb. 14, 1863. 
 Gage, C., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; deserted. 
 
 Gustason, Chas., e. Aug. 14, 1862; abs. sick at m. o.of regt. 
 Gable, Jno., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; trans, to I. V. C. Sept. 18, 
 
 18 3. 
 
 Gould, Jos., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; abs., sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Haines, J. L., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; Sergeant, detached. 
 Hanslin, M., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 9, 1865. 
 Hemrick, M., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Hammond, Edwin, e. Aug. 19, 1862 ; died June 13, 1863. 
 Hines, G. H., e. Aug. 21, 1862 ; deserted. 
 Hoagland, Theo.. e. Aug. 22, 1862; died June 21, 1863. 
 Inglesby, Albert, r>. Aug. 14, 1862 ; died Sept. 15, 1864. 
 Johnson, Alfred, e. Aug. 22, 1862; died April 8,1863. 
 Keller, Jno, e. Aug. 7, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 Kirkpatrick, Geo., e. Aug. 22, 1862, wd.; trans, to I. V. C. 
 
 Dec. 1, 1863. 
 
 Knott, G. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. June 19, 1865. 
 Kurtz, L. F., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o June 5, 1865, as Corp. 
 Little, Lewis, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Mabee, Jesse, e. Aug 7, 1862; m. o June 5, 1865, as Corp 
 Maher, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Miller, Nicholas, e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Jan. 16, 1863, wds. 
 Murray, Jas., e. Aug. 19, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 9, 1863. 
 Murray, Michael, e. Aug. 15, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 McCartney, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Nicholson, Wm., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died Sept. 22, 1863. 
 O'Flaherty, Pat., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Parkin, Thos., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Aug. 30, 1863. 
 Rice, H. P., e. Aug. 19, 1862 ; died Feb. 22, 1863. 
 Saunders, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Sept. 1. 1863. 
 Smithing, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. June 15, 1863. 
 Senift. Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died May 19, 1863, wds. 
 Smithing, Jos., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died Feb. 8, 1863. 
 Sutler, J. R., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Schoonhoven, Jas., e. Aug. 22, 1862; disd. Nov. 21, 1863. 
 Stowell, Dwight, trans, to Co. G. 
 Taylor, Jno., e. Aug 7, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Thompson, 0. T., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; died July 12, 1863. 
 Taylor, Jno. (2d), e. Aug. 22, 1862; died Dec. 4, 1862. 
 Underbill, M., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp. 
 Westover, L. H., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Welch, R. R., e. Aug. 7, 1862 ; disd. June 20, 1863, wds. 
 Whelpley, Henry, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o June 5, 1865. 
 Wallace, Patrick, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant... 
 Wallace, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died July 29, 1864, wds. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Capt. J. F. Richmond, e. as First Lieut. Sept. 5, 1862; was 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. Ju'y 11, 1864 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 First Lieut. Fred'k Knight, e. Sept. 5, 1862, as Second 
 
 Lieut ; was prmtd. to First Lieutenant July 11, 1864 ; 
 
 resd. Sept. 20, 1864. 
 First Lieut. I. F. Hall, e. as Corporal Aug. 14, 1862 ; was 
 
 prmtd. to Sergeant and to First Lieutenant July 11, 
 
 1864; m. o. June 5, 1863. 
 
 First Sergt. J. G. Hinds, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; prmtd. to Ad- 
 jutant. 
 Sergt. S. W. Durant, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; prmtd. to Q. M. 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Sergt. Jesse fiurren, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; kid. May 19, 1863. 
 Sergt. H. M. Sill, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 13, 1863. 
 Sergt. J. M. Metcalf, e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 March 15, 1865. 
 Corp. 0. J. Lent, e. Ang. 14, 1862; prmtd. to Commissary 
 
 Sergeant. 
 Corp. H. J. Parker, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. May 31, 1865, as 
 
 private. 
 Corp. Henry Fearson, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 10, 1863 
 
 as private. 
 Corp. Ira F. Hall, e. Aug. 14, 1862; prmtd. to Sergeant 
 
 and to First Lieutenant. 
 
 Corp. W. M. Pierce, e. Aug. 14, 1862; destd. Jan. 18,1863. 
 Corp. G. A. Dunham, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 as private. 
 Corp. E. A. Me Wayne, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 
 Aldrich. G. H., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; died Jan. 12, 1863. 
 Abert, Frank, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 29, 1865. 
 Beach, C. H., e! Aug. 14. 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Belyea, J. Z., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; Corp. ; died Nov. 23, 1863. 
 Bolf, Michael, e Aug. 14, 1862 ; absent sick m. o. regt. 
 Bowman, Chas., e. Au?. 14, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 6, 1863. 
 Becker, Jeremiah, e. Aug. 14.1862; m.o. June 5, 1865, wd. 
 Brisbin, Phillip, e. Aug. 14, 1862 : m. o, June 5. 1865. 
 Benedict, E. M., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 2, 1865.
 
 518 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Blomely, James, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Brennan, Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. Sept. 2, 1862. 
 Clark, Jos., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. July 27, 1863, disab. 
 DeWolf, J. S., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. for promotion May 
 
 27, 1864. 
 
 Dickenson, Win., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Doyle, Jas., e. A'ig. 14, 1862; m o. June 5, 1865, as Cor- j 
 
 poral, wd. 
 
 Doyle, Dennis, e. Aug. 14, 18fi2; m. o. June 5. 1865. 
 Earnshaw, Jas., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; trans, to V. K. 0. Dec. 
 
 1, 1863. 
 
 Bvison, Thos., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Elliott, G. C., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as First 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Elliott, H. C., e. Aug. 14, 1862; prmtd. to Principal Musi- 
 cian. 
 Ferson, Chas., e. Aug. 14, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Fowler, Eugene, e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. April 18, 1864, wd. 
 Goldsbury, Andrew, ( e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 as Corporal. 
 Gilbert, V. A., e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. Jan. 15, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Green, J. A., e. Aug. 14, 1862. 
 Green, J. M., e. Aug. 14, 1862; died March 7, 1863. 
 Guthrey, Hay, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; died April 15. 1863. 
 Hart, A. T., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 17, 1864, disab. 
 Hight, Jno., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. O.June 5, 1865. 
 Halle, N. A., s. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Cor- 
 poral. 
 
 Hammon, W., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. March 11, 1863. 
 Hand, J. J., e. Aug. 14. 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp. 
 Kolson, C. J., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Kelly M., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. March 4, 1863. 
 Kirk, Francis, e. Aug. 14, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. of ! 
 
 regt. 
 
 Lane, D. T.. e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp. ' 
 Lincoln. Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862; died Jan. 11, 1863. 
 Lynde, F. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. May 12, 1865. 
 Murphy, Michael, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. May 22, 1865. 
 Michael, I. P., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. April 9, 1863. 
 Michael, C. M., e. Aug. 14. 1862; disd. Feb. 22, 1863. 
 Marsden, E.. e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 McFarlane. Felix, e. AUK. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Newman, Franklin, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 as Sergt. 
 
 Pratt, 0. B. e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; kid. July 22, 1864. 
 Ronon. M., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Ryan, Thos.. e. Aug. 14, 1862; died Aug. 5, 1864, wds. 
 Swarthout, L. B., e. Aug. 14, 1862; died Dec. 21, 1863. 
 Swarthout, Isaac, e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Musician. 
 
 Smithers, Elias, e. Aug. 14, 1862; died in Aug., 1864, wds. 
 Switzer, Wm., e. Aug. 14, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Stricklin, Jas., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. Feb. 3, 1864, as 
 
 Corporal, disab. 
 Smith, John, e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to I. V. C. Dec. 1, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Tyler, Geo., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. July 9, 1863, wds. 
 Trumbull, J. P., e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. Aug. 29, 1863, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Trumbull, Chas., e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans. 1o I. V. '.. Dec. 
 
 1, 1863. 
 
 Thompson, C. 0., e. Aug. 14. 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Thompson, Judson, e. Aug. 14, 1862; died April 16, 1863. 
 Tangpman, D. H., e. Aug. 14. 1862 ; Sergeant ; trans, to 
 
 Inv.'C. Feb. 15, 1864. 
 Tobias, W. E., e. Aug. 14, 1862; deserted. 
 Wheeler, R. T., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; in. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Winder, August, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 9, 1862. 
 Beach, Harley. e. Sept. 22, 1862 ; rect; trans, to Co. B, 
 
 55th 111. Inf. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Musician J. E. Smith, e. Aug. 11, 1862; died at Oswego, 
 111., June 16, 1863. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Beach, Harlow, e. Aug. 14, 1S62; trans, to Co. E. 
 Bushey, Wm., e. Aug. 16, 1862; trans, to Co. E. 
 Widener, Adam, e. Aug. 7, 1862; trans, to Co. C. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. F. A. Raymond, e. Sept. 5, 1862 ; dishonorably disd. 
 July 6, 1864. 
 
 Capt. N. H. Merrill, e. as private Aug. 12, 1862 ; prmtd. 
 to First Sergeant and to First Lieutenant March 31, 
 
 1864, and to Captain July 6, 1864; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 First Lieut. Horace Perry, e. Sept. 5, 1862; resd. July 5, 
 
 1863. 
 First Lieut. B. C. Wilkins, e. Aug. 8, 1862, as Sergeant; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant July 6, 1864; m. o. June 
 
 5, 1865. 
 
 Second Lieut. A. A. Keys, e. S^pt. 5, 1862 ; prmtd to Adjt. 
 Second Lieut. J. S. Loper, e. Aug. 8, 1862, as Sergeant ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Sergeant and to Second Lieutenant 
 
 March 10, 1863; honorably disd. March 31, 1864. 
 First Sergt. M. B. Joslyn, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. Feb 4. 
 
 1863. 
 Sergt. Geo. Preston, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. July 11, 1863, 
 
 as private. 
 Sergt. Wm. V. Adams, e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. June 5, 
 
 1865, as private ; was prisr. 
 
 Corp. W. H. Holdec, e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 us First Sergeant. 
 Corp. M. W. Adams, e. Aug. 9, 1S62 ; Sergeant ; died Oct. 
 
 21, 1863. 
 Corp. N Hareth, P. Aug. 8, 1862; m.o. June 19, 1865, an 
 
 private. 
 Corp. 0. B. Douglas, e. Aug. 11, 1862; First Sergeant; 
 
 died July 28, 1863, wds. 
 
 Corp. C. Shertliff, e. Aug. 9, 1862; disd. April 18, 1863. 
 Corp. R. Scott, e. Aug. 22, 1862; disd. July 1, 1863 
 Corp. C. E. Hunter, e. Aug. 10, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Corp. J. C. Pratt, e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; Se-geaut; died July 
 
 19, 1863. 
 Musician R. S. Hunn, e. Aug. 10, 1862; trans, to Inv. 
 
 C. May 15, 1864. 
 
 Adams, B. W., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 29, 1863. 
 Bowman, Jas., e. Aug. 10, 1862; disd. 
 Barteleine, Peter, e. Aug. 11, 1862; died Oct. 16, 1863. 
 Becker, W. F., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Boutwell, Lafayette, e. Aug. 9. 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Billington, Norman, e. Aug. 9, 1862; disd. Feb. 5, 1863. 
 Caton, Tho*., e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Carr, J. W., e. Aug. 12, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. as Corp. 
 Collins, Juo., e. Aug. 12, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Cox, J. S., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. May 15, 1865, wd. 
 Cummings, E. A., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. June 20, 1865. 
 Colie. Geo , . Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Cherry, Moses, e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; deserted Sept. 10, 1862. 
 Culbertson, G. A., e. Au?. 11,1862; died Nov. 19, 1863. 
 Duck, C. H., e Aug. 8, 1862; prmtd. to Hospital Steward. 
 Dougherty, J. J., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m. o June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Eastman, G. R., e. Aug. 9, 1862; m. o. June 5 1865. 
 Ellis, Jas., e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; reported deserted. 
 Fraser, J. H., e. Aug 12, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Fraser, Alex., e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; disd. July 29, 1863. 
 Fraser, W. H., e. Aug. 22, 1862; Corporal; died Dec. 12, 
 
 1863. 
 Folmer, Henry, e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; Corporal ; m. o. June 5, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Gray, F. S., e. Aug. 11, 1862; died June 23, 1863. 
 Gray, Horatio, e. Aug. 8,1862; deserted Jan. 29, 1863. 
 Grassmire, I. R., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; died Sept. 4, 18154. 
 Howard, F., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Hyde, C. F., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m . o. June 5, 1865. 
 Hines, Peter, e. Aug. 10, 1865 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Jackson, E. V., e. Aug. 9. 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Konnka, J. P., e. Aug. 11, 1862; trans, to Invalid Corps 
 
 July 13, 1864. 
 Kendall, W. L., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Ladd, M. P., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; died at St. Louis Jan. 5, 1863. 
 Loudon, G. W., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; deserted Sept. 10, 1862. 
 McCLear, J. J., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; disd. Feb.. 1863. 
 Messenger, Albert, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Morey, N. C., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; kid. May 19. 1863. 
 Morehouse, E. W., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; died Jan. 18, 1863. 
 McNickle, Wm., e. Aug. 9, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Sergeant. 
 McCornack, Andrew, e. Aug. 22, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 
 McCornack, A. W., e. Aug. 22, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 McCornack, W. F., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865 ; 
 
 was' prisoner. 
 
 Perry, H. A., e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 6, 1863 ; disab. 
 Peasley, F. G.,' . Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Parkins, Richard, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Plant, John. e. Aug. 21, 1862; m. o. June 6, 1865, as Corp. 
 Priller, Jos., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 519 
 
 Plantey, Frank, e. Aug. 12, 1862; died Aug. 22, 1863. 
 Peters, Jno., e. Aug. 22, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Ross, Isaiah, e. Aug. 10, 1862; disd. Fed. 5, 1863. 
 Roberts, A. F., e. Aug. 8, 1862; Corp.; died of wds.. June 
 
 7, 1863. 
 Schroeder, Chas., e. Aug. 8, 1862; Corp.; died of wds. Sept. | 
 
 23. 1863. 
 
 Schroeder, Theo., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Seidle, Chas., e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; died at Elgin, 111. 
 Souther, Fred., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died Feb. 22, 1863. 
 Scott, W. G., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; died July 28, 1863. 
 Swinger, S. J., e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Spaulding, E. E., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; died Oct. 1, 1863. 
 Spaulding, J. A., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Schoonhov, r, G. W., e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Seaton, N. J., e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; disd. March, 1863. 
 Summerville, A. W., e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; m. o. June 19, 1865. 
 Turner, R. W., e. Aug. 8, 1862; disd. March, 1863. 
 Thompson, Alex., e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; deserted Sept. 10, 1862. 
 Weld, S. E., e. Aug. 12, 1862; prmtd.t> Hospital Steward. 
 Wilson, John, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 29, 1863. 
 Wilcox, Geo., e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. June 5, 1865, as Corp. 
 Hager, Win., e. Nov. 5, 1862 ; rect.; trans, to Co. D, 55th 
 
 111. Inf. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. A. C. Little, e. as First Sergt. Aug. 12, 1862 ; prmtd. 
 
 to Capt. March 6, 1863; m. o. June 6, 1865; wd. 
 Corp. G. S. Foster, e. Aug. 20, 1862; disd. April 19, 1863; 
 
 disaK 
 Armstrong, G. S., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 Bateman, E. S., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Bateman, S. G., e. Aug. 14, 18H2 ; disd. June 19, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Fountain, E. W., e. Aug. 14, 1862; Corp.; died June 17, 
 
 1863. 
 Hoagland, Geo., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Leader, Jno., e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to Inv. Corps Dec. 
 
 15, 1863. 
 Wighton, J. D., 130th Inf., Co. G, e. Aug. 15, 1862. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY- 
 FIRST INFANTRY. 
 
 (One Hundred Days.) 
 
 The One Hundred and Forty first Infantry 
 Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp 
 Kane, Elgin, 111., by Col. John S. Wilcox, com- 
 manding camp of rendezvous and instruction, 
 and was mustered into the service on the 16th 
 day of June, A. D. 1864. Shortly afterward, 
 the regiment received marching orders and 
 moved, under command of Col. S. Bronson, by 
 way of Chicago and Cairo, to Columbus, Ky., 
 where it spent the greater part of the Sum- 
 mer, as a portion of the forces garrisoning that 
 important point and defending the railroad 
 and river connections of Cairo with the South 
 and Southeast. In the early Autumn, the reg- 
 iment formed part of a force of two brigades, 
 of two regiments each, which made a raid into 
 the interior of Western Kentucky, to drive out 
 the guerillas, who were then infesting that part 
 of the State. When the time of the men had 
 expired, they voluntarily, at the request of the 
 Government, remained some weeks longer be- 
 fore receiving orders for muster out, and sub- 
 sequently received the thanks of the President 
 for so doing. The regiment, early in October, 
 moved from Columbus to Camp Fry, Chicago, 
 where it was mustered out of the service Oct. 
 10, 18G4. 
 
 Lieut. Col. Thomas Clark, e. June 21, 1864; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 Adjt. E. C. Lovell, e. June 21, 1864; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Q. M. A. H. Barry, e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sergt. Maj. Pearl DeHoyte, e. May 4, 1864; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 Q. M. Sergt. N. J. Wheeler, e. May 3, 1864; m. o. Oct 10, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. P. H. Carr, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 First Lieut. T. W. Tent, e. June 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 Second Lieut. E. W. King, e. June 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 
 Andrews, J. A., e. May 6, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Benthuysen, J. H., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bcnthuysen, C. F., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bartlett, Howard, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Baker, Alfred, e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct 10, 1864. 
 Bennett, C. W., e. May 8, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. lo, 1864. 
 Bigelow. W. H., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Burnidge, Edw., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cody, C. A., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clearman, Chas., e. May 12. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Christoph. Jno.. e. May 9, 1864; m o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Chase, F. I t , e. May 9,1864; Corporal; died Aug. 19, 1864. 
 Cofleld, Jno., e. May 12, 164; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cart, Nelson, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Critchton, J. T., e. May 9, 1864 ; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Campbell, Edwin, e. May 8, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clute, Thos., e. May 8, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Cole, C. W., e. April 3", 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Doak, Jos., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Duff, Robt., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Duff, Alex., e. June 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Doolittle, G. A., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dickson, Dennis, e. Jun? 14. 1864; trans, to Co. H. 
 E-iton, F. E., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Evans, Jno., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fowler, Charles, e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Wagoner. 
 
 Fox, W. C., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Griffith, J. C., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gillett, Henry, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Corporal. 
 
 Gierheim, Jno., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Gaistor, J., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Gustason, Chas., e. May 9. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Holcomb, A. H., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Sergeant, wd. 
 
 Henning, Jno., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Harrison, W. H., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Hinsdell, O. A., e. April 27. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Hintze, W. H., e. April 30, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Heed, Jno., e. May 12, 1864; m o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 King, G. T., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Kelly, G. S., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Long. W. S., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Long, W. B., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Moffatt, W. S., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Mellon, James, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Musician. 
 
 Metcalf, D., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Cor- 
 poral. 
 
 McClure, C. R. e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 186t, as 
 Corporal. 
 
 Nicholson, Henry, e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Corporal. 
 
 Perry, Amos, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Prus, Henry, e. May 9, 1864; ro. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Plumleigh, Geo., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Reeves, Frank, e. April 30, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Roberts, Austin, e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Sergeant. 
 
 Rankin, Wm., e. June 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Reser, Alanson, e. May 8, 1864; m. o Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Rineheimer, G. W., e. May 10, 1864; m.o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Rose, Henry, e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Renwick, Rollin, e. April 27, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Geo., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Geo. (2d), e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Smith, W. E., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Smith, Horace, e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 Musician. 
 
 Smith, Jos., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Shuckney, Chas., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 
 Salisbury, G. W., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Salisbury, H. W., e. April 27, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Shannon, Henry, e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864.
 
 520 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Van Aken, F., e. May 8, 1864 : m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Welch, L., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Walan, Jas., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wight, Abner, e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Woller, John, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. October 10, 1864. 
 Wollert, Chas., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 WiUon, M. W., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o., Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilcox, W., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Young, Milton, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Octi 10, 1864. 
 Zimmerman, Jno., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 rapt. Alex. Grimes, e. June 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 First Lieut. C. D. F. Smith, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 Second Lieut. C. S. Gregg, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Andrews, K., e. .lay 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Auble, C. C., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Auble, M., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bly, I. M., e. May 12. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Burton, Amos, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Burton, Geo., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Burton, Jos., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Callahan, H. J., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Chambers, Chas., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10,1864. 
 Clapp, T. M., e. May 7, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clark, L. C., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clure, J. A., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cotters, Garreti, e. May 9. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dickerson, A., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dow, Thos., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Eyando, Adolphus, e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fowler, W. W., e. May 17, 1864 ; drowned Sept. 3, 1864 
 Fuller, Eben, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Genge, W. P., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Golden, W. W., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Grimes, I. F., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Grimes, L. H., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Grow, D. C., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hadank, Jno.. e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hall, D. K., e. May 12, 1864, m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hampton, M. H., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Healand, Chas., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Helmer, Philo, e.May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hig *ins. W. F., e. May 4. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hilbert, Jasper, e. May 16, 1864 ; died Sept. 10, 1864. 
 Hill, 0. D., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Jones, Ohas., e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Kimball, S. S., e. May 20, 1864* prom, to Chaplain. 
 Kernan, M. F., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Killmore, E. H., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 King, C. L., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lakins, J. F., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mann, G. W., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Martin, S. P., e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Martin, D. A., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 McCann, Jason, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 McLellan, B. F., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 McNitt, Valentine, e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mead, A<lolph., e. May 20. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. Iff, 1864. 
 Monk, Jos., e. May 10, 1884 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Moore, W. A., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Murtaugh, P., e. May 20. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Noahr, Lewis, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 O'Laughlin, Cornelius, e. May 14, 1864, m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Otis, Jerome, e. May 7, 1854; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Putnam, Alonzo, e. May 20. 1864 ; m. e. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Palmer, M. D., e. May 9, 1854 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Pease, A. W., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Pettenger, Henry, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Price, C. A., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Payne, James H., e. May 20, 18G4; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864 
 Robertson, I. E., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, 
 Rockwell, E. L., e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Row, Jas.,e. Mayl6, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Russell, G. W., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sawyer, J. A., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Smith, J. W., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Starkey. D. W., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 Steer, Wm., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10,1864. 
 
 Stephens, Chas., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sweet, P. R.. e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sweet. C. W., e. May 16, 1S64 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sawyer, D. H., e. May 20. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Thomas, C. G., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Tapley, I . S., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. .>. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Town, R. M., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Twigg, David, e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 White, W. S., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Watrous, L. L, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Whitley. Henry, e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Williams, G. C., e. May 20, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilson. W. S., e. May 14,1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilson, A. D., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Cerp. 
 Wood, F. A., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Woodruff, W. W., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Woolcott, S. A., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. Saml. H. Hunter, e June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10 
 
 1864. 
 First Lieut. M. J. Dunne, e. Juue 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 Second Lieut. Jas. B. Robinson, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Adams, G. W., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Able, Chas., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Babcock, Oscar, e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct.10, 1864. 
 Batterman, Chris., e. May 6, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Batterman, Jno., e. May 6, 1864 ; died Sept. 18, 1864. 
 Barker, James, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Baker. C. D., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Barrick, F. W., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Beardsley, Z. S., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Blackman. J. G., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Burdick, E. S. , e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Brown. Chas., e. May 12, 1864 ; died Sept. 4, 1864. 
 Christopher, Wm., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cook, Frank, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Cooke, J. W., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dike, W. W., e. May 8, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Davis, G., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Eaton, A. W., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Feehan, E., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Gardner, B. B., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Gifford, C. F., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Gifford, Edwin, e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Oilman, Amos, e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Groff, Jno., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Goodman, Tnos., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Goodman, Patrick, e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gale, J. A., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Harper, Jno., e. Aug. 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Henderson, Eli, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hennegan, L., e. May 9, 1864 ; prmtd. to Prin. Musician. 
 Hubble, R., e. May 9, 1864; died Aug. 30, 1864. 
 Jones, D. M., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Knox, Wm., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lakins, J. L., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lester, Edwin, e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mallory, J. A., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Matthews, C. D., e. May 8, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 McMahon, Jno., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 McDonald, Wm., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 McLean, Henry, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Meierhoff, Christian, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Meierhoff, Ernst, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Neale, Chas., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Phillips, Henry, e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Paddock, Daniel, e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Peterson, N. B., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Perry, Geo., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Powers, Thos., e. May 1 8, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Petitt, Chas., e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rosa, Chris., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Eyan, Wm., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 1>J, 1864. 
 Rice, L. B., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rice, J. K., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Stoddard, W., e. May 12, 1864; died Aug. 18, 1864. 
 Stewart, Clark, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 Straudage, Geo.. e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 521 
 
 Smith, Thos., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Spaulding, Arthur, e. May 11, 1864; m. o Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Smith, J. F., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Smith, Peter, e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Salisbury Wm., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864 
 Short, G. W., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Strain, W. T., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Taffelmire, A , e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Tanner, L. S., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Terril, G. P., e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Tibbet, Jno., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Todd, W. F., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Torace, Dewitt, e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Vogle, Jacob, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Voss, Carl, e. May 18. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Waite, Wm., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Webber, M., e. May 11. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Weeks, W. S., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Webster, Benj., e. May 17, 1864; died July 20, 1864. 
 Westfahl, F.,e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilbur, Jay, e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilson, W. H., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Walters, Jno., e. May 27, 1864; deserted June 29, 1864. 
 Young, 0. W., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Capt. B. O. Beach, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 First Lieut. Hiram Sargent, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 186J. 
 Second Lieut. H. A. Ferson, e. June 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 
 Mus. Roderick Parker, e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mus. Geo Barnum, e. May 2'J, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Barnett, Eugene, e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bowman, Chag., e. May 9, 1864; died July 2, 1864. 
 Beach, Waldo, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Blanchard, H., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Boyle, Thos., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Brown, Hiram, e. May 20, 1864; deserted. 
 Burchell, Benj'., e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Conley, Jno., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Coulon, Adelbert, e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cook, Charles, e. May 20, 1864; died Aug. 21, 1864. 
 Cronon, Jno., e. May 15, 1864; deserted. 
 Delaney, E., e. May 9, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Donon, M., e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Duffy, Anthony, e. May 17, 1864 ; n. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Eddy, Homer, e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Elliott, Jas., e. May 15, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Ellis, Jas.. e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fowler, Frank, e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Freeman, Allen, e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Gebel, M., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gebel, T., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Golley, Jno., e. May 15, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Graham, Ezra, e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Graves, C. A , e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Goodier, Geo., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hall, G. H., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hammond, H., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hammond, W., e. May 13. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Haveland, Chas., e. May 12, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Huggins, Jeffrey, e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hines, Wm., e. May 18,1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Howe, M., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hundley, Thos., e. May 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hyde, Alvin, e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hyde, W. 0., e. May 7, 1861; died Sept. 15, 1864. 
 Hydfi, Chas., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, us Corp. 
 Jarvis, Jas., e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Johnston, Jno., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Juckett, Chas., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kaysier, M., e. May 18, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Kilron, P. M., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Lane, Orrin, e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergi. 
 Lane, J., e. May 18, 1864; deserted. 
 Lloyd, W. B., e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Malley. P. 0., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mark, Hosmer, e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Marshall, Jas., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Marshall, Jno., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Matteson, A. D., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Miller, Almon, e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Millor, C. A., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as First 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Miller, Chas., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Millington, Arthur, e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Murray, Thos., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Oleson, Peter, e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Palmer, Wm., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fender, Thos., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Partlow, J. F., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Byan, T., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Sargent, Chas., e. May 14, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sargent, R. A., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Sawyer, Lyman, e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct 10, 1864. 
 Smith, H. E., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Stevens, Albt., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Swarthout, J. E., e. May 14, 1864 : m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Tifft, Harvey, e. May 20, 1864 ; m'. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Thompson, Geo. e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Tomlinson, Henry, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Van Vorst, A. F., e. May 11, 1864; m. o Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Vinton, W. W., e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct, 10, 1864. 
 Wallace, C. H., e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Watson, F. W., e. May 18, 1864 ; prmtd. Asst. Surg. 
 Weed, Lee, e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Whipple, J. W., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 <'orp. 
 
 Wilson, Franklin, e. May 17, 1864 ; deserted. 
 Wilson, W. B., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wodell, Clarence, e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct 10, 1864. 
 Young, Franklin, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Young, W. J., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Cochran, John M., e. June 1, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dickenson, R , e. May 15, 1864; prmtd. Principal Music'n. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. Chas. Herrington, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 Second Lieut. Chester Stewart, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Ahles, John, e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bosford, Rial, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Blackmere, E.. e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Boynrelf, G., e. May 14, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Brennan, Thos., e. May 4, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Brown, Mark, e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bacon, Wm.,, e. May 12, 1864; deserted June 17, 1864. 
 Brown, E. B., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Casey, E. I., e. May 10, 1864; deserted June 18, 1864. 
 Curtis, E. E., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Copprell, Henry, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cook, Geo. P., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10,1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Cook, Jasper, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Carler, T J., e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Carroll, Jno., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Condon, Lawrence, e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Condon, Jno., e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Chenney, Saml., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 18, 1864. 
 De Wolf, W. S., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. U', 1864. 
 Donelson, S., e. May 4, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Donor, Thos., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Ellis, Danl., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fink, Martin, e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 German, Geo., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10,1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Gilfoil, Albt., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Neal, Chas., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Hendrickson, C., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hayes, T., e. May 12, 1864 ; drowned June 30, 1864. 
 Kelly, Wilson, e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kelly, Saml., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kimball, C., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kendall, W. B., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kendall, N. J., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Kendall, Albt., e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Loveland, Henry, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Nov. 14, 1864. 
 McFaddan, Wm., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Mayer, Felix, e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Miller, P. G., e. May 5. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Maynr, F., e. May 6, 1864 ; m. o. Nov. 14, 1864. 
 Matthewson, E. A., e. May 14, 1864 ; Corp., absent, sick, 
 
 at m. o. 
 McMelton, E., May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1861.
 
 522 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 McBrairty, Chas., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Murphy, Patrick, e. May 12, 1864; deserted June 25, 1864. 
 Nelson, Jno., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 18B4. 
 Outhouse, Wm., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Olmsted, L. W., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Oakley, G. H., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Powers, W. J., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. May 10, 1864. 
 Pride, Chas., e. May 4, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Pratt, E., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Peck, R.. e. May 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Ponley, R. F., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Pulver, G. C., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Rowell, G. W., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Renwiok, Wm., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rudirzer, F., e. May 13, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864, as Corp, 
 Reed, David, e. May 7, 1864; m. e. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Reed, Marcus, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rodgers, Jno., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Stewart, Judson, e. May 7, 1864 ; deserted June 20, 1864. 
 Southgate, R., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Stencufield, F., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Silyer, David, e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Swetzer, Jackson, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Seaton, Albt., e. May 21, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Seaton. I. D., e. May 7. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Seelv, Frank, e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Smith, T. B , e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Townsend, S. H.. e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilkerson, Jno., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilder, Jacob, e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilcox, Frank, e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct., 10, 1864. 
 Webb, Frank, e. May,14. 1864; m.o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wise, Samuel, e. May 14, 1864; deserted June 17, 1864. 
 Wallize, Geo., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Watrous, W. S., e.'May 14,1864; m. o. Oct 10,1864, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 
 Wise, Peter, e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wilgon, Jas., e. May 13, 1864; deserted June 26, 1864. 
 Young, Jas., e. May 14, 1864 ; deserted June 17, 1864. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Burback, A. J., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Doherty, Geo., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dickson, Dennis, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Eldridge, G. W., e. May 10, 1864; m. o.Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Grant, W. H., e. May 18. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gintei, Wm., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gibbons, J. J., e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Peters, Jno., e. May 30, 1864; rn. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Robinson, W. J., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Warnock, B. J., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Welsh, Peter, e. May 29, 1864 ; deserted June 22, 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. R. H. Winslow, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 First Lieut. D. W. Coan, e. June 16, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10. 
 
 1864. 
 Second Lieut. H. C. Dodge, e. June 16, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 
 Austin, N. C., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Austin, G. H., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Bruce, Henry, e. May 11, 1864; deserted June 24, 1864. 
 Betts, Geo., e. May 11, 1864 ; deserted June 24, 1864. 
 Blake, J. W., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as First 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Beaver,!;. E., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bews, Henry, e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Bathrick, J. H., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Colson, Carlotto, e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clarke, J. D.,e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Clarke, Hiram, e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Cossalman, Jas., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Colburn, Wm., e. Mayl, Ife64 : m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Darling, D., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Denning, J. M., e. May 1,1864; m.o. Oct. 10,1864, as Corp. 
 Dunne, E , e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Edwards, R. B., e. May 1, 1 864 ; m.o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Edwards, J. W., e. May 1, 1864; m o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Firkins, Wm., e. May 10, 1864; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fyfe, Thos., e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gillett, J. V., e. May 15, 1864, m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Goodrow, Jacob, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Guy, Chas., e. May 1, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Gilbert, A. J., e. May 14, 1864 ; died July 28, 1864. 
 Gilbert, H. W., e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hamilton, Frank, e. May 13, 1864 ; deserted June 24, 1864. 
 
 Hilpist, Philip, e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hoat, Wm., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hubble. L. F., e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Hatch, F. S., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Hamilton, J. M., e. May 1, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Hinckley, Horace, e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Hughes, J, M., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10,1804, as Sergt. 
 Jewell, Wm., e. May 14, 1864 ; m.o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Sergt. 
 Johnson, R. F., e. May 10,1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Johnson, J. W., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Kearns, Delos, e. May 17, 1864; 111. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Laury, Jo., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Law, J. C., e. May 1, 1864 : m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Laury, S. W., e. May 3, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lappen, Geo., e. May 14, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lucky, T. B., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lomax, J. E., e. May 15, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Mix, Parsons, e. May 1, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Myer, Frank, e. May 1, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 McMullen, Wm., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mar, Jos., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Monroe, John, e. May 20, 1864 ; deserted June 24, 1864. 
 Newman, M. C., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Oats, John. e. May 9, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Reed, Walter, e. May 20, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Roberts, Wm., e. May 1, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rice, E. W. L., e. May 12, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, a& 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Rice, C. H., e. May 1, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Ray, Wm., e. May 1, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Rumble, Jas., e. May 9, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10. 1864. 
 Sullivan, W. K., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Sloan, Napoleon, e. May 16, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Satterlee, Horace, e. May 14, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Satterfiel.i, N. M., e. May 2, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Stewart, Wm.. e. May 7, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Severance, Geo., e. May 14, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Stanard, Jno., e. May 17, 1864 ; deserted June 24, 1804. 
 Smith, T. B., e. May 20, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Terry, Justus, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Thatcher, Orrin, e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Terry, W. J., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Traugh, M. G., e. May 14, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Thon, Louis, e. May 9, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10,. 1864. 
 Van Nortrick, J. M.. e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Van Deveir, Chas., e. May 11, 1864 ; deserted June 24, 1864. 
 Williams, W. M., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Winters. Wm., e. May 1, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wimple. Quincy, e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Weese, J. M., e. May 14, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10,1864. 
 Wells, W. H., e. Mav 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Wildrick. Sylvester^ e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Wagner. G. H., e. May 12, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Walker,' N., e. May 1, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Yeldam, Geo., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. Jno. Oilman, e. June 10, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Second Lieut. Chas. Ferson, e. June 10, 1804 ; m.o. Oct. 
 
 10, 1864. 
 Musician Horace Brigham, e. May 27, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Musician Chas. Fay, e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wagoner H. Lillas, e. May 18, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Aldricb, S. C., e. May 5, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 August, Jno., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Adams, Anson, e. May 1, 18(i4 ; died July 26, 1864. 
 Belyea, Chas., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 Blank, Jesse, e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, a 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Bnlard, J. M., e. May 5, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Ballow, Win., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Beckington, R., e. May 7, 1864: in. o. Oct. lo, 1864. 
 Bassett, Oscar, e. May 3, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Barchell, Zach., e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as- 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Babbitt, Lewis, e. May 18, 1804 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Burton, Mark. e. May 19, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804. 
 Cooley, Thos., e. May 19, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Casey, I., e. May 10/1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Conklin, Chas., e. May 5, 186t ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, a 
 
 Sergt. 
 Conner, Nathan, e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804, as- 
 
 Corp. 
 Conner, Lyman, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1804.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 528 
 
 Clark, Henry, e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Dunham, A. J., e. Muy 7. 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fereon, Kirk. e. May 17, 1864; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Fennerty, Jas., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. ' 
 
 Flannerty, Jos., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Freeland, Abram, e. May 7, 18(4 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Fearson, Jno., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Goskey, Wm., e. May 12, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Oilman, Frank, e. May 12, 1864; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 Hazeltine, E. R., e. May 17, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Hassans, F. B. e. May 10, f864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Haskins, Albert, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Inman, Jno., e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lovedale, Rob't, e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lake, Chas.,e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Lake, W. H., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Merchant, C. H., e. May 1, 1864; ni. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Merreen, P., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mostow, Jno., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 McCoy, Jno., e. May 18, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Mitchell, Thos., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Minard. Geo., e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Peterson, Alf., e. May 12, 1864: m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Putnam, Ransom, e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Pease, W. L., e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 18(4. 
 Powel, Jas., e. May 15, 1804; deserted June 20, 1864. 
 Ray, L. C., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Ray, Jno., e. May 15, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Russell, Wm., e. May 5, 1804; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as Corp. 
 Reed, Wm. K., e. May 12, 1864 ; in. o. Oct. 10, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Rich, E. B., e. May 19, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Sulivan, Jno., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Smith, J. P., e. May 17, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Standidge, Thos., e. May 5, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Smith. A. E., e. May 14. 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Teft, Jas., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Whitney, Wm., e. May 5, 1864; m. o.Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Welch, Darid, e. May 12, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wild, W. E., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864. 
 Wheeler, W., e. May 5, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 10, 1864, 
 Wilcott, M., e. May 15, 184; disd. June 16, 1864. 
 
 SEVENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (Three Months.) 
 
 The Seventh Infantry Illinois Volunteers is 
 claimed to be the first regiment organized in 
 the State of Illinois, under the first call of the 
 President for three months troops. The 
 Eighth llliuois claims the same honor. The 
 Seventh was mustered into the United States 
 service at Camp Yates, 111., April 25, 1861, by 
 Capt. John Pope, U. S. A. Was forwarded to 
 Alton, St. Louis, Cairo and Mound City, where 
 it remained during three months' service. 
 
 Was reorganized and mustered for three 
 years' service July 25, 1861, by Capt. T. G. 
 Pitcher, U. S. A. Proceeded to Ironton, Mo., 
 and joined the command of Brig. Gen. B. M. 
 Prentiss. Aug. '21, 1861, marched to Cape 
 Girardeau, Mo., where it remained some time, 
 Col. Cook commanding post. The regiment 
 went into winter quarters at Fort Holt, Ky.. 
 Col. Cook commanding post. The garrison 
 consisted of a briga le Seventh and Twenty- 
 eighth Illinois and McAllister's battery. Gen. 
 Grant commanded the district of Cairo. 
 
 Was with the reconnoitering expedition, un- 
 der Gen. Grant, in the rear of Columbus, Ky. 
 During the battle of Belmont was sent to 
 Elliott's Mills, just above Columbus. On Feb. 
 3, 1862, embarked for Fort Henry, and on the 
 
 12th for Fort Donelson, taking part in the in- 
 vestment and siege of that place, February 13, 
 14 and 15, and was engaged in the last charge 
 on the left of the enemy's works. At Donel- 
 son the regiment was commanded by Lieut. 
 Col. Babcock, Col. Cook commanding Third 
 Brigade, Second Division, Maj. Gen. C. F. 
 Smith commanding. Loss three killed, in- 
 cluding the gallant Capt. Mendell, of Company 
 
 I, and nineteen wounded. Feb. 21, 1862, left 
 Fort Donelson. for Clarksville, Tenn., Maj. Row- 
 ett commanding, Lieut. Col. Babcock absent,sick, 
 and Col. Cook commanding brigade. Ordered to 
 Nashville, and afterward to Pittsburg Landing, 
 where it arrived Feb. 22, 1862. Was engaged' 
 continually, April 6 and 7, at the battle of Shi- 
 loh, under command of Lieut. Col. Rowett, Col. 
 Babcock being absent, sick, and Col. Cook hav- 
 ing been promoted to Brigadier General on the 
 
 21st of March. Loss at battle of Shiloh two 
 
 commissioned officers and fifteen men killed, 
 and seventy-nine wounded. Was engaged up to 
 May 30th with Third Brigade, Second Division, 
 and in center of right wing, moving upon Cor- 
 inth meanwhile having several skirmishes wii h 
 theenemy. On evacuation of Corinth, May 30th, 
 by the enemy, the regiment marched to Farm- 
 ington and Booneville, Mississippi, repairing 
 roads and bridges, and returned to Corinth June 
 
 II, 1862. At battle of Corinth, Oct. 3 and 4, 
 1862, the regiment was engaged both days en- 
 tire, on the right of Third Brigade, and still in 
 Second Division. Col. Babcock was in com- 
 mand. On 5th October, marched in pursuit of 
 enemy as far as Ruckersville, and returned on 
 10th. Loss at Corinth two commissioned offi- 
 cers and six men killed, and forty-six wounded. 
 Also, twenty-one prisoners, who have since 
 been exchanged and returned to duty. Decem- 
 ber 18, marched to Lexington, Mo., in pursuit 
 of guerillas. April 15 1863, marched with Gen. 
 Dodge's command through luka, Glendale and 
 Burnsville to Bear Creek, on the Alabama line. 
 On the 17lh. deployed as skirmishers, drove 
 the enemy from the creek ; and as soon as the 
 cavalry had crossed, Companies C and K 
 pushed forward at a double quick in support 
 of a battery. The remainder of the brigade 
 then crossed, and, moving forward to Cherokee, 
 engaged the rebels. The Seventh, on the right, 
 killed twelve of the enemy and captured two 
 prisoners. At dark retired, and next morning 
 moved back to Bear Creek. April 25, again 
 moved forward to Tuscumbia. and the same 
 evening to South Florence, joining the Ninth 
 Illinois (mounted) Infantry. The next day 
 moved with main co'umn to Town Creek. April 
 28, crossed Town ('reek and drove the enemy 
 three miles, and remained on the ground during 
 the night with the Second Iowa Infantry. On 
 29th, recrossed and returned to Corinth with 
 the command, arriving May 2. Loss during 
 this expedition, one man killed ^accidentally 
 shot. 
 
 May 12 to June 8, 1863, guarded railroad 
 from Bethel to Jackson, Tenn. June 18, 
 mounted, by order of Maj. Gen. Dodge, and
 
 524 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 the remainder of the month was scouting 
 through West Tennessee. July 7 to 9, on 
 scout. July 26th to Aug. 5th. on expedition 
 under command of Col. Rowett, of the Seventh, 
 capturing forty-two prisoners, including one 
 Colonel and two Captains, and many horses and 
 mules. Lost one man, accidentally killed. 
 Again went out, together with 100 men of the 
 Tenth Missouri Cavalry. Had several skir- 
 mishes, and captured twenty prisoners. Sept. 
 26, commenced a four days' expedition with 
 the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, Col. Rowett in 
 command. Had some very brisk skirmishes, 
 and cptured thirty prisoners and several 
 horses and mules. Oct. 4, relieved Eighteenth 
 Missouri, at Chewalla, and was again relieved 
 on the 28th. Oct. 26th, proceeded to luka. 
 Here guarded approaches until the 6th of No- 
 vember, when marched to Eastport. and crossing 
 the Tennessee River, moved on flanks of Dodge's 
 command, capturing horses, etc., and fight- 
 ing guerillas until Nov. 12th, when camped at 
 Pulaski. Nov. 17th to 19th, scouted to and 
 beyond Lawrenceburg, capturing thirty prison- 
 ers. Nov. 21st, ordered to Corinth, and re- 
 turned to Pulaski, capturing twenty-five prison- 
 ers. Dec. 10th ordered on scout toward Shreve 
 Creek and Florence, Ala. Engaged Moreland's 
 Battalion an 1 captured thirty-five prisoners, 
 including four commissioned officers. The 
 enemy left eight dead upon the field, and many 
 wounded. Besides the above skirmishes and 
 marches, detachments of the regiment have been 
 constantly employed carrying dispatches, and 
 have had many small skirmishes, captured 
 many prisoners, etc. Dec. 22, 1863, the regi- 
 ment re-enlisted as Veteran Volunteers, and 
 Jan. 7, 1864, started to Springfield, 111., for the . 
 veteran furlough. 
 
 [No memorandv furnished of veteran or- 
 ganization. Mustered out July 9, 1865, at 
 Louisville, Ky. Arrived at Camp Butler, July- 
 12, 1865, for final payment and discharge.] '-' 
 
 Major Nicholas Greusel, e. as -Captain of Co. C; was pro- 
 moted Major April 25, 1861 ; re-e. in the three years 
 service. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. E. S. Joslyn, e April 22, 1861. 
 
 First Lieut. R. H. Adams, e. April 22, 1861. 
 
 Second Lieut. Jas. Davidson, e. April 22, 1861. 
 
 Sergt. Jonathan Kimball, e. April 22, 1861; m. o, July 
 
 22, 1861. 
 Sergt. F. A Raymond, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 
 
 1861, 
 
 Sergt. Geo. Wheeler, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Corpl. J. R. Kinney, e. July 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 18hl. 
 Corpl.G. W. Padelford, e. April 22,1861; m. o. July 25, 
 
 1861. 
 Corpl. Holland Handburg, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 
 
 25, 1861. 
 Musician G. C. Kothe, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 
 
 1861. 
 
 Aldrich, J. W., e. April 22, 1861 . m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Allen, David, e. April 22, 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Allen. C. W., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Adams, J. J., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Brown, C. R., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Boutwell, G. W., e April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Bradley, David, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Bacon, A. A. C., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Bradford, S., e. April 22, 1861; m. o July 25, 1861. 
 Coal, B S., e. April 22, 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 
 Coon, Jno., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Crayon, Thos., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Doty. H. S., e. April 22. 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Densmore, E. H., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Dixon, C. L., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Dixon, M. L., e. April 22, 1861, m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Guptail, C. W., e. April 22. 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Harney, S. M., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Harvey, C. M., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1361. 
 Hart, John, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o July 25, 1861. 
 Humphrey, R., e. April 22, 18H1 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Haines, J. L , e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Keyes, A. A., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 KimbUl, W. H., e. April 22. 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Louis, H. B., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Messenger, Albert, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Martens, A., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Murphy, John, e. April 22. 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 O'Donald, J., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Peterson, Hiram, e. April 22, 1861 . m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Ryan, John, e. April 22, 1861; m.o. July 25, 1861. 
 Robinson, Alex., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Rice, Henry, e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Soper, J. S . e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Slawson, C. H., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Schneider, J. C., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Vinney, J. M., e. April 22, 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Walliver, N. D., e. April 22, 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Ward, J. 11., P. April 22,181; m.o. July 25, 1861. 
 Walliver, Wm., e. April 22, 1861 ; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 Wheeler, W. H., e. April 22, 1861; m. o. July 25, 1861. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 First Lieut. Silas Miller, e. April 29, 1861, as Second 
 
 Lieut. ; prmtd. to First Lieut. April 29, 1861. 
 Second Lieut. R. P. Pattison, e. April 29, 1861. 
 
 (Three Tears' Service.) 
 
 Lieut. Co\. Nicholas Greusel, e. April 2 >, l6l, as Major ; 
 
 prmpt. to Lieut. Colonel July 24, 1861, and to Col. 
 
 of Thirty-Sixth Inf. Sept. 2:3, 1861; read. Feb. 7, 1863. 
 Q. M. Wm. Brown, Jr., e. as Sergt. Major ; prmtd. to Q. M. 
 
 Oct. 29, 1861 ; died of wds. reed, at Coriuth Oct. 9, 1862. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. S. G. Ward, e. July 25, 1861 ; kid. at Shiloh, April 6, 
 
 1862. 
 Capt. G. F. Wheeler, e. as Sergeant July 25,1861 ; prmtd. 
 
 to Captain April 7, 1862; resd. Dec. 31, 1862. 
 Capt. Thos. McGuire, e. as Sergeant July 25, 1861; prmtd. 
 
 to Second Lieutenant Jan. 30, 1862, to First Lieuten- 
 ant June 21,1862, and to Capt. Jan. 1, 1863; hon. 
 
 disd. March 12, 1863. 
 First Lieut. Jonathan Kimball, e. July 25, 1861 ; resd. 
 
 Feb. 5, 1862. 
 First Lieut. M. M. Marsh, e. Aug. 26, 1861 ; resd. Nov. 
 
 22, 1861. 
 Second Lieut. C. T. Elliott, e. as Sergeant July 25, 1861 ; 
 
 pnntd. to Second Lieutenant Jan. 1, 1863 ; term ex- 
 pired July 25, 1864. 
 
 Sergt. J. R. Kinuey, e. July 25. 1861 ; reported dead. 
 Corpl. J. P Shneider, e. July 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. vol. 
 
 Dec. 22, 1863 ; m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 Corpl. Chas. Eppner, e. July 25, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 12, 1861 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Corpl. A. N. Stowe, e. 'July 25, 1861; re-e. as vet. vol. 
 
 Dec. 22, 1863 ; disd. April 9, 1863. 
 Musician Henry Snell, e. July 25, 1861 ; transf. to Thirtv- 
 
 S^xth III. Inf. Sept. 1, 1861. 
 Adams, 0. S., e. July 25, 1861, disd. July 29, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Bradford. John, e. July 25, 1861, died March 31, 186;!. 
 Bradford, Eugene, e. July 25, 1861. 
 Carmin, Robert, e. July 25, 1861, m. o. June 5, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 Carmichael, Henry, e. July 25, 1865 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 
 
 22, 1863, m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 Coleman, W. H., e. July 25, 1861. 
 Gage, W. L., e. July 25, 1861. 
 Gilbert, Geo., e. July 25, 1861, died at Cairo, III. 
 Hasson, H. C., e. July 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 1863, 
 
 kid. at Allatoona, Ga., Oct. 5, 1864. 
 Hickey, M. W., e. July 25, 1861, m. o. as Sergt. July 29, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Hous<*, J. W., e. July 25, 1861, died July 29, 1864. 
 Hundley, J. R.. e. July 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 9, 1865.
 
 ELGIN
 
 AVAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 527 
 
 Hart, John, e. July 25, 1861, died at Fort Holt, Ky., NOT. 
 
 7, 1861. 
 
 Hickox. F. M., e. July 25, 1861. 
 Mallett, W. J., e. July 25, 1861 ; m. o. June 8, 1865. 
 O'Brian, Michael, e. July 25, 1861; disd. July v:9, 1864. 
 Silver, G. E., e. July 25,1861 ; m. o. as Corp. July 29, 1864. 
 Schaffer, Wm., e.'July 25, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 Stone, Chas., e. July 25, 1861. 
 Thompson, Johnson, e. July 25, 1861. 
 Wheeler, L. J., e. July 25, 1861 ; trans, to Eighth 111. 
 
 Vol. Cav. 
 Wheelor, Wm., e. July 25, 1861; died at Elgin, 111., Aug. 
 
 2, 1861. 
 
 Company A and Company B. 
 
 (Consolidated as Company B.) 
 Fitzgerald, Juo, e. Jan. 5, 1864; re-e. as vet.; m. o. July 
 
 tf, 1865. 
 
 Hill, E. H., e. Sept. 10, 1863 ; m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 House, J. W., e. July 25, 1861 ; disd. July 29, 1864 
 Mallett, W. J , e July 25, 1861 ; m. o June 8, 1865. 
 Peterson, Hiram, e. Dec. 22, 1863 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 22, 
 
 1862 ; prmtd to Sergt. 
 Sill, G N., e. Sept. 25, 1861. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 First Lieut. J. H. Hubbard, e. as Sergt. July 25, 1861 ; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. May 22, 1863 ; to First Lieut. 
 
 April 22, 1864; m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 Sergt. Judson Parks, e. July 13, 1861. 
 Sergt. T. W. Billington, e. July 13, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Corp. W. H. Voorhees, e. July 13, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Wagoner H. H. Showers, e. July 18, 1861 ; died Jan. 16, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Alford, C. B., e. July 18, 1861 ; kid. at Corinth Oct. 3, 1862. 
 Blackman, Chas., e. July 18, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Bryant, F. C., e. July 18, 1861; re-e. as vet. 
 Caujpbell, Edgar, e. July 18, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Casselman, Levi, e. July 18, 1861. 
 Ecker, Alonzo, e. July 18, 1861 ; died Jan. 27, 1862. 
 Kopf, Jos., e. July 18, 1861. 
 
 Lemuel, Jno., e. July 18, 1861; died Sept. 14, 1861. 
 Marion, P. J B., e. July 1861. 
 McDaniels, Eli, e. July 18, 1861 ; re-e as vet. 
 McNolty, Ed., e. July 18, 1861; disd. July 24, 1864. 
 Nichboy, Henry, e. July 18, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 O'Brien, Henry, e. July 18, 1861. 
 Bose, Oliver, e. July 18, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 27, 1861. 
 
 Companies C and O. 
 
 (Consolidated.) 
 
 Bentley, Thos., e. Feb. 17, 1864 ; m. o. May 19, 1865 ; rct. 
 Hammerschmidt, Henry, e. Feb. 3, 1864 ; m. o. July 9, 
 
 1865; rect. 
 
 Hellgoth, Andrew, e. Feb. 10, 1864; kid. Oct. 5, 1864; rect. 
 Schmidt,, Jno.. e. Jan. 28, 1864 ; m. o. July 9, 1865; rect. 
 Simin, Jno., e. Feb. 10, 1861, m. o. July 9, 1865 ; rect. 
 Steaf bald, Chas., e. Feb. 12. 1864 ; m. o. Jnly 9, 1865 ; rect. 
 Staley, Abram, e. Feb. 5, 1864; m. o. July 9, 1865 ; rect. 
 Turner, Wm., e. Feb. 11, 1864; re-e. as vet. March 12, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 9, 1865 ; rect 
 Yeus, Chas., e. Jan. 29, 1864; died at Rome, Ga., Nov. 1, 
 
 1864; rect. 
 
 Baker, E. E.,'e. Dec. 22, 1863 ; m. o. July 8, 1865 ; vet. 
 Blackman, Chas.. e. Dec. 22, 1863: m. o. July 9, 1865 ; vet. 
 Bryant. F. C , e. Dec. 22, 1863; m'. o. July 9, 1865 ; vet. 
 Billington, T.W., e. Dec. 22,1863; prmtd. to First Sergt.; 
 
 kid at Rome, Ga., Aug. 19, 1864; vet. 
 Carpenter, T. J., e. March 4, 1864 ; m. o. July 9, 1865 : vet. 
 Fourke, Jno., e. Dec. 22, 1863 ; m. o. July 9, 1865 ; vet. 
 Snell, Marcellus, e. Dec. 22, 1863; m. o. July 9, 1865; vet. 
 Tebay, J. A., e. Dec. 22, 1863 : m. o. July 9, 1865 ; vet. 
 
 Company G. 
 
 Second Lieut. Paul J. B. Marion, e. Sept. 11, 1862 ; hon. 
 
 <lisd. Jan. 26, 1865. 
 Bell, H. C., unassigned rect., e. Feb. 24, 1864; died April 
 
 11, 1864. 
 Daniels, C. W., 8th Inf. (3 years), Co. E, rect., e. July 28, 
 
 1861; disd. July 28, 1864. 
 Joyce, Jno., 8th Tnf. (3 years), <k>. G, dft. and sub. rect., e. 
 
 Oct. 19, 1864, m. o. Oct. 20, 1865. 
 First Asst. Surgeon Myron Hopkins, llth Inf. (3 years). 
 
 e. Sept. 17, 1804, m. o. July 14, 1865. 
 Jackson, Henry, 12th Inf. (3 years), e. Aug. 1, 1861, died 
 
 July 30, 1862. 
 
 THIRTEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (Three Tears.) 
 
 The Thirteenth Infantry Illinois Volunteers 
 was organized under the Ten-Regiment Bill, at 
 Dixon, 111., May 9, 1861, and mustered into 
 United States service May 24, 1861. June 16th, 
 ordered to Caseyville, by rail ; July 6th, to 
 Rolla, Mo , by rail; Oct. 10, 1861, ordered to 
 Springfield, Mo. ; Nov. 10, 1861, ordered back 
 to Rolla ; remained during the winter in Rolla. 
 
 March 6, 1862, marched, via Springfield, to 
 Pea Ridge, Ark. ; thence, via Keitsville, to 
 Batesville; and thence to Helena, Ark., arriv- 
 ing on the 14th of July, 1862 July 9, 1864, 
 regiment was consolidated with Fifty-sixth Illi- 
 nois Infantry Volunteers. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Musician G. A. Hall, e. May 24, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps. 
 Dunham, E. E., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Trowbridge, Jno., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Merritt, Abbott, e. May 30, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Kendall, Albert, e. June 6, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 
 O'Brien, John, e. June 6, 1861 ; m. o. June 8, 1865. 
 
 Ponsonby, Patrick, e. June 6, 1861; m. o. June 2, 1865. 
 
 Pike, Samuel, e. June 6, 1861 ; disd. 
 
 Rogers, Geo., e. June 6, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 
 Stevens, A. A., e. June 6, 1861. 
 
 Shipman, Isaac, e. June 6, 1861 ; died Oct. 13, 1863. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Capt. G. H. Gardner, e. as First Lieutenant; prmtd to 
 
 Captain ; died Jan. 5. 1863. 
 Capt. Edwin Went, e. as Second Lieut. ; prmtd. to First 
 
 Lieutenant and to Capt.; term expired June 18, 1864. 
 Capt. E. A. Pritchard, e. as Second Lieutenant ; prmtd to 
 
 First Lieutenant and to Captain, Jan. 5, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. J. D. Pierce, e. May 24, 1861, as First Ser- 
 geant ; prmtd to Second Lieutenant Jan. 5, 1863 ; 
 
 term expired June 18, 1864. 
 
 Sergt. Wm. Larrabee, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Sergt. G. B. Putnam, e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18, 1864, 
 
 as First Sergeant. 
 
 Sergt. Jno. Woodward, e. May 24, 1861 ; died Oct. 9,1861. 
 Corp. E. H. Holley, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864, 
 
 as Sergea-it. 
 Corp. G. W. Meirs, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd March 25, 1864, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Corp. M. G. Clark, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Corp. R. F. Jay, e. May 24, 1861 ; prisr of war ; m. o. 
 
 June 7, 1865. 
 Corp. H. K. Mason, e. May 24, 1861 ; transferred to Inv. 
 
 Corps, Jan. 15, J864. 
 
 Corp. Frank Whipple, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Musician E. W. Loomis, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd Jan. 10, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Brown, Frank, e. May 24, 1861 ; deserted July 30, 1862. 
 Armstrong, Lendrum, e. May 24, 1861 ; desd. May 4, 1863. 
 Anderson, 0. V., e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Brisben, B. F., e. May 24, 1861 ; transferred 10 Inv. Corps, 
 
 Sept. 1, 1863. 
 
 Beardsley, A. E., e. May 24, 1861 : m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Burt, T. L., e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Brownell, E. A., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18,1864. 
 Babcock, E. H., e. May 24, 1861 ; died June 6, 1863. 
 Bankson, Geo., e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. April 30, 1863. 
 Bexon, Thomas, e. May 21, 1861; m. o. June, 18, 1864. 
 Barne, Alford, e. May 24, 1861 ; prisr. of war ; m. o. June 
 
 7, 1865. 
 Conklin, G. E., e. May 24, 1861 ; prisr. of war ; m. o. June 
 
 7, 1865. 
 Clark, G. C., e. May 24,1861; m. o. June 18, 1864, as 
 
 Corpl. 
 
 Cortholl, W. B., e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 s
 
 528 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Cheetham, Wm., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Costar, P. C., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Gushing, F. J., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Currier, E. L., e. May 24, 1861 ; prisr. of war; m. o. June 
 
 8, 1865. 
 Cramer, N. S., e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 21, 1862, Sen. 
 
 G. C. M. 
 
 Dein, Bastley, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Dongdale, Peter, e. May 24,1861; disd. April 22, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Da Lee, W., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Eddy, John, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Emerson, E. M., e. May 24, 1861 ; trans, as Second Lieut. 
 
 to 10th Mo. Cav. 
 Fikes, G. W., e. May 24, 1861 ; prisr. of war ; m. o. June 
 
 7, 1865. 
 
 Foster, J. E , e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. April 25, 1862, disab. 
 Fisher, John, e. May 24, 1861 ; deserted Jan. 20, 1863. 
 Goodale, James, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 18, 1863, 
 
 diab. 
 
 Hines, Barney, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 12, 1863, disab. 
 Harmes, H. M., e. May 24, 1861 ; deserted Jan. 20, 1863. 
 Huutoun, J. H., e. May 24, 1861; deserted Jan. 20, 1863. 
 Hall, John, e. May 24, 1861; disd. Jan. 11, 1863, disab. 
 Irwin, Wm., e. May 24,1861; m. o. June 18, 1864, as 
 
 Corpl. . 
 Jolley, J. M., e. May 24, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps March 
 
 15, 1864. 
 Johnson, H. M., e. May 24, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps 
 
 Jan. 15. 1864. 
 Johnson, Kobt., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18. 1864, as 
 
 Corpl. 
 
 Knight, E., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Morton, Randolph, e. May 24,1861; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 McGuire, James, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 19, 1861. 
 Pelan, Cbas., e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Pauline, J. C., e. May 24, 1861 ; died Dec. 8, 1861. 
 Purdy, Sam'l, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Robinson, G. B., e. May 24, 1861; trans, as Hospital 
 
 Steward to non-comd. staff Oct. 8, 1863. 
 Rink, Fred, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18,1864, as Corp. 
 Sherman, M. E., e. May 24, 1861 ; died Dec. 30, 1861. 
 Siegfried, Mathias.e. May 24 1861; m. o. June 18,1864. 
 Smith, G. W., e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. March 5, 1862. 
 Sohnley, J. A., e. May 24, 1861 ; died of wds. Jan. 21, 
 
 1861. 
 
 Shear, Milton, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 18C4. 
 Sheehey, Edwin, e. May 24, 1861; m. o. June 18,1864. 
 Scruffbrd, C. C., e. May 24, 1861; disd. Sept. 8, 1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Strong, S. B., e. May 24, 1861. 
 Shaver, C., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Sier, Emil, e. May 24, 1861 ; died Feb. 5, 1862. 
 Terrill, Nelson, e. May 24, 1861 ; died Oct. 28. 1861. 
 Thompson, Peter, e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 12, 1862. 
 West, A. B., e. May 24, 1861 ; m o. June 18, 1864. 
 Watson, D L., e. May 24, 1861 ; died Jan. 11, 1863, wds. 
 Young, G. W., e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Brown, Heniy, rect., e. April 5, 1862; died April 29,1864. 
 Evarard, Jos., rect., e. May 28, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864. 
 Kotha, Emil, rect., e. Feb. 22, 1862; died June 12, 1863, 
 
 wds. 
 Merrill, 0. B., rect., e. May 28, 1861 ; trans, as Lieutenant 
 
 to 36th Ills. Inf. Sept. 17, 1861. 
 
 Steel. J. H., rect., e. March 8. 1862; wd. Dec. 29, 1862. 
 Van Riper, Abram, rect., e. June 15, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 
 
 18C4. 
 Ward, S. G., rect., e. May 28, 1861 : prmtd. to Captain 
 
 52d Ills. Inf. Aug. 2, 1861. 
 
 White, W. L., rect., e. May 28, 1861 ; died Sept. 20, 1861. 
 Wells, Newton, rect., e. May 28, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Carr, P. H., e. May 24, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 19, 1861 ; blind. 
 Golden, Cyrus, disd. Sept. 26, 1862 ; disab. 
 Quant, J. H., e. March 11, 1862 ; trans, to Co. I, 56th Ills. 
 Wood, G. C.,disd. Aug. 23,1862; disab. 
 
 Company K. . 
 
 Gillespie, J. P., e. June 25, 1861 ; m. o. June 18, 1864, as 
 
 Corpl. 
 
 Slate, Harlow, e. June 25, 1861 ; trans, to 10th Mo. Cav. 
 Wilson, Wm., 14th Inf., Co. F, e. May 25, 1861. 
 Dawson, D. H., 14th Inf., Co. F, e. June 4, 1861 died 
 
 March 25. 1862. 
 Thompson, G. W., 14th Inf., Co. F, e. Aug. 10, 1861 ; trans. 
 
 to Co. B Vet. Batallion. 
 
 Werts, Seymour, 14th Inf., Co. F, e. Aug. 10, 1861 ; tran. 
 
 to Co. B Vet. Batallion. 
 Corp. J. W. Davenport, 15th Inf., Co. F, e. May 24, 1861 ;. 
 
 died Nov. 24, 1863. 
 Lock, Geo., 15th Inf., Co. F, e. May 24, 1861 ; m. o. May 
 
 24, 1864. 
 Wollaver, Jas., 15th Inf., Co. F, e. May 24, 1861; disd. 
 
 Aug. 13, 1861. 
 Wollaver, Nicholas, 15 Inf., Co. F, e. May 24, 1861 ; trans. 
 
 to non-comd. staff as Drum Major. 
 Young, J. H., loth Inf., Co. F, e. May 24, 1861. 
 Bonswell, G. A., 18th Re-organized Int., Co. E, e. March 
 
 11, 1865 ; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 Bane, J. D., 18th Re-organized Inf., Co. E, e March 11, 
 
 1865; m. o. May 30, 1865. 
 Wells, Henry, 18th Re-organized Inf., Co. G, e. Feb. 27, 
 
 1861 ; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 Gates, Henry, 19th Inf., Co. D, e. June 17, 1861 ; died Jan. 
 
 23, 1862. 
 Barnard, N. P., 20th Inf., Co. K, e. Feb. 25, 1863 ; m. o. 
 
 July 16, 1865. 
 Preston, L. C., 201h Inf., Co. K, e. Feb, 16, 1863 ; m. o. July^ 
 
 16, 1865. 
 Barnnino, Nath., 20th Inf., Co. K, e. Feb 25,1864; un-as. 
 
 rect. 
 Q. M. Sergt. D. C. Barrow, e. 22d Inf., Co. B, three years, 
 
 June 25, 1861, as private ; prmtd. to Q. M. Sergt. 
 Vernon, Jno. e. 23d Inf., Co. C, three years, March 15, 
 
 1862 ; died Oct. 22, 1862. 
 , First Sergt. J. M. Jenkins, e. June 15, 1861 ; served at 
 
 battle of 'Lexington, Sept. 20, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 29, 
 
 1861; Comd. Assistant Surgeon of 137th 111. Inf. July 
 
 9, 1864; disd. Oct. 25, 1864; Comd. Assistant Surgeon 
 
 of 150th 111. Inf. March 13, 1865; promoted to Assist- 
 ant Surgeon IT. S. Vols., and served to May, 23, 1866; 
 
 had charge of Regiment, Brigade and Post Hospital 
 
 two year*. 
 First Lieut. Anthony McBriarty, e. 23d Inf., three years, 
 
 Co. H, as private ; prmtd. to Second Lieut. Sept. 26, 
 
 1862 ; to First Lieut. March 6. 1863 ; term expired 
 
 Sept. 14, 1864. 
 Corp. Julius Beinsdorf, e. 24th Inf., Co. C, June 17, 1861, 
 
 m. o. Aug. 6, 1864. 
 Batlenshlag, J. G., e. 24th Inf., Co. C, June 17, 1861 ;. 
 
 deserted Dec. 20, 1861. 
 Echenbergar, Jacob. 24th Inf., Co. C, e. June 17,1861 ; m. 
 
 o. Aug. 6, 1864. 
 Musician J. H. Dodge, 26th Inf., Co. H, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; 
 
 deserted Feb. 1, 1863. 
 
 Corp. Jno. Flinu, 27th Inf., Co. F, e. Aug. 9, 1861 ; re- 
 duced ; detached at m. o. of regt. 
 Miller, Andrew, 31st Inf. Co. I, e. Jan. 1, 1863 ; m. o. 
 
 July 19, 1865. 
 Upton, G. W., 32d Inf., Co. K, e. in 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 2, 1864 ; m. o. Sept. 16, 1865. 
 Barrows, C A., 33d Inf., Co. A, e. Aug. 21, 1861 ; trans. 
 
 to Inv. Corps Jan. 14, 1864. 
 S*rgt. A. C. Cambridge, Co. B, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; deserted, 
 
 March 17, 1863. 
 
 FORTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 The Forty-second Infantry Illinois Volun- 
 teers was organized at Chicago, 111., July 22, 
 1861, by Col. William A. Webb. 
 
 Moved to St. Louis, Sept. 21, 1861. Joined 
 Maj. Gen. Hunter at Tipton, Mo., Oct. 18, 
 1861, and was assigned to Col. Palmer's Brig- 
 ade. Arrived at Warsaw, Oct. 25th. Moved, 
 Nov. 1st. at 10 o'clock P. M., and reached 
 Springfield, Mo., a distance of ninety-seven- 
 miles, at 4 o'clock P. M., on the 4th. Moved 
 from Springfield, 9th, and went into winter 
 quarters at Smith ton, Mo., Dec. 13th. Marched 
 from Smithton, Feb. 3, 1862, to St. Charles,. 
 Mo. Arrived at Fort Holt, Ky., Feb. 20th. 
 Occupied Columbus, March 4, 1862. Moved 
 to Island No. 10, March 15th, and was 
 engaged until its surrender, on the llth of 
 April. Col. Roberts, with fifty men of Com- 
 pany A, spiked six guns of the enemy on the 
 night of April 1st. Joined Gen. Pope's army,
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 529 
 
 llth. Moved to Fort Pillow, 14th. Moved to 
 Hamburg, Tenn. , arriving April 22d. Was 
 engaged in the siege of Corinth. Engaged in 
 the battle of Farmington, May 9, 1862, losing 
 two killed, twelve wouuded and three missing. 
 Led the advance in pursuit of Beauregard's 
 army to Baldwin, Mississippi. The Forty-sec- 
 ond occupied Courtland, Ala., from July 25th 
 until Sept. 3, 1862, when it left for Nashville, 
 Tenn.. via Decatur, Ala. Had a battle at 
 Columbia, Tenu., Sept. 9, 1862, and lost one 
 man killed. Enemy reported eighteen killed 
 and forty-five wounded. Arrived at Nash- 
 ville. Sept 13th. Remained in Nashville during 
 the siege. Dec. 10th, marched ojut six miles on 
 the Nolensville pike. Dec. 26th, engaged in the 
 Murfreesboro campaign. Skirmished with the 
 enemy Dec. 30th, and was engaged in the 
 battle of Stone River, Dec. 31st, with a loss of 
 twenty-two killed, one hundred and sixteen 
 wounded and eighty-five prisoners. March 5, 
 1863, engaged in the pursuit of Van Dora 
 to Columbia, returning to camp at Mur- 
 freesboro, 14th. June 24th, entered upon the 
 Tullahoma campaign, July 31st, camped at 
 Bridgeport, Ala., Sept. 2d, engaged in the 
 Chattanooga campaign. Marched to Alpine, 
 Ga., thence to Trenton, and crossed Lookout 
 Mountain. Engaged, Sept. 19th and 20th, in 
 the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., losing twenty- 
 eight killed, one hundred and twenty-eight 
 wounded, and twenty-eight prisoners, and re- 
 treated to Chattanooga. Nov. 28th, engaged in 
 the battle of Mission Ridge, losing five killed 
 and forty wounded, the Forty-second being on 
 the skirmish line during the whole engagement. 
 Pursued the enemy to Chickamauga Creek, and 
 returned. Nov. 28th. entered East Tennessee 
 campaign. Dec. 27th, camped at Stone's Mill. 
 Jan. 1, 1864, regiment re-enlisted as a vet- 
 eran volunteer organization. Jan. 15th, moved 
 to Dandridge. 21st, started for Chattanooga, 
 arriving Feb. 2. 2 1st, moved, by rail, for 
 Chicago. March 2d, the men were furloughed. 
 Returned, April 2d. Arrived at Chattanooga, 
 April 27th. Entered Atlantacampaign, May 3d. 
 Was engaged at Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, 
 Adairsville, New Hope Church, Pine Mountain, 
 Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, 
 Jonesboro and Lovejoy Station, encamping at 
 Atlanta, Sept. 8th. Total loss on the campaign, 
 twenty killed, eighty-nine wounded, and seven 
 prisoners. Sept. 25th, moved to Bridgeport, 
 Ala., by rail; Oct. 19th, by rail, to Chattanooga, 
 and thence marched to Alpine, Ga. Returned, 
 Oct. 30th. Moved, by rail, to Athens, Ala., 
 and marched to Pulaski, Tenn., arriving Nov. 
 5th. Nov. 22d, commenced retreat for Nash- 
 ville, engaging with the enemy at Spring Hill 
 and Franklin, and losing twenty-four killed, 
 ninety-five wounded and thirty prisoners. 
 Arrived at Nashville, Dec. 1st. Dec. loth and 
 16, 1864, engaged at the battle of Nashville, 
 losing two killed and eleven wounded. Pursued 
 the enemy eighty-two miles, camping at Lex- 
 ington, Ala., Dec. 31st. Jan. 1, 1865, marched, 
 via Huntsville, to Decatur, Ala., arriving Jan. 
 
 6th. April 1st, left Decatur, and proceeded, 
 by rail, to Bull's Gap, Tenn., and thence 
 marched to Blue Springs, arriving April 6th. 
 Returned to Bull's Gap. 19th and proceeded 
 by rail to Nashville. June 15th, moved, by rail, 
 to Johnsonville, Tenn., and thence, by water, 
 to New Orleans, and camped at Chalmette, 
 June 23d. July 18th, proceeded to Port Lava- 
 ca, Texas; disembarked 23d, and proceeded to 
 Camp Irwin. Aug. 17th, returned to Lavaca, 
 and went on post duty. Dec. 16, 1865, mus- 
 tered out and left Indianola, 20th. Left New 
 Orleans, 24th, and arrived at Camp Butler, Jan. 
 3, 1866. Jan. 10, 1866, received final pay- 
 ment and discharge. 
 
 Colonel E. D. Swain, e. July 22, 1861, as Captain of Co. I; 
 prmtd to Lieutenant Colonel Oct. 13, 1863, and to 
 Colonel April 13, 1864; was m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Major Henry K. Walcott, e. Aug. 1, 1861, as First Sergt. ; 
 ' was promtd. to Second Lieut. Sept. 26, 1862; to First 
 Lieut. Oct. 13, 1863; to Capt Sept. 28,1864, and to 
 Major Aug. 2, 1865 ; \ws m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Sergeant Major Charles Cwrlton, e. as Sergeant Major; 
 was prnitd. to First Lieutenant, Co. G, April 11, 
 1865; m. o.Dec. 1,1861. 
 
 Q. M. Sergt. Joseph Vallor, prmtd. to Regimental Q. M. 
 Sergt , but not mustered ; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Commissary Sergeant A. C. Cleveland, prnitd. to Adju- 
 tant April 11, 1865 ; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Commissary Sergeant Benjamin F. Closser, e. Jan. 1, 
 1864; m. o. Dec. 16,1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Dennis, Marvin, died at Smithton, Mo., Jan. 30. 1862. 
 Lee, P. B., e. July 29, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 16, 1864, as Corpl. 
 Matuse, Nicholas, e. Aug. 13, 1861 ; died Jan. 12, 1862. 
 Schwader, Wm., e. Aug. 24, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 1864; m.o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Hasson, Patrick, e. July 31, 1861 ; died at Paducah, Ky., 
 May 6, 1862. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Corporal D. L. Edmond, e. July 1, 1861 ; disd. May 17, 
 
 1862, disab. 
 
 Clark, W. A., e. July 29, 1861. 
 Bobbins, Geo., trans, to llth 111. Cav. Sept. 19, 1861. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Captain Wesley P. Andrews, e. July 22, 1861, as First 
 Lieutenant, Co. I ; prmptd. to Captain Co. H Sept. 
 26, 1862 ; honorably disd. May 11, 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. Ogden Lowell, e. July 22, 1861, as Second Lieuten- 
 ant; was prmtd. to First Lieutenant Sept. 26, 1862; 
 to Captain Oct. 13, 1863 ; resigned Sept. 28, 1864. 
 
 Capt. J. H. Hedges, e. as Corporal Aug. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as 
 vet. Jan. 1, 1864; was prmtd to Sergeant, then to 
 First Sergeant. First Lieutenant Sept. 28, 1864, and to 
 Captain Sept. 8, 1865 ; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 First Lieut. C. E. Smiley, e. as Corporal Aug. 1, 1861; 
 re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; was prmtd to Sergeant, to 
 First Sergeant, to First Lieutenant Sept. 8, 1865 ; 
 m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Second Lieut. C. A. Linstram, e. as private, Aug. 1, 
 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; was prmtd. to Second 
 Lieutenant Dec. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Dec. 16. 1865. 
 
 Sergt. J. S. Wilson, e Aug. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 3, 1864, as 
 First Sergeant. 
 
 Sergt. S. E. Andrews, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; deserted April 20, 
 1862. 
 
 Sergt, W. Brown, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 8, 1862, for 
 transfer to Company K, 123d N. Y. 
 
 Sergt. S. A. Hitchcock, e. AUK. 1, 1861; transferred to I. 
 V. C.. Feb. 26,1864. 
 
 Corp. E. D. Campbell, e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; died at Chatta- 
 nooga, Nov. 1, 1863. 
 
 Corp. C. A. Perry, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd Sept. 18, 1861, for 
 promotion.
 
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 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Corp. Jos. Valler, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; was re-appointed Quartermaster Sergeant. 
 Corp. J. S. Van Allen, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; deserted June 18, 
 
 1862. 
 Corp- J- H. Ormsby, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; died at Tipton, Mo., 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861. 
 Corp. G. S. Blakely, e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; died at Tipton, Mo. 
 
 Dec. 16, 1861. 
 Musician C. A. Stackey, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 16, 
 
 1864. 
 Musician E. N. Blakeslee.p. Aug. 24, 1861; m. o. Sept. 16, 
 
 1864 
 
 Brooks, A. D., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd July 9, 1862, disab. 
 Burnell, C. A., e. Aug 14, 1861; Corporal; kid. at Chick- 
 amauga. 
 Barlacorn, S.. e. Aug. 10, 1861 ; died Nov. 22, 1863, in 
 
 Richmond Prison. 
 Brislen, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1861; kid. at Chickamauga, Sept. 
 
 20, 1863. 
 Boardman, G. W., e. Aug. 24, 1861; re-e. as vet, Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 Cleveland, A. C., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet, Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; re-appointed Commissary Sergeant. 
 Canfleld, E. J.,e. Aug. I, 1861 ; transferred to 55th 111. 
 
 Inf., Sept. 20, 1861. 
 
 Drizzy, Stephen, e. Aug. 1, 1861; deserted June 18, 1862. 
 Farren, Edmond, e. Aug. 10, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1884; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865, wd. 
 Gray, Silas, e. Aug. 15, 1861; m. o. Dec. 14, 1864. 
 Kale, Henry, e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. Dec. 16, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 , Kellogg, W., e. Au<t. 15, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 deserted July 18, 1865. 
 Larrissey, Pat., e. Aug. 10, 1861; missing after battle of 
 
 Chickamauga. 
 
 Plant, Peter, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; m. o: Sept. 12, 1864. 
 Mead, W. W., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 kid. at Resaca, May 14, 1864. 
 Marsh, Samuel, e. Aug. 1, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 McDuffy, Andrew, e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; dead. April 20, 1862. 
 Morse Benj.. e. Aug. 24, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 : 
 
 kid. at Kenesaw Mountain, Jan. 27, 1864. 
 Odell, Geo., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 25, 1862, to e. 4th 
 
 U. S. Cav. 
 
 Osborne, H. V., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 30, 1864. 
 Shnmway, Jonas, e. Aug. I, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o Dec. 16, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Stevens, Edgar, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 16, 1864. 
 Smith, A. C., e. Aug. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 absent sick at m. o of regt. 
 Smith, Wm., e. Aug. 15, 1861 ; trans, to Inv. Corps Aug. 
 
 18,1863. 
 Schumacker, H. H., e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 1, 1864; m. o. Dec. 16,1865. 
 Taylor, Chas., e. Aug. 6, 1861 ; died at Tipton, Mo., Dec. 
 
 6, 1861. 
 
 Wieber, Martin, e Aug. 1, 1861 ; deserted April 20, 1862. 
 Whitney M. J., e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 25, 1862, for 
 
 re-enlistment. 
 Wilkinsen, A. J., e. Aug. 15, 1861; kid. at Stone River, 
 
 Dec. 31, 1862. 
 Kenyon, G. D. and B. M., e. March 27, 1865 ; rects; m. o. 
 
 Dec. 16. 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. Joseph Hudson, e. July 30, 1861 ; prmtd. to Corpo- 
 ral; to Sergeant; to Second Lieutenant Nov. 9, 
 1862 ; to First Lieutenant April 11, 1865 ; to Captain 
 September 8, 1865; m. o. Dec. 16, 1865. 
 
 Dokey, Stephen, e. July 30, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 5, 1862, to 
 re-e. in 4th U. S. Cav. 
 
 Mooney, A. S., e. March 17, 1864 ; unassigued rect. ; vet. 
 
 Liens, Andrew, 43d Int., Co. H, e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; died of 
 wds. Oct. 17, 1862. 
 
 Bowman, C. M., 43d Inf., Co. H, e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; re-e. vet. 
 Feb. 26, 1864 ; trans, to Co. C, as consol. 
 
 McLean, Patrick, 43d Inf., Co. H, e. Oct. K, 1861 ; re-e. 
 vet Feb. 26, 1864 ; trans, to Co. C, as consol. 
 
 Petersen, H. W., 43d Inf., Co. H, e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; disd. Oct., 
 1862 ; disab. 
 
 Sergt E. A. Merrifield, 44th Inf., e. May 1, 1863; m. o. 
 Sept. 26, 1865. 
 
 Babcock, A. J., 45th Inf., Co. K, e. Dec. 3, 1861 : died 
 Savannah. Tenn., April 18, 1862. 
 
 Becker, Jno., 45th Inf., Co. K, e. Dec. 16, 1861 ; deserted 
 Jan. 14, 1862. 
 
 Hines, Harrison, 45th Inf., Co. K, e. Dec. 2, 1861 ; re-e. 
 vet. Dec. 19, 1863 ; m. o. July 12, 186'i, as Sergeant. 
 
 Howard, Frank, 46th Inf.. Co. D, e. Nov. 1, 1861; traus. 
 
 to Co. I, Dec. 7, 1864, as vet. ; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Second Lieut. W. P. Hardy, 46th Inf., Co. H, e. as Corpo- 
 ral Dec. 1, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 7, 1863 ; pnntd. to 
 
 Sergeant, First Sergeant and to Second Lieutenant 
 
 Aug. 11, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Harris, Wm., 46th Inf., Co. H, e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 
 
 5, 1864; term ex. 
 Stone, C. H., 46th Inf., Co. H, e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; disd. July 
 
 20, 1862. 
 Waer, G. W., 46th Inf., Co. H, e. Dec. 1, 1861; disd. Aug. 
 
 29, 18G5 ; disab. 
 Hardy, C. B., 46th Inf.. Co. H, e. Feb. 5, 1864, rect; m. 
 
 o. Jan. 20, 1866, as Corporal. 
 Kelly, J. W., 46th Inf., Co. H, e. Feb. 26, 1864, rect.; m. 
 
 o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Neugent, Pat., 46th Inf , Co. H, e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; trans, to 
 
 V. R. C. Nov. 11, 1863. 
 Robertson, C. S., 46th Inf., Co. H, e. Feb. 5, 1864, rect. ; 
 
 died at Vicksburg, Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Second Lieutenant W. H. Howell, 46th Inf., Co. I, e. Dec. 
 
 1, 1861 ; kid. at battle of Shiloh. 
 Sergt. Jno. St. John, 46th Inf., Co. I, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; 
 
 disd. Oct. 19, 1862 ; disab. 
 Kite, J. R., 46th Inf., Co. I, e. Nov. 30, 1861; disd. Nov. 
 
 25, 1862. 
 Golden, B. J.. 51st Inf., Co. H, e. Dec. 9, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864; m. o. Sept 25, 1865. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- 
 SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 The One Hundred and Twenty-second Infan 
 try Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp 
 Palmer, Carlinville, 111., in August, 1862, by 
 Col. John J. Rinaker, and was mustered in Sept. 
 4th. On 8th October, moved to Columbus, Ky., 
 and thence to Trenton, Tenn. On Nov. 12th, 
 Companies A, D and F moved to Huaiboldt. 
 Dec. 18th, the regiment moved to Jackson, to 
 defend that place against Forrest. Marched in 
 pursuit of the enemy to Lexington, Tenn., re- 
 turning to Jackson Dec. 21st. The enemy, 
 under Gen. Forrest, captured the sick in hos- 
 pital at Trenton, including Maj. Chapman 
 and sixty enlisted men of the regiment- 
 Marched from Trenton, Dec. 27th, in pursuit 
 of the enemy. On 31st, was engaged at 
 Parker's Cross Roads, in connection with 
 detachments of Thirty -ninth Iowa, Fiftieth 
 Indiana and Eighteenth Illinois, capturing 
 seven pieces of artillery and 500 prisoners. 
 The loss of the One Hundred and Twenty-sec- 
 ond was one officer and twenty-two men killed, 
 and two officers and fifty-four enlisted men 
 wounded. Col. Rinaker was severely wounded. 
 
 On 17th Feb., 1863, the regiment moved to 
 Corinth. Moved from Corinth April loth, and 
 on the 25th was engaged at Town Creek. 
 Moved to Saulsbury June 25th, and Oct. 30th, 
 to luka, Col. Rinaker commanding post at each 
 place. Nov. 4, 1863, moved to Eastport, where 
 it remained Col. Rinaker commanding post 
 until Dec. 8th, when it moved to Paducah, and 
 Jan. 19th, 1864, to Cairo, Col. Rinaker being 
 assigned to command of post. Companies E, 
 H and K were engaged iu defending Paducah, 
 against the attack of Forrest, March 24th, re- 
 pelling three attacks made upon Fort Anderson. 
 June 26, 1864, moved to Memphis and La- 
 Grange, and, joining the command of Gen. A. 
 J. Smith, was assigned to First Brigade Third 
 Division. July 14th, the regiment was en- 
 gaged at Tupelo, losing Capt. Josiah Bur-
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 531 
 
 rough and nine enlisted men killed, and thirty- 
 three wounded. Returned to Memphis July 
 23, 1864. Aug. 4th, moved to Holly Springs, 
 and returned on 31st. Arrived at Cairo, 111., 
 Sept. 8th. and, on 12th, at Jefferson Barracks, 
 Mo. Was engaged in the campaign in Missouri, 
 after Price, returning to St. Louis Nov. 18, 1864. 
 The regiment embarked for Nashville, Tenn., 
 Nov. 24th. "n Dec. 15th and 16th, was en- 
 gaged in the battle of Nashville, Tenn.. losing 
 one killed, and three mortally wounded, and 
 twenty-six men wounded, and capturing four 
 pieces of artillery and a battle flag. Was en- 
 gaged in the pursuit of the enemy to Eastport. ! 
 
 Embarked, Feb. 18th, for New Orleans, and, ; 
 on March 6th, for Dauphine Island, Ala. j 
 March 28d, moved with the fleet up Fish River, , 
 to Donley's Landing, and, on 24th, marched to | 
 Spanish Fort. The regiment at this time was 
 in the First Brigade, Second Division, Six- 
 teenth Army Corps Col. Rinaker commanding 
 brigade. On April 3d, moved to Fort Blakely. 
 Engaged in the charge of the 9th. losing twenty 
 killed and wounded, Lieut. Col. Drish being 
 among the latter. On the 12th, marched from 
 Blakely, arriving at Montgomery on 26th. On j 
 June 4th, embarked at Providence Landing, 
 and moved down Alabama River, to Mobile. 
 
 Mustered out of service, July 15th. Arrived ' 
 at Camp Butler, 111., July 27,th, and, Aug. 4, \ 
 1865, received final payment and discharge. 
 
 Quartermaster Sergt. C. H. Mervine, e. Aug. 15, 1862. 
 disd. March 14, 1865 ; disab. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Sergt. Clayting Gaskell, e. Aug. 15, 1862, deserted Feb. 
 
 18, 1863. 
 Sergt. J. W. Waddsll, e. Aug. 15, 1862; died Aug. 25, 
 
 1864; No. of grave 6,767. 
 Sergt. Gentry Scroggins, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; absent, sick, 
 
 at m. o. of regt. 
 Corp. C. E. Murvine, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865, 
 
 as private. 
 
 Corp. C. W. Adams, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Corp. J. D Woolsey, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m.o July 15, 1865. 
 Corp. Geo. Stokes, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Corp. W. B. Swain, e.Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 
 Corp. E. R. King, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 9, 1865. 
 Corp. B. Brown, e. Aug. 15, 1862; deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
 Musician J. A. Adams, e. Aug. 15, 1862; taken prisr. Dec. 
 
 20, 1862 ; never heard from. 
 Musician C. E. Berry, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 
 
 1865, as private. 
 
 Allen. E. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd. Sept. 5, 1862. 
 Antrobos, Jas., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Adams, J. A., e. Aug. 15, 1865 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Bangh, 0. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Brown, Bichard, e. Aug. 15, 1862; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Bullis, E. W., e. Aug. 15. 1862 ; died May 12, 1863. 
 Bridges, G. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Berry, J. C., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Curry, C. W.. Jr.. H. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Curry, J. T., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. April 12, 1863, disab. 
 Cook, H. P.. e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Coon, Israel, e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. Jan. 8, 1863, disab. 
 Dodson, J. T., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. April 14, 1865, disab. 
 Estus, J. R., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Estus, W. T., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Gambol, J. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 8, 1863, disab. 
 Greenfield, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd. March 6, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Holmes, C. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; prmtd. 
 Haven, B. F., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. Sept. 30, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Harris, J. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Hayes, Wm , e. Aup. 15, 1862 ; trans, to 33d 111. Inf. 
 Hagen, A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 18& r >. 
 
 Irwin, J. L., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Kelly, Garrett, e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. April 7, 1863, wds. 
 King, Martin, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; taken prisr. Dec. 20, 1862 ; 
 
 never heard from. 
 
 Lovelace, J. E., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15. 1885. 
 Lovel, H. B., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Luckey, J. G., e. Aug. 15. 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Murvine, C. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd March 14, 1865, 
 
 disab. 
 
 McCow, Chan., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died April 26, 1863. 
 Massey, Samuel, e. Aug. 15, 1862; deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
 Miller, Perry, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; kid. April 9, 1865. 
 Magee, Thos., e. Aug. 15, 1862; wd. Dec. 31, 1862; trans. 
 
 to I. C. 
 
 McRobney, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Oakley, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Pope, Samuel, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. May 16, 1865. 
 Plato, Lewis, e. Aug. 15, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Poge, Alex., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died July 27, 1863. 
 Rutherford, W. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Rutherford, Jos., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Race, Edward, e. Aug. 15. 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Styles, W. F., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 Utt, Jas., e. Ang. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Yoolsey, Geo., e. Aug. 15, 1862; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Wagstaff, G. W., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 15, 1865. 
 Wright, W.,-e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 26, 1862. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Gersten, Geo., e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 Warren, Henry, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; trans, to Co. C. 
 
 SIXTY-FIRST INFANTRY. 
 
 The Sixty-fi^st Infantry Illinois Volunteers 
 was organized at Carrollton, 111., by Col. Jacob 
 Fry. Three full companies were mustered 
 Feb. 5, 1862. Feb. 21st, the regiment being 
 still incomplete, moved to Benton Barracks, 
 Mo. Here a sufficient number of recruits 
 joined to make nine full companies. March 
 26, 1862, embarked for Pittsburg Landing. 
 On arriving, March 30th, were assigned to 
 brigade of Col. Madison Miller, Eighteenth 
 Missouri. Division of Brig. Gen. B. M. Prentiss. 
 April 6th, 400 men were formed into line, in 
 time to receive the first assault of the enemy, 
 and stood their ground for an hour arid a quar- 
 ter, and until every other regiment in the di- 
 vision had given way, and were then ordered 
 to fall back. Upon retiring from this position, 
 the regiment was complimented by Gen. Pren- 
 tiss for its gallant stand. It was then ordered 
 to support a battery of the First Missouri Ar- 
 tillery, and, at 1 o'clock P. M., ordered to the 
 support of Gen. Hurlbut, coming to bis sup- 
 port at a very critical moment, and maintain- 
 ing his line until relieved by a fresh regiment, 
 and when its ammunition was entirely ex- 
 hausted. When the second line was broken, 
 the regiment retired in good order, and took a 
 position supporting the siege guns. April 7th, 
 was in reserve. Loss, eighty killed, wounded 
 and missing, including three commissioned 
 officers. April 18th, was assigned k> First 
 Brigade, Third Division, Col. L. F. Ross, Seven- 
 teenth Illinois, commanding brigade. April 
 28th, Maj. Ohr took command of the regiment, 
 Col. Fry being absent. May 2d, Brig. Gen. 
 John A. Logan took command of the division, 
 and was succeeded, May 6th, by Brig. Gen. 
 Judah. June 6th, moved to Bethel, Tenn., Col.
 
 532 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Haynie, Forty-eighth Illinois, taking command 
 of brigade. 16th, moved to Jackson. 17th, 
 was in Ross' Brigade of Logan's (First) 
 Division, and moved to Bolivar, Tenn. Sept. 
 1H, 1862. moved, via Jackson and Corinth, to 
 Brownsville, Miss., on Memphis & Corinth 
 Ra : lroad. Returned to Bolivar, after the battle 
 of luka, Sept. 25th. Oct. 10th. Brig. Gen. M. 
 Bray man was assigned to the brigade, and 
 Col. Fry to command of post ut Trenton, where, 
 on the 20th of December, he was taken pris- 
 oner by Gen. Forrest, and paroled. The brigade 
 remained at Bolivar, Gen. Brayman command- 
 ing post. 
 
 Dec. 18, 1^62, 240 men of the regiment pro- 
 ceeded, by rail, to Jackson, and moving out on 
 the Lexington road, under command of Col. 
 Engleman, with Forty-third Illinois and a de- 
 tachment of cavalry, took position at Salem 
 Cemetery, and, on the morning of 19th, re- 
 pulsed the enemy under Forrest, with three 
 pieces of artillery, and, on receiving re-en- 
 forcements from Gen. .--ullivan, pursued the 
 enemy some distance; after which, returned 
 to Bolivar. May 31st, the regiment being in the 
 Sixteenth Army Corps, moved, by rail, to Mem- 
 phis, and embarked for Vicksburg. June 3d, 
 arrived at Chickasaw Bayou. 4th, accom- 
 panied expedition up Yazoo River, landing at 
 Satartia. Moved four miles out, to Mechanics- 
 burg, capturing some prisoners. 6th, moved 
 to Haiues' Bluff. June 20th, moved to Sny- 
 der's Bluff. Lieut. Col. Fry having resigned, 
 Maj. Ohr was promoted Lieutenant Colonel. 
 
 July 17, 1863, moved to Black River Bridge. 
 22d, returned to Snyder's Bluff. On 27th, 
 moved to Helena, Ark. Aug. 13th, in Maj. 
 Gen. Steele's army, Col. McLain, Forty- 
 third Indiana, commanding division, and Col. 
 Graves, Twelfth Michigan, commanding brig- 
 ade. Moved, via Clarendon, Duvall's Bluff, 
 Brownsville, to Little Rock, skirmishing some 
 with the enemy after leaving Brownsville, and 
 arriving at Little Rock Sept. 10th. Remained 
 at Little Rock. March 20, 1864, Company K 
 joined the regiment, from Camp Butler, 111. 
 Regiment mustered out, Sept. 8, 1865, at Nash- 
 ville, Tenn., and arrived at Camp Butler, 111., 
 for final payment and discharge, Sept. 12, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. Major Win. Caldwell ; m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Pope, Wm. M., e. Oct. 28, 1861 ; died at St. Louis, Aug. 8, 
 1862. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Mytinger, F. M., e. Jan. 4,1864; rect.; pnntd. to Ad- 
 jutant Aug. 6, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Fillay, L. B., e. Jan. 3, 1862; disd. May 2, 1864, disab. 
 Hagen, Thomas, e. Dec. 21, 1862 ; died Jan. 27, 1864. 
 Noe, Benjamin, e. Feb. 10, 1862, as rect. ; re-e.as vet. Feb. 
 
 24, 1864; m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 Mayhall, J. H., e. NOT. 2b, 1863; rect.; m. o. Sept. 8, 
 
 1865. 
 Seago, J. W., e. Jan. 17, 1862 ; rect. ; died at St. Louis, 
 
 May 24, 1862. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Capt. H. W. Manning, e. as First Li^ut. Feb. 5, 1862 ; 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. Mch. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Mch. 26, 1864. 
 First Lieut. Luther Grundy, e. Nov. 2, 1861, as private; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieutenant March 1,1863; to First 
 
 Lieutenant March 26, 1864; m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. W. H. Bonfoy, P. Nov. 2, 1861, as private ; 
 
 prmpt. to Commissary Sergeant ; to Second Lieuten- 
 ant July 31, 1865 : m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 Atkins, Levan, o. Nov. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Adams, J. Q., e. Dec. 7, 1861 ; m. o. as Sergt. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Boyle, Geo . e. Dec. 7, 18>51 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864; 
 
 deserted Sept. 26, 1864. 
 
 Bronson, A. C., e. Dec. 9, 1861; disd. May 22, 1862, disab. 
 Caldwell, Wm.,e. Nov. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864; 
 
 prmtd. to Sergeant Major. 
 
 Cook, P R , e. Dee. 27, 1801 ; disd. Jan 28, 1863. disab. 
 Cook, M. 0., e. Jan. 17, 1862 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Cory. M. S., e. Dec. 37, 1861 ; kid. at Shiloh April 6, 1862. 
 Este-t, Harrison, e. Jan. 2, 1862 ; dishonorably disd. Nov. 
 
 25,1865 
 Foulbeauf, F. J., e. Nov. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 13, 1865; prisr. of war. 
 Forbush, T. M., e. Dec. 8, 1861 ; disd. June 27, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Gentry, J. A., e. Jan. 17, 1862 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864, 
 
 Corporal ; died May 21. 1864. 
 
 Hayes, James, e. Dec. 20, 1861 ; disd. April 6, 1863, disab. 
 Irving, Clifford, e. Deo. 26, 1861 ; died Aug. 24, 1863. 
 Keller, Frank, e Nov. 18, 1861 ; died in Jefferson Barracks 
 
 Aug. 14, 1863. 
 Lownds, Jno., e. Nov. 9, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 Miller, Jas., e. Nov. 6, 1861 ; re-e. as vet Feb. 29,1864; m. 
 
 o. Sept. 8,1865; prisr. of war. 
 Moon, Peter, e. Jan. 27, 1862; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Newman, W., e. Dec. 24, 186! ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. Sept. 8. 1865. 
 
 Potts, Wm , e. Jan. 21, 1862 ; disd. Nov. 23, 1862, as Ser- 
 geant; disab. 
 
 Stone, Simon, e. Nov. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Seward, Robt., e. Nov. 9, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864; 
 
 died in Andersonvill<i Prison April 15, 1865. 
 Scoggins, Geo., e Nov. 20, 1861 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Snow, T. M., e. Dec. 24, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864; 
 
 m. o. Sept 8, 1865. 
 
 Seward, G. W., e. Jan. 6, 1862; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Snow, Ludwell, e. Jan. 8. 18S2 ; died May 16, 1862. 
 Smith, I. H., e. Jan. 7, 1862 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Talbott, Amos, e. Dec. 7, 1861 ; died June 25, 1862. 
 Vernon, Wm., e. Dec. 8, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 3, 1862. 
 Winckler, J. W., e. Jan. 29, 1862 ; m. o. Feb. 7, 1865. 
 Whiteside, Jod, e. Feb. 4, 1862 ; disd. for wds. received at 
 
 Shiloh. 
 Dugan, J. W., e. Nov. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864 
 
 m. o. Sept. 8, 1865, as First Sergeant. 
 Stone, G. L., e. Feb. 29, 1864 ; vet ; m. o. July 13. 1865. 
 Hunt, W. J., e. Feb. 26, 1862 ; reot.; deserted March 10, 
 
 1863. 
 McGee. Z. T., e. Feb. 24, 1862; rect.; deserted March 21, 
 
 1862. 
 Smith, W. B., e. Feb. 19, 1862; rect.; m. o. March 2271865. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Giberson, H., e. Dec. 13, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 1, 1864 ; 
 m. o. Sept. 8, 1865. 
 
 Corp. Dunl. Murphy, Co. C, 64th Inf.. e. Sept. 3, 1861. 
 Kelly, Bartholomew, Co. C, 64th Inf., e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; 
 
 disd. July 2, 1862 ; disab. 
 Smith, D. M., Co. C, 64th Inf., e. Dec. 7, 1861 ; trans. July 
 
 19, 1862. 
 Tousey, Martin, Co. C, 64th Inf., e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; trans. 
 
 July 19, 1862. 
 Welch, Wm., Co. C, 64th Inf., e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; trans. July 
 
 19, 1862. 
 Corp. J. C. Hibbant, Co. E 64th Inf. ; e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; 
 
 trans. July 19, 1862. 
 
 Herser, Martin, Co. D, 65th Inf. e. June 15. 1862 ; rect.; 
 
 m. o. June 5, 1865. 
 Gibbons, Jno., Co. H. 65th Inf., e. March 12, 1862; re-e. 
 
 as vet. March 13, 1864; trans, to Co. H as consol.; m. 
 
 o. July 13, 1865. 
 Nichols, Melvin, Co. H, 65th Inf,, e. March 12. 1862 ; re-e. 
 
 as vet March 31, 1864 ; trans, to Co. H. as consol.; m. 
 
 o. July 13, 1865.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 533 
 
 Q. M. Isaac N. Buck, 67th Inf., e. June 13, 1862; m. o. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1862. 
 Com. Sergt. W. S. Byron, 67th Inf. ; e. June 2, 1862, as 
 
 Sergt. ; prmtd to C >msy. Sergf. Jane IS, 1862. 
 .Sergt. A. N. Davis, Co. A, 67th Inf., e. June 2, 1862. 
 Buuker, Frank, Co. A, 67th Inf., e. June 2, 1862. 
 Higgins, W. F., Co. A, 67th Inf., e, June 2, 1862 ; deserted. 
 Whipple, S. E., Co. A, 67th Inf., e. June 2, 1862. 
 Blackman, Win., Co. D, 67th Inf.. e. May 30, 1862. 
 Sheffield, Jas., Co. D, 67th Inf., e. June 2, 1862. 
 Treeman, G. W., Co. I, 67th Inf., e. June 3, 1862. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY 
 SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 (100 Days.) 
 
 The One Hundred and Thirty-second Infan- 
 try Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp 
 Fry, Chicago, 111., by Col. Thomas J Pickett, 
 and was mustered in for one. hundred days, 
 from June 1, 1864. Moved, June 6th, for Co- 
 lumbus, Ky., and arrived on the 8th, report- 
 ing to Brig. Gen. Henry Prince. On the 15th of 
 June, moved to Paducah, Ky., smd reported to 
 Col. S. G. Hicks. The regiment remained on 
 duty at Paducah until expiration of service, 
 when it moved to Chicago, and was mustered 
 out Oct. 17, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. Charles Barker, e. June 1, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Second Lieut. H. A. Hinckley, e. June 1, 1864; m. o. Oct. 
 
 17, 1864. 
 Tirat Sergt. R. B. Campbell, e. April 30, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 
 
 1864. 
 Sergt. L. B. Pearsons, e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Sergt. Jno. Bevier, e. April 30, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Corp. Geo. Hackney, e. May 2. 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Corp. S, H. Schuyler, e. May 4, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Corp. W. W. Bostwick, e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Corp. J. H. Damon, e. May 10, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Wagoner, Jno. Saltsgiver, e. May 26, 1864; m o. Oct. 17. 
 
 1864. 
 
 Bailey, Jno., e. May 31, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Baird, G. C., e. May 2, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Beebe, 0. W., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Breese, F., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Betts, Geo., e. May 14, 1864.; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Bennett, Green, e. May 14, 18^64; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Clute, Chas., e. May 7, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Connell, R., e. May 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Cavenaugh, Jas., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Dunbar, Levi. e. April 29, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Fitch, R. C., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Flanders, J. R., e. May 1 , 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Foster, F. B., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Groch, Fred, e. May 3, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 H. pier, Geo., e. May 10, 1864; m. o. October 17, 1864. 
 Harrall, C. F., e. May 12, 1864; m. o. October 17, 1864. 
 Judson, Jas., e. May 15, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Kendall, M. W., e. May 19, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Latham, Geo., e. May 31, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Martin, Wm., e. May 8, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Miller, J. J., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Perkins, R. E., e. May 8, 1864; m. o. October 17, 1864. 
 Roberts, Chas., e. May 4, 1864 ; m. <. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Robinson, Wm., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Scarlett, C. W., e. May 30, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Spaulding, W. F., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Shuster, Jos., e. May 11, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864 
 Starr, H. P., e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Swick, Hudson, e. Mny 31, 1864; m. o. Oct 17 1864 
 Wells, E. P., e. May 2, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Woodward, W. H., e. May 10, J864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Wade, Wm., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Flood, Mathew, e. M;iy 14, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Richmond, Marvin, e. May 7, 1864 ; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Riddler, Wm., e. May 13, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Scupham, Jas., e. May 11, 1864; m. o. Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Gregory, W. M , 134th Inf., Co. C, e. May 2, 1864; m. o 
 
 Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Keck, Stephen, 134th Inf., Co. E, e. May 6, 1864; m. o 
 
 Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Hitchcock, J. G., 134th Inf., Co. F, e. May 12, 1864 m. o 
 
 Oct. 17, 1864. 
 Harrison, W. H., 140th Inf., Co. A, e. May 19, 1864 ; m o 
 
 Oct. 17, 1804. 
 Smith, Wm., 140th Inf., Co. D, e. May 10, 1864 ; m o 
 
 Oct. 17, 1864. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY- 
 THIRD INFANTRY. 
 
 (One Year.) 
 
 The One Hundred and Fifty-Third Infantry 
 Illinois Volunteers was organized at Camp 
 Fry, ,111., by Col. Stephen Bronson, and was 
 mustered in Feb. 27, 1865, for one year. On 
 March 4th, moved, by rail, via Louisville and 
 Nashville, to Tullahoma, reporting to Maj. 
 Gen. Milroy. The regiment was assigned to 
 the Second Brigade, defenses of Nashville & 
 Chattanooga Railroad, Brevet Brig. Gen. Dud 
 ley commanding brigade. In the latter part 
 of March, Maj. Wilson, with three companies, 
 went on a campaign into Alabama, and re 
 turned. On July 1st, moved, via Nashville 
 and Louisville, to Memphis, Tenn , and was 
 assigned to the comirfand of Brevet Maj. Gen, 
 A. L. Chetlain. Was mustered out Sept. 15, 
 1865, and moved to Springfield. 111., and Sept. 
 24th received final pay and discharge. Col. 
 Bronson received appointment as Brevet Briga- 
 dier General. 
 
 Adjt. John Gilman, c. Feb. 557, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 Q. M. N. J. Wheeler, e. Feb. 23, 1865, as Q. M. Sergt.; was 
 prmtd. to Reg. Q. M.June 6, 1865; m. o. Sept. 21,1866. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Capt. E. C. Lovell,e. Feb. 20, 1S65, as private; prmtd. to 
 Capt. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 First Sergt. Henry Phillips, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 
 21. 1865. 
 
 Sergt. H. C. Paddleford, e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. W. E. Todd, e. Feb. 15, 1805: m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. D. M. Jones, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Corp. J. H. Wilbur, e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Corp. Henry Squire, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. 
 o. of regt. 
 
 Corp. Jerome Wiltsie, e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, '65. 
 
 Bartlett, F. B., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Cort, Nelson, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o.Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Derks, Henry, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Dougherty, Jno., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; prmtd. to First Lieut. 
 
 Flynn, Jno., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Gifford, S. J., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Griffith, Jno., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; ni. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Holbrook, S., e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. May 25, 1865. 
 
 Hesse, Jno., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m.o. Sept. 21, 165. 
 
 Holden, Wm., e. Feb. 22, 1865 ; deserted March 1, 1865. 
 
 Horton, R. A., e. Feb. 15, 1805 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Jeffreys, J., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Johnson, J. A., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept, 21, 1865. 
 
 Lentz, L., e. Feb. 15, 186n ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Mallery, Albert, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Mitchell, Jas., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; ni. o. Sept. 21. 1865. 
 
 Mickel, Henry, e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Perry, A. C., Feb. 15. 1865 ; died Sept. 1, 1805. 
 
 Perry, E. D., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Pittinger, Henry, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Smith, Jos., e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1H65. 
 
 Van Akin, A. 0.. e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. Sept, 21, 1865. 
 
 Ward, E. K., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865.
 
 534 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Walsh, G. J., e Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 Walsh, L., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 Wieting, Jno., e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 Young, Frank, e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Hoffman, Geo., e. Feb. 10, 1865 ; deserted Feb. 14, 1865. 
 Smith, Patrick, e. Feb. 23, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 THIRTY-THIRD INFANTRY. 
 
 Carrol, A. J., Co. C, e. March 1, 1864; trans, to 124th 111. 
 
 Inf. ; m. o. Nov. 24, 1865. 
 Benedict, E. M., Co. F, e. Feb. 17, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 
 
 24, 1865. 
 Cleveland, J. H., Co. F, e. Feb. 18, 1864, rect. ; m. o. Nov. 
 
 24, 1865. 
 Coolige, J. L., Co. F, e. March 10, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 
 
 24. 1865. 
 Dean, David, Co. F, e. Feb. 18, 1864, rect ; m. o. Nov. 24 
 
 1865. 
 Davis, Michael, Co. F, e. March 24, 1864, rect; m. o. NOT. 
 
 24, 1865. 
 Fish. E. F., Co. F, e. Feb. 27, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov 24, 
 
 1865. 
 Maseee, R. L., Co. F, e. Feb. 12, 1864, rect . m. o Nov. 24, 
 
 1865. 
 McDonald, Valentine, Co. F, e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect; m. o. 
 
 Nov. 24, 1865. 
 Price, W. H., Co. F, e. Feb. 12, 1864, rect. ; m. o. Nov. 24, 
 
 1865. 
 Raff, C. R., Co. F, e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect. ; m. o. Nov. 24, 
 
 1865. 
 Wood, Clark, Co. F, e. Miirch 29, 1864, rect. ; m, o. Nov. 
 
 24, 1865. 
 
 FIFTY-FIFTH INFANTRY. 
 
 Capt. Charles Tazewell, Co. E, e. Oct. 31, 1861 ; resigned 
 
 Oct. 31, 1862. 
 Second Lieut. Wm. R. Hailigan, Co. E, e. Oct. 31, 1861 ; 
 
 resigned March 5, 1862. 
 (Jorp. Joseph Lightfoot, Co. E, e. Sept. 17, 1861; died 
 
 March 6, 1863. 
 
 Corp. Wm. Short, Co. E, e. Jnly 30, 1861; supposed de- 
 serted in February, 1864. 
 Corp. Joseph Casley, Co. E, e. July 30, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Feb. 1, 1864; disd. June 25, 1864, disab. 
 Corp. Jacob Flatro, Co. E, e Oct. 3, 1861. 
 Bauman, J. F.. Co. E, e. Aug. 14, '61 ; m. o. April 21, '65. 
 Bangs, G. W., Co. E., e. Aug. 14, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 31, 1864. 
 Cleaves, Charles, Co. E, e. July 30, 1861. 
 Canfleld, E. T., Co. E, e. Aug. 1, 1861. 
 Downers, Wm., Co. E, e. Aug. 1, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 23, 
 
 1863, disab. 
 
 Donovan, Timothy, Co. E, e. Oct. 21, 1861. 
 Florence, R. K., Co. E, e. Aug 1, 1861. 
 Guilfoil, M. E., Co. E, e. July 30, 1861 ; prmtd. to Principal 
 
 Musician. 
 
 Gubbins, J. D., Co. E, e. July 30, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 31, 1864. 
 Guilford, John, Co. E, e. Oct. 29, 1861 ; m. o.Oct. 31, 1864. 
 Mann, Thos., Co. E, e. July 30, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 April 28, 1864. 
 Nelson, Horatio, Co. E, e. July 30, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 31, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Robinson, .las., Co. E, e. Aug. 1, 1861. 
 Smith. John, Co. E, e. Sept. 7, 1 861 ; died June 22, 1863. 
 
 of wounds. 
 
 Silver, Chas., Co. E, e. Sept. 7, 1861. 
 Thompson, Wm.. Co. E., o.' Sept. 7, 1861; diid. Jan. 28, 
 
 1863, of wounds. 
 
 Krieder, David, Co. F, e. Oct. 9, 1861. 
 Berlin, John, Co. I, e. Sept. 27, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 2, 
 
 1864; m. o. Aug. 14, 1865. 
 
 Shields, John, Co. I, e. Aug. 6, 1861 ; m, o. Nov. 3, 1864. 
 Monler, L. B., Co. K., e. Oct. 22, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. March 
 
 31, 1864; m. o Aug. 14, 1865, as prisr. of war. 
 Arnold, David, 67tn Inf., Co. G, e. Oct. 28, 1861, as Cor- 
 poral ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 27, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergeant 
 
 and to First Lieutenant Dec. 14, 1864, and to Captain 
 
 April 20, 1866; m. o. July 7, 1865. 
 Sergt. Geo. W. White, 57th Inf., Co. G, e. Dec. 11, 1861; 
 
 deserted Feb. 8, 1862. 
 
 FIFTY-NINTH INFANTRY. 
 
 Brown, J E., Co. B, e. July 17, 18tU ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 
 
 19, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Hagan, Thomas, Co. B, e. Jan. 11, 1864, rect.; trail", to 
 
 89th Inf. 
 Hibbard, M. C., Co. B. e Aug. 20, 1863, rect. ; trans, to 89th 
 
 Inf.; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Patterson, Hugh, Co. B, e. Sept. 6, 1863, rect. ; trans, to 
 
 89th Inf.; deserted June 18, 1865. 
 Hanley, Anthony, Co. F, trans, from 89th Inf. ; m. o. Dec. 
 
 8, 1865. 
 Slosson, J. L., Co. F, e. Dec. 17,1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; missing in action May 27, 1864. 
 Anderson, F., Co. G, e. Aug. 26, 1863 ; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Ducat Andrew, Co. G, e. Aug. 25, 1863 ; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf. ; deserted June 19, 1865. 
 
 Nisly, W. H., Co. G, e. Aug. 29, 1863; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Burns, Alexander, Co. H, e. Aug. 26, 1863 ; m. o. T>ec. 8, 
 
 1865; trans, from 89th Inf. 
 Barry, F. M., Co. H, e. Dec. 5, 1863; trans, from 89th Inf .; 
 
 disd. Aug. 11, 1865. 
 Duncan, L. A., Co. H, e. Aug. 17, 1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf. ; m. o. Sept. 5, 1865. 
 Husley, A. J., Co. H, e. Aug. 17, 1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; deserted June 18,1865. 
 Jastcrd, J. F., Co. H, e. Oct. 21,1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf. ; absent sick at m. o. of regiment. 
 Jenks, G. M., Co. H, e. Aug. 17, 1863 ; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; m. o. Dec. 8,1865. 
 Scott, H. C., Co. H, e. Aug. 24, 1863 ; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Williams, Wm., Co. H, e. Aug. 29, 1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf.; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 Murray, J. M., Co. I, e. Dec. 21, 1863; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf. ; deserted June 19, 1865. 
 Presher, Palmer, Co. I, e. Dec. 2, 1863 ; trans, from 89th 
 
 Inf. ; m. o. Deo. 8, 1865. 
 Strewer, Geo., Co. I, e. Oct. 29, 1863; trans, from 89th. 
 
 Inf. : deserted June 19. 1865. 
 Hickey, Patrick, Co. K, e. Dec 8, 1863; trans, from 89tb 
 
 Inf. ; m. o. Dec. 8, 1865. 
 
 SIXTY-NINTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (Three Months.) 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Capt. Jonathan Kimball, e. June 14, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27r 
 1862. 
 
 First Lieut. S. H. Hunter, e. June 14, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27,. 
 1862. 
 
 Second Lieut, T. W. Tefft, e. June 14, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27,. 
 1862. 
 
 First Sergt. Juo. Short, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 
 1862. 
 
 Sergt. M J. Dunne, e. June 4. 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Sergt. Jno. Cockerton, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Sergt. Jno. Megginson,e. June 4, 1862; m.o. Sept 27,1862. 
 
 Sorgt Calvin Loomis, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Corp. H. T. Adams, e, June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ' Corp. J. C. Russell, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862, 
 
 Corp. Sibens Sweet, e June 4. 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Corp. Henry Wells, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Corp. Albert Kinney, e. June 4. 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ! Corp. Edgar Hoxie, e. June 4, 1862; m o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ! Abbott, S. M., e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 i Abbott, Geo., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Adams, Geo., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Adams, Robert, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Cannon, Alex., e June 15, 1862; m. o. Sept 27, 1862. 
 i Cannon, Thos., e. June 15, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Crane. Chas., e. June 15, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Campbell, Jno., e. June 15, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ,' Clark, G. W., e. June 15. 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ! Coffee, D. B., e. June 15, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 j Dunlap, Geo.. e. June 15, 1802 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Eavring, Milton, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 i Florence, R. K., e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Flynn, Daniel, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 1 Frazier, Thos., e. June 4. 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862 . 
 
 Flaunery, Jos., e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 i Gifford, David, e June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Gates, Philander, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 '< Jones, D. M., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 j Kribbs, Aaron, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 ! Kinney, Chester, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 535 
 
 Keough, Richard, e. June 4, 1862: m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 McConnell, Jno., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Pocket, Peter, e. June 4, 1862; in. o Sept. 27. 1862. 
 Plaunty, Henry, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Rose, Christopher, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Roe, W. H., e June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Sheedy, Jas., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Todd, W. F., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Webster, G. A., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Webster, Benj., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Ward, Albert, e. June 4, 1862; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Woolover, Peter, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Brinnan, Philip, e. June 4, 1862; reel; deserted June 
 
 24, 1862. 
 
 Elliott, J. K., e. June 4, 1862; rect.; died, by Surgeon. 
 Houghton, S. A.., e. June 4, 1862 ; rect ; trans, to Miller's 
 
 Battery. 
 Murreen, Patk., e. June 4, 1862 ; rect.; disd. by Surgeon. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Corp. E. M. Post, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Corp. C. 1). Larabee, e. Juno 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Higgins, W. F., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Le Baron, Wm., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Long, J. C., e. June 4, 1862.; in. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 Steurer, Geo., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Sept. 27, 1862. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Sergt. T. F. Barnes, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Oct. 6, 1842. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Hallenback, J. E., e. June 15, 1862; m. o. Oct. 6, 1862. 
 Kenedfcy, Hiram, e. June 15, 1862 ; m. o. Oct. 6, 1862. 
 Sannders, Alex., e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Oct. 6, 1862. 
 Stuckey, Peter, e. June 4, 1862 ; m. o. Oct. 6, 1862. 
 Baxter, Samuel, Co. F, 71st Inf., 3 mos., e. July 24, 1862 ; 
 
 died at Mound City, 111., Oct. 19, 1862. 
 Fiash, Aneosa. Co. F, 72d Inf., 3 mo., e. July 19, 1862. 
 
 SEVENTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 
 
 Ingersoll, O. S., Co. A, e July 25, 1862 ; died. Jan. 20 
 
 1863; dieab. 
 Lorrioux, David, Co. A, e. Oct. 3, 1864, rect ; disd. Dec. 
 
 3, 1864. 
 Darr, I. B., Co. B, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 Odell, Jno., Co. B, e. Aug. 7, 1862; died at Memphis July 
 
 4, 1863. 
 
 Derrick, \V. H., Co. E, e. Aug. 8, 1862; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865. 
 Lyon, L. 0., Co. E, e. Aug. 8, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 First Linnt. E. F Oertell, Co. F, e. Aug. 5, 1862; prratd. 
 
 to Sergeant and to First Lieutenant Feb. 15, 1864; 
 
 resd. May 21, 1865. 
 Archibald, Alex., Co. F, e Aug. 10, 18fr2; m. o. Aug. 7, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Booth, Alfred, Co. F, e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. B. F. Leonard, Co. G, e. Aug. 12, 1872, as 
 
 First Sergeant; prmtd. to Second Lieutenant March 
 
 22, 1863 ; severely wd. ; disd. July 30, 1863 ; disab. 
 Denney, Ebenezer, Co. G, e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 30, 
 
 1863, for promotion. 
 Fox, J. T., To. G, e. July 26, 1862; disd. Feb. 16, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Kemp, J. D., Co. G, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865. 
 Payne, Varnett, Co. G, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 1865, 
 
 as Corporal. 
 Peabody, David, Ce. G, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 
 
 1865, as Corporal. 
 
 Staley, J. H., Co. G, e. Aug. 12, 1862; kid. Nov. 30, 1864. 
 Van Sickles, Jas., e. Co. G Aug. 13, 1862; m. o. Aug. 
 
 7, 1865. 
 Deiti-r, Chas., Co. H, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died at Memphis 
 
 June 10, 1863. 
 Corp. E. G. Stevens, Co. K, . July 31, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 7, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Murray, Jno., Co. K, rect. 
 Gipsori, Stephen, 76th Inf., Co. B, e. Aug. 1, 1862; m. o. 
 
 July 22, 1865, as Corporal. 
 Hayes, W. J., 76th Inf., Co. B, e. Aug. 1,1862; died at 
 
 Memphis July 6, 1863. 
 Nelson, Geo., 76th Inf.. Co. B, unassigned rect ; disd. 
 
 July 2, 1864. 
 Sergt. Peter Stephen, 82d Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 15, 1862; 
 
 m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 
 Corp. Carl Schulze, 82d Inf., Co. H, e. July 12, 1862 ; m; 
 
 o. July 9, 1865, as Sergeant. 
 Musician Joseph Diller, 82d Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 15, 1862; 
 
 m. o. July 9, 1865. 
 Beetenscblag, J., 82d Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 15,1862; died 
 
 July 26, 1864, of wounds. 
 Holz, Christian, 82d Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 10, 1862; died at 
 
 Aurora March 1, 1864 
 Schmidt, Peter, 82d Inf., Co. H, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. 
 
 July 9, 1865. 
 
 EIGHTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. 
 
 Dade, Wm., Co. A, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Oct. 29, 1862. 
 Russell, W. J., Co. A, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. June 9, 
 
 18H5, as Sergeant. 
 
 Skinner, 0. B., Co. A, e. Aug. 12, 1862 ; dead. Sept. 9, 1862. 
 Brooks, I. L., Co. C, e. Aug. 21, 1862: desd. Dec. 19, 1862. 
 Humphrey, Oscar, Co. C, e. Aug. It, 1862, Corporal ; died 
 
 Dec. 2, 1864, from wds. 
 Cool, B. S., Co. H, e. <\.ug. 11, 1882; kid. at Perryville, 
 
 Ky., Oct. 8, 1862 
 
 Little, Jno., Co. I, e. Aug. 12, 1862; desd. Nov. 29, 1862. 
 Brasband, L. D., Co. K, e. Aug. 9, 1862 ; captd. at Frank- 
 lin, Tenn. 
 Flood, Philip, Co. A, e. Aug. 9, 1862.; m. o. June 9, 1865, 
 
 as Corporal. 
 Grady, Mich., Co. K, e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 Sept. 30, 1864. 
 Stockwell, Jno., Co. K, e. Aug. 9, 1862; disd. Dec. 18, 
 
 1862; disab. 
 Wilcox. Jno., Co. K, e. Aug. 9, 1862, First Sergeant ; kid. 
 
 at Chickamauga Sept. 20, 1863. 
 
 Campbell, Wm., 95th Inf., Co. A, e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect; 
 
 deserted March 1, 1864. 
 Ladd, E. J., 95th Inf., Co. A e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect. ; trana. 
 
 to 47th 111. Inf. 
 Snyder, Saml., 95th Inf., Co. A, e. Jan. 4, 1864 ; kid. 
 
 March 16 1864. 
 First Lieut. Albert Gelkerson, 95th Inf., Co. E, e. Aug. 
 
 13, 1863, as First Sergt.; prmtd. to Second Lieut. 
 
 Mch. 25, 1863, and to First Lieut. Sept. 24, 1864 ; resd. 
 
 Dec. 11, 1864. 
 Cowells, D. S., 95th Inf., Co. E, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. 
 
 Aug. 17, 1865. 
 Colgrove, W. J., 95th Inf., Co. E, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died at 
 
 Memphis Jan. 24, 1863. 
 Farrell, Andrew, 95th Inf., Co. E, e. Ang. 11, 1862 ; m. o. 
 
 Aug. 17, 1865. 
 Hardy, W., 95th Inf., Co. E, e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 
 
 17, 1865. 
 De Wolf, Andrew, 95th Inf., Co. G, e. Dec. 9, 1863 ; died at 
 
 St. Louis Dec. 22, 1863. i 
 Way, E. B., 95th Inf., Co. I, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; died at 
 
 "Memphis July 10, 1863. 
 Caslick, Nicholas, 97th Inf., Co. K, e. Feb. 3, 1865, rect. 
 
 trans, to 37th 111. Inf. 
 
 Kinney, Pierce, 104th luf., Co. A, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; desert- 
 ed March 20, 1863. 
 Varner, David, 104th Inf., Co. A, e. Aug. 14, 1862; disd. 
 
 Feb. 23, 1865, wds. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH 
 INFANTRY. 
 Company A. 
 
 First Lieut. H. H. Slater, e. Aug. 6, 1862, as Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. July 18, 1864 ; m. c. June 7, 1865. 
 Allen, Benj., e. Aug. 7, 1862; disd. July 16, 1863 ; disab. 
 Bowers, H. W., e. Aug. 6, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865, as 
 
 Corporal. 
 
 Kane, Wm., e. July 24, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 19, 1863; disab. 
 Kesler, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; disd. Dec. 7, 1862 ; disab. 
 Waffles, S., e. Aug. 1, 1862; died at Chattanooga Aug. 9, 
 
 1862. 
 West, E. C., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Sergt. H. V. Martin, e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; disd. May 15, 1863. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Corp. Jas. Hasburg, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; comd. Second Lieu- 
 tenant ; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Mus. S. C. Perry, e. Aug. 15, 1862; died Dec. 28, 1862.
 
 536 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Barker, A. B., e. Aug, 9, 1862; died Dec. 4, 1862. 
 Bradburn, N. E., e. Aug. 14, 1862; trans, to Eng. Corps 
 
 July 25, 1864. 
 
 Bock, Wm., e. Aug. 13, 1862; died March 27, 1863. 
 Barnard, Jno., e. Aug. 15, 1862; in. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Calkins, E. S., e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Carlisle, Hiram, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died Dec. 6, 1862. 
 Chapman, C.W., e. Aug. 15, 1862; disd. Jan. 12,1863; 
 
 disab. 
 
 Congle, W. A., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Davis, E. V., e. Aug. 10, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Ellis, L.. e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 7, 1865, wd. 
 Eddy, W. H. L., e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Fish, D. W., e. Aug. 8, 1862; disd. Dec. 14, 1862; disab. 
 Holdridge, Dan'l, e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865, 
 
 wd. ; Corporal. 
 
 Ingallg, W. N., e. Aug. 11, 1862; died Dec. 13. 1862. 
 Morgan, H. M., e. Aug. 11, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 McLelland, W. P., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; disd. March 11, 1863, 
 
 to re-e. 
 
 McLelland, G. W., e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Maltby, C. A., e. Aug. 15, 1S62 ; trans. Oct. 20, 1864, wd. 
 Planty, Julius, e. Aug. 11, 1862; trans. July 25, 1864. 
 Perry', M. C., e. Aug. 13, 1862; m. o. June 7, 1865. 
 Samia, Elijah, e. Aug. 11, 1862 ; died Dec. 6, 1862. 
 Smith, Wm., e. Aug. 10, 1862; disd. for prmtn. July 9, 
 
 1864. 
 Young, Martin, e. Aug. 13, 1862 ; died July 11, 1863. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY- 
 SEVENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (One Year.) 
 
 Lohr, Solomon, Co. E, e. Feb. 8. 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Corp. W. J. Powers, Co. F, e. Jan. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 20, 
 
 1866, as Musician. 
 Corp. A. A. McEwen, Co. F, e. Feb. 8, 1865; died Sept. '24, 
 
 1865. 
 Corp. Albert Kinnear, Co. F, e. Jan. 30, 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 
 
 20, 1866. 
 Berry, R. C., Co. F, e. Feb. 10, 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Chaffee, T. A., Co. F, e. Jan. 30, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Eddy, Edwin, Co. F, e. Jan. 30, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 18fi. 
 Gaunt, Wm., Co. F, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Gilman, G. E., Co. F, e. Jan. 30, 1865 ; prmtd. to Second 
 
 Lieut. 
 
 Hitchcock, P., Co. F, e. Jan. 30, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Kendall, J. E., Co. F., e. Feb. 1. 1805 ; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 McNair, Wm. H., Co. F, e. Feb. 10, 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Watson, T. A., Co. F, e. Feb. 1, 1865; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Sherdon, J. E., Co. G, e. Feb. 13, 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 20, 1866. 
 Sergt. J. B. Carrole, Co. G, 149th Inf. (one year), e. Feb. 4, 
 
 1865 ; m. o. Jan. 27, 1866. 
 Utt, Wm.. Co. 1, 149th Inf. (one year), e. Feb. 2, 1865 ; m. o. 
 
 Jan. 27, 1S66. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND THIR- 
 TEENTH INFANTRY. 
 
 Capt. J. G. Day, Co. E, e. Aug. 11.1862, as First Sergeant ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieutenant Feb. 23, 1863; prmtd. to 
 
 Captain May 12. 1864; m. o. June 20, 1865. 
 Otis, Jerome, Co. E, e. March 29, 1865 ; m. o. May 30, 
 
 1865. 
 Hough, P. C., Co. G, e. Aug. 12, 1862; m. o. June 20, 1865, 
 
 as Corporal. 
 Jackson, J., Co. G, e. Aug. 5, 1862 ; disd. April 25, 1863 ; 
 
 disab. 
 Miller, J. C., Co. G, e, Aug. 13, 1862; m. o. June 20, 1865, 
 
 as Sergeant. 
 Osborne, H. B., Co. G, e. Aug. 10, 18P2 ; dUd. Oct. 10, 1863, 
 
 for prmtn. 
 
 Post, J. B., Co. O, e . Aug. 6, 1862; died Aug. 15, 1863. 
 Enos, J. R., 114th Inf., Co. I, e. March 8, 1865 ; trans, to 
 
 58th 111. Inf. 
 Ellis, J. D., 118th Inf., Co. A, e. Feb. 28, 1865, rect. ; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 1, 1865. 
 Surgeon P. K. Guild, 120th Inf., e. Nov. 19, 1862 ; resd. 
 
 June 12, 1863. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY- 
 FOURTH INFANTRY. 
 
 (One Year.) 
 
 Cry, W. L., Co, B, e. Sept. 3, 1864; m. o. July 14. 1865. 
 Harris, Z. T., Co. B, e. Aug. 22. 1864 ; m. o. July 14, 1865. 
 Brooks, Jos-. Co. E, e. Aug. 29, 1864 ; died Jan. 25, 1864. 
 Blalock, Richard, Co. E, e. Sept. 3, 1864 ; m. o. June 23, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Cummings, Jaa., Co. E, e. Sep1. 3, 1864; m.o. July 14, 1865. 
 Cummin gs, A. J., Co. E, e. Aug. 25, 1 864 ; m.o. July 14, 1865. 
 Marshall, B.F.,Co.E.,e. Aug. 25, 1864; m. o. July 14, 1865. 
 Rutherford, A. J., Co. E, e. Aug. 22, 1864 ; m. o. July 14, 1865. 
 Sego. J. M., Co. E, e. Aug. 29, 1864; m. o. July 14, 1865. 
 Sergeant, Geo. B., e. Aug. 25, 1864 ; prmtd. to First Lieut. 
 Williams, L. R., Co. E, e. Sept. 3, 1864; m. o. July 14, 1865, 
 Crossett, J. R., Co. E, e. Oct. 15, 1864; rect.; m. o. May 25, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Adams, Geo., Co. I.e. ; m. o. July 14, 1865, ag Corp. 
 
 Dorris, Wm., Co. I, e. Feb. 3, 1865 ; unassigned rect. 
 Haney, Geo., Co. I, e. Feb. 3, 1865; unassigned rect. 
 King, John, Co. I, e. Feb. 3, 1865 ; unassigned rect. 
 
 Cook, Amos, 146th Inf., Co. C, e. Sept. 16, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 July 8, 1865. 
 Eljert, Henry, 146th Inf., Co. C, . Sept. 16, 1864; m. o. 
 
 July 8, 1865. 
 James, Walter, 146th Inf., Co. C, e. Sept. 16, 1864; m. o. 
 
 July 8. 1865. 
 Militate, E. C., 146th Inf., Co. C, e. Sept. 16, 1864; m. o. 
 
 July 8, 1865, as Corp. 
 
 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIXTH 
 INFANTRY. 
 
 (One year.) 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Corp. D. W. Carson, e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Capt. T. L. Johnson, e. March 9, 1865 ; resd. June 13, 1865. 
 Capt. W. I. Terry, e. as First Lieut. March 9, 1865 ; prmtd. 
 
 to Capt. June 28, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. W. Blake, e. March 9, 1865, as Second 
 
 Lieut.; prmtd. to First Lieut. June 28, 1865 ; m. o. 
 
 Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. Richard McCabe ; e. Feb. 17, 1865, as Corp.; 
 
 prmtd. to Sergt. and to Second Lieut. June 28, 1865; 
 
 m. o. Sept. 2i >, 1865. 
 First Sergt. J. J. Wilder, e. Feb. 20, 1865; died April 12, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Sergt. S. R. Wilcox, e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Sergt. Andrew Lamb, e. Feb. 14, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Sergt. M. Flynn, e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Sergt. A. Briggs, e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 Corp. F. H. Holz, e. Feb. 26, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Corp. M. Haas, e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Corp. P. S. Lossing, e. Feb. 22, 1865; m o. Aug. 5, 1865. 
 Corp. Jos. Shuster, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20,1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Corp. Lewis Wilder, e. Feb 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Corp. C. E. Moulton, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. 
 
 o. of regt. 
 
 Corp. D. S. Darling, e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 5, 1865. 
 Musician Elijah Dunn, e. Feb. 26, 1865: m. o. Sept. 20, 
 
 1865. 
 
 G. L. Ross, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept 20, 1855. 
 Wagoner A. W. Bowman, e. Feb. 15,1865; absent, sick, at 
 
 m. o. of regt. 
 
 Allen, Geo. C., e. Fob. 26, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Baker, L., e. Feb. 14, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Burns, John, e. Feb. 21, 1865 ; deserted March 10. 1865. 
 Barlow, H. G., e. Feb. 22, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Beltgen, M., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Cavenaugh, James, e. Feb. 22, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Cole, Thomas, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Caffery, Felix, e. Feb. 17, 1865; m. o. May 17, 1865 
 Coldwater, Peter, e.Feb. 23, 186"> ; m.o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Coleman, W. W., e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Cornell, R. T, e Feb. 16, 18R5; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. > 
 
 Dano, Frank, e Feb. 23, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Drake, J S.,e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Disotele, Z., e. Feb. 23, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Ferris, J. H., e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept 20, 1865. 
 Flint, Charles, e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 537 
 
 Fitzgerald, James, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, 
 
 as Corp. 
 
 Fikes, W. H., e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Felton, A. G , e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Fields, Abner, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20. 1865. 
 Goodrich, S., e. Feb. 21, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Gilbert, H. W., e. Feb, 21, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Greely. John, e. Feb. 28, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Gausfain, A., e. Feb. 20. 1865 : m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Gates, B.'R . e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Hilpish, Phillip, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Haschel, F., e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Hitz, Chris., e. Feb. 20, 1805 m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Hatch, John. e. Feb. 17, 1865'; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Johnson, C. L , e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Knapp, Charles, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 K-lly, Michael, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Kearns, Delos, e. Feb. 20, 18ti5 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Karp. Petor, e. Feb. 18, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Kieron, P. W., e. Feb. 28, 1865 ; deserted June 29, 1865. 
 Lowry, Patrick, e. Feb. 16. 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Lane, John, e. Feb. 18. 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Murray, Dennis, e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Murray, John, e. Feb. 21, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Marcus, G.. e. Feb. 17, 186i ; m. o. Sept. 20. 1865. 
 Millen, M., e. Feb. 21, 1865; m. o. Aug. 25, 1865. 
 McCliire, M., e. Feb. 20, 1865; m. o June 8, 1865. 
 Manahan, J , e. Feb 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Manahan, James, e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 McPherson, John, e. Feb. 21, 1865; deserted March 10. 
 
 1865. 
 
 Mills, Adam, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20,1865.. 
 Miller, Hiram, e. Feb. 22, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Michand, Phillip, e. Feb. 23, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 NichoN, George, e. Fob. 21, 1865; m. o. Aug. 22, 1865. 
 Nichols, Elmer, e. Feb. 6, 1865; m. o. Aug. 24, 1865. 
 Oats, John, P. Feb. 24, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Palmer, H. J., e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Powers, Miles, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m.o. Sept. 20, 18S5. 
 Pierson. Freeman, e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Poule, M., e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Pierce, J. G., e. Feb. 22, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Peebles, Robert, e. Feb. 18, 1865; disd. June 7, 1865. 
 Pierce, W. H., e. Feb. 18, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 C->rp. 
 
 Pondson, Joseph, e. Feb. 21, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Eauech, Frank, e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Race, Alanson, e. Feb. 17, 1865 ; in. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Reed, Walter, e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept 20, 1865. 
 Rost. Jno., e. Feb. 16, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Smith, Rob't, e. Feb. 20, 1865; m. o. Sept 20, 1865. 
 Smith, Geo., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Smith, Hael, o. Feb. 17, 1865 ; m. o. Sept, 20, 1865. 
 Simpson, Chas., e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Smith, J. H., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 186V 
 Tuber, Frank, e. Feb. 20, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Van Nort wick, J. M., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 
 
 1865. 
 Verning, E. R., e. Feb. 17, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Van Nelson, C. W., e. Feb. 17, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Van Osdell, W. C., e. Feb. 15, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20.1865. 
 Woods, Wm., e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; deserted March 10, 1865. 
 Woodward. Jno., e. Feb. 20, 1865 ; m.o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Whaley, Thos., e. Feb. 22, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Wenkler, Jos., e. Feb. 20, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Wrigley, J. H., e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Westover, F., e. Feb. 18, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Williams, Alfred, e. Feb. 20, 1865; died at Chattanoog* 
 
 May 5, 1865. 
 Yipprich, Paulus, e. Feb. 15, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Giley, J. S.. e. March 1, 1865 ; deserted March 12, 1865. 
 Kelly, Jno., e. March 1, 1865; deserted March 14, 1865. 
 Worth, Jno., e. March 1, 1865; deserted March 14, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Sergt Jno. Dailey, e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. May 15, 1865. 
 Sergt. R. C. Lindsay, e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 
 
 1865. 
 Sergt. Louis Noahs, e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, 
 
 as private. 
 Corp. Chas. Janes, e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; absent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 
 Corp. E.lwin Platts, e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Corp. R. H. Hunt, e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 
 Corp. W. J. Kuox, e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865, 
 
 us Sergt. 
 
 Corp. J. P. Mabon, e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Chapel, G. D., e. Feb. 10, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Clure, Jas., e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Cooley, C. E., e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. July 19, 1865. 
 Donovea, Jno., e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20. 1865. 
 Dailey, Homer, e. Feb. 16, 1865; m. o. May 15 1865. 
 Hoban, Jno., e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Johnson, F., e. Feb. 27, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Kessler, G. H., e. Feb. 27, 1865; in. o. Sept. 22, 1865. 
 Kessler, H. C., e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; deserted Aug. 18, 1865. 
 Mix, E. H., e. March 3, 1865 ; m. o. May 15, 1865. 
 Platts, W. E., e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Vanevener, D., e. Feb. 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 Young, Jno., e. Feb 27, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 
 Com pany C. 
 
 Baley, Jno., e. March 1, 1865; deserted March 12, 1865. 
 Holmes, Jacob, e. March 7, 1865 ; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 McWilliams, Jno., e. March 1, 1805; deserted March 12, 
 1865. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 McKinzie, C. L., e. March 1, 1865; m. o. Sept. 20, 1865. 
 
 Hammond, Theo., 29th Col. Inf., Co. G, e. Feb. 18, 1864; 
 
 m. o. Nov. 6, 1865. 
 Stewart, Jordan, 29th Col Inf., e. Feb. 18, 1865; unasd. 
 
 rect. 
 Mason, Henry, 59th U. S. Col. Inf., e. March 29, 1865. 
 
 KANE COUNTY^CAVALRY. 
 EIGHTH CAVALRY. 
 
 The Eighth Cavalry Regiment was organized 
 at St. Charles, 111., in September, 1861, by. 
 Col. J. F. Farnsworth, and was mustered in 
 Sept. 18, 1861. O/i Oct. 13th, the regiment 
 moved to Washington City, and camped at Me- 
 ridian Hill on the 17th. On December 17th, 
 moved to camp near Alexandria, Va. March 
 10, 1862, the regiment joined the general ad- 
 vance on Manassas, in Gen. Sumner's Division. 
 The Eighth Cavalry remained at Warrenton until 
 April 12th at four different times driving the 
 enemy across the Rappahannock. Embarked 
 at Alexandria, on April 23d, and landed at 
 Shipping Point, May 1st. May 4th, moved to 
 Williamsburg, and was assigned to the Light 
 Brigade, Gen. Stoneman commanding. The 
 regiment was engaged during the advance of 
 the army up the Peninsula. On June 26th, 
 six companies of the regiment met the ad- 
 vance of the enemy, under Jackson, at Me- 
 chanicsville, and held it in check until 3 
 o'clock in the afternoon, when their line 
 was driven back to the infantry lines. The 
 regiment did important duty, in the change 
 of base which followed this action, at Games' 
 Hill, Dispatch Station and Malvern Hill, 
 and, covering the extreme rear of the army, 
 continually skirmished with the enemy's cav- 
 alry. Remained on picket, on the James 
 River, while the army lay at Harrison's Land- 
 ing. Led the advance to the second occupa- 
 tion of Malvern Hills, and, with Benson's 
 Battery (United States Artillery), bore the 
 brunt of the fight Lieut. Col. Gamble being 
 severely wounded. Brought up the rear of 
 our retreating army to Barrett's Ford, on the 
 Chickahominy. 
 
 On August 30, 1862, embarked at Yorktown, 
 and landed at Alexandria on Sept. 1st, and
 
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 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 moved immediately to the front. On the 4th, 
 crossed into Maryland, and was engaged at 
 Poolsville. Captured the colors of the Twelfth 
 Virginia (rebel) Cavalry at Monocacy Church. 
 Captured twenty prisoners at Barnesville. 
 Engaged at Sugar-Loaf Mountain, Middletown 
 and South Mountain, and, at Boonesboro, cap- 
 tured two guns, killing and wounding sixty- 
 seven, and taking 200 prisoners. The Eighth 
 Cavalry was engaged at the battle of Antietam. 
 On October 1st, had a severe fight with the 
 enemy, during a reconnoissance to Martinsbilrg. 
 Moved in advance of the Army of the Poto- 
 mac, and was engaged with the enemy's cav- 
 alry at Philemonte, Uniontown, Upperville, 
 Barbee's Cross Roads, Little Washington and 
 Amesville, arriving at Falmouth. Nov. 23, 1862. 
 During the battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13th, 
 two squadrons were in the city till its evacu- 
 ation. The Eighth was on picket until Feb. 
 17, 1863, on the left flank of the army, across 
 the Peninsula, and up the Rappahannock, to 
 Fort Conway, when it was moved to the right 
 flank, near Dumfries. Loss, up to this time, 
 twenty-seven killed, seventy-one wounded and 
 twenty missing. During the campaign of 1863, 
 the regiment was engaged in the following ac- 
 tions : Sulphur Springs, April 14th ; near War- 
 rentown, AprillTth ; Rapidan Station May 1st ; 
 Northern Neck, May 14th, Borstly Ford, June 
 9th; Upperville, June 21st; Fairville. Penn., 
 June 30th; Gettysburg, July 1st; Williams- 
 burg, Md., July 6th ; Boonesboro, July 8th ; 
 Funktown, July 10th ; Falling Water, July 
 14th ; Chester Gap, July 21st ; Sandy Hook, 
 July 22d ; near Culpepper, Aug. 1st; Brandy 
 Station, Aug. 4th ; raid from Dumfries to 
 Falmouth, Aug. 30th ; Culpepper and Pony 
 Mountain, Sept. 13th ; Raccoon Ford, Sept. 
 13th ; Liberty Mills, Sept. 21st ; Raccoon Ford 
 to Brandy Station, Oct. llth ; Manassas, Oct. 
 15th ; Warrentown Junction, Oct. 30th ; Rex- 
 leysville, Nov. 8th ; Mitchell's Station, Nov. 
 12th ; Ely's Ford, Nov. 30th, 1863. Loss, dur- 
 ing the campaign, 23 killed, 116 wounded, and 
 37 missing. The regiment was mustered out 
 of service at Benton Barracks, Mo., July 17, 
 1865, and ordered to Chicago, 111., where it re- 
 ceived final payment and discharge. 
 
 Col. J. F. Farnsworth, e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; pnntd. to Brig. 
 
 Gen. Dec. 5, 1862. 
 
 Maj. W. G. Conklin, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; read. Jan. 8, 1862. 
 Battalion Adjt. Edmund Gifford, e. Sept, 18, 1861 ; read. 
 
 July 6, 1862. 
 Q. M. Jas. S. Van Patten, e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; read. Oct. 3, 
 
 1862 ; re-e. April 1, 1864; resd. June 17, 1864. 
 Surg. Abner Hard. e. Sept. 15, 1861 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 First Asst. Surgeon S. K. Crawford, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; read. 
 
 June 6, 1863. 
 Second Aast. Surgeon Eugene Nelson, e. April 25,1864; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Comay. B. L. Chamberlin, e. Sept. 1, 1862 ; m. o. July 17, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Capt. P. G. Jenninga, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; resd. Jan. 10, 1862. 
 Firet Lieut. Bryant Beach, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; read. June 
 
 8, 1863. 
 Firat Lieut. L. Y. Smith, e. Sept. 6, 1861, as Corp.; re-e. aa 
 
 vet. Dec. 20, 1863 ; prmtd. to Second Lieut. July 8, 
 
 1863, and to First Lieut. April 11, 1865; m. o. July 
 
 17, 1865. 
 
 Second Lieut. N. L. Blanchard. e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; read. 
 
 Jan. 20, 1862. 
 
 Second Lieut. Richard Von Vlack, e. as private Sept. 8, 
 1861; was prmtd. to Battalion Q. M. Sergt. and to 
 Second Lieut. Jan. 27, 1862 ; resd. April 7, 1863 
 First Sergt. Chas. Hoag, e. Aug. 28, 18GI ; m. o. Sept. 28, 
 
 1864. 
 Q. M. Sergt F. D. Beach, e. Aug. 30, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 16, 
 
 1862. 
 Sergt. P. D. Brown, e. Sept. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865, aa Corp. 
 
 Sergt. H. P. Haskins, e. Aug. 30, 1861; d ed May 16, 1862. 
 Farrier J. S. Johnson, e. Sept. 16, 1861; diad. Nov. 13, 
 
 1862. disab. 
 Wagoner Andrew Brown, e. Aug. 3', 1861; m. o. Sept. 
 
 28, 1864. 
 
 Atwood, N. P., e. Sept. 3, 1861 ; disd. Nov 8, 1861, disab 
 Besby, M. H., e. Sept. 12, 1861; prmtd. 
 Baird, M. H., e. Aug. 27, 1861; disd. March 6, 1862, disab. 
 Barges, Lorenzo, e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; disd. April 29, 1863, 
 
 diaab. 
 
 Danville, JOB., e. Aug. 30, 1861 ; died Feb. 22, 1862. 
 Brown, T. J., e. Sept. 7, 1861; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Crandle, Robt., e. Sept. 4, 1861; deserted July 16, 1863. 
 Carlin, John, e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1862. 
 Conley, Michael, e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; died Feb. 6, 1862. 
 Durant, John, e. Sept. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 17, 1862, disab. 
 Downey. Geo., e. Aug. 29, 1861; disd. Jan. 18, 1862. 
 Fassett, Peter, e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; deserted in June, 1862. 
 Fillmorp, D. H., e. Sept. 1, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 17, 1864. 
 Fuller, Webster, e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; diad. Dec. 28, 1862. 
 Gardner, R. M., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; disd. in March, 1864. 
 Hula, H. V. T. e. Sept. 8, 1861; prmtd. to Battalion Q. M. 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Hopkins, M., e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; disd. in Dec., 1862, diaab. 
 Hathaway, Jno., e. Sept. 2, 1861 ; diad. in April, 1863, 
 
 diaab. 
 
 Hall, Elijah, e. S^pt. 12, 1861 ; disd. April 10, 1864. 
 Hilly, Edward, e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o.July 17,1865. 
 Hauxladen, Henry, e. Sept 13, 1861; re-e. aa vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Jenning, Geo., e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; re-e. aa vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1875. 
 Kenyon, Lyman, e Sept. 4,1861: re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Kenyon, Oliver, e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Kennedy, E. C., e. Sept. 10. 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 Monroe, W. R., e. Aug. 30, 1861 ; m. o. June 16, 1865. 
 Monroe, Owen, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 10, 1863. 
 McGonnel, Samuel, e. Spt. 12, 1861 ; kid. Nov. 5, 1862. 
 McGough, Bernard, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; diad. June 24, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 McGough, Christ, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; dud. Aug. 15, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 McCracken, T. 0., e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 31, 1861, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Miller, P. G., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; diad. Aug. 15, 1862, disab. 
 Martin, Bernard, e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, aa 
 
 Corp. 
 Parks, C. H., e. Sept. 4, 1861 ; re-e. as vet., Nov. 30, 1863; 
 
 m. o. June 2, 1865. 
 
 Plopper, Chas., e. Sept. 4, 1861 : kid. Sept, 13, 1862. 
 Pindar, Thos., e. Sept. 8, 1861 ; disd. March 3, 1863, diaab. 
 Peterson, Samuel, e. Sept. 4, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan., 1864; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, aa Corp. 
 
 Paine, Thos. e. Au<r. 30, 1861 ; Disd. Nov. 10, 1862, disab.. 
 Ryan, Jno., e. Sept. 12, 1861; disd. in 1863, as Sergt., disab. 
 Riley, Win., e. Sept .14, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Roberts. W. W., e. Sept. 6, 1861; disd. April 27, 1864, wd. 
 Sill, R. W., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; prmtd. to Hosp. Steward. 
 Shields. James, e. Sept. 10, 1861 ; disd. June 25, 1863, disab. 
 Smith, D. G. e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Simmons, P. C., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 5, 1863. 
 Smith, F. P., e. Sept. 8, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 15, 1862. 
 Town. H. M., e. Sept. 8, 1861 ; kid. Jan. 21, 1863. 
 Van Dyke, B., e. Sept. 11, 1861 : re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, prmtd. 
 
 to Second Lieut. 
 
 Wanzer, Chas. e. Sept. 11, 1861 ; died Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Wallace, A. B., . Sept. 8, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1864. 
 
 Willard, Zirmn, e. Aug. 30, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 15, 1862, disab. 
 Carlin, John, e. Feb 1,1864; rect. vet.; m.o. July 17,1865. 
 Durand, Jno., Jr., e. Nov. 28, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Taylor, A. J., e. Dec. 7, 1863 ; m. o. July 17. 1865. 
 Young, H. C., e. Feb. 23,1864; m. o. July 17, 1865, as 
 Corp.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 539 
 
 Company B. 
 
 First Lieut. S. P. Carr, e. Aug. 27, 1861, as Corp.; prmtd. 
 
 to First Sergt., to Second Lieut. Sept. 10, 1862, and 
 
 to First Lieut. July 1, 1863 ; dismissed Oct. 5, 1864. 
 Second Lieut. Jno. Weed, e. Sept. 19, 1861, as rect.; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; ptmtd. to First Sergt. and comd. 
 
 Second Lieut, but not mustered ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Sergt. J. W. Moody, e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 16, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Blacksmith Geo. McGregor, e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Nov. 30, 1863 ; kid. July 9, 1864. 
 
 Wagoner 0. D. Patten, e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 10, 1862. 
 Bassett, E., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Bell, G. H., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Cutshaw, B. F., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Corp. 
 
 Ciawford, 0. C., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 18, 1862, disab. 
 DeWitt, H. S., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Ser> t. 
 Fassett, C. A., e Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e- as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Ingals, Chas., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; died May 10, 1862. 
 Maynard, Jas. M., e. Aug. 27, 1861; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 
 Partlow, J. F., e. Aug. 27. 1861 ; disd. April 17, 1862, disab. 
 Perry, Geo. W., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Ponge, Jno., e. Aug. 27, 1S61 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Pittinger, R. S., e. Ausr. 27, 1861 ; disd. May 2, 1862, disab. 
 Patterson, A. C., e. Aug. 27, 1861; deserted Aug. 20,1862. 
 Beeves, R. L., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Remington, D. H., e. Aug. 27, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt.; Sergt. 
 Biown. F. B., e. Dec. 28, 1861; trans, to V. R. C. Sept. 1, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Brown, J. C. ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Cronk, C. H., e. Oct. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17. 1865, as Sergt. 
 
 Congle, John, e. Oct. 10, 1861 ; disd. April 17, 1862. 
 Douglas, E. A., e. Jan. 20, 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Davis, Reed, e. Oct. 17, 1874 ; in. o. June 22, 1865. 
 Everetts, A., e. Dec. 14, 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Graves, M. A., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863; m. o.July 17,1865. 
 
 Hatch, S. P., e. Oct. 17, 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 McMarchey, W., e. Sept. 27, 1861. 
 Partlow, C. M., e. Oct. 17, 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Reynolds, A. K., e. Sept. 30, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Reeves, J. W., e. Oct. 17, 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Reed, J. J., e. Feb. 2, 1864 ; died May 5, 1864. 
 Sheldon. Frederick, e. Oct. 2, 1861 ; deserted Oct. 14, 1861. 
 Weed, William, e. Sept. 19, 1861; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 William*, J. D., e. Feb. 10, 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Corp. George Voges, e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; disd. Aug 15, 1862, 
 
 wounded. 
 
 Dusold, J. G., e. Sept. 17, 1861 ; died of wds. July 10, 1863. 
 Gilg, Conrad, e. Sept. 17, 1861 ; died Feb. 1862. 
 Paul, John, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Plank, Antoine, e. Sept. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Smith, John, e. Sept. 17, 1861 ; deserted. 
 Wagner, Jacob, t. Sept. 17, 1861 ; deserted. 
 Meyer, William, e. Feb. 3, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Bentley, Thomas, e. Sept. 5, 1861 ; disd. 
 HSrown, J. L., e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; kid. Nov. 5, 1862. 
 Gooder, Frank, e. Sept. 13, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 McConnell, J. H , e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 22, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Yeoman. W. F., e. Sept. 14, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Kellum, James, e. Jan. 4, 1864; rect.; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Wliittaker, G. A., e. Aug. 14, 1862 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Neal, J. M., e. Dec. 4, 1863 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Spragne, W. L., e. Dec. 4, 1863; died in Andersonville 
 Prison, Aug. 3, 1864 ; grave 4,598. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. H. L. Rapleye, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; resigned Aug. 29. 
 
 1862. 
 Capt. A. L. Wells, e. as Corp. Sept. 12, 1861 ; prmtd. to 
 
 8>rgt., and to First Lieut., Sept. 1, 1862; prmtd. to 
 
 Capt. ; term ex. Sept. 1864. 
 Capt. F. M. Gregory, e. Sept. 12, 1861, as private; re-e. as 
 
 vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; prmtd. to Sergt., to Second Lieut. 
 
 April 11, 1864; to First Lieut. Sept. 18, 1864 ; to Capt 
 
 Dec. 15, 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 First Lieut. A. W. Howard, e. as Sergt. Sept. 12, 1862 ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. Nov. 1 1862 ; resigned April 
 
 11, 1864. 
 First Lieut. A. W. Chase, e. Sept. 12, 1861, as private ; 
 
 re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; prmtd. to Sergt. and to 
 
 Second Lieut. Sept. 18, 1864 ; to First Lieut. Dec. 15, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Second Lieut. John Cool, e. Sept. 18, 1861 ; resigned. 
 Firit Sergt. J. C. Fifleld, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; prmtd. to Adit. 
 
 Third Battalion. 
 
 Sergt. N. D. Fray, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. disab. 
 Sergt. George Cook, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 
 
 30, 1863; m. o. Feb. 9, 1866, to date Aug. 3, 1864, for 
 
 promotion. 
 Sergt. L. J. Whseler, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 
 
 1864. 
 Corp. J. W. Swain, e. Sept. 12> 1861 ; disd. Aug. 12, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Corp. H. D. Rudd, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 27, 1862, disab. 
 Corp. E. G. Edgar, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. April 23, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Corp. T. H. Tracy, e. Sept. 12, 1861; disd. Aug. 12, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Corp. B. Hays, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1K64, as 
 
 First Sergt. 
 Corp. W. G. Miner, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 28, 1863, 
 
 as Sergt., distb. 
 Anderson, Andrew, e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; disd. Jan. 2, 1864 
 
 disab. 
 
 Adams, Z. H., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 12, 1862, disab. 
 Akers, J. R., e. Sept. 12, 1862; disd. Nov. 13, 1862, disab. 
 Akin, John, e. Sept. 12, 1862; disd.; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Bowdish, Oscar, e. Sept. 12, 1862; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Brash, Chas., e. Sept. 12, 1862 re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Corp. 
 
 Bemis, P. W., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; prmtd. to Sergt. Maj. 
 Benedict, P. S., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; disd. March 7, 1863, disab. 
 Bell, J. A., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; died Oct. 6, 1863. 
 Boots, Wm., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Corp. 
 Bradford, Sydney, e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; re-e. as yet. Dec 20 
 
 186 J ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Chase, L. M., e. Sept. 12, 1862 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Cosselman, James, e. Sept. 12, 1861; disd. April 17, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Coal, Albert, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Cornwall, D. E., e. Sept. 12, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 
 Carver, Loren, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30,1864. 
 Ellingsworth, Chas., e. Sept. 12, 1861; tranf. to Co. K. 
 Frazer, Alex., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; trans, to Co. B. 
 Fellows, Reuben, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864 as 
 
 Serirt. 
 
 Fuller, A. S., e. Sept. 12, 1861 : m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, as Corp. 
 Graves, M. A., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; trans, to Co. B. 
 Gardner, 0. L., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Gosper, J. J., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 disd. for promotion. 
 
 Gillott, Davis, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. April 17. 1862, disab. 
 Hepyle, Jacob, e. Spt. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864- 
 
 m. 6 July 17, 1865. 
 Humphrey, Roswell, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vct.Nov. 30, 
 
 1863 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Johnson, Alfred, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. March 9, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Johnson, August, e. Sept 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov 30 
 
 1863; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Johnson, J. W., e. Sept. 12. 1861 ; died Feb. 23, 1862. 
 Johnson, G. J., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; pnntd. to Regt.Com.Sergt. 
 Kidder, C. H., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 165, as Sergt. 
 
 Kimball, Geo., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. April 5, 1863, disab. 
 Kendall, C. B., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; promtd. to Hosp. Steward. 
 Kribbs, J. G., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 18, 1863, for 
 
 promotion. 
 Law, Morris, e. Sept. 12, 1861; disd. Jan. 14, 1863, disab.
 
 540 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 McGuire. David, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1804. 
 McNair, Wm. e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 McMillan, Alex., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 18, 1863, disab. 
 Mathuson, Geo. C., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as yet. Nov. 30, 
 
 1863; m. O.July 17, 1805. 
 
 Marshall, Wm., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28<, 1864. 
 Moulding, Wm., e. Sept. 12, 1861; trans, to Co. K. 
 Pflffer, Jos., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1863 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Page, G. W., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; died., disab. 
 Ross, C. E., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864 ; 
 
 m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Rodgers, I). M., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; died Aug. 4, 1862. 
 Rich, T. S., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; trans, to I. C. 
 Robinson, M. E., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, 
 
 Sherburn, Jas., e. Sept. 12, 18<il ; disd. March 8, 1862 ; disab. 
 Stanton, T. R., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. July 21, 1865. 
 Soule, J. A., e. Sept. 12, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; 
 
 prmtd. to Regt. Com. Sergt. 
 
 Tinkham, N. F., o. Sept, 12, 1861 ; disd. May 25, 1862, disab. 
 Williams, J. M., e. Sept. 12, 1861; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 White, Solomon, e. Sept, 12, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 16, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 White, H. S., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 1864; 
 
 disd. May 27, 1865, as First Sergt. 
 Walker, H. H., e. Sept, 12, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Nov. 30, 
 
 863 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 Wordard, H. M., e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 12, 1862,- 
 
 disab. 
 
 Wetherick, Isaac, e. Sept. 12, 1861 ; m. o. Sept. 28, 1864. 
 Corwin. Geo., e. Aug. 14, 1862, rect. ; prmtd. to Regt. 
 
 Com. Sergt. 
 
 Duff, Wm., e. Jan. 5, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 17, 186. 
 Duff, Robt., e. March 7, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Fink, N. A., e. Aug. 12, 1862, rect. ; re-i . as vet., Jan. 1, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Garfield, Benj., e. Jan. 4, 1?64, rect. ; m. o. July 17, 1865, 
 
 as Corp. 
 
 Lovell, Thos., e. March 6, 1865, rect, : m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Ros*, F. E., e. Jan. 24, 1862, rect ; disd. July 29. 1862. 
 Sherburne, Jas., e. Feb. 23, 1S64, rect.; vet.; m. o. July 
 
 17, 1865. 
 Woodward, H. M., e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 17, 
 
 1805, as Corp. 
 Woodward, L. M., e. Jan. 23, 1864, rect. ; m. o. July 17, 
 
 1865, as Bugler. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. E. J. Farnsworth, e. Dec. 24, 1861; prmtd. to Brig. 
 
 Gen. June 28, 1863 ; kid. July 3, 1803. 
 Ducat, A., e. Sept, 12, 1861 ; disd. March 8, 1862, disab. 
 Moulding, W. E., e. Aug. 12, 1861 ; disd. March 9, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Mighell, Franklin, e. Aug. 12, 1863; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865, as Sergt. 
 
 Company L. 
 
 First Lieut. Judson A.S'evens,e. Sept. 11, 1861, as private; 
 
 prmtd to Second Lieut. April 28, 1863 ; to First Lieut, ' 
 
 Nov. 2, 1863 ; hon. disd. Sept. 18,1864. 
 Murphy, Edwd., e. Sept. 30, 1861; re-e. as vet.. Jan. 1, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Nourse, Wm., e. No". 30, 1863, as vet. ; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 Sheldon, Henry, e. Nov. 30, 1863, as vet: to. o. July 17, 
 
 1865. , 
 
 Company M. 
 
 Second Lieut. R. B. Swarthout. e. as private Sept. 17, 
 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 1, 1864; prmtd. to Sergt. and 
 to Second Lieut. July 8, 1864: m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Paul, John, e. Sept. 12, 1861, rect.; disd. Nov. 24, 1862; 
 disab. 
 
 Searls, D. D., e. Feb. 19, 1864, rect.; m. o. July 17, 1865. 
 
 Duff, J. B., e. March 7, 1864 ; unassd. rect. 
 
 Wadhams, B. A., e. Oct. 21, 1865; unassd. ; rect. 
 
 Russell, W. H. H., 9th Cav., Co. G, e. Feb. 21, 1865; m. o. 
 Oct. 31, 1S65; rect. 
 
 Renwick, J. R., 9th Cav., Co. G, e. Feb. 22, 1865; m. o. 
 Aug. 28, 1865 ; rect. 
 
 Casteal, Herman, 9th Cav., Co. H, e. March 29,1865; de- 
 serted July 24, 1865 ; rect. 
 
 Stolp, A. R., 9th Cav., Co. H, e. Dec. 25, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 
 1, 1862 ; disab. 
 
 Chrystal, Wm., 9th Cav., Co. I, e. March 1, 1865; m. o. 
 Oct. 31, 1865. 
 
 Brown, Edwin, 9th Cav., Co. L, e. March 22, 1865; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 31, 1865. 
 Hoyt, Henry, 9th Cav., Co. L, e. March 22, 1865 ; m. o. 
 
 Oct. 31, 1865. 
 Corp. Chas. King, lOlh Cav., Co. D, e. Sept. 24, 1861 ; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Jan. 3, 1861. 
 
 FIFTEENTH CAVALRY. 
 
 The Fifteenth Cavalry was organized Dec. 25, 
 18612, by order of Gov. Yates, assigning inde- 
 pendent battalions and companies, including 
 four companies from Kane County, as follows : 
 
 Capt. Jenks, Company A, Thirty-sixth Infan- 
 try, to be Company I, Fifteenth Cavalry ; organ- 
 ized at Aurora Aug. 20, 1861. 
 
 Capt. Sherer, Company B, Thirty-sixth In- 
 fantry, to be Company K, Fifteenth Cavalry; 
 organized at Plato Aug. 20, 1861. 
 
 Capt. Gilbert, Company A, Fifty-second In- 
 fantry, to be Company G, Fifteenth Cavalry ; 
 organized at Elgin Sept. 14, 1861. 
 
 Capt. Dodson, Company Kane County Cav- 
 alry, to be Company H, Fifteenth Cavalry; or- 
 ganized at Geneva Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 The regiment served mostly along the Mis- 
 sissippi River and in Mississippi and Arkan- 
 sas, where they performed excellent service 
 against the guerillas and roving bands of out- 
 laws that infested that country, until Jan. 26, 
 1865, wheu they were consolidated -with the 
 Tenth Cavalry and went into Texas. The.y 
 were mustered out Nov. 22, 1865. As Company 
 A, Thirty-sixth Infantry, did not. join the reg- 
 iment until July, 1864, and as Company B never 
 served with the regiment, we give the full brief 
 history of them apart from the Fifteenth Cav- 
 alry. Company A, Thirty-sixth Infantry or 
 Company I, Fifteenth Cavalry, Capt. Jenks, 
 went to Rolla, then to Pea Ridge, then lo 
 Corinth, then as escort to Gen. Hamilton. 
 They then performed escort duty to Gen. Rose- 
 crans and were engaged in the battles of luka 
 and Corinth. They then went back to Gen. 
 Hamilton, and were engaged at Ripley, 
 Miss., having seventeen men captured. From 
 thence they went to Memphis, Vicksburg and 
 New Orleans, and joined the regiment at 
 Helena, Ark., and accompanied them to Texas. 
 Company B, Capt, Sherer, Thirty-sixth In- 
 fantry or Company K, Fifteenth Cavalry, went 
 from Camp Hammond to Rolla, Pea Ridge and 
 Corinth. They were then sent as escort to 
 Rosecrans, then to Granger, until Buell's ex- 
 pedition started after Bragg, then as escort to 
 Jefferson C. Davis. They then went from 
 luka, through Alabama, Tennessee and Ken- 
 tucky to Louisville, then went South again and 
 participated in the battle of Perry ville ; made 
 a charge through Manchester ; were attacked 
 by Gen. John Morgan, at Tyree Springs ; were 
 at Nolensvtlle, Stone River, Rover and Eagle- 
 ville, and with Gen. Crittenden at Chickamauga 
 and Chattanooga, Gen. Hooker at Lookout 
 Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, 
 New Hope Church. Dallas, Pumpkinvine 
 Creek and Atlanta, where Hooker was relieved 
 by Howard, whom they escorted upon the 
 " March to the Sea," through Marietta, Rome,
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 541 
 
 Adairsville, Resaca, Snake Creek Gap, Tyler's 
 Ridge, Lafayette, Grayville, Miledgeville, Sa- 
 vannah to Ogeechee River, when, with a dug- 
 out, ('apt. Duncan, Sergt. Ammick and Corp. 
 Quimby of the Company, floated down past 
 Fort McAllister and out into the Gulf, with 
 despatches from Gen. Sherman to Admiral 
 Dahlgren, commanding the fleet, and thus 
 opened communication between the army and 
 navy. The company was mustered out Sept 
 23, 1865 
 
 Maj. S. B. Sherer, e. Aug. 20, 18G1, as First Lieut. Co. I ; 
 prmtd. to Capt. Co. K July 9, 1802, and to Maj. July 
 29, 18G3 ; term expired Aug. 25, 18C4. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Cair, W. R., e. Dec. 10, 1801. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Capt. Albert Collins, e. Dec. 23, 18G3 ; rect. 
 
 Beck, Unas., e. Feb. 20, 18(4 ; rect.; trans, to Co. 1,10th 111. 
 
 Cav. as consol. 
 
 Byers, J. W., e. Feb. 25, 1804 ; rect.; died Oct. 3, 1864. 
 Johnson, Wm., e. Feb 23, 1864 ; trans, to 10th 111. Cav. as 
 
 consol. 
 Moffit, C. A., e. Feb. 27, 18G4 ; trans, to 10th 111. Cav. as 
 
 con sol. 
 Prentice, W. J., e. Feb. 29, 1864 ; disd. Out. 28, 18G4 ; disab. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 First. Lieut. T. G. Knox, e. Sept. 14, 1801, as Second Lieut.; 
 
 prmti). to First Lieut. Dec. 25, 1802; term expired 
 
 Oct. 31, 18G4. 
 
 Corp. O. R. Brown, e. Sept. G, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 31, 1864. 
 Barden, Abram, e. Sept. G, 18G1 ; m.o. Oct. 31, 18G4 ; black- 
 smith. 
 
 Bride, Sereno, e. Sept. G, 1861; m. o. Oct. 31, 18G4. 
 Conklin, J. B., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; died Feb. 1862. 
 Glenn, Francis, e. Sept. G, 1861; died Oct. 24, 1863. 
 Hanson, Ole, e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 3, 1864, as Corp. 
 Hill, Wm. E., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; m. o. Oct. 3,1, 1864. 
 Hotchkiss, O. 0., e. Sept. 6, 1861; disd. Oct. 14, 1862; 
 
 disab. 
 Ketchum, E. B., e. Sept. 6, 18G1 ; disd. June 7, 18G2, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Morley, Jno., e. Sept. 6, 1861 ; left in hospital July 8, 
 
 1863. 
 Sanborn, A. H., e. Sept. 6, 1861; disd. May 3, 18G2, as 
 
 farrier. 
 
 Sheldon, Fred'k, e. Sept. G, 1861 ; disd. as Bugler. 
 Townsend. D. W., e. Nov. 6, 1861 ; trans, to Co. I. 
 Tulloch, Wm., e. Sept. 6, 1861; disd. April 8, 1862. 
 Webster, 0. C.. e. Sept. 6, 1861; deserted Nov. 10, 1861. 
 Young, W. W., . Sept. 6, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 10, 1862. 
 Marlett, R. D., e. Sept. 28, 1861; disd. June 10, 1802; 
 
 rect. 
 Ponsley, Thos., e. Sept. 6, '61 ; trans, to Co. G, 52d III. Inf. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Capt. C. B. Dobson, e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; read. Aug. 10, 18G2. 
 Oapt. W. C. Wilder, e. Aug. 7, 1861, as First Lieut. ; 
 
 printd. to Capt. Aug. 10, 1862 ; read. Feb. 13, 1863. 
 Capt. T. J. Beebe, e. Aug. 7, 1861, us Sergt. ; prmtd. to 
 
 First Lieut. Aug. 10, 1862, and to Capt. Feb. 13, 18G3; 
 
 m. o. at consolidation. 
 First Lieut. E. C. Litherland, e. as Sergt. Aug. 24, 1861 ; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Aug. 10, 1802, and to First 
 
 Lieut. Feb. 13, 18(3; m. o. at consolidation. 
 Second Lieut. John C. Bundy, e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; prmtd. to 
 
 Lieut. Col. in an Arkansas regt. 
 First Sergt. H. G. Lnmbard, e. Aug. 7, 1861; disd. Feb. 
 
 17, 1802, for promtii. 
 
 Q. M. Sergt. Chae. Harrington, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Sergt. Wm. Burman, e. Aug. 7, 180] ; ilisd. Jan. 10, 1862, 
 
 disali. 
 Sergt. Thos. Brown, e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; prmtd. to First 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Corp. C. M. Green, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Corp. Henry Hazelhurst, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Corp. John Fishfr, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Corp. John Fox, e. Aug. 7, 1801. 
 
 Akin, John, e. Aug. 10, 1861 ; deserted Aug. 10, 1861. 
 
 Beebe, John, e. Aug. 9, 1861. 
 
 Blockman, E., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Bunker, Chas., e. Aug. 8, 1801. 
 
 Bowers, R. C., e. Aug, 7, 1801; disd. April 13, 1862; disab. 
 
 Brown, A. S., e. Aug. 7, 1801; disd. Aug. 30, 1861 ; disab. 
 
 Beebe, James, e. Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Beech, F. B., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 24, 1861, wds. 
 
 Colleghan, Thos., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Clark, F. A., e. Aug. 7. 1861. 
 
 Clark, H. B., e. Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Clark, Marshall, e. Aug. 29, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 10, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Curtis, R. G., e. Aug. 7. 1861. 
 Caruthers, David, e. Aug. 9, 1861. 
 Cary, W. B., e. Aug. 29, 1861 
 Durant, Eden, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Edwards, J. W., e. Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Freeman, B. F., e. Aug. 7, 1861 : Corp. ; died Oct. 18, 1861. 
 Flower, K., e. Aug. 8, 1861. 
 Gilinan, G. E., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 German, Chester, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Gustoson, Augustus, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Herrington, Alfred, e. Aug. 8, 1861. 
 Herrington, T., e. Aug. 7, U61. 
 Herndon, J. B., e. Aug. 8, 1861. 
 Hickox, Wallace, o. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Harris, F. H., e. Aug. 8, 1861 ; disd. March 16, 1861, disab. 
 Hall, G. H., > -. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Haskins, J. M., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Hindi, Wm., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Hickerson, Allen, e. Aug. 9, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. in Feb., 
 
 1864; trans. 
 
 Haile, J. 0., o. Aug. 8, 1861. 
 
 Kennear, W. H., P. Aug. 7, 1861 ; died Dec. 4, 1861. 
 Lucy, Dennis, e. Aug. 9, 1801. 
 Minneuni, F. J., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; disd. Aug. 19, 1861, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Noble, Jno., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Palmer, C. R., e. Aug. 9, 1861. 
 
 Passe, A. J., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; drowned May 29, 1862. 
 Reeves, T. B., e. Aug. 7, 1801 ; disd. in July, 1862. 
 Rodley, Jas., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; disd. Oct. 7, 1861, disab. 
 Ramsey, J. E., e. Aug. 24, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 1, 1862. 
 Stewart, Chas., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Stewart, W. F., e. Aug. 7. 1861. 
 Story, Wm., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Smith, Fayette, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 
 Town, A. B., e. Aug. 7, 1801; disd. Oct. 12, 1861, disab. 
 Tracy, J. E., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 17, 1861, dinab. 
 Thompson, Wm. H., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; disd. Mar. 15, 1862. 
 Thompson, Fayette, e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Tilton, W. H., e. Aug. 29, 1861. 
 
 Wilson, Jerome, e. Aug. 7, 1801 ; deserted Oct. 16, 1862. 
 Wills, T. G., e. Aug. 8, 1861. 
 West, T. W., e. Aug. 7, 1861 ; m. o. Aug. 29, 1864. 
 Wicks, E. F., e. Aug. 7, 1861. 
 Wallen, Andrew, e. Aug. 29, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 1, 
 
 1864; trans. 
 Wood, Orlando, e. Aug. 29, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 11, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Wells, Benj., e. Aug. 29, 1861. 
 Young, T. P., e. Aug. 29, 1861 ; disd. Nov. 8, 1861. 
 Allen, W. B., e. Dec. 30, 1863, rect. ; tranB. 
 Allen, H. J., e. Feb. 26, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Allen, D. A., e. Dec. 30, 1863, rect. ; trans. 
 Broadbent, Frank, e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect; tran. 
 Beebe, J. E., e. Dec. 17, 1863, rect. ; trans. 
 Coon, W. S., e. Feb. 29, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Hayner. Jno., e. Jan. 4, 1864, as vet. ; trans. 
 Hight, J. R., e. Dec. 19, 1863, rect., vet. ; trans. 
 Haley, J. H., e. Dec. 21, 18G3, rect., vet.,; trans. 
 Mackey, Wm., e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Maude, C. W., e. Jan. 4, 1864, rect; trans. 
 Norton, J. H., e. Aug. 27, 1862, rect. ; trans. 
 Thompson, G. A., e. Jan. 24, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Updike, Abram, e. Dec. 25, 1863, rect. ; tran*. 
 
 Company I. 
 
 Capt. Albert Jenks, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; prmtd. Lieut. CoL 
 
 36th Ills. Regt. 
 Capt. Geo. A. Willis, e. Aug. 21, 1861, as Second Lieut.; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. July 9, 1862, and to Capt. Sept. 
 
 18, 1862 
 First Lieut. A. C. Ferris, e. Aug. 20, 1861, as Second 
 
 Lieut. ; prmtd. to First Lieut, in September 18, 1862 ; 
 
 resigned. Oct. 11, 1864. 
 First Lieut Daniel D.vnan, e. Aug. 2, 1861, as Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Dec. 23, 1863, and to First 
 
 Lieut. Oct. 11, 1864.
 
 542 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Second Lieut. Albert Collins, e. as First Sergt. Aug. 2, 
 
 1861 ; prmtd. to Second Lieut. Sept. 18, 18G2, and to 
 
 C pt. Co. F. Dec. 23, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. Jerome B. Marlett, e. Aug. 7, 1801, Corp. ; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Oct. 11, 1864. 
 Q. M. Sergt. F. E. Reynolds, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; prmtd. 
 
 First Lieut. Co. K. 
 Sergt. F. J. Snow, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; detached at m. o. of 
 
 Begt. 
 Sergt. J. J. Johnson, e. Ang. 2, 1861; prmtd. Maj. 1st 
 
 Ark. Cav. 
 
 Sergt. F. 0. White, e. Aug. 2, 1861; disd. Nov. 4, 1863. 
 Corp. Geo. Stewart, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; detached at m. o. of 
 
 Regt. 
 
 Corp. Henry B. Douglas, e Aug. 2, 1861 ; captd. ; paroled. 
 Corp. David Hill, Jr., e. Aug. 2, 1861; died, March 19. 
 
 1864, prisr. of war. 
 Corp. Issue Rice, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 
 
 1864; First Sergt. trans, to Co. M.. 10th 111. Cav. 
 Farrier Geo. A. Carson, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; deserted April 
 
 10, 1863. 
 Saddler James J. Hune, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 
 
 22, 1864; trans, to Co. M., 10th 111. Cav., as coniol. 
 Allen, Jas., e. Aug. 2, 1861; m. o. Aug. 24, 1864. 
 Angell, Chas., e. Aug. 2, 1861. 
 A very, S. D., e. Aug. 2, 18G1; died at Rolla, Mo. Jan. 1, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Beebe, Harry, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Aug. 24, 1864. 
 Beebe, Jno., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 22, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 Benton, I. M., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 Burlay, Jos., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Aug. 24, 1864 ; war 
 
 prisr. 
 
 Chapin, H. S., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 10. 1861 ; disab. 
 Carle, Jos., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Clark, S. W., e. Aug. 2, 1861; disd. Feb. 7, 1862 ; disab. 
 Dorr, C. T.. e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5. 1864 ; trans. 
 Dorr, E. F., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; died Sept. 29, 1861. 
 Dorr, G. L., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. vet. Jan. 5, 1864; trans. 
 Davis, H. C., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; died. 
 Everts, J. W., e. Aug. 2, 1861. 
 Gnnter, Geo., e. Aug. 2, 1861; rn-e. as vet. 
 Glen, Martin, e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5,1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Haschel, Robert, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; died Nov. 13, 1863. 
 Heate, Gilbert, e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 Hollenback, C., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Aug. 24, 1864, as 
 
 Corp. 
 Hollenback, Jesse, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 
 
 1864; trans. 
 Hittinger, N., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Ingham, Jos., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 Jacobs, Ira, e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 Judd, 0. H., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5,1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Kennedy, J. M., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; m. o. Aug. 24, 1864. 
 Larkin, R., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 25,1864; 
 
 trans. 
 Lillie, Truman, e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. as vet. Jan. 25, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Logan, Christian, e. Aug. 2, 1861; died Oct. 7, 1861. 
 Loomis, J. R., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 McCabe, G. H., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. vet. Jan. 22, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 McCrosky, J. F., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 McMullen, Jas., e. Aug. 2, 1861; re-e. vet. Jan. 22, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Moon, G. W., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 10, 1861; disab. 
 Northrip, Andrew, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 21. 1863; disab. 
 Northrip. Klias, o. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 21, 1862; disab. 
 Newell, Eugene, o. Aug. 2, 1861 ; ro-e. as vet. Jan. 25, 1864, 
 
 as Serg. ; trans. 
 Oderkirke, C. H., e. Aug. 2, 1861; disd. Nov. iJ8, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Radly, J. A., e. Aug. 2, 1861; disd. Aug. 14, 1862. 
 Slosson, T. J., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. 
 
 Snook, C. P., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. July 4, 1862 ; disab. 
 Tarble, Abijah, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; disd. Dec. 10, 1861; disab. 
 Told, Eleazer, e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 tranR. 
 
 Weaver, Chas., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 22, 1864; 
 trans. 
 
 Whitford, 0. Y., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 22, 1864 
 
 trans. 
 Williams, D. D., e. Aug. 2, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 5, 1864; 
 
 trans. , 
 
 Carl, Jno., e. Oct. 20, 1861 rect. ; re-e. as vet. Jan. 22 
 
 1864; trans. 
 
 Cooper, Jno., e. March 10, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Dewey, 0. B., e. Feb. 12, 1864, rec*.; trans. 
 Estee, S. V., e. Aug. 26, 1862. rect.; trans. 
 Ellis, Wm., e. Feb. 29, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Flowers, M. D., e. Aug. 26, 1862, root.; trans. 
 Finley, C. T., e. Feb. 4, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Fox, Franklin, e. Feb. 4, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Goodwin, F. H., e. Aug. 26, 1862, rect.; trans. 
 Goodwin, J. C., e. Aug. 26, 1862, rpct.; trans. 
 Gillette, J. R., e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Hawkins, W. D., e. Aug. 26, 1862, rect.; trans. 
 Howell, Wm. M., e. Feb. 10, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Miller, H. A., e. Jan. 30, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Northam, R. M., e. Feb. 13, 18(54, rect.; traus. 
 Oliver, I. S., e. Feb. 4, 1864, reel; died, April 1, 1864. 
 Robinson, Thos., P. March 4, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Schoolcraft. Jno., e. Jan. 26, 1864. rect.; trans. 
 Scrafford, Edwin, e. Feb. 15, 1862, rect.; trans. 
 Town. L. F., e. Feb. 10, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 White, T. F., c. March 10, 1864, roct.; trans. 
 Wood, J. S., e. March 10, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Yeldham, Andrew, e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect.; died Sept. 25, 
 
 1864. 
 
 Company K. 
 
 Capt. Henry A. Smith, e. Aug. 20, 1861, as Corp. 
 
 Capt. F. E. Reynolds, e. April 1, 1862, as First Lieut., 
 
 prmtd. to Capt. July 29, 1863; resd. Feb. 28, 1864. 
 Capt. Wm. Duncan, P. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 
 
 1863 ; prmtd. to Capt., Feb. 28, 1864. 
 First Lieut. Sam'l. Chapman, e. Aug. 2 \ 1861 ; resd. 
 
 April 1 1862. 
 First Lieut. C. M. Harvey, e. Jan. 23. 1863, as Second 
 
 Lieut.; prmtd. to First Lieut. July 29, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. Jno. S. Durand, e. Aug. 20, 1861 ; resd. 
 
 March 28, 1862. 
 Second Lieut. Henry C. Paddelford, e. Aug. 17, 1861, as 
 
 Sergt.; prmtd. to Second Lieut. March 28, 1862 ; resd. 
 
 July 14, 1862. 
 Second Lieut. E. M. Barnard, e. as First Sergt. Aug. 17, 
 
 1861; prmtd. to Second Lieut. July 14, 1862; resd. 
 
 Jan 23, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. Jno. A. McQueen, e. Aug. 17, 1861, as Corp.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. Feb. 28. 1864. 
 Sergt. V. 0. Wilcox, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. 
 
 April. 1863. 
 Sergt. Jno. W. Davis, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. April 19, 
 
 1863; wds. 
 Sergt. Geo. W. Archer, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 
 
 1864; term exp. 
 Corp. Henry Weightman, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. July, 
 
 1862 ; disab. 
 Corp. Henry C. Scott, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864 ; 
 
 term exp. 
 Corp. E. M. Grig?s, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 
 
 1863; trans. 
 
 Corp. Jno. Baker, e. Aug. 17, 1861; kid. July 24, 1864. 
 Corp. Schuyler Ruo. Jr., e. Aug. 17, 1861, as Sergt.; disd. 
 
 Sept. 23, 1864; term exp. 
 Bugler W. S. Clark, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 
 
 29, 1864 ; trans. 
 Farrier Jno. M. Paddleford, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Feb. 
 
 6, 1862, rtisab. 
 Blacksni'th Wm. Donovan, e. Aug. 17, 1861; detailed to 
 
 pay department. 
 Saddler R. C. Fowler, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Jan. 17, 
 
 1862, disab. 
 Wagoner J. C. Pratt, e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Dec. 1861, 
 
 disab. 
 Amick, M. J., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 1, 1864, 
 
 trans. 
 Archer, John, e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864; 
 
 term expired. 
 Ball, Henry, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. aa vet, Feb. 29, 1804, 
 
 trans. 
 Brown, Nath., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet, Dec. 20, 1803, 
 
 tran. 
 Briggs. M. C., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1804, as 
 
 Corp., term expired. 
 
 Balch, E. E., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. 
 Gardner, E. M., e. Aug. 17, 1864; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Collins Robt, e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans.
 
 -. 
 
 r- 
 
 FIRST SUPERVISOR ^RUTLAND TOWNSHIP.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 543 
 
 Christy. Wm. J., Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet Feb. 29, 1864, 
 
 0HC, Geo., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Chrysler, R. N., e. Aug. 17, 1864; re-e. as vt-t. Dec. 20, 
 
 1803, trans. 
 
 Curtis, I. B., e. Aug. 18, 1861 ; disd. July 18, 1869, disab. 
 Collins, Chug., e. Aug. 17, 1801 ; disd. July 23, 1804, term 
 
 expired. 
 Campbell, Geo. W., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 
 
 1864, trans. 
 Cooley, Chas., e. Aug. 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864, 
 
 Eaton, Harrison, e. Aug. 17, 1864; disd. Sept. 23,1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Everts, E. F., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. June, 1862, disab. 
 Fraser, John, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Fletcher, Wm. II., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. Sept. 23,1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Glen now, Patrick, e. Aug. 17, 1861. 
 Galagher, Robt., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 
 
 1864, trans. 
 Gilbert, John, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans. 
 Harger, N. N., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 
 Hanagan, Oliver, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; deserted Sept. 25, 1862. 
 Hickey, Jerry, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans. 
 Holmes, C. F., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 20, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Kennedy, C. P., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Kingsley, Jno. N., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 
 Knox, James, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. April 19, 1863, wd. 
 Kingsley, Chris., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23,1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Leo, A. A., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as let. Feb. 29, 1864, 
 
 trans. 
 
 Lowden, Eben, e. Aujr. 17, 1S61 ; died Nov. 2, 1861. 
 Lathrop, L. T., e. Aug. Hi, 1861 ; disd. Sept 23, 1804, Corp. 
 
 term expired. 
 Love, Wm. M., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Mehan, W., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1803, 
 
 trans. 
 Muldoon, John, e. Aug. 17, 1861, disd. Srpt. 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired 
 Mann, Eugene, e. Aug. 17,1801 ; disd. Sept. 23,1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Nelson. Henry, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1^64, 
 
 trans. 
 Pennington, T. C., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 24, 
 
 1864, trans. 
 Porchet, P. D., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans. 
 Perr> , M. L., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept, 23, 1864, term 
 
 expired. 
 Peterson, David, e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. July 18, 1S62, 
 
 disab. 
 Peterson, Isaac, e. Aag. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Pease, \Vm. H., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 
 
 1864, trans. 
 Pease, A. A., e. Aug. 18. 1861; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans. 
 Perkins, Geo., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 trans. 
 Phelan, J., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb. 29, 1864, 
 
 trans. 
 Pringle, Jno. D., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term expired. 
 Pettengill, Geo., e. Aug. 17, 1861; re-e. as vet. Feb., 29, 
 
 1864, trans. 
 Kctti.-. Uanl., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, as 
 
 Sergt., term expired. 
 Reynolds, D., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 1863, 
 
 tlMMi 
 Robinson, Earl, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re e. as vet. Dec. 20, 
 
 1863, trans. 
 Rumsey, Abram, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; trans, to V. R. C. Jan. 
 
 1804. 
 
 \1>W<-*, H. J., e. Aug. 17, 1861; deserted Oct. 17,1861. 
 Saltertteld, Wm. E., e. Aug. 17,1861; m. o. Oct. 10,1864. 
 Stringer, J. J., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. July 18, 1802, disab. 
 Scott, Amos D., e. Aug. 17, 1801 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 ti-rm exp. 
 Stward, C. L., e. Aug. 17, 1801 ; disd. in April, 1862, disab. 
 
 Sttang, A. L., e. Aug.. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 exp. 
 Sawyer, H. M., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. in January, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 Shedden, Jas., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, term 
 
 exp. 
 
 Tucker, Clark, e. Aug. 17, 1801 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864. 
 Thompson, J. B., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864. 
 Winchester, G. M., e. Aug. 17, 1861; disd. Sept. 23, 1864. 
 Wattenpaugh, W., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. in April, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 Wattenpaugh, M. F., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 
 
 1864, term exp. 
 Wallace, Noah, e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. June 26, 1862, 
 
 term exp. 
 Wagoner, Jno., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. Dec. 20, 
 
 1863; trans. 
 Weaver, Benj., e. Aug. 17, 1861 ; disd. Sept. 23, 1864, 
 
 term exp. 
 
 Aiken, R. J., e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Forbes, H. L., e. Dec. 10, 1863, rect. ; trans. 
 Harvey, C. M., e. Aug. 8, 1861, rect. ; trans. 
 Irish, Henry, e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect.; trans. 
 Moore, Jas., e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Richardson, Willett, e. March 31, 1864, rect. ; trans. 
 Richardson, Willis, e. Oct. 21, 1863, rect.; trans. 
 
 Company L. 
 
 Corp. P. A. Butterfleld, e. Oct. 23, 1861; disd. June 27, 
 
 1862, disab. 
 
 Hickell, L. R., e. Jan. 25, 1862; trans, to 10th 111. Cav. 
 Hurlbut, G. W., e. Jan. 4, 1864, unas. rect. 
 Seymour, Wm., e. Jan. 3, 1864 ; m. o. May 21, 1865 ; unas. 
 
 rect. 
 
 Snowball, Jas., e. Feb. 11, 1864, unas. rect. 
 Vanekin, Orlando, e. Oct. 10, 1864, unas. rect. 
 Hill, W. H., Co. C, 2d Cav. (3 years), c. Oct. 19, 1863; 
 
 vet.; trans, to Co. B as consol.; m. o. Oct. 5, 1865. 
 Hicks. Henry, Co. I, 2d Cav., e. Dec. 3, 1863; trans, to Co. 
 
 A as consol. 
 
 Turner, Alonzo, 3d Cav., e. April 11, 1864 ; nnasd. rect. 
 Brown, Henry, 6th Cav., e. Feb. 15, 1864; unassd. rect. 
 
 TENTH CAVALRY. 
 
 (As Re-organized.) 
 
 Maj. G. A. Willis, e. Dec. 21, 1864; m. o. Nov. 22, 1865. 
 Capt. Wm. Duncan, Co. K, e. Feb. 23, 1864; in. o. July 15, 
 
 1865. 
 First Lieut. C. M. Harvey, Co. K, e. July 29, 1863 ; term 
 
 ex. Dec. 16, 1864. 
 First Lieut. J. A. McQueen, Co. K, e. Feb. 28, 1864, as 
 
 Second Lieut. ; prmtd. to First Lieut. March 13, 1865 ; 
 
 res I. June 20, 1865. 
 
 The Adjutant General's Report of the enlisted men of 
 this company is incomplete; we therefore omit. 
 Capt. Albert Callins, Co. L, e. Dec. 23,1863; resd. June 
 
 28, 1865. 
 
 The Adjt. Gen.'s report of the enlisted men of this com- 
 pany is incomp'ete. We therefore omit. 
 C'apt. Daniel Dyman, Co. M, e. Dec. 31, 1864 ; m. o. 
 
 Nov. 22, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. B. Martell, Co. M, e. Dec. 31, 1864; m. o. 
 
 Nov. 22, 1865. 
 
 The Adjt. Gen.'s report of the enlisted men of this com- 
 pany is incomplete. We therefore omit. 
 Second Lieut. Theo. G. Knox, 12th Cav., Co. H, e. Sept. 
 
 14, 1861 ; trans, to 15th Cav. 
 Banks, Jno., 12th Cav., Co. H, e. Dec. 5, 1863 ; unassigned 
 
 recniit. 
 Donovan, T., 12th Cav., Co. H, e. Dec. 5, 1863 ; trans, to 
 
 17th 111. Cav. 
 Sherwin, M. B., 12th Cav., Co. H, e. Dec. 18, 1863, trans. 
 
 to 17th 111. Cav. 
 
 THIRTEENTH CAVALRY. 
 
 Capt. Robt. H. Fleming, Co. H, e. Dec. 31, 1861 ; resigned 
 
 Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Sergt. I. B. Fleming, Co. H, e. Oct. 20, 1861 ; died at 
 
 Aurora Jan. 17,1862. 
 
 Corp. T. B. Whitford, Co. H, e. Oct. 15, 1861 ; disd. 
 Corp. Calvin Hubbard, Co. H, e. Oct. 15, 1801. 
 Corp. Timothy Maloney, Co. H, e. Oct. 12, 1861 ; deserted 
 
 June 22, 1862. 
 
 T
 
 544 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 Adair, J. K., Co. H, e. Dec. 1, 1861 ; diad. June 22, 1862 
 
 disab. 
 
 Brennan, Jas., Co. H, e. Nov. 15, 1801 ; disab. 
 Bird, Wm., Co. H. e. Dec. 1, 1861. 
 
 Burns, John, Co. H. e. Dec. 10, 1861 ; died April 24, 1862. 
 Con way, Jas., Co. H, e. Oct. 23, 1861 ; trans to 23d 111. Inf. 
 Cahill, Jas., Co. H, e. Oct. 16, 1861 ; trans, to Co. A as 
 
 consol. 
 
 Coats, John, Co. H, e. Oct. 18, 1861 ; disd. disab. 
 Kennedy, Geo., Co. H, e. Nov. 1, 1861 ; trans, to Co. A as 
 
 consol. 
 
 Kinkade, Alex., Co. H, e. Dec. 12, 1861. 
 Meyers, Martin, Co. H, e. Nov. 6, 1861 ; trans, to Co. A 
 
 as consol. 
 
 Mattock, W. B.., Co. H, e. Dec. 15, 1861. 
 Nymner, Owen, Co. H, e. Oct. 16, 1861 ; disd. March 9, 
 
 1862, disab. 
 
 Putnam, Adam, Co H, e. Oct. 16, 1861. 
 Phillips, Chas., Co. H, e. Nov. 18, 1861. 
 Ruby, T. H., Co. H, e. Oct. 16, 1861 ; disd. March 9, 1862, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Shields, Peter, Co. H, e. Oct. 20, 1861 ; deserted Sept., 1862. 
 Bailey, Chas., Co. H, rect. 
 Barberick, Jos., Co. H, rect ; disd. 
 Coon, Wm., Co. H, rect. 
 Eddlegeorge, Wm., Co. H, rect ; disd. in 1862, disab. 
 
 FOURTEENTH CAVALRY. 
 
 Kemp, Jas.. Co. B, e. March 29, 1865 ; m. o. July 21, 1865, 
 
 rect. 
 Luok. Henry, Co. B, e. March 29, 1865 ; m. o. July 21, 
 
 1865, rect. 
 Peters, Michael, Co. B, e. March 29, 1865 ; m. o. July 21, 
 
 1865, rect. 
 Austin, Chas., Co. D, e. Dec. 1, 1862 ; reclaimed by 9th 
 
 Vet. Inf. 
 Geonre, C. B., Co. D, e. Dec. 1, 1862; reclaimed by 9th 
 
 Vet. Inf. 
 Steady, T. E., Co. D, e. Dec. 1, 1862; reclaimed by 9th 
 
 Vet. Inf. 
 
 Cannichael, Alex. Co. I, e. Nov., 1862 ; m. o. May 20, 1865. 
 First Lieut. L. D. Brown, Co. K, e. Feb. 17,1864; resd. 
 
 March 7, 1865. 
 Farrier, A. H. Sanborn, Co. K, e. Oct. 16. 1862; pfmtd. to 
 
 Veterinary Surgeon. 
 Bancroft, Jas., Co. L, e. Oct. 23, 1862 ; disd. June 7, 1867, 
 
 as Sergt., disab. 
 Powers, S. R., Co. L, e. Dec. 21, 1802; deserted Jan. 12, 
 
 1863. 
 Sterling, H. J., Co. L,e. Sept. 27, 18,62; m. < . July 31, 1865. 
 
 SIXTEENTH ILLINOIS CAVALRY. 
 
 Maj. C. II. Beers, e. June 10. 1863 ; resd. June 28, 1865. 
 Chaplain C. R. Ford, e. June 11, 1863 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Sergt. J. B. Benedict, e. Nov. 18, 1862 ; deserted May 26, 
 
 1865. 
 Wagoner, T. McEnta, e. Nov. 28, 1862 ; deserted Feb. 23, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Bratt, Walton, e. Dec. 1, 1862; captd. Nov. 24, 1864. 
 Flemming, Patrick, e. Dec. 1, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19. 1865. 
 
 Hieringmers, . e. Nov. 20, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 
 Hughes, Jno., e. Dec. 1, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Phillips, T. N., e. Nov. 24, 1864; died May 28, 1865. 
 Strong, Chas., e. Nov. 9, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of regt. 
 Ternm, Hans, e. Nov, 28, 1862 ; deserted July 29, 1863 
 Trumble, Edward, e. Nov. 9, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 Capt. W. P. Gibbs, e. Feb. 17, 1863; disd. June 8,1864. 
 Capt. J. Q. Hattery, e. Feb. 17, 1863, as Second Lieut. ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. June 23, 1863, and to Capt. Jan. 
 
 8, 1864 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Q. M. Sergt. N. G. Shellman, e. Nov. 29, 1862 ; deserted 
 
 May 9, 1863. 
 Com. Sergt, T. G. Calkins, e. Oct. 20, 1862 ; detached at 
 
 m. o. of regt. 
 Sergt. C. E. Breed, e. Dec. 27, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865, 
 
 as Corp. 
 Sergt. B. T. Whitford, e. Dec. 17, 1862 ; disd. June 30, 
 
 1865, disab. 
 Sergt. Eli McDaniel, e Dec. 16, 1862 ; deserted May 25, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Corp. Wm. Bronson, e. Dec. 26, 1862 ; deserted May 20, 
 
 1863. 
 Corp. C. E. Pierce, e. Jan. 5, 18(3; died at Andersonville 
 
 Prison. 
 Corp. M. B. Fletcher, e. Jan. 20, 1863; m. o. Aug. 19, 
 
 1865, as Sargt. 
 
 Corp. C. B. Vaughn, e. Dec. 19, 1862. 
 Farrier W. B. Maddock, e. Nov. 25, 1862 ; disd. Feb. 16, 
 
 1864. 
 Wagoner N. M. Saterfield, e. Dec. 6, 1862; deserted April 
 
 25, 1863. 
 
 Bailey, Wm. e. Jan. 1, 1863 ; deserted May 21, 1863. 
 Chapin, Joseph, e. Dec. 25, 1862 ; deserted Oct. 22, 1863. 
 Clyde, Charles, e. Jan. 7, 1863 ; disd. June 14, 1865. 
 Drew, S. H., e. Nov. 7, 1862 ; trans. 
 Haley, John, e. Dec. 24, 1862 ; deserted April 25, 1863. 
 Hunter, John, e. Dec. 4, 1862; m. o. May 30, 1865. 
 Hayes, C. A., e. Dec. 24, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Harder, C. H., e. Dec. 17, 1862 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Hart, Samuel 0. 
 
 Krohl, Jno.,e. Jan. 12, 1863; died in Andersonville Prison. 
 Kelly, John, e. Dec. 22, 1862; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Lott, W. H., e. Jan. 20, 1863 ; died Nov. 29, 1864. 
 Miller, Albert, e. Dec. 19, 1862 ; m. o. May 30, 1865. 
 Ohowald, C., e. Feb. 1. 1863; disd. Feb. 2, ISfti; disab. 
 Rothenbak, John, e. Dec. 17, 1802; deserted March 1, '63. 
 Rupert, Jos., e. Dec. 17, 1862; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865. 
 Sanders, W. H., e. Nov. 4. 1862 ; deserted. 
 Sanders, W. J., e. Jan. 12, 1863 ; disd. July 27, 1865 ; disab. 
 Stevens. Augustus, e. Feb. 1, 1863 ; m. o. Aug. 19, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Thayer, G. W., e. Jan. 1, 1863; trans, to 39th III. Inf. 
 Vocker, Julius, e. Feb. 1, 1863 ; deserted May 20, 1863. 
 Warren, W. A., e. Feb. 1, 1863 ; missing in action. 
 
 Company M. 
 
 Brown, T. E., e. April 20, 1863 ; absent at m. o. of regt. 
 Miller, Charles, e. March 1, 1803; deserted April 1, 1864. 
 
 SEVENTEENTH CAVALRY. 
 
 Surgeon Samuel N. Crawford, e. Jan. 22, 1864 ; m. o. Dec . 
 
 5, 1865. 
 Hospital Steward T. C. Fuller ; m. o. Dec. 5, 1865. 
 
 Company A. 
 
 Sergt. David Peterson, o. Nov. 26, 1863 ; deserted July 3, 
 
 1864. 
 Bugler R. C. Bowers, e. Dec. 19, 1863 ; disd. March 14, 
 
 1865; disab. 
 Wagoner Barton Clark, e. Dec. 22, 1803 ; disd. Sept. 15, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Brown, H. J., Nov. 30, 1863 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Daily, Wallace, e, Nov. 26, 1863; deserted July 14, 1865. 
 Hayes, G. M., e. Nov. 30, 1863 ; deserted Sept. 12, 1865. 
 Panton, Geo,, e. Dec. 4, 1863 ; disd. April 8, 1864. 
 Phillips, Seth, e. Dec. 4, 1863 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1805. 
 Sharpless, Albert, e. Dec. 5, 1863 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1805. 
 Smith, J. S., e. Nov. 30, 1803 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1805. 
 Taylor, A. P., e. Dec. 20, 1863; disd. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Treest , C. I., e. Dec. 22, 1863 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Treest, W. H.. e. Dec. 22, 1863; deserted July 5, 1864. . 
 Underbill, L. N., e. Nov. 30, 1803 ; disd. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Treest, Alonzo, e. Dec. 28, 1863 ; rect.; disd. Dec. 15, 1865 
 
 Company B. 
 
 Sergt, C. E. Yerrington, e. Nov. 7, 1863; m. o. Dec. 15, 
 
 1805, as Corp. 
 Corp. L. D. Morgan, e. Nov. 17, 1803 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1805, 
 
 as Sergt. 
 Corp. John German, e. Nov. 12, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1805, 
 
 as Sergt. 
 Beebe, Daniel, e. Nov. 18, 1863; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 Baker, George, e. Nov. 17, 1803, as Corp.; absent, wd., at 
 
 m. o. of regt. 
 
 Burns, John, e. Dec. 12, 1863; m. 0. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Clark, Jas., e, Nov. 20, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865, as Sergt. 
 DeWolf, Rawson, e. Nov. 22, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865, 
 Field, Jas., e. Nov. 30, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1805. 
 Garner, Jasper, e. Dec. 18, 1803; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Holman, Allen, e. Nov. 10, 1803 ; died at Alton, 111., Aug. 
 
 2, 1864. 
 
 Hall, Seran, e. Dec. 24, 1863 ; disd. March 10, 1865. 
 .'ohnson, Saml., e. Dec. 29, 1803 ; deserted Sept. 10, 1865. 
 Keller .Jos., e. Nov. 21, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1805.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 545 
 
 Miller, Geo., e. Nov. 23, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 March, Geo., e. Dec. 1, 1863 ; deserted Sept, 10, 18H5. 
 Patchen, Jno., e. Nov. 30,1863; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Pay, Edward, e. Dec. 1. 1863 ; m. o. May 15, 1865. 
 Boot, S. P., e. Dec. 29, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865, as Corp. 
 Root, A.N., e. Jan. 5, 1864; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Ream, Jno. H., e. Nov. 17,1863; in confinement m. o. 
 
 regt. 
 
 Roath, Nath., e. Nov. 17, 1863; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Shannon, Jno., e. Jan. 1, 1864 ; deserted Sept. 14, 1865. 
 Stewart, Norris, e. Nov. 18, 1863; disd. Sept. 22, 1864. 
 Troop, Frank, e. Jan. 12, 1864; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Vote, J. G., e. Nov. 17, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Aikons, Win. P., e. Feb. 4, 1864, rect.; died March 30, 1864. 
 Darille, Geo., e. Feb. 1, 1864, rect.; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Hadsall, Geo. E., e. Feb. 6, 1864, rect.; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Sisson, C. W., e. Fob. 6, 1864, rect.; m. o. Dec. 15, 1865. 
 Stauton, Franklin, e. rect., disd. April 5, 1865. 
 Simons, Linus, e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; died Jan. 10, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Sergt. Fergus Bentley, e. Nov. 25, 1863 ; deserted June 
 
 18, 1864. 
 Corp, Christopher McGough, e. Dec. 30, 1863; disd. Oct. 
 
 23, 1865. 
 
 Brisbin, Saml., e. Jan. 4, 1864 ; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Burns, C. B., e. Jan. 2, 1864 ; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Bell, J. W., e. Nov. 13, 1863 ; m. o. May 24, 1865. 
 Babcock. A-. L., e. Dec. 1, 1863; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Burns, Wm., e. Jan. 4, 1864 ; saddler ; absent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 regt. 
 
 Fuller, G. H., e. Jan., 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Fuller, Thos., e. Jan., 1864 ; prmtd. to Hospital Steward. 
 Gurnsey, P. B., e. Jan. 1, 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865; 
 
 Wagoner. 
 
 March, C. H., e. Jan. 2, 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865, as Corp. 
 Miner, W. M., e. Dec. 10, 1863; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Maynard, Geo., e. Dec. 11, 1863 ; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865 ; rect. 
 Roberts, R A., e. July 5, 1864; detached at m. o. regt., 
 
 Company D. 
 
 Second Lieut. Jas. B. Reed, e. Nov. 15, 1863, as First Sergt.; 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. May 10, 1865 ; m. o. Dec. 20, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Corp. Irwin Beach, e. Nov. 19, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 20, 1865. 
 Duncan, Jno., e. Nov. 10, 1863; m. o. Dec. 20, 1865. 
 McMasters, Byron, e. Jan. 4, 1864, m. o. Dec. 20, 1865. 
 Scranton, Chas., e. Oct. 11, 1863 ; m. o. Dec. 20, 1865. 
 Robinson, Fayette, e. Feb. 5, 1864; deserted June 27, 1864. 
 Thompkins, Jas., e. Feb. 1, 1864; died May 15, 1864. 
 
 Company E. 
 
 Farson, F. F., e. Dec. 3, 1863 ; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Warner, G. W., e. Jan. 20, 1864 ; m. o. May 15, 1865. 
 Brown, N. V., e. Feb. 12, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Brown, Byron, e. Feb. 12, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Cook, W. L., e. Feb 3, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Darby, Edward, e. Feb. 2, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Getz, Joshua, e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Grollment, Leo, e. Jan. 29. 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Hill, J. N., e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 13, 1865. 
 Kernell, Nathan, e. Feb. 12, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865, 
 
 as Sergt. 
 
 Low, Addison, e. Feb. 10, 1864, rect,; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Price, Thomas, e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect,; deserted Sept. 19, 
 
 1865. 
 Sharer, Simeon, e. Feb. 25, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23 
 
 1865. 
 Snelling, Jno. W., e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect.; m. o. Nov. 23 
 
 1865. 
 Van Sickle, Chas., e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect.; deserted July 
 
 16, 1864. 
 Wilson, Henry, e. Feb. 22, 1864, rect.; dishonorably disd. 
 
 Company F. 
 
 Barnard, Thomas, e. Dec. 10, 1863; died May 4, 1865 
 Myers, D. C., e. Jan. 5, 1864; m. o. Dec. 18, 1865. 
 Peary, H. N., e. Dec. 10, 1863; m. o. Dec. 18, 1865 
 Kinkaid, H. F., e. Jan. 4, 1864; m. o. Dec. 18, 1865. 
 Kinkaid, A. H., e. Jan. 4, 1864; deserted Sept 24, 1865 
 McClelland, R., e. Jan. 2'J, 1864 ; died June 30, 1864. 
 
 Company C. 
 
 Sherwin, M. B., e. as rect.; disd. January, 1866. 
 
 Company H. 
 
 First Lieut. C. D. Larrabee, e. Jan. 22, 1864; resd. Jan. 
 
 30, 1864. 
 Donnovan, Timothy, e. Dec. 5, 1863 ; trans.; m. o. Dec. 15, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Company M. 
 
 Phillips, John, e. Feb. 8, 1864; deserted April 19, 1864. 
 Phillips, Edmund, e. Feb. 13, 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865 ; 
 
 rect. 
 Parker, W. M., e. Feb. 15, 1864; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 regt.; rect. 
 
 White, Wm. R., e. Feb. 15, 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Williamson, Geo., e. Feb. 15, 1864 ; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 Webb, A. J., e. Feb. 9, 1864; m. o. Nov. 23, 1865. 
 
 ELGIN BATTERY OF LIGHT 
 ARTILLERY, ILL. VOLS. 
 
 Elgin Battery Light Artillery, Illinois Vol- 
 unteers, was organized at Camp Douglas, Chi- 
 cago, by Capt. George W. Renwick, and mus- 
 tered into United States service Nov. 15, 1862, by 
 Capt. T. 0. Barri, U. S. A. ; December, ordered to 
 Jefferson ville, Ind., where the battery remained 
 until April, 1863; thence to Glasgow., Ky., 
 where the battery remained until July ; moved 
 to Tompkinsville, remained twenty days ; then 
 to Newmarket, remained twelve days ; moved 
 to London, Tenn., remained thirty days ; thence 
 to Knoxville and Mossy Creek, Tenn., stopping 
 at latter place fifteen days ; then to Cross 
 Roads, Ky., there eight days; then to London, 
 Tenn., stopping thirty days ; making a trip to 
 Greentown, and returning to London, making 
 another stay of eight days ; moved from Lon- 
 don to Kingston, and during a stay here of 
 about thirty days were engaged in fight with 
 the enemy, Maj. Gen. Brown in command of 
 our forces ; this was at the time of the iege of 
 Knoxville. Moved to London, and thence to 
 Mossy Creek, where the battery was again en- 
 gaged in battle with Lee's army; moved to 
 Strawberry Plains, and thence to Knoxville, 
 Tenn., and worked on the fortifications during 
 the Winter of 1863-4. For want of horses, 
 the battery remained here until October, 1864, 
 then moved to Bunker Hill, Tenn. ; built barns 
 and stockades here, and went into winter quar- 
 ters ; moved to Strawberry Plains, and were 
 engaged in fight there ; moved to Knoxville, 
 and remained about thirty days, then turned 
 over battery and stock and went to Louisville, 
 Cincinnati, and then to Washington, D. C. ; 
 went into camp about two miles from city, re- 
 maining eighteen days, then moved to North 
 Carolina, at a point about twelve miles from 
 Kingston ; were engaged in battle here with 
 Lee's forces, Gen. Burnside commanding. Our 
 forces moved to Galesborough, then to Raleigh, 
 N. C., where the horses and battery were 
 turned over to the Government, July 3, 1865 ; 
 fired a salute on the 4th, and started for 
 home, and were mustered out at Chicago, July 
 18, 1865. 
 
 Capt. Geo. W. Renwick, e. Nov. 15, 1862 ; resd. May 27, 
 
 1863. 
 Capt. Andrew M. Wood, e. Nov. 15, 1862, as First Lieut. ; 
 
 prmd. to Captain May 27, 1863 ; m. o. July 18, 1865.
 
 546 
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 First Lieut. Caleb Rich, ?. Nov. 15, 1862 ; m. o. April 23 
 
 1863. 
 First Lieut. John Short, e. Sept. 26, 1862, as First Sergt. ; 
 
 prmtd. to First Lieut. April 27, 186}; honorably dis- 
 charged May 7, 1864. 
 First Lieut. Lorin G. Jeffers, e. Nov. 15, 1862, as Second 
 
 Lieut.; prmtd. to First Lieut. May 27, 1863; rcsd. 
 
 March 5, 1864. 
 
 First Lieut. Joel H. Wicker, e. Aug. 15, 1862, as Q. M. . 
 
 sSergt.; prmtd. to Second Lieut. May 27, 1863, and to 
 
 First Lieut. March 5, 1864; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 First Lieut. Henry E. Tower, e. Aug. 15, 1862, as Sergt. , 
 
 prmtd. to Second Lieut. April 23, 1863, and to First 
 
 Lieut. March 7, 1864 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. Waldo W. Paine, e. Nov. 15, 1862 ; m. o. 
 
 April 23, 1863. 
 Second Lieut. Jas. N. Boutwell, e. as Corp. Aug. 15, 1862; 
 
 prmtd. to First Sergt. and to Second Lieut. March 7, 
 
 1864; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Second Lieut. Wm. W. Clift, 'e. as Corp., Aug. 17, 1862; 
 
 prmtd. to Q. M. Sergt. and to Second Lieut. March 8, 
 
 1864 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 First Sergt. Thos. H. Elliott, e. Aug. 15, 1862; mo. o. July 
 
 18, 1865. 
 
 Sergt. Geo. Daniels, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1805. 
 Sergt. Geo. F. Benwick, e. Aug. 19, 1862; m. o. July 18, 
 
 1865. 
 Corp. Orange B. Kent, e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 
 
 1865. 
 Corp. Chas. Dunlap, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 15, 
 
 1863. 
 Corp. John W. Davis, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, 
 
 as First Sergt. 
 Corp. Patrick Roland, e. Aug. 15, 1862; deserted June > 
 
 12, 1863. 
 Corp. Michael J. Lynch, e. Aug. 15. 1802 ; de erted June ' 
 
 19, 1863. 
 Corp. John Penman, Sr., e Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 10, ; 
 
 1865. 
 Corp. A. B. Strong, e. Aug. 15, 1862; in confinement at j 
 
 m. o. of Battery. 
 
 Corp. P. H. Flynn, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 17, 1862. 
 Corp. Nicholas Evans, e. Aug. 15, 1862; Sergeant; died 
 
 Feb. 6, 1864. 
 Corp. Abraham Kaplin, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 9, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Adam, John, e. Oct. 5, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Allen, Henry, e. Sept. 2, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Anderson. Wm., e. Sept. 2, 1862; deserted Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Allen, James, e. Sept 2, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Albee, Horace, e. Sept. 2, 1802 ; deserted Jan. 10, 1863.' 
 Brockway, Jas. W., e. Sept. 2, 1862 ; djsd. for promotion 
 
 May 20, 1864. 
 
 Blowers, James, e. Sept. 2, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Bennett Elias, e. Sept. 2, 1862 ; died Feb. 28, 1864. 
 Brooks, Daniel, e. Sept. 2, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 30, 1862. 
 Berdeau, Peter, e. Oct. 10, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Blair, Henry H., e. Oct. 3, 1862; disd. Sept. 12, 1863, disab. 
 Bailey, Alex., e. Oct. 2, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Burmaster, John, e. Oct. 17, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Benham, Nathan, e. Oct. 16, 1862; deserted Oct. 15, 1862. 
 Bradford, Eugene, e. Oct. 3, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Burg, John D., e. Oct. 18, 1862. 
 Bell, Stephen, e. Nov. 4, 1862; m. o. June 24, 1865 as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Burns, 0. P., e. Nov. 4, 1802 ; in arrest at m. o. battery. 
 Burns,, C. H., e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 4, 1863. 
 Buunell, A. W., e. Nov. 4, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Bockleman. Chas., e. Nov. 4, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Gumming, Wm., e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; trans, tj Miss. Marine 
 
 Brigade. 
 
 Collins, James, e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Clark, E. D., e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Crane, Jos., e. Aug. 16, 1862'; died Sept. 21, 1803. 
 Green, James, e. Aug. 5, 1802 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Crue, Jno. C., e. Aug.;15, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, as Oorp. 
 Crawford, D., e. Aug. 16, 1802 ; died Dec. 25. 1863. 
 Crawford, R. F., e. Aug. 19, 1862; disd. lor promotion 
 
 Oct. 31, 1863. 
 
 Clark, Julius, e. Aug. 18, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Crandall, 0. H., e. Aug. 15, 1862; 'disd. for promotion April 
 
 2, 1863. 
 
 Chadwick, F. B., e. Aug. 18, 1862; deserted Sept. 20, 1862. 
 Corrigan, Matthew, e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Cullin, Daniel, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 10, 1863. 
 Cribbs, Amos, e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; m o. July 18, 1805. 
 Corbett, Patrick, e. Nov. 4, 1862; deserted Jan. 9, 1863. 
 Clark, A. A., e. Nov. 4, 1862. 
 C rapo, Thos., e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; m. o. May 25,1365. 
 Campbell, Isaac, e. Nov. 4, 1862; deserted Aug. 29, 1864. 
 
 Davis, Jas. W., e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 20, 1862. 
 Doyle, Richard, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; deserted Oct. 20, 1862. 
 David, Fred., e. Aug. 15, 1862; deserted Jan. 9, 1863. , 
 Dean, James, e. Oct. 5, 1862; deserted Nov 20, 18ri2. 
 Da'ly, John, e. Aug. 16, 1862; died April 25, 1865. 
 Dolan, John, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. June 2, 1865. 
 Dean. Jarvis, e. Aug. 17, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Dignan, Andrew, e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; died May 24, 1864. 
 Dan-ell, Bela, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July, 18, 1SC5. 
 Darrell, John, e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Bugler. 
 
 Dwyer, Thos., e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Dignan, James, e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Duulap, James, e Nov. 4, 1862; deserted Nov. 11, 1862. 
 English, J. W., e. Nov. 4, 1862; deserted Jan. 4, 1863. 
 Elmy, Wm., e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; deserted Aug. 17, 1862. 
 Foley, John. e. Aug. 15, 1862; m. o.- July 18, 1865. 
 Friend, W. M., e. Aug. 18^1862; m. o July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt, 
 
 Forrest, John, e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Frangen, Jos., e. Oct. 5, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Gooden. Michael, e. Nov. 4, 1862 ; deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
 Green, James, e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Grady, James, e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; died Nov. 26. 1862. 
 Graves, R. R., e. Oct. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, as Co. 
 
 Q. M. Sergt. 
 
 Green, Daniel, e. Nov. 4, 1862; deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
 Gillette, Amos, e. Nov. 8, 1862; disd. Feb. 19, 1865, disab. 
 Heaton, Charles, Aug. 20, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Higgis, B., Aug. 21, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Hooker, A. L., e. Sept. 24, 1862; trans, to V. R. C. April 
 
 11, 1864. 
 
 Hessler, John, e. Oct. 5, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1855. 
 Hawkins, George, e. Oct. 5, 1862. 
 Hell, George, e. Nov. 6, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 20, 1862. 
 Harvey, John, e. Nov. 6, 1862 ; deserted Dec. 17, 1862. 
 Hanaford, G. A., e. Nov. 4, 1862; disd. Jan. 7, 1864, for 
 
 promotion. 
 
 Hohnes, John.e. Oct. 10, 1862; deserted January 15, 1863. 
 Hyde. G. W., e. Nov. 6, 1862 ; trans, to Miss. Marine Brig. 
 Johnson, M. C., e. Sept. 5, 1862 ; dropped from roll Jan. 
 
 1, 186=}. 
 
 Jones, William, e. Oct. 5, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 10, 1862. 
 Johnson, Thomas, e. Aug. 16, 1862; deserted Nov. 19, 
 
 1862. 
 
 Knapp, L. B., Oct. 21, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Kennedy, M., e. Nov. 8, 1862 ; trans, to V. R. C. Jan., 1863. 
 Linda, L. A., e. Oct. 21, 1862 ; trans, to 6th 111. Battery. 
 Lee, William, e. Sept. 26, 1862 ; drowned Sept. 24, 1864. 
 Lick, J. B., e. Aug. 15, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Leona, E. B., e. Au<r. 15. 1862 ; deserted Oct. 20, 1862. 
 Lange, Henry, e. Nov. 1, 1862; deserted Jan. 9, 1863. 
 McDonald, John, e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; m. o. July 18,1865. 
 McGuire, Thomas, e. Aug. 16, 1862; dropped from roll 
 
 Nov. 20, 1862. 
 Myer, Henry, e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Merritt, Lewis, e. Sept. 5, 1862; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 Miller, Henry, e. Oct. 5, 1862; deserted Nov. 19, 18B2. 
 Mitchell, Charles, e. Nov. 1,1862; m.o. July 18. 1865. 
 Metzig, G. L., e. Nov. 1, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 McNish, J^hn, e. Nov. 1862; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 McNichol, Daniel, e. Nov. 1, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Mahonsy, J. W., e. Nov. 15, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865, aa 
 
 Bugler. 
 
 Nugent, Edmund, e. Oct. 2, 1862 ; deserted Oct. 20, 1862. 
 Ney, Alex., e. Nov. 6, 1862 ; m. o. May 27, 1865. 
 Ness, James, e. Nov. 6, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 O'Connor, Joseph, e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 19, 
 
 1862. 
 O'Brien, John, e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Powers, John, e. Aug. 10, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 Phetteplace, C. H., e. Aug 16, 1862 ; disd. Aug. 2, 1864, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Penman, Robert, e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; m. o. July 18. 1865. 
 Penman, Wm., e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Peek, T. S., e. Aug. 16, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 9, 1863. 
 Quinn, Patrick, e. Aug. 17. 1862; absent, sick, at m.o. of 
 
 regt. 
 
 Roche, James, e. Nov. 6, 1862; deserted Nov. 15, 1862. 
 Riley, James, e. Nov. 6, 1862; deserted No '. 15, 1862. 
 Sherwood, G. W., e. Aug. 20, 1862; deserted Sept. 30, 1862. 
 Sherwood, H. J., e. Aug. 20, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 Skeels, R. M., e. Sept. 1, 1862; disd. April 3, 1863, disab.
 
 WAR HISTORY AND RECORD. 
 
 547 
 
 Stone, Fred., e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; m. o. July 1805, as Corp. 
 Stafford, Robert, e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 Stephens, R. N., e. Nov. 5, 1802 ; deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
 Sherman, Albert, e. Nov. 5, 1802; dropped from rolls Jan. 
 
 1, 1863. 
 
 Smith, Henry, e. Nov. 5, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Smith, Samuel, e. Nov. 5, 1862; deserted Nov. 19, 1862. 
 Shrader, C. H., e. Nov. 5, 1862; atpsent, sick, at m. o. 
 
 of regt. 
 Taylor, Erasmus, e. Aug. 17, 1862 ; disd. Sept. 25, 1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Thompson, Robert, e. Aug. 17, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Thompson, Fred., e. Aug. 17, 1802; deserted Dec. 20, 1862. 
 Thompson, J., e, Nov. 1, 1862 ; trans. 9Gth I. I. Jan. 
 
 1863. 
 Usher, R. 0., o. Sept. 15, 1862 ; dropped from rolls Jan. 9, 
 
 1803. 
 Van Landchoot, Chas., e. Sept. 2, 1862; m. o July 18, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Walsh, John, e. Oct. 5, 186 2 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, as Corp . 
 Wytey, S. S., e. Aug. 16, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Wise, T. D.; e. Sept. 15, 1802. 
 
 Ward, A. C., o. Nov. 8, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865, as Corp. 
 Wells, G. R., c. Sept. 20. 1802 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Zarr, John, e. Sept. 21, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1805. 
 
 RECRUITS. 
 
 Armstrong, Sam, e. Dec. 7, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 12, 1863. 
 Bradley, James, e. Dec. 15, 1862 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 battery. 
 
 Bartlett, K. C., e. Jan. 5, 1864 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Diirrow, G. K., e. Jan. 1,1883; m. o. July 18,1865, as 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Darrow, A. F., e. Dec. 29, 1862; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Dodd, J. L., e. Dec. 29, 1862 ; ui. o. July 20, 1865. 
 Dashway, Samuel, e. Dec. 7, 1802 ; deserted Jan. 1, 1863. 
 Ewing, Milton, e. Dec. 30, 1863 ; m. o. July 18, 1865, as 
 
 Corp. 
 
 Farnam, E. J., e. Sept. 4, 1862. 
 
 Graham, John, e. Nov. 17, 1862; died Sept. 27, 1863. 
 Hemmingvvay, F. B., e. Nov. 1, 1862; deserted Nov. 20, 
 
 1863. 
 
 Hanlon, Wm., e. Jan. 9, 1863; deserted Jan. 9, 1803. 
 Hughes, Patrick, e. Dec. 26, 1862. 
 Hewett, D. W., e. Sept. 19, 1862. 
 
 Kennedy. Eugene, e. Jan. 9, 1863 ; died Feb. 8, 1864. 
 Lewis, H. H., e. Nov. 10, 1862; m. o. July 18,1865,88 
 
 Sergt. 
 
 Lowe, G. A., e. Dec. 25, 1863 ; m. o. July 18 1865. 
 McGowen, M., e. Nov. 17, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Mead, Amos, e. Sept. 8, 1862. 
 Nixon, A. H., e. Sept. 8, 1802. 
 Otwell, J. C., e. Nov. 19, 1862; trans, to V. R. C.; m. o. 
 
 July 15, 1865. 
 
 Oswell, Nicholas, e. Dec. 29, 1862 ; deserted Jan. 9, 1863. 
 Peter, John, e. Nov. 19, 1802; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Reed, Charles, e. Jan. 7, 1863. 
 Ramsdell, Loren, e. Sept. 4. 1862. 
 Sweeney, John, e. Dec. 31, 1862 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Tarney, John, e. Dec. 30, 1863 ; m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Thompson, E. H., e. Jan. 1, 1803 ; absent, sick, at m. o. of 
 
 batterv. 
 Tuylor, Nathan, e. March 1,1863; disd. Sept. 25,1863, 
 
 disab. 
 
 Ward, John, e. Nov. 16, 1862: m. o. July 18, 1865. 
 Wi-st, Asa, . Nov. 16, 1862; deserted May 29, 18G3. 
 
 Ptiri-tiau, John, Henshaw's Battjry, e.Oct. 7, 1862; disd. 
 Aug. 9, 1864. 
 
 FIRST ARTILLERY. 
 
 Hadlock, Saml., Battery B, e. July 29, 1801, as rect; re-e. 
 
 as vet. Jan. 2, 1864; killed July 20, 1864. 
 Garbitt, Geo., Battery C, e. July 30, 1861 ; died Dec. 27, 
 
 1861. 
 Clancy, N., Battery C, e. Sept. 30,. 1864 ; m. o. June 12, 
 
 1865, rect. 
 Mattelle, Jos., Battery C, e. Oct. 1, 18(54; m. o. June 12, 
 
 1865, rect. 
 Warner, W. H. Battery C, e. Oct. 11, 1861; m. o. June 12, 
 
 1865, rect. 
 Donor, John, Battery D, e. Jan. 15, 1803; m. o. July 28, 
 
 1805. 
 Dooley, Jas., B ittery D, e. Jan. 10, 1803 ; m. o. July 28, 
 
 1865. 
 
 Moody, Robert. Battery D, e. Jan. 15, 1863. 
 Seeley, G. L., Battery D, e. Jan. 15, 1803 ; m. o. July 28, 
 
 18B5. 
 Whitmarsh, Lewis, Battery D, e. Jan. 15, 1803; died June 
 
 4, 1803. 
 Kellan, Mart., Battery F., e. Jan. 30, 1862; m. o. March 
 
 7, 1865. 
 Utt, W. H., Battery F, e. Jan. 15, 1802; re-e. as vet, Feb. 
 
 1, 1864, trans, to Battery E. 
 Hulp, P. 0., Battery H, e. Feb. 5, 1862 ; drowned March 
 
 31, 1805. 
 Nerro, S. J., Battery H, e. March 4, 1862 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 March 6, 1864; m. o. June 14, 1865. 
 Nelson, Peter, Battery H, e. March 4, 1862, rect. ; deserted 
 
 April 6, 1862. 
 Tucker, John, Battery H, e. March 6,1862, rect.; deserted 
 
 AprH 30, 1862. 
 
 SECOND ARTILLERY. 
 
 O'Connell, Martin, Battery G, e. Oct. 8, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Dec. 4, 1863 ; died July 10, 1S65. 
 Corp. H. W. Hill, Battery I, e. Oct 25, 1851 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Jan. 1, 1864 ; m. o. June 14, 1865. 
 Stolp, Stetman, Battery I, e. Dec. 18, 1861 ; re-e. as vet. 
 
 Jan. 1, 18C4; m. o. as Corp. June 14, 1865. 
 Beverly, G. J., Battery I, e. Jan. 26, 1804 ; m. o. June 14, 
 
 1865. 
 Belts, Thos., Battery I, e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect.; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Ellis, Wm., Battery f, e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect. ; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Hall, W. G., Battery I, e. Feb. 1, 1864, rect. ; m. p. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Manchester, Orin, Battery I, e. Feb. 13, 1864, rect.; m. o. 
 
 June 14, 1865. 
 McAllister, Wm., Battery I, e. Feb. 15, 1804, rect.; trans. 
 
 to Inv. Corps. 
 Parks, Judson, Battery I, e. Feb. 2 1864, rect.; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1805. 
 Phelps, J. H., Battery I, e. Feb. 15, 1864, re t. ; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Stolp, G. A., Battery I, e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect.; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Sanders, Thos., Battery I, e. Feb. 16, 1864, rect. ; m. o. 
 
 June 14. 1865. 
 Tripp, P. G., Battery I, e. Feb. 8, 1864, rect. ; m. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Tabor, W. G., Battery I, e. Feb. 10, 1864, rect.; m. o. Juno 
 
 14, 1865. 
 Usher, Wm., Battery I, e. Feb. 15, 1864, rect. ; n. o. June 
 
 14, 1865. 
 First Lieut. J. H. Moore, Battery L, e. March 17, 1862 ; 
 
 hon. disd. Feb. 20, 1865.
 
 ELGIN NATIONAL GUARDS. 
 
 A MILITARY COMPANY ASSIGNED TO THE THIRD RKGIMBNT ILLINOIS NATIONAL GUARDS, SEPTEMBER 
 
 6, 1877 ; ENROLLED JULY 23, 1877; MUSTERED INTO THE STATE SERVICE AUGUST 16, 1877, 
 
 BY CAPT. WILLIAM SMAILES. 
 
 Smailes, William, Captain. 
 Cole, C. W., First Lieutenant. 
 Hamilton, W. H., Second Lieutenant. 
 Patchin, John, Orderly Sergeant. 
 Moulton, James, First Duty Sergeant. 
 Brittnal, H. C., Second Duty Sergeant. 
 Fletcher, A. L., Third Duty Sergeant. 
 WiUhies, A., Fourth Duty Sergeant. 
 
 Scarisbrick, A., First Corporal. 
 Orton, W. S., Second Corporal. 
 Wells, J. M., Third Corporal. 
 Burnham, T. H., Fourth Corporal 
 Hanchett, J. H., Fifth Corporal. 
 Provost, C. L., Sixth Corporal. 
 Frevier, C., Seventh Corporal. 
 Tilden, L. D., Eighth Corporal. 
 
 Allen, E. K., 
 Allen, A. C., 
 Anderson, D. H., 
 Brown, A. V., 
 Brown, F. P., 
 Caughey, T., 
 Cornell, F. A., 
 Christie, W. J., 
 Dennser, C. J., 
 Eaton, C. L., 
 Fredericks, C. L., 
 Gahan, J., 
 Green, H. D., 
 Heath, A., 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Hyde, W. J. S., 
 Hopkins, T. H., 
 Hooker, C. W. 
 Hammon, A. H., 
 Hrfgan, M., 
 Ivison, H., 
 Jarchow, H., 
 Johnson, A. M., 
 Johnson, C. A., 
 Joslyn, F. L., 
 Kimball, C. W., 
 Lee, A. R., 
 Linkfield, R. E. 
 Lund, J. H., 
 
 Little, G. M., 
 Lehman, John, 
 Linger, H., 
 Newcomer, W. S. 
 O'Connell, J. W., 
 Parks, J. A., 
 Pask, G., 
 Perry, H. F., 
 Shaw, C. F., 
 Spencer, F. D., 
 Smith, G. A., 
 Tilden, H. P. 
 
 AURORA LIGHT GUARDS 
 
 WERE MUSTERED INTO STATE SERVICE UNDER THE NEW STATE MILITIA LAW, JULY,. 1877, AS COM- 
 PANY D, THIRD REGIMENT. 
 
 Coulter, T. B., Captain. 
 Fahnestock, J. D., First Lieutenant. 
 Shoeberlein, George, Second Lieutenant. 
 Street, Edgar A., First Sergeant. 
 McMicken, Thomas D., Second Sergeant. 
 Goodell, Jesse M., Fourth Sergeant. 
 Reynolds, E. E., Color Sergeant. 
 
 Whitefield, G. W., First Corporal. 
 Reeves, William T., Second Corporal. 
 Kendall, Thomas H., Third Corporal. 
 Felsenheld, Herman, Fourth Corporal. 
 Moss, Leopold, Treasurer. 
 Plain, John H., Secretary. 
 
 Alshuler, Harry H., 
 Allen, Charles L., 
 Allen, Arthur T., 
 Barclay, James M., 
 Bell, Fred. T., 
 Clancy, James H., 
 Cross. Perry H., 
 Copley, Clarence, 
 Denney, William F., 
 Ferguson, Ed. L., 
 Grannis, C. A., 
 Hobbs, A. J., 
 Hawley, Clark M., 
 
 Aspinwall, F. , 
 Barry, F. M., 
 Brooks, W. E., 
 
 PRIVATES. 
 
 Hale, Charles H., 
 Kurd, George A., 
 Ives, James E., 
 Judson, J. A., 
 Kautenburger, S. M., 
 Kilbourne, Ed. C., 
 Miigate, William G., 
 Miles, Don D., 
 Miller, Fred. M., 
 Neiswenter, W. H., 
 Gates, W. C., 
 Pierpont, Charles A., 
 Pike, Charles, 
 
 COMPANY'S BAND. 
 
 Sherman T. Wilcox, Leader. 
 Chambers, B. F., 
 Dunn, W. H., 
 Marsh, David, 
 
 Parks, John, 
 Reed, Fred. T., 
 Rees, Frank H., 
 Rice, William J., 
 Roberts, C. A., 
 Stuart, John T., 
 Stickles, Charles T., 
 Smith, J. M., 
 Smollinger, William, 
 Wilson, Harry, 
 Woods, D. C. 
 Ward, Charles H., 
 Zimmers, Fred. 
 
 Miller, C. 
 Tidd, W. L., 
 Weston, W. H.
 
 ARTHUR HUNTING MERRILL. 
 
 He was born in Castleton, Vermont, August 29th, 1851. He continued a resident 
 of the Green Mountain State until he had attained his majority. It was in the 
 University of Vermont, at Burlington, that he received his education the education 
 which, allied to his native strength of mind, fitted him so well for thinking clearly 
 and for being so apt, with speech and pen, in setting forth his always philosophical 
 views on vital questions, 'in all departments. 
 
 In the Summer of 1872, he came West to Chicago, where he remained for some 
 time, fruitlessly seeking employment. While in the great city of the West, he was 
 prostrated by a severe illness, from which he recovered, to find the gaunt figure of 
 poverty staring at him with a hungry look. Scarcely able to perform physical labor, he 
 obtained a position as an assistant at the Elgin Insane Asylum. Soon after, Mr. E. 
 Dunning became acquainted with him, and secured his services as a teacher for the 
 Adams School. Mr. Merrill continued in St. Charles for nearly a year, during which 
 time he was employed in the capacity of assistant at the West Side School and in the per- 
 formance of various other duties. From the Autumn of 1873 until the Spring of 1875, 
 he taught the Cornton public school, and while performing his duties as a teacher, took 
 a prominent part in the literary doings of the town. On the expiration of his engage- 
 ment at Cornton, he came to St. Charles again, and went into the employ of the Leader, 
 filling the position of assistant editor, and continued to discharge his duties as such until 
 the middle of November, when he engaged to teach the Herrington School, west of 
 Geneva. Early in 1876, he was tendered a position in the map business of Messrs. 
 Everts & Co., of Philadelphia, and assigned to the historical department. In the Fall 
 he again returned to this neighborhood and took an agency as a canvasser for Johnson's 
 Cyclopedia. Since that time he has taught school, and been engaged in different pur- 
 suits. In November last, his services were obtained by Messrs. Le Baron, Jr., & Co., 
 to write their history of Kane County. He had just completed this work and gone into 
 Chicago to settle up, and to engage for new territory when he was taken sick. Mr. Clark, 
 a fellow employe, engaged a room at the Hotel, procured the services of a physician, and 
 a medical student was detailed to administer the medicine. But all of no avail; the Grim 
 Summoner was beckoning to him from the laud of the Hereafter. When he undertook 
 his journey to Chicago, diphtheria had set in, and no agency could stop its fatal de- 
 velopment. And on Friday afternoon, February 8th, at 4 o'clock, he breathed his last. 
 
 Although no relatives were with him in his last hours, to care for him with a rel- 
 ative's regard, a kind, considerate, noble man, Mr. E. E. Robinson, an employe of 
 Le Baron & Co., was detailed to care for him, who attended him devotedly, until death 
 made care no longer necessary. 
 
 Mr. Merrill was a man of noble, generous impulses ; a clear, strong thinker, and 
 brave in expressing his thoughts to the last degree. He was a man of immense will and 
 great individuality. He impressed that individuality, to a great extent, upon his asso- 
 ciates. He was a leader in the field of thought. Where he was best known, he was 
 best loved. Arthur Merrill has left scores of good and true friends behind him, who 
 will cherish his memory tenderly, lovingly, as long as life is left to them friends who 
 will embalm that memory in their hearts as a beautiful, evergreen, unfading flower. 
 
 H. N. WHEELEE.
 
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 The following sketches were too late for 
 
 INGRAM, EVAN, farmer, Sec. 16; j 
 P. 0. Big Rock; owns 120 acres of j 
 land, valued at $60 per acre ; Rep. ; j 
 Cong.; born Feb. 1, 1828, in Mont- 
 gomeryshire, Wales ; married Elizabeth 
 James, Sept, 29, 1852, in Utica, N. Y.; ! 
 she was born April 7, 1825, in Mont- 
 gomeryshire, Wales ; had four children, j 
 three living Margaret (now Mrs. Ed- 
 wardsj, Edward and John. T., all born 
 in this township ; Mrs. Ingram died Dec. 
 6, 1867 ; Mr. Ingram married his second 
 wife, Ann P. Evans, June 17, 1876 ; 
 she was born April 23, 1832, in Derby- 
 shire, Wales ; Mr. Ingram emigrated to 
 the United States in June, 1851 ; lived 
 in New York about eighteen months ; 
 thence to Kane Co., in November, 1852. 
 
 PIERCE, EDWARD, farmer, Sec. 
 34; P. 0. Big Rock; Rep.; Cong.; | 
 owns 270 acres of land, worth $50 per 
 acre ; born in Big Rock, June 30, 1 836 ; 
 married Mary, daughter of James J. and 
 Susannah Davis ; she was born in Ohio, 
 May 30, 1847 ; came to this State with 
 
 insertion in their respective townships : 
 
 her parents the same year ; have three 
 children living, the eldest, John J., be- 
 ing dead Milo Martin and Millie Mary 
 (twins), born Oct. 20, 1870; Susie, 
 born Jan. 28, 1876; Mrs. Pierce re- 
 ceived the first premium ($100) at the 
 State Fair, in Chicago, in 1865, for the 
 best equestrianship. seven riders enter- 
 ing for the contest; she rode without 
 saddle, using a plaid saddle-cloth in- 
 stead ; Mr. Pierce enlisted as a private, 
 in 1861, in the 36th 111. Vol. Inf., and 
 served three years ; re-enlisted as a vet- 
 eran, and served fourteen months longer; 
 was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Ark., 
 Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga 
 and Mission Ridge ; was In the cam- 
 paign against Atlanta, also at the bat- 
 tles of Franklin and Nashville in all, 
 thirty battles ; after the surrender of 
 Lee, he went with the regiment to New 
 Orleans ; remained there until Novem- 
 ber, when the regiment was mustered 
 out; held the office of Road Commis- 
 sioner four years.
 
 
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 GENEVA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A NDERSON, JOHN, laborer ; P. 0. 
 X_\_ Geneva. 
 Anderson, Andrew, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 ARCHER, CHARLES, editor 
 
 Kane County Republican ; P. 0. Gen. 
 eva ; born in Washington Co., N. Y., 
 in 1838, remaining there until at the 
 age of 13 years, and then to Troy, N. 
 Y., where he was engaged in the print- 
 ing business until 1871 ; came West and 
 settled in Kane Co., at Geneva, and 
 started the Kane County Republican, 
 in 1871 ; was in the late war, enlisted 
 in the 123d N. Y. Inf., Second Lieuten- 
 ant in Co. G, for three years' service ; 
 was under Gens. Slocum and Burnside, 
 participated in a number of battles 
 Fredericksburg, Maryland Heights, etc. 
 
 Adams, A. W., railroad clerk, P. 0. Gen- 
 eva. 
 
 Abbott, Allison, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Atwater, J. B., theatrical actor, P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Alexander, Julius P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Alspaugh, John ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 ALLEN, S. P., Sec 9 ; P. 0. Geneva ; 
 farmer and mechanic ; born in Ver- 
 mont, in 1823; left there, when quite 
 young, for New York, where he re- 
 mained for 1 8 years ; was engaged in 
 farming ; thence to Lockport, N. Y., 
 where he was engaged in building loco- 
 motives for the Lockport & Niagara 
 Falls Railroad ; had charge of Niagara 
 Falls & New York Central Railroad 
 Shops, at Niagara Falls ; also had charge 
 of the Rock Island & Pacific Railroad 
 Shops, at Chicago ; thence engaged in 
 building stationary engines, at Chicago ; 
 thence to Kane Co., in 1874 ; purchased 
 a farm of 70 acres, valued at $100 per 
 acre ; Republican ; married Miss Lavena 
 Cass, of England, daughter of Bela 
 Cass ; three children Lettie, Lillie and 
 Samuel. 
 
 Anderson, L. August, lab.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Abbott, T. D., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 BURDICK, HENRY, farmer; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 Beecher, A. D., artist; P.O. Geneva.
 
 552 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Bassett, Geo. E. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Burr, Horace ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Burdick, Theo., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Brooks, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Boyes, Benjamin, mer. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 BENNETT, HENRY L., flour 
 
 merchant, of the firm of Bennett Bros. 
 & Coe ; P. 0. Geneva ; born in Broome 
 Co., N. Y., 1826 ; resided there until 
 he was at the age of 25 ; came West 
 and settled in Kendall Co., 111. ; made 
 the first flour in that county, also built 
 the first flour-mill in Sandwich, 111. ; 
 Rep. ; Universalist ; married Miss Helen 
 E. Bliss, of New York, daughter of 
 David J. Bliss ; born in 1827; four 
 children Alice J., Isabel, George H., j 
 Fred E. ; father, Stephen Bennett ; i 
 mother, Rhoda Green, both of New | 
 York. 
 
 Baker, A. B., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Brown, W. J., attorney ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Bowen, John, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Barton, Elias, shoemaker ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Bradley, E. S. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Burrows, Reuben ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 BENNETT, CHARLES D., flour 
 
 merchant, of the firm of Messrs. Ben- 
 nett Bros. & Coe ; P. 0. Geneva ; was 
 born in Saugerfield, N. Y., April 23, 
 1819; left there, when young, for 
 Broome Co., N. Y. ; remained there 
 until at the age of 20 ; thence back to 
 Sangerfield ; thence West to Sycamore, 
 111. ; there four and a half years, in 
 
 the drug business ; thence to Geneva, 
 Kane Co., in 1865; Ind. in politics; 
 Universalist ; married twice first wife, 
 Miss Sophia M. Burch, died in 1859 ; 
 second wife. Miss Mary J. Connor, of 
 Maine ; three children, two by first wife 
 and one by second Elizabeth, Ella and 
 Charles W. 
 
 Blacksmith, Adam ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Booth, S., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Beckman, John, farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Baker, Sarah ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Bassett, Edward, clerk ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Beers, C. H., capitalist; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Brown, Malvina, boarding house ; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Baker, L. A., Machinist; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Belden, Horace, insurance ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Burr, H. S., carpenter ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Burr, H. B., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 , Burr, Geo. S., stock dealer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 BASSETT, A. J., agent Chicago & 
 Northwestern Railroad ; P. 0. Geneva ; 
 born in Tompkins Co.. N. Y., in 1840 ; 
 came West and settled in Kane Co. in 
 1842 ; has been in the employ of the C. 
 & N. W. R. R. since 1863; has been 
 clerk in freight and Auditor's office at 
 Chicago ; was appointed Agent at Ge- 
 neva in 1 872 ; married Miss Delia 
 Flanders, of Illinois, in 1862 ; one 
 child, Walter T., born in 1876; his 
 father was George Bassett, of New York; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1842 ; was in the 
 employ of the C. & N. W. R. R. 22 
 years as Superintendent of Buildings ; 
 died in 1875; mother, Harriet Humes, 
 of New York; died in 1871. 
 
 Burton, Benj., miller; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Beebe, E. H., capitalist; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Burton, Jno., miller, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 BRADLEY, EBENEZER C., 
 
 farmer; Sec. 12; P. 0. Batavia; born 
 in Stockbridge, Mass., in 1796 ; when 
 young, moved to Lee, Mass., remain- 
 ing there until 1846, engaged in farm- 
 ing ; was Deacon in Congregational 
 Church for thirteen years ; also, has 
 held same office at Batavia for thirty 
 years ; came to Kane Co. and settled on 
 the farm that he now lives on, in 1846 ; 
 his father, Stephen Bradley, of Massa- 
 chusetts, lived to be about 83 years old. 
 When Mr. Bradley first came to Kane 
 Co., Chicago had a population of 14,- 
 000, and there was no railroad in this 
 section of the country ; married Abigail 
 Sturges, of. Massachusetts ; had twelve 
 children, eight living Charles, Will- 
 iam, Ebenezer, James, Henry, Harriet, 
 Amelia, Josephine ; four dead. His 
 two sons, Ebenezer and James, were in 
 the late war, i24th I. V. I., in Capt. 
 Mann's company ; enlisted for three 
 years ; Ebenezer was detailed to go on a 
 steamer running up the Yazoo River ; 
 on account of sickness, was honorably 
 discharged. James was in the battle 
 Vicksburg, and other battles, with the 
 124th ; at the end of the war, was hon- 
 orably discharged. James is now living 
 at Ames, Iowa. Ebenezer owns a farm 
 of 113 acres, in Kane Co., valued at 
 $65 per acre. 
 
 Bunker, Edward, carp. ; P. 0.. Geneva. 
 
 Blackman, F. H., phys. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Bates, Frank, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva.
 
 KANE COUNTY: GENEVA. 
 
 '553 
 
 BURTON, W. J., proprietor Geneva 
 Flour Mills ; born in Kane Co., 111., 
 1838 ; Rep. ; Cong. ; he commenced the 
 flour mill in 1871 ; mill has six run of 
 stone, and operated with an estimated 
 capacity of turning out 100 barrels of 
 flour per day; manufactures extensively 
 for the trade, supplying largely the 
 cities and villages around Geneva. 
 
 Breesman, 0. B., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Brockmire, Sophia, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Britt, Betsey, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 /SONANT, WM., farmer; P. 0. Ge- 
 
 Vy neva. 
 
 Carter, Fred., shoemaker ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Chambers, Jno. J., carp. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Grotty, Jas., gardener ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 COE, JOEL L., flour mer., of the firm 
 of Bennett Bros. & Coe, millers ; P. 0. 
 Geneva ; born in West Granville, Mass., 
 1830 ; resided there until he was 18 
 years old ; came west to Illinois and 
 settled in Lee Co. in 1852 ; was in the 
 late war as First Lieut in the 46th I. 
 V. I., Co. D; was in the battles of Fort 
 Donelson, Shiloh and Pittsburg Land- 
 ing ; was under Gen. Veatch ; resigned 
 in the Fall of 1863. Rep. ;" Cong. ; 
 married Alice E. Pratt, of New York, 
 daughter of Austin M. Pratt, born in 
 1834 ; married in 1856 ; has two boys, 
 Burtis E. and Percie A. His father, 
 Ethen Coe, born in Massachusetts in 
 1794, married Emma E. Robinson, 
 born in 1806; died in 1844. 
 
 Clancy, Thos., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Caven, Jas., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Colby, J. D., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Clark, Polly, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Cannon, Dan., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 CURTIS, S. W., coal, lumber and 
 grain mer. ; P. 0. Geneva ; born in 
 New York in 18 16 ; lived in Georgia fif- 
 teen years ; came to Kane Co. in 1849 ; 
 married Miss Emma Morgan, of Massa- 
 chusetts, in 1836, born in 1816; four 
 children, Charlotte, Catharine, E. El- 
 bert and Emma. E. Elbert was in the 
 late war, belonging to the 52d I. V. I., 
 Co. D ; enlisted in 1861, and, after serv- 
 ing throe yeais of faithful duty, was 
 honorably discharged in 1864; was 
 with Sherman's march to the sea and to 
 Washington. 
 
 Castner, W. W., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Curtis, E. E., coal & lumber ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Clark, T. J., carpenter ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Carpenter, Catharine, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 DERRICK, WILLIAM, farmer ; P. 
 0. Geneva. 
 
 Derrick, Bcnj., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 DODSON, Capt. C. B., capitalist ; 
 P. 0. Geneva ; born June 15, 1809 ; 
 is the oldest settler living in Kane 
 Co.; came and settled near Batavia in 
 the Spring of 1834 ; came West and 
 purchased land in Michigan in 1833 ; 
 was at Chicago during the conven- 
 tion of the United States, purchasing 
 the land from the Indians; the Potla- 
 wattomie Indians were removed to 
 Council Bluffs and Kansas in 1835-37 
 by Capt. D., under contract from the 
 Government, and many interesting inci- 
 dents are related by him in connection 
 with the transplanting of these Indians ; 
 their war chief was Waubansie. The 
 first store and saw-mill was built by 
 Capt. D., in 1834, at Clybournville, one 
 mile south of Batavia; was elected 
 President of the Old Settlers' Meeting, 
 1871 ; through the influence of Capt. 
 D., the name of Geneva was adopted 
 for the name of the town in 1836 ; mar- 
 ried Harriet Warren ; five children 
 Charles H., Julius, Robert, Warren and 
 Mamie. 
 
 Dibolt, Ulick. 
 
 Danielson, John, laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Danielson, John, 2d, lab. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Danielson, Mrrf. Betsey, P. Geneva. 
 
 BUTTON, C. P., Circuit Clerk and 
 Recorder ; P. 0. Geneva ; born in Wy- 
 oming Co.. N. Y., Dec. 1, 1840; was 
 in the late war three years ; belonged to 
 the 136th N. Y. Vol. Inf., Co. H ; was 
 in the battles of Chancellorsville, Get- 
 tysburg, Look Oat Mountain, and wih 
 
 1 Gen. Sherman's march to the sea and 
 back to Washington ; was in the Penn- 
 sylvania oil regions a year and a half, 
 thence West to Kane Co. in 1867, thence 
 back to Pennsylvania and returned to 
 Kane Co. in 1868 ; was elected Circuit 
 Clerk and Recorder in November, 
 1876. running ahead of the regular 
 ticket by a majoricy of over 300 ; Rep.; 
 married Miss Agnes A. Titus, daughter 
 of Wm. M. Titus, of Aurora, Jan. 21, 
 1873 ; born May 28, 1854 ; three chil- 
 dren Willie Earl, Cortes Lee, and Roy 
 Arthur.
 
 554 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Danford, Eben, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Dunlap, Robt., laborer ; P. O. Geneva. 
 
 Drahms, Fred., machinist ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Dodson, Charles, clerk, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 TjlDDOWS, E. A., minister; P. 0. Ge- 
 FIJ neva. 
 
 ED DO WES, J. K., druggist; P. 0. 
 Geneva ; born in New Castle Co., Del., 
 in 1822 ; remained there until 17 years 
 old ; thence to St. Louis, Mo.; thence 
 to Savannah, 111., in the mercantile bus- 
 iness; thence to Galena, Jo Daviess Co., 
 111., 1840 ; there until 1863 ; thence to 
 Chicago ; thence to Savannah in the 
 drug business; came to Geneva and 
 commenced the drug business in 1871 ; 
 owns store ; carries stock valued at $5,- 
 000; Rep.; Unitarian. 
 
 Everts, James S., fanner ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 EVERTS, SAMUEL C., farmer; 
 Sec. 6 ; P. O. Geneva ; born in Massa- 
 chusetts July 15, 1805 ; at the age of 
 27 years he moved to New York, re- 
 maining there about seventeen years, en- 
 gaged in farming ; thence West to Kane 
 Co., 111., and purchased place that he 
 now lives on in 1853 ; owns farm of 84 
 acres, valued at $85 per acre ; has held 
 office as Township Assessor, also Road 
 Commissioner, which office he has held 
 for 24 years; Rep.; Cong.; married three 
 times ; first wife, Ruth Barrett, daugh- 
 ter of Col. Barrett, of Massachusetts ; 
 died in 1856 ; second wife, Lucinda 
 Buck, of Illinois ; died June 6, 1860 ; 
 third wife, Lucretia Hinckley, daughter 
 of Joel Hinckley, of Vermont ; born 
 Aug. 3, 1816 ; three children Lewis 
 H., born 1836 ; engaged in the publish- 
 ing business, office 714 Filbert St., Phil- 
 adelphia ; James S.. born 1844 ; Ed- 
 ward A., born in 1858. 
 
 Ellis, J. B., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 ELLIS, JOHN, farmer ; Sec. 4 ; P. 
 0. Geneva; born in Tioga Co., N. Y., 
 in 1809 ; remained there until 1854, 
 engaged in farming ; came West and 
 settled on farm that he now lives on, 
 which consists of 210 acres, valued at 
 $100 per acre, in 1854; Dem.; Meth.; 
 was worth about $7,000 when he first 
 came to Kane Co.; married Miss A. L. 
 Wright, of New York, in 1830 ; one 
 child Mary Elizabeth, now married to 
 Samuel C. Fritz, living on the same 
 farm of 210 acres, with Mr. Ellis. 
 
 TpRITTS, S. C., far.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Frydendall, Hicks. 
 
 Fealey, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Frazier, W. J., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Frazier, David, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Frazier, Andrew, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Ferris, John M., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Finley, George, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Ferson, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Finley, R., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Ford, H. L., cheese factory ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Foley, J. W., baker ; P. O. Geneva. 
 f^\ ERMAN, LYMAN, farmer ; P. 0. 
 V._JT Geneva. 
 
 Gilbert, P. C., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Gilman, Mary E., teacher; P. O. Geneva. 
 Green, John, clerk ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 GULLY, DR. JOHN B , P. 0. 
 
 Geneva ; born in Clifton, Bristol, Eng., 
 Oct. 20, 1816 ; he is, on his mother's 
 side, great-grandson of Lord Bath, and 
 nephew of Dr. J. M. Gully, of Malvern, 
 Eng.; Dr. G.'s education commenced in 
 his native city, under his parents' super- 
 vision, bat, owing to reverse of fortune 
 involving an entire loss of property, he 
 was thrown, at an early age, on his own 
 resources. Making choice of medicine 
 as his profession, he commenced the 
 study at Bristol and continued it in Lon- 
 don and other cities ; in 1847, he emi- 
 grated to America, and placing himself 
 under the instructions of Dr. Nichols, 
 he graduated in 1850, in the first Hy- 
 dropathic College of New York ; at a 
 later date he graduated from the Hy- 
 gienic Therapeutic College at same place ; 
 desiring to extend the hydropathic sys- 
 tem, he came West, where lie opened 
 and conducted successfully water cures 
 in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wis- 
 consin ; eager to avail himself of every 
 possible aid in the practice of his profes- 
 sion, he was led to investigate the prin 
 ciples and philosophy of homoeopathy ; 
 finding the system of a scientific truth, 
 he commenced its practice, and has never 
 wearied in disseminating its doctrines. 
 Dr. Gully matriculated at Hahnemann 
 Medical College, Chicago ; has been a 
 member of the Illinois State HOUKEO- 
 pathic Medical Association for the last 
 eleven years ; at one time was 2d Vice 
 President. 
 Grinnell, C. H., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva.
 
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 Gooley, John, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Gullaver, Margaret E., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Gilbert, P. F., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Graves, Rebecca, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 HANSEL, FRED., farmer; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Hathaway, D. R., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hollister, Emery, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hester, George, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Howarth, William. 
 
 HOWELL, WM. H., foundry ; born 
 in Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Dec. 
 23, 1828 ; came to Geneva, Kane Co., 
 in 1854 ; commenced the foundry busi- 
 ness with a capital of $10 in 1862 ; to- 
 day Mr. Howell is occupying buildings 
 by him erected, at a cost of $18,000, 
 and is doing a large business in castings 
 and manufacturing his own wares ; these 
 shops have turned out for the year 1877, 
 48,000 Geneva hand fluters, Howell & 
 Turner, inventors and proprietors ; 400 
 tons smoothing irons, besides extensively 
 engaged in turning out pumps and wind- 
 mill castings ; about 45 men are con- 
 stantly employed, their monthly wages 
 amounting to $2,000 ; married Miss 
 Hannah Nickerson ; four children 
 Charles A., Irvin L., Dr. Franklin and 
 Ella D. 
 
 Herbert, Rev., minister ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Herrington, Charity, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hart, R. B., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 HERRINGTON, AUGUSTUS 
 
 M., atty. at law, Chicago ; P. 0. Gene- 
 va ; born in Pennsylvania in 1823 ; 
 Dem.; Episcopalian ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1835 with his father, James Her- 
 rington, who was born in Pennsylvania 
 May 18, 1798 ; made purchase of the 
 D. S. Haight claim, settling with his 
 family on same in the Spring of 1835 ; 
 at tha time the place was known as 
 Herrington's Ford ; in the year 1835, a 
 post office was established in the resi- 
 dence of James Herrington, he being 
 the postmaster, and designated as La 
 Fox Post Office ; the first store in the 
 village was kept by James Herrington, 
 who died in Geneva in 1839 ; Augustus 
 M. married Emily Cook, of Erie Co., 
 N. Y.; two children Frank C. and 
 Virginia F.; has three brothers Na- 
 than, James, member of the Legislature 
 from Kane Co.. -and Alford, formerly 
 Postmaster at Geneva. 
 
 Howard, W. H. M., phys.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Howard, J. J., mason ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Howell, S. H., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hight, John, wagons ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hummel, C. 
 
 Hummel, C. L. i 
 
 Howell, Valentine, mach., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hester, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Huntley, M. H., machinist; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Humphrey, E. R., mer.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hoyt, P. D., merchant; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hepworth, John, fanner ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hards, J. T., miller ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 HAWKINS, HENRY C., farmer ; 
 Sec. 5 ; P. 0. Geneva ; born in Berk- 
 shire Co., Mass.. in 1819; remained 
 there until 14 years old ; then to New 
 York in company with a brother en- 
 gaged in farming and mercantile busi- 
 ness ; thence west to Kane Co. in 1844, 
 and settled near the place he now lives 
 on ; when he first came to the county 
 there was no railroad, and on the road 
 from here to Chicago there were twenty- 
 five taverns; was worth about $100 
 when he first came to the county ; to- 
 day he owns a farm of 168 acres, val- 
 ued at $100 per acre ; with hard labor 
 and good management, is to-day one of 
 the sucsessful farmers of Kane Co.; Rep.; 
 Cong.; married Miss Charlotte Pelton, 
 of New York ; seven children Henry 
 W., born 1854 ; Lula, born 1864 ; Ed- 
 die W., born 1866 ; Annie L., born 
 1868 ; Ralph G., born 1871 ; Mary K., 
 born 1873; Sophia, born 1875. 
 
 Herrington, James, far.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hollister, G. I., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Howard, D. H., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Humphrey, Russell, far.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hight, D. G., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hards, James, miller ; P 0. Geneva. 
 
 Herrington, Mrs. E., P. O. Geneva. 
 
 Howard, Mary, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Hight, Wm., wagon maker, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 HAWKINS, H. W., far., Sec. 6 ; 
 P. 0. Geneva ; born in Kane Co., 111., 
 Oct 20, 1854 ; farming 105 acres; mar- 
 ried Miss Kate N. Warford, daughter of 
 Henry Warford ; she was born Feb. 8, 
 1855 ; married Feb. 24, 1876. 
 
 Hight, C. R., wagon maker ; P. 0. Ge- 
 neva. 
 
 "TONES, OTIS, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 fj Johnson, Peter, lab. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Jones, Sarah, millinery; P. 0. Geneva.
 
 556 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Johnson, Elias, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Jackson, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Joslyn, A. J., wagons ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Joy, Samuel, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Jones, Theron, farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Jones, John, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Jarvis, Mary P., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Johnson, Gust., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Johnson, Nelson, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Jackson, M., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Johnson, Andrew, laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 TZ~AUTZ, MICHAEL, farmer ; P.O. 
 _L\. Geneva. 
 Kirk, Frank, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Krum, Simon, merchant ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kelley, T. W., miller ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kendall, J. N., loans ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Karney, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kessler, J. J., Postmaster ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kautz, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kautz, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 King, Tuthill, hardware ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kent, Susan, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Kelley, Mrs. J. J., P. 0. Geneva. 
 T EWIS, CHAS. R., farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 J J Geneva. 
 
 Lay, Nelson, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lowery, C. G., carpenter; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Long, E. H., merchant ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lucy, Dennis, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Landen, Jno., carpenter; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lindholm, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lecander, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Long, Robt., Jr., carp. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lester, Robt., mason ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lennartz, Frank, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lang, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lofborn, N. 0., wagons ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Landers, A. M., carp ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Lance, J. C., merchant; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Landberg, G. P., bl'ksmith ; P. Q. Geneva. 
 Larrabee, Wm. M., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Landers, John, harnessmkr.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Long, Robt., Sr.. merchant ; P.O.Geneva. 
 Lind, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Linn, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 MATTOON, HENRY, farmer^, P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Masterson, Ed., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Mungerson, Andrew, lab. ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Miller, J. B., miller ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Moore, A. B., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Millard, Chas., painter; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Martin, David, furniture ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Morse, A., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Morrou, E. S.. farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 MIXER, CHAS. S., Sheriff of Kane 
 Co. ; born in New Hampshire, March 
 15, 1824; remained there until 21 
 years old, thence to Boston, Mass., 
 where he was engaged in the hide and 
 leather business ; went to Michigan, 
 steamboating on the Kalamazoo River, 
 building the first steamboat on that riv- 
 er ; lived in Chicago about five years, 
 engaged in pork pack ing and steamboat- 
 ing; thence to Elgin, in the Fall of 
 1869; was elected County Sheriff in 
 1876; Rep.; married Julia Smith, of 
 New York ; one child, Cora L., born in 
 1857. 
 
 MAYBORNE, MAJ. J. H., law- 
 yer ; P. 0. Geneva ; was born in Dover, 
 England, in 1822 ; with his father and 
 mother he emigrated to America in 
 1825, and landed in New York City, 
 remaining in the State until 1846, en- 
 gaged in farming and studying law ; he 
 came west to Chicago, where he re- 
 mained until 1848, and thence to Ge- 
 neva, where he has been in the practice 
 of law ; was engaged in the late war, 
 from 1863 to 1866, as Paymaster, head- 
 quarters at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. May- 
 borne is one of the oldest attorneys in 
 Kane Co., and whose experience covers 
 a period thirty years in Kane Co. ; prob- 
 ably he is one of the best known lawyers 
 in the State, whose ability and knowl- 
 edge of the law are of a high order ; he 
 is one of the best educated attorneys, 
 and has held many important and respon- 
 sible public offices ; was elected Senator 
 from this district, in 1876, for four years, 
 by the Republican party. Maj. May- 
 borne was a delegate to the Republican 
 Convention, at Aurora, in 1854, which 
 was the first Republican Convention held 
 in the United States ; is a member of the 
 Republican Central Committee of Kane 
 Co. ; was elected Supervisor in 1872, 
 which office he still fills. 
 
 Milan, Michael, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Middleton, Thos., tailor; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 McBreen, Philip, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Myers, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Martin, C. D., clerk ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Morron, Lavina, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Merrian, S. S., trav'g man ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Mclntosh, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Milton, Rev., minister; P.O. Geneva. 
 
 Mattoon, Chauncey, far. ; P. 0. Geneva.
 
 KANE COUNTY : GENEVA. 
 
 557 
 
 MANN, CHAS. E., County School 
 Superintendent; P. 0. Geneva; born in 
 New York, Sept. 22, 1844 ; left New 
 York when quite young, with his fa- 
 ther and mother, for the West ; settled 
 in Peoria Co., 111., where he lost his 
 mother, sister and two brothers, who 
 died with the cholera in 1849 ; thence 
 back to New York, remaining there five 
 years, farming ; thence back to Illinois, 
 to DuPage Co., living there twenty years, 
 farming; thence to St. Charles, Kane 
 Co. ; was elected County School Super- 
 intendent in the Fall of 1873 ; has now 
 the nomination, by both Republicans and 
 Democrats, for re-election to same office. 
 Married Miss S. E. Landon, of Bloom- 
 ingdale, DuPage Co., 111. ; two children, 
 Estelle, born in December, 1871, and 
 Clyde, born in September, 1873. 
 
 MCWAYNE, ANDREW, livery 
 and feed stable ; born in New York in 
 1825 ; came west to Kane Co. in March, 
 1844, and commenced the miller's trade, 
 which business he has followed for 
 twenty-five years ; started a livery in 
 1868 ; was appointed Postmaster of 
 Geneva by President Johnson, in 1867 ; 
 holds the office of Justice of the Peace, 
 which office he has faithfully held since 
 1863 ; Rep. ; married Miss Arvela Scott, 
 of 'New York ; five children, three dead 
 and two living. Albert, now engaged 
 in the drug business in the Sandwich 
 Islands, and Wilber. 
 
 MOOK, WM. P., farmer; Sec. 12; 
 . P. 0. Batavia ; born in Ohio, Dec. 13, 
 1847 ; remained there till at the age of 
 27, thence to Michigan to school for one j 
 year; thence to Kane Co., Sugar Grove 
 Tp., farming ; thence to Kendall Co., 
 farming and teaching school; back to 
 Kane Co., near Batavia, on farm ; owns 
 a farm of eighty acres of fine land, 
 known as the Premium Farm of Kane 
 Co., and valued at $75 per acre ; mar- 
 ried Miss Eva A. Todd, of Illinois, born 
 April 18, 1857, daughter of Albert G. 
 Todd, born in Washington Co., Vt., in 
 1824. 
 
 Marks, T. J., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Mulroy. Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 McElwane, Jane, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Munson, Martin, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 XT EL8ON SAMUEL, board of trade ; 
 
 JLN P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Nias, T. laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Nelson, Nels, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Noayrd, B. M., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Naphen, Michael, laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Nelson, Samuel, Jr., clerk ; P. 0. Geneva.. 
 Naven, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Nickerson, Sarah, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 OLESON, PETER, laborer; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Oleson, Otto, miller ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 ORMSBEE, WM. W., dentist, of 
 the firm of Ormsbee & Hoyt, drug and 
 book store, hotel block ; P. 0. Geneva, 
 was born in Addison Co., Vt., in 1832 ; 
 there 13 years ; thence to Rutland, Vt.. 
 three years ; thence to Brandon, five 
 years ; commenced the study of dentis- 
 try with Dr. Brockway, of Middlebury, 
 
 Vt., in 1853; commenced the practice 
 of dentistry in 1855 at Brandon, Vt.; 
 came to Kane Co., 111., in 1859; Rep.; 
 Unitarian. 
 
 Ott, J. P., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 O'Brien, John, laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 PETERSON, JOHN, merchant; P. O. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Porter, Win., butcher; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Peterson, C. S., shoemaker ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Patten, George D., P. X). Geneva. 
 
 Peterson, S. J., tailor; P. O.Geneva. 
 
 PECK, ELI, farmer ; Sees. 7, 8 and 18 ; 
 P. 0. Geneva ; born in Bennington Co., 
 Vt., in 1816 ; remained there until 1843, 
 engaged in farming and sheep raising ; 
 started for the West in a two-horse wag- 
 on, his father and friends advising him 
 not to go ; he got as far as New York, 
 where one of his horses died, and not hav- 
 ing enough money to purchase, he sold his 
 wagon and remaining horse ; started then 
 by water; arrived in Kane Co. in 1843, 
 and settled near the place he now lives 
 on ; when he first came to Kane Co. he 
 was worth about $500 ; but to-day, 
 with hard labor, good management and 
 industry, is one of the wealthiest farm- 
 ers of Kane Co.; owns 770 acres of fine 
 land, worth 865 per acre ; after Mr. P. 
 was settled, his father came West and 
 made him a visit ; was astonished to see 
 such a fine country ; Rep.; married 
 Miss G. Sherman, daughter of E. Sher- 
 man, of Vermont; eight children. 
 
 Patten, Charles, merchant; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Peterson, A. P., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Plate, E. S., clerk ; P. O. Geneva.
 
 558 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Pierce, H. B., clerk ; P. O. Geneva. 
 
 Payne, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Pease, W. H., Justice; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 PEMBLETON, S. S., far.; Sec. 6 ; 
 P. 0. Geneva ; born in New York Oct. 
 1, 1846; purchased place that he now 
 lives on, which consists of 120 acres, 
 valued at $75 per acre, in 1872 ; came 
 West and settled on place in 1874 ; 
 Dem.; Meth.; married Miss E. J. Wool- 
 ston, of Geneva, 111.; one child Chas. 
 W., born Oct. 22, 1873. 
 
 Pierce, George K., far.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Pratt, Ezekiel, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Poor, T. W., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Peterson, Theo., shoemaker; P.O. Geneva. 
 
 Peterson, P. M , laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Pennock, Abby, P. O. Geneva. 
 
 /~\UINN, JAMES, lab.; P.O. Geneva. 
 
 REYNOLDS, L. B., farmer ; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Rich, T. C., butcher ; P. O. Geneva. 
 Rogers, George R., carp.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rich, Mrs. E. C., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rogers, William, Jr., lab.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rich, Otis N., miller; P. O. Geneva. 
 Rogers, Wm., Sr.,shoemkr.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rich, George H., carp.; P. O. Geneva. 
 Rankin, A. A., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rathbone, James, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rydsjo, John, wagons ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rystrom, Andrew, wagons ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Ribletts, George, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Robinson, J. C., P. 0. Geneva. 
 Redfield, J. J3., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Rich, Martha, P. 0. Geneva. 
 Reed, John, P. O. Geneva. 
 Rogers, John, P. 0. Geneva. 
 O COTT, H. A., clerk ; P. 0. Geneva, 
 
 Salsberry, David. 
 
 Smith, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Schonck, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Smith, D. A., farmer ; P. O. Geneva. 
 
 Spencer, George. 
 
 Schies, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Swanson, Peter A., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Shuberge, Anna, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Swanson, Aug., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Schultz, 0. F., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 SHERWIN, JOHN C., County 
 
 Clerk ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Swanson, Charles, lab.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Sundholm, Frank, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Swanson, John, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Swanson, C., laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Searls, H. W., laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Steves, L. F., carpenter ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Swanson, Solomon, lab.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Sladden, S. P., merchant; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Scott, Thomas A., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Stewart, H. L., carpenter ; P. 0. Geneva'. 
 
 Sackett, George A., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Schones, Michael, mason ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Scott, Geo., mason ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Stevens, Mrs. M. E., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Smith, Lew., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Sibley, S., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Smith, Mary, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 rpOWNER, B. F., com. mer.; P. 0. 
 1 Geneva. 
 
 Terrell, A. C., barber ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Turner, Nelson, laborer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Tinsley, Ed., butcher; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Todd, A. G. 
 
 Tuttle, H. S., tinner ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 TURNER, W. D., inventor of the 
 Geneva Hand Fluter, manfd. by Howell 
 & Turner ; turned out for the year 1877, 
 48,000 ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Thornton, Milton, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Thompson, Geo., gardener; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Towne, E. S., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Towne, D. K., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Ticknor, J. H., glove mkr.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 TTPDIKE, LEVI, farmer; P. 0. 
 LJ Geneva. 
 
 Ypdike, Johnson, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Utter Bros., merchants ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 "T7"ANNERT, JNO., laborer; P. 0. 
 V Geneva. 
 
 Vermelyer, Geo. 
 
 W ATKINS, MRS. M. L., P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 Wheeler, Mrs. L. M., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Wilson, I. G., attorney ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Winslow, John, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Webster, Mrs. A.. P. O. Geneva. 
 
 Wicoff, J. S., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Webber, John. 
 
 Wheeler, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 White, A. L., mail agent; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Wells, C. B., attorney; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Ward, P. F., & Bro., abstract office ; P. O. 
 Geneva. 
 
 WEBSTER, W. H., Prop. Union 
 Hotel, $2.00 per day ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Born in Geneva, 111., in 1847 ; com- 
 menced the hotel business in 1877 ; 
 Dem.; married Miss Addie Whitlock, 
 of N. Y.
 
 KANE COUNTY: HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 559 
 
 WARFORD, WILLIAM, farmer; 
 Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Geneva ; born in Somer- 
 setshire, Eng., Aug. 1, 1815. Came to 
 America, and landed in tfew York in 
 1836 ; remained there about ten years ; 
 thence west, to Kane Co., 111. ; first set- 
 tled at St. Charles, where he purchased 
 a farm of forty acres, at $5 per acre ; 
 sold, and moved on the farm he now 
 lives on in 1850 ; owns eighty acres of 
 land, value, $100 per acre. When he 
 first came to the Co. he owned forty 
 acres of land and $5 in cash, but with 
 good management and hard labor, is in 
 good circumstances. Liberal in politics ; 
 Cong. Married Miss Mary Scripture, 
 daughter of E. S. Scripture, of Mass.; 
 she was born in N. Y., Oct. 1, 1826; 
 married in 1845 ; four children : Albert 
 Spencer, born Oct. 5, 1848 ; John 
 Henry, Jan. 14, 1852; two dead, Will- 
 iam E. and babe. 
 
 Written, Anna, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 West, A. P., attorney ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Whaloy, Johnson, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Waketield, William, carp.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Warford, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Woolston, Jos., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Woolston, C. W., farmer; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Warren, J. Frank, mer.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Webster, W. G., livery ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 West, W, R., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Wardsworth, Jason, trav. man ; P. 0. 
 Geneva. 
 
 WEBSTER, FRANK, Prop, of the 
 
 " Domestic " Livery and Feed Stables; 
 P. 0. Geneva. Was born in Geneva, 
 Kane Co.. 111., Sept. 12, 1849; com- 
 menced the livery business in 1871 ; 
 Dem. His father, W. G. Webster, was 
 born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., in 1811 ; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1840. 
 
 Wilcox, W., farmer; P. O. Geneva. 
 
 White, J. K., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Worsley, Abigail, P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 White, K. T., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 WARD, P. F. (of P. F. Ward & 
 Bro.), abstract of titles ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 Born in Hampden Co., Mass., in 1826 ; 
 came west, to Kane Co., in company 
 with his father, Calvin Ward, in 1835 ; 
 first settled at St. Charles, clerking in 
 stores at St. Charles. Geneva, Elgin and 
 Chicago, from 1835 to 1857, then en- 
 tered office with P. R. Wright, Circuit 
 Clerk and Recorder; remained there 
 for eight years. Purchased abstract 
 books of P. R. Wright in 1863 ; Fall 
 of 1864, was elected to office of Circuit 
 Clerk ancl Recorder, which office he 
 faithfully filled for four years ; since 
 then he has been in the Kane Co. Ab- 
 stract Office. Rep. 
 
 Wilson, F. I., clerk ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Weger, Fred, farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 Worsley, Timothy, mer.; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 ^~T ATES, B. C., detective ; P. 0. Gen- 
 eva. 
 
 HAMPSHIRE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A LLEN, JNO., farmer ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 
 _JL. shire, 
 
 ALLEN, DAVID, farmer; Sec. 35; 
 born Oct. 18, 1835, in this county ; 
 Lib. Rep. ; owns eighty acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; married, Feb. 
 21, 1867, to Miss Caroline L. Coon, of 
 this county; she was born May 15, 
 1839; have four children Chloe E., 
 born June 15, 1868; Hattie M., born 
 Nov. 9, 1870 ; Charles A., born Feb. 
 20, _1872 ; Lizzie A., born May 13, 
 1875. Mr. Allen was a member of Co. 
 A, 7th I. V. I., three months ; served 
 two years in Co. K, 52d I. V. I. ; also, 
 about two years in Co. H, 15th I. V. C. 
 
 Allen, J. A., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Allen, H. J., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Aurand, A., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Avery, W., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Allen, Betsey, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Amaden, E. C., P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Axtel, E. M., P. 0. Harmony. 
 Allen, H. H., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 B INNER, C., P. O. Dundee 
 Buzzell, A., far. ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 Buzzell, D. D., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 Briggs, J. E., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Blazier, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Bates, S. G., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Berner, C., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Blazier, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 560 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Beatie, Daniel, farmer : P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bell, H. G., P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Bell, F. P., P. 0. Kingston. 
 
 Bell, J. F., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Babcock, C. E., farmer; P.O.Hampshire. 
 
 BEAN, J. W., far. ; Sec. 10 ; born 
 at Wilmot, N. H., March 31 1822; 
 came to this county in October, 1854 ; 
 Rep. ; Meth. Episcopal ; owns 160 
 acres of land, valued at $60 per 
 acre; married, Sept. 25, 1851, to Miss 
 Elizabeth S. Fifield, of Salisbury, N. H., 
 born Aug. 21, 1823; five children- 
 Byron M., born Sept. 21, 1852; Cyrus 
 P., born Feb. 15, 1857 ; Lizzie E., born 
 Dec. 17, 1859 ; George H., born March 
 11, 1863; Ernest H., born July 22, 
 1866. 
 
 Brown, D. C., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Boyer, Jno., P. 0. Hampshire. , 
 
 Baldwin, Silas, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown & Carlisle, fars. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bean, B. M., laborer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Baldwin, B. R., lab. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bradburn, J. W., saloon ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Brill, Jno., P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Babcock, W. H., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Baker, E. R., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Buzzell, W. R., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, J. C., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bartrum, D. B., lab. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Boother, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brier, Michael, Jr., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brier. Michael, Sr., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Blazier, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, Austin, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 BRIGGS, JOHN E., farmer ; Sec. 
 14 ; born in Wayne Co., N. Y., Nov. 
 24, 1816 ; came to this county in 1865 ; 
 Lib. Rep. ; owns 134 acres, valued at 
 $50 per acre ; on 17th of April, 1845, 
 married Miss Jennette Waldron, of Cat- 
 taraugus Co., N. Y., born Sept. 28, 
 1818 ; two children Mary C., born 
 Dec. 14, 1847, wife of Stephen J. Mc- 
 Lellan, of Boone, Iowa ; and William 
 J., born Dec. 27, 1851. 
 
 Bartlett, Barlow, far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bartram, N. G., lab. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Bowman, Henry, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Boillat, Aug., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Barry, Daniel, P. 0. Genoa. 
 
 Beetle, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, A. L., P. 0. Harmony. 
 
 Baker, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Burns, Jno, farmer; P. 0. Holstein. 
 Baker, M., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 BALDWIN, LUCIAN P., far. ; 
 Sec. 24 ; born in Dorset, Vt., March 
 29 1818 ; came to this county July 18, 
 1843; Rep.; Meth.; owns 115 acres, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; held office of 
 Justice of the Peace from 1855 to 1865 ; 
 has been Supervisor and Trustee of the 
 township; is now Township Treasurer; 
 married, Oct. 7, 1841, to Miss Maria J. 
 Lanfear, of Ticonderoga, N. Y., born 
 March 19, 1820 ; four children Chas. 
 H.. born Sept. 3, 1843; Duane B., 
 born Nov. 22, 1849 ; Ella J., born July 
 8, 1851 ; Anna M., boru Dec. 2, 1859. 
 
 Buhte, Conrad, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, Lula, P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, Augustine, P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, Wm., P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Brown, Justin, P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Barton, D. P., P. 0. Clinton. 
 
 CARLISLE, S. H., mechanic ; P. 0. 
 
 V^/ Hampshire. 
 
 Cook, G. W., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Callum, A., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Crane, W. B., laborer; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Coon, C. M., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Cook, S. W. L., mech. ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Calkins, Chas., saloon ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Carlisle, F. S., lumber ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Cline, J.. merchant; P. 0. Hampshire." 
 
 Carlisle, D., ins. agt. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Craft, Robt.. farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Chapman, S., hay & coal ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Chapman, A. A., hay & coal ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 CARLISLE, NATHAN S., lum- 
 ber and farming ; P. 0. Hampshire ; born 
 in Berkshire Co., Mass., Oct. 22, 1841 ; 
 came West at the age of 14, with his 
 parents, David and Elmira Carlisle ; set- 
 tled in Hampshire Tp. in Dec., 1855 ; 
 liberal Rep.; owns 312 acres of land in 
 this town, valued at $65 per acre ; elected 
 Supervisor in 1877 ; married, Jan. 17, 
 1861, Miss Martha M., daughter of Sey- 
 mour and Melvina Keyes, of this place ; 
 she was born March 28, 1843 ; they 
 have two children, Alfred L., born May 
 7, 1864, and Edna A., born April 14, 
 1869. 
 
 Carlisle, L. J., mech., P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Caseman, S. ; P. 0. Harmony. 
 
 Casserman, Samuel ; P. O. Huntley. 
 
 Coon, Calvin, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 KANE COUNTY: HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 561 
 
 COON, WM. S., plasterer and mason ; ! 
 P. 0. Hampshire; born in this town, 
 April 27,1 846; Liberal; Rep.; owns 120 i 
 acres in McHenry Co., valued at $4,000 ; . 
 married Miss Emma DePue, of Genoa, 
 DeKalb Co., in Feb., 1877; she was 
 born in 1854. 
 
 Chute, Daniel ; P. O. Union. 
 
 Collum, H. A., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 "pvETTNER, A. H., farmer; P. O. 
 I ) Hampshire. 
 
 Doumlin, W., mech.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Darling, H., agriculturist; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 DC Witt Bros., mers.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Doty, Philip, stock dlr.; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 DeWitt, B. C., laborer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 DE WOLF, JOHN A., farmer ; Sec. 
 23 ; born in Springfield, Erie Co., Penn., 
 Nov. 6, 1833 ; came to this county iu 
 1854; Rep.; Meth. ; owns 80 acres, 
 valued at $75 per acre; married Miss 
 Louisa Doty, daughter of Elijah and 
 Polly Doty, of this place, Jan. 1, 1857; 
 she was born March 1, 1835 ; has three 
 children Mary G.,born Dec. 19, 1858 ; 
 Ida C., born Aug. 6, 1863, and Emma 
 L., born Nov. 24, 1867 ; the mother of 
 the subject of this article is living with 
 him at the age of 84 years ; he served 
 in Co. K, 52d I. V. I., fourteen months ; 
 was wounded at Shiloh. 
 
 Dow, R. F., laborer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Doty, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Doty, I. V., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Doty, Ed., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 DeWolf, M., laborer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Dralla, Win., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 DOTY, ANDREW, carpenter; born 
 July 17, 1819, in Portland, Chautauqua 
 Co., N. Y. ; came West and took up 
 land in this county in 1844 ; worked at 
 his trade some since that time ; has 
 retired from active labor ; Liberal ; Rep. 
 
 Deitrich, Lowe, farmer ; P. 0. Harmony. 
 
 Doty, Polly and Mary, farming; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Dickson, E. W., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 DeWitt, Burdett, lab. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 ITpBERT, CONRAD ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 TpULLER, HANNAH, farmer ; P. 0. 
 JD Hampshire. 
 
 Fassett, C. A., farmer : P. O. Hampshire. 
 Farrell, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Fitzpatrick, Jas., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. , 
 
 Frederick, M., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Fields, Jas., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Fields, H.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Fineran, Martin, lab. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Fassett & Reid, stock dealers ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 UIKA, RUDOLPH ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Gage, C., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Groth, Chas., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Gage, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Grimes, M., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Getzleman, M. J., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Getzlernan, Jacob, ,far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 GIFT, SAML. J., farmer ; Sec. 15 ; 
 P. 0. Hampshire ; born May 20, 1832, 
 in Union Co., Penn.; came to this county 
 iu the Spring of 1860 ; Rep.; German 
 Evangelical ; is Road Comr.; owns 
 120 acres of land, valued at $50 
 per acre ; was married, May 22, 1854, 
 to Miss Catharine Aurand, who died, 
 Sept. 28, 1863, leaving three children 
 by this marriage, James W., born Aug. 
 20, 1855, John D., born June 20, 1861, 
 Charles E., born Dec. 12, 1862 ; mar- 
 ried Barbara Frederick, in Feb., 1865, 
 who died in Nov. 1872, leaving two 
 children by this marriage, Emma Jane, 
 born Nov. 18, 1865, aud Dora A., born 
 April 12, 1867 ; married Luceana Kleck, 
 Sept. 7, 1873, of this town, who was born 
 in Pennsylvania, Oct. 15, 1844; one 
 child, Edwin H., born Sept. 28, 1877. 
 
 Getzleman, M. C., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Grage, Aug., butcher ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Gretzbaugh, Jno., shoemaker; P.O. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Getzelman, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 HOUGHBOOM, D., farmer ; P. 0. 
 New Lebanon. 
 
 Hines, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Howe, C., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Howe, Wm., farmer ; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 Hansler, A., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hawk'ins, B. J., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Horker, A., blacksmith ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Hawkins, Amos ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Hayden, N. W., laborer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Huber, Chas. Jr., mechanic ; P. O. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Hemmerick, Michael, far.; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Hurd, J. W., laborer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hausliue, Phil., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 562 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Hauslinc, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 HOWE, CHESTER E., editor of 
 
 Hampshire Gazette; born in Livingston 
 Co.. N. Y.; came West in 1869 and 
 settled in Ogle Co., in this State ; 
 engaged in publishing most of the time 
 in Byron ; moved to this county in Nov. 
 1877 ; Rep.; Bapt.; owns house and lot 
 in Byron, valued at $1,000 ; married to 
 Miss Mary E. Chittenden, of Ogle Co., 
 Oct. 28, 1874, born Jan. 9, 1856, in 
 Middlesex Co.. Conn.; one child, George 
 E., born JuneS, 1877. 
 
 Hannah, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Henick, Frank, far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hilley, Kate, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Howe, M. E., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Hine, Horace, hotel ; P. 0. Hampshire, 
 
 Huber, John, agriculturist ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Hathaway, Willis, mer ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Hayden, Noah, mech.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hawley, Samuel, lab.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Huber, Charles Sr., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Haley, Catharine, far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hugleshafer, Julius, farmer; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Hamond, John, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Hammer, George, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Henning, Frank, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Houghboom, S. D., far.; P. 0. New Leb- 
 anon. 
 
 INGERSOLL. WM., mechanic ; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 TOHNIN, PETER, farmer; P. 0. j 
 
 fj Hampshire. 
 
 JOSYLN, ED. F., farmer ; P.O. Hamp- 
 shire, born in this county July, 26, 1856, 
 Dem. ; Liberal ; owns 80 acres of land, 
 valued at $30 per acre ; married to Miss 
 Mary Jane Lyon, of this county, Oct. 
 17, 1876 ; one child, Ada, born Sept. 
 8, 1877 ; son of Col. E. S. Josyln, of 
 Elgin, born June 3, 1827, who came 
 from the State of New York when 
 eleven years of age ; engaged in farming 
 and blacksmithing till eighteen years 
 old, finally settled in Elgin, educated 
 himself, and read law in the office of 
 Gifford & Morgan ; admitted to the 
 bar, was State's Attorney, Mayor of 
 Elgin, and Alderman for nearly twenty 
 years ; has earned for himself a high 
 place as a criminal lawyer; organized 
 
 the 36th 111. Vol. Inf.; received appoint- 
 ment as Colonel ; is a Democrat. 
 
 Japp, Aug., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Jepson, Betsey, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 KLICK, JONATHAN, farmer ; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Ketchum, E. B., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Kelley; Timothy, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Klick, John, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Kramp, Albert, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 KLICK, WILLIAM, far ; sec 10 
 P. 0. Hampshire; born Nov. 17, 1829, in 
 Lebanon Co., Pa. ; carried West to this 
 county June 5, 1847; Rep.; German 
 Evangelical ; owns 75 acres of land, 
 valued at $50 an acre ; married June 
 
 I, 1850, to Miss Caroline Reams, of this 
 county, born Feb. 14, 1829 ; have four 
 children living Wm. F. born Nov. 1, 
 1851 ; Aaron H., born July 15, 1853; 
 Elias, born April 17, 1867; Samuel, 
 born Dec. 25, 1871 ; was constable one 
 term. 
 
 Kelley, M., blacksmith ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Keyes, S. E.. farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Keyes, S. A., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Kerwin, John, farmer ; P. 0. N. Plato. 
 Kessler, Jane ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Kessler, L. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 LOWE, RICHARD, farmer; P. 0. 
 Harmony. 
 
 Litner, Fanny, P. O. Hampshire. 
 Litner, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Levy, W. M., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 Levy, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Lamphire, C., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Lyon, N. H., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Lathrop, A. H., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 LYON, MRS. MARY, farmer; 
 Sec. 30 ; P. 0. Hampshire ; born Dec. 
 
 II, 1818, in Michigan ; married in 
 Wayne Co., Mich., January, 1839, to 
 Benj. DeWitt, of same county ; had six 
 children Lucy A., Hattie M., Benja- 
 min F., Hiram S., Ralph R. and Bur- 
 dett C. Moved to this county in Au- 
 gust, 1839, where Mr. DeWitt died, 
 June 17, 1851. The widow married 
 David Lyon, April 10, 1854. who died 
 March 16, 1876. Three children- 
 Mary J., born April 30, 1856, wife of 
 Edward F. Joselyn; Ellmore D., born 
 Jan. 8, 1858 : Charles, born Sept. 14, 
 1861. Owns 240 acres of land, valued 
 at $75 per acre. 
 
 Lane, Edwin, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 KANE COUNTY : HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 563 
 
 LATHROP, EDWIN P., farmer; 
 Sees. 26 and 27 ; P. 0. Hampshire ; 
 born in this county Oct. 3, 1853; re- 
 sides with his father A. H. Lathrop, 
 who came from Maine to this county 
 thirty years ago, and is father of five 
 children Edwin P., born Oct. 3, 1853, 
 the subject of this sketch ; Emma E., 
 born Oct. 31, 1856; William F., born 
 May 24, 1858 ; Mary May, born Feb. 
 , 1860; Allie E., born Mar-h 9, 
 1867. The Elder Lathrop owns 100 
 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. 
 Both are Lib. ; Reps. 
 
 Lysander, Hurd, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 LOVELL, CHARLES, farmer ; P. 
 0. Hampshire ; born in Tompkins Co., 
 N. Y., June 25, 1832 ; came to this 
 county in 1866; located in Burlington 
 Tp. the same year ; owns 565 acres of 
 land, valued at $25,500 ; owns property 
 in town of Hampshire valued at $3,000 ; 
 Lib. ; Rep. ; married Miss Sarah A. Per- 
 ry, of Burlington, March 25, 1858 ; she 
 was born Oct. 6, 1836 ; they have three 
 children Lander C., born Jan. 19, 
 1860; Livina C., born July 13, 1866; 
 Willard J., born April 10, 1870. Mr. 
 Lovell has been elected, without opposi- 
 tion, four successive terms as Supervisor 
 of Burlington Tp., and now holds that 
 office ; served in the army of the Pa- 
 cific for three years, and also in the 
 Range River Indian War, of 1855-56. 
 
 MUNCH, PHILIP, farmer; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Murray, Daniel, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Maynard, H. W., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Marshall, John, farmer; P. 0. Union. 
 
 MCALLISTER, ORSON s., s ec . 
 
 4; born in Essex Co., N. Y., Aug. 31, 
 1848 ; came to this county in Spring 
 of 1861, and located in this town in 
 Fall of 1874; Rep.; Bapt.; owns 320 
 acres, valued of $50 per acre ; married 
 Sept. 16, 1859, to Miss Maria A. Mann, 
 who died Dec. 29, 1872 ; married again, 
 Sept, 8, 1874, to Miss Eugenie Will- 
 iams, daughter of S. K. and Mary 
 E. Williams, of this county, born Jan. 
 23, 1848. Two children by his first 
 wife Edwiu V., born Oct. 23, 1870, 
 ;md Luella, born Dec. 17, 1872. Two 
 children by present wife Anna I., born 
 Oct. 2, 1875, and the last one, not yet 
 named, born Nov. 7, 1877. 
 
 ! Martin, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Maushuk, Fred., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Miller, Tobia, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Mainke, Jno., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Miller, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Maurderer, M., mech. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Martin, Thos., P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Maurderer, Geo., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Murphy, P., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 MORRIS, JNO. M., P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire ; born in Franklin Co., Vt, March 
 10, 1846; came to this county when 
 5 years old; at. 17, enlisted in Co. I, 
 65th I. V. I , and re-enlisted in 95th 
 I. V. I. ; served, in all, four years ; since 
 the war, has been engaged in the busi- 
 ness of selling farming implements ; Lib.; 
 Dem. ; mairied Miss Sybil Reynolds, of 
 this county, Dec. 22, 1865, who died 
 May 23, 1874. 
 
 Mann, P. A., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Maynardj A., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 McFaul, A. D., baker ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Mickle, B. F., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Morgan, L. D., farmer; P. O.Hampshire. 
 
 McKee, Greo., mer. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 PEASE, A. W., mechanic; P. 0. No. 
 Plato. 
 
 Pautz, Aug., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Parsons, G., farmer ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Prentiss, E. G., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Patchin, Chas., farmer; P.O. Hampshire. 
 
 Peak, L., harness maker; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 PARKS, CHAS. H., hotel prop.; 
 P. O. Hampshire. Born in this county, 
 Nov. 19, 1844 ; engaged in farming pre- 
 vious to present occupation ; enlisted in 
 Co. A, 8th I. V. C., and served in the 
 Army of the Potomac nearly four years ; 
 Lib.; Dem. Married, in Burlington, to 
 Miss Adelia Foster, of Michigan, July 
 8, 1865; have two children Birdie A., 
 born June 19, 1867, and Adelia, born 
 May 19, 1876. Son of C. K. Parks, 
 who was one of the first settlers of Fox 
 River, where he carried on the business 
 of farming and stock raising for many 
 years ; 70 years of age, and resides with 
 his sou, Charles H., who is prop, of 
 Park's Hotel, of the village of Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Parker, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Patchin, E., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Pettle, George, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 i Parker, John, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 564 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 ROATH, OLIVER, mechanic ; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Rinn, Jacob, farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Ritz, Geo. A., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rosborough, Jas., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 REARM, EPHRAIM, far.; Sec. 
 11; P. 0. Hampshire. Born in East 
 Buffalo, Union Co., Pa., Sept. 16, 1827 ; 
 came to Ohio when quite young ; re- 
 moved to this county July 10, 1843 ; 
 Rep. ; German Evang. Owns forty 
 acres, value $45.00 per acre. Married 
 Miss Ann Klick, of this county, Nov. 
 30, 1851 ; she was born Dec. 24, 1833. 
 Have four children William F., born 
 Jan. 30, 1854 ; twins, Angelina and 
 Sarah, born Jan. 22, 1858 ; Lana, born 
 Nov. 10, 1862. 
 
 Reaves, A., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rosche, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, J. H., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, Moses, farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Read, C. B., physician ; P. 0. Hoist ein. 
 
 Rhineck, L., farmer; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 REID, DAVID, SR., far; Sec. 
 17 ; P. 0. Hampshire. Born in Ar- 
 gyle, Scotland, Feb. 13, 1813 ; came to 
 Canada in 1833, and resided at King- 
 ston for seventeen years ; moved, iu 
 1850, to this county ; held office of Jus- 
 tice of the Peace four terms ; is now 
 Justice of the Peace of this town ; As- 
 sessor for years 1874-5-6 ; Rep.; Meth. 
 Owns 360 acres of land, value $50 per 
 acre. Married to Mrs. Olive David, of 
 Canada, January, 1843 ; she was born 
 March 1, 1813; died, August, 1870, 
 Have three living children John, born 
 Feb. 12, 1844 ; Charles P., born Oct. 
 16, 1848; Martha, born May 31, 1850, 
 wife of A.. R. Walker, of this place ; 
 two children dead Clarissa, born Dec. 
 5, 1854, and Matthew. 
 
 Reams, B. F., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, E., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reinick, John, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Roseborough, John, P. 0. Ney. 
 
 Rinn, Henry, miller ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reid, David, Jr., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rowley, R., shoemaker ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rinn, Wm. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rippie, Henry, miller ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, S. A., mer. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, Levi, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Rich, E. E., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Reams, T., merchant ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 ROWELL, SAML. C., Postmaster, 
 general store and Justice of the Peace ; 
 P. 0. Hampshire ; born in Plainfield, 
 Sullivan Co., N. H., April 13, 1819; 
 came to Illinois in June, 1843, locating 
 in what was then Deerfield Precinct, 
 Kane Co. ; owns 160 acres of land in 
 Missouri, valued at $4,000 ; Rep. ; 
 Liberal ; member of Hampshire Lodge 
 No. 443, A., F. & A. M. ; Supervisor of 
 Hampshire Township from 1858 to 
 1861 and from 1864 to 1867 ; married 
 in 1844, to Miss Elizabeth Ball, of May- 
 stock, Mason Co., Ky. ; six children, 
 four of whom are living Mary, wife 
 of C. L. Dickson, Fremont, Jessie C., 
 and Olivia. 
 
 SILER, MICHAEL, farmer; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Skinner, J. W., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Swager, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Shutter, Wm., Sr., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Smith, Wm., merchant ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Swager, R., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Swatzendoffer, Anna ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Sanders, Chris, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Scott, Walter, merchant ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Scott, C. A. ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Sauer, Bro. & Co., mer. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Sibley, Mrs. M. E. ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Shutter, Wm. Jr., blacksmith ; P.O. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Smith, Robt., butcher ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Stancliff, David, laborer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Skinner, Josiah, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Sloan, G. W., laborer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Sweat. G., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Schmidt, L., blacksmith ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 ; Seymour, W. H., shoemaker; P. 0. 
 Holstein. 
 
 Summers, M., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Stephens, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Smith, E. L., merchant ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Shatter, W., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Swager, W., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Senifft, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Swager, B., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 Stark, E. R., farmer ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 rpYLER, 0., laborer ; P. 0. Morengo. 
 
 JL Tyson, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Tyler, Sallie, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Terwilliger, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Trumbull, Wm. farmer ; P. 0. Holstein. 
 [ Truman, A. R., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire.
 
 KANE COUNTY : HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 565 
 
 TRUMBULL, EZRA, farmer ; Sec. 
 1, P. 0. Huntley ; born in this county 
 Aug. 26, 1844; Ind. ; Meth. ; married 
 to Miss Martha Atchison, of this county, 
 Nov. 19,1874; born Nov. 19, 1852; 
 one child, Alma Jennie, born Sept. 19, 
 1875 ; son of Wm. Trumbull, born Feb. 
 
 4, 1817, who came West from New 
 York in the Spring of 1837, married to 
 to Miss Phosbe Huntington of this 
 county, born July 5, 1812 ; have three 
 children living Sarah Jane, born Sept. 
 
 5, 1842; Ezra, born Aug. 26, 1844; Ira, 
 boru July 18, 1848 ; and Mary M. born 
 July 29, 1846, and died Nov. 13, 1860. j 
 
 TERWILLIGER, WM,, farmer; 
 Sec. 20, P. O. Hampshire; born in 
 Chenango Co.; N. Y., came to this 
 county in Spring of 1845 ; Rep. ; Lib- 
 eral ; owns 160 acres of land, valued at 
 $50 per acre; married Nov. 14, 1855, 
 to Miss Elizabeth David, of this county, 
 born July 15, 1835; have seven chil- 
 drenIda May, born Sept, 24, 1856 ; 
 Chas. W., born Aug. 3, 1859 ; Martha 
 A., born June 3, 1861 ; Fred. L., March 
 7, 1863 ; Cora B., born July 24, 1870 ; 
 also a pair of boys, born Nov. 14, 1877. 
 
 Tremen, R., farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 TTSBORN, J. W., farmer ; P.O. Hamp- 
 U shire. 
 
 TTAN FLEET, JAS., farmer ; P. 0. j 
 V Hampshire. 
 
 Van Valkenburg, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. j 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Van Schoyck, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 WEED, E., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Wrache, C.; P. 0. Harmony. 
 Waidmayer, Wm., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Whitcome, George, merchant; P. 0. 
 
 Hampshire. 
 
 Whitcome, Daniel, merchant; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 WHELPLEY, EDWIN W., 
 
 farmer, Sec. 12 ; born in Chenango Co., 
 N. Y., Feb. 25. 1830; came West in 
 the Fall of 1838, and lived some time 
 in Cook aud Dupage Cos. ; settled in 
 this town in 1856 ; Rep. ; Universalist ; 
 owns 186 acres of land, valued at $75 
 per acre ; married Elizabeth Terwilli- 
 ger, of this town, May 27, 1868; she 
 was born in Cheoango Co., N. Y., Oct.. 
 1833 ; is Village Trustee. 
 
 Warner, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Waidman, John, farmer; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 WARNER, WILLIAM, farmer, 
 Sec. 36; born Oct. 5, 1829, in Stark 
 Co., Ohio ; came to this county May 1, 
 1854; Ind.; owns 80 acres of land, val- 
 ued at $50 per acre ; was Supervisor of 
 the town for 1856, and Assessor for 
 1857; enlisted, Aug. 7, 1862, in the 
 the 127th 111. Vol. Inf., and served four 
 years on Gen. Sherman's staff two 
 years of the time ; held rank of Cap- 
 tain ; married, Dec., 1852, to Miss 
 Catharine Harney, who died June 12, 
 1855 ; had two children Mary E. 
 and George 0. ; married again April 10, 
 1856, to Miss Sallie A. Dixon, of 
 this county ; born Oct. 19, 1835 ; have 
 five children by last marriage Alice L., 
 born Jan. 7, 1857 ; Jesse J., born July 
 20, 1858; Francis M., born March 29, 
 1867 ; William T.. born Feb. 10, 1 870 
 Willis M., born March 25, 1876. 
 
 Williard William. T., far. ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Wills, J. E., P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Werthwein, E., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Wykoff, J. S., mer. ; P. O. Hampshire. 
 
 WATSON, E. M., farmer, Sees. 19 
 and 20 ; born at Deerfield, Mass., Dec. 
 3, 1821 ; came West in the Spring of 
 841 ; located in Du Page Co., in thb 
 State, and resided there three years : 
 settled in Hampshire in the Fall of 
 1855; Rep.; Meth.; owns 200 acres 
 of land, valued at $75 per acre ; mar- 
 ried to Miss Eliza Corser, of Sycamore, 
 De Kalb Co. ; she was born in Broome 
 Co., N. Y., Aug. 25, 1837 ; have three 
 children Frank M., born Dec. 11, 
 1863; Benjamin M., born June 11, 
 1865 ; Jennie E., born Oct. 25, 1873. 
 
 Wilkie, Henry, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Williams, H. P., far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Wright, Charles, far. ; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Whitcome, William, far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Williams, S. K.. far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 WARNER, GEORGE O., farmer, 
 Sec. 36; born in this county May 31 r 
 1855 ; parents reside in this county ; 
 lives with his grandfather, Jacob War- 
 ner, aged 75 ; married to Mary I. 
 Lloyd, of Elgin, Feb. 13, 1876, who 
 was born March 28, 1859. 
 
 Willing, Dr. A. J., physician; P. 0. 
 Hampshire. 
 
 ryiGLER, GEORGE, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 / 1 Hampshire.
 
 566 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 DUNDEE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A RCHIBALD, JANE, farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 J_T\_ Carpentersville. 
 
 Arvedson, Fred., clerk ; P. 0. Carpenters- 
 ville. 
 
 Andrews, John, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Albrecht & Meier, fanners; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 ADAMS, DE WITT C., farmer and 
 merchant ; firm of Hodgess, Borden & 
 Co., lumber dealers ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 born in Courtland Co., N. Y., in 1824 ; 
 came to Hanover, Cook Co., in 1842, 
 and Barrington following year ; pur- 
 chased in Barrington Township 237 
 acres, valued at $65 per acre ; has an 
 extensive dairy, and is one of the most 
 energentic and prominent business men 
 of Dundee; Rep.; Bapt.; married Mary 
 E. Harvey, at Elgin, 1852 : she was 
 born in 1832; two children living 
 William, burn in 1856 ; Ella May, in 
 1875 ; three deceased Carrie, Louie 
 and Charles. 
 
 Ahorn, John, saloon ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ahrens, Sophie, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Albrecht, Fred., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ailnsworth, William, carp.; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 Anderson, C. A., tailor ; P. 0: Dundee. 
 
 ARCHIBALD, ABRAHAM, far 
 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 9 ; P. 0. Carpenters- 
 ville ; was born in Edinboro, Scotland, 
 in 1815; resided in Airdrie 16 years; 
 came to America in 1848, direct to 
 Dundee Township, and bought 1 60 acres ; 
 now owns 273 acres, valued at $50 per 
 acre ; married Miss Jane Crichton at 
 Airdrie, Scotland, in 1847 ; she was 
 born in Glasgow in 1807 ; Mr. A.'s first 
 wife, Mary Cowa, was born in Airdrie; 
 they were married in 1837, in Airdrie; 
 one child by first marriage Abraham ; 
 two children by second marriage Rob- 
 ert, now living, and William A., de- 
 ceased ; Mrs. A. was married to Daniel 
 McNeale in 1826, in Scotland; three 
 children living Malcom, John and 
 Anna McNeale. 
 
 Allason, John, far.; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Ahrens, William, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BOMELMAN, A., hotel ; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee. 
 
 Baumann, Louis, hotel ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Bushnell, John, farmer ; P. 0.. Dundee. 
 Bradley, H. S., blacksmith ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BULLARD, GEO. W., capitalist. 
 P. 0. Dundee ; was born in Westboro, 
 Mass., July 25, 1818; resided there 
 some 17 years with his parents, then 
 moved to Brookfield, where he engaged 
 in hotel business for three years ; came 
 to Dundee in 1839 ; bought a farm of 
 200 acres, on which he built a log cabin ; 
 returned East, where he married Erne- 
 line Harvey, at Stafford, Conn.; re- 
 turned shortly after to Dundee; Mr. 
 B. is owner of a fine property, own- 
 ing house and lot at Elgin, same at 
 Dundee, and two farms in Iowa ; Jan. 
 4. 1872, Mr. B.'s first wife passed away ; 
 second marriage occurred Oct. 6, 1873, 
 to F. E. Fenn, of New Haven ; she 
 was born in Sheffield, Mass., Aug. 15, 
 1824 ; one child living by first marriage. 
 
 Bentroth, Henry ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BETGE, CHARLES, sole agent in 
 Dundee Township for the Inman and 
 National steamship lines, passage to and 
 from the following points ; Hamburg, 
 Bremen, London, South Hampton, 
 Paris, and all points in Europe. All in- 
 quiries relative to passage will receive 
 prompt attention. 
 
 Batt, August, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Blow, Charles, shoemaker; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BARROWS, MARTIN T., hard 
 
 ware merchant ; was born in Saratoga 
 Co., N. Y., July 15, 1834 ; moved from 
 there to Greenfield Centre, learned trade 
 of blacksmith ; came to Kane County 
 about Jan. 1, 1856 ; on arrival, he and 
 Mark Calhoun started a blacksmith shop, 
 continued in the business two years ; 
 married C. L. Oatman, daughter of Jesse 
 Oatman, Esq., Dec. 10, 1856, at Dun- 
 dee, where she was boVn ; Rep.; Bapt.; 
 five children Clara M., Lucy, Herbert 
 A., Gertrude, Ella B.; five deceased. 
 
 Batt, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ben, Louis, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BINNIE, JAMES, fanner and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Dundee; born near Airdrie, 
 Scotland, in 1839 ; came to Dundee in 
 1849 ; married Miss Mitchell : seven 
 children. 
 
 Brown, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Baumann, Louis ; P. 0. Dundee, 
 
 Binnie, Alex., merchant; P. 0. Dundee
 
 ARTHUR HUNTING MERRILL (DECEASED) 
 
 ST CHARLES.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 569 
 
 BORDEN, J. M., lumber and coal 
 merchant, member of firm of Hodgess, 
 Borden & Co.; was born in Cazenovia,' 
 N. Y., Nov. 7, 1838, residing there until 
 16 years of age; came West in 185-4, 
 with parents, and settled in Dundee ; 
 worked some time as carpenter and join- 
 er ; engaged in broom manufacture ; 
 about 1862, entered the army as musi- 
 cian, in Co. A, 7th 111., time of service, 
 one year ; was in battles of Shiloh, 
 Pittsburg Landing, etc., etc.; by act of 
 Congress, regimental band was dis- 
 missed and he returned to Kane Co.; 
 married Mary E. Mills, who was born 
 in New York about 1839 ; five children 
 living Bertha M., Estella L., Maria S., 
 Josephine C., Clara Bell; Charles J., 
 deceased ; all born in Dundee, 
 
 BINNIE, ROBERT, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Dundee ; was 
 born in Lin Lithgow, Scotland, in 1807 ; 
 came to America in 1849, direct to Dun- 
 dee, and bought 80 acres ; now owns 
 217 acres, valued at $75 per acre ; Rep.; 
 Protestant ; was married to Miss Agnes 
 McLain, June 7, 1846, at Sterling Co., 
 Scotland, where she was born in 1807 ; 
 seven children blessed their union 
 Elizabeth, born May 5, 1833, John, born 
 June7, 1835, Alison, born Feb. 23, 1837, 
 James, born Feb. 18, 1839, Agnes, born 
 June 1, 1841, Robert, born June 24, 
 1843, Agnes, born Feb. 3, 1845. 
 
 Barrows, M. T.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Brewer, Benj., painter; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bradley, M., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bowman, John. 
 
 Bradley, H., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Barth, John, carp,; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BUMS TED, WM., far. and dairy- 
 man in Dundee Tp.; P. 0. Carpenters- 
 ville. Was bora in Sussex, England, 
 Dec. 17, 1845 ; came to America in 
 1853, direct to Carpentersville ; works 
 300 acres ; held office of Road Commis- 
 sioner two terms ; Rep.; Bapt. Mar- 
 ried Frances Hoxie, at Dundee, April 
 25, 1872 ; she was born in Berkshire 
 Co., Mass., Sept. 17, 1851. Have two 
 children Lettie Bishop, born March 
 17, 1873, and Susie Olive, born Sept. 
 21, 1876; both were born at Dundee. 
 Mr. B. is Deputy Grand Worthy Patri- 
 arch of the order of Sons of Temper- 
 ance, organized at Carpentersville, 1851. 
 
 BUMSTED, GEO. F., far. and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. Dundee. Born at 
 Carpentersville, Kane Co., April 6, 
 1854 ; for many years resided on the 
 old homestead : in 1877, rented farm 
 of Geo. Giddings, 165 acres. Rep.; 
 Bapt. Married Miss Apaanda Nute, at 
 Elgin, Sept. 14, 1876 ; she was born 
 Feb. 4, 1855, at Barrington, Cook Co. 
 
 BUCKLIN, ANSON C., farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. Dundee ; born in Berk- 
 shire Co., Mass., in 1823 ; came to Illinois 
 in 1837 ; purchased 282 acres of land 
 from the Government, and still owns 
 the same, valued at $20,000 ; Rep. ; 
 Bapt. : held the office of Road Commis- 
 sioner two terms ; in addition to a large 
 farm, he has an extensive dairy, and has 
 shipped, in one day, 144 gallons of 
 milk ; was married to Julia P. Jencks, 
 in Cook Co., in 1846: she was borp in 
 Berkshire Co., Mass., in 1826 ; have 
 two children Frances B., born in 
 1850 ; Henry J.. born in 1853. 
 
 BUCK, A. J., agent for the celebrated 
 Atlantic Mills ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 Was born at Oswego, N. Y., in 1832; 
 came to Kane Co. in i847 ; enlisted in 
 Co. I, 52d III. Inf., Aug. 13, 1862 ; 
 went direct to Corinth, Miss.; was en- 
 gaged in the battles of Town and Bear 
 Creek, under Logan and Sweeny ; hon- 
 orably discharged at Washington, May 
 29, 1864, and returned to Carpenters- 
 ville. Rep.; Cong. Held office as 
 Township Collector and School Director 
 eight years. Married Emily Hewett, 
 of Williamson, N. Y., Nov. 22, 1855 ; 
 she was born April 8, 1836 ; have four 
 children, all born at Carpentersville. 
 
 BEVERLY, ALONZO, farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. O. Dundee ; born in 1848, 
 at Barrington, Cook County ; came to 
 Kane County in 1875 ; bought 180 
 acres land, valued at SI 00 per acre; 
 Ind. ; Bapt. ; married Melvina Padel- 
 ford, of Dundee Tp., in 1871 ; she was 
 born in Dundee, and passed away in 
 1872, leaving one child, Clara M., who 
 was born in 1872 ; in Oct., 1874, he 
 was united in marriage with Miss 
 Mary Mason, a graduate from Cook 
 County Normal School, and daughter of 
 the late John Mason : she was born in 
 Dundee Tp., Dec. 7, 1848; have two 
 children Clarence M. and Laura E.
 
 570 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 BEVERLY, ASA T., far., stock 
 buyer and feeder ; Sees. 30, 31 , 32, 8 
 and 9 ; P. 0. Barrington, Cook Co. | 
 Born July 4, 1844 ; parents came to j 
 the county in 1839. Asa purchased 
 310 acres in 1866 ; now owns 433 
 acres, worth 865 per acre ; he held the 
 offices of School Director and Pathmas- 
 ter and Treas. of the Barrington Mu 
 tual Ins. Association. Was married, 
 in 1866, to Florence Schoonhoven, at 
 Hanover, Cook Co. ; she was born in 
 Hanover, Cook Co., in 1848, and passed 
 away Sept. 6, 1874, leaving a family of 
 two children Carrie J., born in 1867, 
 and Florence, born in 1873; both born 
 at Barrington. 
 
 Borden, Joseph, lumber dealer; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Bolz, M., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BUMSTED, STEPHEN, JR., 
 mach. for 111. Iron & Bolt Co.; P. 0. 
 Carpentersville. Born at Rye, Sussex 
 Co., England, in January, 1845 ; came ' 
 to America in August, 1855, direct to 
 Carpentersville; resides now at Dun- 
 dee ; carded wool two years for George , 
 Marshall ; resided at Magnolia, Rock ; 
 Co., Wis,, and farmed for eight months ; 
 returned to Carpentersville and went 
 into machine shop, Jan. 14. 1868 ; I 
 Rep.; Bapt. Married Augusta J. Jack- 
 son, at Dundee, June 6, 1869 ; she was 
 born in Sweden. Owns a house and 
 two lots and a half on Main street, also, 
 eighty acres in Jackson Co., Kan. 
 Have two children Kittie J. and Nel- 
 lie M.: both born at Dundee. 
 
 BROWNING, SAMUEL W., 
 
 farmer, stock raiser and dairyman, 
 P. 0. Dundee; was born in Warren 
 Co., N. J., in 1836; came to Cook 
 Co. in 1847, and to Kane Co. in 1871 ; 
 owns a farm of 200 acres, valued at 
 $100 per acre ; held the offices of 
 School Director, Trustee of Town Insur- 
 ance Company, and Trustee of Congre- 
 gational Church Society ; has 45 cows, 
 and ships 64 gallons of milk daily ; mar- 
 ried Miss Mary Bullard, at Dundee, Feb. ! 
 2, 1864, where she was born ; has three | 
 children Lucy, born in Sept., 1866; j 
 Howard, born May 18, 1869; Clara 
 May, born March 22, 1872; one de- : 
 ceased, J. Walter, born Oct. 16, 1874, 
 and died Feb. 12, 1877. 
 
 Burney, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Burney, A., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 BARTER, THOMAS N., farmer, 
 Sec. 16; P. O. Carpentersville ; was 
 born in Vermont, in 1809, at Jay, Or- 
 leans Co. ; came to Dundee in 1842 ; 
 Rep. ; Meth. ; married Olive H. Stevens, 
 of Swanton, Vt., at Swanton ; she 
 was born in 1807; have seven chil- 
 dren living Alvia, Edgar, Lewis H., 
 George Adelbert, Leonard, Loduskm 
 and Julia ; Mr. Barter has discovered 
 a mineral on his farm, the nature of 
 which is not fully knowa, and there are 
 various speculations on the subject, but 
 Mr. Barter is satisfied as to the value of 
 his property. 
 
 BOWEN, EDGAR, farmer; P.O. 
 Dundee ; was born at Lewis, Essex Co., 
 N. Y., in Sept., 1835 ; came to Dundee 
 in Aug., 1855 ; enlisted, at the break- 
 ing out of the rebellion, Company I, 2^ 
 111. Vol. ; was engaged in the battles o f 
 Corinth, Dal ton, Resaca, seige of At 
 lanta, Chattanooga, and Sherman," 
 march to the sea ; honorably discharge s 
 at the close of the war, at Chicago, 111. " 
 Dem. ; Protestant ; held the office o 
 Town Collector and Constable ; mar-f 
 ried Lucia A. Perry, at Geneva, Wis., 
 in Oct., 1858 ; she was born at Dundee, 
 in 1842 ; have four children Ellsworth 
 M., born in Oct., 1864 ; Henry, born 
 Jan. 1,1869; Mabel, born in March, 
 1870; Bertha, born in Sept., 1863; 
 Myron, born in Jan., 1876. 
 
 BRIDGE, GEORGE, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was- 
 born at Kent Parish, Wittersham, 
 England, in Sept. 1827; emigrated to 
 America in i 849 ; lived near Albany, 
 N. Y., sixteen months ; came West in 
 1851, and located near Elgin ; bought a 
 farm of 100 acres, then 80, and sold be- 
 fore coming to Dundee in 1861 ; came 
 to Dundee Tp. and bought 100 acres of 
 land, valued at $60 per acre ; also rents 
 a farm of 140 acres ; owner of 60 milch 
 cows, and young stock and fine resi- 
 dence ; Rep. ; Meth. ; held the office of 
 School Director ; married Miss Maria 
 Chacksfield, at Elgin, 111.; she was born 
 in Kent Co., England, July 24, 1833 ; 
 have nine children William, Charles, 
 Clara, Martha, Flora, Henry, Elmira, 
 Frank and Edward.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 V71 
 
 BUMSTED, JAMES H., machin- 
 ist, Illinois Iron & Bolt Co., Carpenters- 
 ville, 111. ; was born at Rye, Sussex, 
 England, July 7, 1851 ; came to Amer- 
 ica in 1851; came West to Carpenters- 
 ville, the same year, and worked on a 
 farm until 1 869 ; then entered into the 
 employ of above company, and is still 
 retained in their employ ; Hep. ; Bapt.; 
 holds office of Librarian at Baptist Sun- 
 day school ; also Superintendent of Sun- 
 day school ; married, in 1873, at Carpen- 
 tersville, to Anna Masters ; she was 
 born in England, Aug. 28, 1851 ; have 
 one child, Lorena, born at Carpenters- 
 ville, Aug. 19, 1876. 
 
 Brinkerhoff, A. B., railroad man ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Bartels, Charles, restaurant; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Binnie, H., farmer; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 Behrn, Christ., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Burnstead, James, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bradley, W. S. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Browning, S. W., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Burney, William; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bruhn, John, carpenter; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Butt, Christ., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bohn, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Bartling, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Burow, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 /BRIGHTON, 11., far. ; P. 0. Ca.pen- 
 
 \^_J tersville. 
 
 CLUTE, W. S., born in Schenectady, 
 N. Y., May 31, 1822 ; when 4 years old, 
 went to Montgomery Co. ; at the age 
 of 6, the death of his father occurred ; 
 until 16, hired with farmers, and then 
 learned bootmaking with G. Dunning ; 
 went to Galloway, continued bootmak- 
 ing, and also the practice of music, until 
 the war ; enlisted as musician from New 
 York city, Aug. 17, 1861 ; served 
 two years ; came to Chicago in 1863 ; 
 came to Dundee in August, 1865 ; since 
 coming here, has manufactured largely 
 for the trade what is known as the Dun- 
 dee Boot ; twice elected Village Trustee. 
 Mr. Clute is now making a custom-war- 
 ranted boot, with patent bottoms, by the 
 pair or case ; keeps a leather and find- 
 ings store in connection with factory. 
 
 Campbell, Margaret, far. ; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 CHAMBERS, W. LEE, Business 
 
 Manager Dundee Record; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee; born in Geneva, Feb. 12, 1856; 
 came to Dundee in Spring of 1877. 
 
 CARPENTER, CHAS. V., farm- 
 Ing, stock raising and dairy ; P. 0. Car- 
 penterville ; born in Uxbridge, Wooster 
 Co., Mass., in 1803 ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1837, and took a claim of 200 acres, 
 with a brother bought afterward. Mr. 
 Carpenter is one of the early pioneers of 
 Kane Co. ; in 1840, hauled rye to Chi- 
 cago and received therefor between 
 three and four dollars. Charles C. and 
 Daniel laid out the present town of Car- 
 pentersville. Owns 224 acres, valued at 
 $100 per acre ; also owner of extensive 
 sand quarry, producing molding and 
 plastering sand of superior quality. Mar- 
 ried Esther H. French, at Uxbridge, 
 Mass., in 1835 ; she waa born in Ded- 
 ham, Mass., in 1802, and died in 1861. 
 Married Huldah Sherman in 1862, who 
 was born in Reading, N. Y., near Sen- 
 eca Lake ; she passed away in Septem- 
 ber, 1877. Two children living Sarah 
 and Maria ; last two deceased. 
 
 CLEVELAND, E. F., M. D., edi- 
 
 tor and proprietor of Dundee Record ; 
 born near M alone, N. Y., Sept. 29, 
 1841 ; educated at St. Mary's College, 
 Canada; enlisted in Co. A, 9th I. V. 
 in June, 1862 ; commanded the com- 
 pany part of 1863-64; Chief of Engi- 
 neer Corps of 2d Div. 25th Army Coips, 
 on Gen. C. Devcns' staff, until mustered 
 out, June 14, 1865; commenced the 
 study of medicine with Dr. C. Brown, of 
 Canada, in 1865 ; attended lectures at 
 McGill College, Montreal, Canada; grad- 
 uated from Medical Department of the 
 University of Michigan, March, 1868 ; 
 settled in Dundee and assumed practice 
 of profession, and now has a large prac- 
 tice. Dr. Cleveland established the 
 Dundee Record in March, 1877. No 
 man has the interests of the county more 
 at heart than the gentleman who heads 
 this sketch. He has contributed liber- 
 ally of his means toward the improve- 
 ments of Dundee ; established the pub- 
 lic library here, and when the public 
 park question came up, gave it his sup- 
 port. In conclusion, it can be truly 
 said that the doctor is a genial gentle- 
 man and a public benefactor. Sept. 'Z'Z, 
 1870, he married Ella S Edwards. Two 
 children blessed their union Annabel 
 and Mary E. both born at Dundee. 
 Campbell, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 572 
 
 TAX -PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Cochran, M. L., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Cochran, 0. F. laborer ; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 Crichton, D. F., farmer ; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 CHAPMAN, ANDREW P., Su- 
 perintendent of Milk Department on the 
 Chicago & Northwestern Railway ; born 
 in Leesville, Ohio, Dec. 4th, 1847 ; came 
 to Kane Co. in 1868 ; engaged in har- 
 ness manufacturing, under firm name of 
 Chapman & Voorhes ; also worked on 
 farm ; Rep. ; Bapt. When Mr. Chap- 
 man came to Dundee, his worldly effects 
 were small, but by persverance and in- 
 dustry owns a fin i residence and prop- 
 erty at Dundee. Married Mary E. Sun- 
 ley, at G-rinnell, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1877; 
 she was born in Dundee in 1852. 
 
 Cook, David, mason ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Cruinm, Heary, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 COCHRAN, ANDREW, far and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Algonquin, 
 McHenry Co.; was born in Vermont in 
 1811 ; came West in 1836 to Ohio ; in 
 1844 to Indiana ; in 1869 came to Dun- 
 dee and bought 100 acres, and still owns 
 same; Rep.; Protestant ; has held office 
 of School Director in Dundee ; in Indi- 
 ana was Township Treas. and Clerk 
 many years ; married Miss Mary Lo- 
 water in Cambridge, Vt., in 1836; she 
 was born in Massachusetts in 1811; she 
 died in 1849 ; in 1850 married Lydia 
 Stocking at New London, 0.; she was 
 born in 1819 in New York State; five 
 children by first marriage ; second mar- 
 riage, four children George W., Cor- 
 delia M., William E., Robert A., Mary 
 A., Florence C., Julia A., Oscar F. and ', 
 Murray L. 
 
 COCHRAN, MALCOLM, farmer, I 
 stock raiser and dairyman ; Sec. 12 ; I 
 P. 0. Dundee ; born in Argyleshire, i 
 Scotland, Sept. 1803; came to America j 
 in 1845 ; landed in New York and came 
 direct to the West, Dundee Township ; j 
 purchased 80 acres ; now owns 200 acres, 
 valued at $65 dollars per acre ; has 36 
 head of cattle and every facility for dairy ; 
 Rep.; Presb.; married Elizabeth Thomp- 
 son in Gartsherue, Scotland, Feb. 1834 ; j 
 she was born in Gartsherue, Scotland, in I 
 1807; she died Sept., 1868, at Dundee, 
 leaving a family of three children 
 John, Jeannette and Jane; Marion, de- ' 
 ceased ; born at Gartsherne in 1836, 
 died in 1847. 
 
 Clifford, L., P. 0. Carpenterville. 
 Clute, W. S., shoemaker; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 CAMPBELL, JAMES, far., stock 
 
 raiser and dairyman ; Dundee Township ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Airdrie, Scot- 
 laud, Feb. 13, 1850 ; parents removed 
 the same year to America ; Mr. C. works 
 farm of 265 acres, which property be- 
 longs to Margaret C., mother of James ; 
 Rep.; Protestant ; holds office of School 
 Director ; married Sarah E. Clark, of 
 Lafayette, Ind., Jan., 1872; she was 
 born in Palmyra, N. Y., March 8, 1849 ; 
 one child Estella, born in Elgin, Feb. 
 3, 1874. 
 Cook, Ed., carpenter; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 COCHRAN, CHAUNCEY, far 
 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 20, P. 0. Dundee ; 
 was born in Cambridge, Vt., in 18 J8; 
 came to Dundee in 1839 and bought 
 80 acres of land from the Government : 
 now owns 107 acres, valued at $75 per 
 acre ; Rep.; Protestant ; has held office 
 of School Director; married in Dundee, 
 Sept. 7, 1841 ; one child living John 
 Murray, born in Dundee in 1843; two 
 children deceased Sarah and Emma 
 E., who died, leaving infant child ; John 
 Murray Cochrane, son, is married and 
 has three children. 
 
 CRICHTON, JAMES A., farmer ; 
 P. 0. Algonquin, McHenry Co.; born 
 in Dundee in 1851 ; works farm of 80 
 acres; Rep.; married Miss Ada Davis, 
 daughter of Geo. Davis, Esq., at Dun- 
 dee in 1875 ; she was born in Dundee 
 in 1855 ; one child Louis James ; born 
 in Dundee in 1875. 
 
 CRIGHTON, WILLIAM, farmer 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 was born April 19, 1821, near Glasgow, 
 Scotland ; came to America May 22, 
 1843, to Dundee; purchased 80 acres; 
 now owns 200 acres, valued at $75 per 
 acre ; is oue of Dundee's most sub- 
 stantial citizens ; Rep., Cong.; held of- 
 fice of School Director, and voted the 
 Abolition ticket before the Republican 
 party came into power ; married Miss 
 Grace Todd in Dundee Jan. 26, 1848 ; 
 she was born near Glasgow in- 1828 ; 
 children Grace, born June 2, 1849 ; 
 Jeannette, March 9, 1851 ; John, Sept. 
 15, 1854; James T., Dec. 16, 1856; 
 William, June 2, 1862 : Willliam, 2d, 
 June 4, 1863.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 573 
 
 CRICHTON, AGNES, Sec. 8; 
 
 P. 0. Dundee ; was born March 8, 1836, 
 at Ayrshire, Scotland ; came to Amer- 
 ica with parents when 7 years old ; they 
 settled in Dundee on a farm of 300 
 acres; married Neil Crichton at Udina, 
 111., Dec. 9, 1853; he was born 
 in Airdrie, Scotland, June 11., 1815; 
 died Feb. 9, 1873 ; seven children liv- 
 ing Margaret, John H., Robert A., 
 Neil, William, George, Agnes E; Mary 
 Young, deceased ; Mrs. Crichton owns 
 120 acres, valued at $75 per acre. 
 
 CRABTREE, L. A., physician and 
 surgeon ; born at Friendship, Allegany 
 Co., N. Y, Dec. 16, 1818 ; went to Cal- 
 ifornia in 1 849 ; resided there seven and 
 a half years, practicing medicine ; came 
 to Dundee in 1857; Mr. C. is a gradu- 
 ate of Rush Medical College, graduating 
 in 1849 ; has been in practice 30, years ; 
 Rep.; Protestant ; held office of School 
 Director ; married Miss Cornelia Wiltsie 
 at Barrington, Cook Co., Aug., 1852 ; 
 she was born at Beekman, Duchess Co., 
 N. Y.; two children Ida and Stella. 
 
 CRICHTON, JOHN, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Dundee ; was 
 born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1811 ; 
 came to America 1846, to Dundee; 
 bought 80 acres; now owns 155 acres, 
 valued at $70 per acre ; Rep ; Reformed 
 Presb.; held office of School Director ; 
 married Miss Mary Forest at Carluke, 
 Scotland, in 1 846 ; she was born in 
 Carluke in 1816; two children Jean- 
 nctte, born in 1851 ; Maggie, born April 
 14, 1857 ; three children deceased 
 John, Agnes and John. 
 
 CRICHTON, JAMES, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 5 ; P. 0. Algonquin ; 
 born near the city of Glasgow, Scotland, 
 Feb. 8, 1813 ; came to America in 1 848, 
 to Dundee ; bought 80 acres ; now owns 
 290 acres and an extensive dairy ; for 
 feeding his stock, Mr. C. uses steamed 
 feed, having an eight-horse-power boiler 
 in connection with a combined pump 
 and engine of six-horse-power, both the 
 cutting and steaming of fodder being 
 done by machinery ; Rep.; Cong.; was 
 married to Bathie Arfrew* at Airdrie, 
 Scotland, in 1841 ; she was born near 
 Glasgow in 1818; nine children John, 
 Thomas, Jessie, Daniel, Robert, Jennie, 
 James, Mary and Bathie. 
 
 DILLEN, T. A., miller ; P. 0. Car- 
 pen tersville. 
 
 DUFF, ROBERT, retired farmer; 
 P. 0. Dundee ; born at Perthshire, 
 Scotland, Jan. 19, 1809; came to 
 America in 1837 ; landed at New York, 
 resided there about two years, then 
 went to Florida, where he stopped until 
 1842; came to Dundee, 111., Jan. 1, 
 1844; married Miss Lucy Cummings, 
 at Dundee; bought 120 acres of land; 
 now owns 225 acres, valued at $50 per 
 acre ; held the offico of Highway Com- 
 missioner, Township Trustee and other 
 offices ; Rep. ; Bapt. ; has two children 
 Robert and William, born in Rutland 
 Tp.; one deceased. 
 
 DONOVAN, JOHN, machinist, 
 blacksmith and inventor of improve- 
 ments in making cast iron anvils ; P. 0. 
 Carpen tersville ; was born at Vandusen- 
 ville, Mass., in 1843 ; came to Chicago 
 in 1856, and to Kane Co. in 1859 ; has 
 been a resident since 1862, and with Illi- 
 nois Iron and Bolt Co., at Carpen tersville ; 
 was elected Librarian of the town, and 
 is one of the Directors of Library Hall ; 
 Dem. 
 
 Davis, H., P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 DEUCHLER, JACOB M., farmer 
 and stock raiser, and dairy man ; Sec. 
 12; P. 0. Dundee; born at Wunter 
 Aves Naam, Ger., 1817 ; came to America 
 in 1839 ; to Dundee in 1846 ; before 
 settling here was in Iowa and Pennsyl- 
 vania ; purchased 80 acres $65 per 
 acre ; Rep. ; Meth. ; held office School 
 Director ; married Catherine Deuchler 
 in Chicago, in 1846 ; she was born at 
 Wunter Aves Naam, Ger., Aug., 1827 ; 
 5 children living Christina, Kat., John 
 Jacob, Chas. H., Amelia, Chas. Henry, 
 and Anna, deceased. 
 
 DEMPSTER, GEO. W., farmer 
 and dairy man ; Sec. 16, Dundee Town- 
 ship ; P. 0. Carpentersville ; born on 
 the old homestead, Dundee Tp., Sept. 
 12, 1851; has always resided here; 
 rents farm of 160 acres belonging to 
 A. R. Dempster, an earlj settler ; Rep.; 
 Bapt. ; married Alice Kingsley, daugh- 
 ter of S. Kingsley. Esq., at the residence 
 of S. W. Kingsley, Esq., at Barrington, 
 Cook Co., May 5, 1875; she was born 
 at Barrington, Oct. 9, 1852 ; one child; 
 Willis; born in Dundee Tp., Jan. 18, '76.
 
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 TAX-PAVERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Dempster, A. R., farmer ; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 Dobika, Aug., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Dalborn, Swain, P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Doss, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Duval, Louis, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Dauss, Chas., railroad man ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 DUFF, JAS., farmer and dairy man ; 
 Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Dundee ; born at Perth- 
 shire, Scotland, in 1811 ; came to Amer- 
 ica in 1832; to Dundee in 1840 ; pur- 
 chased from Government 160 acres ; 
 now owns 120 ; valued at $75 per acre ; 
 married Mary Walker in the city of 
 New York, in 1838 ; she was born at 
 Whiteburn, Scotland, in 1815; 7 chil- 
 dren living; Robert, born July llth, 
 1842; J. W., April 10, 1846; Alex- 
 ander, March 3, 1848 ; Lizzie, Oct. 20, 
 1849 ; John, Oct. 26, 1851 ; Daniel, 
 Jan. 31, 1859 ; Nettie, Sept. 11, 1861 ; 
 3 children deceased. 
 
 Duvel, Christ., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Doss, Chas.. laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 DAVIS, GEO. W., farmer and dairy 
 man ; Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born 
 in Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1833 ; came 
 to Dundee in 1854; bought house and 
 lot in Dundee ; sold in 1865, and pur- 
 chahed 100 acres; value, $50 per acre; 
 still owns ; Rep. ; Protestant ; was mar- 
 ried to Miss Bessie Aylesworth, at Chen- 
 ango County, N. Y., in 1855 ; she was 
 born in said county in 1838 ; 11 children ; 
 Eda, born April 28, 1856 ; Chas. A., 
 Dec. 29, 1857; Ida May, May 15, 
 1860 ; Mary M., Mar. 17, 1862 ; Flor- 
 ence Bell, March 23, 1864 ; Minnie 
 Maude, March 31, 1867 ; Walter C., 
 April 26, 1868 ; Howard A., Jan. 17, 
 1871 ; Floyd R., May 22, 1873 ; Stella 
 M., June 9, 1877 ; Flora and Ida, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Demmien, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Duff, Jno., carpenter ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Dunton, Albert, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 DUFF, JAS. W., carpenter ; P. 0. 
 Dundee; was born at Dundee, 111., 
 April 10, 1845; resided two years in 
 Montana; been a resident of Dundee 
 since; Ind. in politics ; Prot.; holds office 
 of School Director ; practical mechanic ; 
 unmarried. 
 Durand, 0. H., teacher ; P. 0. Carpen- 
 
 tersville. 
 
 Dunton, Delos, bookkeeper ; P. O. Carpen- 
 tersville. 
 
 Dikenson, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 DUFF, JOHN, stock dealer ; P. 0. 
 Dundee ; was born in Dundee Town- 
 ship, and with exception of three or 
 four years, has always resided there ; 
 Rep. ; Prot. 
 
 Dunton, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 TTWANS, JAS., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ehlert, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Ehlert, Theo., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Edwards, H. C., farmer ; P. O. Dundee. 
 Ehlert, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Estry, Aug., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Ellison, Wm., carpenter ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 EATINGER, FRANK, Cheese 
 
 maker (Wanzer & Eatinger), factory ; 
 P. 0. Dundee ; was born in Indiana 
 Township, Bureau County, in 1856 ; 
 came to Kane County in 1872 ; un- 
 married ; lived in Kane County six 
 years ; Ind. in politics. 
 
 Engle, Gottfried, butcher ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ehlert, Fred., laborer; P O.Dundee. 
 
 Eatinger, Chas., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ellsworth, Wm., policeman ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ehlert, Chris. ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 FINN, FRED., farmer; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee. 
 
 Fierck, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Flinn, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Farrell, Timothy, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Farrell, Jerry, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 FISHER, ALFRED, Farming and 
 Dairy; Dundee Township, Sec. 10; 
 P. 0. Carpentersville ; born at West- 
 boro, Mass., in 1808 ; came to Kane 
 County in 1845 ; bought land in 1849 
 74 acres, now owns 180 acres ; value 
 of real and personal property $10,000 ; 
 Rep. ; Prot. ; married Deliah Bice, at 
 Richland, N. Y. ; she passed away in 
 1847 ; married present wife, Sallie Ann 
 Wilson, at Algonquin, McHenry Co., in 
 1848; she was born in N. Y. State, 
 May, 1825 ; three children by first 
 marriage Edwin, Charles and Ella ; 
 Charles died in the army ; had three 
 children by second marriage Martin. 
 Dexter and Ann, deceased. 
 
 Fierk, Fred., P. 0. Du dee. 
 
 Fischer, M., laborer ; P. 0. Carpenters- 
 ville. 
 
 Falschow, Christ., laborer; P.O. Dundee. 
 
 Fritz, John, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Falschow, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 575 
 
 Farrel, Wm., fanner ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 FORTUNE, CHAS. C., cheese and 
 butter maker ; P. O. Elgin ; was born 
 at St. Louis, Mo., in 1854; worked at 
 present business forty-two years, first at 
 Hickory Grove, Forestville, Mo., then 
 to Dundee Township, where he now 
 manages the butter and ch ese factory 
 of J. P. Mason ; Dem ; Pres. ; mother 
 of Mr. F, is still living at St. Louis, Mo. 
 
 Friek, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Friek, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Fenner, Dr., dentist ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Forkins, M., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Falschow, Chas., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 PULLER, ALMON, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was 
 born at Lennox, Madison Co., N. Y., 
 Sept., 1811 ; came West to Blooming- 
 dale, Du Page Co., in 1835 ; in 1836 
 went to St. Charles, Kane Co., and 
 worked two years in the saw mill of 
 Minard, Fearson & Co. ; came to Elgin 
 in 1838 ; worked S. J. Kimball's farm 
 two years, and in Spring of 1841 bought 
 from Government 160 acres of land ; 
 in 1835, emigrants would frequently 
 lose their way across the prairie be- 
 tween Bloomingdale, Du Page ^o., and 
 Elgin, so Mr. Fuller, on the 4th of July, 
 plowed across for their benefit ; married 
 Miss Emily Tanner, at Sugar Grove, 
 Kane Co., Feb. 15, 1839; she was 
 born at Watertown, N. Y., in 1812; 
 children Edwin I., William, Henrietta 
 and Geo. Warren. 
 
 Frank Wn ., labjrer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Fritz, John, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Fairchild A. H., agent; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Forbes & Cochran, farmers ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 FITCHIE, J,\MES, farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born at 
 Perthshir., Scotland, in 1828 ; came to 
 America in 1870 ; came to McHenry 
 Co., III.; in 1873, came to Kane; 
 works 152 acres, valued at $60 per 
 acre ; Rep. ; Cong. ; held office of 
 School Director ; married Miss Grace 
 Mclntosh, at Perthshire, in 1857; wife 
 also born at Perthshire, in 1826 ; child- 
 renMargaret A., May 28, 1858; 
 David, Dec. 18, 1859, died Nov. 22, 
 1872 ; James, March 28, 1862 ; Robt. 
 A. G. K., March 29, 1864; Hugh, 
 July 23, 1866; Alexander Mclntosh, 
 Feb. 6th, 1870. 
 
 Farrell, J. J. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Frazier, Thos. farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Flanty, Jas., mason ; P. Dundee. 
 
 Fessendorf, C., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Fallman, Henry; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 f^\ GODWIN, R. T., physician ; P. 0. 
 
 VIT Dundee. 
 
 Goble, Geo., shoemaker; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Guge, Jacob, shoemaker; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Gillett, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Gillilan, John, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Gromer, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 GRANT, JAMES, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born 
 in Perthshire, Scotland, Parish of Kirk 
 Michael, Feb., 1799, and emigrated to 
 America in 1835 ; lived for two years 
 in N. Y. State ; came West to Dundee, 
 in 1837 ; but few people here when he 
 came ; bought a claim of 80 acres ; now 
 owns 165 acres ; has owned 170 acres ; 
 coming to Kane Co. with nothing, Mr. 
 Grant, by industry that characterized 
 the early settler, has acquired a fine 
 property ; Rep.; Bapt. Married Mar- 
 garet Malcom at Dundee, in 1842 ; she 
 was born at Paisely, Scotland ; has 
 nine children living Bella, Jeanette, 
 Peter, Robert, James, John, Eliza, 
 Eleanor and Cora. 
 
 GO OLE, EPHRIAM J., retired 
 farmer, Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Dundee ; was 
 born at Saratoga, N. Y., March 3, 
 1825 ; at the age of 18, moved to Ca- 
 yuga; came West in 1849, to Barring- 
 ton, Cook Co., and residing six years, 
 thence to Scott, Ogle Co., and to Dundee 
 in 1870, and purchased 93 acres of 
 land ; Rep.; Meth. Episcopal ;' was 
 Road Commissioner and School Direc- 
 tor in Ogle Co. March, 1851, married 
 Miss Lydia Hammond, at Barrington ; 
 she was born in Steuben Co , N. Y.; 
 passed away in 1852 ; had one child, 
 E. H. now living ; second marriage 
 occurred at Dundee, to Mrs. Emeline 
 Sherman ; she was born in Franklin 
 Co., Vt.; by second marriage, two chil- 
 dren Frances E., born Feb. 26, 1858; 
 Etta, born Dec. 15, 1861. 
 
 Griffith, Hugh, farmer; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Garlieb, John, carpenter ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Good, Christ., butcher ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Glude, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Giddings George, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Gail, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 GRIFFITHS, ROBERT A,, 
 
 farmer and dairyman, Sec. 8 ; P. 0. 
 Dundee; was born at Muirkirk, Scot- 
 land, in 1816; came to America in 
 1846, direct to Dundee; purchased 119 
 acres of land; now owns 121 acres, 
 valued at $75 per acre ; Rep.; Pres. 
 Married Elizabeth Crichton Aug. 27, 
 1841, in Carluke, Scotland ; she was 
 born in Scotland, in 1818; passed away 
 March 22, 1861, leaving 11 children; 
 Jeanette A., born Feb. 18. 1842; Anne, 
 born Feb. 20, 1844; William, born 
 March 20, 1846 ; John C., born Nov. 
 21, 1848; Maggie C., born Nov. 6. 
 1850; Jane C., born Oct. 25, 1852; 
 Elizabeth C., born June 11, 1855; 
 William, March 12, 1857 ; Jane C.,born 
 May 17. 1859 ; Mary C., born 1861. 
 
 GRIFFITH, J. L., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 42; P. 0. Dundee; born at 
 Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y., Aug. 25, 
 1819 ; came to Kane Co. in 1865 ; pur- 
 chased, soon after, a farm of 74 acres ; 
 Rep.; Meth.; made School Director Dis- 
 trict No. 13, and Steward M. E. Church. 
 
 , Married Eunice C. Berry at Caton, 
 Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 7, 1852 ; she 
 was born at Westerly, Rhode Island, 
 May 16, 1826; six children Charles 
 E., born Dec. 7, 1853; Clark B., born 
 April 6, 1856 ; Euphemia E., born Dec. 
 13, 1858; Frank L., March 12, 1862; 
 Lucy L., Feb. 17, 1867 ; Russell Wayne, 
 May 27, 1870. 
 
 Graning, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 ~~ALL, G. E., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 H 
 
 HAWLEY, E. C., Supervisor ; P. 0. 
 Dundee ; born at Barrington, Cook Co., 
 February 18, 1850 ; came to Kane Co., 
 April, 1854 ; was for eight years actively 
 engaged in brick manufacturing ; firm 
 name, Hawley, Hager & Co. ; subse- 
 quently disposed of his interest and 
 became connected with the well known 
 banking and mercantile house of H. 
 E. Hunt, October, 1871. Married Esther 
 Hunt, March, 1871, at residence of the 
 bride's parents. Mr. H. was elected to 
 the present Board of Supervisors at the 
 annual meeting held in 1877 ; appointed 
 School Treasurer Feb., 1877 ; also held 
 office of Town Collector. Two children 
 Henry E., born Jan. 6, 1875, Wm. A.. 
 May 26, 1877. Both born in Dundee. 
 
 Hodges, James, lumber dealer ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Hubbard, D. W., railroad man ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Helm, Rudolph, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Horn, John ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hoxie, C. A., railroad agent ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hull, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 HODGESS, J. H., flour, feed and 
 lumber merchant ; P. 0. Dundee ; firm 
 of Hodgess, Borden & Co; born at 
 Shellburn, Vt., April 5, 1834; in 1838 
 removed to 111. First business venture 
 was farming, which he followed for some 
 years; in 1869 became traveling agent 
 for an Eastern firm ; followed it two 
 years ; in 1870 entered into co-partner- 
 ship with above firm, of which he is 
 still a member. Rep. ; Prot. ; held office 
 of Trustee two terms, at Dundee. Mar- 
 ried Mattie P. Todd, of Elgin, 111., at 
 Clinton. Iowa, Dec. 15, 1874 ; she was 
 born June, 1849. One child, Gertrude, 
 born at Dundee, March 18. 1875. 
 
 Hewitt, Darius, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Holden, William, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Haeger, D. H. & Co., brickmakers ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 HOLLISTER, ALLEN S., Justice 
 
 of Peace, Notary Public, insurance and 
 real estate agent; P. 0. Dundee; mem- 
 ber of firm of D. R. Jencks & Co., of El- 
 gin ; was born in New Milfcrd, Conn. ; a 
 resident until 1830 ; in 1844 came to 
 Kane Co. ; since arrival has been en- 
 gaged in the drug and also tailoring 
 business ; held office of P. M. under 
 Pierce and Buchanan ; in 1870, was 
 elected Justice of the Pe'ace ; again elected 
 Spring of 1877. Married three times ; 
 first wife, Eliza Parker, of Enfield, 
 Conn. ; second, Sophia Tyler, of Girard, 
 Pa. ; third wife, Jerusha Boynton, now 
 living, from Dundee. Mr. Hollister is 
 the father of six children, only one 
 living. 
 
 Holz, J. M., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hodgess, Borden & Co., lumber dealers ; 
 P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Haeger, D. H., mason ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hendricks, Ed. .blacksmith; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hendricks & Mueller, wagonmkrs ; P. O. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Hintz, Christ, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hintz, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hintz, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 577 
 
 HANCHETT, WM- P., farmer and 
 dairyman; P. O. Elgin; was born in 
 Broome Co., N. Y., May 8, 1821 ; lived 
 in N. Y. 34 ytars; came West to Wis., 
 in 1855, to Viroqua, Vernon Co. ; resided 
 there until 1865 ; thence to New Jersey; 
 came to Kane Co., Sept. 1, 1875; 
 wurked 1 70 acres, estate of Darius Hewitt. 
 Rep. ; Bapt. ; enlisted in Co. A, 25th 
 Wis., Aug., 1862 ; re-enlisted for three 
 years ; honorably discharged on account 
 of sickness, May 29, 1863. Married 
 Harriet E. Vail, at Forest Lake, Sus- 
 quehanna Co., Pa., Oct., 1850. She 
 was born at Orange Co., N. Y., July, 
 1828; children, Fanny E., Wm. D., 
 Milburn C., Hattie J., Carrie D., Louis 
 M., Martha G., deceased. 
 
 HAVERKAMPF, HENRY P., 
 
 cabinet maker and undertaker ; P. 0. 
 Dundee ; was born at Hanover Stadt, 
 Ger., Dec. 25, 1831 ; left Germany for 
 America in 1852; arrived at Quebec; 
 from Quebec came direct to Chicago ; 
 here he married Ursula Ziagler, Dec. 
 26, 1854 ; came to Kane Co., March 23 ; 
 commenced shortly after arrival business 
 of cabinetmaker, succeeding Chas Kover 
 and is now doing an extensive business 
 in Dundee; Rep. ; Meth.; seven children 
 living Caroline, Henry, Annie, George, 
 David, Edward, Samuel; deceased, John 
 and Moses. 
 
 Hawley, F. S., livery ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hawthorn, E. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Heman, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 HAVERKAMPF, F. H., dry goods 
 merchant ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born 
 in Hanover, Ger., May 12, 1839 ; emi- 
 grated to America in 1854 ; coming di- 
 rect from the East to Dundee. Engaged 
 in various occupations. Worked for A. 
 & H. C. Edwards as clerk some seven 
 years ; in Feb., 1866, started dry goods 
 store, firm name being Haverkampf & 
 Laihle ; bought out Mr. Laihle's interest 
 in 1870 ; Rep. ; Meth. Epis. Married 
 Johanna Nagel, of Donkle Grove ; she 
 was born in Holland, in 1838 ; died, 
 Oct. 22, 1876 ; eight children, six living. 
 Mr. H. is now living with his second 
 wife, Elizabeth Lay ; they were married 
 Aug. 23, 1877, at Fond du Lac. She 
 was born in Prussia in 1843. 
 
 Hoxie, G. W., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hall, C. F., merchant ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hull, Ann, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hemenway, W. R. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hodges, Martha, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hodges & Dickinson, far's.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Henning, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 HA.MMERS, JNO., farmer and stock 
 raiser, Hanover Township, Cook Co.; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Washington 
 Co., Indiana, Jan. 28, 1820 ; from there, 
 went to Putnam, near Greencastle; after 
 remaining there five years with parents, 
 went to McLean Co., near Peoria, 111., 
 May 9,1835; settledin Hanover, where 
 Geo. Hammers' father claimed 400 acres 
 and afterward bought same in Fall of 
 1843 ; Mr. J. Hammers bought 80 acres ; 
 in 1844, SO more; now owns property 
 to the amount of 304 acres, valued at 
 $75 per acre; Rep.; Meth. Mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Browning, of Du Page 
 Co., 111., in 1842; have five children. 
 
 HYLAND, PATRICK, black- 
 
 smith ; P. 0. Carpentersville ; born 
 at New Bridge, Kildare Co., Ireland; 
 came to America in 1872; came West, 
 direct to Dundee, and entered into em- 
 ploy of 111. Iron & Bolt Co., and has 
 been with them since. Dem.; Roman 
 Catholic. John Hyland's father was 
 born at Port Arlington, Queens Co., 
 Ireland, in 1827. Mrs. Hyland, whose 
 maiden name was Bambrick, was also 
 born in same town and county, in 1826. 
 
 Hunt, H. E., merchant; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hill, Jno. V., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Harker, Charles, laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 HOWIE, ROBERT, far. and sheep 
 raiser, Sec. 5 ; P.O. Dundee ; was born 
 in Eagle's Home, Scotland, in 1821 ; 
 came to America in 1841 ; came to 
 Dundee, pre-empted 80 acres, afterward 
 bought; now owns 225 acres, value $75 
 per acre ; Rep.; Prot. Married Annie 
 Hood at Dundee in 1854; she was born 
 in Scotland in 1832; five children liv- 
 ing Mary, born Feb. 20, 1856; John, 
 born Jan. 11, 1863; James, born April 
 3, 1868; Robert born in 1866; 
 Anna born April 22, 1873 ; Martha 
 born Feb. 20, 1856, died in 1862 ; John 
 born Dec. 21, 1857, died in 1861; 
 Anna born 1859, died same year ; Hugh 
 born March 16, 1870, died same year; 
 Willie born June 11, 1872, died same 
 year; Maggie born Sept. 18, 1861, died 
 July 21, 1874.
 
 578 
 
 TAX-PAYERS ANT) VOTERS OF 
 
 Hopp, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hopp, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Haacker, Chas., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Holtz, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hoxie, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Healey, Bernard, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hill, Seth, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 H AWLE Y, GEO. C., P. 0. Dundee ; 
 born at Amherst, Mass., Jan. 19, 1828; 
 moved from Mass, to Williamson Co., 
 N. Y. ; came to Dundee in 1835; owns 
 a farm of 325 acres valued at $75 per 
 acre ; also fine residence at Dundee and 
 large dairy; five children all living. 
 
 Holtz, Widow, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hathorn. D., carpet-weaver; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hoffman, F. H., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hubbard, H., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hill, W. P., hotel; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Hodges, S., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 ~~iUCK, J. G., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 I 
 
 TOHNSTON, T., P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 fj Jyrst, John, farmer; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 JENCKS, D. S., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Barrington; P. 0. Dundee; was 
 born in Berkshire Co., Mass., April 6, 
 1825; came to Cook Co. in 1844, 
 located first on a 120-acre farm, sold out 
 in 1850, and went to California; re- 
 mained one year before departure ; bought 
 40 acres, and sold on return ; bought 
 125 acres at Barrington, sold this and 
 went to Palatine, and bought 250 acres, 
 this he sold in 1868, and bought a farm 
 where he now lives ; owns 172 acres, 
 large dairy, 40 cows; has shipped 120 
 gallons of milk in a day ; Rep. ; Uni- 
 versalist; held office of School Director, 
 Highway Commissioner, etc. Married 
 Nancy E. Waterman Oct. 26, 1845, 
 at Barrington, and born at North 
 Adams, Berkshire 'Co. ; Mass., July 25, 
 1825; four children. 
 
 Jurst, Bernard, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 TT^RAHN, CHARLES, farmer; P.O. 
 IX Dundee* 
 
 KRAHN, FREDERICK, farmer; 
 Sec. 1 ; Dundee Tp.; P. O. Dundee; born 
 in Prussia, Germany, in 1853 ; came to 
 America, in 1860, and to Dundee, 111., 
 direct ; since coming to America, has 
 been a resident of Dundee ; Rep. in 
 politics ; Luth. in religion. 
 
 Kuken, Chris., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Kibby, C. A., P. O. Dundee. 
 
 KETCHUM, E. G., farmer, stock 
 raiser and dairyman ; residence Dundee 
 Tp. ; P. 0. Dundee; born in Berkshire 
 Co., Mass., in 1822 ; removed to Cook 
 Co. in 1848, locating at Palatine; moved 
 to Kane Co. in 1869; owns 270 
 acres, valued at $100 per acre ; Rep. ; 
 Prot. ; held office of School Trustee for 
 a number of years, and still holds same. 
 Married Betsy Hayden, at Windham 
 Co., Vt., in 1844; she was born in 
 Berkshire Co., Mass., in 1822 ; four 
 children Everette E., Alfred N., 
 Frank W., Clara A. ; two deceased 
 Myron H., Graylord E. 
 
 Kelley. Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 KELLEY, THOMAS B., stone 
 
 mason, plasterer, builder, raiser and 
 mover; born at Dublin, [reland, June 11, 
 1826; P.O. Dundee ; came to America in 
 February, 1 852, and to Kane Co in April, 
 1856; worked as farmer eight years; 
 engaged in present business in 1862 ; 
 commenced in a small way, and now 
 does an extensive business and owns a 
 fine property. In 1857, T. B. Ed- 
 wards and T. B. Kelley opened the street 
 known as Kelley street, a main thor- 
 oughfare of Dundee. Married Mary 
 Cunningham, in 1850, at Dublin, Ire- 
 land ; she was born at Balskenden, Ire- 
 land, in 1830. Independent of party ; 
 Rom. Cath. ; has been Assessor of 
 Highways and Street Commissioner for 
 four years ; nine children Eliza, born 
 Oct. 27, 1851 ; Charles H., May 3, 
 1854; Mary Jane, Dec. 11, 1856, died 
 March 1 6, 1857 ; Ellen, March 12, 1858; 
 Mary Jane, Oct. 27, 1861 ; Thomas B., 
 May 12, 1863; Margaret H., Nov. 4, 
 1866; Eva, April 5, 1870; Anna, 
 May 20, 1872, died March 16, 1873. 
 
 Knaack, Christ., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 KINGSLEY, HENRY, farmer, 
 stock raiser and dairyman ; Barrington, 
 Cook Co., 111. ; P. 0. Dundee ; born, 
 in 1854, at Barrington ; Mr. K.'s busi- 
 ness has always been farming and dairy- 
 ing ; works 376 acres ; his dairy busi- 
 ness is quite extensive ; has shipped in 
 one day 192 gallons of milk to the fac- 
 tory at Dundee ; Rep. ; Prot. ; married 
 Jennie Wright, at Carpentersville, Dec. 
 25, 1876 ; she was born in Carpenters- 
 ville, Kano Co., in 1856. 
 
 Krahn, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 579 
 
 KINGSLEY, S. W., farmer and 
 dairyman ; Barrington, Cook Co. ; Sec. 
 20 ; P. 0. Dundee ; born at North 
 Adams, Mass., in 1818 ; in 1840, came 
 West and located on the farm where he 
 now lives, then a farm of 240 acres ; 
 has since bought largely, and now owns 
 465 acres, valued at $65 per acre ; is 
 worth $50,000 in real estate and per- 
 sonal property ; has one of the most 
 extensive dairies in the Northwest ; his 
 shipments of milk have been as high as 
 as 184 gallons daily ; has some very fine 
 Holstein cattle. Rep. ; Prot. ; held the 
 offices of Supervisor, Commissioner, Col- 
 lector, etc. ; married Waitie Waterman, 
 at North Adams, Mass., in 1841 ; she 
 was born at North Adams ia 1822 ; 
 seven children Mary, Sarah Jane, 
 Hannah, Addie, Hattie, Alice and 
 Henry. 
 
 Kendall, N. G., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 KRAHN, CHAS. F., farmer and 
 dairyman, Dundee ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 born in Prussia, Germany, in 1841 ; 
 came to Quebec, Canada, in 1858, with 
 parents ; from there direct to Dundee 
 Tp. ; owns 55 acres, valued at $100 per 
 acre ; property, $4,000 ; Rep. ; Meth. ; 
 School Director of District No. 26 ; en- 
 listed in 1865 at Elgin, 111 ; on duty 
 guarding prisoners of war at Camp 
 Douglas, Chicago ; honorably dis- 
 charged. Married first wife, Lucinda 
 Hull, at Dundee, in 1863 ; she passed 
 away S^pt. 4, 1870, leaving one child, 
 Emily ; married second wife, Elbertine 
 Ebert, at Milwaukee, May 10, 1871; 
 she was born in Germany in 1849 ; 
 three children by last marriage Frank, 
 Albert, Fannie ; two deceased. 
 
 KRUIEGER, JOACHIM, far.; 
 
 P. 0. Dundee; born in Prussia, Ger- 
 many, in 1 842 ; came to America in 
 1872, direct to Dundee ; Rep. ; Luth. ; 
 married, in Germany, Mary Hopp, in 
 1869 ; she was born in Germany, in 
 1845; five children Johanne, Min- 
 nie, Ureka, John and Fred. Mr. K. 
 served one year in the Austrian war and 
 year in the French war, being engaged 
 in the principal battles ; at the close of 
 the war, came to America, where he 
 has since resided. 
 
 Kelley, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Kroeger, Chris., laborer ; P. O. Dundea. 
 
 Kohn, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Kampfer, C., tailor ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Kruse, Chris., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Kelley, C. H., mason ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 KIBBY, A. C., carpenter and joiner ; 
 P. 0. Dundee ; born in Litchfield, N. 
 Y., Feb. 26, 1810 ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1840 ; worked for Grist Mill company 
 at Batavia, and put in first run of stone ; 
 witnessed many ludicrous scenes at an 
 early day ; has seen wigwam, big coun- 
 cil lodge, squatter log cabin and frame 
 building all in one year ; has seen herds 
 
 - of deer as far as the eye could reach : 
 saw the grave of Big Thunder, Chief of 
 the Pottawattomies. In the Spring of 
 1840, married Miss Olive Tracy, at 
 Mexicoville, N. Y. ; Dem. ; owns a fine 
 property in Dundee ; two sons and two 
 daughters ; lost five. 
 
 Kaufelds, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Krahn, C. F., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 T EMBEKR, WM., farmer; P. O. 
 I J Dundee. 
 
 Lorenz Chris., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Lucas, L.. farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Luther, Chris., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 LAWRENCE, CHRIST., farmer 
 and dairyman ; P. 0. Dundee ; was 
 born in Prussia in 1840 ; came to Amer- 
 ica in 1867 ; Dem. ; Meth.; owns 39 
 acres ; married Zena Edelfeldt, in Ger., 
 in 1867 ; she was born in Ger. in 1840. 
 Lost three children. 
 
 Lange, Frank, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Lembekr, John ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Lussow, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Leverenz, John, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Lempke, W.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MILLER, JOHN F., farmer ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 MCKNIGHT, JOHN, b y trade hat, 
 
 cap and furrier, now farmer and Street 
 Commissioner ; P. 0. Dundee ; born at 
 Belfast, Ireland, in 1811 ; came to 
 America in 1827 ; to Cook Co. in 1837 ; 
 to Kane Co. in 1865; purchased prop- 
 erty in Dundee, value, $5,000, known 
 as McKnight's addition to Dundee ; 
 elected to office of Commissioner four 
 terms. Rep.; Episcopal; married Eliza- 
 beth Wardlow, at Burlington, Vt, in 
 1832, at Belfast, Ireland; have had 10 
 children nine living John, Ann, Jane, 
 Margaret, Eliza. Susan, James, Ella and 
 Francis ; Amelia, deceased.
 
 580 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Miller, Fred., laborer , P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 McKendrick. Thos. ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Melville, William, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Miller, J. F., blacksmith ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 McEwen, B. T., carp.; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Marshall, Wm.,mer.;P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Medrow, Joe, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MANN, LEONARD W., farmer; 
 P. 0. Dundee. Born iii N. Hampshire 
 in 1821; came west to Elgin, m 1838; 
 Winter of 1842 became possessor of 120 
 acres, on which he resided seven years, 
 during which time lie married Lydia 
 Hewitt, Sept. 19, 1844 ; she was born 
 in Steuben Co., N. Y., in 1824 ; Rep.; 
 Bapt. Enlisted Aug. 1861, in Co. A, 
 36th I. V., and served three years ; was 
 in 11 engagements ; wounded at battle 
 of Kenesaw Mountain ; promoted Ser- 
 geant for meritorious conduct ; honora- 
 bly discharged Nov., 1864; held office 
 of Town Trustee, etc. Has two children 
 living, three deceased. 
 
 Mitchell, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MORTON, CHARLES, blacksmith 
 
 and wagonmaker ; P. 0. Dundee ; born 
 at Spuyten Duyvil Creek, N. Y.,Dec. 3, 
 1822 ; in 1845, came to Chicago ; worked 
 as journeyman 12 years; in 1857 came 
 to Kane Co., started blacksmith shop ; 
 in 1864, went to Montana and worked 
 at trade and mining ; after two years 
 returned to Kane Co.; is now in business 
 and is well and favorably known as a 
 skilled mechanic ; was in Volunteer Fire 
 Department at Chicago, of which he was 
 chief. Married Abigal Allen, at Chi- 
 cago, in 1846 ; she passed away in 1853 ; 
 now married to Elizabeth Taylor, of 
 Dundee ; two children by first marriage, 
 five by second. 
 
 Muller, F. J., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MUNGER, C. A., far., stock raiser 
 and dairyman in Dundee Tp.; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Portage, Wis., July 
 25, 1853 ; came to Kane Co. in 1872 ; 
 works farm of 124 acres and carries on 
 dairy of five cows daily or 44 gallons. 
 Rep.; Bapt. Married Mmma C. Cooper 
 in Dundee Tp., May H, 1874 ; she was 
 born at Union, Rock Co., Wis., in 
 1838 ; have one child, Henry A., born 
 Sept. 20, 1876, in Dundee Tp. 
 
 Miller, Fred., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Miller, John, far. ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 McGregor, Jane ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MORSE, ABNER, farmer and dairy- 
 man in Dundee Tp.; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 born in Madison Co., N. Y., 1826 ; in 
 1853, came West and located, first at 
 Barrington, Cook Co., bought 160 acres 
 and sold to Edwin, a brother ; in 1857, 
 bought 160 acres in Dundee Tp., value, 
 $100 per acre. Dem.; Bapt. Held office 
 of Road Commissioner one term ; mar- 
 ried Sarah Jane Saulisbury, in Dundee 
 Tp., Oct. 28, 1857 ; she was born in 
 Canada, 1836 ; have five children 
 Charles, born 1860; Willie J., born 
 1864; George E., born 1868; Leuella, 
 born 1870; Frankie A., born 1873; 
 Flora, born 1862, and died Aug. 13, 
 1866. 
 
 Miller, Albert, jeweler ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Melane, Fred., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MUNGER, H, C., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born in 
 Vermont in 1829 ; came to Dundee 
 in 1873 ; owns farm of 124 acres ; 
 value, $60 per acre ; owns property 
 to the amount of $10,000. Mar- 
 ried Mary Jane Sheppard, at Cooksville, 
 Wis, Sept. 3, 1853; she was born in 
 Batavia, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1832 ; have 
 seven children Charles, born July 25, 
 1854 ; Lillian, born May 6, 1859 ; 
 Ettie A., born Aug. 12, 1864 ; Ora P., 
 born March 30, 1867 ; Minnie, born 
 Oct. 11, 1869; Omer, born Dec. 10, 
 1873 ; Jennie, born Jan. 27, 1876. 
 
 Masters, Thomas, P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 MARTIN, JOHN, retired merchant; 
 P. 0. Dundee ; opened dry goods and gro- 
 cery store at Gilbert's Station, Rutland 
 Tp. ; Mr. M. is of Irish parentage; was 
 born in Scotland in 1825 ; gave up mer- 
 cantile business on account of ill health ; 
 while in Rutland held office of Postmas- 
 ter eight years and Justice of the Peace 
 three years ; acted as Agent for Ameri- 
 can Express Co. ten years ; Dem.; Cath ; 
 was married to Miss Elizabeth Carthey 
 in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1845 ; she was 
 born in Ayershire, Scotland, in 1825, 
 same year as husband ; one child living 
 Matilda ; deceased, James, Lizzie, 
 Katie, Mary, John, Rosanna and Peter. 
 
 Muir, David, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 McEwen, B., P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Miller, Martin, lab.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MILLER, DAVID, far. and dairy- 
 man ; an early settler of Kane Co.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 581 
 
 MASON, DAVID, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born 
 in Berkshire Co., Mass.; resided there 
 till 20 years old, then came West to 
 Dundee Township, and settled on farm 
 of 1 60 acres, on which he still lives ; 
 value $70 per acre ; on this property 
 Mr. M. has made extensive improve- 
 ments ; is Independent as to politics ; 
 Protestant ; was married to Miss Eliza 
 Colson in Berkshire Co., Mass., Sept., 
 1838 ; she was born at Savoy, Mass., 
 June, 1818 ; four children Maria, born 
 Feb., 1845 ; Leland, born June, 1847 ; 
 G-ean, born Jan., 1850 ; Ada, born Jan., 
 1852. 
 
 Medrow, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 MASON, J. P., proprietor Walnut 
 Grove Creamery, situated four miles 
 southwest of Dundee and four miles 
 northwest of Elgin ; P. 0. Elgin ; Mr. M. 
 is a native of Dundee Tp.; born in 1850 ; 
 Ind.; Protestant ; was married to Miss 
 Annie Fraser, in Elgin, March 22, 1871 ; 
 she was born in 1850 in Rutland Town- 
 ship, Kane County ; two children John 
 and Frank. The factory was started in 
 May, 1877, and has a capacity of turn- 
 ing out 30 cheeses and 200 IDS. of but- 
 ter per day ; this factory makes an ex- 
 cellent grade of butter and cheese ; the 
 farm of Mr. M. comprises 160 acres, 
 valued at $60 per acre ; keeps 30 milch 
 cows, and keeps Berkshire and China 
 hogs. 
 
 ~\T RTON ' W - W -> overseer; P. 0. 
 
 JLM Dundee. 
 
 Nute, R., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 NOLTE, AUGUST, manufacturer 
 and dealer in boots and shoes ; P. 0. 
 Dundee ; was born in Bruchauren, 
 West Phalt, Germany, Sept. 13, 1849; 
 served apprenticeship in Brunswick, 
 Germany, four years ; came to America 
 Oct. 3, 1867, coming direct to Dundee, 
 where he worked for many years ; 
 started present business in 1874 ; Rep.; 
 Prot. Married Mary Hoffman, at 
 Dundee, Dec. 2, 1876 ; was born in 
 Macklinburgh, June 10, 1856. 
 
 NEILL, MORTON, miller, Atlantic 
 Mills ; P. 0. Carpentersville ; was born 
 at Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1843; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1866, and became 
 connected with Grove Mills, now At- 
 lantic ; Rep.; Episcopal. Married 
 
 Loretta Wolaver, of Carpentersville, at 
 La Plata, Macon Co., Missouri, Sept 18, 
 1871; she was born in 1851; have 
 three children all born at Carpenters- 
 ville. 
 
 NOLTE, CHARLES, proprietor 
 Spring Mills, Dundee, 111.; was born 
 in Prussia, Sept. 26, 1836 ; emigrated 
 to America in 1857 ; came to Chicago, 
 111., and from there to Dunkle Grove, 
 Du Page Co., in 1859 ; went to Elgin, 
 111., and remained till 1866, then went 
 to Wis. and started a flour and feed 
 mill at Fond du Lac; followed mill 
 business at Forest, Wis., one year, then 
 came to Kane Co. and started present 
 business in 18t>7 ; is well and favorably 
 known, and makes an excellent brand 
 of flour ; Rep.; Luth. Married, in 
 1867, Sophia Goldthmann, at Dundee ; 
 she was born in Hanover, Germany. 
 "!, M., P. O. Dundee. 
 
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 Oatman, G. T., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 OATMAN, JESSE, mer.; P. 0. 
 Dundee; born at New Albany, Ind., 
 Nov. 24, 1811 ; lived there nine years, 
 then moved, with parents, to Green 
 Castle, Putnam Co., Ind., and from 
 there to Tazewell Co., 111., and remained 
 nine years, then moved to Dundee ; him- 
 self and Hardin Oatman, a brother, 
 opened a general merchandise store in 
 Washington, 111., in 1836; brought 
 their stock of goods into Kane Co., 
 being the first merchant's goods in the 
 county north of St. Charles, on the Fox 
 River. Mr. Oatman is a wealthy, enter- 
 prising man ; in addition to a large 
 drug business, has a large bee apiary ; 
 took premium, at Elgin, for best sample 
 of honey. Married Lucinda C. Morey, 
 June 15, 1836, at Washington, 111.; 
 she was born at Cleveland, Ohio, June 
 6, 1818; six children Lucinda, Caro- 
 line, Edward J., George F., Alfred and 
 Henrietta. 
 
 Oatman, E., farmer ; P. O. Dundee, 
 
 O'Brien, M., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 O'Connor, M., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 "OATCHIE, C. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 j Pecoy, Steve, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 | Paddock, C., lab. ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 i Pruess, Henry, saloon ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 ; Pruess, Jno., saloon; P.O. Dundee.
 
 582 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 PAULDING, JOSEPH, capital- 
 ist; was born in Canada East, in 1818 ; 
 at the age of sixteen, moved to New 
 York State; in 1852, bought town 
 property at Dundee ; owns house, lot and 
 shoe store ; Rep ; Bapt. ;, married Sarah 
 Schuyler, a descendent of Capt. Schuy- 
 ler, of Revolutionary fame, in 1849, at 
 Oswego, N. Y. ; she was born in Jef- 
 ferson Co., in 1829 ; Mr. P. took an 
 active part in the war at Canada in 
 1839 and 1840. 
 
 PECK, GEO. J., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Dundee ; born in Glen- 
 ville, Schenectady Co., Sept. 17, 1803; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1837 ; bought 
 claim of 320 acres; sold this in 1852, 
 and 600 acres at Udina; in 1838 built 
 log house; now owns 160 acres, valued 
 at $75 per acre ; married Marriette 
 Mansfield at Esperance, N. Y., March, 
 1836 ; she was born at Esperance in 
 1815; four children Cordelia Penne- 
 lia, G-eo. B. M., and Sandford J. 
 
 Pandt, Jno., P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 PECK, G. H., farmer and small fruit 
 raiser ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born in New 
 Berlin, N. Y., in 1839; resided there 
 until 14 years old, when he came West 
 with parents, April, 1852, and settled in 
 Dundee; owns farm worth $75 per acre ; 
 Rep.; Bapt.; enlisted Sept., 1861, in 
 Co. K, 52d 111. Inf.; served nine months ; 
 the 52d guarded the rebel prisoners sent j 
 to Camp Douglas in 1862 ; then re- 
 turned to Dundee ; married Amanda ; 
 Padelford in Dundee in 1860 ; she wat ' 
 born in Canada West in 1842; one 
 child Frank Irving, born May 20, '74, 
 in Elgin. 
 
 PECK, "WM. R., farmer, stock raiser 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 29 ; P. O. Dundee ; 
 was born in Rhode Island in 1803 ; re- 
 sided there nineteen years ; then moved 
 to New Berlin, N. Y., and resided three 
 years; married Mary Hayes in New 
 Berlin in 1827 ; came West in 1853, to 
 Dundee, and settled on the farm where 
 he now ressdes ; farm contains 147 acres, 
 valued at 885 per acre ; Rep.; Meth.; 
 three children living George H., born 
 1839 ; Sarah C., born 1840 ; John W., 
 born 1852; lost five children William 
 R., Don Alonzo, Adaliza, Ruth M. and 
 Charles E.; Don Alonzo reported miss- 
 ing while in the army. 
 
 PERRY, FRANCIS, retired farmer; 
 born at Elizabeth town, N. Y., Aug. 5, 
 1812; in 1836, located in Kane Co., 
 near town of Dundee ; in 1840 bought 
 claim he took on arrival, 265 acres, which 
 he now owns, and a fine property at 
 Dundee, valued at $75 per acre; holds 
 office of Corporation Trustee ; Rep. ; 
 Bapt. ; married Julian Haasz, at Chicago, 
 111., March 14, 1839 : she was born at 
 Elizabeth, Sept. 21, 1819; children- 
 Lucy Jane, born Jan. 3, 1840 ; Lucy 
 Ann, Oct. 1, 1841 ; Mary E., Sept. 9, 
 1843; Julia, Nov. 20, 1849; Octavia 
 A., Nov. 17, 1856 ; Rosalia, Jan. 25, 
 1862, deceased ; Cordelia, Jan. 3, 1850, 
 died March 14, 1850; Augusta C., 
 Sept. 6, 1845, died Sept. 1, 1865. 
 
 PLUMBERGH, THOS., farmer 
 and dairyman ; P. 0. Dundee ; born in 
 Bristol, England, 1797 ; came to 
 America in 1822 ; went from New York 
 ' to New Orleans, resided there seven 
 years, in medical profession ; moved 
 from New Orleans to McHenry Co., 
 Algonquin, in 1839 ; bought 365 acres 
 of land, which he sold in 1865 ; built 
 and was proprietor of the brick flour- 
 ing mill at Algonquin ; through his 
 efforts and others the Fox River Valley 
 Railroad was constructed to run through 
 Algonquin ; considerable of the town 
 of Algonquin was known as Plumbergh 
 Addition ; is the inventor of the cele- 
 brated Illinois Mower, which runs en- 
 tirely without cog wheels and nets its 
 owner a handsome royalty ; Mr. P. is 
 80 years old and very energetic ; mar- 
 ried Miss Davis, at Bristol, England ; 
 one child Robert, deceased ; now mar- 
 ried to Eliza Herman, of London ; 
 eight children. 
 
 PLATH, FRITZ, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born in Prus- 
 sia in 1842 ; in 1863 came to Dundee ; 
 owns 100 acres; Rep.; Luth.; married 
 Fredericka Wallard in Dundee March 
 15, 1865 ; she was born in Germany in 
 1840 ; five children. 
 
 Peters, Henry, merchant; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Pruess, Christ., lab.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Parker, W. J., merchant ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Pfingsten, Henry, lab.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Perry, 0., laborer, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Pischezack, John, phys.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Petit, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 KANE COUNTY : DUNDEE. 
 
 583 
 
 PERRY, E. D., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 4; P. 0. Dundee; born in 
 New York State June 23, 1823 ; re- 
 sided there seven years, and in Ohio four 
 years ; came to Kane Co. in 1846, prior 
 to the removal of Indians to their 
 reservation ; the parents of Mr. Perry 
 on their arrival at their Western home, 
 bought 320 acres from the Government ; 
 E. D. Perry owns 166 acres; has prop- 
 erty valued at $10,000 ; Rep. ; Bapt. ; 
 married Sarah Haasz, Dundee, Tp., Jan., 
 1845; she was born in Essex Co., N. 
 Y., June 25, 1825; children Owen L., 
 born May 6, 1846 ; Armenia A., Oct. 
 2, 1849; Eunice, March 19, 1850; 
 Fayette, March 7, 1858 ; Ella, July 25, 
 1860; Ada, Jan. 8, 1863. 
 
 PERRY, B. P., farmer and dairyman ; 
 Sees. 3, 4, 9 and 10 ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 was born in Elizabeth town, Essex Co., 
 N. Y., March 4, 1811 ; came to Chica- 
 go in 1834, when it contained but 200 
 or 300 inhabitants ; stopped there two 
 months, then settled on Fox River, near 
 St. Charles, and made a claim of 320 
 'acres, and improved it ; three years after 
 returned to the East, where he married 
 Eliza Nicholas, in Essex Co., Nov., 1836 ; 
 she was born in Elizabethtown July 7, 
 1814; nine children Charles H., born 
 Aug. 31, 1837; Alfred E., Jan. 27, 
 1839; Caroline S. and Josephine A.. 
 Jan. 17, 1842; Franklin, 1844; Amos, 
 1846; Louisa A., 1848; Cordelia 0., 
 June, 1855 ; George F., Sept. 17, 1857. 
 
 PADELPORD, J. P., farmer and 
 dairyman; Sec. 31; P. 0. Elgin; was 
 born in Savoy, Berkshire Co., Mass., 
 June 17, 1814 ; is a descendant of Jon- 
 athan Padleford, who was born in 1628, 
 and settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 
 1660 ; in 1825 J. F. went to Upper 
 Canada ; in 1 840 was married in Cana- 
 da to Miss Prudence Pound ; she was 
 born in Elgin Co., Canada, March 8, 
 1823; in 1844 came West and bought 
 80 acres ; in 1845 returned to the East 
 and brought his family ; in 1846 bought 
 the estate of Malcolm McMillian ; first 
 land was bought from Samuel Willaby ; 
 Mr. P. has owned 300 acres ; now owns 
 278 acres, valued at $75 per acre ; was 
 one of the original pro-slavery men, at 
 a time when it was worth something to 
 hold such views. At the time of writing 
 
 this sketch, Mr. P. was erecting what 
 will be one of the finest residences in 
 the township ; children Amanda, born 
 March 12, 1842 ; Pho3be A., June 11, 
 1844 ; William H., Jan. 9, 1848 ; Mel- 
 vina, Aug. 12, 1850; Ida, Dec. 18, 
 1853; Jesse Fremont, Jan. 8, 1856; 
 James Franklin, May 16, 1858 ; Jennie 
 P., May 3, 1860; Julia S., Oct. 4, 
 1862 ; Manley E., Nov. 9, 1866 ; Mel- 
 vina Clara ; Beverly, June 4, 1872. 
 PEARSON. J. W., farmer and me- 
 chanic ; Sec. 16 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born 
 in Kent, England, in 1831 ; came to 
 America in 1849, and to Elgin 1850 ; 
 purchased house and lot in 1867 ; after- 
 ward bought 158:> acres ; now owns 290 
 acres, valued at $60 per acre ; personal 
 and real estate, $5,000 ; Rep.; Meth.;held 
 office of Postmaster at Hanover, Cook 
 Co.; married Miss Cordelia Hayes at 
 Kingston, N. Y., in 1854 ; she was born 
 in Kingston in 1832, and passed away 
 in May, 1861 ; in 1862 married Miss 
 Mary Weller in Elgin ; she passed away 
 in March, 1874 ; in Oct., 1875, mar- 
 ried Emma Weller; children two by 
 first marriage, four by second and one by 
 the third. 
 
 P)UACKENBUSH, M., Principal 
 
 V^ of High School at Dundee ; born in* 
 Otsego Co., N. Y., Nov. 25, 1842 ; resided 
 there seven years, then moved, with pa- 
 rents, first to St. Charles, Kane Co., where 
 he passed his boyhood ; at that day the 
 means for acquiring an education were 
 not as good as at the present time, and 
 it so happened that Mr. Quackenbush 
 did not commence a course of study 
 until 16 years of age; at the breaking 
 out of the war he enlisted, but was not 
 in active service until 1865, then served 
 until the close of the war in Inspection 
 Department, as clerk ; was honorably 
 discharged Sept., 1865, at Washington, 
 when he returned to Kane Co., where 
 he married Nellie Boynton, at Clinton- 
 ville. Aug. 22, 1871 ; one child Eddie, 
 born Nov. 27, 1873, at St. Charles. 
 
 T3ERVOLDT, CHARLES, farmer: 
 
 JL\> P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rose, James, P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Richardson, Mrs., P. Dundee. 
 
 Rollins, E., P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Rigby, E. C.; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Roys, H., P. 0. Carpentersville.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Rooney, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Rahn, Christopher, lab.; P. Dundee. 
 
 RICHARDS, HENRY, boot and 
 
 shoe manufacturer ; born in Devonshire, 
 England, in 1831 ; served apprentice- 
 ship ; came to America in 1870 ; was 
 in business in Elgin four years ; came 
 to Dundee in 1874, and became estab- 
 lished in business ; is a first-class work- 
 man and has a large trade; Ind.; Prot- 
 estant ; married Jane Gliddon in Eng- 
 land in 1853; she was born in Devon- 
 shire in 1830 ; three children John 
 W., George H. and Willie M. 
 
 Rokow, Fred, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rokow, John, laborer, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rokow, Charles, laborer, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rodky, Charles, laborer, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Ropka, William, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Riedesel. William, laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Roehl, Fred., lumber dlr ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Remer, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Radeky, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 ROSE, JOHN W., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Dundee Tp.; P. Dundee ; born 
 in Dundee Tp., in 1850 ; has always 
 resided here; works farm of 120 acres; 
 value, $100 per acre. Married Mary 
 Richardson, at Dundee, Feb. 19, 1875 ; 
 she was born at Philadelphia, Pa., in 
 1851 ; the farm belongs to James Rose, 
 father of John, who is a resident of 
 Dundee and one of the early pioneers 
 of Kane Co., coming here about the 
 year 1847. 
 
 Rover, Charles, painter : P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rahn, Jacob, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rose, A., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Reitey, W., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Reiley, Win.; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Rohn, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rochfort, P., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Rose, H. J., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 O HEPHERD, T. J., far.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, J. A., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, William, farmer ; P. 0. Carpen- 
 tersville. 
 
 SIMONDS, B., P. O. Dundee; a 
 wealthy citizen of Dundee, and one of 
 the early pioneers of the county ; for- 
 merly a merchant, now retired. 
 
 Stark, Herman, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schartow, John, laborer ; P. 0. Carpen- 
 tersville. 
 
 Smith, J. M., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Simpson, S., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sternberg, Fred., farmer: P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sherman, H. N., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 SUTFIN, WILLIAM, farmer; P. 
 0. Dundee; born in Northumberland, 
 N. Y., 1805 ; married at Fort Edwards, 
 N. Y., Oct. 1829, to Miss Lucy Ann 
 Wilson, of Vermont ; she was born in 
 1810. Mr. Sutfin was formerly a mill- 
 wright ; came to Dundee, 111., July. 
 1837; property small ; bought land of 
 the Government in 1843 : now a dairy 
 farm ; was awarded the highest premium 
 at County Fair in 1860 and 1865; is 
 worth $15,000 and stock $3,000 ; was 
 elected to office of Poor Master in 1844. 
 served three years ; elected Town Asses- 
 sor in 1852 ; iu 1853, Commissioner of 
 Roads ; also, in 1857, for six years 
 Township Trustee ; in 1849, School 
 Director for five years. Rep.; Prot. 
 Children Sarah Ann, born at Platts- 
 burgh, N. Y., in 1830; David W., born 
 at Tully, N. Y., in 1836; Mary Ange- 
 line. born May 6, 1839 ; Francis E. 
 born Oct. 23, 1843; Edward Irvin, 
 born Sept. 26, 1846 ; George W., born 
 Feb. 25, 1849. Lost four. 
 
 Sherman. S., farmer, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 STEEGE, J. H, C., Lutheran min- 
 ister ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born in Hes- 
 sen, Germany, Aug. 14, 1841 ; came 
 to America in 1846, landing at New 
 York ; from there to Elk Grove, Cook 
 Co.. 111., and resided there twelve years ; 
 in 1858, went to St. Louis, and gradu- 
 ated at Concordia College ; in 1863, 
 became a minister; then moved to 
 Monroe Co., Mich.; married Mary Wag- 
 ener, from Adrian, Mich.; Aug. 2, 
 1864 ; she was born in Furth, at 
 Kingdom Bavaria, Germany. June 30, 
 1846 ; Mr. Steege came to Kane Co. in 
 1870, and became Pastor of the 
 Lutheran Church, of which he is still 
 Pastor ; three children. 
 
 Schroeder, Fred., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schulz, Fred., fanner ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schuldt, John, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Stead, James, laborer, P. 0. Carpenters- 
 ville. 
 
 Stickels, G., laborer; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Smith, 0. H., carpenter; P. 0. Carpen- 
 tersville. 
 
 Smith, E. J., planing-mill ; P. 0. Carpeu- 
 tersville.
 
 KANE COUNTY: DUNDEE. 
 
 587 
 
 SUTFIN, DAVID W., farmer and 
 stock raiser, Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 born in Onondaga Co., New York, in 
 1836 ; came to Kane Co., 111., in 1837, 
 with his parents, and settled in Dundee 
 Township ; David's first purchase was 
 made March 15, 1865, being 49 acres; 
 now owns 63 acres, valued at $100 per 
 acre, on which he has made extensive 
 improvements; enlisted, Sept. 25,1861, 
 for three years, in Co. A, 7th 111. Inf., 
 and honorably discharged April 18, 
 1862; married Isabella Grant, of Dun- 
 dee, Nov. 25, 1863 ; she was born at 
 Shellsburgh, Wis., in 1842 ; have three 
 children Wm. G., born Aug. 28, 1864 ; 
 Benton H., born Oct. 16, 1865; Wal- 
 ter J., born July 21, 1869 ; all born at 
 Dundee. 
 
 Sternberg, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sherman, Ad. ; P. 0. Carpenters ville. 
 
 Sawyer, H. G., book-keeper; P. 0. Car- 
 pentersville 
 
 SAWYER, GEO. E., retired farmer; 
 P. 0. Carpentersville ; born at Oxford, 
 N. H., in 1815 ; came to Kane Co., 111., 
 Oct. 12, 1847 ; bought a claim of 160 
 acres of land ; now owns 285 acres, val- 
 ued at $75 per acre ; owns a house and 
 two lots at Carpentersville ; owns prop- 
 erty to the amount of $25,000 ; Rep. ; 
 held offices of Road Commissioner and 
 Assessor; married U. P.- Blake, at 
 Plymouth, N. H.; has two children 
 Wm. G., born in 1841, at Dundee; 
 H. G., born in 1844, at Elgin. Mr. 
 Sawyer had a very extensive dairy, and 
 is one of Carpentersville's most enter- 
 prising and wealthy citizens. 
 
 SKEELS, R. M., stock and produce 
 buyer; P. 0. Dundee; born at White 
 Hall, Washington Co., N. Y., in 1815 ; 
 came West in 1860, to Huntley Sut- 
 tion, McHenry Co., 111., and engaged in 
 stock and produce buying ; bought there 
 two houses and seven lots ; carried on 
 present business till 1873 ; then came 
 to Dundee, and is still engaged as stock 
 and produce buyer ; Rep.; Cong. ; en- 
 listed, in 1862, in Elgin Battery, for 
 nine months' service ; honorably dis- 
 charged at Louisville, Ky.; married 
 Miss Manvill, at White Hail, N. Y. ; 
 she was born in 1812, at White Hall, 
 and died in 1864, at Huntley, McHenry 
 Co., 111.; had nine children, four living. 
 
 Starving, John, larborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Steffin, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Scliamback, A., shoemaker ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schuts, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sohroeder, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Segebrecht, Fred. , farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schutt, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Spoonholz, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schroder, Louis, saloon ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Stage, H., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Stickels, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Steege, C., minister ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 SMITH, JAS. A., farmer and stock 
 raiser, and dairyman, Dundee Tp. ; P. 
 0. Dundee ; was born at Roberts 
 Bridge, Sussex, Eng., Nov. 22, 1821 ; 
 c.ime to America in 1836, landing at 
 New York ; lived in Troy till 1847 ; 
 then came West, to Detroit, Mich. ; 
 lived there till February, 1848, then 
 came to Dundee Township, where he 
 has since resided ; owns 74 acres of 
 land, valued at $100 per acre; married 
 Miss Abbie Birge, at Dundee Tp., Oct. 
 9, 1865 ; she was born in New Haven, 
 Vt., Oct. 10, 1821. 
 
 Schmelz, E., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, Jane ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sharp, D., horse farrier; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sternberg, Fred., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, Geo., carpenter; P.O. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, Dan., expressman ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schoknecht, J., laborer; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 STRAHLE, MRS. JOHN, farming, 
 stock raising and dairy ; Sec. 2, Dundee 
 Township ; P. 0. Algonquin, McHenry 
 Co.; was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, 
 in 1833 ; came to America in 1852 ; re- 
 sided in the State of New York, Berk- 
 shire Co., three years; was married to 
 John Strahle, in 1853 ; came West in 
 1855, first to Freeport, 111., then to 
 Crystal Lake, McHenry Co.; remained 
 till 1866 ; bought 150 acres in Dundee 
 Township, at $75 per acre. Mr. Strahle 
 died in Herkimer Co., May 18, 1877. 
 Three children living Charles, born in 
 1854, in Cedarville, N.Y.; John F.. born 
 in Elroy, near Freeport, 111., in July, 
 1855 ; Albert A., born on the old home- 
 stead in 1867 ; one deceased. 
 
 Schumacher, H., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schroder, John, farmer ; P. O. Dundee. 
 
 Steinwart, Mrs., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sheppard, F. J. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Shuldt, J., farmer ; P. O. Dundee.
 
 588 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Smith, J. R., merchant ; - P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 SHEPHERD, FRANK L., farmer 
 and dairyman ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born 
 in New Berlin, Chenango Co., N. Y., 
 May 17, 1844; came with parents 
 to Dundee in 1855, and has resided there 
 since coming; owns 137 acres, valued 
 at $60 per acre ; married Helen J. Ken- 
 yon, at Elgin, May 24, 1864 ; she was 
 born in Washington Co., Vt., Aug. 3, 
 1842 ; came to Kane Co., June 7, 1854; 
 three children Carrie E.,born Sept. 30, 
 1865 ; Jennie M., born July 5, 1871 ; 
 Frank Wylie, born Feb. 28, 1876 ; all 
 born in Dundee. 
 
 Shoot, John, farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Shamback, G., shoemaker ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Schroeder, W. J., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 SHERMAN, MARSHALL, far- 
 
 mer and dairyman ; Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 was born June 7, 1841, at New Berlin, 
 N. Y.; at the age of 7 years came with 
 parents to Dundee ; owns 130 acres, 
 valued at $60 per acre; Rep.; Prot.; 
 held office of School Director ; was mar- 
 ried to Miss Eleanor Mason, in Dundee 
 Township, Aug. 23, 1871 ; she was born 
 in 1849 and is a daughter of the late 
 John Mason, a prominent farmer ; pa- 
 rents of husband not living ; Nancy 
 passed away March 20, and Buell, March 
 27, 1873. 
 
 Slade, C. F., farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Smith, G. H., carpenter ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Sawyer, W. G., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Stead, Wm., lab.; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Schorring, Fred.; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 rpHOMPSON, WILLIAM, far. ; P. 0. 
 _l_ Dundee. 
 
 TORRENCE, HIRAM G., Justice 
 
 of the Peace, Notary Public, and dealer 
 in groceries, crockery and notions ; son 
 of John Torrence ; born at Middleton, 
 Vt., in 1817 ; came with parents, in 
 1819, to Cayuga Co., N. Y., afterward 
 settled in Onondaga Co.; father and 
 mother passed away, when he was but 
 11 years of age. At the age of 20, 
 he married Miss Phila McEwen ; in 
 1844 settled in Dundee ; business, 
 farming first twelve years ; in mercan- 
 tile busines since 1862; was elected 
 Justice of the Peace, and appointed 
 Notary Public, which offices he still 
 retains ; four children two born in 
 New York, and two in 111.; Rep.; Cong. 
 
 Todd, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Thompson, William, lab. ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Tollner, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Tollhurst, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 TAYLOR, GEORGE P., cabinet- 
 maker, furniture dealer and undertaker ; 
 was born in Washington Co., N. Y., in 
 1815 ; in 1831, moved to Steuben Co. r 
 and from there to Kane Co., 111., and 
 from Elgin to Dundee ; bought prop- 
 erty in Elgin, which he sold on remov 
 ing to Dundee, and started a blacksmith 
 and wagon shop ; continued that busi- 
 ness for many years ; in present busi- 
 ness since 1869; Rep.; Cong. Married 
 Anna Eliza Russell, in Steuben Co., N. 
 Y., Jan. 30, 1828 ; was born at Platts- 
 burgh, N. Y., ia 1813 ; has three chil- 
 dren living Eliza, Martha and Lucre- 
 tia ; six deceased. 
 
 Todd, Ruel, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Truax, Mrs., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Thompson, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Todd, Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 TYRRELL, PATRICK, farmer 
 and stock raiser, Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Dundee ; 
 was born in Tipperary Co., Ireland : 
 came to America in 1848 ; lived one 
 Winter in Erie Co., N. Y., and the fol- 
 lowing year came to 111., and bought 
 144 acres of land ; now owns same r 
 valued at $50 per acre ; independent in 
 politics; Cath. Married Mary Ann 
 Ryan, in the city of Chicago, Nov. 11 , 
 1860 ; she was born in Rochester. N. 
 Y., April 17, 1842 ; have six children 
 Mary Frances, born Nov. 2, 1861 ; 
 Katie, born Sept, 5, 1863 ; Willie, July 
 7, 1865 ; Nellie, born Sept. 5 ? 1867 : 
 Eddie, born June 16, 1874; Frank, 
 born May 30, 1877. 
 
 Todd, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Table, A., P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 TODD, ROBERT, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Algonquin, Mc- 
 Henry Co.; was born near Glasgow r 
 Scotland, in 1821; emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1833 ; about the year 1835, came 
 to Dundee, and pre-empted 80 acres of 
 land afterward bought ; now owns 
 225 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; Rep.: 
 Cong. Married Miss Grace Crichton, 
 at Dundee, in 1848 ; she was born near 
 Glasgow, in 1827 ; had nine children 
 James, born June 5, 1849 ; John, born 
 Feb. 16, 1853; Robert and Jennette,
 
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 589 
 
 born Nov. 8, 1856 ; Jane, born April 
 20, 1861; Grace, born Sept. 1,1863; 
 Daniel, born Dec. 18, 18(55 ; Sarah, 
 born March 1, 1870; Allie, born June 
 30, 1872 ; three deceased Grace, David, 
 and infant child. 
 
 "TTOLLMANN, HENRY, laborer ; P. 
 V 0. Dundee. 
 
 Vorhess, John, harness maker ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 WOLFF, GOTTLIEB, farmer; P. 
 0. Dundee. 
 
 Westeren, N., physician ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wayman, J. B., farmer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Whitcomb, C. L , farau-r ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WOODWARD, R. R., retired far 
 mer ; P. 0. Dundee ; born in Steuben 
 Co., New York, Aug. 14, 1819 ; in the 
 Spring of 1846, he came to Kane Co. ; 
 pre-empted land ; owned 150 acres in 
 Cook Co., which he sold the present 
 year; in March, 1877, opened a meat 
 market, the firm name being Woodward 
 & Mink ; is now retired from business ; 
 Rep.; Bapt.; held various offices as 
 Supervisor under the old precinct or- 
 ganization, and Road Commissioner ; 
 Mr. Woodward deeded 120 acres of land 
 in 1847 ; married Mary Crandall, at St. 
 George, Canada West, in June, 1843 ; 
 eleven children blessed that union, ten 
 now living, in different parts of the 
 United States ; first wife died Jan, 11, 
 1867 ; married Mrs. J. C. Stevens ; she 
 was born in Jackson, N. Y., Nov. 24, 
 1825. 
 
 Woolert, Andrew, faimer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WOLAVER, HARMON, stone 
 
 mason, brick layer and plasterer ; P. 0. 
 Dundee ; was born in Oswego Co., New 
 York, June 9, 1826 ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1844 ; learned his trade at Dundee ; 
 enlisted, in Chicago, in Mechanics' Fu- 
 sileers, served three months, and was 
 honorably discharged ; married Ann 
 Kennedy, at Dundee, March 11, 1850 ; 
 she was born at Kijkenny, Ireland ; has 
 three children Mary Ann, Hart P. and 
 Ella ; three deceased ; all boru in 
 Dundee. 
 
 Wood & Kendall, farmers ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wright, L. D., carpenter ; P. O. Carpen- 
 tersville. 
 
 Wilber, William, laborer; P. 0. Carpen- 
 ters ville. 
 
 Wilder, J. C., clerk ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 WHITCOMB, COL., farmer and 
 dairycuan ; P. 0. Dundee ; was born at 
 Palatine, Cook Co., in August, 1843, 
 and remained in Cook Co. until the 
 breaking out of the war, when he en- 
 listed in Co. E., 113th 111. Inf., at 
 Chicago, and went from there to Mem- 
 phis, Tenn.; was at the siege of Vicks- 
 burg and participated in many of the 
 important battles of the rebellion ; was 
 promoted to Sergeant for meritorious 
 conduct in June, 1865 ; was honorably 
 discharged at Chicago and returned to 
 Palatine. Married Miss Minda C. 
 Webster ; two children blessed their 
 union. Mr. Whitcomb held office of 
 Collector two years and was School 
 Director. Rep.; Prot. Justus W., 
 the father of the subject of this sketch, 
 and wife were among the early settlers 
 in Cook Co., coming from Vermont, in 
 1836; they settled at Plum Grove, 
 near' Palatine ; he passed away ; his 
 wife is still living. 
 
 Whittaker, T. L., Postmaster ; P. 0. Car- 
 penterville. 
 
 Wennholz, Wm., mason ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WEBB, WM. H., ornamental japan 
 ner, with Illinois Iron & Bolt Co. ; P. 
 0. Carpentersville ; was born in Essex 
 Co., England ; came to America In July, 
 1855, landing at New York ; came to 
 Kane Co. in 1862 ; the following year, 
 became connected with the present 
 firm, and for fourteen years has done 
 ornamental japan work for the com- 
 pany. 
 
 Wolff, Herman, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WENDT, HENRY, hardware mer- 
 chant ; P. 0. Dundee ; born in Prussia, 
 Germany, in 1 850 ; came to America in 
 1857, and to Kane Co. the same year; 
 went into business in 1873 ; Ind. ; 
 Lutheran ; married Anna Tuyler, at 
 Dundee, 111., in November, 1873, at the 
 Lutheran Church ; she was born at 
 Schaumburg, Cook Co., 111., March 16, 
 1853; has two children Charles, born 
 in August, 1874, and Anna, born in 
 1875, both born at Duudee. 
 
 Westerman Bros., merchants ; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee. 
 
 Wendt, Joseph, laborer; P. 0. Duudee. 
 
 Wendt & Philps, merchants ; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee. 
 
 Wascher, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 590 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 WILBER, CHAS. T., molder, with 
 Illinois Iron & Bolt Co. ; P. 0. Dun- 
 dee ; was born at Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 
 1838; came to Kane Co. in 1862; be- 
 came connected with the Illinois Iron & 
 Bolt Co. on arrival, and has been in 
 their employ up to the present time ; 
 Dem. ; Protestant ; married Miss Mary 
 Allason, at Carpentersville, Sept. 26, 
 1867 ; she was born in Chicago, Feb. 
 13, 1848; has two children living j 
 Flora M., born at Carpentersville, Aug. ' 
 28, 1868 ; Wm. H., born March 8, j 
 1876 ; Wallie, born Feb. 20, 1870, and j 
 died March 22, 1876. 
 
 Wolff, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wolff, John, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Woolbright, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Dun 
 dee. 
 
 Wascher, F., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Walker, W. E., harness maker; P. 0. 
 Dundee, 
 olaver, Fordbam, carpenter ; P, 0. Dun- 
 
 Wdee. 
 
 WEAVER, EDWARD, engineer 
 at the Taylor Mills, Dundee ; P. 0. 
 Dundee; was born in August, 1853, at 
 Aurora, 111.; resided there for a period 
 often years ; came to Dundee, in 1874, 
 and entered the employ of Taylor, Hunt 
 & Co., and has, since coming here, been 
 retained in their employ; Rep.; Prot- 
 estant ; the father and mother of Mr. 
 Weaver have both passed away ; they 
 were early settlers in the city of Aurora. 
 
 Wolaver, J. D., painter; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wenholz, W. A., butcher ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Willard, G. ; P. 0. Dundee, 
 tersville. 
 
 Wolaver, Hart, mason ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WEIR, JOHN, far.; Sec. 21 ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. Was born in Paisley, Scot- 
 land, in 1833 ; came to America in 
 1850, direct to Dundee. Returned to 
 the East, and lived four years in the 
 city of New York. On returning to 
 Dundee purchased ten acres ; now owns 
 eight ; is Rep.; Bapt. Married Isabel 
 Malcolm in 1833, in Paisley, Scotland; 
 she was born at Paisley, in 1812. 
 
 Wilbern, Mary A. ; P. 0. Carpentersville. 
 
 Wilbern, Geo., milk dealer ; P. 0. Carpen- 
 
 Wolaver, Joe, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wanzer & Eatinger, cheese factory ; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Winke, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 WEST, SAMUEL, farmer and dai- 
 ryman ; P. 0. Dundee. Was born at 
 Forest Lake, Penn., Sept. 20, 1835; 
 came to Dundee in 1873. Works 164 
 acres. Rep.: Prot. Enlisted, 1861, in 
 Co. G, 12th Iowa Regt.; honorably dis- 
 charged Aug. 2, 1862. Married Caro- 
 line Perry, daughter* of B. F. Perry, 
 Esq., at Dundee, in 1867 ; she was 
 born at Dundee, in 1842; one child, 
 Willis F., born in Iowa, Aug. 20. 1870. 
 
 WANZER, MOSES, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Was born at Fairfield, Franklin Co., 
 Vt, July 28, 1814. In 1837, came 
 West, through Chicago, to Dundee ; at 
 that time there was no township organ- 
 ization and but a few log cabins, and 
 and Mr. W. informed the writer that 
 during the early part of his settlement 
 he had walked all day, barefoot, to pro- 
 cure meat for his dinner ; boots he hap- 
 pened to have, but from motives of 
 economy did not wear them. Is now 
 the owner of 188 acres and a fine resi- 
 dence; value, $70 per acre. Is Rep.; 
 Meth. Held office as School Director 
 and Road Commissioner, and Steward 
 Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty- 
 six years. Married Miss Amanda Coch- 
 ran, Jan. 5, 1841, at Dundee. Mrs. W. 
 taught the first school in Dundee ; was 
 born at Cambridge, Vt, Jan. 13, 1813. 
 Had five children, two living Sarah 
 Amanda and Moses A. 
 
 WARDLE, JAMES, Prop. Dun- 
 
 dee House. Born at Knaresborough, 
 Yorkshire, Eng.; came to America in 
 1844; first to Elgin, 111., where he re- 
 mained that Winter; in the Spring he 
 bought eighty acres at Woodstock. 
 Came to Dundee in 1847; worked for 
 Allan Pinkerton, the noted detective, as 
 cooper ; after Mr. P. removed to Chi- 
 cago, went into business on his own ac- 
 count; in 1864, he became prop, of the 
 Dundee House. Is Rep.; Prot. Mar- 
 ried Alemena Wilder, at Dundee, in 
 1852 ; she was born in Cayuga Co., N. 
 Y., Oct. 24, 1821. 
 
 Waterman, Dan'l, pump maker ; P. O. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Wilber, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wagner, D. C.. laborer; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Weston, N., physician; P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 Wallorp, Fred, laborer ; P. 0. Dundee.
 
 KANE COUNTY : BATAVIA. 
 
 591 
 
 Wiltsie, Mrs. S., P. 0. Dundee. 
 Wolaver, H. P., carpenter ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Webb, James, P. 0. Dundee. 
 Wendt, Mary, P. 0. Dundee. 
 
 YAGLE, HENRY, butcher; P. 0. 
 Dundee. 
 
 Yagle Bros., butchers; P, 0. Dundee. 
 YOUNG, JAMES, Civil Engineer 
 and Police Magistrate ; P. 0. Dundee. 
 Born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., Nov. 3, 
 1806 ; came to Kane County in Oct., 
 1848; purchased fuur town lots at Dun- 
 dee, and still owns them. Surveyed 
 
 for the C., B. & Q. R. R., in 1851 ; also, 
 Fox River Valley R. R., in 1852-3-4 ; 
 also, Mil. & N. 111., in 1862-3 ; and R., 
 R. L. & St. Louis, in 1868-9. Was 
 Building Supt. of the Elgin Insane 
 Asylum, in 1871-2. Admitted to the 
 Bar, in New York State, in 1838. One 
 of the first Trustees elected at the first 
 election of officers ; elected to present 
 office in 1876. Rep.; Prot. Married 
 Ann Maria Adams, at Chemung Co., 
 March 3, 1812; six children, four 
 living. 
 
 BATAVIA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A CRES, GEORGE E., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 f\ Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, John ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, C. I.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, John B., lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, L. G.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Alexander, Jas., shoemkr ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 ANDERSON, A. P., merchant tailor ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. ; Rep.; Ind.; born in 
 Sweden, Nov. 15, 1835. He married 
 Christina Anderson; she was born in 
 Sweden, 1847; was married at Rock- 
 ford, 111., Aug., 1867. Mary H., born 
 April 28, 1870. Left Sweden, 1854 
 and arrived at Elgin ; he was engaged 
 OB the railroad ; meeting with a serious 
 accident, he then apprenticed to tailor- 
 ing ; then went to Geneva, working 
 with his brother; in 1864 he came to 
 Batavia and engaged in his present 
 business. 
 
 Arnold, A. H., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Allen, James A., supt. paper mill; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Averill, Wm. F., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Alverson, Wm., machinist ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, Andrew, lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Arnold, M. A.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, John H., lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, A. G., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Anderson, A. C., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BURTON, JOSEPH, merchant; P. 
 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bradley, Luther, blksmith ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bower, D. F., merchant; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BURR, NELSON, of the Challenge 
 Mill Co., Batavia; P. 0. Batavia; Rep.; 
 Dec.; born in Perry Co., N. Y., April 
 13, 1833. Married Francis Fesler ; she 
 was born March 5, 1833; married 1854 
 and died Dec. 21; 1863 ; has three 
 children Francis E., born Oct. 30, 
 1857 ; Nellie W., born May 5, 1860 ; 
 Fannie, born Aug. 19, 1863. Second 
 wife Christina Hapner, widow; married 
 March 13, 1865 ; she was born in 
 Portage Co., Ohio, 1843 ; he lived in 
 Perry Co. until he was 12 ; he then 
 went to Erie Co. on farm till 17 ; then 
 to Tonawanda and was engaged at man- 
 ufacturing pate at fence ; came to Bata- 
 via June 11, 1857 ; he engaged in the 
 manufacture of sash, blinds, etc., also 
 pumps ; in 1867 he manufactured the 
 challenge feed mill, also combined shell- 
 er and grinder, an invention of his own ; 
 in 1869 he formed a stock company, of 
 which he is Secretary and Superintend- 
 ent, and one of the principal stock- 
 holders ; in March, 1872, the place 
 burned and was re-erected in April ; 
 their business now extends to all parts 
 of the world.
 
 592 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Brandenber2, Hannah, far.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burke, Austin, farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Benson, Lars, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 .Benson, A., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Benson, F., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Backus, Bernard, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Branford & Sons, larmers ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Branford, Edmond, livery ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bartlett, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bartlett, Fernand, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Banbury, E., farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Brunnemyer, L. H., far.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bullard, John, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Baird, James C., farmer; P. 0. Ba^avia. 
 
 Breman, Patk., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bitter, Wm. F., restaurant; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 Blair, J. J., jeweler ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burton, Amos, butcher ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burton, George, merchant; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burr, Bradley, mfr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BRANFORD, RICH'D, retired; 
 Sees. 14 and 23; P. 0. Batavia; Dem.; 
 Episcopalian; 192 acres; value, $80 
 per acre ; born in Norfolk, England, 
 Feb. 8, 1812. Married Jane Teasdell ; 
 she was born in London, England, Feb. 
 14, 1815 ; married at Yarmouth, Eng.; 
 had eight children, six living and two 
 dead Robert, Jane R., Mary Ann, 
 Frederick, Benjamin, Edmund; dead, 
 Richard W. and James ; came to the 
 United States in 1852 ; settled where 
 he now resides in 1853; he has just 
 returned from a trip to England ; he 
 has crossed the ocean five times ; Mrs. 
 Branford died Aug. 1, 1876. 
 
 Barker, L. P., stone quarry; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Blair, A. E., stone quarry; P. 0. Bavavia. 
 
 Bishop, J. H., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Benson, John B., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Branford, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Barr, George R., carriage trimmer; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Brown, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Benson, Andrew, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BAMBERRY, HENRY, farmer; 
 Sec. 34; P.O. Batavia; Rep.; Episco- 
 pal ; 230 acres ; value, $60 per acre ; 
 born in Ireland, 1832. Married Sarah 
 Ann Clagg ; she was born in New Jer- 
 sey, in 1848. Have four children 
 John Lewis, Annie, Willie, Sarah ; lived 
 in Ireland 17 years ; came to the United 
 States in 1849 ; lived two years in 
 Massachusetts, and came to present 
 place in 1851 ; is SchoolDirector. 
 
 Benson, Berndt, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Ballard, I. V., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Brown, F. W.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bacon, L. L., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bristol, David, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Baker, A. S., carpenter; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Barnes, Charles ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bassitt, Emma ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bradley. Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Briggs, J. H., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bahn, Ed., stone quarry; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Belefield, Chas., machinist ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bow, John, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bradley, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Buckner, Jas., laborer; P. O. Batavia. 
 Bradley, Isaac, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia 
 Burlingame, H., laborer; P. 0, Batavia. 
 
 BUELTER, JOHN, Sec. 24; P. 0. 
 
 Batavia ; farms 250 acres of land, valued 
 at $55 per acre ; Rep. ; Evang. ; born 
 in Prussia, in 1832 ; he married Amelia 
 Trantow ; she was born in Prussia, and 
 married in Kane Co. ; six children 
 Frank C. F., born March 20, 1859 ; 
 Henry C. T.,born Feb. 7, 1861 ; Helen 
 M., born Jan. 1, 1864; John F. W., 
 born Jan. 12, 1867 ; William F., born 
 May 8, 1871 ; Charles R. A., born 
 May 8, 1874 ; lived in Prussia 25 years ; 
 came to United States in 1857, settled 
 in Kane Co. ; he bought his present 
 place in July, 1876 ; he is at present 
 School Director. 
 
 Bartholomew, L., laborer ; P. 0, Batavia. 
 
 Bailey, Wm. P., carpenter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Blakeslee, I. H., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bull, Geo. W., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BUCK, FRANCIS H , Agt. C. & 
 
 N. W. By. ; P. 0. Batavia ; Rep. ; 
 Ind. ; born in Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 
 30, 1824 ; he married Miss Ann Eliza 
 Bristol, at Batavia ; she was born at 
 Whitehall, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1834 ; Frank 
 L., born Nov. 21, 1860; Mary, born 
 Oct. 19, 1873 ; left New York July 6, 
 1843, and came to vicinity of Batavia 
 soon after ; worked at the fanning mill 
 business ; he then went to Wisconsin, 
 engaging with his brother in the manu- 
 facturing of fanning mills ; he then 
 attended school at Beloit College, then 
 returned to Batavia and engaged in 
 mercantile business ; has been in present 
 business four years ; has been School 
 Director, Clerk of the Board, and is the 
 Librarian of the Batavia Free Library.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BATAVIA. 
 
 593 
 
 Burton, Jas. W., butcher; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Best, Geo., Asst. Cashier First National 
 
 Bank ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Brown, Julius, mfr. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Burnett, Jno., miller; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Burroughs, L. M., phys. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Burnham, Jno., manf'r. ; P. O. Batavia. 
 Burnham, Wm. H., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Brominger, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Buchanan, G., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Burroughs, R., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Bartholomew, Saml., far. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Binninger, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Boyd, Wm., farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 Blanchard, Elvira, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 BUCHER C. A., M. D., P 0. 
 
 Batavia ; Rep. ; Ind. ; born in Steuben 
 Co., N. Y., Nov. 11, 1829 ; he married 
 Miss Minerva Simpson ; she was born 
 in Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y., in 1835 ; 
 married in Aurora, Sept. 20, 1854; 
 had five children Charley, born Nov. 
 10, 1867'; Eddie, born Jan. 24, 1874; 
 Clara, born 1856, died 1858 ; Eva, born 
 1861, died 1875; Child, born 1859, 
 died 1859 ; lived in New York until he 
 was 21, then came to Aurora in 1850, 
 and engaged in store, remaining three 
 years ; then went to Bloomington, en- 
 gaged in clothing business on his own 
 account, remainins eighteen months, 
 then came to Batavia, in 1855, and en- 
 gaged in clothing business ; he then 
 studied medicine under Drs. Thompson 
 and Mead ; he then went to Chicago, 
 and graduated at Rush Medical College 
 in 1861 ; he then enlisted in the 124th 
 Ills., as a private in Co. B, and was soon 
 detailed as Acting Asst. Surgeon, hav- 
 ing charge of the regiment while at Camp 
 Butler; discharged in 1863, he was 
 then commissioned by Gov. Yates as 
 First Asst. Surgeon of the 72d 111. ; 
 remained in regiment till 1865, then^ 
 came to Batavia, and has been practic- 
 ing since ; was elected Coroner of Kane 
 Co., in 1868; has been Village and 
 School Trustee of Township for the past 
 nine years. 
 
 Brown, C. H., post office clerk ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Barker, Wm. P., stone quarry; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Bartholomew. Mary, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Brooks, Caleb, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burke, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Bernard, Catherine, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Burns, Catherine, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Benson, A. P., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 /~^AREY, JAS. H., butcher ; P. 0. Ba- 
 
 V_y tavia. 
 
 Carey, I. L., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Carey, Jas., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Clark, Wm., stone quarrier; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CAZALY, FREDERICK, farmer, 
 Sec. 30; P. 0. Batavia; Rep.; Ind.; 
 born in England, June 17, 1811 ; has 
 100 acres ; married Eleina Baldwin ; 
 she was born in Pennsylvania, in 1820, 
 and married in Pennsylvania, in 1841 ; 
 had eight children William, born Feb. 
 18, 1843; Ellen, born May 11, 1845 ; 
 Lyman, born Dec. 2, 1847 ; Victoria, 
 born Dec. 25, 1849 ; Mary, born Feb. 
 5, 1852; Kate, born Dec. 5, 1854; 
 George, born Dec. 30, 1861 ; Loury, 
 born Dec. 15, 1851, died Aug. 16, 1875. 
 He left England in 1824; settled in 
 Pennsylvania, then went to Philadel- 
 phia, then to Ohio, then back to En- 
 gland, in 1839 back to Pennsylvania ; 
 came here in 1858 ; had two sons in 
 the army. 
 
 Clark, Wm. 2d, merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Coger, Judson, millwright; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Conley, Ransom, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Chalnon, Thos., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CLEVELAND, T. L., station ag't 
 C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. Batavia ; Ind.; 
 Cong.; born in Boston, April 15, 1818 ; 
 he married Olivia Blanchard, Nov. 26, 
 1840, at Aurora, by Rev.,. John Wol- 
 worth ; she was born in Smithfield, N. 
 Y.. July 17, 1823 ; no children. He 
 left Boston in Sept., 1839, and came to 
 Batavia ; engaged in mercantile busi- 
 ness for three years ; has held present 
 position eighteen years ; has been School 
 Trustee two terms ; came to Aurora in 
 1839 ; Mrs. C.'s mother, Hannah Hull, 
 was born in Connecticut, and her father, 
 Wm. L. Blanchard, in Rhode Island. 
 
 Curtis, Geo. F., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Conde, Frank, mfr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Chambers, Mrs. A.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Calehan, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cleveland, Andrew, rnech.; P. 0. Batavia 
 
 Carlson, Andrew, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia 
 
 Carmody, Jas., laborer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Conley, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cole, D. L., mfr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Chamberlain, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 COOPER, C. N., M. D., physician ; 
 Rep.; Cong.; born in Summit Co.. Ohio, 
 March 27, 1844; married Lydia Wind- 
 sor ; she was born in Petersfield, En- 
 gland ; was married in Iowa, in 1869 ; 
 had three children Charles W., born 
 May 4, 1871 ; John A., born Sept. 1, 
 1873 ; Frederick H., born Sept. 27, 1 876, 
 died March 2, 1877. He remained in 
 Ohio ten years ; he then removed to Du 
 Page Co., near Batavia; he left home 
 in 1856, to attend school in Grinnell, 
 Iowa, and graduated in 1867, from the 
 Iowa College ; he took his degree in 
 medicine at the Chicago Med. College in 
 
 1869, and returned to Iowa and prac- 
 ticed medicine until 1875, at Keosau- 
 qua ; he then came to Batavia, and has 
 practiced here since ; he takes an active 
 part in the Church and is Superintend- 
 ent of the Sunday school. 
 
 Coffin, Wm., Prest, First Nat. Bank ; P. 
 0. Batavia. 
 
 CARR, P. J M farmer; Sec. 21 ; P. 0. 
 Batavia; owns 97 acres here and 15 
 acres in Sees. 29 and 30, probable value, 
 ^80 per acre ; Dem.; Ind.; born in Kane 
 Co., June 6, 1849 ; he married Miss 
 Kate Doty; she was born in 1853; 
 married April 18, 1877. 
 
 Coffin, Wm. K., Cashier First Nat. Bank ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Collins, Daniel, stone quarrier ; P. O. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Corning, S. B., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Collins, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CLEAVER, C. S-, farmer ; Sees. 28, 
 33, 29 and 32 ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Crawford, W., Justice ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CARR, JAMES, far. ; Sec. 29 ; P. 0. 
 Batavia ; 208 acres, valued at $65 per 
 acre; born in Maine in 1817 ; married 
 E. M. Burton ; she was born March 22, 
 1836, and married June 21, 1867 ; two 
 children Harris F., born, July 21, 
 1868 ; Lucy Le Baron, born Dec. 4, 
 
 1870. Left Maine in 1836, and went 
 to Florida, then to New Orleans, then 
 to New York, then back to Maine and 
 then to Kane Co., in 1839, and settled 
 near where he now resides ; has been 
 School Director ; since coming here, he 
 has been East two years, on R. R. sur- 
 vey ; in 1849, he went to California, 
 stayed four years, and, in 1857, he went 
 on Government lake survey. 
 
 Clark, Chas. A., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Christiansen, M.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cranden, F. P., land agt. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CON WAY, JAMES, far. ; Sec. 34 ; 
 P. 0. North Aurora ; owns 18 acres 
 here and 9 near Batavia ; probable value, 
 $60 per acre ; Dem.; Cath.; born in Ire- 
 land, in 1811 ; he married Catharine 
 Bernard ; she was married in Ireland ; 
 has s^ven children , came to the United 
 States in 1850. 
 
 Cogger, H. H., miller ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Curtis, Franklin, butcher; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Clapp, Geo. W., carp. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cleaver, Mary, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cazaley, Fred., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Clarke. N. F., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 COOLEY, O. E., elk. and ins. agt. ; 
 P. 0. Batavia ; Rep. ; Meth. ; born at 
 Wilbraham, Mass., Aug. 6, 1835 ; mar- 
 ried Clarissa Fowler ; she was born in 
 Cook Co., 111., May 4, 1839, and mar- 
 ried at Batavia Dec. 19, 1858, and 
 died May 23, 1862 ; second wife, Miss 
 Mary Clark, was born in London, En- 
 gland, Aug. 11, 1839, and married Aug. 
 15, 1865, at Batavia; three children 
 Oscar E., born July 19, 1868; Ellen 
 E., born July 6, 1873 ; Sarah L., born 
 Aug. 28, 1877. Came to Batavia in 
 1838, and lived on the farm until he 
 was 14; he then, in 1850, engaged as 
 clerk with Mr. Fowler, and has contin- 
 ued so since ; in 1873, he established 
 an insurance agency. See card, 
 
 Clarke, S. F., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Conway, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Conway, Catharine, far ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cook, Jos., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cahill, Ed., farmer; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Clancy, R. B., lumber ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CLARKE, RICHARD M., far. ; 
 
 Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Batavia ; 80 acres, val- 
 ued at 860 per acre ; Dem. ; Episco- 
 pal ; born in New Haven, Conn., Jan. 
 29, 1816; married Miss Delia Kings- 
 ley ; she was born in Vermont, Dec. 25, 
 1832, and married Jan. 11, 1859; two 
 children Freddie S., born Nov. 14, 
 1862, and Charles H. M., born Jan. 
 15, 1865; he moved to Oyster River, 
 and lived there until he was 7, then 
 back to New Haven, then to Ohio, then 
 to New Haven, then to Illinois and set- 
 tled where he now resides, in 1843. 
 Chappel, Henry, lab. ; P. 0. Batavia.
 
 KANE COUNTY : DATA VI A. 
 
 595 
 
 Gallon. Francis, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Carlson, Andrew, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Coger, Mrs. L. E., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cavanaugh, Owin, lab. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 CONDE, C. B., engaged in overseeing 
 his property ; P. 0. Batavia ; Dem. ; 
 Ind. ; born at Glenville, N. Y., Dec. 
 27, 1814; married Miss Hannah M. 
 Quant, at Rotterdam, N. Y., in 1836; 
 she was born at Rotterdam in 1817; 
 nine children, six girls and three boys; 
 left New York in 1837 and went to Du 
 Page Co., 111., and engaged in wagon mak- 
 ing, etc. ; came to Batavia in 1 84 1 , engag- 
 ing in same business ; has been School 
 Commissioner, Supervisor, Director and 
 Town Trustee, several years each ; his 
 father, C. S. Conde, was Judge of the 
 Circuit Court of Schenectady, N. Y., 
 several years. C. B. is one of thirteen 
 brothers; all of whom grew to man- 
 hood. He had many narrow escapes 
 from Indians, while in California. 
 
 Collins, Mary, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Cobb, Asa, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia 
 
 Chapman, J., carpenter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Conde, C. S., butcher; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 DEMAR, HORATIO, laborer; P. 0. ; 
 Batavia. 
 
 Donahue, Thos., stone quarry ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Dorn, W. N., traveler; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Derby, Emeline, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Derby, Wm. S., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Doty, H. F., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 DANFORTH, BENJ., manufac- 
 turer of horse shoe nails ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 Ind.; Ind.; born in Yorkshire, England, 
 April 1, 1825 ; he married Miss Sarah 
 Hardcastle ; she was born in Yorkshire, 
 England, May 18, 1826 ; married at 
 Hawthorne, England, July 29, 1847; 
 had seven children William, Martha, 
 Lucy Ann, Ruth Matilda, Frederick, 
 Charles ; Robert, deceased ; lived in 
 England twenty-four years, and came 
 to Chicago, then to Du Page Co., then 
 to Chicago, then to Batavia in 1852; 
 he engaged in manufacturing horse 
 shoe nails, and continued so until he 
 engaged in his present business. 
 
 Davenport, Theron, farmer ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Dorr, I. E., painter ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Davis. John, merchant; P. O Batavia. 
 
 Duffy, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 DONAHUE, JOHN, far; Sec. 34 ; 
 P 0. Batavia ; Dem. ; Cath. ; born in 
 Ireland, in 1827; married Sarah Barn- 
 berry ; she was born in Ireland, in 
 1827 ; he came to the United States in 
 1854, and located in New York ; came 
 to present place in 1841 ; is partner to 
 H. Bamberry; 
 
 Duffy, L. A. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Donovan, Thomas, blacksmith ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Donovan, John, blacksmith ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Donovan, Mrs. Ellen ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Danfurd, B., manufacturer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Dodd, B. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Drake, N., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Dailey, John, dentist ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Dorn, Mrs. E. ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Desozier, L. A., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TpLDRED, CALVIN, laborer; P. 0. 
 P^ Batavia. 
 
 Engberg, Gustaf, cabinet maker ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 EVEN, LEONARD, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Aurora ; owns 
 76 acres of land, valued at $60 per acre ; 
 Dem.; Cath.; born in Prussia, in 1834; 
 married Elizabeth Smith ; she was born 
 in 1839 ; has six children Mary, An- 
 ton, Nicholas, John, Margarett, Helena; 
 came to the United States in 1856, and 
 to Kane Co. in 1860 ; has been School 
 Director three years. 
 
 Ernow, Jerry, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Esmay, Z., peddler; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 EARL, J. S., P. 0. Batavia; Rep.; 
 Bapt. ; born in Montgomery Co., New 
 York, July 26, 1837 ; married Miss 
 Nora Corning ; she was born in Wash- 
 ington Co., New York, Nov. 8, 1840, 
 and married in Washington Co., April 
 15, 1862 ; has four children Lena, 
 born Feb. 10, 1863 ; Stephen A., born 
 Dec. 28, 1864; Louis N., born July 19, 
 1866 ; Jossie, born March 26, 1871 ; 
 lived in Montgomery Co. until he was 
 16 years of age ; attended the Madison 
 University ; then went to Chicago, re- 
 maining three yoars ; then to Washing- 
 ton Co., N. Y. ; remained five years ; 
 then to Will Co., 111., remaining seven 
 years ; in 1869, he came to Batavia, en- 
 gaging in his present business as part- 
 ner with Corning & Earl ; is at present 
 Supervisor.
 
 596 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Ellis, Levi, hotel proprietor; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Eager, James, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Eldred, Mrs. Betsey ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Esterbrook, 0., farmer; P. Batavia. 
 
 TPORD, WILLIAM, Jr., farmer; P. 
 
 JJ 0. Batavia. 
 
 Frydendall, James, carpenter ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 FRYDENDALL, DANIEL far- 
 mer, Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 316 
 acres of land, valued at $80 per acre ; 
 Dem. ; Ind. , born at Duanesburg, N. 
 Y., March 28, 1808; married Hannah 
 Veuten ; she was born at Duanesburg, 
 N. Y., Sept. 16, 1813; married June 
 12, 1833; had ten chillren, seven liv- 
 ing Phillip, born July 7, 1834; 
 Ann, born Nov. 14, 1835 ; Venten, 
 born Jan. 14, 1837 ; Hicks, born March 
 21, 1839; Margarett, born Dec. 12, 
 1841 ; Emma, born Nov. 4, 1850 ; Is- 
 abell, born Dec. 7, 1853 ; Marv, born 
 Jan. 28, 1843, died March 26^ 1845; 
 Victoria, born March 1, 1845, died 
 March 26, 1848 ; Dorcas, born Sept. 
 26, 1848, died Sept. 23, 1870 ; lived in 
 the State of New York until 1848, and 
 then came to Kane Co. ; in 1857, he 
 came to his present place. 
 
 FOWLER, GEO. W., general mer- 
 chandise ; P. 0. Batavia ; Rep. ; 
 Meth. ; born at Wilmington, Vt., May 
 1, 1818; married Miss Adaline Bald- 
 win ; she was born at Mt. Morris, N. 
 Y., March 28, 1817, and married in 
 Leroy, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1837 ; had six 
 children, two living and four dead 
 Georgiana, born June 25, 1849; Chas. 
 F., born Aug. 11, 1856; Clarissa, born 
 May 4, 1839, died May 23, 1862 ; Wel- 
 lington, born May 28, 1842, died April 
 5,- 1848 ; Wellington A., born June 21, 
 1851, died April 28, 1855 ; Florence A., 
 born Aug. 11, 1856, died Oct. 3, 1857; 
 lived in Vermont until he was 17 years 
 of age, working at milling ; then went 
 to Livingston Co., worked at milling; 
 then to Naperville, 111. ; then to Bata- 
 via, in 1839, and went at milling in 
 Baker & House's mill ; he then went 
 at farming, then engaged in general 
 merchandise, and has continued since ; 
 has held interests in other business ; 
 has been Township Trustee, and is now 
 Director in the bank. 
 
 Feltman, Leonard, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Flahiff, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fowler, 0., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fitzmorris, R., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fepler, John, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fearon, Ed., stone quarry ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Feeney, Andrew, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fairsay, John ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Freidland, Fred, painter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Freidland, John, painter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Finney, Mary E. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Felver, Joseph, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Frydendall, Theo., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fenskio, Fred, farmer ; P. 0. .Batavia. 
 Fetherston, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Freiders, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Feidler, Nic, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Frazier, W. P., P. O. Batavia. 
 Fanning, John, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Field, J., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Free, William, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Feeney, Mrs. Patrick, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Fish, Mrs. L., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 GODWIN, MRS. J. B., P. 0. Ba- 
 
 tavia. 
 
 Graves, Mrs. D., P 0. Batavia. 
 Grarvey, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Grover, C. B., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 GRIMES, ALEXANDER, col 
 
 lector and loaning money ; P. 0. Bati- 
 via. Dem.; Bapt. Born at Linden, 
 N. Y., March 20, 1826; he married 
 Miss H. Malvina Loveland ; she was 
 born at Hamilton, N. Y., April 12, 
 1830 ; married at Hamilton, N. Y., 
 Nov. 4, 1852, by Rev. G-eo. W. Eaton, 
 D. D. Two children Willis L., born 
 Aug. 20, 1854, and Charley J., born 
 Jan. 29, 1862. Lived at home, on the 
 farm, until his 14th year; then came, 
 with his mother, to McHenry Co., 111., 
 in 1840, and in 1845, he went to Mad- 
 ison University and remained there 
 seven years, graduating in 1852, and 
 acquiring the title of A. B. He then 
 came to Batavia and practiced dental 
 surgery ; he retired from the business 
 fifteen ye.ars ago ; has since beea in the 
 lumber business and overseeing his farm. 
 He has been School Director, Marshal, 
 Road Commissioner, etc. He drew 
 plans for the East Side School House, 
 in 1864. He raised a company in Ba- 
 tavia, which was put in the 124th Reg- 
 iment, he acting as Captain.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BATAVIA. 
 
 597 
 
 Garnsey, C. A., physician ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Gibson, J. S., tinner; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Germain, Walter, Justice of the Peace ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Goseline, Peter, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Glines, Timothy, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Grimes, Win. R , clerk; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Grimes, Jacob, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Grimes & Shaw, blacksmiths; P. O. Ba- 
 tavia. 
 
 Garrity, Thos., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Goseline, John, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Gregg, Geo. W., wagon mkr.; P. Batavia. 
 
 Green, Geo. S., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Gilchrist, I. W.. P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Griffin, Isaiah, livery ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Granland, Chas., mar.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 George, M., P. Batavia. 
 
 George, S K., bakery ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Gise, Carl, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 GEORGE, P. K., insurance and real 
 estate; P. Batavia. Rep.; Meth. 
 Born at Stratford, Vt, Dec. 31, 1819. 
 He married Miss Edna Williams ; she 
 was born at Stratford, Vt., Dec. 31, 
 1822, and married at Stratford in 1844. 
 They had three children S. K., born 
 Oct. 4, 1846; Addell, born April 16, 
 1850; and Frank E., born Oct. 14, 
 1855. Lived in Vermont until 1864 ; 
 was engaged at farming and as foreman 
 in a woolen-mill ; came to Kane County 
 in 1864. 
 
 Gillingham, E. W., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Geiss, Jacob, cigar mkr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Garvey, Pat, farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Garber, Jacob, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Griffith, Ed., farmer; P. 0. Batavia, 
 
 Griffith, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Groner. Wm., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Grydon, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Garber, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Gregg, Mrs. Wm., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Grimes, Jennie, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Glines, S. & E., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Goudy, W. E., mechanic ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Guild, A. Farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HAGETT, J. W., millwright; P. 0. 
 .Batavia. 
 
 Hanson, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Howe, J. B., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Hurlbut, H., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Hall, Mrs. S. M., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Hailey, John, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Hover, Abram, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Howell, Wm., hotel prop.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Harrold, Samuel, blksmth.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hunt, R. R, mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Henry, Roman, carpenter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 HENZE, CHAS., gardener ; Sec. 26 ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. Has seventeen acres ; 
 value, &75 per acre ; Ind.; Luth.; born 
 in Hanover, Dec. 31, 1810 ; he married 
 Sophia Steinhusen ; she was born in 
 Mecklenburg, Dec. 16, 1810. They 
 had six children Dora, born Nov. 15, 
 1839; Caroline, born July 2, 1855; 
 Mary, born Sept 21, 1857 ; William, 
 born Dec. 19, 1860 ; Lizzie, born April 
 22, 1864; and Henry, born May 2, 
 1837; died in 1845. Came to the 
 United States in 1852, and to Kane 
 Connty in 1855 ; worked at his trade. 
 Settled on his present place in 1862. 
 Mr. Henze was a soldier for eighteen 
 years in his native place. 
 
 Higgins, Pat, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hoben, Chas., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Henman, A., shoemaker; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Haley, Geo. S., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hibbard, F. I., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hunter, Thos. M., stone quarry; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Haley, Chas., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Holbrook, Mary, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hobler, Peter, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Houck, M. P., Constable ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hanson, Evan, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hassel, Anton, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 HILL, P. R., far.; Sec. 33; P. 0. 
 Batavia; Rep., Ind.; owns fifty acres ; 
 value, $75 per acre ; born in Wyoming 
 Co., N. Y., June 1, 1849 ; he married 
 Miss Emma Pope ; she was born in 
 Heniker, N. H., June 23, 1853; mar- 
 ried at Aurora, in 1872 ; two children 
 Louis R., born Nov. 5, 1873 ; New- 
 t.m E., born March 17, 1875 ; lived in 
 New York State until he was 7 years 
 old, then came to Boone Co.; remained 
 there five years, then went to Black- 
 berry Station, and settled on his present 
 place in 1867. 
 
 Harvey, Geo. W., mech.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hampton, I. S.. P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Harvey, J. W., coal dlr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hunt, E. L , merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hollister, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hall, J. H., barber; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hampton, Sylvester, carp.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hendrickson, John, stone quarry; P. 0. 
 Batavia.
 
 598 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HALL AD AY, DAN'L, carp.; P. 0. 
 
 Batavia. Son of David Halladay and 
 Nancy, nee Carpenter ; was born in Marl- 
 boro, Vt, Nov. 24, 1826. At the age 
 of 19 he was apprenticed as a machin- 
 ist, at Ludlow, Mass., and at the age of 
 21, was placed in charge of the build- 
 ing of important machinery for the gov- 
 ernment armory, then located at Harper's 
 Ferry, Va. He married Miss Susan M. 
 Spooner, May 3, 1849, at Ludlow, Mass.; 
 she was born at Belchertown, Mass. 
 They have had one son, who died in in- 
 fancy. They have one adopted daugh- 
 ter. In 1851, he was chosen to repre- 
 sent Capt. Erricson's Caloric Engine at 
 the World's Fair, held in London ; upon 
 his return, he purchased an interest in 
 the machine shops at Ellington, Conn., 
 and here invented the Self-Governing 
 Wind Engine, which ranks as one of 
 the most useful inventions of the age ; 
 subordinating a power as old as time, 
 but, for the want of genius to supply 
 for it the adequate mechanism with 
 which to perform the duty, was left to 
 spend its might in useless waste ; now 
 one of the greatest motive powers of 
 nature is utilized, and, as it were, made 
 subservient to the will of man, con- | 
 ferring untold benefits to millions ; Mr. j 
 Halladay has also secured patents for ! 
 several other inventions, possessing more j 
 or less merit ; after perfecting the wind , 
 engine, a stock company was formed for 
 their manufacture, in Connecticut. In 
 1863, the business was removed to Bata- 
 via, 111., where a second stock company 
 was formed, in which Mr. H. occupied 
 the position of Director, Sec. and Supt., 
 and is one of the principal stockholders ; 
 under his supervision the business has 
 grown to one of great magnitude, giv- 
 ing employment to hundreds of men. 
 In politics Mr. H. is a Rep.; Independ- 
 ent in his religious views, more particu- 
 larly supporting the Cong. Ch.; he has 
 never sought political distinction, his 
 only offices having been Village Trustee 
 and School Director, in which last ca- 
 pacity he has served thirteen years, tak- 
 ing an active part in securing the erec- 
 tion of the elegant school edifice which 
 adorns the place ; liberal, generous and 
 public spirited, he takes an active inter- 
 est in all local improvements, and is 
 
 recognized as one of the influential and 
 useful men in the county; he aims to 
 better the condition of his employes, 
 and will have none other in his employ 
 but sober and industrious men, many of 
 whom have been with him for fourteen 
 years. 
 
 Howland, E. S., manfr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hiland, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Higgins, Anthony, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Henry, Victor, laborer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Henry, Elizabeth, P. 0. Batavia 
 
 Hart, John, farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Haley, Timothy, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Haley, William, farmer ; P. O Batavia. 
 
 Hyde, Ellen, P.O. Batavia. 
 
 Highwood, Thomas, lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Harmon, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Holbrook, Emanuel, clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Henry, A. H., agent C., B. & Q. R. R.; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hall, Anson, carpenter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hollister, Lucius, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hoagling, J. 0., stone cutter ; P. 0. Bata- 
 via. 
 
 Higgins, Daniel, laborer, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hison, W. J. , laborer ; P. 0, Aurora. 
 
 Hayes, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hammond, B., laborer, P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Hughett, J. W., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Hornley, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harris, W. Gr., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TSBELL, JAMES, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Ide, B. S., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TOHNSON, JOHN, laborer; P. 0. Ba- 
 
 fj tavia. 
 
 Johnson, Andrew, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 JOHNSON, SPENCER, farming, 
 stock and dairy ; Sees. 14 and 23 ; P. 0. 
 Batavia ; 321 acres, value, 675 per acre ; 
 Rep.; Cong.; was born in Oneida Co., N. 
 Y., June 15, 18 14; he married Miss Sarah 
 M. Chaffee ; she was born in Windham 
 Co., Vt, Dec. 9, 1822, and married in 
 Campton Township March 24, 1842; 
 children Mary Ann, born Aug. 5, 
 1843; Leverett C., Sept. 16, 1851; 
 Lillian F., Sept. 17, 1853 ; Rossiter P., 
 June 16, 1856; William R., July 26, 
 1860; EdmanS., Dec. 19, 1862; Chas. 
 B., Jan. 25, 1867. Children deceased 
 Abby F., born Nov. 6, 1845, died Aug. 
 27, 1850 ; Alma M., born Nov. 5, 1847, 
 died Sept. 14, 1850 ; Leverett C., born 
 Jan. 20, 1850, died Sept. 16, 1850.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BATAVIA. 
 
 599 
 
 Mr. J. lived in New York State until 
 21 years of age, on a farm; thence to 
 Dover, 0., teaching; eanie to Kane Co. 
 in 1837 ; in 1841 he engaged in farm- 
 ing in Virgil Township; in 1849 he 
 bought his present place ; in 1876 he 
 visited California ; is one of the early 
 settlers. 
 
 Johnson, John, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Jackson, I. S., barber ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 JOYCE, JOHN P., farmer; Sees. 32 
 and 33 ; P. 0. Aurora ; 192 acres ; 
 Dem.; Ind.; born in Jefferson Co., N. 
 Y., 1823.; married Mrs. Lewis (widow) 
 in 1856 ; she was born in Jefferson Co., 
 N. Y., in 1819; came to Batavia in 
 1867 ; remained here since. 
 
 Johnson, William, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Jordon, John, laborer ; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 TT^IMBLADE, B., cigar maker; P. 
 
 _LX. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kenyon, A. EL, carp.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kimball, Robert, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kniffin, A. P., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Knox, James, mechanic ; P. O. Batavia'. 
 
 Kinne, M. M., drugs ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Krouse, William, mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kay, Jos., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kenyon, G. D., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kerns, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 KEARNS, JOHN, farmer; Sec. 34; 
 P. 0. North Aurora ; owns 77 acres ; 
 probable value, $60 per acre ; he was 
 born in Ireland in 1824 ; married Mary 
 Carl ; she was born in Ireland ; two 
 children Katie and Maggie ; he came 
 to America in 1 845 ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1848 ; came to his present place in 
 1855 ; has been School Director four or 
 five years. 
 
 Kemp, Julia, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kelley, Patrick, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kifor, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kohlie, Adam, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Krier, John, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kenyon, B. M., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kenyon, G. R., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kuager, William, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Knox, William, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kennedy, J., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kibling, J. S. farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Kelleher, Thos., Jr., lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 LINBERG, JOHN; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Lee, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Lindsey, Geo. W., mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Leipoldt, C., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 LEWIS, CLARK A., editor and 
 proprietor of Batavia News ; P. 0. 
 Batavia ; Rep.; Lib.; was born in Ft. 
 Wayne, Ind., May 5, 1841, and learned 
 the printer's trade ; he came to Bata- 
 via in March, 1869, and started the 
 News; beginning with small means, by 
 industry and good management, he has 
 now a fine office ; warmed by steam ; 
 has a fine power press, a paying circu- 
 lation, and is doing a large amount of 
 job work, The News is the only paper 
 printed in Batavia, and it is a satisfac- 
 tion for him to know that it is well 
 received, and has a good influence upon 
 the community. He married Laura A. 
 Barker in Ft. Wayne, April, 1865 ; 
 they have lost two children. 
 
 Lev-ey, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Lonergan, John, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Lorenz, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Long, David, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Lally, John, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Lorrens, Philip, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Lawrence, William, laborer ; P. 0. Ba r .avia. 
 
 MULLIGAN, ANDREW, laborer; 
 P. O. Batavia. 
 
 McFarland, J., mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Miller, Mrs. H., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Moore, Mrs. C. N., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McDermott, Lizzie, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Miller, P. G., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 MARX, CHARLES, Sec. 35 ; P. 
 0. Aurora ; farming 106 acres of land, 
 valued at $60 per acre;. Dem.; Cath.; 
 born in Prussia, in 1821. Married 
 Mary Blin ; she was born in Prussia ; 
 has five boys and one girl Frank, 
 John, William, Peter, John, Lizzie ; 
 came to U. S. in 1857, and to Kane 
 Co. in 1865; has been School Director. 
 
 Mead, G. A., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Morris, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Moore, T. C., attorney ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Marshall, W. S.; trav. agt.; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 McClellan, I. 0., attorney ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McCallough, Weston, ice dealer; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Morris, Fred., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Mallory, Jane, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McCracken, E. A., P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Moore, C. N., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Miller, Langdon, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Massey, George, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McLean, E. S., stone dlr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Myett, F., P. 0. Batavia.
 
 600 
 
 TAX-PAYEES AND VOTERS OF 
 
 McNAIR, HARVEY, Sees. 13, 14, 
 
 23 and 24 ; P. 0. Batavia; farming 300 
 acres of land, valued at $75 per acre ; 
 Rep.; Ind.; born in Pennsylvania, in 
 1823. Married Miss Mary Acres; she 
 was born in N. Y., Nov. 24, 1834 ; 
 married in Batavia Tp., March 1, 1856 ; 
 .had two children Jed F., born Dec. 8, 
 
 1856, and Mary, died in infancy ; lived 
 in Pennsylvania until he was 20 ; came 
 to Kane Co. in 1843, and settled in 
 Kaneville Tp., and then to Blackberry, 
 in mercantile business eight years, and 
 then to Batavia, then to his present 
 place ; he enlisted in the 8th Ills. Cav.; 
 was in battles of Williamsburg, seven 
 days' fight, etc, 
 
 McAuley, George, P. O. Batavia. 
 McDaniels, Andrew, blacksmith ; P. 0. 
 
 Batavia. 
 
 Meredith, Wm., mail agt.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Murray, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Monahan, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Mulroy, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 McAllister, Daniel, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 McGuire, William, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 McMaster, J. T., carp.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 McGuire, OweD, cooper; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Miller, J. H., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 MEREDITH, THOMAS, JR., 
 
 hardware merchant ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 Rep.; Ind.; was born in North Wales, 
 May 24, 1835, and came with his fath- 
 er's family (Thos. Meredith) to this 
 country and county in June, 1843, and 
 settled in Big Rock ; he came to Bata- 
 via, and attended school until 1856, 
 and then taught school two winters. 
 March 1, 1857, he married Harriet M. 
 Camp, of Du Page Co.; they have two 
 children Edwin K., born May 24, 
 1860; Julia, born July 22, 1868; in 
 
 1857, he and M. M. Kemp went into 
 the hardware business together, and 
 continued until 1867, when he and his 
 brother bought the business, and con- 
 tinue in it together; in 1868, he was 
 elected Town Clerk ; July 22. 1861, he 
 enlisted in the 42d Regt. Ills. Vols., 
 and remained until 1862 ; he has been 
 member of the Board of Trustees three 
 times ; once President of Board ; has 
 been Justice of the Peace four years, 
 and four years Supervisor. 
 
 Martin, James, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Moran, John, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Mann, Eugene, mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Meredith, Edward, mer.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Minnium, J. J.. merchant; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 MAIR, JAMES, boots and shoes; 
 P. 0. Batavia; Rep.; Meth.; born in 
 England, in 1835. Married Miss 
 Susan Buckingham ; she was born in 
 England, in 18H3; has five children 
 Thomas L., born July 29, 1861 ; Eliz- 
 abeth A., born March 22, 1863 ; Will- 
 iam, born July 19,1865; Clara, born 
 Nov. 23, 1867; James, born Jan. 20, 
 1870 ; lived in England 22 years; came 
 to Batavia in 1857, and. engaged in 
 present business. 
 
 Miller, L M., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Mead, C. E., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Miller, Chris., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McEwen, John, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 MOLE, JOHN G., P. 0. Batavia; 
 Rep.; Indt.; born in Devonshire, En- 
 gland, in 1842. Married Margaret Rad- 
 ley ; she was born In N. Y. Married 
 in St. Charles, in Kane Co., in ]868; 
 lived in England 12 years, and came to 
 U. S. in 1854 ; came to Kane Co. in 
 1855, and engaged in blacksmithing ; 
 lived four years in Nebraska ; was in 
 124th 111. Inf.; he has invented a corn 
 planter, tire shrinker, and an adjustable 
 clamp, also a revolving trap, for throw- 
 ing glass targets. 
 
 Murray, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McAlliget, Thomas, lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Messner, George, phys.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Mahanna, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Miller, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Magarry, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 MAXSON, D. M., baggage agent C. 
 & N. W. Ry.; P. 0. Batavia; Rep.; 
 Meth.; born Oct. 16, 1835, in Potter 
 Co., Pa. Married Caroline R. Silver- 
 thorn ; she was born Sept. 16, 1842, in 
 Canada ; have three children Edward 
 H., born April 7, 1871 ; George M., 
 born Nov. 20, 1873; Mary B., born 
 Oct. 2, 1875 ; he left Pennsylvania in 
 the Spring of 1859, and went to Dane 
 Co., Wis., and engaged in teaching and 
 schooling himself, then enlisted in Co. 
 B, 4th Wis. Regt.; was honorably 
 discharged ; came to Batavia, and has 
 been in present place four years ; is, at 
 present, one of the Village Trustees ; 
 also Secretary of the Masonic Lodge 
 since 1871.
 
 KANE COUNTY : BATAVIA. 
 
 601 
 
 Maguire, Michael, far.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Martin, D. A., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McKee, E. M., farmer; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Massey, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McDonald, A., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McCurdy, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Marias, Joseph, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Merrill, A. N., foundry ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McGuire, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Melchart, N., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Micholson, Chas., lab. : P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McKEE, JOEL, deceased ; was born 
 in Ireland, March 7, 1807 ; he came to 
 America while quite young ; he first 
 located at Albany, N. Y., from here he j 
 came to Batavia in 1833, locating on [ 
 Sees. 15, 16, 21 and 22, he and his 
 brother-in-law, James Risk, buying the 
 property from Government ; Mr. McKee 
 engaged in the mercantile business soon 
 after arriving here, being the first to 
 engage in such business in Batavia ; 
 after retiring from the store, he en- 
 gaged in farming, and in 1850 he went 
 in the milling business, in partnership 
 withG. B. Moss; was School Treasurer, 
 Trustee and Director, and Supervisor ; 
 was commercial reporter, etc., etc. ; he 
 married Jane Risk, in Batavia, March 
 29, 1838 ; she was born Sept. 28, 1810, 
 in Belfast, Ireland ; they had six chil- 
 dren, five living and one dead ; Mr. Mc- 
 Kee died July 12, 1873 ; the estate is j 
 under the management of his sons, E. 
 M. and Joel. 
 
 McEllain, James, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 McDonald, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 "XTEWTON, E. C., Newton Wagon Co. ; 
 
 _LN P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 NICHOLS, W. D., P. 0. Batavia; 
 Rep. ; Bapt. ; born in Berlin, N. Y., 
 June 11. 1826; he married Margaret 
 A. Uline ; she was born at Sand Lake, 
 N. Y., 1832 ; married Sept. 27, 1854 ; 
 children William N., Eddie C., Bur- 
 ton A., George G. and Nellie M. ; lived 
 in New York twenty -four years, traveled, 
 then came to Chicago and from there to j 
 Batavia in 1870 ; engaged in manufac- 
 turing wind mills and feed mills ; he 
 has invented the well known wind mill 
 bearing his name ; is one of the princi- 
 pal stockholders in the Challenge Mill 
 Co. ; he enlisted in Jim Lane's battalion 
 to guard the White House during the 
 riots in Baltimore. 
 
 Newton, D. C., Newton Wagon Co. ; P. O. 
 
 Batavia. 
 Newton, Levi, Newton Wagon Co. ; P. O. 
 
 Batavia. 
 
 Norden, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Norden, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Northam, G. C., carpenter ; P. 0. Batavia; 
 Norris, C. A., pump maker ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 N orris & Doty, pump maker; P.O. Batavia. 
 Newbern, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Nolan, Matthew, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Nolan, Jas., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Northcross, Nero, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Nelson, Andrew, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Newton, Betsey, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Nutm, Benjamin, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia, 
 Noakes, Wm. P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 OBERWISE, PETER, farmer ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 Offensend, 0., supt paper mill ; P. 0. 
 
 Batavia. 
 
 O'Boyle, Pat., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 O'Boyle, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 O'Riley, Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 O'Hair, Peter, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Otis, Eugene, P. 0. Batavia. 
 0' Conner, Harris, carp. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 O'Brien, Lawrence, P. 0. Batavia. 
 O'Hara, Martin, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Ozier, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Old.s, Charles, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 PRINDLE, I. P., foreman Newton 
 Wagon Co. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Porter, C. W., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Parker, E. J., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Patch, Jno., shoemaker ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Patterson, L. C., Private Insane Asylum ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Peterson, Aug., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 PULL, JOSEPH, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. 
 North Aurora ; farming 75 acres, prob- 
 able value of $50 per acre ; Dem. ; 
 'Cath. ; born in Germany in 1824; he 
 married Abolnea Nimes ; she was born 
 in Germany ; she has six children 
 Nick, John, Barney, Peter, Angeline 
 and Frank ; he left Germany in 1856, 
 and settled where he now resides ; has 
 been School Director. 
 
 Pillion. Pat., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Pratt, Wm. H., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Porter, E. A., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Peckham, Jno. A., mech. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Paulson, Aug., mech. ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Pasby, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Parce, A. J., butcher ; P. 0. Batavia.
 
 602 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 PARTRIDGE, GEO. C., insur- 
 ance and real estate ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 formerly pastor of Cong. Church of 
 Greenfield, Mass., and pastor of Cong. 
 Church in Batavia from 1860 to 1866 ; 
 since that time in present business. 
 
 Pierce, Mrs. G. B., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Pearson, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Pearson, Andrew, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Parkhurst, B. A., machinist; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 Paulsen, Julius, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Porter, S. L., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Pratt, Newman, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Platt, M. A., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Plain, John, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Payne, O. L., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Perry, X. F., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Pratt, Mrs. S. S., P. 0., Ba avia. 
 
 Pierce, Mary, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Patterson, M., minister; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Palmer, C. A., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 QUINN, LAWRENCE, harnessmaker; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 Quinlivin, Pat., mechanic; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 ROCKWELL, T. B., minister ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Redburg, Andrew, mech.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Rockwell, Jas., confectioner ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Ruggles, B. H., iron works; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Reed, A. D., traveling man ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Rouse, Pat., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 ROPF, A. S., druggist ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 Rep.; Ind.; born in Cayuga Co., N. Y.; 
 June 2, 1835; he married Miss Mar- 
 garet V. Griffiths ; she was born in 
 Livingston Co., N. Y., June 22, 1840 ; 
 married at St. Charles, Illinois, Jan. 27, 
 1858 ; had six children, two living A. 
 J., born Oct. 17, 18b8 ; E. E., born July 
 11, 1876 ; Blanch M., born March 29, 
 1861, died April 7, 1876 ; A. C., born 
 Jan. 26, 1863, died March 23, 1863 ; 
 C. S., born Sept. 14, 1864, died March 23, 
 1866; E. C., born Aug. 26, 1873, died 
 March 17, 1876. Went to Monroe Co., 
 N. Y., when three years of age, lived 
 there till 16, attending school, then 
 moved to Alle^any, then to Chemung 
 Co., living there two years at boat build- 
 ing ; then back to Allegany Co.; then 
 to Batavia ; in 1865, engaged in farm- 
 ing ; remained about eight years, then 
 came to town and engaged in the drug 
 business ; has been Constable, Town 
 Clerk, Village Trustee and Town Col- 
 lector. 
 
 Roscoe. Geo., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Rowcliffe, Jno.. farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Reed, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Roush, Peter, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Reddant, Fred, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Ross, Robt., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Rhutasel, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Reed, L. R., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Rhutasel, L., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Root, David, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Roach, Peter, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Reed, W. H , conductor ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Rogers, J. W., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Ratcliffe, N., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Reynolds, Sarah, P. O. Batavia. 
 Reising, Frank, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Robinson, Elijah, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Rockwell, Susan, P. 0. Batavia, 
 
 SPOONER, GEO. 0., bookkeeper ; P. 
 0. Batavia. 
 
 Swanson, Gustaf, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Spencer. A. M., P. 0. Batavia. 
 | Smith, F. P., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, C. E , Revere House ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith. Jane M., P. 0. Batavia, 
 
 SCHIMELPFENIG, CHAS., far 
 
 mer ; Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 112 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; Rep. ; 
 Meth.; was born in Prussia, in 182^; he 
 married Kate Beuz ; she was born in 
 Wurtemberg, in 1830 ; has six boys and 
 one girl ; came to the United States in 
 1852 ; came to Kane Co. in 1852. 
 
 Smith, Elizabeth. P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Smith, Matilda, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Starkey, D. W.. clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Shumway, C. W., foundry ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Steir, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Stuttle, Henry, manufacturer; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 Stephens, Benj., painter ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Sheets, John M., mfr.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 SPERRY, D. R., of D. R. Sperry & 
 Son, foundry ; P, 0. Batavia ; Ind.; 
 Cong.; was born in Malone, N. Y., in 
 1825; he married Miss M. L. Edsal ; 
 has four children Barton, born Aug. 
 15, 1852 ; Emma R., born Nov. 7, 1855 ; 
 Sarah G., born Aug. 22, 1860; Guy 
 Rockwell, born Dec. 18, 1876. Was 
 engaged in agriculture ; left New York 
 in 1869, built the foundry and has been 
 in the business since ; is not an office 
 seeker ; his son and partner has invented 
 a polishing machine, aho one for mill- 
 ing, by means of which they are enabled 
 to do superior work.
 
 KANE COUNTY : BATAVIA. 
 
 605 
 
 Sagle, E. A., engineer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Sterling, D. W., furniture ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Sperry, B. E., foundry ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Sperry, M. L.; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Smith, J. C., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Smith, A. A., Justice; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Smith, John, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Stan ton, Pat., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Snow, 0. T., Prin. school ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 SMITH, EDWARD S., Postmaster; 
 P. 0. Batavia ; Rep.; Meth.; was born 
 in Moriah, Essex Co., N. Y., March 20, 
 1832 ; he married Miss Jane M. Mai- 
 lory, in 1861 ; she was born March 7, 
 1838, in New York, and married April 
 15, 1861 ; has five children Ellinor 
 L., born March 27, 1862; Mary W., 
 born Sept. 23, 1864 ; Edward M., born 
 Dec. 14, 1867 ; Frank E. P., born Oct. 
 18, 1870 ; Jessie M., born Dec. 28, 1875. 
 Mr. Smith left home at the age of 16 
 years, and went to Saratoga ; engaged as 
 clerk in a grocery house; from there 
 went to Burlington, Vt., engaging with 
 J. & J. H. Peck & Co., in their counting 
 room ; it was here he received his busi- 
 ness education ; he remained with them 
 until 1853, when he came to Batavia, 
 and engaged in the grain and produce 
 business, and was the first express agent 
 established at this point ; he then en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of barrels by 
 machinery ; then in the drug business, 
 and from 1860 to 1870 he was in the 
 insurance business ; disposing of same 
 to Partridge & George, was appointed 
 Postmaster by Montgomery Blair, un- 
 der Lincoln's first Administration, in 
 April, 1861, and has continued so since, 
 the present being his fifth term. 
 
 Sheets, G. H., manufacturer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Selfridge, G. W , laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Shaw, W., blacksmith ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Superman, Horatio, laborer; P. 0. Batavia; 
 
 Stewart, W. H., mechanic ; P..O. Batavia. 
 
 Selfridge, Phineas, mech.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Sturges, Joseph, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Stephens, C. C., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Stewart, Wm., barber ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Scoville, Robert, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Snow, Francis, real estate ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Shultz, Fred., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Superman, Julius, laborer; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Superman, Julius, Jr., lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Selfri.lge, W. M., laborer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Schlecht, C., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Stephens, I. S., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Swanson, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Schwahn & Groner, fars.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Selden, G. E., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Stebbins, J. F., farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 Steiner, George, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Shomer, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Swicker, John, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, Peter, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, G. F., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, W. A., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Supernough, Julian, P. O. Batavia. 
 Schwan, H., P. O. Batavia. 
 Stebbins, Mrs. Mary, P. O. Batavia. 
 Stephens, I. S., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Supernough, Horatio, lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, Lewis, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, Stephen, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Sliggelt, Charles, mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, Mrs. L. C., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Smith, M., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Stephens, Mrs. S. C., P. 0. Batavia. 
 Sullivan, M., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Sheets, Horace, P. 0. Batavia. 
 Stewart, Mrs. M., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 10WNE, I. S., farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 T' 
 
 Towne, I. P., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TOWN, D. K., M. D., P. 0. Batavia; 
 Rep.; Cong.; born in Granville, N. Y., 
 Nov. 10, 1811. Married Miss Ullen S. 
 Miller ; she was born in Big Flats, N. 
 Y., Aug. 31, 1818, and married May 
 3, 1*42 ; she died July 6, 1854 ; had 
 five children Salem B., born May 4, 
 1843; Robert M., born Nov. 12, 1844; 
 Charles S., born Aug. 25, 1849 ; Ellen 
 E., born Nov. 8, 1850; William H., 
 born July 22, 1852 ; second wife Miss 
 Sarah E. Wright ; she was born Oct. 
 20, 1835, at Wyoming, N. Y.; married 
 at Batavia, May 7, 1861 ; lived in 
 Washington Co. 23 years ; then went 
 to Hudson, Ohio ; attended medical 
 lectures at New Haven, Conn., and 
 commenced practice at Hudson. O.; came 
 to Batavia in 1839 ; engaged in the 
 practice of medicine ; has for the past 
 15 years retired from his profession and 
 engaged in real estate. 
 
 Trumbull, S. C., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Todd, Mrs. C. D., P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Thorn, W. A., S. M. Agt; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Tomle, 0. M., furniture; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Thompson, James, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Tremain, A. G., blksmith ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
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 606 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 TOWN, HENRY L., farmer ; Sees. 
 29 and 32 ; P. 0. Batavia ; 233 acres ; 
 value, $60 per acre ; Rep.; Cong.; born 
 in Granville, N. Y., March 28, 1851 ; 
 lived in New York six years : came to 
 Batavia in 1857 ; has been School Di- 
 rector ; was in the lumber business in 
 Batavia. 
 
 Turner, C., laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Turner, James M., painter ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Town, H. E., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TOWN, S. B., Sees. 27 and 28; P. 0. 
 Batavia ; Rep.; Cong.; born in Batavia, 
 May 4, 1843. Married Miss Sabra A. 
 Frazier ; she was born in Fabius, N. Y., 
 Sept. 23, 1846; has two children- 
 Anna E., born Nov. 27. 1868 ; Robert 
 M., born June 3, 1870 ; lived in Bata- 
 via until he was 9 ; then attended 
 school at Granville, N. Y., and Fulton, 
 Vt., until he was 16; then came to 
 Batavia ; has been engaged in farming 
 and lumbering since ; he enlisted in the 
 124th 111. Infantry. 
 
 Town, Salem, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Tranto, William, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Totman, Edsall, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Trohig, E., laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Trohig, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Y TRICK, GEORGE, farmer; P. 0. 
 V_J Batavia. 
 
 Updike, Lewis, mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Updike, J. G., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 TTAN LIEW, N. W., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Van Devinter, Dodson, lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Van Devolgan, A. W., lab.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Vinecke, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 VAN NORTWICK, J. S., farmer; 
 Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 320 
 acres, valued at $100 per acre ; Dem.; 
 Ind.; was born in Batavia March 26, 
 1847; he married Miss Bina Totman; 
 she was born in Fredonia, N. Y., in 
 1852 ; married in Batavia in 1874 ; one 
 child William, born Feb. 16, 1876; 
 attended school in Aurora, Fort Edward, 
 N. Y., and Ann Arbor, Mich.; settled 
 on present place in 1876 ; has been Vil- 
 lage Trustee and Commissioner of High- 
 ways. 
 
 Vincent, Hamilton, jeweler; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Van Nortwick, Wm. M., Sec. paper-mill ; 
 P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Van Nortwick, J. S., far.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Voorhees, Minna, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Voorhees, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Voorhees, John, farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 1 Van Liew, Mrs. C., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 WILLIAMS, SQUIRE, farmer: P. 
 0. Batavia. 
 
 j Watts, James, P. 0. Batavia. 
 ! Wright, William, laborer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 ! Wood, Clark, Supt. County House ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Wood, Mrs. Maria, P. 0. Batavia. % 
 
 ! Wygart, J. D., mason ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 | Wolcott, H. K., Newton Wagon Co.; P. 
 
 O. Batavia. 
 
 ! Wolcott, N., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 ! Wolcott, S. A., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 WALGAST, JACOB, farmer; Sec, 
 36; P. 0. Aurora; Ind.; Luth.; owns 
 56 acres, valued at $60 per acre ; was 
 born in Wurtemburg in 1830 ; married 
 Elizabeth Fillgrove ; she was born in 
 Germany ; they have four children 
 John, Jacob, Christian, William ; came 
 to America in 1856, and to Kane Co. in 
 1859; settled where he now resides; 
 he was very poor at the time of starting 
 here, and earned his present place by 
 hard work. 
 
 Wolcott, W. A., merchant ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 I Whipple, J. H., Road Commissioner ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Williams, H. W., physician ; P. 0. Batavia, 
 
 Way, Silas, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Wilmart, George H., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Winchell, W. S., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Wade, H. N., book keeper; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 WAY, SILAS, aparian; P. 0. Bata- 
 via ; Dem.; Ind.; was born in Lynden, 
 Vt, Jan. 13, 1817; he married Miss 
 M. M. Buckley Feb. 26, 1854 ; she was 
 born in Fairfield, Conn.. Oct. 26, 1820 ; 
 they have one child Mary E., born 
 May 29, 1 856 ; Mr. Way lived in Ver- 
 mont until he was 15 years of age ; then 
 went to Linsten, N. H.; then Alstead r 
 remaining there at paper making until 
 1837 ; then visited Kane Co.; in 1843 
 he settled in St. Charles, working at hi 
 trade six months ; he went into a store 
 as clerk, and soon after into business 
 on his own account ; came to Batavia 
 in 1856, and engaged "in general mer- 
 chandise ; he retired from same in 1865, 
 
 Wenberg, Charles, lab.; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Walt, Henry, clothing ; P. 0. Batavia 
 
 Wilkic, Wm., stone quarry ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Welch, Thomas, P. 0. Batavia.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BATAVIA. 
 
 Wilcox, Levina, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Weare, Samuel, laborer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Whitney, L. M., mfr. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Wyatt, F., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 White, Charles, coal dlr.; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 WOOD, THEODORE, dealer in 
 grain and coal ; P. 0. Batavia ; Rep.; 
 Cong.; born in Jeff. Co., N. Y., in 
 1840. He married Elizabeth Burnell ; 
 she was born in Michigan, in 1 840 ; [ 
 Alice B., Sept. 5, 1867 ; Lloyd, July 1, 
 1872; Irene B., Jan. 4,1874. Left j 
 N. Y. in 1840 and settled in Kane Co.; I 
 came to Batavia in 1865; has been 
 Highway Com., Village Trustee and j 
 School Director; he enlisted in Co. B., ' 
 124th 111. Regt., also 5th N. Y. Heavy j 
 Artillery. His father settled in Black- ! 
 berry Tp., in Kane Co., 1840, and owned 
 the Bald Mound farm ; his five sons ! 
 were in the army. 
 
 Wood, Isaac R., clerk ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Walton, W., mechanic ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Wagner, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Winkie, E., farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Weaver, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Weaver, Dennison, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. j 
 
 Weaver, Adam, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Weaver, Orson, farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 WINCHELL, MUNSON, farmer; 
 Sees. 29, 30, 31 and 32 ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 160 acres, val. $60 per acre; Dem.; 
 Ind. ; born in Oneida Co., N. Y., 
 June 5, 1808. He married Paulina j 
 Holmes; she was born in Oneida Co., : 
 N. Y., March 29,1812; Ophelia D.j ' 
 born Oct. 18, 1835 ; E. J., born Dec. 
 18, 1837; William H., born Aug. 4, 
 1839; Henrietta S., born Aug. 25, 
 1841 ; Francis M., born April 30, 1845, 
 died July 24, 1877 ; Winfield S., born 
 Sept. 21, 1847; lived in N. -Y. until 
 he was 26 ; then went to Michigan ; 
 then to his present place, in 1836 ; were 
 very few settlers in the county when he 
 came. 
 
 Weaver, Calista, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Watson, Sanford, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Winkie, Mrs. E., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 WEAVER, GEO., farmer, Sees. 30 
 and 31 ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 370 
 acres, valued at $60 per acre ; Ind.; Ind.; 
 born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 
 27, 1811 ; he married Miss Colvin 
 Abbigail ; she was born in Jefferson 
 Co., Nov. 30, 1814 ; married Dec. 29, 
 1837 ; Orson L., born Sept. 22, 1838 ; 
 Electa M., born May 22, 1840 ; Delia 
 A., born Feb. 10, 1842; Denison R., 
 born Feb. 2.% 1846 ; Telestia C.. born 
 Jan. 22, 1851 ; died April 20, 1866 ; 
 Luella A., born Dec. 5, 1854; George, 
 born Nov. 9, 1858 ; Alvaro, born June 
 22, 1856; died 1875; lived in N. Y. 
 28 years ; came to Kane Co. in 1840 ; 
 settled near where he now resides ; has 
 been School Director 3 years ; his oldest 
 son was in the 124th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 Wygant, Mary, P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 "VTOUNDT, N. M., artist; P. 0. Bata- 
 JL via. 
 
 YOUNG, N. S., real estate and loan- 
 ing money, cor. Van Buren and South 
 sts.; P. 0. Batavia ; Rep ; born Straf- 
 ford, Vt., Aug. 20, 1818 ; he married 
 Miss Mary A. Hollister, Sept., 1862; 
 she was born at Lee, Mass.; Edwin H., 
 born July 29, 1863, and died Oct. 6, 
 1863; Fannie, born Oct. 1, 1868; 
 Justis H., born Aug. 17, 1871; 'left 
 Vt. and came with his father's family, 
 *in 1843, settled on Sees. 26 and 27, 
 in Blackberry Township; he was 1st 
 Town Clerk there under the new con- 
 stitution of 1 848 ; moved to Batavia in 
 1853 ; has been Highway Commissioner, 
 Assessor. Village Trustee and Super- 
 visor; was 5 years clerk and 3 years 
 partner with the Hon. I. S. Morrill, at 
 Stratford, Vt.; his father was one of the 
 original grantees of the Charter of 
 Stratford, also, first Representative to 
 State Legislature ; was an officer in 
 1812, and after was promoted to Brig- 
 adier General of State Militia. 
 
 Yates, A., P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Young, R., P. 0. Batavia.
 
 608 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 BLACKBERRY TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A ORES, J. GK, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Aylward, Charles, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, H. M., farming 
 and stock, Sees. 28, 27 and 22, Black- 
 berry Tp.: P. 0. Batavia; 160 acres; 
 value, $70 per acre ; also, 37 acres of 
 timber; Rep.; Cong.; born in Kentucky, 
 Feb. 13, 1809. Married Miss Livina 
 Dryer, in Springfield, 111., in 1830 ; she 
 was born in New York, in 1812 ; have 
 five children Catheron S., Synthia J., 
 Alvert H., John D., Julia M.; lived in 
 Kentucky until 1816 ; then came to 
 Madison Co., 111.; at the age of 20 he 
 went to Sangamon Co., 111.; remained 
 here until 1865 ; then to Batavia in 
 1865, and to his present place, April 1, 
 1871. 
 
 Allen, Thomas ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Alexander, J., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Atkins, Thomas, carp.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 ~~>ARRETT, SYLVESTER. 
 
 B 
 
 Baptist, Samuel. 
 
 Bucklin, F. F. 
 
 BENTLEY, ARNOLD G., farm- 
 
 ing and dairy ; Sec. 1 ; P. 0. LaFox ; 
 78 acres ; value, $100 per acre ; Rep.; 
 Cong.; born in Monroe Co., N. T., 
 Aug. 26, 1818. Married Miss Lucy 
 Bentley, in 1843; she was born in 
 Cattaraugus Co., Nov. 1, 1823; she 
 died Sept. 15, 1859 ; they had six 
 children four living; second wife Mary 
 Ann Ferson ; she was born in New 
 Hampshire, Nov. 28, 1833, and married 
 Oct. 9, 1860 ; they had six children 
 five living ; he left New York when 20, 
 and removed to Toledo ; then to Wis- 
 consin ; then to New York ; remained 
 until he was 25 ; then to Wisconsin ; 
 remained six years ; then to Cattaraugus 
 Co., N. Y ; remained three years; then 
 to Wisconsin ; remained one year ; then 
 to present place in 1852 ; has been 
 School Director several terms, and was 
 Deacon in the Cong, church of Geneva. 
 
 Barker, Jabez, farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Baker, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Boyce, Salem, farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Brown, W. W., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Barrett, C. H., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 BOWDISH, FULLER A., farm- 
 ing and stock, Sees. 19, 20, 29 and 30, 
 Blackberry Tp.; P. 0. Blackberry ; 293 
 acres; value, $50 per acre; Rep.; Indt.; 
 born in Otsego Co., N. Y., Sept. 6, 
 1833. Married Miss Malinda Acers, 
 March 3, 1862, at Chicago ; she was 
 born on present place, July 12, 1839 ; 
 have two children -Grorden A., born 
 Dec. 19, 1862 ; Elbridge S., born Nov. 
 29, 1864 ; lived in New York until Fall 
 of 1850 ; then came to Kane Co. with 
 his parents and settled in Blackberry 
 Tp., Sees. 21, 22, 27 ; then in Sec. 14; 
 in 1860 he came to his present place ; 
 has remained here since ; has been 
 School Trustee and Director several 
 terms. 
 
 BRUNDEGE, LEVI, farmer, Sec. 
 1, Blackberry Tp. ; P. 0. La Fox; 
 owns 140 acres of land, valued at $60 
 per acre ; Rep. ; Ind. ; born at St. 
 John's Island, N. B., Aug. 31, 1811 ; 
 married Miss Charlotte Smith, in Can- 
 ada, July 12, 1837 ; she was born in 
 Canada, Feb. 25, 1816 ; they had eleven 
 children Stella, born Aug. 2, 1839 ; 
 Levi, born Sept. 23, 1840 ; Amanda, 
 born March 7, 1842 ; Melissa, born 
 Sept. 6, 1844; Portland, born Oct. 4, 
 1849; Morila, born June 9, 1847; 
 Loj-ta, born Sept. 11, 1851 ; Mary N., 
 born Oct. 14, 1854; John C., born 
 Sept. 1, 1856; Adaline V., born Oct. 
 23, 1837, died Sept. 28, 1859 ; Mary 
 E., born July 12, 1859, died Oct. 29, 
 1853 ; he lived in New Brunswick un- 
 til he was 9 years of age ; then went to 
 Canada, and remained until 1842; then 
 came to St. Charles, Kane Co., and re- 
 mained until 1852, when he came to 
 his present place, and has since remained 
 here has been School Director several 
 
 BRUNDEGE, LEVI, Jr., farmer, 
 Sec. 1, Blackberry Tp. ; P. 0. La Fox ; 
 owns 70 acres of land, valued at $100 
 per acre ; Rep. ; Cong. ; born in Canada, 
 Sept. 23, 1840; married Miss Emma 
 Hathaway ; she was born at Potsdam, 
 N. Y., Dec. 28, 1845 ; he settled on his 
 present place in 1875, and has since re- 
 mained.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BLACKBERRY. 
 
 609 
 
 Bowers, A. 
 
 Barber, C. C., farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Baker, De Witt. 
 
 Barnes, W. H., farmer ; P. O. La Fox. 
 
 Bowdish, Oscar, farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Benton, Russell, farmer; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 BOWDISH, PERRY, farmer and 
 stock raiser, Sees. 21, 22 and 27, Black- 
 berry Tp. ; P. 0. Blackberry ; owns 140 
 acres of land, valued at $60 ; Rep. ; 
 Ind. ; born at Otsego, N. Y., Sept. 17. 
 1835 ; married J. C. Smith ; she was 
 born in Kane Co., May 22, 1837 ; mar- 
 ried in Blackbrery Tp., Dec. 24, 1852 ; 
 has five children Erne A., born June 
 4, 1862; Addie, born July 17, 1864; 
 Anna, born Nov. 1, 1866; two children 
 died in infancy ; lived in New York 
 until he was 14 years of age, and then 
 came to his present place, and has lived 
 there since ; his father-in-law, Mr. Jas. 
 Smith, was born in Pennsylvania, Nov. 
 15, 1792 ; he married Azuba Farns- 
 worth ; he came to Blackberry Tp. in 
 1830 ; he had eleven children, ten liv- 
 ing ; he was in the war of 1812, and 
 helped to build Commodore Perry's vic- 
 torious fleet on Lake Erie. 
 
 Bartholomew, P. Y., farmer; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Boyer, Anton. 
 
 Bullock, Robt., baker; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Bryant, Mrs. E., undertaker ; P. O. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Bartholomew, E. S., farmer ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Burton, W. 
 
 ptOOLEY, HORACE, shoemaker ; P. 
 
 V_y 0. Burlington. 
 
 Clemens, John, farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Clemens, Patrick, farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Carney, Patrick, farmer ; P. O. La Fox. 
 
 Coffin, William. 
 
 Callahan, Gregory, Sr., far.; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Cole, J. E., farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Catlin, F. P., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Colburn, Oliver, carp.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Crego, G. M., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Crow, James, saloon ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Cooley, George, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Collins, A. W., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Colwell, Thomas, far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Colwell, E., farmer ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 Cornell, John. 
 
 Collins, John, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 COBB, A. C., farming and creamery ; 
 Sec. 13 Blackberry and 18 Geneva; P. 
 0. Batavia; 193 acres; value, $80 per 
 acre ; Rep.; Ind.; born in Ellisburg, N. 
 Y., March 22, 1842. Married Miss 
 Emma C. Ford, Dec. 31, 1868; she 
 was born May 2, 1852 ; have two chil- 
 dren S. Josephine, born July 8, 1874; 
 Charles H., born June 21, 1877 ; he 
 lived in New York until he was 24 
 years old, on the farm ; he then enlisted 
 in Battery D, 4th U. S. Art.; was in the 
 battles of Winchester, Middletown, Cedar 
 Creek, Harrisburg, etc., etc., and was 
 wounded at Petersburg ; was Sergeant ; 
 discharged 1865; returned to Ellisburg 
 and then came to Aurora ; then to pres- 
 ent place ; has lived here since. H. S. 
 Ford was born in New York in 1809. 
 He married Miss Sara Davis; 5 chil- 
 dren 3 Jiving ; came to Batavia in 1857. 
 
 CLARK, THOMAS, miller, also 
 planing-mill ; P. 0. Blackberry ; Rep.; 
 Ind.; born in Yates Co., N. Y., Feb. 1, 
 1824. Married Elizabeth Bartholomew, 
 March 17, 1852 ; she was born in Yates 
 Co., N. Y., March 12, 1830 ; have two 
 children Francis I., born Dec. 8, 1852 ; 
 John C. F.,born April 10, 1858; lived 
 in Yates Co. until he was 16; then 
 moved to Plato with his parents; re- 
 mained five years ; then returned to 
 Yates Co.; was engaged in building 
 mills, remaining 10 years ; he then 
 moved to Elgin, 111., and engaged in 
 grocery some two years ; then in mill 
 and continued until 1870; in 1861 he 
 enlisted in the 52d 111. Inf.. Co. K ; was 
 discharged in 1862 ; after recruiting his 
 health, he assisted in raising another 
 company, and again entered the army 
 in the 127th 111., he being First Lieuten- 
 ant of Co. C ; was in the battles of 
 Vicksburg and Arkansas Post ; he then 
 resigned ; and later he assisted in get- 
 ting up the 141st 111. Inf., he being 
 Lieutenant Colonel ; the regiment was 
 mustered out in 1864 ; he came to 
 Blackberry in 1873, and moved his 
 family here in 1874. 
 
 Chase, A. L., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 ' , AVIS, RICE ; farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Dooley, Michael, farmer ; P. O. Batavia. 
 Davis, Zopher, farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 Damon, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry.
 
 610 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Danly, James. 
 
 Damon, Lewis, farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Donor, M., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 THLDEN, G. B., lumber ; P. 0. Black- 
 
 _LJJ berry. 
 
 Ellithorpe, A.sa, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Emory, Joseph, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 -TpRYDENDALL, LAWRENCE, far.; 
 
 JJ P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Fields, H. S., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Forrest, J. E., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Flynn, Morris, railroad man ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Forbes, J. E., farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 FISH, JOEL D., farmer, dairyman 
 and stock raiser, Sec. 21 ; P. O. Black- 
 berry ; owns 310 acres of land, valued 
 at $60 per acre ; Rep.; Tnd.; born in 
 Pennsylvania, July 29, 1825. Mar- 
 ried Miss Louisa Jane West ; she was 
 born on Long Island ; had seven chil- 
 dren five living ; his wife died April 
 17, 1872 ; he then married Lura E. 
 Daniels; she was born April 30, 1850; 
 married March '29, 1877 ; lived in 
 Pennsylvania until he was 20 ; came to 
 Elgin in 1844; was a blacksmith 
 by trade; in 1847, he moved near his 
 present place, working at his trade ; he 
 then came to present place, and has 
 remained here since ; has been Post- 
 master four years, Town Clerk six years, 
 also School Director and Trustee. W. 
 B. West settled here in 1836. He was 
 born in England. He opened a bank 
 in Geneva ; died August 26, 1869. 
 
 Frary, N. D., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Forbes, J. D. 
 
 Foster, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Frydendall, D., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 fH ATES, M. C.,far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 VT Green, D. C. far.; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Garfield, E. E., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Gage, H,, harness maker; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 GOULD, G. W., farmer and stock 
 raiser, Sees. 28, 29, Blackberry Tp.; 
 P. 0. Blackberry; owns 175 acres of 
 land, valued at $60 per acre; Rep.: 
 Ind.; born in Connecticut, Jan. 22, 
 1821. Married Miss Mary E. Bow- 
 dish, Nov. 11, 1847 ; she was born in 
 N. Y., May 31, 1838; have three chil- 
 dren George W., Jr., born Jan 23, 
 1851 ; Webb N., born Sept. 26, 1856 ; 
 H. Pitts, boru Dec. 23, 1858 ; lived in 
 Connecticut 27 years ; was foreman in a 
 
 cotton factory, then went' to Vermont, 
 and then came to Kane Co., and re- 
 mained here since ; has been Constable, 
 Collector, also School Clerk and Direc- 
 tor ; was in poor circumstances, on ar 
 riving here, and by industry and econ- 
 omy, has placed himself in his present 
 position. 
 
 GEORGE, MILO, Sees 26, 27, 
 
 Blackberry Tp. ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 
 100 acres of land here, and 6 acres of 
 timber land, valued at $70 per acre ; 
 Rep.; Ind.; born in Strafford, Vt., 
 Oct. 4, 1817. Married Achsa Boyce ; 
 she was born in Springfield, N. H., 
 March 27, 1823, and married May 4, 
 1842, in Strafford, Vt.; have three 
 children Mary E., born Aug. 13, 1 843 ; 
 Cora, born Aug. 11, 1847; Alice M., 
 born Sept. 1, 1860 ; lived in Vermont 
 until 1853; was engaged in farming, 
 then came to his present place, and has 
 remained here since ; has been School 
 Director and Township Trustee. 
 George, Milo. 
 
 Gray, A. T., merchant ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 TTARVEY, J. F., farmer ; P. 0. La 
 _O_ Fox. 
 
 Humphrey, J. M., farmer; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 HUNTER, W. R. S., attorney, real 
 estate and insurance ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Hunt, George, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Hanks, Michael. 
 
 Hannavig, Fred., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 HILTS, JOSEPH, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 36, Campton Township, and 
 Sec. 1, Blackberry Township; P. 0. La 
 Fox; 156 acres land (six timber), 
 probable value of 860 per acre ; Rep. ; 
 Cong. ; born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., 
 Oct. 9, 1814; he married Miss Mary 
 Ladd ; she was born in Westpn, N. Y., 
 Nov. 13, 1819, and married June 12, 
 1839 ; J. Madison and J. Monroe born 
 Sept. 7, 1841 ; Thos. G., born Feb. 20, 
 1849 ; G. F.,boru April 26, 1851 ; L. R., 
 born Oct. 3, 1859; Joseph M., born 
 April 25, 1846, and died March 12, 
 1864; lived in New York until 1848; 
 was engaged at farming, and came to 
 St. Charles in 1849 ; he located on his 
 present place, and has remained here 
 since ; has been School Director ; was 
 poor on arriving here, and owes his 
 present place to industry and economy.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BLACKBERRY. 
 
 611 
 
 Howard, Mrs. C. D. 
 Howard, Eugene. 
 
 Harris, J. M. station agent; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Hunt, J. W., farmer ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 Huss, Jno. 
 HERRINGTON, JAMES, Sec. 
 
 12 ; P. 0. Blackberry ; was born in 
 Mercer Co., Pa., June 6, 1824; he 
 married Miss Mary Blodgett, Jan. 15, 
 1850 ; she was born in New York, May 
 21, 1829 ; they had ten children Eliza 
 C., born Oct. 31, 1850 ; Benton, born 
 Jan. 10, 1854; Charity, born March 
 15, 1856; Nathan, born March 15, 
 1859; Brigham, born Nov. 18, 1861 ; 
 James, born Jan. 22, 1865 ; Caroline, 
 Oct. 4, 1 867 ; Augustus, born March 
 4, 1869; Mary, born Oct. 21, 1872; 
 and James, born July 2, 1852, died ' 
 Dec. 20, 1862. He lived in Pennsyl- i 
 vania until he was 9 years old, then ! 
 came to Chicago and remained two | 
 years, then removed to Geneva, in 1835 ; 
 he remained until the Spring of 1843 ; 
 he then apprenticed to printing, with 
 John Wentworth, on the old Chicago 
 Democrat; he remained here until 
 1848, then returned to Geneva and en- 
 gaged at farming and on local paper, 
 until 1849 ; he was then elected Clerk 
 of Kane County Court, and continued 
 eight years; he then engaged in set- 
 tling up his private business ; has been 
 elected Supervisor of Geneva three 
 terms ; in 1863, he removed to his 
 present place ; in Nov., 1872, he was 
 elected from the 14th Senatorial Disk, 
 as a Representative in the 28th General 
 Assembly; re-elected, in 1874, to the 
 29th General Assembly, and, in 1876, 
 to the 30th General Assembly ; in 1872, 
 he was elected Supervisor of Blackberry 
 Township ; was for eight years a mem- 
 ber of the State Board of Agriculture, 
 representing the 4th Dist., during which 
 time it devolved on him to occupy many 
 of the principal positions ; he has been 
 prominent in the State Conventions ; he 
 is at present Representative from the 
 14th Senatorial Dist. His has been 
 a life of unusual activity ; socially, he 
 is a man of rare qualities ; he is proud 
 of his profession of farming, and his 
 many genial ways have won him a host 
 of admiring friends. 
 
 HATHAWAY, W. N., farmer, 
 Sec. 2, Blackberry Township; P. 0. 
 La Fox; 46? acres of land, valued $75 
 per acre ; Ind. ; Meth. ; born in Black- 
 berry Township Sept. 12, 1857 ; lived 
 in Blackberry until he was 6 years 
 old, then moved to Decatur, 111., with 
 his parents, remained two years and re- 
 turned to present place ; his father, F. 
 A. Hathaway, died in Oct., 1870, and 
 Mr. W. N. has been carrying on the 
 place since 1874; Mrs. Hathaway mar- 
 ried Mr. J. Brooks, of Garden Prairie, 
 Boone, Co., 111., Nov. 29, 1877. 
 
 HERRINGTON, NATHAN P., 
 
 farmer and dairyman; Sec, 12 Black- 
 berry and 7 Geneva ; P. 0. Geneva ; 
 owns 146 acres ; value, $60 per acre ; 
 Dem.; Universalist ; born in Mercer 
 Co., Pa., May 29, 1822 ; he married 
 Miss Elmira Rice, July 4, 1847 ; she 
 was born at Elmira, N, Y., June 25, 
 1824 ; they have no children ; he lived 
 in Pennsylvania until he was 11 years 
 old ; then moved to Chicago, and re 
 mained until March, 1835, when he re- 
 moved to Geneva, Kane Co.; here he 
 remained until 1857 ; was engaged at 
 farming ; then moved to Fulton, White- 
 side Co., 111., and remained until 1862 ; 
 was for four years Government Mail 
 Agent, then enlisted in 52d 111. Vols., 
 being Capt. of Co. F ; was in battles of 
 Ft. Henry, Ft. Donelson, Pittsburg 
 Landing and Siege of Corinth ; owing 
 to sickness, he then resigned and re- 
 turned home ; came to present place 
 and has remained here since ; has been 
 Deputy Sheriff four years, Assessor of 
 Blackberry two years, Collector one 
 year, and School Director five years; 
 has been seven years in the dairy busi- 
 ness ; also breeds Jersey cattle. 
 
 Honck, Ralph. 
 
 HOWARD, PHILO, deceased ; Sec. 
 26, Blackberry Tp. ; P. 0. Batavia ; 
 owns 180 acres of land, valued at $55 
 per acre; born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
 in 1 820 ; married Casendana Jones ; 
 she was born in Clinton Co., N. Y., in 
 1830, and married i ~> Aug., 1862, at 
 Marengo, Henry Co., 111. ; has two chil- 
 dren E. H., born Jan. 25, 1865; 
 Zadia, born March 23, 1867 ; came to 
 this place in 1861, and has remained 
 here ever since.
 
 612 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HALL, J., clerk; P. 0. Blackberry; 
 Rep. ; Ind. ; born in Cincinnati, O., 
 Oct. 23, 1821 ; married Miss Harriet 
 M. Hotchkiss ; she was born in Ver- 
 mont, and married, in 1850, at Black- 
 berry ; Elry, born May 22, 1851 ; lived 
 in Ohio until 11 years old, and then 
 went to Chicago with his parents ; lived 
 there one Winter, then went to Naper- 
 ville, 111., with his parents ; came to 
 Blackberry in the Spring of 1834, and 
 lived with his parents on a farm ; has 
 been working in his present business 18 
 years ; has been Deputy Sheriff, Con- 
 stable, Road * Commissioner, and Col- 
 lector ; his father, Hiram Hall, came to 
 Blackberry Tp. in the Spring of 1834 ; 
 he was born in Pennsylvania. 
 
 Hurd, J. 0., farmer; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Hughes, Michael, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Hill", Wm., farmer ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Hill, Frank. 
 
 Harmon, Tim. 
 
 TOHNSON, A. W., blacksmith ; P. 0. 
 
 fj Blackberry. 
 
 Johnson, J. C., butcher ; P. 0. Black 
 berry. 
 
 Joy, F. P. 
 
 JOHNSON, PETER H., farm 
 ing; Sees. 9, 10 and 15, Blackberry 
 Tp. ; P. 0. La Fox ; owns 525 acres of 
 land, valued at $75 per acre ; Dem. ; 
 Epis. ; born on Staten Island, April 30, 
 1798 ; married Miss Ann Bogart, in 
 1820 ; she was born on Staten Island, 
 March 15, 1801 ; had ten children, 
 seven living ; his second wife was Miss 
 Clarisa Weller, who was born in Fow- 
 lersville, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1827, and was 
 married April 25, 1871 ; Louisa T. 
 Lockwood, born Nov. 19, 1844; he lived 
 on Staten Island until 15 years of age ; 
 then went to New York, to learn cabinet 
 making ; he then took to boot and shoe- 
 making, and was in the city during 
 1812, 1813 and 1814; was called out 
 several times to help fortify Brooklyn ; 
 after journeying around some, he re- 
 turned to Staten Island ; here he met 
 Gov. Tompkins, Vice President, who 
 advised him to go to Tompkinsville 
 (this was in 1819) ; he went, and opened 
 out boots, shoes and clothing, etc. ; re- 
 mained there 12 years; then went to 
 West New Brighton, laying out West 
 Broadway and Division avenue ; re- 
 
 mained 1 2 years ; he then came to his 
 present place, in 1843 ; the residence is 
 the most elevated in the county ; he was 
 Justice of the Peace on Staten Island ; 
 was Captain of artillery for Newark ; 
 was also Ensign in Richmond County 
 Guards ; has been School Treasurer in 
 this township five years ; his father was 
 Jacob Johnson, who was born on Staten 
 Island, July 14, 1773 ; he married Miss 
 Elizabeth Houghwout ; she was born on 
 Staten Island, Feb. 18, 1779 ; they had 
 12 children ; his father was James John- 
 son, a brother to old Tommy Johnson, 
 of Maryland. 
 
 Jenkins, J. W., merchant ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Jackson, J. J., carp. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Johnson, Frank, tailor ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Johnson, N. H., farmer ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 JOHNSON, D. D., creamery; P. 0. 
 Blackberry ; Ind. in religion ; born in 
 Canada, in 1844; married Miss Mary 
 Graham ; she was born in Canada, and 
 married March 10, 1869; have four 
 children Daniel, born Dec. 24, 1870; 
 Duncan A., born July 23, 1872 ; Le- 
 wellyn. born July 10, 1875; child, 
 born Aug. 8, 1877 ; lived in Canada 
 until 1874, when he came to Black- 
 berry, and engaged in the manufacture 
 of cheese and butter; in 1877, he built 
 his present factory, which is large and 
 complete in every particular. 
 
 Johnson, B. A., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Jackson, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 T7^ EEN AN, FRANCIS, farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 J_V La Fox. 
 
 Knox, Wm. 
 
 Keller, J. N. 
 
 KELLER, C. H., deceased, Sec. 24 ; 
 P. 0. Batavia ; Blackberry Township ; 
 owned 187 acres, valued at $60 per acre', 
 was born in New York, April 20, 1840; 
 he married Miss Carrie Hall ; she was 
 born in St. Charles, Kane Co.; married 
 in same place, Dec. 27, 1865 ; had three 
 children George H., born Jan. 8, 1867; 
 Esther A., born Aug. 9, 1871 ; Bertha 
 E., born May 29, 1876. Came to Kane 
 Co. in 1845, to present place, and re- 
 mained there until he died, Aug. 4, 1876; 
 was in the 124th 111. Regt.; was Second 
 Lieut, of Co. B. His father, George H. 
 Keller, was born in Pennsylvania, Oct.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BLACKBERRY. 
 
 618 
 
 29,1814; he came to Kane Co. in 1845; 
 he settled on this place, and died Sept. 
 29, 1871; he married Miss Ester Masi- 
 ker ; she was born in New York in 1819. 
 Her father, Isaac Masiker, was born in 
 New Jersey, Feb. 23, 1795 ; he married 
 Miss Hannah Green ; she was born 
 March 30, 1786, in Newark, *N. J.; 
 married Dec. 27, 1818, in New York; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1839 and were the 
 first settler* of this place. In 1872- 
 73-74, the four generations lived here 
 in one house as one family. Mrs. Kel- 
 ler's son George had, until he was four 
 years old, ten living grandparents. 
 
 Kendall, Walter, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Krum, Isaac, mechanic; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Kendall, J. C., mason ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Kendall, J. M., farmer; P. 0. Blackbery. 
 
 T EWIS, W. H. 
 
 J_J 
 
 Logan, A. R., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Lewis, D. R., mech.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Langrall, Isaac, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville, 
 
 Leary, Chas. 
 
 Loomis, S. W. 
 
 MOORE, DAVID, mason; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 Morris, J. W., Sr., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 MORRILL, FRANK S., Post 
 
 master; P. 0. Blackberry ; owns 80 acres, 
 valued at $75 per acre ; Dem.; Ind.; 
 born in Vermont, May 24, 1825; he 
 married Lucinda Cleveland, Nov. 8. 
 1874; she was born in New York, May 
 13, 1828 ; had six children Bessie B., 
 born Feb. 6, 1851 ; Frank S., born Jan. 
 28,1853; Lucy A., born April 1,1 855; 
 Dell B., born July 18, 1859 ; Blanchie 
 M., born May 31. 1870; Steven, born 
 May j!3, 1847, died March 7, 1855. 
 Lived in Vermont until 1844 ; was en- 
 gaged in schooling ; then came to Kane 
 County, and settled at Kaneville ; lived 
 there six years ; then came to present 
 place ; lived here since ; has been School 
 Director, Town Clerk, Collector, Co. 
 Justice and Postmaster, some twenty 
 years. His son, Dell B., is the sub-mail 
 contractor. 
 
 Massee, R. L. 
 
 Moon, Daniel. 
 
 Moore, John, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Moore, James, farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Merrill, S. M., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 McGuire, John. 
 
 McNAIR, SAMUEL, M. D., 
 
 P. 0. Blackberry ; Rep.; Ind.; born in 
 Pa., Feb. 8, 1823 ; he married Miss 
 Ann Osborn, Nov. 24, 1856; she was 
 born in N. Y., Dec. 15, 1831 ; had 4 
 children Rush, born July 1, I860; 
 Rock, born July 1, 1860, died April 20, 
 1872; S. Platt, born May 31, 1866, 
 died March 2. 1867 ; Earl, born Sept. 
 30, 1863, died Sept. 30, 1864 ; lived in 
 Pa. until 1844 ; then came to Kane Co., 
 and wont to farming in 1 866 ; he came 
 to Blackberry, and has resided here 
 since ; he pursued his studies of medicine 
 at ' Aurora, Cincinnati and Chicago ; 
 graduated in 1869, and has the first cer- 
 tificate awarded to Kane Co. by the 
 State Board of Health; has been Coronor, 
 also School Director several terms ; the 
 Dr. has taken a lively interest in affairs 
 of the town, and has, by his building 
 operations, added much to the town. 
 Samuel McNair, M. D., Physician and 
 Surgeon, office and residence over drug 
 store of McNair & Lewis. McNair & 
 Lewis, drugs, groceries, crockery, etc., 
 Blackberry Station. 
 
 Matthewson, Jno. J., Postmaster ; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 
 MORSE, E. GARY, farmer, Sec. 
 3, Blackberry; P. 0. La Fox; 156 
 acres, value $60 per acre ; Dem. ; Ind. ; 
 born in Springfield, Mass., Dec. 11, 
 1810 ; he married Miss S. A. Logan, 
 Sept. 3, 1848, at Elgin ; she was born 
 in Vermont, Feb. 10, 1822 ; they have 
 one child Adelaide, born Jan. 11, 
 1850; he lived in Massachusetts until 
 2 years old, and went to Vermont ; 
 remained six years, then went to New 
 York ; remained six year?, then went 
 back to Vermont ; remained seven years, 
 then went to New York and remained 
 until 1840, when he came to Kane Co., 
 and bought his place from Government ; 
 his daughter married J. E. Forrest, who 
 was born in Sweden, in 1844 ; he came 
 to United States in 1851 and to Kane 
 Co., 1862 ; they were married in 1867 ; 
 two children Lizzie, born Aug. 5, 
 1870; Elsie, born March 25, 1874; 
 Mr. Forrest has been foreman in the 
 Chicago Times ofiice. 
 
 Miller, James^ farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Masser, George. 
 
 Mason, J.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 MORRILL, F. S., JR., far. , P. 0. 
 
 Blackberry; Dem.; Ind.; born in Kane- 
 ville, Jan. 28, 1853 ; he married Miss 
 Cora L. Shaw ; she was born in Iowa, 
 Jan. 26, 1859 ; married Jan. 27, 1875 ; 
 lived in Kane Co. until he was 21 ; was 
 4 years in law office of C. H. White 
 and F. G. Garfield, in Blackberry Sta.; 
 he then went to Nebraska ; object was 
 farming and law ; he left, owing to 
 grasshoppers ; he returned to present 
 place, and has lived here since. 
 
 McNAIR, THOMAS, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 18; Blackberry Tp.; P. 
 0. Blackberry ; owns a farm of 240 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; Rep.; 
 Ind.; born in Erie Co., Pa., March 6, 
 1817 ; he married Miss Sarah Cochran 
 April 8, 1845 ; she was born in Erie 
 Co., Pa., April 9, 1824 ; had 3 children 
 Frank C., born June 23, 1850; 
 Frederic G-., born Nov. 15, 1858; Fink 
 S., born April 27, 1863; lived in Pa. 
 until he was 22 ; then . came to Kane 
 Co., by team, in 1837, and settled where 
 he now resides ; bought from Govt., and 
 has been here since ; has been Highway 
 Commissioner twice, School Clerk and 
 Director several terms ; has sold good 
 winter wheat in Chicago for 5 shillings ; 
 he lived here some 8 years, then went 
 East and married, and returned same 
 year. 
 
 Matteson, Wm. 
 
 MOORE, MICHAEL, farmer, Sec. 
 11, Blackberry; P. 0. La Fox; 190 
 acres, value $60 per acre ; Dem. ; Cath. ; 
 born in Ireland, Dec. 15, 1838; he 
 married Miss Julia Lynch, 1864 ; she 
 was born in March, 1840 ; Julia Ann, 
 born Nov. 13, 1864 ; Margaret, born 
 Jan. 24, 1866; John, born Sept. 4, 
 1868; Michael, born Oct. 3, 1872; 
 Mary, born Sept. 15, 1870 ; James, 
 born April 29, 1875 ; Daniel, born May 
 20, 1877 ; lived in Ireland until he Was 
 1(5, then went to England and lived 
 there four years ; then came to United 
 States in 1858, and settled in Washing- 
 ton, D. C. ; lived there one year, then 
 moved to Chicago ; then to Batavia in 
 1860; then traveled several years; 
 bought his present place in 1869, and 
 moved here in 1869 ; was in very poor 
 circumstances on arriving here. 
 
 Moulding, Thos., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Morris, J. W., Jr., restaurant; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 
 MARKS, J. T., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 12, Blackberry Township; 
 P. 0. Geneva ; Rep. ; Ind. ; born in 
 New York, Dec. 10, 1827; 160 acres, 
 probable value of $60 per acre ; he 
 married Miss Mary C. Houck ; she was 
 born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 2, 
 182 1 ; married at Chicago, Nov. 25, 
 i855 ; no children ; lived in New York 
 fourteen years ; came to Kane Co. in 
 1841, settled where he now resides, and 
 has lived here since. 
 
 McMahon, Jno., mason ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 ^TORRIS, HIRAM, farming and 
 1 \l stock ; Sees. 34 and 35 Blackberry 
 Township ; P. 0. Batavia ; owns 450 
 acres ; value, $55 per acre ; Rep.; Ind.; 
 born in New York, Nov. 3, 1828; he 
 married Hannah M. Young ; she was 
 born at Strafford, Vt., Feb. 13, 1831, 
 and married at Kaneville Township, 
 April 27, 1853; they had four children 
 Helen M., born June 15, 1854; 
 Frank Y., born March 12, 1856 ; John, 
 born May 2, 1859 ; and Nathan N., 
 born Nov. 23, 1864 ; lived in New York 
 until 1844, with his parents, on a farm, 
 and with his parents settled on his pres- 
 ent place; he went to California in 
 1850, overland route ; he spent three 
 years in mining in California and Ore- 
 gon ; on his return he settled on his 
 present place, and has resided here 
 since ; he has been School Director for 
 some two or three years. 
 
 O'BRIEN, CORNELIUS, saloon ; P. 
 0. Blackberry. 
 O'Neil, John, farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 POOLEY, SAM'L, farmer; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 
 Potter & Baker, merch'ts ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Potter, L. M., Postmaster ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Peirce, Mrs. C. M. 
 
 Pooley, Mrs. M. A., millinery; P. O. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Pass, Peter, farmer ; P. O. -Grouse. 
 
 Plant, Peter. 
 
 Price, Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 PLATT, SAMUEL (deceased); 
 born in New York, Aug. 28, 1805 ; he 
 lived on the farm until he was 20 years 
 old, when he moved to Pennsylvania ; 
 here he married Miss Nancy McNair; 
 she was born in Erie Co., Pa., Sept. 14,
 
 KANE COUNTY: BLACKBERRY. 
 
 615 
 
 1812; married March 24, 1834; they 
 had six children, three living James 
 W., Sophia, Mary> Nancy A., Mnrtha 
 and child ; they lived in Erie Co., on a 
 farm, ten years, then came to Black- 
 berry, 1836 ; lived there, on a farm, 
 until April 13, 1850, when he died; he 
 was the first Justice in the township ; 
 also, School Director and Trustee ; he 
 was elected the first Supervisor of the 
 township, but died before gjing into the 
 office ; it was largely due to Mr. Platt's 
 influence that the township retained its 
 name, and he was influential in the 
 issues of the leading events of his town- 
 ship, and was a much respected citizen ; 
 Mrs. Platt continued on the farm until 
 1876, having lived there forty years. 
 Pooley, Thos., jeweler ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 RAWSON, H. M., farmer; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 
 Russell, John, farmer ; P. 0: Blackberry. 
 
 Rooney, Lawrence, farmer ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Rinehart, G. F., com. mer.; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Root, George, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Rhutassel, John. 
 
 READ, L. K,., banking and real estate ; 
 P. 0. Blackberry; Rep.; Ind.; born in 
 Tompkins Co., N. Y., Aug. 5, 1824. 
 Married Sarah J. Yost ; she was born 
 Oct. 6, 1827, in Erie Co., Pa.; married 
 Oct. 6, 1847 ; has four children Charles 
 A., born Jan., 1850 ; Melissa, born Nov. 
 14, 1853; J. J., born May 31, 1855; 
 Harry L., born Feb. 9, 1861 ; lived in 
 New York until he was 4, and went 
 to Erie Co., Pa., with his parents ; re- 
 mained four years ; then went to Ohio, 
 remained three years ; then to Erie Co., 
 Pa., remained eight years ; then to 
 Jackson Co., Mich.; then to Cass Co.; 
 engaged at farming ; remained there 
 eight years ; in 1852 he went to Cali- 
 fornia, took overland route ; remained 
 there three years ; first year he engaged 
 in the hotel business, at Cold Spring ; 
 and the two latter years he engaged in 
 the merchandise business, at the same 
 place; he then returned to Cassopolis, 
 Mich., and engaged in merchandise ; in 
 1866 he came to Blackberry, investing 
 in lands, which occupied his attention 
 for the first six months ; he then went 
 in the mercantile business, and continued 
 
 in same till 1876 ; he then engaged in 
 improving his real estate ; in Sept., 1877, 
 he went into the banking business ; has 
 some 900 acres of land at and near 
 Blackberry, in which place he has built 
 many of the leading buildings, and has 
 done much to make it a town. 
 
 Richmond, M. C., farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Ryan, Pierce, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Rice, Nelson, farmer ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Ravatte, G. W., farmer; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Read, C. A., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 O MITH, J. M., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Sheldon, G. A., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 SPALDING, NOAH B., deceased; 
 born in New York in 1808 ; he lived in 
 New York until 1834 ; came to Kane 
 Co. in 1837 ; he settled near Aurora. 
 Married Miss Angelina Atwater, in 
 Aurora ; she was born in New York in 
 1808; in 1838 he went to Dundee ; in 
 1842 he went to Geneva, where he was 
 Sheriff eight years ; in 1861 became to 
 Blackberry Tp ; went to farming ; then 
 to Blackberry Station, and opened a 
 grocery and drug store, and died Sept. 
 24, 1874; Mrs. Spalding is living in 
 the old homestead at Blackberry ; they 
 raised two children one boy and one 
 girl ; the boy was in the 52d 111., was 
 wounded at Pittsburg Landing and died 
 the May following; Mrs. Spalding taught 
 the first school on the west side of the 
 river at Aurora, in 1836. 
 
 Seldon, J. E., farmer; P. 0. La Foz. 
 
 Smith, James, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 SHEETS, DAVID P., farming and 
 stock; Sees. 21 and 20, Blackberry Tp.; 
 P. 0. Blackberry; 187 acres, value 
 $60 per acre; Rep.; Meth.; born on his 
 present place, Dec. 4, 1840. Married 
 Miss Carrie Gosper ; she was born in 
 Ohio, Aug. 31, 1843, and was married 
 in present place, Aug. 31, 1862 ; have 
 two children Louis E., born Oct. 3, 
 1863 ; Willis G., born Dec. 16, 1870 ; 
 he lived on present place until 5 years 
 old ; then moved to Sec. 22 ; lived there 
 six years ; then came to present place 
 and has remained here since ; enlisted 
 in the 124th 111. Inf.; owing to sickness 
 he put a substitute in his place; has 
 been Clerk of School Board, also Direc- 
 tor ; his father J. M., was born in Penn- 
 sylvania, and caoie to Kane Co. in 1837.
 
 616 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Shepherd, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Spalding. Coit, farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 SOUDERS, JOHN, farmer and 
 stock raiser, Sec. 29, Blackberry Town- 
 ship ; P. 0. Blackberry ; 264 acres, 
 valued at $65 per acre ; Dem. ; Ind. ; 
 born in Pennsylvania, Dec. 10, 1807 ; 
 he married Miss MaryLance. in 1835; 
 she was born in Pennsylvania in 1813 ; 
 had four children, two of whom are 
 living Charles and Perm ilia ; lived in 
 Pennsylvania until he was 7 years 
 old, then moved to Ohio with his pa- 
 rents, and settled on the Miami ; re- 
 mained there until 1834, when he came 
 to his present place, and has lived here 
 since ; he bought his land from Govern- 
 ment in 1860 ; his house was burned ; 
 has hauled grain to Chicago for 38c. ; 
 he came to this county on foot from 
 Ohio, had nothing but a knapsack. 
 
 SMITH, SAMUEL, farmer, Sees. 
 17, 18 and 8, Blackberry Township; 
 P. 0. Blackberry ; Ind. ; Chris. ; born 
 in Pennyslvania. April 8, 1823 ; he 
 married Miss Elizabeth Ann Conely, 
 Oct. 2, 1859 ; she was born in Canada, 
 Feb. 2, 1833; six children Winfield 
 G., born Aug. 13, 1852 ; Silva A., born 
 Aug. 11, 1855 ; Martha J., born Aug. 
 20, 1858; Emma D., born Feb. 4, 
 ] 862 ; William J., born June 18, 1870 ; 
 George L., 'born, Feb. 12, 1864, died 
 Jan. 15, 1865; lived in Pennyslvania 
 thirteen years, then moved to Illinois, 
 to Blackberry Township, with his 
 parents ; came to his present place in 
 1856; he came to Kane Co. in 1836; 
 bought part of his land from Govern- 
 ment ; has been School Director several 
 terms ; he marketed all his produce in 
 Chicago in early days, and has sold 
 wheat at 23c. ; he is a Deacon in the 
 First Christian Church of Blackberry. 
 
 SNOOK, CHARLES T., farmer; 
 Sees. 23 and 24, Blackberry Township ; 
 P. 0. Batavia ; owns 302 acres ; Rep. ; 
 Ind.; born in New York, May 12, 1839 ; 
 he married Ellen M. Pierce ; she was 
 born in Kane County, and married Dec. 
 25, 1870 ; they had one child, Lewis 
 E., born Oct. 31, 1871. Came to Kane 
 County in 1865, and has lived here 
 since ; has been School Director ; he 
 enlisted in the 8th N. Y. Cav., and was 
 in the various battles of the regiment. 
 
 Sheets, Horace, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Stout, P. S., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Sowders. Chas., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 STEARNS, HENRY E., far.; 
 
 Sees. 12 and 13 Blackberry Township; 
 P. 0. La Fox; owns 120 acres here, 
 seven being of timber : value, $75 per 
 acre ; Rep.; Ind.; born at Linden, Vt., 
 Jan. 1, 1824 ; he married Miss Almanda 
 M. Marks, May 30, 1847 ; she was born 
 in New York, April 15, 1830; they 
 had five children, one living Ella V., 
 born July 2, 1859 ; he left Vermont at 
 the age of 3, and went to Jefferson Co., 
 N. Y., with his parents ; remained there 
 nineteen years, then came to Kane Co.; 
 in 1844, settled in Blackberry Town- 
 ship with his parents ; though living in 
 other places, he has remained in the 
 county since ; he settled on the present 
 place Feb. 15, 1876 ; has been Collector 
 for two years and is at present Commis- 
 sioner of Highways, also School Direc- 
 tor ; his father, Henry, settled in Kane 
 County in 1844 ; he had ten children, 
 five boys and five girls ; the present 
 Mr. Stearns is the only one of the boys 
 now living ; his sisters are all living. 
 
 Sheldon, Orville. 
 
 Swarthout, Win., P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 SPAULDING, COLWELL H., 
 
 farmer and dairyman ; Sec. 10 ; P. 0. 
 La Fox ; Rep.; Ind.; has 177 acres of 
 land ; value, 850 per acre ; born in 
 Onondaga Co., N. Y., March 30, 1800, 
 and came to Genesee County in 1816 ; 
 came to Washtenaw Co., Mich., in 1833, 
 and located 160 acres of land ; remained 
 there until 1844, when he came to the 
 farm where he now lives. He married 
 Beulah Lyons, Juno 4, 1834, in Michi- 
 gan ; she was born in New Jersey, May 
 31,1804; they have three children 
 Gilbert S., born March 31, 1835 ; Coit, 
 born Nov. 12, 1836; and Louisa J., 
 born Aug. 30, 1842 ; Mr. S. has been 
 an active, enterprising and prosperous 
 man ; Mrs. S. has assisted in clearing 
 up four new farms, and is now an active 
 woman for her years. 
 
 Stevens, G. W., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Scully, Pat, farmer ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Samuels, Wm. 
 
 Swift, Joe, farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Sheldon, S. R., carp. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Strong, S. W.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BLACKBERRY. 
 
 617 
 
 SNOOK, J. W., farmer; Sec. 26; 
 Blackberry Tp.; P. O. Batavia ; Rep.; 
 Univ.; owns a farm of 170 acres, valued 
 at $55 per acre ; born in N. Y.,Sept. 20, 
 1829 ; first wife, Amanda Lyon, born in 
 N. Y.,and died in Blackberry Tp. in 1855; 
 had one child Mattie C., born in 1855, 
 and died in 1863; second wife, M. E. 
 George ; she was born in Vt., Aug. 13, 
 1843, and married in Blackberry Tp. in 
 1860 ; had one child Mattie C., born 
 July 24, 1863; lived in N. Y. until he 
 was 16, then came to Kane, Co., living 
 with his brother; in 1854 he bought 
 his present place, and has continued here 
 since ; has been Commissioner of High- 
 ways, Township Trustee eight years, and 
 is, at present, one of the County Super- 
 visors, also School Director for some 
 eiffht or nine years. 
 
 STEARNS, GEO. A., Sees. 23, 13 
 
 and 14, Blackberry Township ; P. 0. 
 Batavia ; Rep. ; Ind. ; born in Kane 
 Co. ; owns 454 acres, valued at $60 
 per acre ; has lived on present place 
 except two years in Batavia ; his father, 
 Geo. N. Stearns, deceased, was born in 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 11, 1829; 
 he settled in Kane Co. with his parents, 
 and died in 1870 ; his wife was born in 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y. ; had three children 
 Geo. A., Nellie E., Byron L. Mr. John 
 Cronk was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
 Aug., 1841 ; came to Kane Co. in 1864, 
 and has remained here since ; he married 
 Mrs. Stearns in 1872 ; she died in 1876. 
 SWAIN, J. W., of Willis, Swain & 
 White, dealers in stock, grain, hay, coal 
 and agricultural implements; P. 0. 
 Blackberry ; Rep. ; Ind. ; born in N. 
 Y., Dec. 22,1832; he married Miss 
 Sophia Platt, Nov. 24, 1868; she was 
 born in Blackberry; lived in N. Y. 12 
 years, and came to Blackberry with his 
 parents, settling on a farm near the 
 village in 1844 ; in 1850 he commenced 
 on his own account, on a farm ; con- 
 tinued two years ; he then engaged in the 
 grain trade, continuing most of time 
 since; in 1862 he enlisted in the 8th 
 Ills. Cav.; was disabled in 1863 ; re- 
 turned to Blackberry and continued 
 his business ; in 1853 he took his 
 brother in as partner ; he withdrew in 
 1858; in 1860 Mr. Willis joined him, 
 and Mr. White in 1875. 
 
 Switser, Michael. 
 
 Seavey, Philo, farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Seavey, Mark, farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 rpAYLOR, D. L., farmer ; P. 0. Black- 
 1 berry. 
 
 Titus, F. F., farmer; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Tierney Michael, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 TITUS, H. W., farmer, Sees. 26, 27, 
 Blackberry Tp.; P. 0. Batavia; owns 
 158 acres of land, valued at $55 per 
 acre ; Rep.; Ind.; born in New York, 
 April 17, 1814. Married Mary Ann 
 Denny ; she was born in Kane Co., 
 May 12, 1846, and was married Jan. 
 22, 1867; have one child Ada M., 
 born Sept. 30, 1868; lived in New 
 York until 1844, on a farm, and came 
 to his present place the same year ; his 
 brother, F. F. Titus, was born in New 
 in 1806 ; came to Aurora, in 1842, and 
 to this place, in 1843 ; was the first 
 Justice of the Peace under township 
 organization ; was also elected Town 
 Clerk, but did not serve. 
 
 Thompson, E. W., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Tanner, W. A., farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 TTTASHBURN, J. S., farmer; P. 0. 
 yV Blackberry. 
 
 Williams, Richard, farmer; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Wilson, J. B., Constable ; P.O. Blackberry. 
 
 WASHBURN, P. B., farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 14, Blackberry Tp.; P. 
 0. La Fox ; owns 247 acres of land, 
 valued at $60 per acre; Rep.; Ind.; 
 born in New York, Aug. 1, 1821. 
 Married Miss Eliza A. Wood, in Sandy 
 Creek, Sept. 17, 1846 ; she was born 
 in New York, Feb. 4, 1821 ; had 10 
 children five living and five dead; 
 Silas H., born April 1, 1848; Julia M., 
 born Feb. 11, 1850; James M., born 
 Dec. 7, 1853 ; Fred. H., born July 15, 
 1858 ; Frank F., born Sept. 30, 1861 ; 
 he lived in Jefferson Co. until 1866 ; 
 was engaged in farming ; he then came 
 to his present place, in Kane Co., and 
 has remained here since, and is, at pres- 
 ent, largely interested in dairy and stock. 
 
 Warner, William, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Warne,Elisha, agriculturist; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Watson, Mrs. T. A., millinery; P. 0. 
 Blackberry. 
 
 Wilkison, A. S., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 White, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Batavia.
 
 618 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 West, Win. P., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WEST, G. C., farmer, Sec. 34, Black- 
 berry, and Sec. 3, Sugar Grove ; P. 0. 
 Aurora; Rep. ; Ind. ; born in Chenango 
 Co., N. Y., May 9, 1841 ; he married 
 Nancy McDole ; she was born at Sugar 
 Grove, Sept. 17, 1842, and married at 
 Sugar Grove; Bruce E., born Aug. 16, 
 1864; Carrie, born April 12. 1866; 
 Wallace G., born Feb. 13, 1871 ; lived 
 in New York until he was 2 years 
 old, came to his present place with his 
 parents in Sept., 1843, and has lived here 
 since ; has been Highway Commissioner 
 and Clerk of School Board for the past 
 ten years his father, David West, was 
 born in Winsted r Conn., June 13, 
 1794 ; he married Dolly Phelps ; she 
 was born in New York. Feb. 13, 1794 ; 
 married Feb. 5, 1816, and died Feb. 
 7, 1831 ; seven children, three living ; 
 second wife, Racbael Stoddard, widow, 
 born May 31, 1803; married Feb. 7, 
 1832 ; five children. 
 
 White, W. S., farmer ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 
 Willis & Swain, stock dealers ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Wolf, John, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Wilson, Mrs. Hetty, farmer ; P. O. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Whitney, Aaron, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 WHITE, H. S., of Willis, Swain & 
 White ; P. 0. Blackberry ; Rep. ; Ind. ; 
 born in Blackberry, March 24, 1841 ; he 
 married Annie Platt ; she was born in 
 Blackberry, Nov. 23, 1844, and married 
 March 6, 1866, at Blackberry; Arthur 
 P., born Sept. 9, 1871 ; lived on his 
 father's farm in 1861 ; he enlisted in the 
 8th 111. Cav. ; was in the seven days' 
 fight, Antietam, Gettysburg, Fredericks- 
 burg, Chancelorsville. etc., etc. ; re 
 retained in the army three years and 
 nine months ; on his return from the 
 army he engaged in farming, and con- 
 tinued until 1875, when he engaged in 
 his present business ; is Township Trus- 
 tee, also Highway Commissioner. 
 
 White, J. K., farmer ; P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 White, Wm., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Watson, Pike. 
 
 WARNE, JOHN, of Gray & Warne, 
 general merchandise ; P. 0. Blackberry ; 
 Rep. ; Chris. ; born at Mt. Pleasant, 
 New Jersey, Sept, 6, 1821 ; he married 
 Miss Olive S. Burr ; she was born in 
 Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1825, and mar- 
 ried in Campton Township, May 16, 
 1847; Julia A., born July 19, 1848; 
 Elsie E., born July 29, 1849 ; Emma 
 W., born May 2, 1851 ; De Ette 0., 
 born Dec. 16, 1860; Mary G., born 
 Aug. 10, 1863 ; Harry A., born Dec. 
 19, 1852, died April 8, 1864; Susan B., 
 born Aug. 22, 1856, died Nov. 7, 1857 ; 
 lived in New Jersey until he was 11 
 years old ; he then moved with his 
 parents to Livingston Co., N. Y., and 
 lived on the farm until he was 
 1 7 ; then they moved to Du Page 
 Co., 111., and in 1838 they came to Camp- 
 ton, Kane Co.. and engaged in farming ; 
 his father kept the half-way house un- 
 til 1861; he remained on his father's 
 place until 1847, when, on being married, 
 he engaged in farming on his own ac- 
 count ; his father continued on his farm 
 until he died, in April, 1865, having 
 lost his wife in 1864 ; Mr. Warne , 
 bought 80 acres in Sec. 31, Campton 
 Township, from Government; he con 
 tinued farming until 1870, when he 
 came to Blackberry, to give his personal 
 attention to an interest he formerly ob- 
 tained in his present business ; he has 
 added to his real estate until he now 
 has 500 acres within one mile of Black- 
 berry ; Mr. Warne has been School 
 Director for ten or twelve years, and is 
 at present Justice of the Peace, and 
 Vice President of the Kane Co. Nat'l 
 Bank, St. Charles ; Mr. Warne has done 
 much to make Blackberry the business 
 place it is. 
 
 Williams. Jno. J., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Woodmen, Joseph, far. ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 YOUNG, W. J., carp. ; P. O. Black- 
 berry.
 
 KANE COUNTY: CAMPION. 
 
 CAMPTON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 ALEXANDER, ROBERT; farmer; 
 P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Anderson, Chas., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Anderson, Aug., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Anderson, John, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Albee, T. C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Alcott, Dewitt, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Anderson, Lafayette, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 Abrahamson, A., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 Anderson, Gunner, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Anderson, Andrew, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 Albee, E. P., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 Anderson, Thos., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Augsberg, Peter, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 Anderrfon, A. A., far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 ~D ARBER, L. B. 
 
 Beith, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Beith, George, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Barber, Cahisa. 
 
 Baldwin, LaGrand, farmer; P. 0. Gray 
 Willow. 
 
 Bartlett, J. E., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Bigelow, Charles, far.; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Bankson, Andrew, far.; P. 0. Campton* 
 
 BE ATT Y, JOHN, farmer; P. 0. 
 St. Charles; Rep.; Ind.; has 166 acres 
 of good land in Sec. 26, valued at $50 
 per acre ; he was born in Cumberland 
 Co., Pa., May 14. 1798 ; when a child, 
 his father moved to Crawford Co. with 
 his family ; in 1834 he came to Chicago 
 and to this township and remaining 
 there and about the county, making and 
 selling claims for several years ; he was 
 employed to assist in removing the Potta- 
 watomie Indians to their reservation in 
 the then far West ; he used to do break- 
 ing for the first settlers ; he built the 
 first house in Campton, in the Fall of 
 1835. He married Hannah Hackett, 
 in June, 1842 ; she was born in Ohio ; 
 they had two children James, born 
 July 6, 1843 ; Eleanor, born June 13, 
 1845, and died in 18G4. 
 
 Borow, David, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Beatty, James, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bergland, George, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Burr, Betsey. 
 
 Brophy, George, farmer ; P. O. Campton. 
 
 Buzzell, James, farmer ; 'P. O. Campton. 
 
 Bentley, Gardner, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Bartlett, L. E., far.; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 BARTLETT, JOSEPH P., farmer 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 29 ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry ; Rep.; Cong.; has 157 acres; 
 value, $60 per acre ; he was born in 
 KJampton, Grafton Co., N. H., Jan. 16, 
 1810, and came to this State, in June, 
 1838 ; remained in Winnebago Co. five 
 years ; he came to this township in 
 March, 1843; he was for some time a 
 student in Dartmouth College ; and after 
 coming West was engaged in teaching 
 for several years ; he was Supervisor in 
 1850, and on his motion the name of 
 Campton was substituted for Fairfield, 
 the old name of this township ; he held 
 the office of Supervisor for 10 years, 
 and Justice of the Peace and associate 
 Justice of the Peace for 16 years ; 
 honesty and capability was always 
 awarded him in his official as well as 
 private business ; he was a conductor on 
 the underground railroad for many years, 
 aiding the fugitive to a land of freedom. 
 He married July Ann McQuirten (a 
 widow), formerly July Ann Elliott, of 
 this township, in Dec., 1843 ; she was 
 born in New Hampshire, June, 1813, 
 and died in March, 1876 ; they had five 
 children Alice E., Adelaide, John 
 Edgar and Lewell Edwin (twins), and 
 Henry W. B.; Alice marrid Llewellyn 
 Rice, in 1869, and went to California 
 and engaged in teaching and both died 
 in 1871; H. W. B. died in 1874, 
 aged 19. 
 
 Bates, G. 
 
 Brophy, W., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Baldwin, Sarah, farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Bamford, R., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Brown, W. W. 
 
 Balis, W. 
 
 r^HAFFEE, S. E., far. ; P. 0. Black- 
 
 V_y berry. 
 
 Chaffee, A. D., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Cooley, Calvin, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Costello, Miles, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Costar, Nicholas. 
 
 Corron, W. T., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, A. W., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Collins, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Conner, Welford, far. ; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Cornwell, Thomas, farmer ; Campton. 
 
 Cook, Geo. H., farmer; P. 0. Camptou.
 
 620 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 CORRON, ROBT., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep. ; Meth. ; 
 has 276 acres of land on Sec. 2, valued 
 at $75 per acre, receiving first premium 
 in the county on farms ; he was born in 
 Greenbriar Co.. W. Va., April 1, 1816, 
 and oame to this county in October, 
 1835, and settled on this farm ; he mar- 
 ried Maria Eddy, Aug. 1, 1840 ; she 
 was born in Gene*ee Co., N. Y., Jan. 
 11, 1821, and died Oct. 11, 1870, leav- 
 ing five children Adeline M., born 
 Nov. 11, 1845; Adelia V., born May 6, 
 1848; Addison,'born Dec. 5, 1849; 
 Mary J., born April 3, 1852 ; and 
 Flora M., born June 6, 1841 . Addison 
 died April 16, 1872; Delia V. married 
 Geo. Gilbert, Oct. 27, 1869; Mr. C. 
 married Barbara A. Thompson, for sec- 
 ond wife, Sept. 11, 1871 ; she was born 
 in Greenbriar Co., W.Va., May 5, 1842 ; 
 They have one son, Robert M., born 
 Dec. 11,1875. 
 
 COOK, JOHN HENRY, farmer 
 and dairyman ; P. 0. Gray Willow ; 
 Rep. ; Meth. ; has 224 acres of land on 
 Sees. 5, 6, 7 and 8, valued at $60 per 
 acre; he was born in Somersetshire, 
 England, May 14, 1815, and came to 
 this State in 1843 and settled on the 
 farm where he now lives ; he married 
 Caroline Harvey, of Onondago Co., N. 
 Y., Nov. 4, 1843 ; she was born in 
 Storrington, Sussex Co.. England, April 
 26, 1822; they have had seven chil- 
 dren George Henry, born July 30, 
 1844; Laura A., born Jan. 17, 1848; 
 Chas. W., born May 26, 1852 ; Mary 
 M., born March 5, 1855 ; Carrie A., 
 born Sept. 27, 1 859. Carrie and Laura 
 died of diphtheria in 1865 ; two died in 
 infancy. Chas. N , married Cornelia E. 
 Read, Oct. 1, 1873, and was killed by 
 lightning Aug. 4, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. 
 C. came here with but very little means, 
 but by industry and good management 
 have made a home second to few in the 
 county. 
 
 Crosby, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Cline, M. S., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Chamfield, Ernest, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Carpenter, Norman, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Conklin, H. L., far ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Cary, James, P. 0. Turner Junction. 
 
 Cranston, H. J. 
 
 Chaffee, S. S., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 CHAFFEE, DORR B., farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. Blackberry Station ; 
 Rep. ; Meth. ; has 160 acres in Sec. 21, 
 upon which is the first brick house built 
 in the town, being built by his father in 
 1843 ; he has a splendid farm, and calls 
 it worth $50 per acre ; he was born on 
 this place Oct. 20, 1841; he married 
 Lodona T. Trea"dwell, of Elgin. Nov. 15, 
 1865 ; she was born March 6, 1843, in 
 Canada ; they have four children 
 George D., born Jan. 24, 1868 ; Emert 
 A., born Dec. 16, 1871 ; Fannie L., 
 born Oct. 22, 1874; Martin H., born 
 Jan. 21, 1877. Eber Chaffee, father 
 of Dorr B., and one of the first 
 settlers, was born Dec. 3, 1799, in 
 Athens, Windham Co., Vt., and came 
 to Plato in 1839, and to Campton in 
 1840, and bought 500 acres of land, 
 which he divided among his sons before 
 his death ; he married Anna Davis, May 
 9, 1822 ; she was born April 7 } 1803, 
 and lived a consistent Christian life, and 
 belonged to the Cong. Ch. ; she died 
 Oct. 24, 1876. He died Aug. 3, 1877.. 
 They had twelve children Sarah, 
 Serino S., Fernando H., Marcia A., Ed- 
 mund (died in infancy), Abigail F., 
 Edmund 0., Alonzo D., Dorr B., John 
 D., Simon E. and Albert J. Abigail 
 F. died in 1845. Edmund 0. was in 
 Texas at the time of the rebellion ; he 
 was a Union man, and for it suffered 
 death at the hands of a mob. 
 
 Cranston, H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Colton, W. M. 
 
 Collins, H. J., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Collins, E. S., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Collins, Caroline, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Collins, S., farmer; P. O. Campton. 
 
 DERRIG, MICHAEL, P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Derrig, Daniel, farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Dewey, M. 
 
 TTWGBURG, PETER, farmer ; P. 0. 
 lU Campton. 
 
 Ellis, William, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 EDDY, SPALDING, farmer and 
 dairyman; P. 0. St. Charles; Rep.; his 
 religion is to do right ; he was born in 
 Otsego Co., N. Y., June 4, 1807, and 
 came to this State Aug., 1837, and lo- 
 cated 400 acres of land on Sees. 1 3 and 
 14 ; afterward sold a part of it, and now 
 has a very excellent farm of 70 acres,
 
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 621 
 
 finely improved, with good buildings, 
 and worth $75 per acre ; he lived in 
 St. Charles for a number of years, en- 
 gaged in the lumber business ; he mar- 
 ried Mary Stevens, April 20, 1833, in 
 Sheldon, Genesee Co., N. Y.; she was born 
 in Otsego Co., May 14, 1810; they have 
 six children Savilla P., born March 11, 
 1834; Celestia F., born Dec. 3, 1835, 
 in Genesee Co., N. Y.; Hosmer S , 
 born Oct. 4, 1839 ; John M., born April 
 29, 1843 ; Mary A., born Sept. 18, 1848 ; 
 James W., born Nov. 21, 1835, in 
 Campton, 111. Mr. and Mrs. E., being 
 among the earliest settlers in the town, 
 have passed through the hardships and 
 privations incident to a new country, 
 raising and educating a large and very 
 intelligent family without a death or 
 any protracted illnes?, and now live in 
 their ripe old age to enjoy their chil- 
 dren's prosperity and usefulness ; John 
 M. went into the army at the age of 17, 
 in 1861, and served during the war with 
 distinction and honor ; he graduated at 
 the Commercial Colletre, in Aurora, and 
 engaged as a civil engineer on the Pa- 
 cific Railroad ; afterward was Superin- 
 tendent of Construction of 350 miles of 
 the Southern Pacific, and is now Supt. of 
 the O. & R. V. R. R.; Hosmer S. en- 
 listed in the 52d Cavalry in 1863, and 
 while in camp at St Louis he was se- 
 verely injured by his horse, and was 
 obliged to leave the service. 
 
 Eddy, Hosmer, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Eagan, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Easterbrook, P., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 EDDY, HARRY, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sees. 24 and 13; P. 0. St. Charles; 
 Dem ; religion, the Golden Rule ; has 
 170 acres of fine and well-improved 
 land, valued at $50 per acre ; he was 
 born in Richfield, Otsego Co., N. Y., 
 Oct. 10, 1799 ; he came to Illinois in ! 
 March, 1837, and located 260 acres of 
 land, a portion of which he deeded to his 
 son ; he married Anna Whiting in Gen- 
 esee Co., N. Y., in March, 1820 ; they 
 had eight children Henry, born in 
 1821; Maria, 1824; Hiram, 1825; 
 Asenath, 1827; Phoebe, 1829; Ed- 
 mund P., 1835; Asahel. 1838, and 
 Harry, Jr., in 1842 ; Henry died when 
 5 years old, in New York ; Sea died 
 here when 3 years old ; his wife having 
 
 died, Mr. Eddy married for his present 
 one, Mary Ann Acox in Oct. 1863 ; she 
 , was born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Aug, 
 20, 1834; they have one child Annie, 
 born May 26, 1865 ; he has been a suc- 
 cessful farmer. 
 
 Eddy, E. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 England, John, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 TpREEMAN, A. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Felt, M. 
 
 Fischer, August, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Flower, A. P. 
 
 Finley, Isaac, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Foss, Eben, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Finnegan Owen, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Field, H.S. 
 
 RAY, JOS., far.; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Gray, John, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Gilnian, A. R., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 Garfield, R. M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Garfield, J. A., P. 0. La Fox. 
 Garfield, F. G., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Gilbert, G. L. 
 
 Green, Mrs. M. J., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Gilchrist, S., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 Garfield, E. E., farmer ; P. 0. La Fox. 
 ITCHCOCK, 0., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 TT 
 
 Hagaman, Joseph, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hagaman, Henry, P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Hagaman*, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hilts, Joseph, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Higgins, J. L., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Hamilton, David, farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 Hennegan, James, farmer; P. 0. Gray 
 
 Willow. 
 
 Hess, William, far. ; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Higgins, Horace, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hollister, Emory. 
 
 Hamilton, John, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Higgins, Lucy, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 TOHNSON, A. P. 
 
 Johnson, Charles, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Johnson, Miles. 
 
 Jackson, Robert. ' 
 
 James, D. T., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 KELLY, JAMES, far.; P. 0. Camp- 
 ton. 
 
 Kelley, Thomas. 
 
 Kelly, Wilson, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 Kendall, A. 0., Postmaster; P.O. Campton. 
 Kimble, H. C. 
 Kampus, Fred.
 
 622 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Kendall, O., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Kimble, William, St. Charles. 
 
 T INDSEY, W. A., P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
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 Lake, George, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Lindstrum, J. G., far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Lawson, Aug., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Loveland, George, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 LAKE, ANSEL, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 10; P. 0. Gray Willow; 
 Rep.; Ind.; owns 317 acres of land, 
 valued at $45 per acre, with fine build- 
 ings and improvements, and is among 
 the best in the county ; he was born in 
 Orleans Co., N. ., Oct. 26, 1811, and 
 while young, moved with his father's 
 family to Canada West, and remained 
 there, until he came to this place in 
 Feb., 1837 ; he has always been very 
 active in building school houses, organ- 
 izing societies, building roads, etc. 
 Married Catharine Bonham, in Canada, 
 in September, 1831 ; she was born in 
 Canada, March 16, 1806 ; had seven 
 children Aurelia, born May 26, 1831 ; 
 Zelpha, born Aug. 26, 1834; David, 
 born June 12, 1836; Elizabeth, born 
 April 29, 1838; Alvira M., born Sept. 
 14, 1840; George W., born June J5, 
 1844; Benjamin P., born March 21, 
 1846 ; Zelpha married Jefferson Gar- 
 field in September, 1857, and died in 
 February, 1862. 
 
 Lansing, William, far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Long, John, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Ladd, A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Loveland, A., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Lake, A. 
 
 Lake, Benjamin, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Lansing, M. E. 
 
 Linstrum, John, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 McDONELL, DANIEL, far.; P. 0. 
 Gray Willow. 
 
 Miller, John. 
 
 Millen, J. V., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Moody, Daniel, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Moore, William, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 McKeller, D. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MOULDING, THOMAS, farmer 
 and dairyman, Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry ; Rep.; Unitarian; owns 192 
 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre ; 
 born in Warrington, Lancashire Co., 
 England, Oct. 18, 1805, and came to 
 Geneva, in 1851, and to this farm, in 
 1853. Married Rachel Bate, in En- 
 
 gland, in 1825 ; she was born in Au 
 gust, 1805 ; had 15 children Thomas, 
 Elizabeth, James, John, John, William 
 (Esthaand Eliza, twins), Estha, Charles, 
 Arthur, Emma, Susan, Arthur H. and 
 Frank. John, Arthur, Estha and Eliza 
 died in England ; Arthur H., James, 
 Estha and Elizabeth died here ; Mr. M. 
 was, for many years, the manager of a 
 large cotton factory in England, that 
 being his trade ; he came to this coun- 
 try with his large family, and ample 
 means to purchase a fine farm, and 
 assist his children to start in business. 
 
 Mattoon, C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Moore, Michael. 
 
 1VTORTON, DELOS, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 I _1_M Norton, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 ! Nelson, F. A., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Nilson, Andrew. 
 
 NORTON, GARRIT, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 24 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; 
 Rep. and an honest man; born in 
 Dutchess Co., N. Y., Oct. 17, 1802 r 
 and lived in Rensselaer Co. until 1838 r 
 when he came to Du Page Co., where 
 he lived until 1849 ; when he came to 
 this place, he bought 350 acres of land 
 on Sec. 24, and afterward bought 280 
 acres more. After supplying his children 
 with farms, he now has 250 acres of most 
 splendid land, valued at $65 per acre. 
 Married Mahala Blakley, March 8, 1827 ;. 
 she was born April 18, 1806, in Pawlet, 
 Vt; had eight children Ann Eliza, 
 George, John, Selden, Margarett, De- 
 loss, Janie and Emma ; Selden died 
 Nov. 3, 1854 ; Janie died Sept. 13 r 
 1870. Mr. N. has been a very pros- 
 perous farmer, having saved, by econ- 
 omy, a large property, and feels a great 
 degree of satisfaction in knowing, that 
 in his dealings he has always intended to 
 do right. While in Du Page Co., he sold 
 the first load of wheat in Chicago ever 
 drawn in from the West. 
 
 OUTHOUSE, G., far.; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 Outhouse, R., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Outhouse, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 Outhouse, James, far., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 PARSONS, Joseph, far.; P. 0. Gray 
 Willow. 
 
 Probert, Chas., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Potts, Julius, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Peterson, Alfred.
 
 KANE COUNTY: CAMPION. 
 
 623 
 
 Peterson, J. A. 
 
 Plummer, Dan'l, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Partlon, Jas., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 PECK, WILLIAM, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 17 ; P. 0. Campion ; 
 Rep.; Meth.; has 162 acres, valued at 
 850 per acre ; he was born in G-ranville, 
 N. Y., Dec. 4, 1799 ; came to Oswego 
 and Cayuga Counties, and remained 
 until he came to this county, where he 
 ~now lives, in Oct., 1844 He married 
 Mary Elizabeth Coppanoll Feb. 3, 
 1838 ; she was born near Johnstown, 
 N. Y., Aug. 17, 1806 ; they have had 
 eleven children (five died in infancy) 
 Catherine, born Dec. 6, 1828 ; Louis 
 A., born Feb. 24, 1831 ; Andrew, born 
 March 4, 1836 ; Harriet and Henrietta 
 (twins), born Nov. 23, 1839 ; William 
 R., born May 14, 1845; William R. 
 married Cynthia Holden, Sept. 5, 1868; 
 divorced in 1874 ; they had three chil- 
 drenWilliam H., born July 21, 1869 ; 
 Mar 7 E., born Feb. 10, 1871; Louis 
 A., born Feb. 19, 1874; Mary died 
 Sept, 8, 1873. His second wife is Lu- 
 cretia L. Crissy ; married Nov. 30, 
 1876. 
 
 Pollard, J. K. 
 
 Peterson, Gust. 
 
 Powell, James, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Plane, Albert, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 PERRY, MARQUIS L., farmer 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 Rep.; Cong.; has sixteen acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; he was bom on 
 this farm (it being the old homestead), 
 Jan. 6, 1842. He married Hattie 
 Ladd, July 3, 1865 ; she was born at 
 Plato, March 4, 1843 ; they had one 
 child, Ella G., and one adopted child, 
 John E., born March 28, 1873. George 
 Perry, father of the above, was born in 
 Newbury, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1789, and 
 died Oct. 11, 1865 ; he came to this 
 county in 1836 and bought 700 acres 
 of land, and came with his family, con- 
 sisting of his wife and ten children, the 
 next year ; his wife was Catherine 
 Schultz ; they were married in July, 
 1814, in Onondaga Co., N. Y.; she was 
 born near Skaneateles, N. Y., July 14, 
 1795 ; they had eleven children Lu- 
 ther, David, Nancy, Israel, Frederick, 
 Lewis, Horace, George, Hiram, Jerome 
 and Marquis L. 
 
 Plane, Geo., farmer; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Peck, Roselle, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 Plummer, P. W., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Powell, M. W., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 Peterson, Victor, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 T3ICHMOND, M. C., P. 0. La Fox. 
 
 Richmond, A. D. 
 
 Ryan, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Read E., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 RUDDOCK, GEO., Sec. 23; P. 
 St. Charles ; has 240 acres of fine land, 
 well improved. 
 
 Ruddock, Erwin, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Renwick, Frank. 
 
 Reynolds, D. 
 
 Root, G. 
 
 RICE, JOSEPH, (deceased); was 
 born in Henniker, N. H., Jan. 12, 1790, 
 and came, with his family, to Campton 
 in 1842, and located the farm where his 
 son, Jas. C., now lives. He married 
 Sarah Caldwell in Henniker, N. H., 
 Dec. 1818; she was born in Ware, N. 
 H., Nov. 15, 1796 ; he died Sept. 29, 
 1872 ; they had six children Nancy D. , 
 born May 4, 1820 ; Jas. C., born April 
 15, 1823 ; Lenora, born Jan. 9, 1827 ; 
 Dana E., born Aug. 1, 1829; A. 
 Viana, born Dec. 9, 1831 ; Llewellyn, 
 born Aug. 1, 1836. 
 
 RICE, JAMES C. (son of Joseph 
 Rice), farmer, dairyman, Sec. 23 ; P. 
 0. St. Charles; Dem.; has 163 acres of 
 fine land, valued at $50 per acre ; he 
 was born in Henniker, N. H., April 15, 
 1823, and came to Erie Co., N. Y., with 
 his father's family, in 1827, and re- 
 mained there until 1842, when they 
 came to Illinois and located on the farm 
 where he now lives; he married Maria 
 L Bogue, of Plato, April 18, 1852 ; 
 she was born in Ashtabula Co., 0., April 
 21, 1833; they have three children 
 Emnia A., born Feb. 24, 1853 ; Hattie 
 E., born Aug. 28 7 1857 ; Llewellyn J., 
 born April 4, 1861. Mr. R. lost his 
 house and nearly all its contents, by fire, 
 Dec. 26, 1872 ; he has since built a fine 
 residence on the site of the old one. 
 
 O TEWART, A. 
 
 Sharp, S., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Shalher, Wm., farmer ; P. O. Gray \Villow. 
 Signey, L., farmer ; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Sturges, Robt., farmer ; P. O. Campton.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Shaw, Mrs. D., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Swinyer, S. J., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 STEWART. JOHN, Sees. 20 and 
 
 21 ; P. 0. BJackberry ; has a farm of 
 642 acres ; one of the finest farms in 
 the county. 
 
 Shettler, G. A., farmer ; P. 0. Campton/ 
 
 Smith, A. J.. farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Shoburg, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Stoneham, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Shields, Mrs. S. J., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Shaver, J., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 STEVENS, DE VALOIS W., 
 
 farmer and dairyman ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 Rep.; Bapt.; has 153 acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; he was born 
 in Onondaga Co., N. Y., March 22, 
 1843, and came to Illinois March 15, 
 1866 ; he married Amelia M. Hayden 
 Aug. 18, 1862 ; she was born in Cay- 
 uga Co., N. Y., June 13, 1843; they 
 have six children John M., born Nov. 
 20, 1864 ; Cyrenus E., born Aug. 25, 
 1866 ; Mable R., born Sept. 6, 1868 ; 
 Edith E., born Nov. 23, 1870 ; Lottie 
 H., born Sept. 28, 1874 ; Fred C., born 
 Sept. 10, 1876. He was a member of 
 the 122d N. Y. Infantry, and, after 
 ranking honorably for 2? years, was dis- 
 charged Jan. 18, 1865, on account of 
 wounds received in battle. 
 
 Shaver, S., farmer; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Shepherd, Joseph. 
 
 Stevens, E. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Strong, G. W., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sharp, C. F., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Shaw, C. H., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Stalker, Thos.,far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Smith, John. 
 
 Samuelson, C. 
 
 Scott, L. B., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Stephens, D., P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Swanson, John, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Switzer, Stephen J., far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 rpHORNTON, EDWARD, far.; P. 0. 
 1 Blackberry. 
 
 Taswell, Mrs. , 
 
 Tucker, R. C. 
 
 TUCKER, JOHN R., deceased; 
 Margaret Tucker, his widow, farmer and 
 dairy ; P. O. Gray Willow ; Meth.; he 
 had a splendid farm of some 800 acres, 
 which has been divided by law ; he was 
 born near Boston, June 22, 1806, and 
 moved with his father's family to Green- 
 briar Co., W. Va., and came to this 
 
 county in the Fall of 1842. He mar- 
 ried Jane Thompson, Sept. 15, 1831, 
 who died in the Fall of 1841, leaving 
 four children Charles H., John T., 
 Hannah W. and Robert C.; he married 
 Margaret Thompson, of Greenbriar Co., 
 W. Va., for his second wife, Sept. 11, 
 1845 ; after a lingering fever he died, 
 March 10, 1867 ; he left by the second 
 marriage nine children Mary D., Sarah 
 E., Loretta J., Henry S., Jefferson T., 
 Joseph W., Adella M., John R. and 
 Jesse M.; Mary D., died May 7, 1873, 
 aged 26 years; Sarah E. died July 12, 
 1873, aged 24 ; Mrs. T. has 209 acres 
 of beautiful land, and has the care of it 
 and the family ; he was a capable and 
 useful citizen in the community. 
 
 Tucker, J. T., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Tucker, M. A., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Tucker, L. J., far.; P. O. Gray Willow. 
 
 "TTANDERHOOF, E., farmer; P. 
 V Gray Willow. 
 
 Vanderhoof, L., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 TTTILSON, D. A. 
 
 Webb, Oscar, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 WARNE, GIDEON W., farmer, 
 Sec. 31, (old homestead) ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry ; has 211 acres. Married Ann 
 Willis in 1864 ; they have two children 
 Carrie Bell and Henry Willis ; his 
 father, Henry Warne, was among the 
 first and leading citizens of the county ; 
 was born in New Jersey, Feb. 8, 1791 ; 
 came to Campton, Nov. 1 838, and located 
 where his sou Gideon now lives ; he 
 built a large log house at once, and 
 commenced keeping hotel ; this being 
 the half-way house from Chicago to 
 Oregon on that road and continued the 
 business for many years ; he was one of 
 the parties who laid out the Chicago and 
 Oregon road, and was always among the 
 first to assist in all the enterprises inci- 
 dent to a new country. He married 
 Charity Stiles, May 25, 1816 ; she was 
 born in New Jersey, Jan. 6, 1795 ; they 
 had nine children Susan, Daniel, John, 
 Henry Jr., Lucinda, Eliza, Elisha, Isa- 
 bella and Gideon ; he died March 29, 
 1865 ; Mrs. W., died Feb. 26, 1864. 
 
 Webb, Harriet, far.; P. O. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, Franklin, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, Eugene, far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, Mrs. L., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow.
 
 KANE COUNTY: KANEVILLE. 
 
 626 
 
 WATKINS, FRANK W., farmer 
 and dairyman, Postmaster ; Sec. 9 ; P. 
 
 0. Gray Willow; Rep.; Meth.; he was 
 born June 6, 1841, in Campton ; he 
 has 81 acres of fine land ; value, $75 
 per acre. He married C. E. Wiltse, of 
 St. Charles, Oct. 10, 1865; she was 
 born, July 27," 1844, in Paris, C. W.; 
 they have two children Harry W., 
 born Oct. 17, 1866, and Lilyan H., 
 born Oct. 16, 1869 ; he enlisted in the 
 52d 111. Inf., and was out four years ; 
 until the end of the war ; Franklin 
 Watkins, his father, was born in Hins- 
 dale, Mass., June 4, 1804, and came to 
 Illinois in Jan., 1836, and purchased 220 
 acres of land on Sec. 9. He married 
 Arvilla Carpenter, in Trenton, Oneida 
 Co., N. Y., April 15, 1826 ; she was 
 born in Russia, N. Y., June 1, 1807; 
 they had three children Dorcas S., 
 born June 25, 1826 ; Hiram F., born 
 June 25, 1830 ; Frank W., born June 
 6, 1841 ; Mr. W. died May 16, 
 1867 ; Mrs. W. lives on the old home- 
 stead with her son Frank W., and is 
 enjoying the fruit of her toil and labor. 
 
 Whitney, Melvina, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 White, William. 
 
 WHITNEY, DANIEL, (son of 
 
 John), farmer and dairyman ; Sec. 14; 
 P. 0. St. Charles ; independent in poli- 
 tics and religion ; has 132 acres of ex- 
 cellent land ; value, $45 per acre ; he 
 was born Jan. 3, 1840, in Campton. 
 Married Althea Babbitt, Feb. 16, 1863 ; 
 she was born Oct. 18, 1844 ; they have 
 three children Mertell, born Oct. 16, 
 1865; Merrill, born Jan. 18, 1867; 
 Merritt, born May 24, 1872 ; Mr. W., 
 although young, has been elected to the 
 most important positions in town, and 
 has discharged their duties well. 
 
 WHITNEY, MELVEN, farmer 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 14 (old homestead); 
 P. 0. St. Charles ; is independent in 
 politics; lives with his mother, Mrs. 
 John Whitney, and they together have 
 175 acres of fine land ; value, $50 per 
 acre; he was born in Campton, Feb. 20, 
 1852. Married Adella Miller, Nov. 11, 
 1875 ; she was born Jan. 24, 1859 ; 
 they have one child Lottie M., born 
 born Oct. 11, 1877 ; John Whitney, 
 deceased, father of Daniel and Melvei , 
 was a farmer and one of the earliest 
 settlers in the county ; he was a Demo- 
 crat and Baptist ; was born in Orange, 
 Franklin Co., Mass., Aug. 18, 1804; 
 came to DuPage Co. in the Fall of 1833, 
 and to this county in 1835, in the Fall, 
 and purchased 280 acres of land and 
 put up good buildings at an early day, 
 and opened a hotel, it being on the great 
 Chicago and Galena route. He married 
 Rachel Ward, of Wyoming Co., N. Y., 
 Dec. 7, 1826 ; she was born in Genesee 
 Co., and died in 1837, leaving two 
 children Seymour and Alden ; married 
 Maria Blood, of Wyoming Co., N. Y., 
 Feb. 7, 1839 ; she was born June 28, 
 1812, in Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; they 
 had seven children Daniel, Rachel C., 
 Mary Ann, John, Maria, Melvin and 
 Charlotte. 
 
 Worth, John, far.; P. O. Campton. 
 
 Warne, G. H., P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Westgarth, John, P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Wilkinson, Alex., far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Ward, J. D., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Walker, Hiram, far.; P. O. Campton. 
 
 Walker, J. N., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, E. M., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, L. P., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Walker, 0. M., far.; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 KANEVILLE NTOWSHIP. 
 
 AMES, CHAS., farmer; P. 0. Kane 
 ville. 
 ANNIS, DAVID W. (deceased), 
 
 farmer; P. 0. Kaneville; born Sept. 
 10th, 1812, in Strafford, Vt. ; Dem.; 
 non-sectarian; owned 1,794-j-^ acres, 
 estimated value of personal and real 
 
 estate, $155,000 ; married Prudence 
 M. Morrill, Sept. 6, 1835 ; she was born 
 Sept. 12, 1812, in Strafford, Vt. ; had 
 five children Frank M., born Dec. 1, 
 1839 ; Sarah E., born Sept. 14, 1841 ; 
 Jos. W., born Jan. 22, 1845; Chas. 
 M., born Feb. 13, 1848, he died Oct.
 
 626 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 8, 1849 ; Jeddie N., born June 7, 1852 ; 
 all in this Co.; Mr. Annis died Sept. 
 14, 1877. In early life Mr. A. cdn- 
 ceived the idea that the Western prai- 
 rie was the proper place for those in- 
 clined to agricultural pursuits ; resolved 
 to visit the West in search of a location 
 where he might, in the early future, make 
 a home ; with above determination he 
 left his native State Sept. 27, 1836 ; 
 arrived in Chicago late in October, the 
 same year ; journeying westward, he 
 came to what now is Blackberry Tp. ; 
 there he met Messrs. West and Hall, 
 purchased of them a claim of 366 acres 
 for $365 ; the only improvements on 
 said claim was a small log cabin, after- 
 ward used by Mr. A. as a residence. 
 Here the land had not been offered for 
 sale by the Government, consequently 
 the only title to it was priority of occu- 
 pation ; but as soon as it was offered for 
 sale, Mr. A. bought, and got deeds 
 patent for, the claim he was then hold- 
 ing by actual residence ; Mrs. A. did not 
 come here with her husband, but 
 followed one year later, and joined him 
 in their new home Sept. 10, 1837 ; they 
 were amongst the first white settlers of 
 Kane Co., and, like many of the pioneers, 
 had nothing of importance in value 
 wherewith to begin life, but were not 
 lacking in two very essential elements 
 to those who will succeed hope and 
 courage ; their culinary department was 
 considered well furnished when they 
 had procured one kettle or pot in which 
 to do the entire routine of cooking all 
 other departments of the house furnished 
 in proportion ; the first year they bought 
 a yoke of oxen, which was quite an 
 advance, both in a labor and financial 
 view ; the second year they ventured to 
 purchase a horse, as an improvement on 
 the first, but they had only taken the 
 animal in possession when it died, which 
 was, in those days, no light disappoint- 
 ment and loss. 
 
 AMES, A VERY, farmer (rents farm 
 of F. Young); Rep.; non-sectarian ; 
 owns \\ acres in village of Kaneville. 
 valued at $400 ; personal property 
 valued at about $3,000 ; born 1828, in 
 Eutland Co., Vt.; married Esther P. 
 Davis in 1852 ; she was born in 1835, 
 Rutland Co., Vt ; have eight children 
 
 Fredrick A., born 1854 ; Edwin L., born 
 1856; Chas. D., born 1858; Eleanor 
 E., born 1860 ; all in Vt.; Hiram, born 
 1862, in N. Y.; Janette, born 1865, in 
 N. Y.; Annis, born 1867, in Kaneville; 
 Katie S., born 1870, in Kaneville; Mr. 
 A. moved from Vt. to N. Y. in 1860 ; 
 enlisted Dec. 25, 1861, in the 194th N. 
 Y. Ind. V.; was discharged Dec. 1862 ; 
 came to this Co. in 1866, without any 
 property ; is now worth in all about 
 four thousand dollars. 
 
 Ames, D. C., farmer; P. Kaneville. 
 
 TDARTMEERS, N., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 J3 Lodi. 
 
 Bartmeers, J. F., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Bartmeers, E. H., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Berogan, J., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Blass, S., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Ben ton, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Benjamin, M. D., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Bowdish. P. S.. farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Bent, John, farmer ; P. 0. Blackerry. 
 
 Belden, F. W., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Bradley, J.. shoemaker ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Beach. J. L., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Benton, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Benton, Russell, far.; P. P. Kaneville. 
 
 r ^HAMPLIN, E.,far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Crane, Mrs J., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 CARY, BELA, prop, hotel and stage 
 line ; P. 0. Kaneville ; Dem.; non-sec- 
 tarian ; born Oct. 17, 1811, in Jefferson 
 Co., N. Y. Married Mary Odgen, Jan. 
 1835, in Monroe Co., N. Y.; they had 
 five children Eliza, Alvin, Susan, 
 Abram (deceased), Clara (deceased) ; 
 all lived to maturity and had families ; 
 Mr. Gary lived in Monroe and Orleans 
 Counties, N. Y., till May, 1847 ; then 
 moved West, locating in Lake Co., 111.; 
 thence to La Porte Co., Ind., in Aug., 
 1853 ; thence to Northwestern Missouri 
 by wagon, in March, 1860, but returned 
 in the Fall of the same year, and located 
 in Kane Co., where he has resided ever 
 since ; his son (and partner). Alvin 
 Gary, was born Jan. 16, 1837, in Or- 
 leans Co., N. Y.; came with his parents 
 to Illinois in 1847 ; married Kate Val- 
 entine, Oct., 1858, in St. Joseph Co., 
 Ind.; they had four children, two living 
 Charles, Frank (deceased), Mattie, 
 Bela (deceased); Alvin has resided in 
 Kane Co. since 1860.
 
 KANE COUNTY: KANEVILLE. 
 
 627 
 
 Clarey, J., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Conlon, Charles, farmer; P. O. Kane- 
 ville. 
 
 CORNWELL, WILLIAM, far.; 
 
 Sec. 22 ; P. O. Kaneville ; born Nov. 
 27, 1827, in Canada West; Dem.; non- 
 sectarian ; owns 153 acres ; value $70 
 per acre ; was elected School Director 
 in 1875. Married Persis N. Roberts, 
 1852, in this town ; she was born in 
 1831, in Middletown, Ct., and came to 
 this State in 1852 ; children Lazelle 
 C. H., Charles (deceased), Henry W., 
 Clarie, Albert, Eddie and Gracie ; his 
 father, Henry, was born 1795, in Rens- 
 selaer, N. Y.; moved to Canada with 
 his parents in 1811 ; his mother, Abigail 
 English, was born 1798, in County 
 Armagh, Ireland; emigrated with her 
 parents, when quite young, to Canada ; 
 they were married in 1822, in Oxford 
 Co., Canada, and remained there until 
 1845 ; then they came here and pur- 
 chased the farm, or part of it, where 
 William now lives ; Mrs. Cornwell's 
 father, Wm. Roberts, and her mother, 
 were natives of Connecticut; her father 
 died in 1870, in Connecticut; her 
 mother .still lives there ; Mr. Cornwell 
 still lives with William ; Mrs. C., Sr., 
 died in Feb., 1873. 
 
 Coffee, T., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Champlin, H. N., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Cook, J. C., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chambers, J., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 CARLISLE, J., farmer ; Sec. 36 ; P. 
 0. Kaneville; born in 1820, in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa.; Liberal ; non-sectarian ; 
 owns 127 acres; value, $50 per acre. 
 Married Lucy Drake in 1845, in New 
 York ; she was born in 1823, in Rut- 
 land, Vt.; had four children, none of 
 them living ; Mrs. C. died Jan., 1867 ; 
 he married for his second wife, Saltie 
 Cleaveland, widow of the late Luther 
 Seavey, Oct., 1867 ; she had three chil- 
 dren by her first husband George, 
 Mary J. and Mark L.; when about 14 
 years of age, Mr. Carlisle moved from 
 Pennsylvania to New York, where he 
 lived three years ; thence to this State, 
 and lived here about ten years ; thence 
 to Michigan, stayed two years ; thence 
 to Iowa, and lived there two years; then 
 returned to this county, where he has 
 lived ever since ; his father, Jabesh, was 
 
 born in 1785, in Deerfield, Mass.; his 
 mother, Catherine Heins, was born in 
 1788, in Germantown, Pa.; were mar- 
 ried in 1818, in Pennsylvania ; moved 
 to New York; from there to Michigan, 
 in 1845 ; they had 13 children Cath- 
 arine, Jonathan, Javish, William, George, 
 Joseph, David, John, Henry, Samuel, 
 Ebenezer, etc ; Mr. Carlisle, Sr., served 
 in the war of 1812 ; he died in Michi- 
 gan in 1867. 
 
 Caldwell, T., farmer ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 Cleveland, S., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Coy, John, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville 
 
 Coy, M. A., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Crosby, James, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Coy, W. W., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 DOOLEY, MICHAEL, far.; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 DAUBERMAN, J. S., farmer, Sec. 
 35 ; P. 0. Kaneville ; Dem. ; non-sec- 
 tarian ; owns 180 acres of land, valued 
 at about $11,000; he was born in 1850 
 at Center Co., Pa. ; married Mary Mer- 
 rill in March, 1874; she was born in 
 New Hampshire, in 1851, and came to 
 this township with her father's family ; 
 have one child, George ; Mr. Dauber- 
 man's parents were born in Center Co., 
 Pa.; his father, George, in 1825, and 
 his mother, Matilda Spangler, in 1831 ; 
 they came to this county with their 
 family, three children J. S., Ellen and 
 Ida; Mrs. D. died December, 1856; 
 Mr. D. married second wife, Ann Harter; 
 she was born in 1832, in Pennsylvania; 
 she had three children John , McLelland 
 and Mary ; second wife died in Septem- 
 ber, 1871. 
 
 Dadd, Mrs. E., P. 0., Kaneville. 
 
 DAUBERMAN, MRS. LUCY 
 A. (third wife and widow of the late 
 George S. Dauberman), resides Sec. 26; 
 P. 0. Kaneville; Meth. ; owns 170 
 acres, valued at $60 per acre ; she was 
 born in 1831, at Center Co., Pa. ; her 
 parents moved to Sandusky Co., 0., in 
 1833, where her father, Jacob Wise, 
 still resides ; her mother, Magdalene 
 Spangler, died there Dec. 18, 1860; 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dauberman were married 
 June 22, 1872; no family; she is 
 guardian of the younger children of 
 Mr. Dauberman's previous wife. Mr. 
 Dauberman died March 20, 1874, aged 
 48 years, 5 months and 9 days.
 
 628 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 EVANS, E. R., farmer; P. 0. Kane- 
 ville. 
 
 EBERLY, WM., rents farm of J. 
 Price; P. 0. Hinckley; born Jan. 10, 
 1854, in De Kalb Co., Rep.; Evan- 
 gelical; owns about $1,000 worth of 
 personal property ; married Cynthia M. 
 Smith April, 1873 ; she was born 1853, 
 in N. Y.; came here with her parents ; 
 they have one child Jennie M. ; Mr. 
 Eberly's parents came to this State from 
 Ohio in 1851. 
 
 TpLANDERS, P., far.; P. 0. Kane- 
 
 JJ ville. 
 
 FINK, NORRIS A., farmer ; P. 0. 
 Kaneville ; born 1845, in Oneida Co., 
 N. Y.; came to this State in 1850; 
 owns 156 acres, valued at $9,000 ; 
 Dem.; non -sectarian ; married Mary 
 Perry Jan., 1868 ; she was born July 
 18, 1848, at Lee Center, N. Y.; have 
 four children Clarence, born Dec. 13, 
 1868; Maud E., born July 20, 1870; 
 Mary, born May 1, 1872 ; Henry L., 
 born July 7, 1877 ; Mr. F. enlisted 
 Aug., 1862, in the 8th I. V. C.; was 
 promoted to Commissary Sergeant Sept., 
 186-i ; mustered out July 4, 1865 ; dur- 
 ing the campaign he participated in 
 forty-three engagements, and, haply, 
 never got even the slightest wound ; 
 was elected Assessor in 1874 and '5 ; 
 was elected Road Commissioner in 1877, 
 which office he now holds. 
 
 PINK, J. A., farmer, Sec. 26 ; P. 0. 
 Kaneville ; born 1814, in Madison Co., 
 N. Y.; Rep.; Bapt.; owns 207 acres, 
 valued at $15,000 ; married Nancy B. 
 Norris June, 1838, in Madison Co., N. 
 Y.; had three children John N. (de- 
 ceased); Marilda and Nancy ; Mrs. F. 
 died Sept. 1843, in N. Y.; married 
 second wife, Mary A. Norris, in 1844; 
 she had two children N. A. and Fran- 
 cis (deceased); Mrs. Fink, second, died 
 in 1858, in this Township ; he married 
 third wife, Louisa Coy, in 1859 ; she 
 was born 1827, in Chenango Co., N. 
 Y.; had three children Frankie, Marcia 
 (deceased) and Julia; in 1839 Mr. 
 Fink moved from Madison Co. to Onon- 
 daga Co.; lived there till 1851 ; thence 
 to the place where he now lives, in this 
 Township ; he was not amongst the 
 first settlers of this Township, but is 
 one of its enterprising farmers. 
 
 Fuller, I., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Fish, J. M., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 FREDERICK, WM., farmer, Sec. 
 35 ; P. 0. Kaneville ; Dem.; non-sec- 
 tarian ; owns 360 acres, valued at $75 
 per acre ; he was born Feb. 15, 1825, 
 in Johnstown, Fulton Co., N. Y.; mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Hathaway, March 15, 
 1853 ; she was born July 10, 1835, in 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y.; came to this Co. 
 with her father's family ; have seven 
 children Mary, Artimus. Margaret C., 
 William, Agnes, Charles and Burt ; 
 Mr. Frederick left N. Y. April, 1846, 
 and arrived at Chicago May 1, the same 
 year ; thence to Montgomery, Kane Co, 
 and lived there till the Spring of 1852 ; 
 then purchased one hundred and twenty 
 acres of the farm he now owns, and on 
 which he has resided ever since ; besides 
 the natural advantages of his farm, it is 
 well improved. 
 
 Flanders, T. P., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 FRACE, J. M., farmer, Sec. 2 ; P. 0. 
 Blackberry ; Dem. ; non-sectarian ; 
 owns 260 acres, valued at $45 per acre ; 
 born Feb. 22, 1820, in Morris Co., N. 
 J.; married Sarah Vorhees ; she was 
 born Nov. 26, 1824, in Warren Co., N. 
 J.; have three children Elsie, Albert 
 1). and Elizabeth ; Mr. Frace came here 
 in 1848, returned to N. J. in 1856 ; 
 married and returned again to his loca- 
 tion in Kane Co., where he has resided 
 ever since. 
 
 /~^ RANGER, E., farmer ; P. 0. Kane- 
 
 VJT ville. 
 
 Gardner, H. S., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Gardner, R. M., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Guerin, Mary, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 GORHAM, H. C., farmer, Sec. 23 ; 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; born 1826, in Rut- 
 land Co., Vt. ; Rep. ; non-sectarian, 
 (Protestant); owns 156 acres, valued at 
 about $10,000; was elected Highway 
 Commissioner in 1859 ; held that office 
 nine years ; married Susan A. Davis in 
 1851 ; she was born 1832, in Clerndon, 
 Vt.; had seven children Augusta, Ella, 
 Helen (deceased), Ira, George, Frank 
 (deceased), and Charles; Mr. Gorham 
 came from Vt. to this Co. in 1856 ; his 
 mother, Lydia Hawkins, died at their 
 old home in Vt., in 1834 ; his father, 
 Ira Gorham, came with him, and died 
 here in 1871.
 
 KANE COUNTY: KANEVILLE. 
 
 629 
 
 Galvin, T., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Galvin, T., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Goding, A. L., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 GARDNER, JOHN Q., rents farm 
 of J. H. Scott; Sec. 25; P. 0. Kane- 
 ville ; born Dec., 1829, in Jefferson Co., 
 N. Y.; Rep.; Meth.; owns house and 
 two lots in Kaneville village, valued at 
 $800, and personal property valued at 
 about $2,000 ; married Sophia Coon, 
 1863, in N. Y.; she was born 1839, in 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y.; had four children 
 Herman, Eva M. (deceased), Charles 
 (deceased), Birdie M. ; when about 9 
 years of age, his parents moved to 
 Oneida Co., where he lived nine years ; 
 then returned to Jefferson Co., and re- 
 mained five years ; thence to Canada, 
 where he lived three years ; thence to 
 this State in 1860, where he lived four 
 years; went back to N. Y., married 
 and returned to 111. the same year ; 
 located in this Co., where he has lived 
 ever since. 
 
 Gramley, Benj., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Gaunt, H., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Graves, H., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Guster, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 GARDNER, POLLY, MRS., Sec. 
 
 1.; P. 0. Lodi ; born 1821, in Genesee 
 (now Wyoming) Co., N. Y.; her mother 
 moved to Crawford Co., Pa., when she 
 was about fourteen years of age ; was 
 married there to Dr. Wm. Kennedy, 
 April 13, 1837 ; have two children 
 E. C. and W. H. H. (sons of Dr. Ken- 
 nedy); they moved from Pa. to Lodi, 
 this Co., Sept., 1857; Dr. Kennedy 
 died at Lodi, Oct. 4, 1862; Mrs. G. 
 still resided with her son, W. H. H., 
 for five years after her husband's death ; 
 then married H. S. Gardner, Sept. 28, 
 1867 ; Mr. Gardner settled in Kane Co. 
 in 1845, where he now lives. E. C. 
 Kennedy enlisted in the 8th 111. Cavalry 
 Sept., 1861, and served in the war three 
 years. 
 
 HAWLEY, SAMUEL, farmer ; P. O. 
 Kaneville. 
 
 Hoyt, T., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Heustis, D., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Hough, S. H., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Hinds, W., farmer ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 Harter, A., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Harter, Samuel, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Hoyt, H. L., Station. 
 
 HOYT, BATES, farmer; Sec. 3; P. 0. 
 Kanevilje ; owns 80 acres ; he was born 
 in Florida, Orange Co., N. Y., in 1820 ; 
 moved to N. J. in 1836 ; there he mar- 
 ried Sarah M. Doty ; she was born in 
 N. J. ; they lived in N. Y. a few years ; 
 then moved to Darien, Conn., in 1845 ; 
 they had two children Geo. E.,born in 
 N. Y., and Chas. H. in Conn. ; Mrs. 
 Hoyt died at Darien, Conn., May 22, 
 1850. Married second wife Mary E. 
 Godfray, 1852, in Conn. ; she was born 
 in Fairfield Co., Conn, April 24, 1824. 
 They moved to this State in 1857, and 
 located on his present farm ; Geo. E. 
 enlisted in 111. I. V., Co. A, Jan., 1864, 
 and died in the hospital at Chattanooga, 
 Nov. 29, 1864, of sickness contracted in 
 the army. 
 
 Humiston, C. M., farmer ; P. 0. Kane- 
 ville. 
 
 Hunt, S. D., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Hays, S. B., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 HARDY, H. T., M. D., P. 0. Kane- 
 ville ; Rep. ; Cong. ; owns 2 acres in 
 village, valued at $2,500 ; was born in 
 Groton, Grafton Co., N. H., in 1838; 
 married Sophia E. Buzzell, March 12, 
 1868; she was born Jan. 28, 1848, in 
 Strafford, Vt. ; had two children Ralph 
 H. and Mabel Le Rue (deceased). 
 Mr. Hardy resided at Groton until 
 about 21 years old. when he moved to 
 Thetford, Vt., and began to study medi- 
 cine ; he attended a course of lectures at 
 Hanover, N. H., in 1862 ; then enlisted 
 in June, 1862 in Sprague's Squadron 
 Rhode Island Cavalry, one company of 
 which was entirely of students of Dart- 
 moutu, who were enlisted for three 
 months. At the close of said three 
 months he returned to his home in Vt., 
 and pursued his study until Oct., 1863 ; 
 then re-enlisted in the 3d Vt. L. A. 
 for three years. He participated in the 
 battle of Appomattox, and was dis- 
 charged at the close of the war ; he 
 never received a wound. At the close 
 of the war he returned to Thetford, 
 completed his studies, and graduated in 
 medicine at Dartmouth, Oct. 31, 1866 ; 
 he practiced at Strafford, Vt., four years ; 
 thence to Neb. where he spent one 
 winter ; then came to Elgin, this Co., 
 April, 1872, and in Oct., 1873, came 
 to this village.
 
 630 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HOYT, CH AS. H., farmer ; Sec. 3 ; 
 P. 0. Blackberry ; Rep,; non-sectarian; 
 owns 80 acres, valued at $3,000 ; was 
 born Dec. 23, 1847, in Darien, Conn. ; 
 married Mary A. Reeves, April 2, 
 1873; she was born May 11, 1853, in 
 Kent, Eng., and emigrated to U. S. 
 with her parents in 1861 ; they settled 
 in this Co. They have one child Geo. 
 E., born in Feb. 1874. Mr. Hoyt came 
 here with his father's family ; has been 
 elected School Director. 
 
 Hanchette, D., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Hinds, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 HOUGH, SAMUEL H., farmer; 
 Sec. 22; P. 0. Kaneville; owns 43 
 acres, valued at $75 per acre ; Rep. ; 
 Meth. ; was born in Niagara Falls, N. 
 Y., in 18ii7. Mr. Hough came West 
 in 1854; stopped in Wis. ; thence to 
 111. ; lived at Rockford three years ; 
 thence to Mo. with Mr. Churchill for 
 whom he had contracted to build ; mar- 
 ried there Eliza Churchill in 1861 ; she 
 was born inGenesee Co., N.Y., in 1828 ; 
 one child living Fayett C. (deceased) ; 
 Mary E. Alfred Churchill, and Susan 
 Wilson Mrs. Hough's parents came 
 to Chicago in 1 834 ; thence to this Tp. , 
 and settled in the northeast side in 
 1837 ; their's was one of the first 
 families in the Tp. ; had six children, 
 all girls Fayett, Eliza, Delia, Susan, 
 Fannie, and Emma. Mr. Churchill 
 was the first P. M. in this Tp. ; he was 
 chosen as a delegate to represent this 
 Co. in the revision of the State Consti- 
 tution in 1847 ; he held various offices 
 of trust and honor, giving general satis- 
 faction ; his oldest daughter, Fayett, 
 (now Mrs. Hanchett) taught the first 
 school in the Tp. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Churchill were both natives of Vt. ; 
 both were born in 1800. Mrs. C. re- 
 turned to Vt., to visit a daughter, 
 and died there, Aug. 3, 1867. Mr. C. 
 died in this Tp., near where many of 
 the important days and incidents of his 
 life were passed, Oct. 18, 1868. 
 
 Hunt, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 TONES, GEO., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 JAMES, THOS., farmer ; Sec. 31 ; 
 P. 0. Big Rock; Rep.; Cong.; 
 owns 170 acres, valued at $55 per 
 acre ; he was born in 1835, in Mont- 
 
 gomeryshire, Wales ; married Margaret 
 Evans in June, 1859, at Utica, N. 
 Y. ; she was born in 1839, in Mont- 
 gomeryshire, Wales ; had five children ; 
 those living are: Margaret, born in N. 
 Y., and Elizabeth A., in this State. 
 Mrs. James died Jan., 1873 ; married a 
 second wife Mary A. Aynon, Nov., 
 1874 ; she was born in South Wales, in 
 1846, and came to this country in 1868 ; 
 have one child John M. ; Mr. J. 
 came to the U. S. in 1857 ; settled in 
 N. Y. ; lived there until March, 186M, 
 when he came to this Co. ; rented here 
 several years until he bought his present 
 farm in the Spring of 1870. 
 T7"EENAN, M., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Kenneda, P., far.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Kendall, M., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 Keegan, D., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville^ 
 Keller, Chas., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Kennedy, P., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Kendall, W., mason ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Knight, B. 
 
 Kendall, M. J., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Kennedy, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 OVELL, E., carp.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 U 
 
 Lovell, S., farmer.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Lynch, J., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 LIGHTFOOT, JAS., Sec. 15 ; P. 
 
 0. Kaneville ; Rep.; non-sectarian ; born 
 in 1801, in Oxfordshire, Eng.; married 
 Louisa Bush in 1835 ; she was born in 
 1816 in London ; they emigrated to the 
 United States in 1836 ; settled in Mid- 
 dletown, Conn., where they lived nine 
 years ; then moved to this Co., and 
 settled on what is now his son's farm 
 July 4th. 1845 ; had twelwe children, 
 only two living Wm. Jas., born 1844, 
 and Jessie, born in 1856 ; Mrs. L. died 
 Oct. 2d, 1865; married second wife, 
 Widow Fuller, Jaauary, 1870 ; he re- 
 sides with his son, W. J., who owns 
 85 acres ; valued at $60 per acre ; he 
 (W. J.) married Nancy Belden in 
 March, 1869 ; she was born in 1850, 
 in New York, and came here with her 
 parents when about 6 years old ; have 
 three children Harry, born in 1870 ; 
 Louisa, in 1871, and Jessie, in 1875. 
 
 Libby, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Libby, W. T.. farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Lyke, J., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville.
 
 KANE COUNTY : KANEVILLE. 
 
 631 
 
 Lovell, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 LONG, MICHAEL, Sec. 1 ; P. 0. 
 
 Blackberry ; far.; Dem.; Cath.; owns 
 173 acres; valued at $45 per acre ; born 
 July 2d, 1830, in Co. Dublin, Ireland ; 
 married Catharine Ferrington in April, 
 1869 ; she was born in Co. Galway, 
 Ireland ; Mr. Long emigrated to the 
 United States in 1853, and remained 
 at Boston about two and a half years ; 
 thence to Chicago in 1855 ; thence direct 
 to Kane Co., and has remained here 
 ever since. 
 
 Lowell, Frank, painter ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Lasher, Hirain, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 LEE, RUSSEL W., Sec. 23 ; P. 0. 
 Kaneville ; far, ; Dem. ; Bapt. ; owns 
 323 acres ; valued at $15,000 ; born 
 June 20th, 1822, at Middletown. Conn.; 
 came to this Tp. in 1844; bought 160 
 acres of Government land; went back 
 to Vermont and married Sophronia C. 
 Spencer in April, 1848, and returned to 
 his first choice at Kaneville in June of 
 the same year ; had five children Isa- 
 bella (deceased), Mary, Ann (deceased), 
 Grace R., Warren S. and Brainard A.; 
 on arrival here Mr. Lee had only $384 
 left after * paying $52 for his fare from 
 Vermont to Chicago ; inconvenience 
 and disappointment in the extreme 
 were not uncommon to those who would 
 travel to the West, and he found a good 
 share of those, as he journeyed over an 
 almost unbroken wilderness ; being a 
 proficient teacher, he applied himself to 
 that avocation during the Winter months 
 of the year for a number of years after 
 locating here, and many are the grati- 
 fying reminiscences connected with his 
 work at that time ; he is now the ear- 
 liest settler living in Kaneville Tp., ex- 
 cept one ; his parents still live in Con- 
 necticut ; they were born in 1791 ; his 
 mother is his father's second wife, and 
 at this writing have been married sixty- 
 three years ; Mr. L. is pecuniarily well 
 situated, and looks back with pleasure 
 on the time when he purchased, at 14 
 years of age, the privilege to work for 
 himself. 
 
 MILNAMOOR, MARY, farmer; P. 
 0. Lodi. 
 
 McNair, Chap., farmer; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Mininum, G. H., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Malone, P., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Miner, M., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Murphy, E., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 MUNSON, EMOND, farmer; Sec. 
 29; P. 0. Kaneville; born 1820 in 
 Bergen, Norway; Rep.; Bapt.; owns 
 162 acres, valued at $60 per acre; 
 married Mary Whitcom Jan. 24, 1852 ; 
 she was born in 1832 in York Co., Pa.; 
 had twelve children Sarah, Malinda, 
 Carolina, David, Mary E. (deceased), 
 Douglass, Ella, Frank, Mary, Catherine, 
 Bettie and Amon. Mr. M. emigrated 
 from Norway to the United States in 
 1842;' lived in Chicago two years; 
 thence to Blackberry Township, where 
 he lived five years ; thence to the farm 
 where he now lives in 1850 ; he entered 
 forty acres of the Government, which is 
 part of his present farm. 
 
 MINER, AMOS, farmer; Sec. 21; 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; Rep.; Meth.; owns 
 516 acres (farmed by his son-in-law, 
 Seymour Perry), valued at $30,000 ; he 
 was born in Schoharie Co., N. Y., April, 
 1814 p married Amanda Rose Dec. 30, 
 1834 ; she was born in the same county 
 Jan. 7, 1819; have had eleven children 
 Rosline R., born Dec. 22, 1835, in 
 N. Y.; died here March 19, 1854; 
 Mary L., born Nov. 27, 1837 ; was the 
 first white child born in this township ; 
 Roxie, born April 19, 1840 ; Malcom, 
 Dec. 2, 1842; Wesley 0., April 17, 
 1845; Eliza J., Nov. 8, 1848 (died 
 Sept. 24, 1849); Flora E., March 2, 
 1851; Edith, Sept. 13, 1853 (died 
 May 24, 1854); Wellington, April 
 15, 1855 ; Orpha, Dec. 9, 1857, and 
 Elmer R., Feb. 24, 1863 (died Oct. 10, 
 1863). In the Spring of 1836, Mr. 
 M. left New York, with his wife and 
 child; they stopped in Michigan till 
 July of that year, then started for Illi- 
 nois, and arrived in Chicago Aug. 1, 
 1836 ; in the Fall, Mr. M. made a claim, 
 which is part of his present farm, but 
 did not move on the claim until May 10, 
 1837, which was the first settlement in 
 this township, and, like many of the 
 enterprising pionetrs, he arrived here 
 without any property of any kind ; but, 
 by energy and economy, he has amassed 
 quite a fortune ; he was elected Justice 
 of the Peace in 1858, and held that of- 
 fice four years, and other township offi- 
 ces various times.
 
 632 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 MERRILL, THOS. W., farmer; 
 
 P. O. Kaneville; born io 1825 in Thorn- 
 ton, Grafton Co., N. H.; Rep.; Bapt; 
 owns 200 acres, valued at $20,000 ; was 
 elected School Director in 1867; held 
 that office seven years ; also Township 
 Trustee for a number of years, to which 
 office he was re-elected in April, 1877 ; 
 married Harriet Thornton in 1850 ; she 
 was born in 1827 in Thornton, G-rafton 
 ton Co., N. H.; they emigrated from 
 New Hampshire to this township in 
 1854; had six children John, Mary 
 and Frank M., born in New Hampshire, 
 and Hattie, Bessie (deceased), Lizzie 
 (deceased), born in this county ; his 
 father, W. S., Merrill, died at the old 
 home in New Hampshire in November, 
 1854 ; Mrs. M.'s father, Wm. Thornton, 
 
 was a grandson of Thornton, one 
 
 of the signers of the Declaration of 
 Independence of the United States ; 
 the town derives its name from the fam- 
 ily ; her grandfather was its founder ; 
 William, her father, was the leading busi- 
 ness man of that vicinity ; he died in 
 August, 1854. 
 
 Miller, G.*P., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Meeks, (jr., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Miner, W. 0.. farmer; P.O. Kaneville. 
 
 Meeks, Anson, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 MILNAMOW, MARY MRS., 
 
 (widow of the late Thos. Milnamow) 
 farmer ; Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Lodi ; owns 320 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; Catholic ; 
 Mr. Milnamow was born in the Co. 
 Longford, ' Ireland, in 1816 ; he emi- 
 grated to U. S. in 1846, and came direct 
 to this Co., and located on what is part 
 of their present farm ; Mrs. M. was 
 born also in Longford Co., Ireland, in 
 1823; she emigrated to U. S. in 1844, 
 and settled at Albany, N. Y. ; thence to 
 Chicago, 111., in 1851. They were 
 married at Chicago. Dec. 12, 1851 ; had 
 seven children Michael, Margaret (de- 
 ceased), Thomas, Barnard, and John ; 
 r. Milnamow died here April 19, 1868. 
 
 Mead, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Miner, Wm., farmer ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 ~]SJ EEDH AM, W. T., blacksmith ; 
 
 _JJ\I P. O. Kaneville ; was born in 
 Lanark Co. in 1844 ; owns real estate in 
 Bruce Co., Canada, valued at about $500 ; 
 owns property in Kaneville, valued at 
 about $1,500; Dem.; Epis. ; married 
 
 Martha Benton, Nov. 1874 ; she was born 
 in this Co. in 1856 ; have two children 
 Geo. H., born Feb. 20, 1876 ; W. S., 
 born Sept. 26, 1877. Mr. N. com- 
 menced as apprentice to his trade in 
 1859 ; afterward moved to Bruce Co. in 
 1861, where he remained till 1865; 
 thence to Pa. ; stayed only a short time, 
 and returned to Bruce Co., Canada ; 
 lived there four years ; thence to this 
 town in 1870, and commenced business 
 for himself in 1871. 
 
 OWENS, CATHARINE, farming ; P. 
 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Owen, Wm., Jr., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 OSBORN, GEORGE L., farmer 
 and stock dealer ; Sec. 3 ; P. 0. Lodi ; 
 owns 140 acres ; value, $70 per acre ; 
 Rep.; Ind.; Prohibitionist ; born Sept. 
 28, 1825, at Auburn, N. Y. Married 
 Orenda C. Bunker, Oct. 2, 1856 ; she 
 was born in New London, N. H ; they 
 have two children Dora aud Ella L.; 
 Mr. Osborn left New York on a pros- 
 pecting tour in 1854 ; went to Iowa ; 
 came to Kane Co., 111., in the Spring of 
 1855, and located on his present farm ; 
 his wife's parents (Mr. and Mrs. Bunker) 
 with their three children, were among 
 the first settlers of this township ; John 
 Bunker was born Aug. 28, 1797, in 
 New London, N. H.; Mrs. Bunker was 
 born Jan. 5, 1800, in Orange Co., Vt.; 
 they emigrated from New Hampshire to 
 Illinois, making a temporary stop in 
 Ohio, and arrived here in the Spring of 
 1840 ; they built the first frame house 
 in this township ; Mr. B. held the office 
 of Justice of the Peace various terms ; 
 Mrs. Osborn is the only one of the chil- 
 dren that is living ; Mr. Bunker died 
 here May 31, 1865. 
 
 O'Donoran, W., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Osborn, H. B., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 OWENS, WM., farmer ; Sec. 18 ; P. 
 0. Kaneville; Rep.; Meth.; owns 140 
 acres ; value, $40 per acre ; born July 
 24, 1831, in Chestershire, England. 
 Married Victoria Boothroyd in 1855, at 
 Utica, Oneida Co., N. Y.; she was born 
 Dec., 1839, at Glenham, Orange Co., N. 
 Y.; have ten children Edwin, Leonard 
 A., Sarah E., Willie W., born in New 
 York; Florence E., Frank P., Mary 
 M., Louis K., John A., and Charles S., 
 born in this State ; Mr. 0. emigrated
 
 KANE COUNTY: KANEVILLE. 
 
 633 
 
 from England to New York with his 
 parents in 1835 ; he visited this State a 
 good many years ago, but brought his 
 family to this county in 1863, intent on 
 permanent residence here. 
 
 PAULS, F.. farmer; P. 0. Kane- 
 ville. 
 
 PHELPS, JOHN T., farmer; P.O. 
 Kaneville ; born Oct. 13, 1855, in Che- 
 nango Co., N. Y. ; Rep. ; non-sectarian ; 
 owns 152 acies of land, valued at $80 
 per acre ; his father, P. M. Phelps, was 
 born Oct. 12, 1818, in Chenango Co., 
 N. Y. ; his mother was born April 15, 
 1818, in Otsego Co., N. Y. ; moved to 
 this State, with their seven children, in 
 1861 ; Archer B., Lyman E., Agnes, 
 George, John T., Estelle and Ella; 
 purchased 280 acres of land, which the 
 family still own ; Mr. Phelps died 
 March 8, 1868 ; his aged mother, Clara 
 Vail, born Feb. 28, 1795, in New York, 
 still lives with the widow Phelps and 
 John T. ; he is not married, 
 ville. 
 
 PHELPS, ARCHER B., farmer, 
 Sec. 24 ; P. O. Kaneville ; Rep. ; non- 
 sectarian ; owns 214 acres of land, val- 
 ued at SI 1,000 ; born in 1845, in Che- 
 nango Co., N. Y. ; married Hartwell, 
 Jan. 26, 1869; she was born Nov. 13, 
 1849, in New York ; have three chil- 
 dren Lynn, born June 22, 1871 ; 
 Lee, born May 8, 1873 ; Jennie, born 
 July 19, 1875 ; Mr. Phelps came to 
 this State with his father's family, and 
 owns the place which his father pur- 
 chased when he came here in 1861 ; 
 Mrs. Phelps came to this State with her 
 parents and one brother (Henry) when 
 quite young. 
 
 Plapp, Jacob F., far.,; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 PRICE, JOHN,, far., Sec. 31 ; P. 0. 
 Hinckley ; born in 1842, in Rodnor- 
 shire ; Rep. ; Bapt. ; owns 193f acres 
 of land, valued at $50 per acre ; is not 
 married ; he came here wkh his father's 
 family, which consisted of the parents 
 and three children Edward H., John 
 and Mary ; they emigrated from Wales 
 into this county in 1847 ; his father, 
 Edward Price, was born in 1797, in 
 Wales, and died here in February, 
 1869 ; his mother. Ann Harding, was 
 born in 1804, in Wales, and died here 
 in September, 1874. 
 
 Perry, Frank, mer. ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Perry, S. D.. farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Phelps, Mrs. A. M., farming ; P. 0. Kane- 
 Proudfort, W. S., far. ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 T3UNKIE, B., P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 RAVLIN, J. E., farmer ; P. O. Kane- 
 ville ; born 1826, in Essex Co., N. Y. ; 
 Dem.; non-sectarian ; owns one and a 
 half acres in Kaneville village, valued at 
 about $800 ; moved with his father's 
 family which consists of father, John 
 W. Ravlin ; mother, Eunis Linkfield, 
 and four children, two boys and two 
 girls to Chautauqua Co., N. Y., in 
 1829 ; thence to this county, in 1845 ; 
 married Sophia Bartlett, in 1854 ; she 
 was born 1835, in Vt. ; have three 
 children Helen E., born 1857 ; Mary 
 F., born 1860 ; Fred, born 1870. 
 
 Reeves, W. H., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Rudd, H. D., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 RAVLIN, N. N., farmer, Sec. 27 ; P. 
 O. Kaneville ; Rep. since 1856 ; Bapt.; 
 born in 1823, in Shorham, Vt.; moved 
 with his father's family, in 1824, to 
 Essex Co., N. Y.; thence to Chautauqua 
 Co., in 1832 ; thence to this county in 
 1845 ; owns 160 acres, valued at about 
 $12,000; married Francis A. West in 
 1849; she was born in 1831, in En- 
 gland ; emigrated with her father's family 
 to this country in 1837; have five chil- 
 dren Warren W., born 1851 ; Martin 
 B., born 1857; Alta J., born 1866; 
 Frank W., born 1869 ; Grace, born 
 1873 ; Mr. R, was elected Tp. Super- 
 visor in 1857 ; which office he has held 
 ever since, except two years ; and has 
 been Chairman of the Board of Super- 
 visors nine years, which office he now 
 holds; was elected to Legislature in 
 1868, for two years. His father, Rev. 
 Thos. Ravlin, and mother, Hannah 
 Whitman, came here, with their family 
 of seven children, in 1845 John W., 
 Narcissia, Catharine E., M. M., Ernly 
 C., N. N. and N. F. ; Rev. Thos. 
 Ravlin was the first Bapt. minister in 
 Kaneville ; but his services were not 
 long enjoyed here before he was called 
 from things terrestrial ; he died in 1846, 
 and was the first interred in Kaneville 
 cemetery; Mrs. R., Sr., died, in ad- 
 vanced years, in 1869. 
 
 Read, Hiram, far.; P. 0. Blackberry.
 
 634 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Riley, Pat, fanner ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 RAYMOND, A., farmer, Sec. 34; 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; Rep. ; non-sectarian. 
 Married Delia A. Perrigo, Feb. 12, 
 1873 ; she was born in 1856, in N. Y., 
 and came here with her parents ; his 
 brother, Chas. F. Raymond, also lives on 
 the estate of their father, G. C. Ray- 
 mond, which consists of 400 acres, val. 
 at about $75 per acre. Chas. F. married 
 Carrie C. Humiston, Feb. 15, 1877; 
 their brother Harvey enlisted in the 9th 
 111. Cavalry, April 8. 1865, and served 
 three months ; was also in the 19th 
 Kan. Cavalry, and served six months. 
 Gr. C. Raymond, their father, came to 
 this State, from Wareham, Mass., in 
 1841 ; lived some time in Kendall Co., 
 and moved to this county in 1844. 
 , T., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 s 
 
 Shoop, W. H. H., far. ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 SCOTT, JOHN H., merchant and P. 
 M. ; P.O. Kaneville ; was born Oct. 26, 
 1834, in Oneida Co., N. Y. ; Rep.; 
 Meth. Epis. ; came to this Co. in 1837 
 with his father's family ; married Martha 
 J. Ostrand, Nov. 20. 1858; she was 
 born April, 1837, in Erie Co., Pa., and 
 came to this Co. in 1857 ; have two 
 children Lilian, born February, 1861 ; 
 Robt. B., born March, 1874 ; was elected 
 J. P. in 1864; served 8 years; elected 
 Tp. Assessor in 1868 ; held that office 
 two years; appointed P. M. in 1871, 
 which office he now holds. His father, 
 John Scott, was born in 1804, in Lon- 
 donderry, Ireland ; he emigrated to N. 
 Y. in 1815 ; his mother, Mary Atkin- 
 son, was born in 1807, in Leeds, Eng. i 
 she emigrated to U. S. when quite 
 young ; when they came to this State 
 they had three children Sarah, John 
 H., and Alexander ; he died shortly 
 after their arrival in Chicago ; Elizabeth, 
 born in this Co., died in 1856 ; Robert 
 enlisted in 127th .111. I. V., Co. I, and 
 died at home in Aug., 1863, of disease 
 contracted in the army ; Wm., Mary E., 
 and George F., he died in 1855 ; his 
 father died Oct. 17, 1877. John H. 
 Scott owns 161} acres, Sec. 25, valued 
 at 88,000, besides property in Kane- 
 ville, valued at $7,000 ; was elected 
 Township Treasurer in 1874, which 
 office he now holds. 
 
 Simmonds, J. M., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Simons, M., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Simons, N., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Simons, C., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Smith, James, farmer ; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 SAMUELS, JOHN, blacksmith ; P. 
 O. Kaneville ; born, in 1843, in Bacon- 
 shire, Wales ; Dem. ; Bapt. ; owns in 
 Kaneville village property valued at 
 $500 ; married Sarah Griffiths in 1863, 
 in Wales ; she was born in Sept., 1842 ; 
 have six children Sarah A., born Jan. 
 8, 1865 ; John, July 19, 1866 ; ^Mary, 
 Dec. 24, 1868 ; Elizabeth, Mar. 9, 1871 ; 
 Ellen, Dec. 20, 1873 ; Minnie, April 2, 
 1875 ; babe, Oct. 6. 1877. In com- 
 pliance with the custom of his native land, 
 Mr. Samuels served seven years as ap- 
 prentice to his trade ; the mechanic of 
 the Old World does not start in business 
 for himself, no matter what his ability 
 may be, at the end of a short term of 
 one or two years' apprenticeship. They 
 emigrated to this country in 1869, land- 
 ing in N. Y. on the 1st day of June ; 
 thence direct to this town, where they 
 have lived ever since. 
 
 Sherwin, D. C., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Snyder, D., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 SCOTT, LOUIS K., mercantile elk.; 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; Rep. ; non-sectarian ; 
 has held office of Collector in this Tp. in 
 1876 ; was re-elected in 1877 ; and Con- 
 stable also; he was born Dec. 3, 1851, 
 in TItica, X. Y. ; married Mary A. Jones, 
 April 23, 1877 ; she was born June 23, 
 1854, in Batavia, 111. Mr. Scott came 
 to 111. with his father's family, which 
 consisted of his father. John A. Scott, 
 who was born May 24, 1828, in Oris- 
 kaney. N. Y. ; his mother, Kazia Owens, 
 who was born June 29, 1828, in Ches- 
 tershire, Eng. ; in 1855 they came to 
 111., and located in McHenry Co. ; thence 
 to Kane Co. in 1857 ; they had six 
 children George R. and L. K.. born in 
 N. Y., and H. W. (deceased) ; Lillie F., 
 Walter W., Clara M., born in ill. 
 While in N. Y. Mr. Scott, Sr., was en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of woolen 
 goods ; here he was in mercantile busi- 
 ness ; he died here Sept. 13. 1865. 
 
 Spencer, James, far.; P. O. Kaneville. 
 
 Schneider, Charles, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Smith, J. M., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Snyder, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville.
 
 KANE COUNTY : KANEVILLE. 
 
 635 
 
 Simons, James, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Scott, Mrs. K., P. 0. Kaneville. 
 rpUPPER, W. H., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Taylor, Wm., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 -TTNDERWOOD, A., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 Lj Kaneville. 
 TTAN ARSDALE, P., farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 V Kaneville. 
 
 VAN VOLKENBURGH, GEO., 
 
 farmer; Sec. 19; P. 0. Lodi; Rep.; 
 Meth.; owns 90 acres ; value, $55 per 
 acre; born Feb. 20, 1832, in Yates Co., 
 N. Y. Married M. Hammond, in Jan., 
 1853 ; she was born in Tioga Co., Pa., 
 in 1834; had three children Andrew 
 (deceased), Charlie and Herby ; Mrs. 
 Van Volkenburgh died in March, 1871 ; 
 married second wife, Maryette Hazen, 
 in March, 1873, in this township; she 
 was born Aug. 31, 1842, in New Lon- 
 don, Franklin Co., Conn ; Mr. V. moved 
 to this State in April, 1866 ; he pur- 
 chased the farm where he now lives, the 
 year following ; his means was very 
 limited when he got here ; he now owns, 
 though small, a well improved farm. 
 TTTESTON, J. F., farmer; P. 0. 
 VV Kaneville. 
 
 WOODWARD. MRS. SOPHIE 
 
 J. (widow of the late J. P. Woodward), 
 P. 0. Kaneville; Meth. ; born in 1829, 
 in Cayuga Co., N. Y. ; came to this 
 county with her parents in 1 846 ; Mr. 
 Woodward was born in 1817, in Rut- 
 land, Vt., and came to this county in 
 1845 ; they were married in this town- 
 ship in 1860 ; Mr. Woodward died here 
 in March, 1875 ; her father, Benj. Jen- 
 kins, died here in 1867 ; her mother 
 died here in 1850 ; two brothers, Daniel 
 and Joseph Jenkins, enlisted in the late 
 war of the rebellion ; Daniel was in the 
 124th T. V. I., and participated in many 
 engagements ; while in front of Vieks- 
 burg, he was taken sick ; got home on 
 a furlough, but soon returned to the 
 regiment ; he had been with the com- 
 pany only 'a short time when he was 
 seized with congestive chills, of which 
 he died, at Vicksburg, in 1864; Jos. 
 M. enlisted in the 23d I. V. I. ; he was 
 one of the prisoners captured at Lex- 
 ington, Mo. ; had various narrow es- 
 capes ; one brother, Benj. F. Jenkins, 
 resides with Mrs. Woodward. 
 
 Watson, J. F., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Withey, J. C., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Watson, I. S., farmer; P. O. Lodi. 
 Watson Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Wheeler, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Weber, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Wamsley, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 WELLS, HORACE A., Sec. 22 ; 
 
 farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville ; Rep. ; non- 
 sectarian ; owns 122 acres of land, 
 valued at 860 per acre ; born April 26, 
 1831, at Pittsfield, Mass.; his parents 
 moved from Massachusetts to New York 
 when he was about two years of age ; 
 he came to this county in 1866, and 
 married Harriet E. U raves in 1870 ; 
 she was born in 1854, in New 
 Hudson, N. Y., and came to this 
 county with her parents in 1867 ; have 
 three children living : Royal H. (de- 
 ceased), Emma L., Martha M., Lettie 
 H. ; Mr. Wells has held the office of 
 Highway Overseer for several terms. 
 
 Wolf, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Williams, J. E., far. ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 WHITE, HARRY, retired farmer ; 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; born April, 1804, in 
 Caledonia Co., Vt. ; Rep. ; non-sectarian \ 
 owns 400 acres of land, valued at 
 $20,000, besides property in the village ; 
 was elected to various township offices ; 
 married Lucina Scott, April 5, 1831, 
 at Antwerp, N. Y. ; she was born in 
 May, 1809, at New York ; had seven 
 children : Ann, Jane, John (he died in 
 New York), these three were born in 
 New York ; Harry, Julia (deceased). 
 Mary and Martin 0., all born in this 
 State ; Mrs. White died Aug. 3, 1866 ; 
 he married his second wife, Lois N. 
 Withers, in 1873 ; widow of the late 
 Mr. Winder ; she was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania ; had two children by her first 
 husband, Elias C. and Jennie Winder ; 
 when Mr. W. was about ten years of 
 age, his father, Judge White, and his 
 mother, Prudence Snow, moved with 
 their family of five children, four besides 
 himself Guy, George, Louisa and John 
 from Vermont to New York ; Harry, 
 being a mechanical genius, applied him- 
 self to the millwright trade, which 
 called him to various parts of the State ; 
 after acquiring a thorough knowledge of 
 the above named business, he became 
 an extensive contractor of all kinds of
 
 636 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 buildings, at the same time moving to 
 various places ; he lived one year at 
 Greenbush ; thence to Cheuango Co., 
 where he lived thirteen years ; thence 
 to Jefferson, where he lived about eight 
 years ; thence to Chicago, 111., with his 
 wife and two children, Ann and Jane ; 
 they arrived at Chicago, Jnne 6, 1835 ; 
 Mr. W. was delighted with the appear- 
 ance of the country, and was deter- 
 mined to purchase, if possible, a piece 
 of land which he might begin to im- 
 prove ; fearing that the squatters' claim 
 was not reliable, he attended one of the 
 first land sales in Chicago, thinking to 
 make a purchase and procure a reliable 
 title ; he had been there only a short 
 time when he was convinced that pri- 
 ority of occupation was the only 
 sure method of getting a desirable loca- 
 tion, as every squatter was ready and 
 waiting to buy his own claim ; and still 
 more convincing proof of the supremacy 
 of the squatters' rights was to see how 
 suddenly and unceremoniously a gentle 
 man fell just as he had bid a dollar and 
 a half per acre for the claim on which 
 some >quatter had located, one dollar 
 and a quarter being the actual selling 
 price ; the gentleman above referred to 
 regained his upright position after being 
 hurled down a flight of stairs, and in- 
 stantly, for the sake of harmony, proposed 
 to pay the extra twenty-five cents per 
 acre, which he bad over bid, and con- 
 sider the squatter the rightful owner ; 
 Mr. W. hired a man in Chicago to move 
 him and his family to the country ; the 
 team was three yoke of oxen ; the party 
 traveled several days and came to what 
 now is Blackberry Township ; there they 
 stopped ; himself, wife and two children 
 camped on the openprairie while he was 
 building a cabin ; eie his cabin was com- 
 pleted he had only $5 in cash on hand, 
 and $300 in debt ; he took a claim of 
 400 acres, which he owns to this day ; he 
 was the first one in ihis part of the 
 country who attached trucks to a plow, 
 and gave the first order for a reaper in 
 the State of Illinois ; his brother George 
 came here with him, but soon after locat- 
 ing sold his claim ; his mother and re- 
 mainder of the family came to this State 
 after his father died in New York ; his 
 mother died at Chicago. 
 
 Wheaton J., farmer ; P. (). Kaneville. 
 
 WOODWARD, REV. JONAS, 
 
 P. 0. Kaneville ; pastor Bapt. Ch. ; 
 born in Stratton, Windom Co., Vt. ; 
 married Eliza S. Davis in 1830, in New 
 York. She was born in 1805, Saratoga 
 Co., N. Y. ; had four children Frank 
 J., Henry D., Mary E., Fidelia (de- 
 ceased) ; Mrs. W. died in April, 1871, 
 in Kendall Co. Their only surviving 
 daughter widow of the late ,E,ev. H. 
 Montgomery Howie, who visited Scot- 
 land and died there Dec. 5, 1866 re- 
 sides with her father. Wben Mr. W. 
 was 12 years of age, his parents moved 
 with their 12 children from Vermont to 
 New York ; there he prepared for the 
 ministry, and was ordained pastor of a 
 church in 1831, in Monroe Co., N. Y.. 
 where he remained 24 years and six 
 months, thence to the State of Iowa as 
 a missionary, and through due respect 
 for one of such sterling merit he was 
 given the privilege of choosing his loca- 
 tion in that State. Accordingly he 
 chose Cedar Rapids as the center of 
 his field of labor. There he established 
 the Baptist Church and worked zealous- 
 ly for four years ; since that time he has 
 labored in this State, beginning here at 
 Kaneville in 1859, thence to Dundee, 
 where he remained 5 years,thence to Bris- 
 tol, where he remained 6 years ; thence 
 to Tamaroa, Perry Co , for two years, 
 when in consequence of sickness he con- 
 cluded to resign his pastoral charge at 
 that place, at the same time being re- 
 called by the church of this place, 
 which he accepted, and here we find 
 him at the ripe age of 73 laboring vig- 
 orously and cheerfully, imbued with the 
 spirit of his work, to which he has al- 
 ways given his undivided attention. The 
 high esteem in which the aged and 
 worthy pastor is held, not only by those 
 who are identified with the church, but 
 all who have been favored with his ac- 
 quaintance, is only equaled by the heart- 
 felt gratitude of himself and household. 
 As facts worthy of historic record would 
 say that he is the oldest minister in ac- 
 tive service in the Northwest ; he never 
 went on trial with a view to locating 
 but what lie obtained the place, and 
 during these many years of ministerial 
 life he has never passed a Sabbath without
 
 KANE COUNTY : ST. CHARLES. 
 
 637 
 
 a pastoral charge. His sister, Mary, re- 
 sides with them ; she was born 1803 ; 
 is the widow of David Wood worth ; he 
 was born in 1799, in Charleston, N. Y.; 
 they were married in 1822 ; he had 6 
 children, Mary, Jacob, Jerome (de- 
 ceased), Calina, and John M.; he is 
 supervising surgeon of the United States 
 Marine Hospitals since 1870 ; Frank 
 died in 1862 at Washington, D. C., of 
 disease contracted in the army; Mr. W. 
 died in 1850; his was the second in- 
 terment in Kaneville Cemetery ; he was 
 one of the first pioneers of the county, 
 settling in Blackberry Tp., as early as 
 1838; and was one of its most enter- 
 prising farmers. 
 
 UNG, P.L., P. 0. Kaneville; 
 
 farmer ; born December, 1828, at 
 Strafford, Vt.; Ind.; non-sectarian; owns 
 450 acres ; value of entire property 
 about $20,000; he married Bettie B. 
 Patterson ; was married in 1857 ; she 
 was born in 1 831 in Vermont ; had 
 two children, Jennie M. and Frank P. ; 
 
 Mrs. Young died Nov. 3, 1871 ; he mar- 
 ried second wife, Eliza E. Patterson 
 then widow of Eli Annis May, 1873 ; 
 she was born in 1828, in Strafford, Vt. ; 
 Mr. Y. was elected Road Commissioner 
 in 1857 for a term of 3 years, and elect- 
 ed Assessor in 1858-9 ; elected Justice 
 of the Peace in 1874; has held the 
 two last named offices ever since he was 
 elected ; his father, Nathan Young, born 
 1792 in New Hampshire, and his mother, 
 Hannah Smith, born 17^9, in Vermont, 
 came here with them ; they had four 
 children, George, Nathan, F. L. and 
 Marcella, in 1 843 ; and were obliged to 
 borrow means wherewith to bring the 
 family here ; the eldest son, Peleg, had 
 preceded them five years, and stopped in 
 Wisconsin, but finally came to this 
 State ; pressed pecuniarily, as they 
 were, on coming here, the old folks were 
 spared to see their children enjoying in 
 abundance the fruits of their own econo- 
 my and industry. 
 
 ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A LCOTT, J. D., farmer; P. 0. St. 
 
 JlL Charles. 
 
 Anderson, Aug., far.; P. 0. St. Chasles. 
 
 Axleson, Aug., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Anderson, A. J., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Abrahamson, Jno., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Arndt, Fred., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ALCOTT, J. B., farmer and dairyman; 
 P. 0. St. Charles; Rep.; Meth.; has 
 100 acres of very finely improved land 
 on Sec 31 ; valued at $100 per acre, 
 with new and very elegant and sub- 
 stantial buildings ; he was born in Mad- 
 ison Co., N. Y., Dec. 23d, 1819, and 
 cime to Illinois Oct. 16, 1856, and 
 settled where he now lives ; he married 
 Deborah A. Shaw in Annsville, Oueida 
 Co., N. Y., Jan. 18th, 1844; she was 
 born in Renssalaer Co. March 6th, 1820 ; 
 they have two sons AHelbeit D., born 
 May 11, 1849, in Oneida Co., N. Y., 
 and Jared D., born Nov. 13, 1850, in 
 same place. 
 
 Ames, A. J., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Atherton, Stephen, far., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Allen, Robt., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Austin, I. 0.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Allen, Wm., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Aldridge, Eliza, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Allen, E. A.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Anderson, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ADAMS, SAMUEL L., grocery- 
 man ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep.; Uni- 
 versalist ; was born in Cavendish, Vt., 
 June 16th, 1820, and learned the tan- 
 ners' trade, and for several years was 
 an extensive tanner and leather dealer ; 
 in March, 1860, he came to St. Charles 
 and bought a small farm of forty acres, 
 within the corporation, valued at 
 $4,000, and devoted his time on the 
 farm and in attending to business out- 
 side ; his health failing him, he. sold his 
 farm in 1876 and took his family to the 
 Centennial, and in 1877 he engaged in 
 the grocery business ; he married Betsey 
 M. Parker in Cavendish, Vt., May 
 17th, 1823; they have an adopted
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 niece, Ella D. Howard, born May, 1865 ; 
 Mr. A. since coming here has been Su- 
 pervisor for three years; during the 
 war having the distribution of the fund 
 for soldiers' families ; be was Highway 
 Commissioner for six years, and as such 
 was highly instrumental in the build- 
 ing of our confessedly best iron bridge 
 on Fox River ; he has always been an 
 uncompromising temperance man, and 
 as such, while President of the Vil- 
 lage Board, he enforced the anti-license 
 law, and was instrumental in closing 
 every saloon in town ; Mr. A. is a 
 thorough scholar, and a very practical 
 man. 
 
 Anderson, David, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Andrus, J. H., painter ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ainsworth, Nathan, P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Alexander, F. W., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Atkinson, Sarah, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Alexander, F. L., mer.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Anderson, A. G., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Albio, Ira, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ainsworth, N. J., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Allen, Mrs. Eletha, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Atkinson, A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Alexander, Sarah A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Alexander, H. H., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 T3LANCHARD, ELIZABETH, P. 
 
 JD 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Burley, J. H., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Belzer. Chas., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baldridge, Mrs. E. S., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Banks Joseph, far.; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 BURR, ALGERNON A., farmer, 
 feeder and dealer in stock ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles ; has 240 acres of land on Sec. 
 7, well improved, valued at $15,000 ; 
 he was born Aug. llth, 1846, in St. 
 Charles ; he married Cornelia L Bart- 
 lett Oct. 30th, 1872 ; she was born in 
 Hartford Co., Conn., Nov. 17th, 1846 ; 
 they have one son Arthur J., born 
 Jan. 13th, 1875 ; Mrs. B. and her sis- 
 ter, Mrs. Clark Burr, came from Con- 
 necticut and engaged in teaching ; they 
 were very finely educated. 
 
 Brown, Jarvis, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Barnes, Eli/a, P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Bromhold, G., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Boardman, Orso, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bunker, Sarah A.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blanchard, C. L., clerk; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baker, Theron, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blanchard, Z. A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 BURR, CLARK C., farmer, stock 
 and grain; P. 0. St. Charles; Ind.; 
 Liberal; has 382 acres of choice land, 
 located by his father, the late J. C. 
 Burr; his residence and other improve- 
 ments are among the best in the county, 
 and is valued at $20,000 ; he was born 
 March 1, 1842, on the same place. 
 He was married to Ellen Bartlett, Jan. 
 11, 1871; she was born in East Wind- 
 sor, Hartford Co., Conn., March 4, 
 1840; they have two children Henry 
 James, born Jan. 31, 1874; Charles 
 Clark, born June 24, 1876. 
 
 Barry, W. D., attorney; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Barnes, C. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Balis, William, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bamford, Robert, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baremore, George, far.; P. 0. Wayne. 
 
 Bergreen, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles 
 
 BISBY, MARK H., farmer, feeder 
 and dealer in all kinds of stock; P. 0. 
 St. Charles; Ind.; Cong.; has 240 acres 
 of the finest land in the county; his 
 residence, buildings aud improvements 
 are of the finest class in the State, and 
 are valued at $20,000 ; he was born in 
 Onondaga Co., N. Y., April 13, 1828, 
 and came to this State with his father 
 (Jarret Bisby), in. 1837, and in 1839, 
 settled where he now lives. He mar- 
 ried Hattie S. Mead, of McHenry Co., 
 Sept. 25, 1860; she was born in Rut- 
 land Co., Vt.,Nov. 22, 1838; have four 
 children Addie E., Etta L., Lina A. 
 and Mary H.; he went to California in 
 1852, and returned in 1859; in 1861 r 
 he joined the 8th 111. Cav., commanded 
 by Col. J. F. Farnsworth; he was First 
 Battalion Quartermaster of the reg- 
 iment ; they were in the Peninsular 
 Campaign, and participated in all its 
 battles. 
 
 Burr, A. A., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baldwin, Mrs. E., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blanchard, A. H., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Billings, Charles, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blanchard, H. G. S., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blanchard, G. P., mech. ; P. 0. St Charles. 
 
 Brownell, E. A., paper mfr. ; P. O. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Brannon, M., far. ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Bentley, Sam'l., brk. yrd ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Brooks, Adelia L., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bushell, W. H., P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Beach, E. W., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles.
 
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 639 
 
 BL ANCH ARD, AARON, far., ma- 
 
 chinist and blacksmith, Sees. 16 and 17; 
 P. O. St. Charles Rep. ; Swedenborgian ; 
 has 240 acres of land, worth $60 per 
 acre ; he was born in Danville, Caledonia 
 Co., Vt., March 5, 1804, and came to 
 St Charles March 2, 1838, and bought 
 his claim, improved it, and built a house 
 in town, and worked at his trade ever 
 since. He married Annie Stonnor May 
 22, 1828; she was born in Madison 
 Co., X. Y., July 20, 1809; have four 
 children Zara A., born September 20, 
 1829; Gustavus, born Aug. 17, 1831; 
 Geo. A., born May 13, 1834, and Nel- 
 son L., born Dec. 24, 1837. Nelson 
 enlisted in the 8th III. Cav., and went 
 to Alexandria, Va.. and was taken sick 
 and died Feb. 18, 1862; George A. 
 was in the 85th III. Vol.: was taken 
 prisoner at Peachtree Creek, Georgia, 
 and was in prison for nine months; he 
 suffered every thing but death, and was 
 liberated by Sherman ; he contracted a 
 disease, which finally caused his death 
 in May, 1875. 
 
 BISBY, JARED, P 0. St. Charles, 
 farmer, wool carder and cloth dresser ; 
 Rep.; Bapt.; has a farm in Kansas. Has 
 sold his farm here to his son Mark ; 
 bought a place in town, and living at his 
 ease ; was born in New Haven, Addi- 
 son Co., Vt., Sept. 22, 1798 ;and came to 
 St. Charles ia June, 1839 ; and bought 
 the farm where his son Mark now lives. 
 He was in low circumstances when he 
 settled here, but by his own success in 
 business, he has retired in good circum- 
 stances. He married Almira Harvey, 
 August 26, 1824, in Herkimer Co., N. 
 Y., where she was born Dec. 8, 1807 ; 
 they have three children Mark H. 
 Julius F., Emily F. all born in N. Y. 
 Mr. B. came from Herkimer Co., and 
 brought his family in a covered wagon ; 
 Mark and J. Frank went to California ; 
 J. Frank left California ; visited Colorado, 
 and has finally located in New Mexico, 
 where he is engaged in silver mining. 
 
 Bowen, A. G., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Brannhold, G., P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Bnardman, 0. S., butcher; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Baird, J. C.. cashr. bank ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Brown, R, B., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Brmvn, J. B., lab ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hurley, J. H., carp. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 BARBOUR, LYMAN L., P. 
 
 Chicago, Ills., Lumber st., .foot of Canal 
 st. ; lumber merchant ; was born in Far- 
 mer's Village, Seneca Co., N. Y , in 1838; 
 he passed his youth at New London, 
 Conn., and New York City ; he came to 
 Battle Creek, Mich., in 1863, and en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business ; he 
 married Helen Minard, only daughter of 
 the late Ira Minard ; he went to Fari- 
 bault, Minn., in 1865, and engaged in 
 the dry goods business for four years, 
 when he came to Chicago, and became 
 interested with Ira Minard in the lum- 
 ber business, which he continued after 
 Mr. Minard's death. He has four children 
 Alice Minard, born in Battle Creek, 
 Mich., in 1864 ; Jennie Law, born in 
 Faribault, Minn., in 1866 ; Minnie 
 Townsend, born in St. Charles in 1871 ; 
 William Earnest, born in St Charles in 
 1874. 
 
 Bignall, S. L. & Co., hardware ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Bowman, F. H., hardware ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Baird, J. E., lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bagley, C. V., carp. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baird, O. C., carp. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baxter, Chas. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bosworth, D. S. ; P. < . St. Charles. 
 
 Banks, Robt., trav. agt, ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Bross, E. A., conductor ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Baker, Edw., mer. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Barber, Mrs. M. G. ; P. O. St Charles. 
 
 Bristol, Edw., lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Blengrist, Alex., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ballard, N., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 BLACKMAN, E. W. farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 8 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; 
 Rep. ; Meth. ; has 200 acres of land, 
 worth $12,000 ; milks from 25 to 35 
 cows ; he was born in Toronto, Canada, 
 June 18, 1825, and came with his 
 father to this State, and settled where 
 he now lives in 1848 ; he married Sarah 
 Jane Switzer. May 2. 1852, and moved 
 into Cook Co. ; and, after living there 
 8 years, he traded farms with his father, 
 and returned to the old homestead ; she 
 Mas born in Toronto, Canada, Dec. 4, 
 1834 ; they have seven children Salina 
 M., Frank M.. Emma M., Mary E., 
 Allen Ray, Amelia J., and Philo M. ; 
 Salina M. married L. A. Hovey, Dec. 
 14. 1875.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Bartlett, Edw. ; far. ; P. 0. St. O'.iarles. 
 Baldwin, Mrs. H. E. ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 Bisby, Mark H., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Baird, J. C., banker ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Butt, Win. H., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Butler, Hattie, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Brennan, H., farmer, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Bowers, A. G., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 /^REEBER, WM., laborer ; P. 0. St. 
 Vy Charles. 
 Carleson, Peter, shoemaker ; P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 Colson, John, shoemkr. ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 CRAWFORD, H.M.,M. D. ; P. 
 
 St. Charles ; was born in Belfast, Ire- 
 land, Sept. 20, 1820 ; received his col- 
 legiate and medical education in Belfast, 
 Glasgow, Dublin and Edinburgh, and 
 then came to N. Y. in 1848, and to St. 
 Charles the same year. He commenced 
 a practice here which has continued and 
 grown into one of the largest in the 
 State ; he went into the army as Sur- 
 geon, and soon rose to be a Medical 
 Director and one of the prominent act- 
 ing Surgeons ; and since his return has 
 done very much of the surgery in this 
 county ; he married Margaret P. Mc- 
 Wilhams, Oct., 1855 ; she was born, 
 also, in Belfast, Ireland, Jan. 1, 1834 ; 
 they have three children Henry M., 
 born Oct. 28, 1856 ; Minnie E., Dec. 28, 
 1858 ; Margaret Hypatia, Jan. 9, 1866. 
 
 Coughlin, Pat., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, P., tinner ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 CHOVIN, CHARLES, far., Sec. 
 
 35; P. 0. St. Charles; Rep.; attends 
 the M. E. Church ; he has 82 acres of 
 land in the city limits, called worth 
 $10,000 ; was born in Wayne Co., Mich., 
 Dec. 17, 1823, and came to Chicago 
 Feb. 22, 1838, and remained there 
 twenty-one years, and came to this place 
 in 1859. He married Lizzie S. Piffer, 
 of St. Charles, in 1860 ; and she was 
 born in Venango Co., Pa., and died in 
 1865, leaving two children Charles F. 
 and Lizzie. His second wife was Mary 
 Wilson ; they were married in 1868 ; 
 she was born in Canada, in 1842 ; they 
 have one child James Wilson ; he 
 spent several years in the mercantile 
 business, in Chicago, and, also, in St. 
 Charles ; he was elected an Alderman, 
 at the organization of the city, and dis- 
 charged his duties very acceptably. 
 
 Cooley, Geo., laborer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Crandal, A., P. O. St. Charles." 
 
 Cassidy, Barny, laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Cavanagh James, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, Ed., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gary, John, livery ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Connor, Samuel, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Cutler, John, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Connor, L. S., painter; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Christian, J. S., tailor ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ( 1 aldwell, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 COLTEN, MOSES W., farmer and 
 dealer and breeder of Ayrshire cattle ; 
 has 1 60 acres of land, valued at $75 per 
 acre ; was born in Hubbardston, Vt., 
 March 18, 1827. Married Betsey J. 
 Perry, of Castleton, Vt., July,- 1853 ; 
 she was born June 20, 1827, in Castle- 
 ton ; he came to St. Charles in 1864, 
 after living several years in Kalamazoo 
 Co., Mich. ; they have three children 
 Carroll M., born Oct. 12, 1866; Helen 
 E., born July 5, 1867 ; Tinny, born in 
 1869, and died in infancy. 
 
 Carr, Bryant, laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Caldwell, 0., butcher ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, H. M., Justice ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Commicle, Henry, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 CONKLIN, W. G., has been a miller 
 and cfealer in grain for many years ; P. 
 O. St. Charles ; he was born in Eastern 
 N. Y., and came to this place among the 
 very first. 
 
 Collins, Thos., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 'Culverson. Win., livery; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Chamberlin, Mrs. B., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, J. B., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 CLARK, GAROME, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Dem.; Meth.; has 162 acres 
 of first-class land on Sec. 17; first-class 
 new buildings and farm well improved, 
 valued at $12,000; is a very successful 
 fanner ; was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., 
 Oct. 14, 1835, and came to this State in 
 the Fall of 1847 and settled where he now 
 lives. He married Arabel A. Minarcl. 
 June 9, 1856 ; she was born May 29. 
 1836 ; they have three children Man 
 Lorette. born Oct. 24, 1856; Frank Ml 
 born Aug. 7, 1862 ; Sherman, born 
 Aug. 11, 1865. 
 
 Conklin, Mrs. M. A., millinery ; P. O. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Culverson. Alex., wagon mfr. ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ST. CHARLES. 
 
 641 
 
 Costin, W. R.. mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Coller, E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clute, M. V., minister; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Cable, M. A., far.; P. 0, St. Charles. 
 
 Cable, M. C., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Cree, Mary H., P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 CRANSTON, H. I., farmer, dairy- 
 man and dealer in Norman horses ; P. 
 0. Elgin; Rep.; Meth.; has 134 acres 
 of land on Sec. 6, valued at $50 per 
 acre ; he was born in Roxbury, Del. Co., 
 N. Y., Jan. 10, 1825, and came to this 
 State in 1863 ; he married Adaliue 
 Guptill, April 24, 1850, in Fentonville, 
 Mich. ; she was born in Clarke Co., 0., 
 April 23, 1831 ; they have three chil- 
 dren Judson G., born Dec. 23, 1852, 
 in Cook Co., 111. ; Frank H., born in 
 Mich., Liv. Co., Sept., 15, 1858 ; Mar- 
 tha Inez, born Dec. 5, 1873 ; Frank 
 and Martha are taking a regular course 
 of study at the Elgin Academy. 
 
 Colson, Peter, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Carswell, Robert, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Castin, Chas. H., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Crawford, H. M., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Chambers, J. C., P. 0. Geneva. 
 
 COLMAN, SUMNER, farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. South Elgin ; Dem ; 
 Universalist ; born in Ludlow, Windsor 
 Co., Vt., Sept. 17, 1819, arid came to 
 Washington Co., N. Y., in 1834 and re- 
 mained there until 1868, when he came to 
 St. Charles and bought a farm of 280 acres 
 on Sections 2 and 3, valued at $17,000, 
 he has a dairy of 50 cows, and has 150 
 fine Vermont sheep ; he married Marriett 
 W. Campbell, Oct., 1843 ; she was born 
 in Rutland, Vt., Dec. 6, 1823 they 
 have 9 children Mary H., born Jan. 
 12, 1846; Chas. J., born May 18, 1848; 
 Geo. S., born Jan. 4, 1851 ; Henry E., 
 born June 25, 1853, and died Nov. 23, 
 1867 ; Sumner M., boru May 13, 1855; 
 Fred W., born Sept. 22, 1857; Am- 
 nietta J., born Dec. 9, 1859; Eliza, 
 born Oct. 8, 1862 ; Franklin A., born 
 March 4, 1865; Jas. H., born July 16, 
 1866; Henry H. married McCeu July 
 3d. 1866; Geo. S., to Libbie Arnt, 
 1874; Sumner M., to Lottie Clarkson, 
 Dec. 25, 1877. 
 
 Cutler, Mrs. S. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Church, Luther W., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Clark, Prentice, tailor; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Collins, M. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 DURANT. BRYANT, farmer ; P. 0. 
 St. Charles. 
 
 DeGolger, Anthony, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Disbrow, J. B., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Doyle, Dennis, blacksmith ; P. O. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 Dickerson, W. 0.. lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 DUNHAM, MARK W.; P 
 
 Wayne Du Page Co.; has 300 acres of 
 land on Sec. 13 ; well cultivated, and 
 stocked with fine cattle and horses ; he 
 is the most extensive importer and dealer 
 in the Percheron-Norman horse in the 
 U. S.; his sales are very extensive, and 
 horses are very fine ; he was boru in St. 
 Charles, in 1842. Married Carrie M. 
 Dunham, May 29, 1877 ; she was born 
 in Maquoketa, Iowa, July 2, 1858; 
 his father, Solomon Dunham, was one 
 of the early settlers of the county, and 
 was one , of the leading surveyors ; he 
 located and improved the fine farm 
 where Mark W. now lives. 
 
 Dearbourn, N. H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Dougherty, W., mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Doyle, Mary, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 DeWolf, A. B., phys.; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 DeLong, Z., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 DUNNING, EDGAR, farmer, Sec. 
 35 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Dem.; Univers- 
 alist ; has 75 acres of land, worth $5,500; 
 he was born in Ticonderoga. N. Y., Jan. 
 8, 1824 ; and came to this State in 1853. 
 He married Diantha Moon, Aug. 18, 
 1853, in Butler, N. Y. ; she was born 
 in Butler, N. Y., Nov. 21, 1834; they 
 have two children Fred, born Nov. 17, 
 1858, and Anna, born Sept. 25, 1861, 
 both born in Will Co. 
 
 Durant, J. T., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Durant, S. W., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Dillon, Michael, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 DELANCEY, J. H., farmer, dairy- 
 man and dealer in Norman horses and 
 Birkshire hogs ; P. 0. South Elgin ; 
 Rep. ; Episcopalian ; has a farm of 340 
 acres of very fine land ; he was born in 
 Madison Co., N. Y., Jan. 28, 1828, and 
 came to this State in 1854. He married 
 Mary Anne Larkin in Madison Co., 
 N. Y., March 15, 1853; she was born 
 in Madison Co. Jan. 18, 1833 ; they 
 have three children John I., born Sepc. 
 10, 1857 ; Frank J., born Oct. 1, 1854 ; 
 Jessie S.. born Jan. 28, 1869. 
 
 Dunham, Dmiel, P. O. Wayne.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Delaney, John, farmer; P. O. St. Charles. 
 Donahue, Nellie, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Dutton, Mrs. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Dickerson, W. E., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Danielson, Samuel, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Downer, S. E., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Dutton, Lewis, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 T71ASTMAN, MRS., D. L., P. 0. St. 
 JjJ Charles. 
 
 Eaton, J. M., carp.; P 0. St. Charles. 
 England. John, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Elliott, J. F., Justice; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 England, Aug. mason; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ELMORE, REV. DAVID W. 
 
 was horn in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., 
 Feb. 3, 1800 ; was a graduate of Union 
 College, and studied for the inmistry, 
 and was ordained a minister of the 
 Baptist Church ; he married Mary A. 
 Humphrey, of Albany, Dec. 5, 1824 ; 
 he came to this State in June, 1836, 
 and took up a farm of 400 acres on 
 sections 3 and 4, where his son Jerome 
 now lives ; he immediately set at work 
 clearing, breaking, and making improve- 
 ments for a home, in common with the 
 first settlers of a new country ; he took 
 an active part in the early enterprises 
 of the town, in establishing churches, 
 schools, and Sabbath schools, etc., and 
 spent much time in surveying in all 
 parts of the county ; he organized the 
 Baptist churches in Elgin, Dundee, and 
 many others in this and adjoining 
 counties ; all through his life he acted 
 as a missionary in supplying destitute 
 neighborhoods with preaching, and for 
 a while was pastor of the church in St. 
 Charles, and always a supply ; he 
 was one of the very few who was here 
 in 1836; was always a useful and in- 
 flnential citizen, and spent his time in 
 doing good and raising and educating a 
 large and intelligent family ; his family 
 consists of seven children, three boys 
 and four girls'; on the 29th day of July, 
 1854, while at work in the harvest field, 
 he was struck by lightning and killed 
 instantly ; others with him were struck 
 down by the same shock, but recovered ; 
 his funeral was attended by a large con- 
 course of friends and the sermon was 
 preached by Elder Joslin from the text 
 " Enoch walked with God and was not, 
 for God took him." 
 Ecknian, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ELMORE, JEROME H., son 
 of the late Rev. D. W. Elmore, P. 
 0. South Elgin, is a farmer, dairyman 
 and feeder, and dealer in hogs and 
 stock; Rep.; Bapt.; has 145 acres of 
 choice land lying on the bend of Fox 
 River with very fine buildings and im- 
 provements ; valued at $75 per acre ; 
 he was born on the place Jan. 7, 1841 ; 
 he married Emeline S. Hall. Nov. 5, 
 1868; she was born Aug. 3, 1844 in 
 the same neighborhood ; they have four 
 children Clarence J., born Feb. 25, 
 1870 ; Wilbur T., born July 29, 1871 ; 
 Laura May. born April 18, 1873 ; Cora 
 E. born July 2, 1876. 
 
 Eddy, Harry, P. 0. Charles. 
 
 Eaton, Ithiel, brick maker; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Elliott, Charles, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 THERSON DEAN, farmer ; P. 0. St. 
 
 JD Charles. 
 
 Flint Jos., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Flannery, M., lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Fumald, J. P., tailor; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Flannery, P. T., lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Fowler, E. K.. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Person. Mrs., M. H.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Farnsworth, J., F. Ex-M. C.; P. O. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Ferson, Geo., grain buyer ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Fulton, Wm., mason; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Fellows, D. J., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ferson, H. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ferson, C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ferson. J. R.. farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 FERSON. PARKER (de- 
 
 ceased ; born in Bradfield, N. H., 
 March 9, 1812, and came to St. Charles 
 in 1836 ; left a farm of 100 acres in 
 Section 8 of fine land, well improved ; 
 he married Amelia Clark Sept. 2, 1846 ; 
 she was born in Brookfield, N. Y., 1821; 
 they had seven children Benjamin C., 
 born Oct. 20, 1847 ; Fred P., born 
 April 29, 1849, and died June 27, 
 1876; Sarah Jane, born Sept. 28, 
 1851; Frances, born Feb. 1,1854; 
 Carrie M., born June 9, 1856 ; Charles 
 W., born March 9, 1859; Clifford E., 
 born May 22, 1863 ; Mr. F. died July 
 29, 1876. 
 
 Fay, Pat,, lab.; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Ferson, Robt,, grain buyer; P. 0. St. 
 Charles.
 
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 Fisk, Mrs. B., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Forestal, Jas., iner.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fowler, A. G., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fletcher, M. W., fanner; P. 0. Wayne. 
 Fay, W. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Foley, Thomas, fanner; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fredenhague, A., miller; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Freeland, John, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fitzgerald, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Person, James, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Ferson, Clarinda A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fox, Miss J., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Ferson, Ellen M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Fowler, Eugene, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 /^\ OODHUE, 0. A.. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 or 
 
 Goodman, J. G., jeweler; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gorham, Sarah, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Goodhue, J. M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Garner, George, laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Goodell, Joel, collector; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Goodman, Mrs. J. R., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gillett, H. C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 GALLAGHER, J. T., file manufac- 
 turer; P. 0. St. Charles; Rep.; Ind.; 
 was born in Scotland, Jan. 5, 1843; 
 learned the file making trade, and came 
 to Philadelphia in 1863, and between 
 there and Pompton, N. Y., he worked 
 six years, when he came to Chicago in 
 1869, and engaged in his business with 
 J. P. Doig, at 32 West Quincy street, 
 which was known as Mechanics' File 
 Works ; in June, 1877, they came to St. 
 Charles and established the St. Charles 
 File Co., which is the largest establish- 
 ment west of New York. These files 
 are used in preference to the English 
 make, everywhere they are known. He 
 married Mary McClalan Feb. 22, 1865 ; 
 they have four children Elizabeth, 
 Sarah, Mary Jane and William. 
 
 Grey, C. B., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gustafson, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gustafson, Otto, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gray, Duncan, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Gloss, John, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Guthrie, James, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Guthrie, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Green, Mrs., P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Goodman, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Goodrich, 0. C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Garrity, Pat., mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Grover, A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HARROUN, HORACE, merchant; 
 P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Habert, Ed., harness maker; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Hawkins, P., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HAINES, ROBERT J., merchant 
 miller; P.O. St. Charles; Dem.; Ind., 
 and to do right to all men ; was born in 
 Cecil Co., Md., June 28, 1799, and 
 went to Port Hope, Canada, in 1825, 
 and in 1829 to Victoria, where he re- 
 sided until 1837, when he came to this 
 State; after running a mill and work- 
 ing in the lead mines in Galena and vicin 
 ity, for five years he came to St. Charles 
 in 1842, and bought the mill on the 
 West Side and has run it ever since ; he 
 married Harriet Strikey in November, 
 
 1840 ; she was born in Pennsylvania ; 
 they have had four children Charles 
 H., Melvina, Robert J., Jr., and Frank; 
 Frank died in Pennsylvania in March, 
 1863 ; Melvina died in February, 1874 ; 
 Robert, J., Jr., died in February, 1873; 
 Mr. H. has been one of the fortunate busi- 
 ness men of the county, having, by fair 
 dealing and close application to business, 
 earned a large fortune, and has one of 
 the finest homes of the city. 
 
 Hunt, W. C., attorney ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Huls, S. B., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hunt, F. B., hardware; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Hammond, John, farmer ; P. 0. Wayne. 
 
 HOAG, JAMES, farmer, dairyman 
 and manufacturer of butter and cheese ; 
 P. 0. South Elgin ; Dem. ; Epis. ; was 
 born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., Oct. 5, 
 1834, and came to St. Charles in Octo- 
 ber, 1855 ; purchased a farm of 230 
 acres on Sees. 9 and 10, valued at $60 
 per acre ; he married Mary Ann Bran- 
 ford, Dec. 19, 1860 ; she was born in 
 Great Yarmouth, England, Jan. 24, 
 
 1841 ; they have three children (one 
 died young) Mary E., born May 6, 
 1862; Benjamin F., born Feb. 20, 
 1864 ; Mr. H. and E. Tiff. ; built the 
 South Elgin Creamery in 1873 ; Mr. 
 H. is now running it ; he also keeps a 
 large number of cows and carries on his 
 huge farm; the factory is a fine one, 
 and the average of milk manufactured 
 through May was 30,000 Ibs per day. 
 
 Haslehurst, H. B , far ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 Humerston, W. P., carp. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Halloway, Jacob, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hincksladen, H., lab ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hazen, D. B., teacher; P. 0. St. Charles.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HULS, HUGH, farmer and produce 
 dealer ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep. ; Bapt. ; 
 was born in Yates Co., N. Y., Dec. 17, 
 1817 ; and came to St. Charles in Oct- 
 tober, 1843, and bought the farm he 
 afterward sold to J. C. Wilson, when he 
 went into the provision business ; he 
 married Harriet A. Finch, Jan. HO, 
 1838 ; she was born in Yates Co., in 
 1815 ; they have three children 
 Azariah F., born Dec. 29, 1839 ; Jas. B., 
 Dec. 2, 1843 ; Sarah Jane, born Aug. 
 27, 1857. 
 
 Hammond, Mrs. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hare, Wm., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hallock, L. D., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HALE, CHAS., farmer ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles ; Rep.; Bapt.; has 215 acres of 
 beautiful land on Sec. 26, worth 
 $14,000 ; he was born in Brooklyn, 
 Vt., Nov. 26th, 1800 ; he came to this 
 State in June, 1840, and settled where 
 he now lives ; he married Deraxa Balch 
 in Athens, Vt., in 1837 ; she was born 
 in Athens, Vt., in October, 1810 ; they 
 have had five children Walter, James, 
 Nathaniel, Sarah and Harriet ; Walter 
 died in 1842 ; James belonged to Dod- 
 son's cavalry, and died in hospital in 
 March, 1862. 
 
 Harrington, J. H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hooper, A. N., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HOOKER, HARLO W, farmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep ; 
 Meth.; has a very fine farm of 106 
 acres, on Sec. 16 ; he was born in St. 
 Andrews, Province of Quebec, April 
 llth. 1818, and came to this State and 
 town in October, 1839, and took up his | 
 farm before the Government survey ; 
 he has by industry improved his farm 
 and built fine buildings, which are 
 among the best in town ; he married 
 Sybil M. Balch Jan. 20, 1846; she 
 was born in Athens, Vt., Nov. 22, 
 1819; they have had five children 
 Adelbert H., born Oct. 4, 1847 ; 
 Adolphus N., born Feb. 22d, 1849 ; 
 Celon I., born May 7th, 1853 ; Amma- 
 rilla A., born Nov. 23d, 1854 ; Lydia A., 
 born Aug. 21st, 1857 ; Adelbert H. 
 died Aug. 26th, 1860 ; A. N. and 
 Emily J. Parker married November, 
 1873, Ammarilla A. and R. Stewart ; 
 Lydia A. and I. S. Kingsbury were 
 married Oct. 10th, 1877. 
 
 Harkins, Ed., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hall, E. D., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Haskins, James, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Haskins, H. J., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hail, N. A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Hale, Gustavus, far. ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 Hall, Lorenzo, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HUNT, MAJ. B. T., P 0. St. 
 
 Charles ; hardware mer ; Dem ; Bapt.; 
 was born in Abington, Mass., Oct., 19th, 
 1812; came to this State Sept., 1836, 
 and became one of the original owners 
 of St. Charles ; he engaged in business 
 with Minard & Person ; started a large 
 store ; built the dam ; surveyed out the 
 town and built a saw-mill. The firm of 
 Minard, Ferson & Hunt continued to- 
 gether in the real estate business until 
 the death of Mr. Ferson and Mr. Min- 
 ard ; he has been one of the foremost in 
 building up the town and its enterprises ; 
 he married Harriet L. Lathrop, Oct. 
 12, 1842, in St. Charles ; she was born 
 April 15, 1822 in Central N. Y. ; they 
 have had four boys Chas. L., Frank 
 B., Clarence T. and Wilber C. ; Chas. 
 L. died Jan. 2, 1857 ; Frank B. is with 
 his father in business, and is J. P. ; 
 Clarence T. is a harness maker; Wil- 
 liam C. is an attorney in this city, and 
 City Attorney. 
 
 Higgins, Wm., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hall, David, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Haroldson, A., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hall, L. D., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hammond, M. J., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 HOWARD, LEONARD, P 0. 
 
 St. Charles ; Rep ; Spir. ; was born in 
 Sharron, Windsor Co., Vt., August 13, 
 1805, and came at an early day to 
 Buffalo, N. Y., and engaged in building 
 and merchandising ; he set the first stone 
 column in Buffalo and in Chicago, 111. ; 
 and was for several years an extensive 
 contractor in the former city ; he moved 
 to Chicago in the Spring of 1836, and 
 in March, 1837, came to St. Charles ; 
 he engaged in building, and was always 
 an active politician ; he served several 
 years as J. P., and also for some time 
 as Probate Justice ; he was Deputy 
 Sheriff, and has been for eleven years 
 Township Assessor. He married Caro- 
 line E. Smith. January 27, 1828, in 
 Westfield, N. Y. ; she was born May 
 18, 1811, in Chautauqua Co., N. Y. ;
 
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 they have had fourteen children, five j 
 having died young Sarah A., Joseph ! 
 T., Bryant B., Cells M., Walter H., | 
 Julia, Aaron, Pamelia and Florence ; 
 Walter H. died Aug. 9, 1857 ; Sarah 
 A. married Geo. C. Bunker January < 
 27, 1848. He went in Col. Harding's 
 Regt. to Mexico, and was in the battle ' 
 of Buena Vista, and was one of twenty i 
 who cut his way through the enemies 
 lints and was saved ; he also was in our 
 rebellion in the 52d 111. Regt., as musi- i 
 cian, and contracted a disease of which : 
 he died Nov. 23, 1868. 
 
 Hollingshead, Mary. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hess, H. H., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles, i 
 
 Halfin, Thomas, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hinckley Henry, lab ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Herbert, A., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Hawkins, E. W., far ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Hazelhunt, James, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 XSRAELSON, HELEN; P. 0. St. 
 
 _L Charles. 
 
 Irwin, W. C. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 TOHNSON, SAMUEL, farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 fj St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Andrew, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Israel, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Nelson, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, E., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Gust., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 JONES, STEVENS S., (deceased) 
 attorney ; Rep. ; Spir. ; was born in 
 Barry, Vt., July 23, 1813 ; received an 
 academic education, and studied law 
 with Judge Smith, of Barry, and was 
 admitted to the bar in Montpelier ; he 
 came to St. Charles in June, 1838, and 
 opened a law office ; and, the next year, 
 built the dwelling in which his family 
 now lives ; he took an active part in all 
 the enterprises o/ the town, and was 
 elected Vice President of the projected 
 Chicago, St. Qharles, & Mississippi 
 Air-Line Railroad ; twelve years ago he 
 left his law business, and engaged in the 
 publication of the Religio-Philosophical 
 Journal, in Chicago ; he married Lovinia 
 M. Camp, of Hyde Park, May, 1838 ; 
 she was born in Stow, Vt., Nov. 15, 
 ^815 ; they have three children Mary 
 E., born Nov. 11, 1839 ; Geo. H., Jan. 
 17, 1844; Clarie M., Feb. 8, 1851; 
 Geo. H. died Sept. 25, 1866. 
 
 Johnson, N. P., far. ; P. O.St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, J. A., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Joy, 0. C., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Judd, G. H., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, A. P., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 JOY, NAPOLEON C., farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec.15 ; P.O. St. Charles ; Rep.; 
 Meth. ; was born in Putney, Vt., Sept. 
 9, 1827, and came to St. Charles June, 
 1845 ; and worked for C. Hale one 
 year and Geo. Minard three years ; 
 then, in 1850, with Dick Wheeler and 
 J. Campbell, he went to California ; he 
 mined, furnishing them on shares ; he 
 returned in 1851, and bought a portion 
 of his present farm of 127 acres, valued 
 at $75 per acre ; he has invested con- 
 siderable in lands in Kansas and Iowa ; 
 he married Cornelia A. Hale, Jan. l r 
 1852 ; she was born in Toronto, Can., 
 Jan. 25, 1832 ; they have six children 
 Glen C., born Feb. 26, 1853 ; Fletcher 
 L., Oct. 28, 1856; Ida J., Jan. 11, 
 1859 ; Adin W., Dec. 20, 1863; Lin- 
 coln, April 22, 1865 ; Nora C., Feb. 14, 
 1871 ; Olen C. married Flora A. 
 Wheeler, Feb. 24, 1875. 
 
 Juckett, Leonard, mason ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Jennings, P. G., mer. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Jones, Mrs. S. S., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, John, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Christian, farmer; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Johnson, Mary, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Johnson, W., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Judd, John, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Jones, H. A., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 KENNEDAY, MARY, P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Kavenaugh, Jas., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles, 
 
 Kaiser, Chris., P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Kilmer, E. H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kimble, C. A., artist.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Keiser, A. C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kayner, D. P., phys.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kelley, A. W., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kingsbury, Luke, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 KEATING, JOHN, farmer and one 
 of the largest dairymen in the county ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; owns 446 acres of most 
 beautiful land, mostly on Sec. 3, St. 
 Charles ; has very substantial buildings 
 and improvements, and is one of the 
 best educated and intelligent men in the 
 county. He has acquired a liberal edu- 
 cation, and is one of the most advanced 
 farmers in this section of the State.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 KELLEY, A. D., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep.; Cong.; 
 owns 160 acres' of land on Sec. 33, val- 
 ued at $70 per acre ; born in Du Page 
 Co., Jan. 30, 1849, and came to St. 
 Charles in the Fall of 1872 ; married 
 Callie A. Smith Nov. 13, 1872; she 
 was born in Walworth Co., Wis., in 
 April, 1851 ; they have one son, Albert 
 Raymond, born Jan. 8, 1877. Daniel 
 Kelley (the father) was born in Rutland, 
 Vt., in 1818, and came to Du Page 
 Co. in 1844, located and bought 1,400 
 acres of land ; he sometimes keeps two 
 thousand or more fine Merino sheep. 
 Mr. K. is one of the largest farmers of 
 this section ; married Elizabeth Huls, 
 of St. Charles, in March, 1846 ; their 
 children are A. D., C. B., Ella M., 
 Judson A., Sherman J., Jennie S., Geo. 
 W., Edson and Benjamin F. 
 
 KERSHAW,A., JR., far. and breed- ' 
 er of fine short horns ; P. 0. Wayne ; 
 Dem. ; belongs to the little church 
 around the corner ; born in Pawtucket, ! 
 R. I., July 10, 1821, and came to St. | 
 Charles in 1 838 ; owns 340 acres of land j 
 in St. Charles and Wayne ; lives on Sec. 
 5, in Wayne, Du Page Co.; settled on his \ 
 farm in St. Charles, and lived there 
 until 1851, when he moved on the place 
 in Wayne ; married Althea J. Whipple, 
 widow of the late Dr. Thos. Whipple, in 
 1850 ; she was born in Oneida Co., N. ! 
 Y.; she had two children by Dr. W. ; 
 Herbert and Charles ; she married the , 
 Doctor in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., April 
 20, 1826 ; they came to St. Charles in \ 
 December, 1835 ; she died July 4, 
 1873 ; they made the claim of the farm 
 now owned by Mr. C. I. Minard, on 
 Sec. 12 ; Dr. W. was the first physi- 
 cian in St. Charles and vicinity. A. 
 Kershaw, Sr., was smuggled over from 
 England in 1818, when the laws of En- 
 gland prohibited mechanics from com- 
 ing to this country ; he settled in New 
 Providence, in the manufacturing busi- 
 ness ; he came to St. Charles with his 
 family in 1838. Mr. K., Jr., has been 
 an extensive breeder of short horns (not 
 speculator) since 1855, and is one of the 
 most reliable and extensive breeders in 
 Northern Illinois. 
 
 Kennedy, B., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kirk, John, laborer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kelley, A. D., farmer ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Kirk, Jos., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kimble, John, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kelly John, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kelley, R. H. farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 KLINK, LOUIS, P. 0. St. Charles ; 
 carriage manufacturer; Rep.; Meth.; 
 was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, 
 Feb. 1, 1828, and came to Schoharie 
 Co., N. Y., in 1852, and to St. Charles 
 in 1856 ; he married Catharine Allen 
 Aug. 28, 1858 ; they had two children 
 Loui, born Aug. 13, 1859 ; Laura 
 May, born May 24, 1862 ; Mr. C. has 
 been very successful in his business, and 
 has built up a very fine trade. 
 
 Kimble, C., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 f AWSON, PETER, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 J_J 
 
 Lee, S., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lock, A. N., farmer ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Lincoln, C. T., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lincoln, D., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lock, C. W., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Laughlin, A. B., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Long, David, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 LINCOLN, C. T. & D., P 0. St. 
 
 Charles ; farmers and dairymen ; Rep.; 
 Cong.; have 455 acres of land on Sec. 
 30, valued at $50 per acre ; it has sev- 
 eral very fine springs ; C. T. was born 
 in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Jan. 5, 1840, 
 and came to St. Charles in 1846 with 
 his father ; he married Abbie Pike 
 in ivlay, 1875 ; Daniel Lincoln, the 
 father, was born in Grafton, Vt., in 
 1804, and came to Cattaraugus Co., N. 
 Y., in 1831, and to St. Charles in 1846, 
 and bought where his sons now live ; 
 he died May 24, 1859 ; he married 
 Nancy Smith ; she died Dec. 25, 1873; 
 they had seven children ; one died 
 young ; Moses M., died in the army in 
 1863 ; those living are Frances J., Cap- 
 tain T., Zelolus, Adaline, Daniel ; Mr. 
 L. was always very much interested 
 in schools and education ; Frances mar- 
 ried Hiram Brown^ of DuPage Co. ; 
 Adaline married A. Chafee ; Daniel is 
 single. 
 
 Lees, S. H., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Linstrom, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lumgren, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lock, Miss M., milliner: P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lake, R. H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Louders, Mrs. H., P. 0. Geneva.
 
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 LAUPLIN, J. M., P. 0. Wayne, Du 
 Page Co.; farmer and dairyman ; Rep.; 
 Free Meth.; has 520 acres of laud, on 
 Sec. 19, in Wayne; was born in West 
 Virginia, May 20, 1807, and came to 
 this State May 8, 1834, and settled in 
 South Elgin, and made his first claim ; 
 afterward sold it and came to this 
 place in the Fall of 1836 ; he married 
 Emily Garton in January, 1835 ; she 
 was born in Kentucky, Nov. 14, 1812 ; 
 they have had six children ; three died 
 in infancy ; Eddie T., Riley, adopted 
 grandson, Evaline M., Alister G., Al- 
 bert B.; Evaline died in 1862 ; Alister 
 G. died Oct. 15, 1874; Mr. L. came 
 here poor, but has made a large prop- 
 erty by hard work and good manage- 
 ment ; he was a hearty supporter of 
 Dr. Redfield, and was the leading man 
 with the Doctor in foiming the first 
 Free Methodist Church in the West; 
 the first conference of the new church 
 was formed in his front yard iu 1861. 
 
 Lee, 0., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lewi-, J. K., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lenhart, J. P., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 LaDue, W. L, laborer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lake, C. A., mason ^ P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lake, W. A., mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Linsey, E. E., butcher ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Long, John, mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lawler, Michael, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lungreen, Chas., clerk ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lloyd, W. B., mer.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Loker, J. E., artist ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lord, E. W., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lloyd, J. N., lumber; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Lungreen, P. A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lungreen, August, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lord, Mrs. R. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Linstrum, S. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Lloyd, Emma, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MURPHY, DANIEL, P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Murphy, C. 0. D., carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 McFarland, Mrs. James, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 McWayne, Mrs., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 McKeever, Jno., tailor ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Michael, C. M., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 McCoy, Jno., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Myers, Geo., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Mungerson, C., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Minard, Mary, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Mark, Laura, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Morrison, W. W., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MATTESON, WM. M., firmer and 
 dairyman ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep. ; 
 Ind. ; was born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
 Nov. 18, 1832, and came to St. Charles 
 with his father, in 1842, and bought 
 127 acres on Sees. 25 and 26, now val- 
 ued at $10,700. He married Nancy 
 Wheeler March 18, 1854, who died in 
 1867, leaving three children Elizabeth 
 J., Win. H. and Frank L.; he married 
 Hannah M. Wheeler, for his second wife, 
 Aug. 8, 1869 ; she was born in Schen- 
 ectady, N. Y., Nov. 5, 1849 ; they have 
 two children Harris J. and Lewis M. 
 Jonathan Matteson, father of the above, 
 was born in R. I Sept. 1, 1791 ; mar- 
 ried Elizabeth Simmons in 1814, and 
 came to St. Charles in 1842, and died 
 Dec. 23, 1863 ; he settled on the farm 
 his son now owns ; they had ten chil- 
 dren (two died young) Phrebe M., 
 Harry C., Mary, Sally Ann, Olive M., 
 Wm. M., Ruth and Charity A.; Sally 
 A. died July 1, 1853 ; Wm. M. has, by 
 his industry and management, made the 
 old home a pleasent one. 
 
 Mead, Jno., carp ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Me Williams, David, Sr., far. ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Murphy, T., lab ; P. 0. St Charles. 
 
 Murphy, M., lab ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Miller, Michael, far ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MCWILLIAMS, WILLIAM, P; 
 
 0. St. Charles, farmer and stock raiser . 
 has 112 acres of land on Sec. 30, worth 
 $50.00 per acre. He was torn near Bel- 
 fast, Ireland, Dec. 21, 1836, and came 
 to St. Charles with his father's family 
 Sept. 4, 1851 ; his father, James 
 Me Williams, settled on the Lincoln Bros', 
 farm, and remained on it for seven years, 
 when he sold it and bought the farm 
 where his son William now lives. He 
 was born in Belfast in 1798, and married 
 Elizabeth Patterson in that place in 
 1826 ; she was born in 1803 ; they have 
 six children David, born April, 1831 ; 
 Ellen E., born in 1833 ; Margaret 
 (wife of Dr. Crawford), born 1834 ; 
 James, born 1836 ; Elizabeth, in 1839. 
 Mr. J. McWilliams died Jan. 18, 1859. 
 Since his death Mrs. McWilliams has 
 kept house for her son William, and is 
 unusually smart for one of her age. 
 McGowan, Harrison, far. ; P. 0. Gray 
 Willow.
 
 648 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 McWilliams, David, Jr., harness maker ; P. 
 
 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Marsden, Thos , mach. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Murphy, Thos., saloon ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Millington, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Merritt, T. H. S., P. O. St. Charles. 
 MILLER, CHARLES, P. 0. St. 
 
 N Charles; paper manufacturer ; Rep., and 
 Cong; was born in Scotland, Jan. 3, 
 1842. Married May E. Tuck, Nov. 8, 
 1870 ; she was born in Brent wood, N. 
 H., May 16, 1850 ; they had four chil- 
 dren May, Charlie, Jessie and Fred. 
 He is the present Supervisor, and is one 
 of the capable men of the town ; his 
 father, James Miller, came here from 
 Scotland in 1842 with his wife and six 
 children, and settled on the west side of 
 the river, where his son Charles now 
 lives ; Mr. Miller had a blacksmith shop 
 over the east side; his honesty in deal- 
 ing and work was proverbial, Honest 
 Old Uncle Miller being the title he was 
 everywhere known by. One son died 
 the first Summer be came ; two chil- 
 dren were born to them in this country : 
 James Miller, born in 1796 ; Isabella, 
 his wife, born in 1802. The children 
 are Alexander, Margaret, James, George, 
 Helen, Charles, Jennie L., Leslie H. 
 
 Muth, Henry, bl'ksmith ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Marsden, Jas., tinner ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Marsden, Mrs. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Melville, David, baker ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Mallory, D. B., hotel ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Morgan, H. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McMaster, Byron, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MINARD, HON. IRA, deceased; 
 was born in Rockingham, Windham Co., 
 Vt., Nov. 11, 1809, where he lived until 
 19 years of age ; he then spent five 
 years in Bellows Falls and Proctorsville ; 
 he left the latter place Aug. 19, 1833, 
 in company with his brother George, 
 Dean and Reed Ferson, for Illinois, and 
 arrived in Chicago Sept 3 ; they re- 
 mained there for some two weeks, and 
 bought the southeast corner lot of Lake 
 and Clark streets for $400, and three of 
 the party returned to Vermont, leaving 
 Dean Ferson here ; the next Summer, 
 Mr. Minard married, and, in company 
 with his wife and Reed Ferson, they 
 came to Chicago. Mr. M. and John 
 Murphy rented a hotel and at once set 
 up in business; thirteen mouths after 
 
 the purchase of the lot by the four, Mr. 
 Minard bought out the three shares, and 
 paid $1,276, and in a few months after 
 he sold the lot for $7,500 ; this gave 
 him his first start. In Dec. following 
 (1834), Mr. and Mrs. Minard left Chi- 
 cago and came to St. Charles and re- 
 mained through the Winter in a log 
 house with Dean Ferson, and in early 
 Spring, 1835, he located a claim in El- 
 gin, near where the Asylum now stands, 
 and worked very hard for a year improv- 
 ing it. Early in the Spring of 1836, 
 Mr. Reed Ferson and Ira Minard pur- 
 chased the land where East St. Charles 
 now stands, built the dam, bridge, store 
 and mill, and, by their energy, at once 
 made improvements which at once 
 stamped the place as being the foremost 
 town on Pox River. In Aug., 1842, 
 Mr. Minard was elected to the State 
 Senate for four years; he gained the 
 reputation then of being a clear thinker 
 and one of the ablest financiers in the 
 State. His own immense business pre- 
 vented him from longer serving the State 
 in that capacity ; while in the Legisla- 
 ture, he was one of the foremosc sup- 
 porters of the Michigan canal through 
 the State, and perhaps no one did 
 more to advance its interests than he. 
 He married Sarah P. Wheeler in Cav- 
 endish, Vt., in 1834 ; they have three 
 children Helen, Geo. W. and Charles 
 I.; Mr. Minard died Jan. 22, 1876, 
 leaving his large estate to his three chil- 
 dren. 
 
 Marvin, J. M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McWayne, A. R., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McConkey, David, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Miller, Alburtis, P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Mattison, H. W., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Mungerson, John, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MINARD, GEORGE W., P. 0. 
 
 St. Charles ; he is the oldest son of the 
 late Ira Minard ; was born in St. Charles 
 May 2, 1845 ; Dem.; he married Lizzie 
 A. Ward Jan. 22, 1873 ; she was born 
 in this county Oct. 3, 1851 ; they have 
 two children Ira, born Feb. 14,1874; 
 Nora, born Oct. 26, 1875 ; has been for 
 several years largely engaged in the 
 lumber trade in Chicago ; he has recently 
 returned to this city, and is engaged in 
 improving his large farm and city prop- 
 erty by building and repairing.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ST. CHARLES. 
 
 Metcalf, Richard, boots and shoes ; P. 0. 
 St. Charles. 
 
 Munn, William, carp.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McFarlan, Felix, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McCauley, Dennis, stone quarry ; P. 0. 
 St. Charles. 
 
 Mahon, Michael, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Matteson, W. P., far.; .P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Moore, D. B., blksmth.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Murphy, Michael, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McCabe, Thomas, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Moore, W. J., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Minkler, Jacob, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Mitchell, Geo., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MARSHALL, WILLIAM, far. ; 
 Sec. 19 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep. ; Free 
 Meth. ; has 200 acres of land, valued at 
 012,000 ; he was born in England, 
 April 21, 1821, and came to St. Charles 
 in 1848 ; he engaged in the blacksmith 
 business, a trade he had thoroughly 
 learned in England; he continued in 
 the business for four years, when his 
 health failed ; he left it, and rented a 
 farm for two years, then bought where 
 he now lives ; everything about his 
 buildings and farm indicate that he has 
 learned his trade well ; he married Sarah 
 Harpham in England, March, 1843 ; 
 she was born March 21,1820; they 
 have had eight children (three of them 
 having died in their infancy) Jane, 
 Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Adaliza and Will- 
 iam Henry ; the daughters have all 
 married farmers, and live near their fa- 
 ther's ; Mr. M.'s prosperity and love of 
 our country induced his father's large 
 family to come to America ; they all 
 have settled near by, and are prospering 
 finely. 
 
 Morgan, A. D., mer. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MINARD, CHARLES I., lumber 
 yard and far. ; Sec. 12 ; is a Democrat and 
 Liberal ; he is the second son of the late 
 IraMinard; was born May 5, 1850, in 
 St. Charles ; he married Abbie M. 
 Ward, March 29, 1876 ; she was born 
 in this Co., Oct. 31, 1853 ; he is largely 
 engaged in the lumber trade, and has a 
 very fine farm of 363 acres, on which he 
 is now building one of the best barns in 
 the State, and otherwise improving the 
 farm ; he is one of the principal stock- 
 holders in the Kane Co. Nat. Bank. 
 and also interested in some of the best 
 property in the city. 
 
 Michael, I. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Minard, Mahlon, far. : P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Marsh, Saml., lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Marsden, Robt., tinner; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McNevins, Anthony, laborer ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Moore, Mrs. W. F. ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 McWilliams, Win., farmer; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Millington, D., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Miller, James, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 MA.RCH, GEORGE B., far. and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 17 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; 
 Ind.; Meth.; has 173 acres of land, with 
 first class buildings and improvements ; 
 value, $12,000 ; he was born in Walpole, 
 N. H., Aug. 2, 1835, and came to this 
 State, Aug , 1857, and settled on the 
 farm where he now lives. He married 
 Marian L. Minard, June 1 , 1 859 ; she 
 was born Feb. 10, 1841, on farm where 
 she now lives ; they have three children 
 George Leslie, born Oct. 23, 1860 ; 
 John Hubert, born Jan. 14, 1866 ; 
 William Elmore, born Dec. 29, 1869. 
 
 Morgan, H. A., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McPartlin, Kate, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Muehall, John, lab.; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 McGuire, Thomas, shoemaker ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Moore, W. F., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 McDonald, R. J., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Metcalf, J. M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Miller, Gustin, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 "XTEWMAN, ADOLPH, P. 0. St. 
 
 IM Charles. 
 
 Nicholson, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Nelson, Peter, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Norman, G. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 NICHOLS, A. J., farmer, dairyman, 
 Constable, Deputy Sheriff and auctioneer; 
 Sec. 33 ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep.; Bapt.; 
 was born in Bolton, Vt., March 24. 
 1832, came to this State in the Fall of 
 1855, and settled on the place where he 
 now lives ; he has 86 acres of land, very 
 finely improved, and very fine buildings 
 and is valued at $100 per acre. He 
 married Frances E Turnbull, in St. 
 Charles, Nov. '26, 1857 ; she was born 
 in A r ermont, March 17, 1840, and died 
 May 10, 1877, leaving four children 
 Elisha Kent, born July 7, 1859: Charles 
 Judson, born Nov. 26, 1863; Kdba Z., 
 born Au\ 22. 1871, and John Burton, 
 born May 10, 1874.
 
 650 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Nelson, L. P., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Nord, Nelson, mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Norman, Gus., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Norton, George, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Nord, August, mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Newman, Osman, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Nelson, Mrs. E. M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 OSGOOD, W. F., merchant ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Ostrom, Chas., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Osgood, G. W., clerk ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Oleson, Jno., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 O'Brien, Jerry, far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 O'Brien, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Oleson, Peter. P. O. St. Charles. 
 "PRATT, PETER, far.; P. 0. Wayne. 
 
 Ponsonby, David, far.; P., 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Godfrey, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parquett, Mrs. J.. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Pemberton, S. S., P. 0. Wayne. 
 
 PRESCOTT, R. S., was formerly in 
 the lumber trade here and in Chicago, 
 also has beeu a woolen manufacturer ; 
 P. 0. St. Charles ; Rep.; Bapt.; was 
 born in Washington Co., Vt., June 5, 
 1802, and came to Genesee Co., N. Y., 
 in 1818, and engaged in the wool card- 
 ing business until 1845, when he came 
 to this place in 1848, stopping a while 
 in De Kalb Co. ; he has been a hard 
 working Whig and Republican ever 
 since. He married Mary Baker in 
 1821, in Middlebury, N. Y. ; she was 
 born in Pa. Nov. 18, 1803; they have 
 had eleven children, five now living 
 Urbin B., Rezine E., Loduskia J., 
 Luana M. and Viletta M. ; he has held 
 offices of trust, and discharged their 
 duties well. 
 
 Pruden, Laura. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parks, C. K., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Pike, Cornelius, wagon maker ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Palmer, C. S., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, N., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Palmer, Mrs. C. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Powers, James, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parker, J. W., furniture ; P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Perry, B., carpenter; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, S. C., ptr.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parquett. Peter, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Payne, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Powers, E. A., butcher; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Perkins, B. P., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Powers, W. R., lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 PLUMMER, GEORGE, far., Sec. 
 
 29 ; P. 0. St. Charles; Dem. ; has 11 6 
 acres of fine land, valued at $70 per 
 acre ; he was born in Yates Co., N. Y., 
 March 28, 1816, and came to this 
 county in 1844. He married Fanny 
 Bartholomew in 1849 ; she was born in 
 Yates Co., N. Y., in 1821 ; they have 
 one daughter Mary Ann, born Aug. 
 5, 1856; Mr. P. has one of the best 
 improved farms in this section. 
 
 Parquett, Mitchell, mason ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Patty, Mrs. Sarah, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 PHILLIP, E. P., dealer in all kinds 
 of agricultural implements ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles ; Rep.; Meth. ; was born in 
 Wales Nov. 27, 1846, and came to this 
 place in 1852, and was adopted by Wm. 
 Madison, who has ever been a kind 
 guardian to him ; he enlisted in the 
 17th Cavalry in 1864; remained until 
 the close of the war ; in 1872, he 
 engaged in the agricultural implement 
 business, being a successor of J. D. 
 Stone. He married Hannah Belgra 
 Jan. 29, 1870 ; she was born in Canada 
 July 12, 1847 ; they have an adopted 
 child Jennie. 
 
 Pierce, C. E., marble dealer; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Peterson, C. G., far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, J. F., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Alex., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Peter A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 | Peterson, Fred., lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson. John A., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 j Peterson. John, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Andrew, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Allen, far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Peterson, Aug., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parsonby, Mary, far; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 I Pratt, Margaret, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Parker, Margaret J., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Perkins, Betsey; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 QUINN, JOHN, harness mkr. ; P. 0. 
 Batavia. 
 
 Quackenbush, A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Quinn, Joseph, P. O. St. Charles 
 OIARDON, MARY, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 JTX 
 
 Roach, N. T., dry goods; P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 Russell, J. H., cheese factory ; P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 Ralph, Hiram, P. 0. St. Charles.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ST. CHARLES. 
 
 651 
 
 ROCKWELL, H. T., P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles : Rep. ; Cong.; was born in Or- 
 leans Co., N. Y.. Sept. 13, 1835, and 
 came to this State in 1855, and engaged 
 in farming and teaching for ten years; 
 he then went into the insurance busi- 
 ness, which he has followed ever since ; 
 in 1872 he was elected Clerk and Re- 
 corder of Kane Co., and held it for four 
 years; he has held the office of Alder- 
 man, Assessor, and other important po- 
 sitions in the city and tp., always dis- 
 charging these duties with ability and 
 satisfaction to all. He married Mary 
 A. Stone April, 1860; she was born in 
 St. Charles Nov., 1843, and died April 
 
 , 2, 1871 ; he married Emma E. Osgood, 
 Jan., 1872, for his second wife; she was 
 born in Bellows Falls, Vt., July, 1846; 
 they have two children Frank, born 
 Nov. 30, 1861, and Hattie, born Nov. 
 1866. 
 
 Richmond, Stephen, carp. ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Rix, Robert, lab. ; P. 0. Charles. 
 
 Ross, Fred ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Russell, C. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 RYAN, T. E. (son of Terance Ryan), 
 P. 0. St. Charles ; attorney, etc. ; Rep. ; 
 Cong. ; was born in the County of Lim- 
 erick, Ireland, June 27, 1847, and came, 
 with his parents, to the U. S., in the 
 spring of 1848 and settled in Elgin, 
 and remained there until 1858, when he 
 came to St. Charles; in 1867 he en- 
 gaged in school teaching and taught in 
 South Elgin two years ; then commenced 
 the study of law in 1868, while teach- 
 ing, and continued its study with Hon. 
 W. D. Barry until 1870, when he was 
 admitted to the bar ; he then continued 
 with Judge B., until April, 1876, when 
 he opened an office of his own. He 
 married Emily Milliugton, the second 
 daughter of the late Darwin Millington, 
 May 14, 1874; they have one child- 
 George Stanley, born July 23, 1877; 
 Mr. Millington assisted his father in 
 building the flouring-mill, West Side, 
 and together they ownod nmch property 
 on the West Side. 
 
 Rcichmann, Fred., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Kosean, Oscar, far.; P. O. St. Charles. 
 Rosean, Aug., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Ruddock, Chas.,far. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Kosean, Peter, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 ROWLAND, SAMUEL, P. 0, 
 
 Elgin ; far., dairyman and general stock 
 raiser; Ind.; Unitar.; he was born in Mid- 
 dletown, by Youlgreave, Eng., June 3, 
 1823 ; he came to this country and State 
 in August, 1868; John Henry, his son, 
 owns the farm of 183 acres, on Sec. 4, 
 and one of the best in town, and well 
 improved, valued at $75 per acre ; they 
 live and work the farm together. Sam- 
 uel R. married Annie Wilson, of En- 
 thorpe, near Market Wighton, York- 
 shire, Eng., in 1851 ; she died in 1854, 
 leaving one son, John Henry, who was 
 born Dec. 30, 1853 ; he married for 
 present wife Mary Ann Pacey, in Not- 
 tingham, Eng., in September, 1864; 
 they have one child, Lelinz Pacey, born 
 at Sterling, 111., Aug. 19, 1870. 
 
 Richmond, Ellen M., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Roach, Mary E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 ~ MITH, MYRON, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 S 
 
 States, Henry, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Scott, Eleanor, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sill, Hattie H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 SILL, A. V., P. 0. St. Charles ; Post- 
 master; Rep.; Ind.; was born in Tioga 
 Co., N. Y., April 29, 1808, and came 
 to St. Charles in 1842, and engaged in 
 the gunsmith business, and continued 
 in it until 1852 ; in 1843 hewas elect- 
 ed Justice of the Peace, and held the 
 office (except five years) until 1873, 
 when he resigned; in 1845 he was 
 elected Probate Justice, and held it 
 until it was abandoned ; he was in Cal- 
 ifornia from 1852 to 1857 ; in 1861 he 
 was appointed Postmaster by President 
 Lincoln, and has held it ever since ; he 
 was appointed Notary Public in I860, 
 and still acts as such ; he has also held 
 various town offices ; he took a very 
 active part in raising recruits for the 
 army, and sent three sons ; he married 
 * Angeline Vanvoert in December, 1828 : 
 they have six children George, Rob- 
 ert, Henry, Julian, Elida and Sarah. 
 
 Sinclair, S. G., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sill, H. M., dentist; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Scott. Geo. W., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Stowell, Hamilton, far.; St. Charles. 
 
 Stader/M., far., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Steger, E. S., far., P. P. St. Charles. 
 
 Stjyker, C. H., P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Smith, L. M., P.O. St. Charles.
 
 652 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Strader, L., laborer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Smith, L. G., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Strader, Maria, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Stone, John, butcher ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Strader, J. C., clerk ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Smith, Fred, Constable; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Stewart, W. A., harness maker ; P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 
 Schults, Fred, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Sinclair, Jane, P. 0. St. Charles 
 Sill, G. N.,Koad Cornr.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Sanguist, Jehn, P. St. Charles. 
 
 SWITZER, MARTIN, P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles ; manufacturer of fine butter 
 and cheese, and is doing business at 157 
 S. Water St., Chicago, as com. mer- 
 chant, firm of Curtis & Switzer, jobbers 
 of cheeee, etc.; is a Rep.; Meth.; was 
 born in Canada West, March 30, 1831, 
 and came to St. Charles in the Fall of 
 1848, and bought 300 acres of land in 
 Sec. 10, valued at $50 per acre, which 
 he still owns, but resides in St. Charles. 
 He married Mary Ann Towner in Oct., 
 1855 ; she was born in Canada East, 
 May 5, 1836; they have five children 
 (lost two) Viola S., born March, 1861 ; 
 Hattie B., born 1863 ; Willie R., born 
 1865 ; Jo. Fred, born 1870 ; Lizzie 
 May, born 1872; Mr. S. has been a 
 very successful farmer, and as a business 
 man very few have succeeded as well ; 
 Mr. S. was one of the first who built a 
 cheese factory in the county. 
 
 Shibley, A. H., butcher; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Scott, William, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Swanson, Joseph, lab.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Scott, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Smith, W. H., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sunderland, W. R., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Schoeberg, Chas. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Switzer, Chas., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Switzer, Saml., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Smart, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Shaver, C. T., farmer. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Stenberg, A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sharp, Eli, farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Sumuelson, G., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 rpHOMPSON, C. 0., carp.; P. 0. St. 
 
 Charles. 
 
 Trumball, J. P., blacksmith; P. 0. St. 
 Charles. 
 
 Turbert, Jane, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Treest, Henry, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Tefft, E. A., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Taylor, A. S., farmer; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 TYLER, IRA D., farmer ; P. 0. St. 
 Charles ; Rep. ; Free Meth, ; born in 
 Cayuga Co., N. Y., April 22, 1810; 
 has 137 acres of land on Sec. 35, worth 
 $10,000 ; came to this State in 1835, 
 and settled where he now lives, having 
 $12.50 left; married Aurelia Mixer, in 
 Victor, N. Y., in 1832, where she was 
 born in 1815; they have five children 
 Warren T., Hannah, George, Lucinda, 
 Daniel and John ; George died of wds. 
 received at the siece of Vicksburg ; he 
 was in Co. E. 127th III. Vol. Inf. The 
 first school in the town was kept in War- 
 ren Tyler's log house, Ira D.'s father, by 
 Prudence Ward. He drew the first load 
 of merchandise into St. Charles, for the 
 first store of Minard & Fersou. 
 
 Tefft, F. W., farmer; P.O. Batavia. 
 
 Turner, W., carp. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Trumbull. C. J., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 TTNDERWOOD, E., miller; P. 0. 
 U St. Charles. 
 
 "TTAN PATTEN, J. S., banker; P. 
 V 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Van Ame, Rachel, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Veeder, Jacob, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Vinike, Benj., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 TTTIDDEN, G., farmer; P. 0. St. 
 W Charles. 
 
 Wheeler, J. T., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Way, Mary E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Whipple, Mrs. David, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wightson, Edw., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 WING, CLINTON D., Mayor of 
 the city ; P. 0. St. Charles ; Dem.; was 
 born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Feb. 4, 
 1835, and moved with his parents to 
 St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., and remained 
 there until 1857, and came to this 
 county in 1862, and engaged in the 
 real estate business and farming, and 
 has been one of the successful men of 
 the times ; since the death of Mr. Ira 
 Minard, in 1876, he has been engaged 
 in the settlement of that large estate : 
 in 1872, he was ehcted President of the 
 Village Council, and is now the Mayor 
 of the city ; in an eminent degree, he 
 has the confidence of the people in his 
 official as well as his business duties. 
 He wa-j married Sept, 20, 1857, to Mar- 
 garet Wine, in X. Y.; she was born in 
 Masseno, N. Y., April 13, 1835 ; have 
 five children Hortense M., Clinton D., 
 Jr., Hattie A., Minnie and Fred. M.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ST. CHARLES. 
 
 653 
 
 Ward, Julia, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Wiswell, A. R., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Willard, Z., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Welch, -Geo., mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Weed, E., mer. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 Weed, B. & Co., mer. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 WHEELER, HIRAM N., editor 
 
 and publisher of the St. Charles Leader ; 
 Democrat and Free Thinker ; was born 
 in St. Charles, March 30, 1844, and 
 married Maria L. Ferson, Nov., 1865 ; 
 she was born Sept. 15, 1844; they 
 have three children James Dean, born 
 Sept. 29, 1867 ; John R., March 6, 
 1869; Mary M., Feb. 27, 1871; Mr. 
 W. was brought up a farmer ; went into 
 the army, and joined the 52d 111. In- 
 fantry in 1861, and served for three 
 months ; after his return he was en- 
 gaged in an enterprise by which he 
 traveled for four years through the 
 South ; in 1873, he purchased the St. 
 Charles Leader, which he found with- 
 out material credit or patronage, and to- 
 day he has the pleasure of knowing that 
 he has a very large subscription list, and 
 that it is one of the most prosperous 
 and influential papers in the county. 
 
 Welton, Anna, P. O. St. Charles. 
 
 Ward, J. L., mach. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Webb, John, lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 WRIGHT, S. N., far., dairyman and 
 breeder of Holstein stock and pure Ches- 
 ter-white hogs ; P. 0. South Elgin ; is a 
 Rep. and Quaker; has 120 acres of land 
 of the finest quality, valued at $75 per 
 acre ; he came to this State in 1 856 ; he 
 married Anna Maria Haines, of N. J., 
 June 20, 1850, in the City of Wash- 
 ington, D. C. ; she was born Nov. 14, 
 1827 ; they have six children D. 
 Emerson, George H., Abbie R., Chas. S., 
 Sarah E., Samuel G. ; he is doing very 
 much to improve his own stock, and the 
 stock of the county. 
 
 White, S. S./lab. ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wisel, Andrew, mason ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Ward, L. C., merchant ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wells, Jeffrey, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wheeler, Calvin, lab.; P. 0. Charles. 
 
 Wheeler, N. S. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Westholm, G., tailor; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wiswell, W.. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wheeler, J. B. T., far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wheeler, Frank. P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wright, Robert, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 WHEELER, AMOS R., far. ; Sec. 
 16; P. 0. Benona, Oceana Co., Mich.; 
 was born in Cavendish, Vt., Sept. "". 2, 
 1815, and came to St. Charles, in July, 
 1835, and went to work for Ira Minard 
 on his Elgin claim ; in 1836 he made a 
 claim of 220 acres, and improved it ; in 
 April, 1850, Mr. Minard furnished him 
 and N. C. Joy money to go to Califor- 
 nia ; they remained two years and re- 
 turned, and paid Mr. M. per agreement ; 
 he and his brother, Adams, built a 
 warehouse in 1850, and afterward sold 
 it to the Free Methodists, which they 
 have furnished for their church ; in Jan., 
 1853, he went to Michigan with J. G. 
 Campbell, and bought a saw-mill, and 
 1,300 acres of pine land of the present 
 Senator Ferry, and went to work mak- 
 ing improvements and manufacturing 
 lumber ; Mr. Campbell sold his share in 
 1861 to Ira Minard, when he, Mr. M., 
 bought additional lands amounting to 
 5,000 acres ; since that time Mr. W. 
 has managed that large business for 
 himself and Mr. M.; in 1856, he assisted 
 in organizing the Co. of Oceana, and 
 was elected its first Co. Treasurer ; in 
 1873, he was elected to the State Legis- 
 lature, .and re-elected in 1875; he has 
 had the sole charge of his own and Mr. 
 Minard's large lumbering business for 
 twenty-five years, and in every way has 
 been successful ; since the death of Mr. 
 M. the large property and business in 
 Michigan was settled, and one-third of 
 the whole decreed to Mr. Wheeler; G. 
 W. and Chas. have bought their sister *s 
 interests, and now is owned equally and 
 carried on by Wheeler and Minard Bros. 
 He married Phidelia Randall, Jan. 19, 
 1840 ; she was the daughter of V. 
 Randall, who came here in 1837 from 
 Tompkins Co., N. Y., and built the first 
 blacksmith shop in St. Charles ; they 
 have had five children ; lost all except 
 one daughter Effie E., born Jan. 10, 
 1859. 
 
 WILSON, JOHN C., farmer, dairy- 
 man and feeder and dealer in stock ; Sec. 
 31 ; P. St. Charles; Rep.; Cong.; has 
 a farm of 535 acres of as fine land as can 
 be found in the county, with the finest 
 improvements for a No. 1 farm ; valued^ 
 at $75 per acre ; he was born in Glas- 
 gow, Scotland, Dec. 18, 1818; came 
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 with his parents to this country in June, 
 1834, and settled in St. Charles, being 
 one of the very few who were here at 
 that time ; he married Matilda Seamans, 
 of Yates Co., N. Y., Sept. 22, 1847 ; 
 she was born Oct. 22, 1823, in Yates 
 Co.; they have seven children Walter, 
 John, Emery, Jennette, Albert, David 
 and Jessi ; his father, Walter Wilson, 
 died May 15, 1866, aged 85 years, hav- 
 ing had his home with his son, John C. 
 Very few men in Kane Co. have a bet- 
 ter farm and succeeded better in farming 
 than Mr. J. C. Wilson. 
 
 WILCOX, SAMUEL L., dentist, 
 
 real estate dealer, etc.; P. 0. St. Charles ; 
 Rep.; Meth.; wasborninCattaraugusCo., 
 N. Y., July 15, 1837 ; came to this city in 
 the Spring of 1856, having but three 
 dollars ; he commenced to work on a 
 farm, then teaching school and working 
 some at his profession, until he finally 
 adopted the real estate business for his 
 life business, in which he has been v,ry 
 successful, and is now one of the wealthy 
 men of the city ; he married Lucinda 
 S. Wheeler Sept. 1, 1859 ; she was born 
 in Williamsburg, N. Y., May 8, 1837 ; 
 she moved here with her father, Job 
 Wheeler, in 1839 ; they have four chil- 
 dren William H., George W., Hattie 
 S. and Frank L. 
 
 Winteringham, J.; far.; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Westman, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wilson, Walter, farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 WHEELER, TIMOTHY A. (de- 
 ceased), farmer and pioneer of St. Charles; 
 Sec. 10; P.O. St. Charles ; Rep.', Univer- 
 salist ; was born in Cavendish, Vt., Feb. 
 21,1809; came to St. Charles in the 
 Fall of 1835. and made a claim of 400 
 acres and improved it, and in 1848 sold 
 out and moved into town and engaged 
 in the lumber business, and remained in 
 it until 1861 ; in 1867. he bought a 
 farm of 70 acres and moved on to 
 it ; he also had a fine farm in Du 
 Page Co. of 260 acres ; he married 
 Abbie A. Whitcomb Nov. 1, 1838 ; she 
 was born in Alstead, N. H., Oct. 7, 
 1814; they have had seven children; 
 lost one while young; Emery A., born 
 Sept, 3, 1839 ; Bettie F., July 31, 1844 ; 
 Willard W., Sept. 6, 1846; Rhoda E., 
 Nov. 21, 1848; Flora A., March 6, 
 1851 ; Charles M., July 19, 1855 ; 
 Emery died Aug. 14, 1862 ; she mar- 
 ried S. S. Pierce, who was shot at Pitts- 
 burg Landing ; Mrs. Wheeler died of 
 consumption in Jan., 1867. 
 
 Wright, D. E., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Whiddett, George, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 Wideen, John, P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 "XT^OUNG, T. P., mason, P. 0. St. 
 I Charles. 
 
 Young, Emory D., P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 r/ABRISKIE, D. L., merchant. P. 0- 
 
 ZJ St. Charles. 
 
 SUGAR GROVE TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A MBROSE, CARL, far.; P. 0. Sugar 
 J_JL_ Grove. 
 
 Adsit, S., farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 BLISS, J. H., farmer; P. 0. Sugar 
 Grove. 
 
 Benjamin, P., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Benjamin, L., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Benjamin. T., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Benton, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Bolster, A. S., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Barnes, I. C., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Barnes, E.. farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BROOKS, CHAUNCEY, forming 
 
 and stock. Sees. 13 and 24, Sugar Grove ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; 260 acres, valued at | 
 
 $60 per acre; born in Mass. Jan. 29,. 
 1797. He married Miss Lora D. Sears : 
 she was born June 11, 1801. in Mass. r 
 and married Sept. 19, 1821; had eight 
 children, four living Chauncey S.. bora 
 Nov. 8, 1825 ; Collins, born Sept. 30 r 
 1830; Elisha, born Jan. 11. 1833; 
 Linus, born Aug. 27, 1840 ; lived in 
 Mass, until 1844; engaged in farming 
 and teaching school ; he then came to 
 Kane Co. and settled on his present 
 place ; has been Township and District 
 Collector, also Highway Commissioner ; i 
 came to this county in very poor circum- 
 stances.
 
 KANE COUNTY : SUGAR GROVE. 
 
 655 
 
 Breese, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Banker, Paulus, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brooks, C., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BLISS, P. Y., farming and stock, Sec. ! 
 10, Sugar Grove; P. O. Aurora; 191 | 
 acres, valued at $60 per acre, and 262 | 
 acres in Kaneville Tp. ; Rep.; was born 
 in Straffbrd, Vt., April 8, 1806. He ; 
 married Miss Helen Mather Feb. 5, i 
 18-12 ; she was born in N. Y., July 9, 
 1822 ; they have two children ; he lived 
 in Vermont until he was eighteen, when 
 he went to Boston ; he came to Kane 
 Co. in 1837, and settled on his present ; 
 place in 1838, aud engaged in the : 
 general merchandise business, and was 
 assessed highest of any merchant in the 
 county ; he continued in business six ' 
 years, when he bought 1,000 sheep and ' 
 went in the stock business ; he is one of ' 
 the early settlers, and a much esteemed i 
 citizen. 
 
 Benjamin, J., far ; P. O. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Benjamin, C. L., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Bornholdt, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Boyce, S., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BROWN, MORRIS P., farming and 
 stock, Sees. 14, 23, 13 and 24; P. 0. j 
 Aurora; Rep.; Ind. ; owns 340 acres, j 
 valued at $50 per acre ; born in Water- 
 town, Jefferson Co., N. Y., July 25, 
 1827. He married Miss Sarah E. j 
 Hyde ; she was born in Grand Isle, Vt., j 
 May 2, 1834, and married in DeKalb i 
 Co., 111., Nov. 22, 1855; have four 
 children Ella G., born Sept. G, 1856 ; '.. 
 May H.,born July 26, 1863 ; Grace S., i 
 born July 21, 1866; Fannie R., born 
 Jan. 30, 1872 ; lived in Jefferson Co. j 
 eighteen years, then came to Aurora, , 
 then to DeKalb Co.; lived there twenty 
 years ; engaged in fanning ; came to j 
 Kane Co. in 1865, and settled on his j 
 present place ; was in poor circumstances j 
 on coming West. 
 
 Brooks, E., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bertram, Jno., far.; P. 0. Bristol Station. 
 
 Bertram, W., far.; P. O. Bristol Station. 
 
 Breese, L., far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 CHAPMAN, HENRY, far.; P. 0. 
 Sugar Grove. 
 
 Cutting, C. C., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cole, J. E., far. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Calkins, Chas., far. ; P. O. Jericho. 
 Cole, F., farmer; P. O. Aurora. 
 Calkins,E. M., Postmaster ; P. O. Jericho. 
 
 CALKINS, CYRUS, farmer. Sees. 
 29. 30, 31, 32 ; P O. Jericho, and is 
 present Postmaster; has 163 acres 
 valued at $50 per acre ; Rep ; Ind ; 
 born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Jan. 14, 
 1815; live! in N. Y. until 1853, then 
 came to Kane County and settled where 
 he now resides ; his two sisters, Miss 
 Catherine and Morriah, are living with 
 him ; they came to Kane Co. about 
 the same time, and have lived here 
 since. 
 
 Cooper, E. A., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Crego, Geo., far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 COSELMAN, AARON, Sees 33 
 
 and 34, Sugar Grove Tp. ; farming and 
 stock ; P. 0. Bristol Station, Kendall 
 Co. ; has 160 acres ; valued at $50 per 
 acre ; Rep. ; Free Meth. ; he was born in 
 N. Y., March 24, 1817; he married 
 Miss Nancy Fikes ; she was born in N. 
 Y., Sept. 8, 1824, and married Feb. 9, 
 
 . 1843, had 11 children; 9 living; 
 Lydia A., Elizabeth, Mary J., Arnold, 
 dead ; Hudson, dead ; Charles, Madison, 
 Sarah M., Hiram, Elphia, Henry C. 
 Lived in N. Y. 25 years, and then came 
 to Kane Co. and settled in Sugar -Grove ; 
 came to present place in 1848 ; has 
 be n School Director some six years ; 
 he had but $8 on arriving here, and has 
 placed himself in his present circum- 
 stances by his own industry. 
 
 Clark, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Kaneville 
 
 Cattin, Frank, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Calkins, A. S., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Calkins, E., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Calkins, F., farmer; P 0. Jericho. 
 
 DORR, SULLIVAN, farmer ; P. O 
 Sugar Grove. 
 
 Denney, W. H., far. ; P. O. Sugar Grove. 
 Dorr, Haskill, far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Dorr, Marshall, far. ; P. O. Sugar Grove. 
 
 DENSMORE, HARVEY B., 
 
 Sec. 14, Sugar Grove Tp. ; farmer; P. 
 O. Aurora; Rep.; S. G. Christian 
 Union ; he was born in Hartford, Vt., 
 Sept. 15, 1815 ; he married Miss Kate 
 S. Densmore ; she was born March 25, 
 1817, iu N. Y., and was married Aug. 
 5, 1835; they have one child, Katie S., 
 born May 14, 1836. Mrs. Densmore 
 died in July, 1841 ; he has a second 
 wife, Miss Mary J. Mather; she was 
 born in N. Y., Sept. 10, 1815, and 
 married April 7, 1842; they have 4
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 children ; Charles M., born Sept. 27, 
 1843; Grace L., born Sept. 29, 1847 ; 
 Jane S., born Dec. 9, 1852 ; Jessie F., 
 May 10, 1856; he lived in Vt., until 
 he was 15 years of age, then moved to 
 N. Y. ; in 1836 he came to Kane Co., 
 settled where he now resides, has been 
 Town Clerk 20 years, Justice of the Peace 
 16 years, also. Tp. Treasuer. 
 
 T71VANS, ISAAC, far. ; P. 0. Sugar 
 
 JJj Grove. 
 
 Eglington, J. P., far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Eglington, F. S., far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Eglington, John, far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 TjUETCHER, 0. W., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 Jj Bristol Station. 
 
 Furman, J. C., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fuller, E., farmer ; P. 0. Suuar Grove. 
 
 Fikes, Geo., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 /^ GODWIN, C. A. far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Gregory, D. R.; far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Green. Henry, far. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 GILLETT,L.H,, Sees. 9, 10, 21, 22, 
 
 27, 28 ; farmer and stock ; P. 0. Sugar 
 Grove ; 474 acres here and 146 in Big 
 Rock ; probable value, $75 per acre clear 
 of debt; also 160 in Iroquois Co., and 
 240 in Kansas ; Ind. ; Ind. ; was born 
 in Sullivan Co., N. Y., October 23, 
 1820 ; he married Mi.<s Rachel Harmes ; 
 she was born in Sullivan Co., N. 
 Y., October 17, 1827, and married Jan. 
 24, 1850 ; they had seven children, 
 four living Mary, born November 25, 
 1850 ; Arthur L., born September 27, 
 1857 ; Eddie G., born July 3, 1863 ; 
 Rittie M., born July 15, 1872 ; Frank- 
 lin, born December 31, 1853, died July 
 1, 1854 ; Theron, born May 15. 1855, 
 died Sept., 13, 1855 ; Eugene S., born 
 Sept., 2, 1861, died February 24, 1862. 
 Lived in N. Y., until he was 30 ; was 
 engaged in farming; in May, 1850 he 
 came to Kane Co., and settled where 
 he now resides, and has lived here since ; 
 has been Highway Commissioner some 
 seven years, and School Director some 
 fifteen years ; he took an active interest 
 in securing the present Normal and In- 
 dustrial School to this locality, and freely 
 donated $500 for the purpose. Mr. 
 Gillelt came to Kane Co., in limited 
 circumstances, and by his own exertions, 
 aided by his far-sighted business views, 
 has earned a handsome competence ; his 
 
 income for one year being in excess of 
 06,000 ; he has also done much to im- 
 prove and beautify the country, and is 
 at present erecting a residence that re- 
 flects credit to himself and the county in 
 general ; pleasant and unassuming; placed 
 in a sparcely settled county with very 
 limited means, and in a short space of 
 time rising to h s present position ; rank- 
 ing among the first, he goes to prove the 
 advantages held out by the farm to 
 energy. 
 Goodale, D. S , far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 GEORGE, BENJAMIN, Sees. 12, 
 
 13 and 24, Sugar Grove Tp. ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; farming, dairy and stock ; 482 
 acres, value $60 per acre ; Rep ; Ind ; 
 born in Sharon, Vt.. Nov. 30, 1825 ; he 
 married Miss Marcia Robinson ; she was 
 born in Stratford, Vt., Oct. 26, 1831, 
 and married May, 1852: no children : 
 lived in Vermont until March, 1856 ; 
 was engaged in farmins. then came to 
 Kane Co., and settled on his present 
 place in Spring of 1858 ; has been School 
 Director,* and at present the Supervisor, 
 which office he has held the past four 
 years. 
 
 Gorden Bros., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 TT ARRIS, H. C., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HANKES, PETER, Sec. 13, Sugar 
 Grove Tp. ; P. 0. Aurora ; Dem. : Cath.: 
 born Luxemburg, Germany, 1834 ; he 
 married Miss Margarett Walter; she was 
 born in Luxemburg, 1837 ; married 1858 
 at Aurora ; seven children George, Eva, 
 John, Maggie, Susan. Kate, Peter ; lived 
 in Germany until 1854, when he came to 
 United States and settled in Aurora ; 
 lived there until 1 863, when he settled on 
 his present place ; owns 32 acres valued at 
 $60 per acre ; was in poor circumstances 
 on arriving here ; has been School 
 Director four years. 
 
 HANKES, NICHOLAS, farmer ; 
 Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Aurora ; Dem.; Cath.; 
 born in Luxemburg. He married Cath- 
 eron Kunspick ; she was born in Lux- 
 emburg ; married in Aurora in 1866 ; 
 had six children ; five living George, 
 Nicholas, Michael, Christian, Annie ; 
 lived in Germany until 1856, then came 
 to the United States and settled on 
 present place of 54 acres ; value. $50 
 per acre.
 
 KANE COUNTY : SUGAR GROVE. 
 
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 Harris, H. D., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Healey, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hickey James, far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Hanson, D. W., far.; P. Sugar Grove.. 
 Hatch, E. F., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Hall, Joseph, far.; P. Sugar Grove. 
 
 HALL, FRANK H., Prin. of Sugar 
 
 Grove Normal and Industrial School; 
 P. 0. Sugar Grove ; was born in Po- 
 land, Me., Feb. 9, 1841, and lived there 
 until 1866 ; was principally engaged in 
 teaching ; he then moved to Earlville, 
 La Salle Co., 111., and lived there two 
 years ; while here he married Miss Sybil 
 Norton ; she was born in Somerset 
 Co., Me., Aug. 13, 1843, and married 
 July 23, 1866; have three children 
 Clyde H., born Aug. 15,1867; Nina 
 M., born March 12, 1873 ; Myra, born 
 Nov. 14, 1877 ; in 1868 he removed to 
 Aurora, where he was Prin. of the West 
 Aurora School ; remaining seven years, 
 when he came to his present place; he 
 uses original methods for instructing his 
 pupils the success of which is attested 
 by the flourishing condition of the 
 school ; the Professor i esides on his farm 
 adjoining the school and carries on a 
 dairy, which consists of a fine herd of 
 Jerseys, in which he takes much inter- 
 est and has made valuable discoveries 
 from scientific exppriments with the 
 same ; aside from his popularity as an 
 instructor, he is also popular among the 
 different dairy associations, before the 
 members of which he has frequently 
 discussed the subject of dairying. 
 
 TNGH AM, JOSEPH, far ; Sec. 14 ; 
 
 _L P.O. Aurora; 240 acres; value, $50 
 per acre ; Ind.; born on present place, 
 Oct. 18, 1839. Married Miss Elizabeth 
 Strickland ; she was born in Aurora in 
 1840; married here in 1869; have three 
 children Samuel S., born Oct. 4, 1870 ; 
 Sarah, born May 28, 1872; Millie, 
 born Jan. 28, 1875 ; has lived here all 
 his life, except while in the army ; en- 
 listed in Co. A, 36th I. C.; during the 
 latter part of the war was consolidated 
 with 10th I. C.; was in the army nearly 
 four years; has been Road Commissioner, 
 Township Trustee and School Director ; 
 his father Col. S. S., was born in New 
 York in 1801 ; he married Nancy 
 Owens ; she was born in New York in 
 1820 ; married in 1838 ; had eight chil- 
 
 dren ; five living ; came to this Co. in 
 1839, and settled on present place. 
 TONES, Albert, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 d 
 
 Johnson R. B., far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 JUDD, DEXTER, C. Sees 15. 
 16, 21, 22 and 9; P. O. Sugar Grove, 
 Sugar Grove Tp.; farmer, stock and dairy- 
 man ; owns 276 acres, valued at $60 per 
 acre ; born in Shelburn, Mass., March 
 11, 1 822 ; he married Miss Eliza C. 
 Brown ; she was born in New York, 
 Nov. 5, 1819, and married Nov. 22, 
 1842 ; they have five children Asabel 
 T., born March 21, 1844; Samuel B., 
 born Aug. 23, 1846 ; Sarson L., born 
 March 4, 1849 ; Charles D., born Oct. 
 
 II, 1851; Smith C., born May 3, 
 1854. Lived in Mass until he was 8 
 years old ; moved with his parents to 
 New York; resided there until 1850, 
 when he came to Kane Co. and settled 
 at his present place in 1857 ; has been 
 School Treasurer, Trustee and Direc- 
 tor ; was Town Clerk three years ; he 
 is a blacksmith by trade, and followed 
 his profession on arriving in this town- 
 ship ; his son Asahel was in the 124th 
 
 III. Regt.; served somethree years ; his 
 son Samuel B. married Miss Sarah 
 Swartout ; she was born in Aurora in 
 October, 1849, and was married in 
 1869 ; two children Hattie, born July 
 20, 1874 ; Earnest, born Oct 10, 1872 ; 
 is carrying on his father's farm. 
 
 Johnson, J. A., far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Johnson, Chas. 
 
 JONES, W. G., Sees. 22, 23, 26 and 
 27 ; Sugar Grove Tp.; farming, dairy 
 and stock; P.O. Sugar Grove; owns 213 
 acres, valued at $60 per acre ; born in 
 Steuben Tp., Oneida Co., X. Y., March 
 30, 1828 ; he married Miss Elizibeth J. 
 Owens ; she was born in Remsen, 
 Oneida Co., N. Y., August 19, 1837 ; 
 married at Remsen Jan. 20, 1857 ; 
 have three children Franklin W., born 
 Feb. 23, 1858 ; Herbert, born Dec. 3, 
 1860; Grace, born April 21, 1871; 
 lived in Steuben Tp. until he was 7 
 years old, then moved to Remsen, and 
 lived there until 1857, then came West 
 and settled where he now resides ; has 
 been School Director and Trustee, Com- 
 missioner of Highways and Supervisor 
 for three years.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Jones, 0. T. 
 
 Jay, W. J., far.; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 JUDD, TBOMAS. The subject of 
 this sketch was born in Massachusetts 
 Sept. 4, 1812, and lived there until 
 1835; was engaged principally in farm- 
 ing ; he then moved to Chicago, then to 
 Du Pa<^3 Co., 111., engaging in farming ; 
 he then removed to Elgin, where he en- 
 gaged in blacksmithing, his being the 
 first shop at that place ; he then went 
 traveling, being with the Government 
 survey, after which he came to Kane 
 Co. and settled where he now resides ; 
 he has held the office of Supervisor two 
 years; in 1847 he served as a delegate 
 on the State Constitutional Convention, 
 and has held the office of Postmaster 
 since Taylor's administration. On Jan. 1, 
 1858. he married Miss Electa S. Rice; 
 she was born in Massachusetts Sept. 8, 
 1832 ; they have six children Phillip 
 N., born Aug. 25, 1863 ; Perry G., born 
 Nov. 1, 18ti5 ; Ermina J., born April 
 15, 1868; Andrew T., born Nov. 18, 
 1870 ; Frank A. L., born Dec. 17, 1872 ; 
 Ray, born April 23, 1875. Mr. Judd 
 owns upward of 600 acres of land, 
 and has taken great interest in securing 
 a first-class school in his district, and it 
 is considered that the present flourish- 
 ing-school is due to his liberality and 
 enterprise ; besides his liberal donations 
 in cash and real estate, he has erected a 
 magnificent block, which he uses to ac- 
 commodate the pupils of the school and 
 carry on his general merchandise busi- 
 ness, etc.; socially, he is pleasant and 
 congenial, and to benefit his fellow-man, 
 seems to be a leading topic, and one 
 which elicits his earnest attention and 
 liberal support. 
 
 Johnson, B. F., far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Judd, Samuel, far.; P. 0. Sugar drove. 
 
 Judd, Smith, far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 TT^ONEN, Nicholas. 
 
 Konen. Philip. 
 
 Keck, Marshall, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keck, Stephen, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keck. Catherine A., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kron, S. P., farmer ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Kinney. Mrs. J. W., far ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Kinney, E. D., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keys, Betsey. 
 
 Keck, Adam, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 T INNINGTON, Z., farmer; P. 0. 
 1 J A urora. 
 Linnington, Z. A., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MLGHELL, A. H.. farmer : P. 0. 
 J ericho. 
 
 Myers. D. J. farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 MARVIN, ROBERT J., carpenter ; 
 P.O. Grouse: Rep.; Ind.: was born in New 
 York Feb. 11,1830; he married Miss 
 Selva A. Rowe ; she was born in New 
 York ; they have had four children ; 
 two living Belle and Lotta ; Mr. M. 
 lived in New York until he was 35 ; he 
 was engaged in carpentering ; in 1865 
 he came West and settled where he now 
 resides, and has resided here ever since. 
 
 McDole, J. R., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mishell. A. W., farmer"; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Mighell. F. P.. farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Marvin, W. S.. farmer; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 McDOLE, RODNEY, P. 0. Sugar 
 
 Grove ; was born in New Hampshire 
 Jan. 31, 1809, and lived there until 8 
 years old, then moved with his parents 
 to New York ; remained there until 
 1833. then came West and settled in 
 Sangaimn Co.. 111.; while there he mar- 
 ried Miss Abigail Lownsbury ; she was 
 born in New York July 24. 1813 ; on 
 the 10th of May, 1835. he came to Su- 
 gar Grove and laid a claim where he 
 now resides; in 1&36, he brought his 
 wife to his place ; he has been Road 
 Commissioner and Town Trustee ; he 
 lost his wife Jan. 10. 1876; they had 
 thirteen children ; nine living ; Rep.; 
 he was the first Whig in the township ; 
 came here with $50, and owes his pres- 
 ent circumstances to his energy; he 
 owns upward of 1,000 acres in the town- 
 ship ; he is Executor of the John Wil- 
 son estate. 
 
 Marvin. R. J., farmer ; P. O. Grouse. 
 
 Mighell. E.. farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Miller. J. S.. mer. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 MYERS, L. P., farming and stock ; 
 Sec. 17 ; P. 0. Sugar Grove; was born 
 in Big Rock Township. Kane Co., 111., 
 July 24, 1853 ; he married Miss Melissa 
 Cro ser ; she was born in Iowa March 
 20, 1858; married Nov. 26, 1876; one 
 child Daniel C., born Oct. 31, 1877; 
 lived in Big Rock with his parents till 
 March, 1877, when he came to present 
 place; Rep.; Ind.; owns 160 acres, val- 
 ued at $60 per acre.
 
 KANE COUNTY: SUGAR GROVE. 
 
 659 
 
 Mason. J.. farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mighell, S. H., farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 McDOLE, R, P., farming, dairy and 
 stock ; Sees. 1 , 2 and 3, Sugar Grove 
 Township ; P. Aurora ; Rep.; Meth.; 
 was born in New York April 5, 1836; 
 he married Miss Roxie A. Miner ; she 
 was born in Kaueville Township, and 
 was the second white child born there ; 
 was married July 11, 1866 ; two chil- 
 dren Minnie M.. born March 27, 1870 ; 
 Cora B., born Oct. 20, 1873 ; he lived 
 in New York until he was 16, when he 
 visited Kane Co.; returned home and 
 remained two years; in 1852, he settled 
 in De Kalb Co., and engaged in farm- 
 ing; then moved to Aurora in 1870; 
 lived there six years; in March, 1877, 
 he settled on his present place ; owns 
 315 acres" valued at $50 per acre. 
 
 McDole, S. P., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mighell, T. P., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 l^TILES, W. S., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Newman, S., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Newman, J. D., farmer : P. 0. Aurora. 
 ,'BRIEN,L. F. 
 
 O' 
 
 O Brien, L. 
 
 PRICE, WILLIAM, farmer ; P. 0. 
 Grouse 
 
 Palmer, J. F.. far.; P. 0. Bristol Station. 
 
 Patterson, Alex, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PAULL, LOUIS P., Sees. 27, 33 
 and 34, farming and stock; P. 0. 
 Aurora; has 636 acres. Rep.; Ind.; 
 born Kendall Co., 111., Oct. 14, 1851 ; 
 he married Miss Fanny Potter ; she was 
 born in Aurora Tp. May 22, 1853, and 
 was married Dec. 17, 1873; he came 
 to Kane Co. with his parents and settled 
 in the present place, Mr. L. F. is 
 working his father's farm and is largely 
 interested in stock raising. 
 
 Palmer, Ormus, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Patterson, Wm , farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PAULL, W. H., Sec. 33; Sugar 
 Grove ; farming, dairy and stock ; P. 0. 
 Jericho ; 1^40 acres ; valued at $50 per 
 acre. Rep.; Ind ; born in Medina Co., 
 
 , Ohio, July 14, 1819 ; he married Miss 
 Susan A. Willey ; she was born in New 
 York, in April, 1821; married in 1840 ; 
 have three children, two living Eliza- 
 beth and Susan A.; his second wife is 
 Miss L. M. Sockett; she was born in 
 
 Meadville, Pa., Jan. 14, 1829, and 
 married in October, 1849; she had six 
 children Corinth A., Henry F., 
 Mina A., Etha E., Delano W., Frank 
 0. ; lived in Ohio until he was 21 ; 
 came to Kane Co. and settled *in Sugar 
 Grove Tp., near Grouse; lived there 
 two years, and in 1843 he came to his 
 present place and has resided here since; 
 has been Commissioner of Highways 
 and School Director some twelve 
 years. 
 
 Palmer, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Paull, H. F., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Paull, R. A., farmer ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 PAULL, STEPHEN G. (deceased), 
 was born in New York in Ontario Co., 
 Sept. 1> 1812, and at the age of 5 re- 
 moved with his parents to Medina Co., 
 Ohio, and remained there until 1838 ; 
 while, here in 1834 he married Miss 
 Roxey A. Barker; she was born in 
 Monroe Co., N. Y., May 10, 1816; 
 they had five children, four living ; in 
 1838 he came to Kane Co. and located 
 his present place ; he remained here one 
 year when he brought his family from 
 Ohio and resided here until his death 
 in April 26, 1875; he had held the 
 office of Supervisor for five years from 
 1861 ; also Assessor, and for many years 
 School Director: The first Town meet- 
 ing was held at his place. 
 
 Palmer, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Pittard, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Paull, J. B., farmer ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Palmer, Joseph, farmer ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, Jerome, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PRICE, WM., Sees. 5, 6, 7, and 8. 
 Sugar Grove Tp.; P. 0. Grouse ; Dem.; 
 Ind.; born in Ireland, July 4, 1816 ; 
 he married Miss Mary Smith ; she was 
 born in Perm., and was married Jan. 4, 
 1843, she had eleven children ; eight 
 are living ; lived in Ireland until he was 
 13, then he came to the United States 
 and settled in Vermont, engaged in 
 farming ; lived there twelve years, then 
 came West and settled in Sugar Grove 
 in 1841 ; bought his present place and 
 settled in 1842 ; he came to the United 
 States without any means, and by his 
 industry and economy has placed him- 
 self in his present position. 
 
 Patten, H. H. 
 
 Peterson, Char*., farmer; P. O. Sugar Grove.
 
 660 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 ROSE, LAURA, farmer ; P. O. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Randall, F., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ROSE, W\ J. (deceased), was born in : 
 New York in 1 822 ; he married Miss 
 Laura Hinds, who was born in New 
 York in 1822, and married Jan. 13, 
 1848; no children; he came to Kane 
 Co. in 1839 with his parents, and set- 
 tled in Sugar Grove Tp.; came to pres- 
 ent place about 1846, and lived here 
 until he died, in May, 1873. Mrs. Rose's 
 father, A. H. Hinds, came to Kane Co. in 
 1842, and settled in Sugar Grove Tp. ; 
 he was born in Vermont in 1796, and 
 married Miss Mercy Wilkie ; she was 
 born in New York in 1797, and mar- 
 ried in 1818 ; had nine children ; he 
 died in Aurora in December, 1874; she 
 died in Aurora in December, 1872 ; he 
 was Justice of the Peace and Postmaster 
 in New York. 
 
 Reed, G. 0. 
 
 REYNOLDS, SILAS, far.;Secs.22, 
 15, 10 ; Sugar Grove Tp.; P. 0. Sugar 
 Grove ; owns 924 acres of land, valued 
 at $50 per acre ; Dem.; Ind.; born in 
 Sullivan Co., N. Y., Sept. 18, 1810; he 
 married Miss Jane Waudover ; she was 
 born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., June 19, 
 1818, and married March 21, 1835; 
 they have seven children Jane, born 
 March 8, 1836 ; J. , born Dec. 12, 
 1843; Elizabeth, born Sept. 9,1848; 
 Isaac, born Jan. 24, 1851 ; Olive, born 
 Sept. 19, 1854; Grace, born Feb. 7, ; 
 1859; Minnie, born Sept. 4, 1860. He 
 lived in New York until 1836; was en- 
 gaged in farming and shoemaking ; he 
 then came to Kane Co. and s -tiled where 
 he now resides, buying his land from 
 the Government about 1840 ; he packed 
 pork and sold it in N< w York at $5.00 , 
 per barrel ; he has been Assesor, and, 
 in early times, was able to assess three 
 townships in eight days; he is genial, 
 liberal and public spirited, and has 
 many warm, personal friends. 
 
 Randall, J. D., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Q1 EAVEY, PHILO, far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Shaffer, Wm., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Spencer, S. U., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Snow, M. H., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Starr, M. F., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schaub, L., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SEAVEY, MARK, farming and 
 stock ; Sees. 5 and 6 ; P. 0. Grouse ; 
 owns 1 60 acres here, 332 in Sees. 4 and 
 5, and 40 in Big Rock, valued at $50 
 per acre ; Rep. ; Ind. ; was born in N. Y. 
 in Dec. 14, 1827; he married Miss 
 Ruth H. Thompson ; she was born in 
 Vermont. April 6, 1825, and married 
 Sept. 2, 1853, and died in 1865 ; the/ 
 had five children Albert T., born May 
 30, 1856 ; Ida J., Feb. 1, 1858; Chas. 
 E., Dec. 18, 1859 ; Frank W., Sept. 20, 
 1862 ; Mary A., Aug. 26, 1864 ; his 
 second wife was Mrs. M. J. Goodwin ; 
 she was born in N. Y., April 14, 1836 ; 
 and was married Sept. 15, 1867 no 
 children ; lived ' in New York four- 
 teen years; in 1841 he came to 
 Kane Co., and settled with his 
 parents in Sugar Grove, and remained 
 there until 1866, when he moved to his 
 present place ; has remained here since ; 
 he has been Supervisor two years, As- 
 sessor two years, and School Director 
 three years; his father, Aaron, settled in 
 Sugar Grove, on Sees. 4 and 5. in 1841 ; 
 he was born in N. H., Aug. 23, 1798 - r 
 he married Betsey Drake ; she was born 
 in Vt., May 17, 1791 ; they had four 
 children ; three of them living. 
 
 Smith, David, far. ; P. O. Sugar Grove. 
 
 STALEY, J. N., far., dairy and stock ; 
 Sec. 36; P. O. Montgomery ; owns 191 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; Rtp. ; 
 Meth. ; was born in Fulton Co., N. Y., 
 March 7, 1814; he married Miss Sallie 
 Keck ; she was born in Fulton Co.. N. 
 Y., July 12, 1819, and married May 
 23, 1837 ; she had six children, two of 
 them living ; Melessa and Theodore 
 being the only ones who survive their 
 mother, who died Sept, 16, 1856 ; his 
 second wife was Mrs. Conant, formerly 
 Miss 0. A. Stevens ; she was born in 
 Vermont, May 11, 1830, and married 
 Dec. 13, 1863 ; they had one child, who 
 died in childhood; Mrs. Staley had one 
 child by former marriage Alva B., 
 also Miss Ida M., who was adopted in 
 1876 ; he lived in N. Y. until he was 
 twenty-six ; then came to Kane Co., 
 and settled on his present place in 184(1, 
 and has resided here since ; he has been 
 Commissioner of Highways, also School 
 Trustee and Director some ten or fifteen 
 years.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BURLINGTON. 
 
 661 
 
 Smith Ephraim, far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Smith, W. D., far. ; P. O. Sugar Grove. 
 Sprague, H. C., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Spencer, S. M. 
 Sharel, F. 
 
 Snow, Ruth, P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Smith, C. W., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Shultz, W. C., far. ; Aurora. 
 rpHOMPSON, E. W.,far. ; P. 0. Sugar 
 
 I Grove. 
 
 Thompson, J. L., far. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Thompson, Edward, far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Tobey, Clara, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thompson, John, far.; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Todd, E., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Tanner. W. A., far ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Titus, H., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 W r INDOTT, W. J. 
 Windott, A. 
 Wilson, F. 
 
 Wilson, J. W., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Woodard A, J., far. ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Warmer, Louie. 
 
 Wright, Thos., far ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Wilson, T., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Wilkinson, J. J., far. ; P. 0. Batavia. 
 Whilding, R., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Whilding. G. F., far.; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Whilding, E. C., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 West, Geo., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 West, David, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 West, W. far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 r/TMMER, N., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 ZJ 
 
 BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A UBLE, M., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 ALLEN, WILLIAM, far.; Sec. 30; 
 P. 0. Sycamore ; Rep.; born in Wash- 
 ington Co., N. Y., Sept. 28, 1820 ; in 
 1844 he removed to Sycamore, De K^lb 
 Co., 111. He was married Sept. 14, 
 1845, to Miss Mary I. McMaster, who 
 was born in OneidaCo., N. Y., Jan. 22, 
 1829 ; they settled on their present 
 home in Kane Co., in 1848 ; they have 
 three children Mary J. (now Mrs. S. 
 D. Andrews, of Hardin Co., Iowa) ; 
 Rhoda M., and Emma I. (now Mrs. E. 
 A. W T indett, of Storey Co., Iowa); he 
 owns 1 20 acres of land ; value, $4,800 ; 
 Mrs. Allen's mother, Mrs. Rhoda W. 
 Boon, is now living with the family at 
 the age of 88 years ; she was born in 
 Plymouth Co., Mass., Aug 22, 1789; 
 Mrs. Allen came to Illinois with her 
 mother in 1835 ; they spent about three 
 years in Chicago and vicinity, one Sum- 
 mer of which was passed in the family 
 of Capt. Russell, commander of the 
 garrison at Fort Dearborn ; they were 
 present at the payment to the Indians, 
 preparatory to their removal beyond the 
 Mississippi, and also witnessed a war 
 dance which the savages gave for the 
 entertainment of the whites, just out- 
 side the fort, before their departure for 
 their new home. 
 
 AUBLE, J. M., far.; Sec. 21 ; P. 0. 
 Burlington ; Rep.; owns 58 acres of land ; 
 value $40 per acre ; born in Seneca Co., 
 N. Y., Sept. 23, 1827 ; visited Kane 
 Co. in 1851, spending about a year, and 
 again in the Spring of 1853, returning 
 in the Fall of the same year. He was 
 married Nov. 10, 1853, to Miss Susan 
 
 A. Galusha, of Schuyler Co., N. Y. r 
 who was born in Durham, Greene Co., 
 N. Y., April 25, 1827 ; they removed 
 permanently to Kane Co., in 1 855 ; have 
 five children living Loa E. (now Mrs, 
 
 B. L. Ballard, of Du Page Co., 111.), 
 Willard E., Edwin V., Ella M., and 
 Carrie V.; Charles G., their oldest son, 
 died April 19, 1872, and Elmer L. y 
 their second son, Oct. 25, 1862 ; in 
 1874, Mr. Auble was elected Justice of 
 the Peace and still holds the office ; he 
 has also served as School Director and 
 Commissioner of Highways. 
 
 Andrews, Edward, farmer; P. 0. Burling- 
 ton. 
 
 Allen, Win., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Anderson, C. M., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Anderson, E., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 ANDREWS, WALLACE, son of 
 
 the above, was born in Burlington Tp. r 
 Kane Co., Nov. 26, 1844, on the old 
 homestead, where he now resides; he 
 was elected Collector for Burlington Tp. y 
 in April, 1877 ; is a Republican.
 
 662 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 AUBLE, M- F.,far.; Sec.' 21; P. 0. 
 Burlington; born in Seneca Co., N. Y., 
 May 23, 1818. Married July 4, 1849, 
 to Miss Rachael A. Coleman, of Yates 
 Co., N. Y., who was born May 29, 1821 ; 
 they have five children living Charles 
 C., Montgomery, Frank R., Burt, Mary 
 . E.; Montgomery and Frank R. are now 
 residing in California ; owns 145 acres 
 of land ; value, $5,800 ; Rep.; Mr. and 
 Mrs. Auble are members df the M. E. 
 Church ; they came to Kane Co., set- 
 tling on their present home in 1851. 
 
 ANDREWS, C. M., far.; Sec. 30 ; 
 P. 0. Sycamore ; born in Hampshire 
 Co., Mass., Feb. 9, 1816. He was mar- 
 ried Aug. 30, 1842, to Miss Eveline M. 
 Day, of West Springfield, who was born 
 Oct. 30, 1818; came to Kane Co. -in 
 1837; in 1845, deeded 160 acres of 
 land from the Government, which land 
 he still owns and occupies; in 1859, he 
 visited California remaining there about 
 fifteen years; returning in 1873; have 
 seven children Wallace, Syrena A., 
 Augusta, Sullivan D. (now living in 
 Iowa), Franklin E., Horace M. and 
 Calvin D.; he owns 160 acres of land ; 
 value $6,400 ; Rep.; has held the office 
 of Justice of the Peace ; and also served 
 as Township Assessor. 
 
 T3ROPHY. W.. far.- P O East Bur- 
 \J Hngton. 
 
 Barrow, George, far.; P. O. Sycamore. 
 
 Barry, E. E., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Butts, Mary, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Beernish, A., far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Barren, Jane, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Ballard, H. C., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Ballenger, W., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Brown, G. H., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Barry, C. E., far.; P. 0. Burlinston. 
 
 CRAFT, CHAS. T., farmer; P. 0. East 
 Burlington. 
 
 Carver, D., far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 Cripps, Jos., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Collins, L., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 Cole, J. H., cheese factory; P. 0. East 
 
 Burlington. 
 
 Craft, L 0., far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 Clark, John, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Carroll, J. D., far.; P. 0. E. Burlington. 
 Crystall, Jos., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Crystall, W., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Crystall, Jas., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Cripps, J. R., farmer ; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 CHAPMAN, B. P., far.; Sec. 14; 
 P. 0. Burlington ; was born near To- 
 ronto, Canada West, March 7. 1827 ; 
 came to Kane Co. about the year 1842, 
 settling on his present home ; after 
 spending about two years in Chicago, he 
 was married, Feb. 2, 1851, to Miss La- 
 vina Godfrey, of Burlington Tp., who 
 was born in Vermont Jan. 23, 1830; 
 they have three children living Albert 
 M., who was born June 15, 1852, married 
 Miss Maggie Sherwood, of Plato Tp., 
 Dec. 8, 1875; he resides at the home- 
 stead and carries on the farms. The 
 other children are Adah ( now Mrs. Ira 
 W. Smith, of Burlington Tp.) and Chas. 
 E. Mr. Chapman and his son own 
 403 acres of land, valued at $20,000. 
 Mr. Chapman has held the office of 
 Constable for the town of Burlington 
 for the past twenty-five years, continu- 
 ously; has also been Deputy Sheriff of 
 the county, most of the time, for the 
 past twelve years, and has served several 
 terms as Collector. Is a Republican. 
 
 CHRISTIANSEN, CARL E. J., 
 
 M. D., was born in Erfde, in Schles- 
 wig-Holstein, Germany, June 6, 1848 ; 
 he was educated at Kiel, in Schleswig- 
 Holstein, and at Giessen, in Hesse, re- 
 ceiving his diploma from Giessen Uni- 
 versity ; came to the United States in 
 1873, being a passenger on the ill-fated 
 " Atlantic," which was wrecked off the 
 coast of Nova Scotia on her passage from 
 Liverpool to New York ; Dr. Christian- 
 sen was one of 429 saved out of a list 
 of nearly 1,100, including officers and 
 crew. He served through the Franco- 
 Prussian War as Asst. Surgeon of the 
 9th Artillery ; was wounded at the bat- 
 tle of Gravelotte, and again at the battle 
 of Orleans. Arriving at New York, he 
 was appointed by the Commissioners of 
 Immigration as Asst. Physician in the 
 hospital at Castle Garden ; he after- 
 ward went to Milwaukee and practiced 
 medicine for a while, and, in 1875, re- 
 moved to Chicago ; he came to Burling- 
 ton in August, 1877, where he is now 
 engaged in the practice of his profes- 
 sion. Married, Dec. 28, 187'i, to Miss 
 Augusta Putscher, of Burlington Tp. ; 
 they have one child Karl Earnest Au- 
 gust Fahrenholtz. 
 Cripps, A. H., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BURLINGTON. 
 
 663 
 
 Casey, Dennis, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Chapman, B. F., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Carro. J. L., farmer; P.O. Burlington. 
 Casey, Thos., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Calkins, Luther, farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 Cripps, E. C., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Cripps, A. D., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Cough, Jos., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 DAVIS, DAVID, farmer ; P. 0. Bur- 
 lington. 
 
 Davis, Reed, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Devine, David, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 ELLITHORP, L. S., farmer; P. 0. 
 East Burlington. 
 Ellithorp, W. H., farmer; P. 0. East 
 
 Burlington. 
 Endres, Mrs., P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 ELLITHORP, STEPHEN R., 
 
 farmer, Sec. '27 ; P. 0. East Burlington ; 
 born in Vt. April 20, 1819 ; came to 
 Kane, and settled on the farm still owned 
 and occupied by him, in 1842 ; owns 
 318 acres of land, valued at SI 6,000; 
 is a Democrat. Married Jan. 12, 1841, 
 to Miss Emily Smith, of the Province of 
 Quebec ; they have five children living 
 Marion R , William H., Libby P., 
 Nettie E., Nathan S.; their oldest son, 
 Franklin B., died in Kansas Feb. 2, 
 1876. Mr. Ellithorp held the office of 
 Town Clerk two years. 
 
 Eaton, F:, far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Engal, S. E., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 TpELLOWS, ADAM, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 JD East Burlington. 
 
 Factley, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Factley, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Factley, N. R. S., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Fatherill, John, laborer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Frink, David, farmer ; P. O. Sycamore. 
 
 f~^\ ODFREY, C. B., far.; P. 0. Bur- 
 
 V^JT lington. 
 
 Grollemand, Jno., far; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Grollemand, Leo., far ; P. 0. Burlington. I 
 
 HAWLEY, T. S., farmer ; P. 0. East 
 Burlington. 
 
 Hine, C., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Helson, Win., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 HODGSON, WILLIAM, Sec. 3, 
 
 farmer ; P. 0. Burlington ; Rep. ; he 
 rents a farm of 220 acres of A. J. 
 Mann ; he was born in Yorkshire, En- j 
 gland, in 1834, and came to Ontario, C. ! 
 W., with his brother Mathew, when he j 
 was eighteen years old ; there he resided ] 
 until 1856, when he moved to Wis.; he 
 
 remained there two years and then re- 
 turned to Canada ; he came to Kane 
 Co. and settled in Burlington in 1864; 
 was married Sept. 6, 1855, to Miss 
 Mercy A. Wilson, who was born in On- 
 tario, C. W., July 10, 1837 ; they have 
 11 children living George L., Salome 
 E., Rachael A., William H., James E., 
 Chas. L., Delia A., Grace J., Ezra G.. 
 Herbert 0., and Calvin W. 
 
 Heine G., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 HEPTON, GEORGE, Sec. 7, far- 
 mer and stock raiser; P.O. Sycamore; 
 Dem. ; Cath. ; born in Lincolnshire, 
 England, Feb. 13, 1816; came to the 
 United States in 1844, and settled in 
 Kane Co. ; he was married in 1849, to 
 Miss Hannah Stacia, of St. Charles, 111., 
 who was born in Ireland ; they have 
 two children Sarah and Bridget ; Mr. 
 Hepton owns a farm of 207 acres, valued 
 at $10,000. 
 
 Helson, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Hagreen, Isaac, far. ; P. 0. ; Burlington. 
 
 Holden, C., far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 HAWLEY, T. S., Sec. 25 ; farmer 
 and dairyman ; P. 0. East Burlington ; 
 Spir. ; Ind. ; he was born in Mont- 
 gomery Co., N. Y., July 4, 1814, and 
 came to Illinois in 1844 and settled in 
 Lake Co. ; he removed to Kane Co. in 
 1854, and with the exception of about 
 four years spont in Wisconsin, has been a 
 resident of the county ever since ; he 
 was married in 1847, to Miss Sarah 
 Cramp, of McHenry Co., 111. ; they 
 have six children living Marcus A., 
 Helen L., Ann E., Emily H., Cora E., 
 Arvin T. ; one child, Sarah E., died 
 April 14, 1855. Mr. H. owns 127 
 acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. 
 
 Heine, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Hepton, Geo., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 TONES, N. W., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 fj Jackson, E. V., far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 IT" ING, S. M , far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Kegan, Pat, far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 King, J. A., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 LAWRENCE, JOHN., far., P. 0. 
 Burlington. 
 
 LAWRENCE, EDWARD, far. , 
 
 Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Burlington ; Rep. ; owns 
 a farm of 200 acres, valued at $8.000 ; 
 also one of 120 acres, situated in DC 
 Kalb Co. ; he was born in Lancashire,
 
 664 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Eng., Jan. 15, 1819 ; he came to Kane 
 Co. in 1850, spending about a year in 
 St. Charles ; since that time he has 
 been a resident of Burlington Tp. ; he 
 was married June 4, 1856, to Miss 
 Lissey Marshall, of Sycamore, 111., who 
 was born in Nottinghamshire, Eng., in 
 Jan. 27, 1835 ; they have four children 
 Marshall, M. Jane, Kobert E. and 
 Mary E. 
 
 Lovell, Chas., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Lawrence, John, far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 LAWRENCE, WM., far, dairy- 
 man and stock raiser; Sec. 17 ; P. 0. 
 Burlington ; was born in Lancashire, 
 Eng., Feb. 28, 1829 ; he came to Kane 
 Co. in 1850 ; he was the second, in age, of 
 three brothers who came to Kane Co. 
 at the same time ; all of whom are 
 settled on adjoining farms, and are mar- 
 ried to three sisters, daughters of Wm. 
 Marshall, who came to Kane Co. in 
 1852 ; Mr. Lawrence was married on 
 the 30th of March, 1854, to Miss 
 Mary Marshall, of Cherry Grove, who 
 was born in Nottinghamshire, Eng., 
 March 25, 1837 ; they have four chil- 
 dren living Clara E., John F., Mary 
 and Hattie May ; they have lost seven, 
 five of them within the last four years ; 
 he owns 495 acres of land, valued at 
 $40 per acre ; Rep. ; Mr. and Mrs. Law- 
 rence are Methodists. 
 
 MATTESON, H. A, farmer; P.O. 
 Burlington 
 
 Middleton, J, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Morey, J. H., far. ; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 Mann, A. J., Postmaster; P. 0. Burling- 
 ton. 
 
 McConell, A., far. ; P. O. East Burling- 
 ton. 
 
 MANN. A. J., general merchant; P. 
 0. Burlington ; born in Wyoming 
 Co., N. Y., Nov. 8, 1835; when 
 he was 9 years old he came, with 
 his father's family, to Kane Co, set- 
 tling at Burlington ; the family con- 
 sisted of five brothers and four sisters, 
 all but one of whom came at the same 
 time; the brothers, of whom A. J. is 
 the fourth, are all residents of Kane 
 Co. ; at the age of 17 years, Mr. Mann 
 entered the store of his brother, S. S. 
 Mann, remaining there until 1856, when 
 he became a partner in the firm of 
 Mann Bros. ; the partnership continued 
 
 until 1859, when they disposed of their 
 business to S. C. Hapgood, and retired 
 to their farms, where they resided until 
 1865 ; the firm of Mann, Hapgood & 
 Co. was then established, which still 
 continues ; they have, also, a store and 
 cheese factory at Hampshire Station, 
 conducted undr the firm name of 
 Hathaway & Co. He was married Oct. 
 13, 1858, to Miss Elsie Terwilliger, of 
 Hampshire, who was born in Chenango 
 Co, N. Y, April 28, 1835 ; they have 
 two children living James F. and 
 Effie ; he owns 225 acres of land, finely 
 improved, at and near Burlington P. 0., 
 valued at $12,000 ; Mr. Mann was 
 elected Town Clerk in 1867, holding the 
 office three years; in 1870, he was 
 elected a member of the Board of Su- 
 pervisors, and held the ofiice four years ; 
 he is at present Town Clerk and Town- 
 ship Trustee, to which positions he was 
 chosen in April, 1877 ; Mr. Mann is a 
 Republican. 
 
 McDonagh, J, far. ; P. 0. East Burlinar- 
 ton. 
 
 McEwen, Jas., far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 MANN, JAMES, retired farmer; P. 
 
 0. Burlington ; was born in Blanford, 
 Hampden Co, Mass, Jan. 1, 1794; re- 
 moved to Sheldon, Wyoming Co, N. Y, 
 in 1810, and a few years later to Java, in 
 the same county, where he resided up to 
 the time of his coming West. At Java, 
 he erected a hotel in 1836, which is 
 still used for that purpose. He came 
 West in 1843, and purchased a large tract 
 of land in Burlington and Hampshire 
 Townships, Kane Co, 111.; in the follow- 
 ing Spring, he removed with his family 
 to Burlington, his present home ; on Jan. 
 
 1, 1815, he was married to Miss Lucy 
 Sherman, who was born in the State of 
 R. I. ; she died at Burlington, Sept 24, 
 1870; there were ten children by this 
 union, seven living Franklin, Elvira, 
 wife of Merritt B. Lewis ; Lucy C, wife 
 of Amos A. Brown (both of whom now 
 reside at Lockport, N. Y.); Sylvester S, 
 Faimenio A, Alfred J, and Sherman D.; 
 the three deceased are Orion, died Jan. 
 8, 1824; Julina, died April 26, 1847; 
 Louisa, wife of S. C. Hapgood, died May 
 18, 1868. Was married to his present 
 wife, Mrs. Esther Tabor, July 10, 1871; 
 she was born in Washington Co., N. Y.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BURLINGTON. 
 
 665 
 
 McEwen, Jno., far.; P. 0. E. Burlington. 
 McEwen, W., far.; P. 0. E. Burlington. 
 Maynard, Ge^t., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington, i 
 MANN, S. D., farmer and dairyman ; 
 ' P. 0. Burlington ; born in Wyoming Co., 
 N. Y., April 5, 1839 ; came to Kane Co. 
 with his father's family in 1844 ; is the 
 youngest of a family of nine ; he was 
 married, Nov. 21, I860, to Miss C. E. 
 Terwilliger, of Hampshire ; they have 
 three children living Georgiana, An- 
 drew Eugene and Elsie M.; owns 240 
 acres of land, valued at $10,000 ; Rep. 
 Maurer, Ignatius, far.: P. O. Burlington. 
 McGregor, Margaret, far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 MIETH, AUGUST, blacksmith; 
 born in Germany. April 5, 1829 ; came 
 to Chicago in 1855, remaining there 
 fifteen years, following his trade of a 
 blacksmith ; removed to Kane Co., in 
 1 870, settling on a farm about a mile 
 and a half east of Burlington P. 0. ; | 
 resided there until 1874, when he opened 
 a blacksmith's shop at the village. He j 
 still owns the farm of 135 acres, valued j 
 at &35 an acre. Married in 1854 to | 
 Miss Theodora Wika, who died in 1858 ; 
 in I860, he was again married to Miss 
 Mary Pingal, of Chicago, who was a 
 native of Germany; she died in 1872. 
 ' He has five children August, Emma, 
 Fritz, Barta and Ida. Mr. Mieth is a 
 Republican and Lutheran. 
 McGoagh, James, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Mitchell, Nancy, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 McEwen, A. V., far. ; P. 0. East Burling- 
 ton. 
 
 MANN, FRANKLIN, butter and 
 cheese manufacturer ; P. 0. Burling- 
 ton ; born in Wyoming Co., N. Y., Jan. 
 13, 1816. Married. June 21, 1838, to 
 Miss Electa Willard, of St. Joseph Co., 
 Mich., who was born in Cattaraugus Co., 
 N. Y., April 1. 1816; came to Kane 
 Co. in 1844, and engaged in farming 
 five years ; in 1849, he built a steam 
 saw-mill at Burlington, and followed the 
 trade of a carpenter and wagon maker 
 until 1872, when he engaged in the 
 manufacture of butter and cheese, with 
 his son-in-law, Mr. Roseborough ; he 
 has two children living Delia M. (now 
 Mrs. Roseborough) and Celia ; his son, 
 Thaddeus, was a member of the 8th 111. 
 Cavalry ; served through the war, and 
 .afterward enlisted in the regular 
 
 army, serving two years, and died in 
 St. Louis in 1870 ; Mr. Mann owns 
 a house and lot, at Burlington ; a farm 
 of 145 acres, about a mile north of the 
 village, and, with Mr. Roseborough, 
 owns the cheese and butter factory at 
 Burlington ; he is a Rep.; has served as 
 School Director about ten years, as 
 Town Clerk four years, as Township 
 Trustee of Schools two years, and as 
 Commissioner of Highways five years ; 
 he was elected Justice of the Peace and 
 Notary Public in 1870, and still holds 
 the office; he is also, at present, Town- 
 ship School Treasurer. 
 McEWAN, ROBT., Sec. 36; P. 0. 
 
 East Burlington ; Rep. ; born in the 
 County of Perth, Scotland, Sept. 15, 
 1841 ; came to the United States in 1852, 
 settling in Kane Co. Married Sept. 
 22, 1867, to Mies Ann Harvey of Bur- 
 lington Tp. ; who was born in England, 
 Jan. 11, 1827. They have three chil- 
 dren Fred. A., Mary E. and Frank E. 
 Owns 56 acres of land, valued at $40 an 
 acre ; has held the office of School Direc- 
 tor since April, 1875. 
 
 -pUTyHER, E., farmer; P. 0. Bur- 
 I lington. 
 
 Parkenson. W., merchant; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Peirce, D. W., far.; P. O. E. Burlington. 
 
 Powers, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Pearcey, Robt, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 PERRY, MATHEW H., farmer, 
 Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Sycamore ; is one of the 
 earliest settlers of the county ; was born 
 in Berkshire Co., Mass., Aug. 27, 1796; 
 his parents removed to Yates Co., N. 
 Y., when he was about seventeen years 
 of age. He was married Dec. 25, 1821, 
 to Miss Pamela Briggs, who was born 
 in East Greenwich, R. I., April 7, 1802 ; 
 they removed to Ottawa, 111., in 1837, 
 and, the following year, settled in Big 
 Rock Tp., Kane Co.; they had five sons 
 living at the beginning of the late civil 
 war, all of whom served in the army, 
 and two of them, Hale and Samuel, lost 
 their lives in the service of their country ; 
 one son, Josiah, died at the age of 
 twenty-two years ; the children now liv- 
 ing are Oliver H.. Amos, George W., 
 Delia, Lucy, Mary, Pamela and Sarah. 
 Mr. Perry is a Republican; owns 17 
 acres of land in Kane Co., and 160 
 acres in Nubraska.
 
 666 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Perry, M. C., farmer ; P. O. Sycamore. 
 Perry, J. M., farmer ; P. O. Sycamore. 
 Patch, S. C., farmer; P..O. Sycamore. 
 Pease, S. L., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Phelps, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Pease, J. L., farmer; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Perry, George, W., far. ; P. O. Sycamore, i 
 TT)USSELL J., far.; P. O. Sycamore. 
 
 Roseubaugh. J., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 ROSEBOROUGH, JOSEPH, 
 
 Sec. 31 ; farmer; P. 0. Sycamore; Rep.; 
 he was born in the North of Ireland, 
 Feb. 15, 1812, and came with his pa- 
 rents to Canada West when he was about 
 12 years of age; he was married Dec. 
 29, 1833, to Miss Hannah Brisbin, who 
 was born in the Province of Quebec, near 
 Lake Champlain, May 24, 1813; they 
 have 13 children living Joseph (now 
 living in Nevada), Alexander (residing 
 in Oregon), Donald (now a resident of 
 Iowa), Jane (now Mrs. W. M. Lewis), ; 
 Rachel (now Mrs. VVestgrath), Hannah ; 
 (now Mrs. Snell), James (living at 
 Burlington P. 0.), Nancy C. (now 
 Mrs. Strong), John (residing in Hamp- 
 shire Tp.), Mary, Samuel, Charles, and 
 Angeline ; one child, George, died in 
 Nov., 1850. Mr. R. owns 120 acres of j 
 land, valued at $5,400. 
 Roberts, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. | 
 Richert, Jacob, far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Rogers, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. " 
 
 ROSEBOROUGH, JAMES, but 
 
 ter and cheese mfr., junior partner in 
 the firm of F. Mann & Co. ; he was born 
 in Virgil Tp., Kane Co., May 6, 1846, 
 and followed farming until he was 18 
 years of age, when he learned the trade 
 of a blacksmith, and followed it until 
 about three years ago, when he entered 
 upon the present business ; he was mar- 
 ried Dec. 29, 1870, to Miss Delia M. 
 Mann, daughter of Franklin Mann, one 
 of the earliest settlers of Burlington Tp.; 
 they have one child, Dewey, born June 
 15, 1876; Mr. R. is a Rep; has held 
 the offices of Constable, Collector and 
 School Treasurer. 
 
 Risser, F. H., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Russell, Jones, far. ; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 SOLOMAN, THOS , far.; P. 0. East 
 Burlington. 
 
 Soloman, J. P., far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 Seward, H., far.; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 Swinbank, Wm., far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 SCHAIRER, GEO. E., Sec 15, 
 
 farmer ; P. 0. Burlington ; he was born 
 in Chicago, July 3, 1844; he came to 
 Kane Co. in 1868. and was married 
 May 4, 1876, to Miss Salome Fix, of 
 Lisle, Du Page Co.. 111. They have one 
 child, Edward. 
 
 SCHA.IRER, CHAS. H., was 
 
 born in Chicago, Nov. 18, 1850, and 
 came to Kane Co. in 1871. 
 
 SCHAIRER, LOUIS, was born in 
 Lisle, 111., Jan. 18, 1857 ; came to this 
 county in 1868. The above named, 
 with two sisters Carrie M. (now Mrs. 
 Chase, of De Kalb Co.), and Salome 
 (now living in De Kalb Co.), constitute 
 the family of George Schairer, who came 
 to this county in 1868, and died in 
 1870. The estate comprises 140 acres, 
 valued at $40 per acre. The three 
 brothers above named own, in addition, 
 98 acres, valued at $40 per acre. They 
 are Democrats, and were raised in the 
 German Lutheran Church. 
 
 Struck, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 SCHULZ, PHILIP, far. and stock 
 raiser ; Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Burlingten ; born 
 in Baden, Germany, May 25, 1838 ; 
 came to this country i,n 1846, and set- 
 tled in Du Page Co., residing there 
 about twenty years, and settling in Kane 
 Co. in 1866; he was married, Sept. 15, 
 1861, to Miss Caroline Delles, of Chi- 
 cago, who was born in Luxemburg, Ger- 
 many, Jan. 18, 1843; they have seven 
 children living Mary, Carrie, Philip, 
 Katie M., Rosa L., Lizzie and Adelia 
 M. ; one daughter, Annie I., died Oct. 
 8, 1877. Mr. Schulz has been School 
 Director about eight years ; Dem.; owns 
 446 acres of land, valued at $45 per 
 acres. Mr. S. and family are Catholics. 
 
 SHOLES, DAVID, farmer and stock 
 dealer ; Sec. 24 ; P. O. Burlington ; born 
 in Genesee Co., N. Y., June^ 9, 1820 ; 
 came to Illinois in 1 840 ; stopping about 
 a year in Knox Co., and another year in 
 Galena, settling in Kane Co., in 1843. 
 Married March 29, 1847, to Miss Mary 
 J. Young of Burlington Tp., who was 
 born in the State of New York in 1827. 
 Have three children living Earnest C., 
 Esther C., (now Mrs. Wm. Smith of 
 Sycamore), and David W. Mr. Sholes 
 is a Democrat.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BURLINGTON. 
 
 667 
 
 Samis, B., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 SPRAGUE, C. W., farmer ; Sec. 10 ; 
 P. Burlington ; born in Erie Co., 
 Penn., April 24, 1835. His father's 
 family removed to Kane Co., when he 
 was three years of age, settling in what 
 what is now Rutland Tp. ; he was mar- 
 ried Dec. 6, 1865 to Miss Sarah Jobe, 
 a native of McHenry Co., 111., who was 
 born March 14, 1845 ; they have five 
 children living Jessie L., Ephraim J., 
 Willard L., Maudie S. and Wm. R ; 
 one child, Wm. C., died May 23, 1868. 
 Owns 80 acres of land, valued at $4,400. 
 He enlisted in 1861 in the 52d 111. Vols., 
 serving 19 months; he was wounded 
 twice at the battle of Corinth, one ball 
 passing through his left leg and another 
 through the heel of his right foot, also 
 received as many as eight bullet holes 
 in his clothing; this was during a charge 
 to recapture a battery that had been 
 taken from them by the enemy. He is 
 a Republican, and himself and wife are 
 members of the Baptist Church. 
 
 Smith, W. J., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Shefner, L., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Sullivan, J.. farmer; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Swinbank, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Smith, L. B. far. ; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Sawyer, D. H., far. ; P. O. East Burlington. 
 
 SAMIS, VALENTINE, farmer; 
 Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Burlington; owns 130 
 acres of land valued at $45 an acre ; has 
 been School Director nine years. He 
 was born in the Province of Ontario, 
 Feb. 25, 1829. Came to Kane Co., in 
 1848, and in 1851 he settled in Du Page 
 Co., residing there four years ; he then 
 removed to Whiteside Co., and lived 
 there two years ; returning to Kane Co., 
 he settled in Burlington Tp. in 1857 on 
 the farm now owned and occupied by 
 him. He was married Nov. 21, 1860, to 
 Miss Nancy A. McClelland, of Hamp- 
 shire Tp., who was born in Crawford 
 Co., Pa., Nov. 18, 1841. They have 
 five children Martha, Eva J., William 
 S., Solomon and Edwin. 
 
 Sanders, Jno., far.; P. O. Burlington. 
 
 SMITH, IRA. W., feon of the above, 
 farmer and dairyman ; born on the 
 homestead in Burlington Tp., June 3, 
 1852 ; married Dec. 24, 1874, to Miss 
 Adah Chapman, of Burlington Tp.; 
 they have one child, Cecil. 
 
 Swinbank, S., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington, 
 Sparow, Chas., far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 SMITH, MRS. JANE, Sec 2 ; P. 
 
 0. Hampshire ; was born in Crawford 
 Co., Penn., March 13, 1815 ; she was 
 married June 23, 1836, to the late 
 Charles Smith, who was born in Mercer 
 Co., Penn., July 22. 1812; they re- 
 moved to Kane Co. in] 1850; Mr. 
 Smith died Sept, 15, 1869 ; Mrs. Suii h 
 has nine children living Anna (now 
 Mrs. C. Hart, of Wisconsin) ; John M. 
 (now living in Kansas), Lydia W. (now 
 Mrs. E. B. Wright, of Ford Co., 
 111.), Mary M. (wife of Richard Santee, 
 of Elgin), William M. (living in Syca- 
 more), Eliza, (wife of E. Keyse, of 
 Burlington), Ira W., Maggie and 
 Charles ; Mrs. Smith is a member of 
 Unionist Church. 
 
 SMITH, CHARLES, was born Dec. 
 11, 1856; he is engaged with his 
 brother in carrying on the farm and in 
 dairying and stock raising ; they are 
 Republicans ; the estate comprises 400 
 acres, valued at $20,000. 
 
 Sprague, Sarah E., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Sammis, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 SMITH, WM., farmer, Sec. 29 ; P. O. 
 Sycamore ; born in Niagara Co., N. Y. r 
 May 5, 1819; until 1847 he lived in 
 sight of Niagara Falls, when he came 
 to Kane Co. and settled in Burlington 
 Tp.; he was married Jan. 28, 1843, to 
 Miss- Catharine O'Kane, of his native 
 county, was born in the Co. of London- 
 derry, Ireland, in 1819; they have 
 two children William J. and Catha- 
 rine A. (now Mrs. Charles Barry, of 
 Burlington Tp.); Mr. Smith owns 180 
 acres of land, valued at $7,200 ; he is a 
 Republican. 
 
 Swinbank, Margaret, P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Sauoders, Richard, far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 SHOLES, D. W., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 13; P. 0. Burlington; Dem.; 
 born in Burlington Tp., Kane Co., 111., 
 April 24, 1854 ; was married July 
 17, 1872, to Miss Jane McClelland of 
 the same town ; they have two children. 
 
 rpRUSCOTT, RICHARD, far.; P. 0. 
 1 Sycamore. 
 
 Torey, J. W., far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Thompson, J., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 
 Tucker, C. H., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Thompson, E. A., far. P. 0. Burlington.
 
 668 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 THOMPSON, T. J., farmer and 
 stock raiser ; Sec. 24 ; P. 0. East Bur- 
 lington ; Rep.; born in Greenbriar Co., 
 West Virginia, April 18, 1833 ; in 1849, 
 his father's family moved to Kane Co., 
 and settled on the farm now owned and 
 occupied by Mr. Thompson. Married 
 Dec. 3, 1857, to Miss Hannah A. Tucker, 
 of Campton Tp., who was born in West 
 Virginia, April 14, 1839; they have 
 five children John R., Charles K., 
 Frank F., Mary J. and Henry M. ; Mr. 
 Thompson and wife are members of the 
 American Wesleyan Methodist Church ; 
 he owns a farm of 220 acres, valued at 
 $11,000. 
 
 1TTMDENSTOCK, MICHAEL, farmer 
 L_J and stock raiser ; Sec. 5 ; P. 0. 
 Burlington ; Dem. ; Cath. ; born in Al- 
 sace, France. March 4, 1833; came to 
 the U. S. in 1853, and spent one year 
 in Du Page Co., III. ; he then went to 
 California, and engaged in mining, re- 
 maining there ten years ; returning, he 
 settled on his present farm in Burling- 
 ton Tp. He was married April 21, 
 1866, to Miss Mary A. Ansel, of Na- 
 perville, 111., who was born in Alsace, 
 France, Sept. 11, 1840 ; they have four 
 children Michael, Joseph, John and 
 William; he owns 160 acres, valued at 
 $6.400. 
 
 VAN DUSEN, 0., far. ; P. O. Syca- 
 more. 
 Viggers, James, far ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Varty. Thos., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Varty, Margaret, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Varty, R. J., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 TTTEIGHTMAN, H, farmer; P. 0. 
 VV Burlington. 
 
 Wallace, John, far.; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 WRIGHT, D. C.. farmer; Sees. 11, 
 14 and 15 ; P. 0. Burlington ; Rep.; 
 born in Putnam Co., N. Y., March 1, 
 1822; in 1836, his father removed with 
 his family to this township ; he was one 
 of the earliest settlers, there being but 
 two houses in the township at the time 
 he came ; Mr. Wright was married Jan. 
 3, 1847, to Miss Sarah J. Pease, of 
 Burlington Tp., who was born in Catta- 
 raugus Co., N. Y., Nov. 3, 1828 ; they 
 have seven children Daniel S., Will- 
 iam T., Hattie J., Helen R., Jennie M., 
 Ida L. and Rosa E. ; owns a farm of 
 192 acres, valued at $9,600. 
 
 Wadley, John, farmer ; P. 0. East Bur- 
 lington. 
 
 Ward, Mary, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Wright, Sol., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Wangham, P., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Wallace, Edw., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Wallace, Patrick, far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 White, Caroline, far. ; P. 0.' Burlington. 
 
 Winchester, Geo., far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 ^OUNG, S., far. ; P. 0. Burlingion, 
 
 Y 
 
 Young, Daniel, far. ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 Elgin township 
 
 ELGIN TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A LLASON, J. W., farmer; P.O. El- 
 J_\_ gin. 
 
 Allason, Robert, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Allason, Alice ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Allason. Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Abbott, N. K., farmer ; South Elgin. 
 Anderson, Hans, shoemaker ; P. 0. South 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Ahrens, Joseph ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Avendet. Chas., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Alexander, Kate, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Abbott, H. S., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Alberdeng, Theo., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Abell, W. W., watch factory ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 ABLER, LEOPOLD, clothier and 
 hatter ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Baden, 
 Germany, Oct. 15, 1834 : came to this 
 country in 1855, locating in Chicago, 
 where he remained until 1857, when he 
 took up his residence in Elgin; married 
 in 1859 to Miss Rosa Shewerman, of 
 Muscatine, Iowa ; has six children ; is a 
 member of Elgin Lodge, No. 117, A.. 
 F. & A. M. ; also of Loyal L. Munn 
 Chapter, No. 96. Mr. A. was one of 
 the unfortunate ones in the fire of Mareh 
 23, 1874, losing about $3,000. 
 
 Ablerman, A., P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 669 
 
 Abbott, Jesse, Jr., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Allen, Geo. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ahlo, Charles, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Acker, G. H., Tea Co. manager ; P. O. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Adams, S. M., artist; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Ayres, Charles, billiards ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Anderson, Andrew, watch factory ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Amaden, Eliza, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Amaden, J., notions ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Adams, J. M., artist; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Allen, E. J., mail route messenger ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Apple, Andrew, manfr. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Anderson. Swan, Milk Condensing Co.; 
 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 Allanson, Henry, stock dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ABBOT, NATHANIEL K., far 
 
 mer ; Sec. 26 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in 
 Washington, Orange Co., Vt., Dec. 19, 
 1818 ; came to Illinois in the Fall of 
 1842, stopping at Lockport, Will Co., 
 until the following Spring, when he re- 
 moved to Kane Co.; Rep.; Liberal ; 
 married Miss Ann M. Devore, April 12, 
 1839 ; she was born in the State of 
 Ohio; five children living Henry S., 
 Abram A., Eleanor E., wife of Seth 
 Doxey ; Mary C., wife of M. Bragey ; 
 Isabell A., wife of Wm. Barton; lost 
 three Mary Ann, Sophia J. and Agnes. 
 
 Adams, J. S., Supt. watch factory ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Adams, Oscar, dentist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Aldrich, C. T., barber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Anderson, Z., laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Adams, 0. 0., watch factory ;'P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Allen, A. G., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ALLEN, EDSON K.. Constable; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Rutland Co., 
 Vt., May 19, 1834; came to Illinois in 
 early childhood with his parents, who 
 located in Hampshire Township, Kane 
 Co., in 1837 ; Rep.; Bapt.; married 
 Miss Mary Jane Brydia Nov. 1, 1855 ; 
 she was born in Crawford Co., Pa., June 
 27, 1838 ; two children living Lucre- 
 tia N. and George E.; lost one child 
 William E., died in Feb., 1863 ; Mr. A. 
 served during the war in the Kane Co. 
 Cavalry, which was consolidated with 
 the 15th Cavalry in Dec., 1862, and 
 afterward merged into the 10th 111. Cav- 
 alry ; was formerly a member of Bur- 
 lington Lodge, No. 637, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Able, Clara, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Anderson. C. K., P. Elgin. 
 
 Aldrich, U. E., expressman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ayres, R. S., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ainsworth, E. C., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Abbott, Mrs. S. A., dressmaker ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Abbott, Ann B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Adolph, Rose, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Adriance, N. V., farmer; P. O Elgin. 
 Anderson, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Andrews, Samuel, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Abbott, F., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BARRY, A. S., teacher, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Britton, L. F., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Bishop, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BLOOMFIELD, NORMAN J. 
 
 (D. R. Jencks & Co.), real estate, in- 
 surance and passage tickets ; P. 0. El- 
 gin ; born in Herkimer Co., N. Y., 
 Dec. 20, 1818 ; came to Illinois in 1860, 
 locating at Dundee ; has resided at El- 
 gin t-ince 1866 ; Dem.; Lib.; has filled 
 the offices of School Inspector and Su- 
 perintendent in Herkimer Co., N. Y.; 
 was Captain of steamer Great Western, 
 Lake Erie, from 1 852 to 1855 ; married, 
 in 1864, to Miss Louisa M. Mills, of 
 Buffalo, N. Y., who died in March. 
 1851 ; was again married, in October, 
 1853, to Harriet A. Van Norman, of 
 Tillsonburg, Canada ; three children 
 Kate L., Frank L. and Sam B. Mr. B. 
 is a member of Monitor Lodge, No. 
 522, A., F. & A. M.; has a watch 
 which bears this inscription : " Pre- 
 sented to Past Master N. J. Bloomfield 
 by Monitor Lod^e, No. 522, A., F. & A. 
 M., Dec. 30, 5875. 
 
 Bishop, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bartell, Chris., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BROWV, JAMES C., far.; born in 
 Steuben Co., N. Y., March 20, 1831 ; 
 came to Illinois, in November, 1844, lo- 
 cating in Hampshire Tp., Kane Co. ; 
 came to Elgin, his present home, in 
 1 874 ; owns 400 acres of land, valued 
 at 820,000 ; Rep.; Lib.; was elected 
 Sheriff of Kane Co. in 1870, and re- 
 elected in 1872 ; has held other minor 
 offices, and at present that of Super- 
 visor of Elgin Tp.; married Miss The- 
 resa P. Harney, of Massillon, Ohio, Sept. 
 23, 1 855 ; three children living Lijli e 
 
 D., Ira J. and Mamie L.; lost on e 
 
 Daisy, who died in 1852, aged 11 y rs 
 A
 
 670 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Bishop, Chas., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Barton, Wm., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Burns, Samuel, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Buzzell, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 BOSWORTH, INCREASE C., 
 
 President of the First National Bank of 
 Elgin ; born in Greenfield, Saratoga 
 Co., N. Y,, April 2, 1812 ; came to 
 Illinois in 1836, remaining in Chicago 
 two years, and locating at Dundee in 
 1838 ; in 1867, he removed to Elgin, 
 his present home ; owns 450 acres of 
 land, valued at $30,000 ; served as Su- 
 pervisor of Dundee Tp. for two years, 
 and same term in Elgin Tp. Mr. B. is 
 Resident Trustee of the Northern Illi- 
 nois Hospital for the Insane, at Elgin, 
 and one of the Directors of the Elgin 
 Academy ; he is also connected with 
 the Chicago University and Theological 
 Seminary, being on the Board of Trus- 
 tees of both institutions. Rep.; Bapt.; 
 married, in December, 1844, to Mary 
 Ann, daughter of Dr. Root (formerly of 
 Elgin, deceased) ; four children Alfred, 
 William E., Abbie L. and Henry I. 
 
 Badendick. Louis, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BORDEN, HENRY LEE, Super- 
 intendent of the Illinois Condensing 
 Company, Elgin, 111. ; born in Egypt, 
 Wheaton Co., Texas, Jan, 18, 1832 ; j 
 came to Illinois in March, 1875, locat- ; 
 ing at Elgin, his present home ; Lib. ; 
 married, in 1872, to Miss Laura J. 
 George, of Wheaton Co., Texas ; owns 
 600 acres of land in the State of Texas, 
 valued at $6,000. Mr. B.'s father, Gail ; 
 Borden, who died Jan. 12, 1873, was 
 widely known, both in this country and 
 Europe, in ' connection with various 
 forms of concentrated food, especially 
 that of condensed milk. 
 
 BARCLAY, DAVID P., dealer in 
 hardware and stoves ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Edinburgh. Scotland, March 29, ; 
 1828; came to this country in 1842, 
 locating at Waukegan, 111., where he 
 remained until 1851, when he came to 
 Elgin, his present home; served as 
 Mayor of Elgin three terms 1874, : 5 
 and '6; was married in 1851, to Miss 
 Martricia J. Hammer, of Elgin ; she 
 was born in Cook Co., her father being 
 one of the first settlers of that county. 
 Rep.: Meth.; Mr. B. is a member of 
 Elgin Lodge, No. 117, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Bateman, Jacob, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, W. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Buzzell, Mrs. W. S., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Bramer, Lena, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barton, Charles, carriage trimmer ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Baker, Chas. D., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Bradford, H. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Bigsby, C. L., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BOSWORTH FRANKLIN S., 
 
 dealer in hardware, stoves and dairy 
 supplies ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Boston 7 
 Erie Co., N. Y., Dec. 17. 1831 ; came 
 to Illinois in Aug., 1839, locating at 
 Dundee ; removed to Elgin about six 
 years ago; Rep.; Liberal; was married 
 in 1859, to Miss Sarah E. Hunt, of 
 Cleveland. Ohio ; she was born in 
 Perrysburg, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. - r 
 have three children Edward [., Mary 
 A. and Frank H. 
 
 Brown, Alex., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burk. Ella, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BALDWIN, LYNDON A. (L. A, 
 
 Baldwin & Co.), druggists ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in St. Lawrence County, 
 N. Y.; came to Illinois in 1850, 
 locating in McHenry Co.. 111.; removed 
 to Elgin in 1864; was married, in 
 1857, to Miss Mary D. Joslyn, of 
 Chicago ; they have two children 
 Bessie A. and Harrie L. Dem.; Lib, 
 
 Baldwin, M. B., ex P. M ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Barrows, Eunice, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Borden, Mrs. E. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BOSWORTH BROS. & PECK 
 
 (Alfred Bosworth, William E. Bos- 
 worth and Geo. M. Peck), wholesale 
 and retail dealers in dry goods, carpets., 
 notions, etc. ; P. 0. Elgin : this well- 
 known house was established in the Fall 
 of 1867, in Stowe's Block, on Main st. r 
 but removed to their present location in 
 the Bosworth Block, Fountain Square, 
 in the Fall of 1868, giving them more 
 comfortable and spacious quarters to 
 meet the demands of an increasing trade. 
 They keep constantly on hand a general 
 stock of first-class goods for the whole- 
 sale and retail trade, consisting chiefly 
 of dry goods, notions, carpets, oil cloths, 
 live geese feathers and furs. 
 
 Brown. S. P.. physician ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Buck, Sarah A./P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Blackley, J. S., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Benham, K. W., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY : ELGIN. 
 
 671 
 
 Benham,S. A., painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Balch, VV. 3., minister ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Bodden, Randolph, P. O. Elgin. ' 
 
 BOTSFORD, RICH'D N., Bots- 
 
 f'ord & Barry, attorneys ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 born in Newton, Fail-field Co., Conn., 
 Oct. 28, 1830 ; came to Illinois in 1851, 
 locating at St. Charles, Kaue Co. ; ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1857 ; was elected 
 Judge of the County Court in 1861, 
 which office he held four years; in 1869, 
 he located at Elgin, his present home ; 
 Dem.; Liberal. Married Miss Ellen E. 
 Bundy, in 1860 ; she was born in New 
 Hampshire ; have two children Carl 
 E. and Alosie. 
 
 Bartholomew, Warren, carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brandt, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ball, A. D., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ballen, G. W., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bassett, 0., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bloomfield, N. J., ins. agt.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BARTLETT, PATTEN S., P. 0. 
 
 Elgin ; born in Amesbury, Mass., Sept. 
 3, 1833 ; was connected with the Amer- 
 ican Watch Company at Waltham, Mass., 
 from 1854 to 1864 ; came to Illinois, in 
 the latter year, locating at Elgin ; he 
 took an active part in establishing the 
 Elgin National Watch Company in 1864, 
 and has traveled extensively, both in 
 this country and Europe, in the interest 
 of i he company, introducing the Elgin 
 Watches to the trade in the larger cities 
 of both continents ; resigned the posi- j 
 tion of Assistant Supt. of the Elgin ; 
 National Watch Co. in December 1, 18? 7, : 
 to accept a position with the American > 
 Watch Co. at Waltham, Mass., with 
 which he was formerly connected. Mr. 
 B. is a member of the following Masonic 
 bodies : Monitor Lodge, No. 522, Loyal 
 L. Munn Chapter, No. 96, Bethel 
 Comd. No. 36, Knight Templars, at 
 Elgin ; also of the higher bodies with 
 membership at Chicago, Ills. 
 Brown, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BACHRACH, CHAS., clothing, 
 
 hats, caps, boots, shoes and gents' fur- 
 nishing goods ; P. O. Elgin ; he was 
 born in Baltimore, Md.; came to Illi- 
 nois in 1866, locating at Elgin, his pre- 
 sent home ; he married in 1868 to 
 Miss Lanora Goldman, of Chicago. 
 They have five children Martha, Ben- 
 nie, Richatd, Harrie arid Samuel. 
 
 i Burton, Richard, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bristol, Lyman, carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 ' Bennett, Dr. R. F., physician ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 : Beegan, Julia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 j Buell, Joseph E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 ! Bewmaster, John, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burns, Rev. W., minister; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barrett, B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BECKER, JOHN H., Justice of 
 the Peace, P. 0. Elgin ; was born in 
 Saratoga Co., N. Y., Dec. 25, 1836; he 
 came West in 1867, locating at Elgin, 
 his present home ; Ind. ; Liberal ; was 
 married in 1864, to Miss Lydia K. 
 Keyes, of Albany, N. Y. ; she had 
 three children living Florence, E. 
 Keyes and Kate D. ; lost two Adelade 
 Juliette G. ; was elected Justice of the 
 Peace in 1877. 
 
 Bucklinger, C., far. ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Basly, Ann, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, Ephraim, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barney, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BURT, HENRY F. ; P. 0. Elgin, 
 
 111.; born in Norton, Mass., Jan. 21, 
 1846, but removed in early childhood 
 with his parents to Taunton, Mass., 
 where he resided until 1866 ; went to 
 Providence, R. I., where he graduated 
 at Schofield s Commercial College, and 
 entered the establishment of Gladding, 
 Br<). & Co., wholesale and retail dealers 
 in books and stationery, as cashier ; re- 
 mained with this firm two years ; came 
 to Illinois in 1868, locating at Elgin ; he 
 was engaged as balance maker in the 
 Elgin National Watch Factory till Oct. 
 10, 1874, when he left that institution 
 to accept a position in the Postal Ser- 
 vice on the Union Pacific Railroad 
 from Omaha, Neb., to Ogden, Utah (a 
 distance of 1,032 miles) ; was trans- 
 ferred to a route on the C.,R.I. & P. R.R. 
 from Chicago to Iowa City, March 10, 
 1875 ; Mr. B. resigned this position, 
 Nov. 1, 1875, to accept the position as 
 chief clerk and purchasing agent for the 
 Illinois Northern Hospital for the In- 
 sane, which position he held until the 
 Fall of 1876; Rep ; Liberal; he mar- 
 ried in Nov. 8, 1870, Miss Kate L., 
 daughter of Norman J. and Louisa M. 
 Bloomfield, of Elgin ; is Secretary of 
 Monitor Lodge, No. 522, A., F. & 
 A. M. 
 Baker, Chas., watch factory ; P. O. Elgin
 
 672 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Byington, Miss M. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Barclay, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Buzzil, Ezra, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BORRMAN, THEODORE P., 
 
 proprietor of Riverside Green- House, 
 Elgin ; was born in Prussia, March 23, 
 1852 ; he came to this country with his 
 parents in 1860, locating at BufKilo, N. 
 Y., where he remained until 1 869 ; 
 spent considerable time traveling prior 
 to 1873 ; locating in Chicago that year ; 
 he came to Elgin in .he Spring of 1874 ; 
 Rep. ; Lutheran ; was mariied in Nov., 
 1873, to Miss Emily C. Busch, of 
 Columbus, Ohio ; she was born in Dela- 
 ware, Ohio ; Mr. B. keeps constantly 
 on hand a fine stock of flowering plants, 
 also all kinds of decorations furnished 
 on short notice. 
 
 Boyington, a. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burns, Samuel, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burton, Mark, far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, H. J., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bridges, W. H., Supt, Schools; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Burdick, O. S, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, D. W., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bray man, Mary B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burroughs, Erastus, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Black, Lyman, capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BECKER, DANIEL C., milling; 
 
 P. 0. South Elgin ; he was born in 
 Shutters Corners, Schoharie Co., N. 
 Y., March 27, 1833, but removed in 
 early childhood with his parents to 
 Ames, Montgomery Co., N. Y., where 
 he remained until 22 years of age, then 
 returned to Schoharie Co. and engaged 
 in milling ; he came to Illinois May 10, 
 1867, locating atDixon, Lee Co. ; Rep.; 
 Lib.; he married May 5, 1855, Miss 
 Elizabeth Banta; she was born in 
 Sheridan, Schoharie Co., N. Y. Mr. B. 
 has made milling a business for many 
 years, and is now manager and foreman 
 in the Prairie State Mill at South 
 Elgin, 111., operated by Foster, Lee & 
 Co., of Chicago. His home and fam- 
 ily are at Dixon, Lee Co., Ills. 
 
 Bierns, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Beith, Jas., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Benham, Horace, painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Benham, Wm., painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Benham, S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, Louis, Sr., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, S. N., traveler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BROWN, RODOLPHUS P., far; 
 Sec. 35 : P. O. South Elgin, 111.; born 
 in Canada West Aug. 2, 1829 ; came 
 to Illinois in 1845, locating about 
 three miles northwest of Elgin ; re- 
 moved to his present location in 1851; 
 owns 88 acres, valued at $7,000 ; Rep.; 
 Free Meth.; has served as School Di- 
 rector several terms ; married in Sept., 
 1850, to Miss LydiaJane Collins; sev- 
 en children Frances L-, Charles E., 
 Marion A., Adalihe C., Nathan C., 
 Freddie R. and George. 
 
 Butler, J. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bohne, Jno.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BROWN, JAS W., far.; Soc. 34; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; he was born in Canada 
 West, July 29, 1825 ; he came to 
 Illinois in the Spring of 1846, locating 
 about three miles northwest of Elgin ; 
 he removed to his present location in 
 1870 ; he owns 177 acres of land, 
 valued at $9,000; Greenback; Lib.; 
 has held minor township oifices at dif- 
 ferent times. He married in 1844 to 
 Miss Hannah Sinclair; she died Jan. 
 25, 1860; had six children by this 
 union, four living Hiram J., William 
 A., Herbert R., Alfaretta A. ; lost two, 
 Harriet E. died Jan. 3, 1869, and Jas. 
 J. died Jan. 26, 1853 ; he was again 
 married in 1862 to Catharine Wheeler ; 
 she was born in Albany, N. Y. 
 
 Buchanan, Sandy, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Beth, Christ.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Baldwin, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barrack, Margaret; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bagley, Geo., engineer; P.O.Elgin. 
 
 Baxter, John, watch factory; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BISHOP, THOMAS, farmer and 
 stock raiser ; Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Devonshire. England, Sept. 16, 1826; 
 removed with his parents, in early child- 
 hood, to New Brunswick ; came to Illi- 
 nois in July, 1850, locating in Elgin 
 Township, on the farm where he now 
 resides ; owns 240 acres of land, valued 
 at $20,000 ; Ind.; Universalist ; held 
 the office of Road Commissioner for three 
 terms, also other minor offices ; is at pres- 
 ent one of the directors of the Home 
 National Bank of Elgin ; married in 
 May, 1869, to Miss Emma J., daughter 
 of John A. and Mary Ann Stringer ; 
 have three children Clarence N., Flora 
 P. and Lawrenee.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 673 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Lydia ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bagley, C. H., supt. at watch factory ; P 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Blim, G. H., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Buck, I. N., detective ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bosworth. Eugene, merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bruman, H., florist; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 BURTON, FRANCIS, far. ; Sec. 32 ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; born in Canada East, Dec. 
 14, IS'.' 9 ; came to Illinois in May, 1845 ; 
 located in Plato Township; removed 
 to his present home in the Fall of 1854 ; 
 owns 135 acres of land, valued at 87,- 
 000 ; Rep. ; member of the United 
 Brethren Church ; married, in 1853, to 
 Miss Mary Pool ; she was born in En- 
 gland, Feb. 23, 1835 ; have eight chil- 
 dren Charles R., Adaline M., George 
 F., Francessa, Olive, Willie L., Frank 
 and Minnie M. 
 
 Burrett, Peter, capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brass, Julia E. ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Bundy, P. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Binghani, Mary A.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Balch, E.. E., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin, j 
 
 Boyce, Sylvester, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Byington, Milo, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Byington, Irwin, clerk ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Batterman, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Browning, J. H., retired far., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BEAN, CHARLES F., groceries. ; 
 crockery, notions, boots and shoes ; P. ! 
 O. Udina, Elgin Township ; born in ! 
 Groton, Grafton Co., N. H., May 31, I 
 1836 ; removed, in early childhood, to ] 
 Illinois, with his parents, who settled in \ 
 Elgin, in the Fall of 1837 : his father, ; 
 Folsom Bean, coming the year before 
 and selecting the location ; owns 7 acres i 
 of land in Plato Township, valued at I 
 $1,200; Ind.; Lib.; married, in 1861, j 
 to Miss Anna E. Dedrick ; she was born j 
 in Frankfort, Herkimer Co , N. Y., Nov. 
 25, 1839 ; two children living Mabel 
 A. and Vernon L.; lost two George , 
 N., died Sept. 6, 1873, and Alice V., 
 died Dec. 2, 1871. Mr. Bean has in 
 his possession the day-book and ledger 
 used by Stores & Bean when in business 
 together in Elgin, bearing date 1836. 
 
 Burrett, B., capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bodee, Adam, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brush, Daniel, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brush, Edwin, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barker, Win., jeweler; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Barr, 0., mechanic ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Barnes, W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Barnes, W. G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Busse, Otto, miller ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BENNETT, JOHN W., P. 0. El- 
 gin; was born in Geneva, Kane Co., 111., 
 July 2, 1850 ; removed to Plato Town 
 ship in early childhood and has resided 
 there since until 1870 ; during the past 
 seven years he has resided at Chicago 
 and in the lumber districts of Michigan ; 
 crossed the Plains in 1869, stopping at 
 Denver, Colo., a few months ; owns an 
 interest in his father's estate consisting 
 of 138 acres of land, valued at, $50 per 
 acre; Rep.; married, March 14, 1875, 
 to Miss Clara M. Warner, of Alleyton, 
 Mich.; she was born in the State of 
 Michigan. Mr. Bennett is a member of 
 Newaygo Lodge, No. 131, A., F. & A. 
 M., at Newaygo, Mich. 
 
 Bangs, D. W., retired farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Baker, J. E., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brong, G. G., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Barry, A. H., attorney ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bennett, R. F., physician ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bennett, Charles R,, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Berggren, C. H. L., grocer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BUZZELL, BENJ, R., farmer and 
 carpenter and builder ; Sec. 7 ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Strafford, Orange Co., 
 Vt., Aug. 6, 1809 ; came to Illinois 
 July 4, 1845, locating where he now re- 
 sides ; owns 85 acres of land, valued at 
 $50 per acre ; Rep.; Free- Will Baptist ; 
 was married in 1834, to Miss Sarah Gil- 
 man ; she was born in Orange Co., yt., 
 Sept. 19, 1808, and died Oct. 22, 1856; 
 three children Angeline, wife of Judge 
 L. F. Fombelle, of Villa Ridge, 111.; 
 Maicella, wife of L. C. Dow, of Elgin ; 
 Sarah E., wife of Capt. N. Patchen. of 
 Elgin Township. Mariied second wife, 
 Alethee Downer, in 1 857, now deceased ; 
 one child by second wife, Charles E.; 
 was agaiu married to Cyrene L. Baker ; 
 she was born in West Schuylei 1 , Herki- 
 mer Co., N. Y., Sept, 9, 18l'9. 
 
 Buhmeyer, J. H., cigars ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Bruckman, Chas., merchant ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Bracken, Wm., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Burdick, H. S., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brintnell, H., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown. Dr. S. P., physician ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bent, W. E., boarding house ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bowman, T. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bergland, B. F., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Becker, W. F., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bosworth, W. E., merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bosworth, Alfred, banker ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 BORDEN, GAIL (deceased) ;" well 
 known, both in this country and in Eu- 
 rope, in connection with various forms 
 of concentrated food, especially that of 
 condensed milk ; was born in Norwich, 
 N. Y., in 1801 ; in 1814, his father re- 
 moved to Cincinnati, 0., and two years 
 later to the territory of Indiana, where 
 the subject of this sketch resided until 
 1822 ; at the age of 21, he went South 
 for his health, and engaued in teaching 
 in the pine regions of Mississippi ; dur- 
 ing his sojourn there, he received the 
 appointment of County, also Deputy U. 
 S. Surveyor ; in 1829, he removed to 
 Texas, where he followed, for a time, 
 farming and stock growing ; he was elec- 
 ted a delegate, in 183'{, to the convention 
 held ti define the position of the colo- 
 nies and to petition the Mexican Gov- 
 ernment for separation from the State of 
 Coahuila ; was appointed Superintendent 
 of official surveys by Gen. Austin, and 
 compiled the first topographical map of 
 the colonies ; also, had charge of the 
 Land Office at San Felipe ; in 1835, 
 Mr. Borden, with others, published the 
 only newspaper issued in Texas during 
 the Texan Revolution ; he was appointed 
 Collector of the i ort of Qalveston in 
 1837, and made the first surveys of that 
 city ; in 1839, he was appointed agent 
 of the Galveston City Company, which 
 position he held for more than twelve 
 years. To Mr. Borden's efforts and in- 
 ventive genius in after years in the pro- 
 duct, first, of the " meat biscuit " and, 
 second, that of condensed milk, the 
 world is greatly indebted, for to almost 
 every nation and clime the latter is sent 
 from the factories established by him 
 and now operated by members of his 
 family. Mr. Borden's home was at El- 
 gin, where his widow now resides, some 
 years prior to his death, which occurred 
 on the llth of January, 1874. 
 
 Becker, A. V., ice dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Babbitt, D. S., fanner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Breckman, Herman, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Bierman, Henry, miller; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Butler, D. H., flour and feed ; P 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bernhardt. Phillip, ca p. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Brown, Joseph, barber ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 BURLINGAME, DWIGHTK, 
 
 physician and surgeon ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 born in Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass.. 
 June S, 1845; removed to Illinois in 
 Feb., 1864, stopping at Earlville, La 
 Salle Co., until the following Spring, 
 when he located at Elgin, his present 
 home ; he entered the Chicago Medical 
 College in the Fall of 1866, graduating 
 at that institution in 1869, and the fol- 
 lowing year became associated with Dr. 
 E. Winchester in the practice of his 
 profession, and succeeded to Dr. W.'s 
 practice on his removal to California in 
 1872. He has held the position of City 
 Physician since March, 1874; served 
 the Fox River Valley Medical Associa- 
 tion as Vice President in 1873 ; married 
 in 1870 to Miss Sarah A., daughter of 
 Dr. E. Winchester; she was born in 
 Canada ; one child by this union Anna 
 M.; Dr. B. is also a member of Monitor 
 Lodge, No. 522, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Booth, M. H., drugs; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bishop, E. L.. agriculturist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BURGESS, W. W., lumber mer- 
 chant ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Wy- 
 oming Co., Penn., Dec. 11, 1830; his 
 early years were passed in the ordinary 
 manner of fanners' sons, working on 
 the farm in the Summer and attending 
 the district school during thi Winter 
 months ; on the 2d of June, 1853, at 
 the age of 22 years, he was married to 
 Miss Sarah T. Grist, of his native town, 
 who was born Jan. 1, 1831 ; they re- 
 moved to Illinois the same year (1853), 
 and settled on a farm in Me Henry Co., 
 about three miles east of the village of 
 Huntley ; here he continued to reside 
 until 1865, when he removed to Chicago 
 and engaged in the commission business : 
 at the end of one year he disposed of 
 his interest in the business and returned 
 to Huntley, engaging in the grain and 
 produce trade, which he continued with 
 varied success for five yeirs ; he then re- 
 tired to his farm and resided there until 
 1874, when he removed to Elgin and, 
 with Mr. Lewis Fletcher, established 
 the lumber firm of Fletcher & Burgess ; 
 Rep.: was raised a Bapt.; Mrs. Burgess 
 died Aug. 20, 1877. leaving four chil- 
 dren Ida S.. born June 1, 1855 ; Al- 
 vin E., June 8, 1858 : William G., Oct. 
 27, 1868; Herbert M., June 21, 1874.
 
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 675 
 
 Blair, John, barber ; P 0. Elgin. 
 Buckrice, John, grocer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Baldwin, L. A., drugs; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Batchelder, W. H., boots and shoes; P.O. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Bohne, Henry, miller ; P. 0. Ela;in. 
 Beilenberg, A., barber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Brown, Louis, watch fac.; P. O. Elgin. 
 Bullard, E., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Baldwin, M. B. merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Bentley, A. E., jeweler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Borden, Mrs. Gail, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Barrows, D., banker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Barrett, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Beckwith, Robt., stock dlr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Bigsby, C. L., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 r^ORRAN, J. P., farmer ; P. 0. South 
 ^ Elgin. 
 
 Campbell, Martin, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Cable, M. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Clock, Charles, saloon ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 Conner, James, shoemaker ; P. 0. Elgin, j 
 
 CHRISTIE, WILLIAM J., gro 
 
 ceries and crockery ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Philadelphia, Pa., June 3, 1840; 
 came to Illinois in the Fall of 1842, lo- 
 cating in Rutland Township, Kane Co. ; : 
 went out, in August, 1861, with Com- 
 pany B, Cav. 36th 111. Inf. (with this | 
 regiment were two companies of cav- ! 
 airy); was mustered out in 1865 ; Rep.; 
 Presb.; located at Elgin two years ago ; 
 married, Dec. 5, 1865, to Jenett Mc- 
 Queen, of Plato Tp., Kane Co. ; has 
 four children Stewart, Mary S., Ella 
 and Eugene. 
 
 Cox, John, merchant, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, N. P., physician ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Clute, Alex. 
 
 Cooms, George, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cox, Benjamin, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clute, Caroline, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Chaffer, J. D., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cumings, Jason, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Connor, T., blacksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CHAPMAN, SAMUEL W. (S. 
 
 & S. W. Chapman), milling; P. 0. Elgin; 
 born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., Sept. 9, 
 1842; his parents located in Plato 
 Township, Kane Co., as early as 1843 ; 
 came to Elgin in 1868; Dem. Mr. C. 
 was married, in 1868, to Miss Ella F. 
 Stone, of Elgin ; he is a member of 
 Monitor Lodge, No. 522, A., F. & A. M.; 
 the firm of S. & S. W. Chapman owns 
 120 acres of land, valued at $6,000. 
 
 Clark, Thos. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Corly, Geo., shoemaker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Childs, Henry, mech. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Coolie, Albert, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Carr, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Calahan, Ann, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CUBITT, HENRY, clerk ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Sheffield, Bag., Feb. 26, 
 1848 ; came to this country in 1869, 
 stopping one year in Mass, and the two 
 years following in Albion, Edwards Co., 
 111., locating at Elgin in 1872 ; Dem. ; 
 Epis. Married in 1868, to Miss Annie 
 E. Burrell, of Sheffield, Eng. ; have two 
 children Albert Earnest and Minnie 
 Lula. 
 
 Case, Mrs. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cafford, R., P. 0. Elgin. . 
 
 Crane, Delia E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Caven, James, P. 0. Ergin. 
 
 Connor, Robert, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CLIFFORD, EUGENE, attorney ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Rochester, N. 
 Y., Dec. 3, 1848, and came to Illinois 
 in April, 1854, locating at Elgin in his 
 present home; was admitted to the Bar 
 in June, 1871; served as Town Clerk 
 some years, and as City Attorney from 
 1873 to 1877 ; he entered Notre Dame 
 University with the graduating class 
 and remained one year. 
 
 Chapman, Albert, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Corneer, J. M. watch factory; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Campbell, Mrs. C., millinery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Church, E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Curtis, Harriet, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CHRISTIE, WILL J., Jr., pub 
 
 lisher and proprietor of the Daily Bluff 
 City] P. 0. Elgin; born in Philadel- 
 phia, Pa., Feb. 10, 1852, and came to 
 Illinois in 1854, locating at Elgin, his 
 present home. Rep.; Presb. 
 
 Clute, May, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Church. S. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Coburn, John A., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clark, John, mach.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cooley, Geo. R., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Colton, Chas., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cort, Nelson, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clothier, Edwin, cabinet mkr ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cassady, Jas., merchant tailor; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Cosman, M. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clondman, Wm., Ass't Supt. W. Co. ; P. 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cornell, E. K. W., P. 0. Elgin.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Coburn, John, watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Chambers, Anderson, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CLARK, ANSON L., phys. ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Clarksburg, Mass., Oct. 
 12, 1836 ; came to Illinois in May, 
 1841, stopping at Bangs' Lake (now 
 Wauconda ) ; thence to Palatine, Cook 
 Co. ; received his collegiate education 
 at Lombard University, Galesburg, 111. ; 
 entered Eclectic Medical Institute at 
 Cincinnati, O., where he graduated in 
 1871, with degree of Doctor of Medi- 
 cine ; has resided at Elgin since 1862; 
 accepted position of Assistant Surgeon 
 of 127th I. V. I. in 1862, in which 
 capacity he served until close of the 
 war ; in 1869, was elected to Chair of 
 Obstetrics und Diseases of Women 
 and Children in Bennett Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago, and about three years 
 later to the Presidency : has now ready 
 for press a volume on Diseases of 
 Women and Children ; is at present a 
 member of State Board of Health ; 
 served as member of State Legislature 
 from this county in 1871 '72 ; married 
 Aug. 20, 1859, to Miss Phebe J. Lemon, 
 of Metamora, 111., who died in 1868 ; 
 was again married, in 1872, to Miss 
 Mary F. Danton, daughter of Hiram 
 P. and Belinda H. Danton, of Spencer, 
 Mass. ; Rep. ; Liberal. 
 
 CARPENTER, JULIUS A.,mfr, 
 
 miller and banker ; P '0. Elgin, 111. ; 
 born in Uxbridge, Mass., Aug. 19, 1827, 
 but removed in childhood with his 
 parents to the town of Dundee, 111., in 
 1837, where they settled on a farm, 
 upon which has since been built the vil- 
 lage of Carpentersville ; the subject of 
 this sketch worked on the farm with 
 his father till 22 years of age, then en- 
 gaged in trade and milling in Carpen 
 tersville, where he has since resided, 
 until 1875, when he removed to Elgin, 
 111., his present home ; was for many 
 years Postmaster of the village, held 
 the office of Supervisor of the town 
 several terms in succession, was a mem- 
 ber of the State Legislature from 1871 
 to 1875, and served as Chairman of the 
 following House Committees : Finance, 
 Manufactures and Special Temperance 
 Committees ; is now Business Manager 
 and Treasurer of the Illinois Iron and 
 Bolt Company (an extensive manufac 
 
 turing company in Carpentersville), 
 President of the Star Manufacturing 
 Company (manufacturers of agricultural 
 implements) ; also, stockholder and Di- 
 rector in the Valley Woolen Co., both 
 of Carpentersville ; President of the 
 Elgin City Banking Co., and Treasurer 
 of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the 
 Insane ; married in April, 1852, to 
 Miss Mary, eldest daughter of Alfred 
 and Lucinda Edwards, of Dundee ; 
 Rep. ; Cong in belief; owns 1,200 
 acres of land in Kane Co., valued at 
 $60,000 ; also 320 acres in Champaign 
 Co., 111., valued at $6,000. 
 Corran, Wesley, horse dlr. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CHISHOLM, OLIVER P., attor- 
 
 ney ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Hazel Green, 
 Grant Co., Wis., Sept. 18, 1843 ; came 
 to Illinois in October, 1862 ; was a 
 member of Co. C, 153d 111. Inf. ; Rep. ; 
 Lib. ; served as Supervisor of the town 
 of Elgin one term ; married June 22, 
 1870, to Sarah Jane Bishop, of Chicago ; 
 three children living William A., 
 Charles B., Grace E. ; lost one, Edward 
 J., who died July 1, 1871. 
 
 Clark, Palmer, horse dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clark, T. S., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Church, C. C., milk carrier; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Christie, R. S , watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CRUE, VALENTINE, farmer, Sec. 
 36 ; P. O. South Elgin ; born in Hesse- 
 Darmstadt, Germany, Nov. 15, 1828 ; 
 came to this country in childhood with 
 his parents, locating in Somerset Co., 
 N. J., where he resided until 1854. re- 
 moving to Cook County III., in the 
 Spring of that year ; removed to his 
 present location in 1873; owns 210 
 acres of land, valued at $15,000 ; served 
 as Assessor, Collector and Road Com- 
 missioner in Cook Co. ; Rep. ; Baptist 
 in belief; married, in 1854, to Miss 
 Cornelia Smith ; she was born in Mur- 
 ristowu, N. J. ; three children John 
 S., Eddie E. and Jessie A. 
 
 Christie, Jas., bookkeeper ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CHAFFEE, ALBERT J., farmer, 
 Sec. 10 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Camptoii 
 Tp., Kane Co., 111., April 27, 1848; 
 owns 60 acres of land ; value, $6,000 ; 
 Rep.; Meth. Married in 1873, to Miss 
 Susan E. Ambrose ; she was born in 
 Kennebec Co., Me.; two children Met- 
 tie E. and Edward A.
 
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 677 
 
 Cornell, F. A., merchants ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Caldwoll, C. A , ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 CHISHOLM, ROBERT B., SR., 
 
 mining ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Del- 
 aware Co., N. Y., Oct. 20, 1812, but 
 removed, in early childhood, with his 
 parents, to St. Thomas, Canada ; came 
 to Illinois in Oct., 1836, locating at 
 Chicago, and in connection with the im- 
 provements of that city, furnished tim- 
 ber for the harbor in 1837; in 1840 he 
 returned to Canada, and after disposing 
 of his real estate interests there, located 
 near Galena, 111., where he engaged in 
 lead mining ; removed to California, in 
 1851, and commenced mining operations 
 there with varied success, until the 
 opening of the Emma mine, in 1868, 
 which proved a very profitable enter- 
 prize the products of this mine amount- 
 ing to about $1,000,000 per annum; 
 two years later the mine was sold to 
 capitalists in New York City, and is now 
 owned and operated by the American 
 Emma Mining Co., of N. Y.; Mr. C. 
 has traveled extensively throughout the 
 mining regions of California, Idaho, 
 Arizona, Montana and Mexico, visiting 
 the Cerro County (also known as the 
 Heintzleman), Cahnabian, Eahia and 
 other mines; in 1862, he visited the 
 old Potosi Mine of Mexico with a view 
 of leasing, but was preceded by other 
 partit s. Was married in 1840, to Miss 
 Sarah Van Valkenburgh, of Toronto, 
 Canada West; she was born Dec. 20, 
 1819; had six children by this union; 
 five living William W., Oliver P., 
 George S., Robert B., Jr., and Emma 
 M. ; lost one Fannie, died in June, 
 1850, aged four years. 
 
 Campbell, Robert, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cole, D. M., mechanic; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 COLE, CHARLES H., jeweler; P. 
 O. Elgin; born in St. Lawrence Co., N. 
 Y., March 8, 1 846 ; came west in 1853, 
 locating at St. Charles, Kane- Co., 111.; 
 removed to Elgin, his present home, in 
 1862; Rep.; Meth. Married, in 1869, 
 to Miss Ellen F. Stiles, of Elgin ; have 
 two children Harry L. and Fred. 0.; 
 enlisted in Co. A, 141 h t 111. Inf., April 
 29, 1864; mustered out October 3, 
 1864; Mr. C. is First Lieut, of the 
 Elgin National Guards, Co. E, 3d Regt. 
 111. N. G. 
 
 Cass, Charles, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clarksou, George, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Cannan, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Crocker, B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cole, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 COOMBS, GEORGE, farmer ; Sec. 
 8 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Somersetshire, 
 England, March 20, 1831 ; came to this 
 country in 1854, stopping in the State 
 of Ohio until the following Spring, and 
 then locating in Elgin, 111.; came to his 
 present location in the Spring of 1850 ; 
 owns 115 acres of land ; value, $6,000 ; 
 Rep.; Liberal. Married in 1854 to 
 Mis.s Maria Lewis ; she died in 1863 ; 
 two children by this union ; lost both 
 Jonathan, died in 1859; Angeline died 
 in 1860 ; was again married in 1865, to 
 Miss Phebe Pingree ; she was born at 
 Pingree Grove, Kane Co.; six children, 
 five living Ella M., Bertha D., Ida, 
 George F. and Edith , lost one Martha, 
 died in 1855. 
 
 Clark, P. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clinton, James, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Champion, Mrs. E. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Creighton, Wm., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Carlisle, J. A., Supervisor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collett, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clark, Byron, mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clark, Barton, mach.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cart, Chas., laborer, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Coffee, C. H., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, C. R., mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Conner, T., blacksmith; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, Julia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Chapman, W. H., watch factory ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Coolie, Moses, shoemaker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Collins, David, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Church, A. B., milk dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Chila, H. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Childs, E. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cole, G. W., jeweler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cornell, Jas., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Clark, E. M., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Conner, John, blacksmith; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cresey, Orvis, tinner; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Cox, Benj., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Campbell, S. N., boots and shoes ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Chamberlain, F. H., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Chamberlain, D. J., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Chapman, Samuel, Street Commissioner ; 
 P. 0. Eljnn.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Cass, Gilbert, R.R. conductor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Crane, N. J., phys.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 T^VAGGETT, j. R., p. o. Elgin. 
 
 Deer, Peter, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dolton, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dalby, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DOUGLASS, ELON G., farmer, 
 Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Ontario 
 Co., N. Y., Feb. 11, 1832; came to 
 Illinois in April, 1856, locating on the 
 farm where he now resides; owns 171 
 acres of land, valued at $15,000 ; Rep.; 
 Bapt.; married in Oct., 1856, to Miss 
 Angie B. Bradbury ; she was born in 
 Erie Co., N. Y., July 29, 1832; they 
 had two children, both deceased Ella 
 May, died Nov. 1, 1861 ; Irving M., 
 died Sept. 18, 1865. 
 
 Damly, Lewis, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DuBois, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dadswell, Fred, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DeReemer, J. D., wagon inkr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dunne, Wm., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Doran, Jas., engineer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Duhy, John, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickenson, E. T., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Deitzel, A. N., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dangerfield, James, Supt. Mach. Dept. W. 
 F.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Davis, L., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Doney, E. G., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DuBois, J. W., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Denniss, Lewis, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dewey, Ann, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DENISON, HENRY H., books 
 
 and stationery ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born 
 in Burke, Caledonia Co., Vt., May 22, 
 1845 ; he came to Illinois in 1852, 
 locating at Mendota, La Salle Co., 
 where he remained two years, when he 
 returned to the East, spending about 
 thirteen years in Maine and Mass. ; he 
 returned to Illinois in 1867, locating at 
 Elgin, his present home ; Rep. ; Bapt. ; 
 he was married in 1869, to Miss Jennie 
 M. Burdick, of Elgin ; two children 
 Lizzie and Henry H. 
 
 Doxey, Edward, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dietrick, John, butcher ; P. O. So. Elgin. 
 
 Dean, Peter, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dutton, D., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Doney, Hattie, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Davenport, H. W., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dougherty, Elizabeth, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Danner, John, furniture ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Daggett, Elijah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 DEWEY, RICHARD S., M. D. ; 
 
 First Asst. Physician in the Illinois 
 Northern Hospital for the Insane, at 
 Elgin ; was born in Forestville, Chau- 
 tauqua Co., N. Y., Dec. 6,1845; he 
 came to Illinois in 1871, locating at 
 Elgin ; he spent five years at Michigan 
 University, graduating in medicine in 
 1869; he served in Brooklyn City Hos- 
 pital one year as House Physician and 
 Surgeon ; was in the volunteer service 
 of the Prussian Army during the 
 Franco-German War as Asst, Surgeon ; 
 was stationed at Port a Mousson in the 
 field hospital, and afterward in the re- 
 serve hospital at Hessen Cassel ; studied 
 one semester in the University of Ber- 
 lin ; was married in 1873, to Miss 
 Lillian D. Dwight, of Clinton, N. Y.; 
 she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 
 1850 ; Rep. ; Cong. 
 
 Dougherty, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dugan, Pat, merchant ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Damish, E., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Day, John, painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Durfee, J. D., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickinson, Harriet, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dailey, Patrick, grave digger ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dennis, Widow, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dunton, Mrs. H. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Driscall, P. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dexter, E. L., tinner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dumser, J. S., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dundenhafer. Geo., iron work ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Davidson, 0.. banker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickerson, Jas., wagon mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Day, J. G., painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dunlap, Geo., shoemaker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dunlap, Maria A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Doney, Thos., artist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dewitt, Frank, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DOW, LORENZO C., P 0. Elgin ; 
 
 born in Strafford, Orange Co., Vt., Oct. 
 22, 1839 ; located in Elgin, his present 
 home, in 1876 ; Rep.; Liberal. Mar- 
 ried Sept. 27, 1875, to Miss Marcella 
 Buzzell ; she was born in Strafford, 
 Orange Co., Vt., Sept. 20, 1841. Mr. 
 D. is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 
 52, A., F. & A. M., at Strafford, Vt. 
 
 Davis, Mrs. S. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickenson, Rev. C. E., min.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickinson, Russell, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Deill, Henry E., laborer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Dawson, Jas., stone cutter ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
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 679 
 
 Denton, Richard, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Danner, Chas.. furniture ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dempster, A. R., trav. agt.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DuBois, M. W., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DuBois, W. M., farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Deal, Albert, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dougherty, E.. laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 DEANE, CHARLES P., groceries ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; born in Brookfield, Wor- 
 cester Co., Mass., April 4, 1813; came 
 to Illinois in Oct., 1857, locating in 
 Elgin Township ; came to Elgin city in 
 1871. 
 
 Dickerson. C. D., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Davis, Mrs. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dolph, S. S., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Daggett, Mary T., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Daniels, Dr. C. M., phys.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Daniels, Geo. H , gen. pass. agt. C. & P.; 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dickeuson, Mary L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Daggett, W. D., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Duck, J. H.. pump dealer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 EAMES, E. R.,carp.; P.O. Elgin. 
 Elmore, W. C., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Elliott, M. W., W. Ft. Supt.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ewing, M. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ericksen, E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 EATON, LEWIS S., dlr. in lumber, 
 Elgin ; born in Otsego Co.. N. Y., May 
 22, 1817 ; came to Illinois in Septem- 
 ber, 1838, remaining in Evanston until 
 the following Spring, when he took up 
 his residence in Elgin; Dem.; Lib; 
 married, in 1845, to Miss Jane N. Fay, 
 of St. Charles. Mr. E., at the time of ' 
 his marriage, moved into his present 
 residence, which has been his home for 
 thirty two years ; six children Albert 
 W., Frank E., Waldo R., Rose J., 
 Charles L. and Made. 
 
 Esch, Jno., mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Eakin, R. J., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Eakin, W. J., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Earlie, G. E, M. R. Mess.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Ettner, J. F., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Elethorpe, E. ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Ettner, Fred., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ELGIN BOARD OP TRADE. 
 
 At the session of the Northwestern 
 Dairymen's Association, held at Elgin 
 Jan. 16 to 18, 1872, the following 
 committee was appointed by the Chair 
 (Judge Wilcox) to adopt measures for 
 the organization of a Board of Trade for 
 the purchase and sale of dairy products : 
 
 R. R. Stone and C. W. Gould, of Elgin, 
 Ira Albro, of Wayne, and R. W. Stew- 
 art, of Hebron. At a subsequent meet- 
 ing, held at the Home National Bank, 
 Feb. 15, the following gentlemen were 
 added to the above committee : J. R. 
 McLean, of Elgin. Mark Dunham, of 
 Wayne, and Geo. Luke, of Gray Wil- 
 low, with instructions to draft a consti- 
 tution and by-laws, and report at an ad- 
 journed meeting to be held at Elgin 
 March 1, 1872. At the adjourned meet 
 ing, the report of the committee was ac- 
 cepted and, with slight change, the con- 
 stitution and by-laws were adopted, and 
 the following officers elected : Dr. J. 
 Tefft, President; J. R. McLean, Vice 
 President ; R. R. Stone, Secretary ; and 
 0. Davidson, Treasurer. The results 
 attained by this organization have far 
 exceeded the most sanguine expectations 
 of the originators in bringing about a 
 concert of action on the part of the 
 dairymen of the Northwest, thereby es- 
 tablishing a higher grade, and, hence, 
 higher prices for their products. The 
 dairy product from the factories of the 
 Northwest is now put upon the market 
 on its own merit, and it is no longer 
 necessary to brand it " New York fac- 
 tory" in order to obtain its value, which 
 is the highest market price ; and it is 
 mainly through this organization that 
 these results have been attained. The 
 number of factories represented on the 
 Board at the present time is about 
 one hundred. The sales for the year 
 1877 were 6,636,386 pounds of cheese 
 and 1,174,385 pounds of butter. The 
 following members have served the Board 
 in an official capacity : Dr. Joseph Tefft, 
 President, from 1872 to date ; J. R. 
 McLean, Vice President, in 1872, also 
 Secretary from 1873 to 1876, inclusive; 
 R. R. Stone, Secretary, in 1872 ; 0. 
 Davidson, Treasurer, in 1872-73 ; W. T. 
 Osgood, Vice President, in 1873-74 ; C. 
 C. Church, Treasurer, from 1874 to 
 date ; C. W. Gould, Vice President, from 
 1875 to date. Officers for 1877 : Dr. 
 Joseph Tefft, President ; C. W. Gould, 
 Vice President ; R. P. McGlincy, Sec- 
 retary ; C. C. Church. Treasurer. The 
 following statement will show the aggre- 
 gate sales on the Board of Trade since 
 its organization: The sales, in 1872,
 
 680 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 amounted to $81,000; in 1873, to 
 8219,177.53; in 1874, to $368,528.58 ; 
 in 1875, to $496,220.04; in 1876, to 
 $767,640.68; and in 1877, to $1,059,- 
 085.08. The total sales for the six 
 years, ending with December, 1877, 
 amounted to $2,991,651.91. These fig- 
 ures speak louder than words, and show 
 conclusively that the Board has been 
 placed on a firm footing by the united 
 efforts of the factory men and buyers. 
 A stable market has always been found 
 in Elgin for both butter and cheese 
 since the establishment of the Board, 
 and the Board has gained a wide reputa- 
 tion, and its sales regulate the prices of 
 dairy products in many of the larger 
 cities in the country. Especially is this 
 so west of the Mississippi. It should be 
 to the interest of the milk producer, as 
 well as the manufacturer and buyer, to 
 aid in sustaining the Board. 
 
 Ellsworth, C. C., 0. P. Elgin. 
 
 Elmore Chauncey, far.; P. O. So. Elgin. 
 
 Eakins, W. S., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ellithorpe, 0. EL, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TTUETCHER, LOUIS, lum. dealer ; P. 
 
 JJ 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fehd, Andrew, miller ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Freeland, Julia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fredericks, M. N.; watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Farrington, G. E., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fish, G. W., capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fancher, Henry, painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fisher, Peter, barber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Farnam, G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fiburger, Fred., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 FISH, AURORA. B. (L. A. Bald- 
 
 win & Co.), dealer in drugs and medi- 
 cines ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Monroe 
 Co., N. Y.,. Nov. 18, 1817; came to 
 Illinois in 1845, locating at Elgin, 
 111. Mr. Fish was for several years en- 
 gaged in purchasing wool and selling 
 manufactured goods for the Elgin Mfg. 
 Co. (now Fox River Mfg. Co.) ; Rep,; 
 Lib.; married in December, 1847, to 
 Miss Allie A. Norton, of New York ; 
 two children living Clara B. and Jno. 
 J.; lost one, Dora A., who died Oct. 5, 
 1876. 
 
 Fish, Mrs., milliner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fierk, Fred., lab.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Farnham, Mrs. E. G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fetzner, Henry, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fuller, B. F., watch fac.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fletcher, John, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Furnal, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 FEHRMAN, FREDRICK, dlr. 
 
 in dry goods, groceries, crockery, boots 
 and shoes ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Han- 
 over, Germany, Dec. 25, 1825 ; came 
 to this Co. in 1849, locating at Elgin ; 
 owns 46 acres of laud, valued at 
 $4,600 ; Dem.; member of the United 
 Evangelical Church and German Benev- 
 olent Society ; married in 1852 to Miss 
 Paulina Bruckman ; she was born in 
 Berlin, Prussia ; two children living 
 Albert and Emil ; lost six. 
 
 Fay, Martha W., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fry, Mary, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Fletcher, Jas.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fardner, Jos., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Frazier, D., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Flynn, Jno.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 French, Horace, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fuller, E. J., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Force, Jonathan, gardener ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Furze, James, laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fletcher, C. W., sash and blinds ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Fordrasher, Joseph, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 FAY, ELB RIDGE E., stock dealer 
 and shipper, Elgin ; born in South- 
 borough Township, Worcester Co., Mass., 
 May 11, 1825 ; removed in early child- 
 hood with his parents to Chenango Co., 
 N. Y., and about one year later to 
 Stenben Co., where they resided until 
 1837, then removing to Racine, Wis. 
 Came to Kane Co., Illinois, in 1840, 
 locating in Fayville, St. Charles Tp. ; 
 has resided at Elgin since 1861 ; Rep. ; 
 Bapt. Married April 26, 1858, to 
 Miss Mary E. Goble ; she was born in 
 Parke Co., Indiana, Feb. 24, 1834; 
 four children Clara E., born Sept. 14, 
 1859 ; Dinnie A., born Nov. 20, 1861 ; 
 Franklin G., born March 22, 1865; 
 Mary E., born August 27, 1871. Mr. 
 Fay has been extensively engaged in 
 shipping produce in former years, com- 
 mencing as early as 1851. 
 
 Flynn, Danl., laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fowler, Colista, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Forsyth, Warren, watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fowler, Robt,, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Foster, T. H., miller ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fitzgerald, James, bl'ksrnith; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fenn, L. L., watch fac. ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Fairchild, Harry, watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY : ELGIN. 
 
 681 
 
 FLETCHER, HENRY, farmer; 
 Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Udina ; born in Cam- 
 bridgeshire, England, Dec. 12, 1813; 
 removed in early childhood with his 
 parents to Homesburg, near Philadel- 
 phia, Penn., where he remained two 
 years, then removed to Luzerne Co., 
 which was his home till the Spring of 
 
 - 1851, at which time ho came to Illinois, 
 stopping a short time in Plato Tp., Kane 
 Co., and locating on the farm where he 
 now resides, the following December ; 
 owns 207 acres of land, valued at $75 
 per acre ; Rep ; Cong. ; married in 1838 
 to Miss Lydia M. Vananken ; she was 
 born in Sussex Co., N. J., Dec. 4, 1819 ; 
 ten children living JohnW., Wm. H., 
 Hannah, wife of E. Whitcomb ; Lewis 
 D., Sarah, wife of C. Fisher ; James, 
 Lydia J., wife of S. Carr Byron. Geo. 
 E. and Charles ; lost one, Rachel, died 
 Dec. 1871. 
 
 Foster. A. H., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fowler, Mrs. C. H., P. 0. Elgin. , 
 
 Frazier, Robert, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Flynn, David W., watch fac. ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Frazier, W., farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fuller, Almon, farmer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Forman, H. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Flynn, J. H., engineer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 FRASER, WILLIAM, farmer; Sec. 
 11 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Inverness, 
 Scotland, Feb. 8, 1811 ; came to this 
 country in 1834, locating in Caledonia, 
 Livingston Co., N. Y. ; removed to 
 Illinois in July, 1839, locating on the 
 farm where he now resides ; owns 200 
 acres of land, valued at $14,000 ; Rep. ; 
 Presb. ; married in 1844 to Miss Jennett 
 McCormack : she was born in Weighton- 
 shire, Scotland, in 1820. 
 
 Fultz, W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Farrow, Henry, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Fitz Simmons, Terrance, priest ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Foley, Patrick, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fry, M. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Fletch, M.,P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ford. John, laborer ,P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 /^ UPTAL, WM., Sr., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 VJT So. Elgin. 
 
 Guptal, Wm., Jr., far.; P. 0. So. Elrin. 
 
 Guptal, Daniel, gardener ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Guptal, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Guptal, Charles, carp.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Gifford, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gifford, J. H., mfr.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 Gifford, F., P. 0. So. El-in. 
 Gifford, J. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Guffin, Mrs. G. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 GROTE & ETTNER, 19 Douglas 
 
 ave., Elgin ; dry goods, groceries, crock- 
 ery, boots and shoes, hats and caps ; P. 
 0. Elgin ; Grote, William, born in 
 Hanover, Germany, Nov. 22, 1849 ; 
 came to this country in 1866, locating 
 in Du Page Co., 111.; removed to Elgin 
 in 1871 ; Rep.; member of German 
 Evangelical Church. Ettner, John F., 
 born in Hampshire Tp., Kane Co., 111., 
 Sept. 4, 1850 ; this firm has been doing 
 a prosperous and gradually increasing 
 business since 1872, at which time the 
 firm was established. 
 
 Gustason, Charles, tailor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gardner, Thomas, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gilbert, Truman, farmer ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Gould, Chas. W., dairyman ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Gadske, George, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gulick, A. J., farmer; P.'O. So. Elgin. 
 
 Gooding, E. F., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Giles, Wm. S , watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Grovor, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 GREGORY, CHARLES E., editor 
 
 of the Daily Blvff Cify, Elgin ; born 
 in Elgin. Kane Co., 111.. April 15, 1855 ; 
 Rep.; Liberal; his father Samuel E. 
 Gregory, was an early settler in Kane 
 Co., was born in Monroe, Orange Co., 
 N. Y.; died in Sept., 1872. 
 GOULD, CHARLES W., farmer 
 and dealer in butter and cheese ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in North Adams, Berk- 
 shire Co., Mass., Jan. 23, 1828 ; re- 
 moved, with his parents, to Cook Co., 
 111., in July, 1840, locating in Hanover 
 Township, where he resided for thirty- 
 seven years; located at' Elgin in the 
 Spring of 1877 ; owns 260 acres of land, 
 valued at $17,000; Rep.; Liberal. Mar- 
 ried, in 1857, to Miss Mariett Hunting ; 
 she was born in Madison Co., N. Y. ; 
 seven children Samuel W., Cora E., 
 Alice, Frank H., Etta, Charles W. and 
 Frederick ; Mr. G. is a member of Clin- 
 tonville Lodge, No. 51 1 , A., F. & A. M. ; 
 he owns the following butter and cheese 
 factories : Home Factory, in Hanover, 
 Cook Co.; Wayne Factory, at Wayne, 
 Du Page Co.; Bartlett Factory, at Bart 
 lett Station, Cook Co. ; also interested 
 in two others.
 
 682 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Gould, L. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Glines, A. B., P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 Grasser, Joseph, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gritz, Fred, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gardner, Mrs. E., P. 0. Elgin." 
 Gahn, Daniel, harness mkr ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Grimes, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gregory, Wm., printer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gregory, Charles, printer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gaffney, Pat., lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Glave, John, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Grow, J. Madison, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Graham, Katie A., P. 6. Elgin. 
 Gustason, A. watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gage, S , station agt. C. & P. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Goodale, J. P., mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Geister, Henry, ret. far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Goff, David, expressman ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Gregory, Mrs. S. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Gill, David S., watch fac. ; P, O. Elgin. 
 Gifford, Miss H. E. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Giebert. Mrs. R. M. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 GIBBONS, PIERCE P. (Stone & 
 
 Gibbons), manfr. of butter tubs, pails, 
 cheese boxes, and wholesale dealer in 
 cheese box and butter tub stock ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Fayette Co., Pa.. Sept. 27, 
 1848, but removed in early childhood, 
 with his parents, to McHenry Co., 111., 
 where he resided until 1872 ; spent one 
 year in Kansas and located in Elgin in 
 1873; Dem.; Cong, in belief. Mar- 
 ried in Sept., 1877, to Miss Kate E., 
 daughter of Reuben R. and Hannah A. 
 Stone, of Elgin. 
 
 Gannon, Edward, Elgin Butter Co. ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Greene, Simon, shoemkr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Green, Carl ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gardner, Mrs. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gifford, S. J., printer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gibson, J. F., foreman watch fac.; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Gromburg, C. P., mfr.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Gilbert, W. J., news dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gilbert, E. L., insurance agt.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gerry, E. P., foreman escapement depart- 
 ment watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gates, Silas, carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gable, Jno., tailor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Glailey, A. L., carpenter; Elgin. 
 
 Gooby, Wm., engineer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gimrner, Henry, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Goodrow, Jacob, painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Grace, Fred, saloon ; P. 0. Elgiu. 
 
 GULICK, ABRAHAM, Sec. 26; 
 
 farmer ; P. O. South Elgin ; he was born 
 in Northumberland Co., Pa., Feb. 12, 
 1820, where he re-ided until 1854, 
 when he came West with a colony of 21 
 persons from Pa. ; he purchased the 
 farm where he now resides in 1853, re- 
 moving to it with his family the follow- 
 ing year; he owns 130 acres of land, 
 valued at $13,000; Ind. ; Bapt. ; was 
 married Jan. 1, 1846, to Miss Matilda 
 Vastine ; she was born in Northumber- 
 land Co., Pa., Feb. 27, 1824 ; they have 
 five children living Anna C., wife of 
 G. E. Boynton ; Arthur J., Viola F., 
 Clara E. and Lillian K.; lost one. Will- 
 iam V.. died Sept. 8, 1857. 
 
 Geskie, J. H., restaurant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gifford. Cornelia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gilbert, P. C., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Green, R. T., painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gifford. Cora, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Grippen. Mrs. Eliz. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gilman, Edward, P. 0. P]lgin. 
 
 GIESKE, JOHN H. ? auctioneer; P. 
 0. Elgin ; he was born in Schaumburg, 
 Germany, June 6, 1839 ; came to this 
 country in Nov., 1844, locating in 
 Schaumburg Tp., Cook Co.; removed to 
 Elgin in July, 1858 ; he owns 300 acres 
 of land in Kansas valued at $1,200, and 
 city property in Elgin, valued at $1 6,000 ; 
 Greenbacker ; Luth. ; married in Dec., 
 1860, to Miss Sophia Weber, of Elgin; 
 she was born in Schaumburg, Germany, 
 June 4, 1840; they have six children 
 living John L. F., August C.. Herman 
 F. C., Matilda, Emil and Douglas ; lost 
 two Bertha died September 23, 1872 ; 
 Seigfred died April, 1, 1877. 
 
 Gibbins, Thos.. H., dairyman : P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Groce, Nelson, mfr. B. & S.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Groce, H. A., mfr; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Guptal. R. G.. theat, actor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gahan, Lucy A., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Gahari, Thos., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gubbins, Wm., laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Grote, Wm., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gahan, Danl , farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HOXIE, J. W., engineer; P. O. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Heine, Wm., miller ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Hawkins, A. C., banker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Hintze, W. H., banker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Hannis, Joseph, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Haddock, A., Justice ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 683 
 
 Hubbard, Harvey, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hendrickson, W. D., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Holdridge, Catharine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hill, C. J., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hewitt, Oscar, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Holthusen, Henry, Condensing Co.; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Hoagland, J. W., real estate ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Harpending, A. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Holtz, August, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Harger, Milton, farmer-. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HART, WILLIAM (Kelly & Hart), 
 wholesale and retail druggists ; P .0. 
 Elgin ; born in Johnston, Montgomery 
 Co., N. Y., Feb. 22, 1849 ; came to 
 Illinois in June, 1869, locating at Elgin . 
 his present home ; Dem.; Lib.; married 
 in 1875 to Miss Ella M.'Yarwood ; she 
 was born in Elgin ; they had one child, 
 Edward W.; Mr. H. is a member of 
 Monitor Lodge, No. 522, A., F. and 
 A. M. 
 
 Hippie, J. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hogan, Jno., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Holland, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hanley, C. B., P. 0, Elgin. 
 
 Hammond, A. H., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Hickey, William, lab.; P. O. South Elgin. 
 - Hammond. A., faimer ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 HAWTHORNE, GEORGE E., 
 
 & BRO., hardware, stoves, cheese fac- 
 tory and dairy supplies; P. 0. Elgin; 
 George E. Hawthorne was born in Sal- 
 isbury, Conn., Dee. 7, 1844 ; came to 
 Illinois in Nov.. 1866, locating at Elgin ; 
 Rep.; Cong.; married in June, 1870, to 
 Miss Emma Gregory, of Elgin ; Rich- 
 ard J. Hawthorne was born in Pittsburgh, 
 Penn., Jan. 17, 1842 ; resided in the 
 State of Connecticut several years; came 
 West in Jan., 1868, locating at Lyons, 
 Iowa ; served in the 7th Conn. Inf. from 
 1861 to 1864 ; was temporarily disabled 
 in the latter year on account of wound ; 
 married Sept. 28, 1872, to Miss S. Marie 
 Woodward, of Lyons, Iowa ; she was 
 born in East Haven, Conn.; one child 
 Ralph W.; is a member of the following 
 Masonic bodies: Monitor Lodge, No. 
 522, Chapter and Consistory. This firm 
 own and operate White Clover Creamery 
 at East Plato, about six miles west of 
 Elgin ; about 6< 1,000 pounds of butter 
 and 185,000 pounds of cheese are made 
 at this factory annually. 
 Holland, Jerry, farmer; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Hale. G. W., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Holland, James, farmer ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Higgins. Pat., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Hubbard, G. B., lab. ; P. O. South Elgin. 
 Harding, Margaret, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Hines, Peter, laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Haase, Henry F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Haeden, Mrs. M. A., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 HOAGLAND, WINPIELD K., 
 
 books, stationery, toys, fancy goods, etc.; 
 P. O. Elgin ; born in Spring Prairie, 
 Walworth Co., Wis., July 20, 1847: 
 came to Illinois in 1854, locating in 
 Elgin, his present home ; Rep.; Cong.; 
 married June 11, 1852, to Miss Phoebe 
 M. Wheeler, of Bridgeport, Conn.; one 
 child Charles N. 
 
 Hagle, John, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Harlow, Samuel, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hall, Mrs. V. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hines, Mrs. Jane, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Aaron, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hall, E. M., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Hazelman, Fred., sewing machines ; P. 0, 
 Elgin. 
 
 Hamilton, D. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Howell, Mrs. A. S., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hyde. Daniel, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hill, Louise; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Horton, John, watch fac. ; P 0., Elgin. 
 
 Hanchett, S., boarding house; P.O. Elgin, 
 
 Hoese, T. B., lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HUNTER, WILSON J., dealer in 
 coal and wood; P. 0. Elgin; born in 
 Saratoga, N. Y.. Nov. 18, 1834; came 
 to 111., in May, 1847, stopping at Chi- 
 cago one year, and locating at Elgin 
 in 1848 ; Dem. ; Liberal. Married Nov. 
 22, 1855, to Miss Amanda Dennis ; she 
 was born in Sussex Co., N. J. ; five 
 children Cora L., Ella May, Arthur 
 W., Irene and Millie A.; Mr. H. is a mem- 
 ber of the following Masonic bodies : 
 Elgin Lodge, No. 117 ; Freeport Chap- 
 ter, No. 28, at Freeport, 111.; Bethel 
 Commandery, No. 36, K. T., at Elgin, 
 and Freeporc Consistory, at Freeport, 111. 
 
 Hoagland, Mrs. A. A. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Mis. H. L. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hall, Amos ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Hibbard, Mrs. M. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hartwell, David, boss niech. watch fac. ; P. 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hoagland, Z. C., expressman ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Haines, Carrie, P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Hubbard, Wm. G., capitalist ; P. O. Elgin.
 
 684 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HEATH, SIDNEY, retired farmer ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in West Hart- 
 ford, Conn., Jan. 22, 1812; came to 
 Illinois in the Spring of 1836, stopping 
 for a short time with his brother at 
 what is now Lockport, Will Co., and in 
 October of the same year, moved on to 
 a claim bought of Ira Minard ; this 
 farm of 142 acres was purchased by the 
 State in 1870, and is now the present 
 site of the Illinois Northern Hospital 
 for the Insane ; he removed with his 
 family to the City of Elgin, in 1871, 
 thus making the original claim his 
 home for more than thirty-five years; he 
 was married April 28, 1833, to Miss 
 Charlotte S. London ; she was born in 
 Burlington, Hartford Co., Conn., Nov. 
 22, 1806 ; three children living Lottie 
 S., George S. and Warren H.; lost two; 
 Mr. H. has been a member of the Meth. 
 P]piscopal Church for forty-seven years ; 
 Republican. 
 
 Hendricks, W. D., engineer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Mrs.. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hewitt, Catherine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hinsdel, Andrew, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hawkins, Andrew, Cashier First National 
 Bank ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Harble, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HARVEY, GEO. P,, insurance; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Ontario Co., 
 N. Y., Dec. 22, 1816 ; came to Illinois 
 with his father's family in Oct., 1835, 
 locating in what is now St. Charles, 
 Kane Co. ; removed to Plato Town- 
 ship in 1838 ; came to Elgin in 
 1848 ; Rep. ; Liberal ; was married 
 Nov. 13, 1839, to Miss Mary L. Burr, 
 of St. Charles ; she was born in N. Y., 
 Dec. 23, 1816; five children living 
 Welford W., Cecil C., Mary E., Estelle 
 E. and Illieone ; Mr. Harvey's son, Lieut. 
 Charles M. Harvey, who was First Lieut, 
 of Co. B Cavalry, 36th 111. Inf., died in 
 1 874, of disease contracted while in the 
 army ; Mr. H. has been a member of 
 Kane Lodge, No. 47, 1. 0. 0. F., since 
 its organization. 
 
 Hickox, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Henning, Philip, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hume, Mrs. L., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hunter, Mrs. T. E., P. O^ Elgin. 
 
 Hinsdell. Oliver, furniture ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Harger, N. N., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Harford, Rachel, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hubner, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heelan, Jno., laborer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hanson, Mary W., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hanson, Ezra, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hinsdell, A. B., ret. far. ; P. O. 'Elgin. 
 
 Hays, Jno., blksmith; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hoag, Smith, contractor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Helden, Jno., boots and shoes ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hillis, W. D., musical inst.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 HOAG, CHARLES, dealer in gro- 
 ceries, notions, crockery, hats and caps, 
 boots and shoes ; P. 0. South Elgin ; 
 born in Dutchess Co.. N. Y., May 27, 
 1836 ; came to Illinois in 1857, locat- 
 ing at Chicago ; has resided at South 
 Elgin since 1874; Dem.; Episcopal. 
 Married May 15, 1873 ; has two chil- 
 dren John T. and Henry W. 
 
 Hoslin, Thos., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, F. S., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hewett, Darius, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hancock, Ebenezer, foreman train de- 
 p irtment, watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hartwell, D. R., foreman carp, department, 
 watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Haines, Minnie, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Howe, Tryphenia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hawkins, C. J., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hays, Milton, watch fac.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Hewett, Chas., watch fac.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, S. S., painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, G. S., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HALL, JEREMIAH C., farmer, 
 Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Udina; born in Fairlee, 
 Orange Co., Vt., Jan. 4, 1833 ; came 
 to Illinois in 1845, locating in Elgin 
 Township; owns 110 acres of land, 
 valued at $4,000 ; married in 1865, 
 to Miss Mary S. Harger ; she was born 
 in Lewis Co., N. Y., Oct. 22, 1834; 
 two children Eva M., Minnie E. 
 Mr. Hall was a member of Co. A, 36th 
 111. Infantry; enlisted in Sept., 1861, 
 mustered out Sept., 1864, at Atlanta, Ga. 
 Rep.; Cong. 
 
 Howland, Mary. P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Mrs. Milo, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Higgins, Edward, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Harvey, Gage J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hank, John, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hall, Alvah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Haney, J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hinsdell, Geo. W., tinner; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Harris, Sandy, painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Warren, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hawley, Abraham, cooper ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 685 
 
 Hart, William, drugs ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Healey, Bernard, harness maker ; P. O. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Himes, A. J., boarding house ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Holmes, Jos. R., machinist ; P. Elgin. 
 
 Hill, Wm. P., ice agent; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hibbard, Martha N., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hohgland, Z., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hadlock, Henry, carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hemmens, Jos., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HALL, A.LVAH, farmer, Sec. 18; 
 P. 0. Udina ; born in Hillsborough Co., 
 N. H., Sept. 14. 1802; removed to 
 Grafton Co., N. H., when young, and 
 from there to the State of Vermont ; 
 came to Illinois in May, 1845, locating 
 in Elgin Township, where he now re- 
 sides ; owns 90 acres of land, valued at 
 $4,500 ; married, in 1830, to Miss 
 Clara Cummings ; she was born in Dun- 
 stable, Middlesex Co., Mass., April 0, 
 1800 ; two children Asenath B., wife 
 of Alonzo S. Harpending, and Jeremiah 
 
 c. 
 
 Hagalow, B., saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Haseman, Fred., musical and S. M. agt. ; 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hunter, Chas. E., clerk; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hubbard, W. G., capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hewitt, D. W., Ins. Agt. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Huntington, M. J., Pur. Agt. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 HUNTER, GEO., superintendent of 
 the Elgin National Watch Factory ; a 
 native of Franklin Co.. Mass. ; was born 
 Nov. 13, 1834 ; at the age of 13, he 
 entered the cutlery establishment of J. 
 Russell & Co., at Greenfield, and since 
 that period has been constantly engaged in 
 mechanical pursuits ; removed to Litch- 
 field Co., Conn., in 1850; returned to 
 Massachusetts in 1853; was employed 
 on steam and gun machinery in Spring- 
 field and vicinity until May, 1859, when 
 he joined the American Watch Co., of 
 Waltham ; upon the organization of the 
 National Watch Company, in the Fall of 
 1864, was employed by them ; came to 
 Elgin in December of that year, and 
 took charge of its machinery depart- 
 ment ; held the position until May, 
 1872, when he became superintendent; 
 was married to Louise J. Connor, a 
 native of Hampshire Co., Mass., Oct. 
 21, 1858, and has one child, Geo. E. 
 Hunter ; Past Master of Monitor Lodge. 
 A., F. and A. M. ; Rep. ; Lib. 
 
 Hubbard, A. H., Ins. Agt. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hunter, W. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Hobert, A. C., B. and S. maker ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Heath, Horace, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Heideman, Wm., miller ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Heideman, A., miller ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Houian, Alex., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Hendricks, A. R., iron works ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Hagle, Fred., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Heath, Zaney, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Henry, Mrs. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Inslee, Stephen, hay presser ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 TAMES, HENRY, bkpr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jackson, H. A., trav. agt.; P. O. Elgin. 
 Jeonmaire, L. P., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Jennings, Morris, livery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Jaeger, Dr. C. A., phys.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Juby, Fied., contractor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Jurg, Fred., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Jones, Jno., elk.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Jennings, C. G., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Johnson, Mrs. P. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 JENCKS, DENISON R. (D. R. 
 
 Jencks& Co.), real estate, ins. and pas- 
 sage tickets ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in 
 North Adams, Mass., Oct. 13, 1837 ; 
 came to Illinois in October, 1841, locat- 
 ing at Dundee, where he resided until 
 five years ago, when he came to Elgin, 
 his present home ; was appointed Post- 
 master at Dundee in 1861 ; served six 
 years, resigning in 1867 in favor of A. 
 M. Dunton, who was crippled in the 
 late war ; Rep.; Bapt.; married Oct. 
 26,1859, to Miss Elizabeth A. Hollister, 
 of Dundee. Mr. J. is a member of 
 Monitor Lodge, No. 522, A., F. & A. 
 M., also Secy, of Loyal L. Munn Chap- 
 ter, No. 96, and member of Bethel 
 Comd. K. T., No. 36. 
 
 Jones, Patrick, tailor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Joslyn, A. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 JACKMAN, RICHD. P. (Jack- 
 
 mann & Blackwell. founders and ma- 
 chinists) ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Gofis- 
 town, N. H., Dec. 16. 1834; came to 
 Illinois in 1865, locating in Elgin ; 
 Rep.; Lib.; served as member of City 
 Council four years ; married May 23, 
 1857, to Semantha Clark; of Nashua, 
 N. H. ; she was born in Norwich, Vt.; 
 two children Geo. L. and Isabel E.; 
 Mr. J. is a member of Monitor Lodge, 
 No. 522, A., F. & A. M.
 
 686 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Jewell, H. S., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Joslyn, Z. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jackson, Mrs. D. A., P. 0, Elgin. 
 
 Jochin, Jog., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jarvis, Lydia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Judson, W. E.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jennings, Mrs. Josephine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 James, Mrs. L. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Joslyn, Walter S., mason ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Jordan, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Joyce, L. B., mach. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jensen, Henry, carp.; P. N. Elgin. 
 
 Joslyn, E. S., atty. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 JOHNSON, DUNCAN, proprietor 
 of the following butter and cheese 
 factories: Plato Center Factory, Gray 
 Willow Factory, and Cold Spring 
 Creamery ; resides at Elgin ; was born 
 in Canada West, near the city of Lon- 
 don, Sept. 15, 1848 ; came to Illinois 
 in 1870, locating in Plato Tp.; removed 
 to Elgin in 1878 ; Lib.; married Oct. 
 9, 1873, to Miss Sophia J., daughter of 
 John and Rebecca McDonald ; she was 
 born in Kane Co. Aug. 23, 1845 ; three 
 children Minnie M., Archibald .D. 
 
 Jeffers, Peter, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jerrell, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Jules, Mrs. Betsey, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Joachim, Jos., contr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KETCH AM, E. E., farmer; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 Kavanagh, Peter, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KELLEY, LEVERETT M. 
 
 ( Kelley & Hart), wholesale and retail 
 dealers in drugs and medicines; P. 0. 
 Elgin; born in Schenectady, N. Y., 
 Sept. 28, 1841 ; removed to Illinois in 
 early childhood with his parents, who 
 settled in Rutland Tp., Kane Co., in 
 June, 1845 ; Mr. K. enlisted in the 
 36th 111., Inf., in Aug., 1861 ; was 
 commissioned First. Lieut, in 1863, and 
 promoted to Captaincy in the early part 
 of 1 864 ; has served two terms as 
 Sheriff of Kane Co. ; first election in 
 1868, second election in 1874; Rep.; 
 Universalist ; owns 520 acres of land, 
 valued at $25,000 ; married Nov. 22, 
 1865, to Miss Emma G. Pingree; she 
 was born in Kane Co.; three children 
 Gertrude H., Charles K., and Grace ; 
 Mr. Kelley is a member of the follow- 
 ing Masonic bodies: Monitor Lodge, 
 No. 522 ; Fox River Chapter, No. 14, 
 and Bethel Commandery, No. 36, K. T. 
 
 Kline, Peter, cooper ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kruger, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kruger, Chris., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 King, Mathew, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kramly, Chas., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kramly, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kenyon, P. F., ret. farmer ; P. 0. Elgin, 
 
 Kenyon, D. S., ret. farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Knight, H. D., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Keys, Eber, gardener, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Keff, Caleb., ret. farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kevette, I., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kelly, B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Klock, Charles, mfr.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 KING, HERVEY (H. & W. D. 
 
 King), jewelers ; P. 0. Elgin; born in 
 Onondaga, N. Y., June 2, 1822 ; came 
 to Illinois in 1837, locating at Aurora, 
 111., residing there until 1843, when he 
 went to Ottawa, 111., LaSalle Co., making 
 that his home until the beginning of 
 the present year, 1877, when he lo- 
 cated at Elgin ; he was married in 1847 
 to Miss Ann L. Olmstead, of New York, 
 who died January, 1877 ; they had 
 four children Albert E., Willis D., 
 Julia 0. and Jessie A. 
 
 Knox, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kotal, Frank, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kelsey, A. F., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kryhl, C. P., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Keel, Chris., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Klick, W. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KNOTT, GEO. H. (Cox & Knott) r 
 
 dealers in groceries and crockery ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; he was born in Liecester, Eng.. 
 Feb. 8, 1838 ; he came to this country 
 in 1841 with his parents, stopping in 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., one year and locating 
 in Kane Co., 111., in 1842 ; he has re- 
 sided at Elgin since 1858 ; Rep.; Bapt.; 
 married July 8, 1860, to Mary E. Am- 
 bros, of Chicago, who died 1871 ; was 
 married to his present wife, Elizabeth 
 Sears, Oct. 27, 1875; three children 
 Lillie Mary, Emma L. and Geo. 
 Ruth ford; Mr. K. went out with the 
 127th Ills. Inf., in 1862 ; was trans- 
 ferred to Battery A.. 1st Light Artillery r 
 in 1864 and soon after was taken prison- 
 er and placed in Andersonville prison, 
 where he was held two months ; he is a 
 member of Samuel Ward Post, No. ll y 
 G. A. R. 
 
 Klick, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kinney, Simon, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY : ELGIN. 
 
 687 
 
 Kinney, Bernard, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 King, T., laborer; P. O.Elgin. 
 Kemble, Paul, saloon ; P. 0. Elein. 
 Kohn,T., butcher; P. 0. Elgin.' 
 Knettle. J., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kimball, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kimball, E. A., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kimball, Jos. C., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kipp, Melville, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kline, Wm.. carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KILBOURNE, EDWIN A., M. 
 
 D., Medical Superintendent of the Il- 
 linois Northern Hospital for the Insane 
 at Elgfu ; born in Chelsea, Vt., March 
 12, 1837, but removed in early child- 
 hood with his parents to Montpelier, 
 Vt., where he received an academical 
 education ; served in the army in vari- 
 ous capacities for nearly three years, re- 
 signing Sept. 24, 1864, on account of 
 ill health ; graduated at the College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, New York 
 City ; was for a time Assistant Physi- 
 cian of the Insane Asylum on Black- 
 well's Island, and was subsequently ap- 
 pointed to the position of House Sur- 
 geon of the City Hospital at Brooklyn, 
 N. Y. ; he visited Europe in 1869, with 
 a view to professional improvement, and 
 spent some months in the hospitals of 
 London and Paris ; came to Illinois in 
 1870 ; married, Jan. 17, 1872, to Miss , 
 Louisa B., daughter of Edward Kil- ! 
 bourne, of Keokuk, Iowa ; she was 
 born in Ft. Madison, Iowa ; three 
 children Jennie Louise, Walter Foote 
 and Edwin Dearbotn. 
 
 Kimball, James R., P 0. Elgin. 
 
 King, Nathaniel, mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kelley, Mary, P. O. South Elgin. 
 
 Kimball, Caroline, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kimball. G. W., clerk ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KIZER, JOHN, milling ; P. 0. El- 
 gin ; born in Hamilton Co., O., Aug. 
 31, 1820 ; came to Illinois in the Fall 
 of 1844, locating at Elgin, his present 
 home ; Dem.; Liberal ; Mr. K. has 
 served as member of the City Council 
 for the past ten years, and is member of 
 the present Board ; married in 1845 to 
 Miss Nancy G. Kimball ; she was born 
 in N. H. ; five children Nettie, wife 
 of R. K. Sherwin ; Mary, wife of Dr. 
 Albert Warner ; Lottie, Kate, wife of 
 Mr. Bradford, and Lena. 
 
 Kohn, C. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kirkpatrick, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. , 
 
 Kirkpatrick. W., blacksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kenson, G. D., loans ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kane, Albia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kimble, P. J., mer. tailor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Knott, J. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kimball, Nancy, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Kendall, John A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kee, James L., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kobs, J. C., shoemaker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kee, John L., carpsnter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kelley, Frank, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kirk, Henry, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 King, E. W., printer; P. 0. EL-in. 
 
 Kimball, J. W., watch fac,; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kilpatrick, Wm., blacksmith ; P 0. Elgin. 
 
 Knott, F. T., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kirkland, E., mason; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Kendall, Byron, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kincaid, E. C., M. R. messenger; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Krame, Henry, mason ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Kohn, Chas., butcher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 KEOGH, EDWARD, editor and 
 proprietor of the Elgin Times; born in 
 Galway, Ireland ; came to this country 
 in 1849, stopping a short time in New 
 Jersey, and locating in Elgin in the 
 Fall of the same year; Mr. K. com- 
 menced in the newspaper business in 
 1863, as editor of the Second District 
 Democrat, published in Elgin ; the paper, 
 while Democratic, was a strong advocate 
 of the war for the Union; this paper 
 having been sold, Mr. Keogh established 
 the Elgin Chronicle in 1865, which he 
 published and edited until 1867, when 
 he engaged in newspaper reporting in 
 Chicago; in 1871, he became editor of 
 the Elgin Advocate, with Mr. S. L. 
 Taylor as proprietor, but had, at the 
 time, almost entire control of the paper, 
 Mr. Taylor being, at the time, engaged 
 in publishing the St. Charles Transcript 
 and Geneva Republican; in 1873, he 
 edited the Elgin Gazette, and in 1874, 
 established the Elgiu Times ; has served 
 as City Collector three terms, also as U. 
 S. Assistant Assessor. Liberal. 
 
 Kohn, Theodore, butcher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kramer, M.. house mover; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Klineschrodt, Phillip, cigars; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kuhn, Conrad, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 King, W. D., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kohn, Fred., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Knowles, Pat., laborer; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 688 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Kimball, C. F., sch'l tchr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Koster, William, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kemler, Paul, hotel; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kelly, John, painter; P. O. Elgin. 
 Kramer, Frank, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kimball, J. M., auctioneer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kelsey, Frank, foreman watch factory ; P. 
 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Kipp, Caleb, ret. farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Karan, Gus., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 LATHROP, ELIJAH, Jr., farmer; 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lee, Parley, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lathrop, L. T., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Long, Margaret, P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 LARKIN, CYRUS H., farmer ; Sec. 
 15 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Waterville, 
 Franklin Co., Vi., May 20, 1830 ; came 
 to Illinois with his parents in early 
 childhood, settling in Dundee Tp., in 
 Oct., 1837 ; removed to his present 
 home in Elgin Tp., in 1841 ; owns 500 
 acres of land ; value, $40,000 ; has 
 served as member of the Board of Su- 
 pervisors for Elgin Tp., two terms ; Rep.; 
 Liberal. Married in 1854, to Miss Jane 
 E. Johnson, of Putney, Vt.; she was 
 born ! Jan., 1829 ; died May 2, 1874 ; 
 *wo children by this linion May and 
 Fred A. 
 
 Larkins, S. K., stock dlr.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Larkin, Cyru^ farmer ; P. 0. Klgin. 
 
 Lynn, James, mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lathrop, E., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lake, I. 
 
 Long, Peter, blacksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lilly, 0. B., mason; P. 0. Elgin; 
 
 Lamersall, F. C., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Leonard, D. W., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin! 
 
 Lind, J. L., mason ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Luntz, Catharine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lagerstrom, Oscar, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 LOUCKS, THOMAS C., (T. C. 
 
 Loucks & Co.), lumber^ lath and shin- 
 gles, Elgin, 111. ; born in Canada West, 
 April 6, 1856 ; removed to the State of 
 Michigan in 1875, and to Illinois in 
 1876 ; locating at Elgin. Rep. ; Lib. 
 
 Lowe, W. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Long, W. B., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Leavitt, J. E., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Little, Edward, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Loose, John., lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Loose, Fred., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Littlefield, Mrs. L. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Long, Charles, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 LONGLEY, DAVID, farmer, 
 wagon maker and wheelwright ; Sec. 36 ; 
 P. 0. South Elgin ; born in County of 
 Kent, England, May 27, 1813 ; came to 
 Canada in 1828, and about one year 
 later to Troy, N. Y. ; removed to Kane 
 Co., 111., in the Fall of 1840, locating at 
 Elgin, where he engaged in wagon mak- 
 ing several years. In 1850 he moved 
 on to a farm in Cook Co. ; was Justice 
 of the Peace in Cook Co.. for sixteen 
 years, and Assessor for fourteen years ; 
 has held other minor offices at different 
 times. Rep.; Lib. ; owns 20 acres of 
 land where he now resides, valued at 
 $3,000 ; married to Cathrine Luffman 
 in 1835; she died in 1853; was again 
 married to Sarah Leatherman in 1854 ; 
 she ^vas born in Putnam Co., Indiana ; 
 eight children by first wife, six livi ng 
 Edwin B., Luther W., William H., 
 Henrietta, Amelia M., Jane E. ; lost 
 two, Anna M. and David ; one child by 
 second wife, John N. Mr. Longley 
 helped build the track of the Mohawk 
 & Hudson R. R. Co., in 1831, which 
 was the first in this country ; the first 
 steam passenger excursion train in 
 America was run on this road on Aug. 
 9, 1831. 
 
 LUND, JOSEPH H., restaurant 
 and rnanfr. of candies ; P. 0. Elgin ; 
 born in Wentworth, Grafton Co.,N. H., 
 April, 26, 1852 ; came to 111., Sept. 12, 
 1873, locating at Elgin ; Rep.; Liberal. 
 Married, in 1873, to Miss Ruth Ann 
 Haynes ; she was born in Grafton Co., 
 N. H.; May 6, 1852 ; three children; 
 two living Charles F. and Edith E.; 
 lostone Ellen Jane, died in Feb. 1877 ; 
 member of the Elgin National Guards, 
 Co. E, 3d Regt., 111. National Guards. 
 
 Lovell, John, far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lovell, V. S., news correspondent ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Lovell, E. C., attorney ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lovell, Lucy S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lane, James, contractor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lavoie, A., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin 
 
 Loomis. Delia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lehman, Paul, carp. ; P. 0. Elgin; 
 
 Lea, Benjamin, iron works ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lungreen, S., milk dealer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lamersoll, Frank, tailor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Linane, P., merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Long, John, wagon maker ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 689 
 
 LAWRENCE, OSCAR P., far. ; | 
 
 Sec. 9 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Collins, i 
 Erie Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1828 ; came I 
 West, with his father's family, in the | 
 Fall of 1837, making the journey from ! 
 Toledo, Ohio, with an ox team ; they 
 first located in Burlington Township, 
 where they remained about two years, j 
 and then removed to the farm where j 
 Mr. L. now resides ; owns 328 acres of i 
 land, valued at $15,000; Rep.; Lib- 
 eral. Married, in Feb. 1859, to Miss J. 
 Frances Kilborn ; she was born in Bos- 
 cawen, Merrimack Co., N. H., Sept. 28, 
 1832; two children living Carrie B. 
 and Albert K. ; lost two Edwin E., 
 died Feb. 8, 1861, and Lewie P., died 
 March 13, 1875. 
 
 Little, Lewis, carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Locie, Esther, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lewis, G. F.,sash and blinds ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Lewis, A. T., attorney ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lessenden, E., P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Lynch, J. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lockwood, Jacob, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lewis, F. S., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lord, G. P., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lynd, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lusk, Peter, contractor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Linderstran, Peter, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Lemon, S. B., watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lawrence, Mrs. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lynch, Mrs. T., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lightfoot, Martha R., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lynd, Jacob, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Logan, Julia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Laser, Esther, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Lynch, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Long, Mrs. John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lawrence, Dennis, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Larkins, Pat, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lawsha, Robert M.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lawson, Sylvester, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lc-thin, M., tailor ; P. 0, Elgin. 
 
 Lethin, Swan, merchant tailor ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Lynn, Barney, mer. tailor ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lightner, Chas. E., watch fac. ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Leake, Israel, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lockwood, Eugene, salesman ; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Linkfield, G. E., boots and shoes; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Long, Phillip, wagon maker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Luna, G. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lay, Chris., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lund, E. H., confectionery; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lutz, Fred., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Lawrence, T. E., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lasher, Stephen, Waverly House ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Lamming, Wm., mason ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Lord, A' i asa, publisher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lyon, C. B., music dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Leavett, J. E., watch factory ; P.O. Elgin. 
 Lovell John R., ret. farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lunz, George, butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Long, W. B., carpenter; P. O.Elgin. 
 Long, Wichleffe, painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lee, S. A., agt. Am. Express ; P.O. Elgin. 
 Lind, Jacob, mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Logan, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lynn, J. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Leake, S. E., harness maker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lawrence, E. J., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lobdell, Nathan, pump maker ; P.O. Elgin. 
 Lynch, Mrs. Ann, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lynch, Eugene, merchant; P.O. Elgin. 
 
 McBRIDE, THOMAS, far.; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McCormack, Stephen, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MUNTZ, HENRY, saddler and har- 
 ness mkr ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Meck- 
 lenburg, Germany, Oct. 15, 1849 ; came 
 to this country with his parents in 1353, 
 who, after remaining in Chicago a short 
 tune, located on a farm in Cook Co.; 
 Mr. M. has resided at Elgin about 
 eighteen years. Married in 1871, to 
 Miss Cathrina Stein ; she was born in 
 France ; one child Sophie B. 
 
 McGarry, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marshall, W. E., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Morgan, M. S., gardener ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Mitchell, Ann, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Masterson, A., farmer ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, H. P. 
 
 Murphy, Edmond, lab.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Mapes, Peter, far. ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Munroe, Samuel, ice dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Maule, Robert, merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Morgan, Cordelia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MITCHELL, HENRY J., manu- 
 
 facturer of cheese boxes ; P. 0. South 
 Elgin ; born in Kane Co., 111., Feb. 12, 
 1850 ; owns 236 acres of land, valued 
 at $17,000 ; Rep. ; Liberal ; married, 
 April 16, 1872, to Miss -Ella I. Orcutt ; 
 she was born in South Elgin ; two 
 children Edward T. and Able A.; Mr. 
 M.'s father, Thomas Mitchell (de- 
 ceased), was one of the early settlers of 
 Kane Co.
 
 690 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Murphy, Mary, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Mitchell, Mrs", P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mills, Eliza, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Mechm, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, Peter. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mallett, V. W. H., painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McDowell. Margaret, P. 0.' Elgin. 
 
 Meyer. Christian, bla- ksniith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Manahan. Hugh. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McNabb/Marv, R 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moseley, X. N.. machinist ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Martin, J. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McMillen. N., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mackey, Caroline. P. O. Elgin. 
 
 MANN, SYLVESTER S. (Mann 
 
 & Sherwiii), who'esale dealer in butter 
 and cheese ; P. O. Elgin ; the subject 
 of this sketch was born in North Java, 
 Wyoming Co., N. Y., May 31, 1826, 
 and is a son of James and Lucy (Sher- 
 man) Maun ; having completed his ed- 
 ucation, he came West with his father's 
 family in May, 1844, locating in Bur- 
 lington, Kane Co., 111., where his father 
 purchased a tract of 1,200 acres of laud; 
 in Aug.. 1846, he opened a store in I 
 Burlington, under the firm name of I 
 Maim & Brown, being engaged in farm- 
 ing at the same time ; he still retains 
 his interest in the sture, now under the 
 firm name of Mann, Hapgood & Co., 
 and is also engaged in mercantile busi- 
 ness at Hampshire, the firm name being 
 Hathaway & Co. ; was elected Super- 
 visor of Burlington Township in 1858, 
 serving in that capacity several years ; 
 member of the State Legislature in 
 1863 and '64, and with other Republi- 
 cans brought to pass the disagreement 
 between House aud Senate, which en- 
 abled Gov. Yates to prorogue that dis- 
 cordant body ; was re-elected, and 
 served in 1865 and '66 ; in 1872, he 
 was a third time elected to the Legisla 
 ture ; he has been instrumental in se- 
 curing the passage of uiaay beneficial 
 and local measures ; among these was 
 the incorporation aud location of the 
 Illinois .Northern Hospital tor the In- 
 sane, which, through his industry and 
 perseverance, was located at Elgin; 
 served as Revenue Collector of the 
 Second District in 1866, removing to 
 Elgin in the Fad of that year ; Rep. ; 
 Liberal ; owus 800 acres of land, val- 
 ued at $40,000 ; married in 1850 to 
 
 Miss Caroline Young, of Burlington ; 
 she was born in Rochester, N. Y. ; four 
 children by this union Alvira J.. wife 
 of C. H. Potter; Alice. John S. and 
 Nellie ; Mr. Mann is also engaged in 
 the manufacture of butter and cheese, 
 and breeder of Holstein cattle. 
 
 Meat, Mrs. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Monahan, W.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Morrison, Hannah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Wesley, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McBrainy, Ellen., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McBrairty, Catherine, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Merrill, H.. carp.: P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Monahan, N. R., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McKINNELL, PETER, far.; Sec. 
 
 22 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Wigtonshire, 
 Scotland, June 22 ; 1825; came to this 
 country in February, 1855, locating 
 at Elgin ; Rep. ; Presb. ; married, in 
 1852, to Miss Jessie McDowell: she 
 was born in Scotland; eight children, 
 six living Ellen J. (wife of William 
 Bishop), Agnes, Mary, Annie, James 
 C. and George ; lost two Eliza Jane, 
 died in 1862, and one in infancy. 
 
 Magden, Mrs. C. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moore, Geo. I., machinist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Menaugh, J. >'., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Menaugh, P., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marckhoff, Theodore, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Monger, John S., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Maule, Geo. H., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mackh, Charles, hotel ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Meway, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Murphy, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marshall, Nettie, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MARSHALL, GEORGE P., far., 
 
 Sec. 27' : P. 0. Elgin ; born in Ryther, 
 Yorkshire, England, May 9, 1817 ; re- 
 moved to Canada in 1842, and to Illi- 
 nois in the Spring of 1843, locating in 
 Plato Tp., Kane Co.; came to Elgin Tp. 
 in 1846 ; owns 77 acres of land, valued 
 at $6,000 ; Greenbacker : Spiritualist ; 
 married, March 28, 1842, to Miss Mary 
 Burton ; she was born in Sherrington, 
 Canada, Aug. 14, 1825 ; eleven chil- 
 dren, ten living Ann J., wife of H. E. 
 Perkins ; William E. W., Charles H., 
 George F., Lizetta C. : wife of Alfonso 
 Brown; Ellen L., wife of M. Starr; 
 Richard. S., Lavina E., wife of H. C. 
 Padelford ; Frederick J., Henry L.; 
 lost one James B., who died Aug. 21, 
 1863.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 691 
 
 Morgan, Lansing, P. 0. Elgin. 
 .McQueeny, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 McArthur, D., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Morgan, R. L., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Manchester, E. L., engraver; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Morgan, J. P., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 McElroy, Peter, road master ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Mallery, Martha S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 McLean, J. R., Justice ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 McGrath, Thomas, P. 0. Elgin. 
 McClure, Mrs. F. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 McKean, Chloe, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Meyer, Johanna, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Meyer, J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Meisner, Joseph, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MCDONALD, JAMES D., farmer; 
 
 Sec. HO ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Kane 
 Co., 111., Feb., 26, 1851. Married Jan. 
 22, 1873, to Miss Frances Sovereign ; 
 she was born in Plato Tp.; three chil- 
 dren Walter A., Lillie L. and Elmer J. 
 
 McNeil, M. ; mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moulton, J. H., Alderman ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Marks, John, watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mixer, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mackin, Thomas, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Manning. John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Martin, R. H., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mixer, C. S.. Sheriff; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mackey, John, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mclntyre, S. L., carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Maxon, George, engineer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 MARSHALL, GEORGE P., car- 
 penter and builder ; Sec. 27 ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Kane Co., 111., June 20, 
 1851 ; Rep.; Liberal. 
 
 Mosher, Anthony, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McCornack, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McCornack, C. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mark, J. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mollin, 0. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Muller, William. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Minke, William, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McAllister, F. A., manager est. W. P. 
 McAllister ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McAllister, Sylvester, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Murphy, Ellen, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, Pat, grocer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mendelson, R., clothing ; P. 0. Elgin 
 
 Miller, F. S., expressman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mallett, Jas., painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Martin, A. D., stoves, etc. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McKinley, Jno., baker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Meehan, J. J., hardware ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, Michael, bkpr. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McCallum, F., blacksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, C. N., livery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Merrill, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, Edward, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McGLINCY, RICHARD P., 
 
 local and dairy editor of the Elgin Ad- 
 vocate ; born in Shepherdstown, Jeffer- 
 son Co., Va., May 21, 1840 ; came to 
 Illinois in July, 1868, stopping in 
 Chicago until the following Spring, 
 when he located at Elgin, his present 
 home ; commenced his journalistic 
 labors about twenty-five years ago, in 
 the State of Virginia ; has been associ- 
 ated with the Elgin Advocate since Jan- 
 uary, 1873, as local editor; was elected 
 Secretary of the Elgin Board of Trade 
 in May, 1877; is Secretary of the 
 Northwestern Dairymen's Association, 
 and member of the State Dairymen's 
 Association ; member of Kane Lodge, 
 No. 47, I. 0. 0. F. ; also District 
 Deputy Grand Master, which position 
 he has held for the past four years. 
 
 Mills, E. S., pumps ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Marckhoff, Herman, mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Meehan, Jno., Sr., hardware ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marckhoff, Chas., fnason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mazel Albert, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Meenough, Jno., lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Monroe, Sam!., ice dealer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McDonald, Rebecca, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Jos., clerk; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Murray, Geo. F., lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mutzelburg, Chas.. laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Morgan, Mrs. E. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Martin, Thos. L., contractor ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Magden, Wm., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McNeil, Jno., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mott, W. A., coal dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moseley, C. H., mach.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moseley, C. S., mach.: P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marsh, M. M., bkpr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Wesley, capitalist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Merriefield, Walter, clerk ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McNicol, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moxan, A. B., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mock, Elgin, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Marshall, M. N., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Moulton, M. S., jeweler; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Moulton, J. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Magnus, Andrew, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mallett, W. V., paintev ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Meehan, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McAllister, 0. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mapes, Geo., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McCornack, A. H., P. 0. Elgin.
 
 C92 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Mackie, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mann, Thos., mason; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McClure, F. L., ice dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Murray, Michael, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Maule. R. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Manle, Geo H.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mollin, Matt., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Merritt, W. W., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Moulson, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McClure, V. C., milk dealer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Miller, Catherine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 "XTEEDHAM, MARTIN, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 NEWMAN, JOHN, dealer in dry 
 goods and groceries ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Bishop Stortlbrd, Herefordshire, En- 
 gland, March 11, 1842; canoe to this 
 country in October, 1859, remaining in 
 Chicago a few years, and locating at 
 Elgin Nov. 9, 1865 ; his store and stock 
 were destroyed by the fire of March 23, 
 1874; opened, with new stock, in Mrs. 
 Lynch's Block the day after the fire; 
 was re-established in business in former 
 location, and the one occupied by him 
 now, in October of the same year. 
 Married Sept. 5, 1867, to Miss Addie 
 V., daughter of Col. J. F. and Susan 
 P. Beaty, of Chicago; have four chil- 
 dren Paul B., John B., Hattie B. and 
 Willie ; Mr. N. was bereft of his beloved 
 wife, who died April 2, 1876. leaving a 
 large circle of friends to mourn her loss. 
 
 Newsom. Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Naylor, George, barber; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Newcomb, J. B., agent; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nimras, Chas. A., chair mkr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nyberg. Gustus, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Newton, Julia A., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 NICHOLS, KELLOGG, express 
 
 agent; P. 0. Elgin; born in Utica, 
 Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1838; 
 came to Illinois in 1 856, locating at 
 Elgin ; was, for a short time, in the 
 lumber business at Green Bay; has 
 lived in different places in the West, up 
 to 18t>5, since which, Elgin has been 
 his permanent home ; Rep.; Lib. Mar- 
 ried Oct. 28, 1856, to Miss Ellen Briggs. 
 of Utica, N. Y.; she was born July 4, 
 1838. 
 
 Nicholson, John, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nestor, William, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Newsom, Arthur, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nicholson, Elizabeth, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Naughton, Thomas, lab.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 NISH, JOHN (Kimball & Nish) ; 
 hardware, stoves, dairy goods and man- 
 ufacturers' supplies ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Wigtonshire, Scotland, May 3, 1829 ; 
 came to Illinois in 1853. locating in 
 Chicago, where he entered the house of 
 J. K. Botsford & Co., as clerk, and re- 
 mained with this firm three years; in 
 1856, Mr. N. removed to Gary Station, 
 McHenry Co., 111., where, with his 
 brother, he was engaged in general mer- 
 chandising till 1874, when he came to 
 Elgin, his present home, and became a 
 partner with Mr. E. A. Kimball ; Rep.; 
 Lib.; served as Postmaster, at Gary 
 Station, about sixteen years, and Ex- 
 press and Station Agent for several 
 years, and School Treasurer two terms. 
 Married, in 1864, to Miss Electa 
 Weaver; she was born in New York: 
 have three children living Leon D., 
 William H., Alvah L. ; lost one Annie 
 M. E., who died in August, 1869; Mr. 
 N. is a member of the Burns Cal- 
 edonian Club. 
 
 Nimmo, C., shoemaker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nolen, John, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Nicholson, L. P., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Newton, Miles, farmer; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Neperman. John, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 O 'BRYAN. JAMES, shoemaker; P. 
 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Oxenschlager, Phillip, lab.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Ober, 0. M., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin.' 
 
 Oswald, Anthony, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Oates ; M. Mrs. 
 
 OWEN, J. D., farmer, Sec. 30 ; P V . 0. 
 Elgin; born in Wyoming Co., N. Y., 
 April 6., 1821 ; came to Illinois in Oct., 
 1840, locating in Elgin Township, Kane 
 Co.; owns 156 acres of land, valued at 
 $9,360 ; Ind.; Liberal ; was married in 
 1840, to Lucy E. Williams ; she was 
 born in Madison Co., N. Y., died in 
 Feb., 1872 ; had seven children by this 
 union, five living Cephas E., Albtrt 
 H., Mary Jane (wife of W. Seward i. 
 Darwin H. and Walter H.; lost two, 
 Galusha D., died June 28, 1854 ; Martha 
 D., died May 22, 1849. Was again 
 married Feb. 24, 1871, to Clarissa S. 
 Arnold ; she was born in Clinton Co.. 
 N. Y.; had two children, one living 
 James W r .; Anson A., died Aug. 15, 1877.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 693 
 
 O'Flarity, Eliza. 
 
 Otto, John, mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Orton, F. S., salesman ; P. O. Elgin. 
 O'Neil, Bartholomew, florist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Ostrander, Geo., carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 O'Flaherty, P. T., boots and shoes; P. O. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 O'Connell, C., boots and shoes; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Owen, Wm., Justice ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Osburg, A., boots & shoes ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Oakes, Harvey, tinner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 O'Conner, Jas.. farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 O'Neal, Matt, mason, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Oakes. Henry, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 "PEARSON, WM., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Philip, Nathan G., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Park, W., gardener; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Potter, John, laborer ; P. 0. Eigin. 
 
 Padelford, J. F., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Preest, Charles, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pendergast, A. L., painter, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pember. L. F., flagman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Priller, Jos., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Powers, John, City Marshal ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 PANTON, V. W., propr. of Panton 
 Mills, and tub and cheese-box fac- 
 tory ; P. 0. South Elgin ; was born in 
 Clarksou, Monroe Co., N. Y., April 15, 
 1845; he came to Illinois in 1845 with 
 his parents, who settled in Aurora, his 
 father, Wm. Panton, coming the year 
 before, and selecting the location ; re- 
 moved to South Elgin, his present 
 home, in 1854 ; Rep. ; Liberal ; was 
 married in 1864, to Miss Eliza E. 
 Mitchell ; she was born in Kane Co., 
 her parents being among the early set- 
 tlers in the Co. ; four children Cora 
 A., Henry V., Nellie A. and William J. 
 
 Pixley, Ira A., jeweler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Part, H., glove maker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Peake, R. W., harness; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pixley, W. A., jeweler ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pfeiffer, H. A., salesman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Palmer, B. B., livery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Payne, Bruce, B. R. P. 0. clerk ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Plummer, H. T., carriages, &c., P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Port, H.. glove maker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pruet, Mary L.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pendergast. Dennis, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Petersen, Julius, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perry, Lysander, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Paten. J. M., merchant;?. 0. Elgin. 
 
 PRICE, ARWIN E., mfr. and 
 dealer in marble, granite and building 
 stone, importer of Scotch Granite direct 
 from Aberdeen ; P. 0. Elgin. Mr. Price 
 is largely engaged in monumental work, 
 having during the past season erected a 
 large number of monuments in this and 
 adjoining counties. Some of the most 
 elaborate, being the soldiers' monument 
 at Elgin ; Alfred Edwards, Robert 
 Crichton and James Winnie at Dundee; 
 Robert Grey at Blackberry, and vault 
 for Jacob Johnson at same place ; Geo. 
 Brown of Sycamore, DeKalb Co., also a 
 large number in McHenry Co.; born in 
 Waukesha. Wis., Aug. 29, 1849 ; came 
 to Illinois in 1868, locating at Elgin. 
 
 Pierce, Luther, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Provost, J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pratt, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pratt, Wm. A., Fish Comr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Peasley, Jas., butcher ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Peterson, Vic, lab.; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Peterson, Helen, P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 PEASE, WALTER L.,ret'd banker; 
 P. 0. Elgin. Mr. Pease was born in Hart- 
 ford, Conn., April 18, 1825, where he 
 was for a time in his early business life 
 engaged in the fur trade ; but in 1848 
 removed to Watertown, Wis., and en- 
 gaged in general merchandising for 
 about four years, then removing to Belvi- 
 dere, 111.; he was associated at the latter 
 place with Lawrence & May in mer- 
 chandising and distilling until 1857, 
 and in November of that year came to 
 Elgin, his present home ; was a mem- 
 ber of the firm of Lawrence, Malona & 
 Co. until July, 1863, when he engaged 
 in the banking business under the firm 
 name of Lawrence, Pease & Town, 
 which continued until 1865 ; then the 
 business of this firm was merged 
 into the First National Bank of Elgin, 
 Mr. Pease becoming Vice President r 
 on the death of Mr. Lawrence, in 1872, 
 President. He held this position until 
 187H, when he sold his interest and re- 
 tired from the bank ; was Mayor of the 
 city two terms, and Alderman four 
 years ; Dem.; Epis. belief; married in 
 1848 to Miss Sarah W., daughter of 
 Benj. F. Fowler, of Hartford, Conn.; 
 three children Sarah K., wife of Dan- 
 iel Innes, of Lawrence, Kan., Charles 
 F. and Hattie 0.
 
 694 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Parsons, Martha, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Perry, Horace, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Phillips, S. K., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perkins, H. E., far.; P. 0. S. Elgin. 
 
 Patchen, H. N., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Peaslee, Charles, P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Palcter, Herman, P.O. Elgin. 
 
 Peaslee, Fred. G., P. O. So. Elgin. 
 
 Palmer, Wm., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pierce, J. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pike, Mrs. C. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perry, Sarah N., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Penderga-t, Bridget, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pifster, S., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Parshall, J. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Parsons, L. H., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perry, Hiram 0., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Preston, Frank, assistant foreman steel 
 
 dept. watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Perkins, F. B.. watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pethybridge, Philip, butcher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pratt. Chas. C., conductor C. & P.; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 Pierson, J. W., pumps ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Palmer, J. A.' furniture ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 PHILLIPS, NATHAN G., Sec. 
 
 17 ; farmer ; P. 0. Elgin ; he was born 
 in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Sept. 27, 
 1818 ; came to Illinois in Nov., 1842, 
 locating on the farm where he now 
 resides, which has been his home for 
 more than, thirty-five years ; he owns 
 200 acres of land, valued at $15,000 ; 
 Kep.; Bapt.; married in 1834. to Miss 
 Mary Ballard ; she was born in Erie Co., 
 N. Y., Sept. 23, 1822 ; they have three 
 children living Scott K., Willie J. and 
 Harrie W.; also, Amelia L. (Gardner), 
 an adopted daughter, now wife of Byron 
 F. Skinner ; tjiey lost one Harriet, died 
 June 5, 1849. Mrs. Phillips taught 
 school in an unoccupied house of Horace 
 Heath's, on the west side of the river, 
 near Elgin, in the Winter of 1841-42. 
 
 Pabst, Joseph, hotel ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Peyton, J. M., grocer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perry, S. F., supt. packing Co.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Purdy, F. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Powers, Thos., policeman; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Paeper, Adolph, harness ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Potter, Miss M. A., P. 0. Elgin 
 
 Potter, Chas. H., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Padelford, R. W., ins. agent ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Preston, Mrs. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pratt, E. S., jeweler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Parkins, R. R., rnach.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Perry. H. S , P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pruden. Elias, P. Elgin. 
 
 PRATT, CALVIN, farmer ; Sec. 7 ; 
 P. 0. Elgin; was born in Pitt Will- 
 iam. Cheshire Co., N. H., May. 11), 
 1799 ; resided in the States of N. H. 
 and Vt. until 1837, removing to Illinois 
 in Oct. of that year, and located on the 
 farm where he now resides; his first 
 house on this claim was 11x13, built of 
 logs, using a chest as a substitute for a 
 table during the first two years ; he has 
 recently sold his farm of 117 acres, 
 which has been his home for more than 
 forty years ; Rep.; Presb.; married Sept. 
 6, 1825, to Miss Anna Buzzell ; she 
 was born in Rumney, N. H., May 18, 
 1 805 ; they have two children living 
 Charles and Isaac N.; lost four Joseph 
 B., died Jan. 22, 1852 ; Julius C., died 
 July 19, 1863; Orville M., died May 
 31, 1857 ; Arabella died Aug. 14, 1874. 
 
 Potter, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Pilford, Thomas, barber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Panton, W. W., miller ; P. O. South Elgin. 
 
 Peterson, Oscar, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Peterson, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Panton, George, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 f~yjEENHEIN. PHILLIP, shoemkr.; 
 
 V^J P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Quinlan, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 "OOBERTS, L.. gardener; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 _L\ 
 
 Rowe, J. H., miller; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Reser, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Roulen, James, far. ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Runge. E. C., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Robinson, John, far. : P. O. Elgin. 
 
 RANSTE AD, JOHN W., attorney ; 
 P. 0. Elgin; born in Kane Co., 111., 
 June 14, 1843 ; owns 53 acres of land 
 in Plato Tp.; value, $2,500; Dem.; Lib- 
 eral ; graduated at the University of 
 Michigan (Law Department) in 1866 ; 
 admitted to the bar of this State same 
 year, and commenced the practice of his 
 profession in 1868 ; he was elected Judge 
 of the County Court in 1873, and re- 
 elected in 1877, being the present in- 
 cumbent. Married in 1867 to Miss 
 Eugenie A. Fuller, of Galesburg, 111.; 
 she was born in Missouri ; one child 
 Nettie M.; Mr. R. is a member of the fol- 
 lowing Masonic bodies : Monitor Lodge, 
 No. 522, and Loyal L. Munn Chapter, 
 No. 96.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 695 
 
 Robinson, James, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Rogers, J. A., finisher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Rhines, Chas. E., farmer ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 Ryder, L. P., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Roach, Michael, lab.; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Rady, John, lab.; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 ROSECRANS, GARRETT, City 
 
 Engineer ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Sus- 
 sex Co., N. J., April 1, 1828; came to 
 Illinois in 1837, locating at Elgin, 
 which, at that time, contained but a few 
 log houses, and settlers in this part of 
 the State were few and far between ; 
 owns 80 acres of land ; value, $6,000 ; 
 Rep.: Liberal. 
 
 Rice, Wm., malt dealer; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Rice, P. H., distiller; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rice. Thomas, brewer ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Russell, J. W., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Rose, Geo. H., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rowland, J. H.. retired far.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rogers, W. C., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Resser, C. W., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ryan, Johanna, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Robinson, Emeline, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Riordan, James, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Russett, Jacob, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Roberts, Rachel, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 RUE, EZRA, attorney, P. 0. Elgin ; 
 was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., Nov. 23, 
 1847 ; came to Illinois in 1858, locating 
 at Elgin; admitted to the bar in 1876. 
 
 Rose, Alex., painter ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Rcbhorn, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rahn, Carl, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Raukin, Anna, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Reed, 0. M., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rudersal, John, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rahn, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rapp, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ruch, Chas., machinist; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 RIPPBERGER, CHARLES, 
 
 dealer in groceries, crockery, boots and 
 . shoes; was born in Cook Co., 111., June 
 29, 1850; his father, George Rippber- 
 ger, who was born in Germany, came to 
 Cook Co. in 1842 ; Rep.; Evan.; mar- 
 ried, Dec. 25, 1874, to Miss Sophie 
 Deuchler, of Cook Co., 111.; one child 
 Clara L. 
 
 Romseyer, Gottfried, watch fac.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Robinson, Lizzie, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rusk, Vernard, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Russell, Charles D., printer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Richards, Lydia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Robins, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Roach, W., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Rothgover, Flora, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ryder, F., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Ready, John, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Ranquest, Wm., 'watch fac.: P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Robertson, Mrs. Ellen, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rombo, Fred., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Reinhardt, Phillip, carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rober, Frank, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rockaway. H., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rowland, R. M., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rahn, Louis, carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ROOT, A. WILSON, milling, Elgin; 
 born in Genesee Co., N. Y., Dec. 20, 
 1823 ; came to Illinois in 1838, locating 
 near Batavia, Kane Co.; owns 200 acres 
 of land in Rock Co., Wis., valued at 
 $10,000 ; also owns half interest in the 
 stone mill property, residence and other 
 city property. Rep.; three children 
 William A., Ida L. and Alice M. 
 
 Ross, Eliza, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ren wick, Geo. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rovelstadt, Peter, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ross. Chris., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rhiel, Ed., P. 0. Elsin. 
 
 Runyan, Christian, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rogers, John A., finisher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rowe, W., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Reynolds, Matilda, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Richards. Mrs. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ross. Jno.. watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Richards, W. P., dentist; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rice, Annie, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Raymond, G. B.. lumber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rogers, Albert, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Roberts, Lewis, gardener; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Root, Chas. M., gardener ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ROGERS, HENRY C., farmer; 
 Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Low- 
 ville, Lewis Co., N. Y., Jan 2, 1823; 
 came to Illinois in June, 1856, locating 
 at Elgin ; owns 307 acres of land, valued 
 at $15,000: Dem.; Lib.; married Feb. 
 6, 1844, to Miss Mary A. Sterling ; 
 she was born in Lowville, Lewis Co., 
 N. Y., Oct. 3, 1824; they have -two 
 children James F. and Delavan W. 
 
 Rahn, John, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Retan, Ebenez^r, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Retan. Phoebe E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rohm, J. C.. laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rich, Chas., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rush, Edward, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ryan, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rankin, Jno., com rner.; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 696 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Ramsdell, Wm. L., sample room ; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 Rundquist, Alfred, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rudd, 0. M., Elgin Watch Co.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rosene, Alfred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rosenkrans, Elizabeth, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rosenkrans, H., surveyor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rose, Adolph, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Reeves, E. F., agent; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 RENWICK, GEO. W., manufac- 
 turer ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Delaware 
 Co., N. Y., March 2, 1818; came to 
 Illinois May 28, 1838. locating in Elgin; 
 built a brick blacksmith shop the year 
 he came to the county, which was, 
 probably, the first brick building erected 
 in Kane Co.; Mr. R. and Mr. Gifford 
 exhibited a steel plow at a fair held at 
 Ottawa, which was, among the thing, 
 new, and, perhaps, the first of its kind. 
 Was married Jan. 1, 1840, to Miss Kate 
 Burrett ; she was born in Montgomery 
 Co., N. Y.; have two children living 
 Maggie M., widow of E. S. Chappell 
 (deceased), and Geo. L.; lost two An- 
 drew J., died Nov. 27, 1847 ; Frank 
 died April 2, 1852. Mr. R. organized 
 the Elgin Battery, and was Captain of 
 same until he resigned, in 1863, on ac- 
 count of ill health. 
 
 Russell, Ellen A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Roberts, Alfred, gardener ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rowland, M. P., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rohn, Charles, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ryan, Jane, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rakkor, F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Reah, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rippberger, Jno., painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Richards, W. T., dry goods ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rickert, J. D., engineer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Rogers, Nelson, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ranzenberger, S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rinehimer, E., sash and doors ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ruste, Henry, agr'l. works ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Runge, Henry, sample room ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Radcliffe, W. P., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ross, Geo. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 OTRAUSS, ABRAHAM, clerk ; P. 0. 
 
 IO Elgin. 
 
 Sherwin, L., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Schuchnecht, Chas., butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Shaker, Jacob, gardener ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Joseph, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Swanson, S., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Louis, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Strieker, James, wagons ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SMITH, C. STODDARD., editor 
 
 and publisher of the Elgin Free Press ; 
 was born in Vermont in 1842; came to 
 Illinois in 1854; graduate of Philadel- 
 phia Dental College of 1865 ; practiced 
 dentistry in Springfield, 111., for nine 
 years ; came to Elgin in 1877 ; married 
 Julia S. Smith, of Lancaster, Wis., in 
 1869 ; one child ; Rep.; Cong. 
 
 Schumenan, Fred, P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Seidell, Emma, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scott, E. D., harness maker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SHERWIN, ALBERT (Mann & 
 
 Sherwin), wholesale dealer in butter 
 ai d cheese ; P. 0. Elgin ; Mr. S. was 
 born in Lowell, Mass., Feb. 23, 1828; 
 removed to the State of Vermont in 
 early childhood with his parents, where 
 he resided until 1851, when he came to 
 Illinois, locating at Ottawa ; was en- 
 gaged on railroad contracts at Ottawa 
 and Peru ; went to Madison, Wis., in 
 1853, where he engaged in the same 
 business for some years ; in 1864, he 
 removed to Berrien Co., Mich., and to 
 Chicago, in 1867 ; came to Elgin, his 
 present home, in 1868 ; Rep. ; Liberal. 
 Married, in 1849, to Miss Louisa M. 
 Davis, of Rockingham, Vt, who died in 
 
 1866 ; five children, three living Will- 
 iam W., Albert E. and Susan D.; lost two 
 Carrie A., died in 1862 ; Frank L., died 
 in 1866 ; was again married, in 1868, 
 to Frances M. Lang, of Gallipolis, Ohio ; 
 one child by this union Frederick L. 
 
 Smith, A. H., watch fac., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Schroder, F., harness mkr. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Silver, Emma, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Swan, W. G., livery; P. O. Elgin. 
 Strubring, John, lab. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Schoonhoven, Sarah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stromberg, C. E. ; P. Elgin. 
 SHERMAN, GEORGE H. (Sher- 
 
 man & Gerlach), photographer ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; born in Fairfield, Franklin Co., 
 Vt., March 2, 1828 ; came to 111., in 
 
 1867 ; resided in St. Lawrence Co., N. 
 Y., nine years prior to coming to this 
 State ; Rep. ; Epis. Married Miss Cor- 
 delia Howard, of Fairfax, Vt, Aug. 12, 
 1 855 ; Mr Sherman has followed the 
 photograph business steadily for twenty- 
 ve years ; Mr. S. is Treasurer of Mon- 
 itor Lodge, No. 522, A., F. & A. M. ; 
 Also fills the same office in Loyal L. 
 Munn Chapter, No. 96.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 697 
 
 Sullivan, P. S., foreman Cond'g Co. ; P. 
 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stryker, J. W., carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stewart, Thomas, merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Sears, D. G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stryker, J. R., carp. ; P. Elgin. 
 Shady, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Sanders, W., Jr., restaurant; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 SCHULTS, CHARLES J. (Schults 
 
 & Todson), wholesale and retail dealer in 
 
 dry goods, carpets and oil cloths ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin ; born in Prussia, Feb. 4, 1836 ; 
 
 came to this country in 1851, locating 
 
 at Chicago ; came to Elgin in 1869. 
 
 Married, in 1858, to Miss Emma E. 
 
 Sedgwick, of Bloomingdale, Du Page 
 
 Co., 111. 
 
 Schundemund, L., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stanley, J. W., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Souter, Richard, carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Sannnon, Hugh, carp. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Shehan, James, laborer; P. O. Elgin. 
 Seapy, John farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Schaller, Geo., clerk ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stone, Charles, tinner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SCHOONHOVEN, NATHAN- 
 IEL W,, Deputy Sheriff and Consta- 
 ble; born in Cook Co., Jan. 27, 1841 ; 
 came to Elgin seven years ago ; his 
 father. James Schoonhoven, was one of 
 the early settlers of Cook Co., locating 
 in that county in 1837 ; married in 1862 
 to Miss Mary E. McCloud of Iowa. Mr. 
 Schoonhoven is a member of Kane 
 Lodge, No. 47, 1. 0. 0. F. 
 
 Schultz, M., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Storch, H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stephenson, Mrs. R., Jr., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Schrader, Lewis, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 ,Shaw, N. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STONE, ISAAC, farmer; Sec, 17; 
 P. 0. Elgin; born in Orford, Grafton 
 Co., N. H., Jan. 1, 1811 ; came West 
 in 1833, stopping in White Pigeon, 
 Michigan, one year, arriving in Chicago 
 in the Fall of 1834 ; made a claim three 
 miles west of the city ot Elgin in the 
 Spring of 1835 ; his present home is on 
 the original claim, and now consists of 
 240 acres, valued at $18,000. Dem.; 
 Lib.; married in 1842 to Miss Abagail 
 Knapp ; she was born in New York ; 
 two children living Alvena F., now 
 Mrs. S. W. Chapman, and Charles A. 
 
 Sadbrick, Adolph, P. 0. Elgin, 
 
 Styles, C. B., mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Slade, Mrs. C. S. W., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Sharp, A. J., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stone, C. E., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Spitzer, J. D., P. Q. Elgin. 
 
 SMAILES, WM., JR., with Smailes 
 & Son, mer. tailors ; P. O. Elgin ; born 
 in Burlington, Yorkshire, Eng., May 
 14, 1841 ; came to this country in 
 1852, locating at Elgin, his present 
 home ; went out with the 36th 111. Inf. 
 in 1861 ; was mustered out at Rock 
 Island, 111., in Oct., 1865 ; Rep.; Lib.; 
 was married Jan. 10, 1866, to Miss 
 Emma Lane, of Quincy, 111.; she was 
 born in England ; two children Fred. 
 J. and Anna M.; Mr. S. is Captain 
 of the Elgin National Guards. 
 
 Scanlan, Jas., lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Chris., shoemkr ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schrader, Chas., cigars ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Shaller, Mrs. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Seidel, Chas., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherwood, Seth, farmer, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SAUNDERS, WM., restaurant and 
 sample room, 14 Chicago st.; P. 0. 
 Elgin, 111.; born in Sheffield, Eng., 
 April 23, 1825 ; came to this country 
 in 1841, remaining in the State of New 
 York one year; came West in 1842, 
 and located in what was known as 
 Washington Precinct (now Plato Tp.), 
 Kane Co., 111.; Rep.; Lib.; married 
 Feb. 8, 1848, to Miss Almira U. In- 
 galls ; she was born in Cuba, Allegany 
 Co., N. Y. 
 
 Sylla, W. F., City Clerk; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schultz, Ott, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scott, Santy, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Shepard, Sally, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherman, E. L., carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stanford, Caroline, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stewart, A. N., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SCHLAGER, HENRY, groceries, 
 boots and shoes ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in 
 Hesse Darmstadt, Germany, Aug. 9, 
 1828 ; came to this country in 1847, 
 locating in Aurora. 111.; came to Elgin, 
 his present home, in the Fall of 1849 ; 
 Rep.; Liberal. Married in 1852 to Miss 
 Anna Ludeke ; she was born in Hanover, 
 Germany ; six children Mary, Charles, 
 Anna, Emma, Frank and William. 
 
 Shaw, W. S.. hotel ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Slade, S. M.. fruit grower ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Seymour, H., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stowell. Washington, far.; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 698 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Stowell, Seth, farmer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Stringer, M., farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Samuelson, Charles, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STOWE, LEVI S., dentist ; Elgin ; 
 born in Granville, Washington Co., N. 
 Y., June 24, 1826, but removed in 
 early childhood with his parents to Cone- . 
 wango, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., where 
 he resided until 1843; then removing 
 to Illinois, and locating, first at Elgin ; 
 spent several years in different parts of 
 the Northwest, returning and perma- 
 nently locating at Elgin in 1854; in 
 1856 he engaged in general merchandis- 
 ing, which he continued until 1 869 ; 
 was established in his present business 
 in 1871; Rep.; Liberal. Married in 
 1853 to Miss Jane E. Hulgate, who 
 died in 1855 ; was again married to 
 Betsey E. Lesenden in 1858; she was 
 born in the County of Kent, England. 
 
 Stringer, J. T., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stringer. Frank, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stringer, G. E., farmer; P 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stringer, E. W., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Starr, Ezra, farmer ; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Shepard, Frank, tin shop ; P. 0. So. Elgin. 
 
 Swartz. John, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Shephard, Thos., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sanburn. Chas.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SWITZER, MARTIN J. C., far. ; 
 Sec. 33 ; P. 0. South Elgin ; was born 
 in Elizabethtown, N. J., April 8, 1815, 
 but removed in early childhood with 
 his parents to Canada ; came to Illinois 
 in 1837, locating in Kane Co., making 
 a claim where he now resides, which 
 has been his home since 1843 ; owns 
 200 acres of land, valued at $13,000 ; 
 Rep.; Swedenborgian in belief; was 
 married in July. 1843, to Miss Eliza- 
 beth Eakin ; she was born in Ireland, 
 June 20, 1820; seven children living 
 Virgil M., Isabel, Maria, Abner, 
 Oscar, Lena and Martin ; Jackson, 
 who was a member of the 141st 
 Illinois Infantry, died in Jan., 1867 ; 
 Virgil M., who has had charge of the 
 farm for several years, on account of 
 the failing health of his father, was born 
 in Kane Co., Sept. 28, 1846. 
 
 Sherman, Henry, Part. Elgin Packing Co. ; 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Spaulding. Matt, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Myron, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, W. E,, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Simth. P. J., P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Stowell, W., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Starr, E. M., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Smith, M., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Stevens, Mary J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STONE, REUBEN R. (Stone & Gib- 
 
 buns), nifr. of butter tubs, pails, cheese 
 boxes, and wholesale dealers in cheese- 
 box and butter-tub stock ; P. O. Elgin ; 
 was born in Chenango Co., N. Y., 
 April 16, 1824, but removed to Catta- 
 raugus Co., N. Y., when quite young, 
 where he resided until 1845 ; he fol- 
 lowed farming and teaching for several 
 years, commencing the study of medi- 
 cine in 1846 ; graduating at Rush 
 Medical College of Chicago, in 1849 ; 
 he practiced his profession at Richmond, 
 McHenry Co., 111., for fifteen years, then 
 turning his attention to mercantile pur- 
 suits, in which he was engaged at the 
 same place for eleven years ; he located 
 in Elgin in 1871 ; Rep. ; Liberal ; h : 
 was married in 1850 to Miss Hannah 
 A. Gaboon ; she was born in N. Y. : 
 five children ; three living Kate E. T 
 wife of P. T. Gibbons ; Lizzie L. and 
 Louie H. ; lost two Edgar H., who 
 died in 1851, and Frank, who died in 
 1856. 
 
 Strancil, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Slayton, D. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Swan, Mrs. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Silver, Monroe, watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scott, A. D., watch factory; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schoenhoven, Henry, far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STRINGER, GEORGE, farmer: 
 Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born in 
 Yorkshire, Eng., July 11, 1806; re- 
 moved with his parents to Canada East 
 in the Spring of 1819; came to 111. 
 in 1838, locating in Elgin Township. 
 Kane Co. ; owns 440 acres of land, 
 valued at 830,000 ; Rep. ; Liberal : 
 was married in the Fall of 1837 to Miss 
 Ruth L. Strang, who was born in Fort 
 Ann, N. Y. ; she died Nov. 2, 1875 ; 
 three children by this union, one 
 living Charles H. ; lost two in in- 
 fancy ; Mr. S. is one of the Directors of 
 the Home National Bank of Elgin. 
 
 Spoonholtz, Louis, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Spoonholtz, John, laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, E. A., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Schmuhl Charles, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sandberg, Andrew, farmer; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY : ELGIN. 
 
 699 
 
 Sherman, Marshall, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STRINGER, JOHN A., Sec. 30 ; 
 
 farmer ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born in 
 Yorkshire, England, July 20, 1808, and 
 removed to Canada with his parents in 
 1819; he came to Illinois in Sept-, 
 1845, locating on the farm where he 
 now resides ; he owns 340 acres of land, 
 valued at $22,000; Rep.; Liberal. 
 Married, Oct., 1835, to Miss Mary Ann 
 Sterricker. who was born in Yorkshire, 
 England, June 7, 1818; six children 
 Judge T., Justice J., Melvin H., 
 Clarence R., Emma J. (wife of Thomas 
 Bishop), Edith F. Mr. S. was en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of wheel- 
 barrows in 1831, which were used in the 
 construction of the Mohawk & Hudson 
 R. R., the first R. R. in this country. 
 
 Seymour, J. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stringlow, David, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Mary E., P. 0. Elin. 
 
 Strubing, Chas., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sturm, Fred, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith. C. D. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Casper, butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schuihke, Carl, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stewart, Thos., merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherman, Elon N., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherman, Ira L., carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Straussel, Martin, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherwin. R. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STERRICKER, THOMAS, far., 
 Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in York- 
 shire, England, May 20, 1818; re- 
 moved to Canada in 1830, and five 
 years later to Otsego Co., N. Y.; came 
 to Illinois in the Spring of 1852 ; owns 
 148 acres of land, valued at 811,000; 
 Greenbacker ; Liberal. Married Dec. 
 25, 1840, to Miss Elizabeth Fitzgerald ; 
 she was born in Cherry Valley, Ot- 
 sego Co., N. Y., Oct. 24, 1821 ; four 
 children by this union Irving W., 
 Mary E., William H. H. and Alice J. 
 
 Sovereign, Gr. P., mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Spillard, Jno., leather mfr. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sedlacek, Adolph, notions ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherwood, N. B., fruit trees ; P. 0. Elgin, j 
 
 Schultz, J. O., bartender; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Albert, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sterricker, Jas., wagons; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sorn, Chas., shoemaker ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stoner, Wm. H., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stone, R. W., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stoneforth, Mrs. B. W., P.O. Elgin. 
 
 STRINGER, ROBERT, farmer, 
 Sec. 20; P. 0. Elgin; born in "York- 
 shire, England, Dec. 15, 1816 ; removed 
 with his parents, in early childhood, to 
 Canada East ; came to Illinois in May, 
 1844, locating in Kane Co., on the farm 
 where he now resides ; owns 225 acres 
 of land, valued at $15,300 ; Dem. ; 
 Episcopal in belief. Married Nov. 9, 
 1841, to Miss Martha Dibb ; she was. 
 born in Yorkshire, England, June 23, 
 1822; six children, four living Mar- 
 garet, wife of L. A. Wood, Mary E., 
 wife of T. D. Cookman, Alfred H., 
 Edwin W., Clara A.; lost one Clara 
 E. died Nov. 9,1854. 
 
 Spillard, J. A., traveler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stranssel, H. A., water insp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stone, Chas. A., physician ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stoddard, Gr. F., com. mer.; P. < . Elgin. 
 
 Schroeder, Chas., harness ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Strett, Fred., merchant ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, S. A., shoemaker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Seaman, Wm. A., boarding ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Shaw, Wm. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Alvia, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Spencer, P. H., boarding ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schrum, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SCHOONHOVEN, JAMES, far.; 
 Sec. 7, Hanover Tp., Cook Co. ; P. O. El- 
 gin ; born in Steuben Co., N. Y., June 
 30, 1815; came to Illinois in June, 1841, 
 locating on the farm in Cook Co., where 
 he now resides ; owns 540 acres of land in 
 Cook Co., and 176 in Kane Co., valued at 
 $55 per acre. Independent in politics ; 
 Bapt, ; married Sept. 20, 1838, to Miss 
 Lydia Jane Winterrnute ; she was born 
 in Stillwater, Sussex Co., N. J., July 18, 
 1820 ; five children living Henry A., 
 Nathaniel W., Rachie H., Willard C., 
 and Edwin J. ; lost three Daniel L. r 
 died Sept. 24, 1843 ; Florence A., wife 
 of A. T. Beverly, died Feb. 6, 1874; 
 one died in infancy. 
 
 Sherman, Gr. D., com. mer. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Spire, Jno., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Henry, agent; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stiles, L. C., carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Swan, Hannah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Susan, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Squier, Henry, carriages ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Sullivan, P. S., milk insp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, G. W., livery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schaller, Victoria, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, C. L., millwright ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 700 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 SCOFIELD, DAVID C., proprietor 
 of Elgin Nursery ; born in Albany Co., 
 N. Y., Dec. 21, 1803; he came West 
 in 1847 for the purpose of locating and 
 purchasing land, and in 1852 located his 
 nursery at Elgin, where he has resided 
 since 1854 ; owns 130 acres of land near 
 the city, valued at $10,000 ; also a half 
 interest in 640 acres in Indiana, valued 
 at $32,000, both being operated as dairy 
 farms. Mr. S. is a member of both 
 Illinois State and Northern Illinois 
 Horticultural Societies, having served 
 these institutions in various ways for 
 several years. At the first annual meet- 
 ing of the latter, held at Freeport, 111., 
 in February, 1868, he read an essay on 
 " Timber Culture a National Necessity." 
 To our State and this society belong the 
 credit of first bringing before the Ameri- 
 can people this very important subject. 
 In January, 1877, at the meeting of the 
 society, held at Franklin Grove, he made 
 an extended report on Arboriculture, or 
 a review of toe origin and progress of 
 timber culture in this country. His 
 forest, commenced in 1858, contains 
 about 10,000 trees, from which lumber 
 has been manufactured and used in 
 finishing a part of his present residence. 
 Rep.; Presb. ; married in 1827 to Miss 
 Sally King ; she was born in Greene Co., 
 N. Y. ; died in 1842 ; seven children 
 by this union, three sons and four 
 daughters ; was again married in 1854 
 to Emily W., daughter of Cyrus Larkin; 
 one child. Mr. S. is also a member of 
 the American Forestry Association. 
 
 Smith, C. H., watch fac. ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Shure, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Short, Hugh, carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Starkweather, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sears, Prof. A. G., A. M.,prin. academy : 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schranck, Peter, cigara; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schraeder, Louis, saloon; P. 0. Elgin ' 
 
 Smith, Emma, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Silver, Timothy, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, C. A., mach.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Snow, Rev. R. R., min.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, L. H., watch lac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sexton, J. H., mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stoddard, Isaac, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Stryker, J. R., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Seiger, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Schoonhoven, Mrs. L.,.P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Sowers, Geo., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Shady, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Smith, R. E., watch fac.; .P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 STRINGER, MELVIN H., Sr., 
 
 farmer ; Sec. 30 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in 
 Waterloo, Seneca Co.. N. Y., March 25, 
 1845, and removed to Illinois in early 
 childhood with his parents, who located 
 at Elgin in 1844, moving on to the farm 
 where he now resides, about one year 
 later. Rep ; Universalist ; married Dec. 
 12, 1865, to Miss Nettie Adams, of 
 Beloit, Wis.; she was born in this Co.; 
 have one child living Melvin H., Jr.; 
 lost one Geo. E., died April 20, 1876. 
 Mr. S. is a member of Elgin Lodge, No. 
 117, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Stone, Arthur N., dentist ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sylla, Lavinia, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Skinner, J. J.. farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smailes, Win , Sr., tailor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scherknecht. Chas., butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, I. R.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sherwood, D. B., lawyer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Sears, G. W., grocer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scott, E. D., harness maker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Swan, Mrs. E. A., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Swan, T. F., mer.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 rpUCK, GEORGE E., coal and wood ; 
 
 J_ P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Treadwell, H. A., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tread well. William, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TAYLOR, S. L., proprietor and editor 
 of the Elgin Advocate; is a native of 
 Vermont ; was in the army in 1861-62 ; 
 is a graduate of Ann Arbor Law School in 
 1865; was assistant editor of the Western 
 Rural, Chicago, from 1866 to 1868 ; pur- 
 chased the Geneva Republican in 1869 ; 
 established the St. Charles Transcript 
 (now Leader) in 1870 ; established the 
 Elgin Advocate in 1871 ; the Advocate 
 was consolidated with the Elgin Gazette 
 in 1874, and is now the leading news- 
 paper of Elgin, and among the best in- 
 terior papers on the globe. Mr. Taylor 
 has a very fine printing and binding es- 
 tablishment, employing from sixteen to 
 twenty workmen ; he is a shrewd, ener- 
 getic business man. and his success is 
 well deserved. 
 
 Todd, Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Todd. Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thomas, Robert, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Taylor, Margaret N., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Thompson, C. L. F.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 701 
 
 THOMPSON, M. H., emigrated 
 from Plattsburg, N. Y., in 1834; re- 
 mained in Chicago and Du Page Co. until 
 1836, at which time, with his parents, 
 he removed to Dundee, in this county, 
 where he resided till man grown ; the 
 first election ever held in Lake Precinct 
 (Elgin and Dundee) was held at his 
 father's house ; he is a civil engineer by 
 profession, which calling he followed for 
 many years ; he is now acting as Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer of the Elgin Gas 
 Light Co ; he is extensively engaged in 
 agriculture, owning two of the largest 
 farms in Dundee Township. 
 
 Teffc, Jos., Dr., Prest. Board of Trade; P. 
 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tobin, Jno., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thiers, Mrs. R. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tefft, Mrs. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tazewell, Mrs. M., P. Elgin. 
 
 Taylor, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TAYLOR, FRANK H., manager 
 and one of the proprietors of the 
 Elgin Daily Neics, published by the 
 Elgin Printing Co.; Mr. T. was born in 
 Colton, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Nov. 
 12, 1854 ; came to Illinois in 1871, 
 stopping a short time at Geneva, 111., 
 and locating at Elgin, his present home, 
 the same year ; Rep.; Lib. 
 
 Travis, Jos., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tyrrell, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tewkburg, J. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tenant, W. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TEFFT, ELI A. (Tefft & Hoag, 
 
 proprietors of the South Elgin Butter ! 
 Factory) ; born in Madison Co., N. Y., i 
 March 5, 1823 ; came to Illinois with ! 
 his parents in the Fall of 1835, stop- | 
 ping in Will Co., near Lockport, until 
 the following Spring, when they re- > 
 moved to Kane Co., and located on a | 
 claim near Elgin ; this claim is now 
 owned by the Elgin Agricultural So- : 
 ciety ; bought a farm in Plato Tp. in ! 
 1849, where he resided between one and 
 two years ; in 1850 he made the over- ! 
 land journey to California, returning in 
 1852 ; owns 200 acres of land, valued 
 at 814, 000; Rep.; Lib.; was married in 
 1849 to Miss Eliza H. Hewett ; she 
 was born in Steuben Co., N. Y., in 
 October, 1822; one child Arthur J. 
 Mr. T. removed to South Elgin, his ' 
 present home, in 1872. 
 
 Tobin, M. C., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Throop, Mrs. S. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Towner, I. C., wagons ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Todd, Frank M., bag'eman ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Turner, Frank, watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thiel, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tubbs, Lewis, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tefft, Thos. W., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TEFFT, JONATHAN, farmer; 
 Sec. 36 ; P. 0. So. Elgin ; born in 
 Lebanon, Madison Co., N. Y., Jan. 23, 
 1817 ; came West with his father's fam- 
 ily in the Fall of 1835, stopping at 
 what is now Lockport, Will Co., 111., a 
 few weeks ; his father made a claim in 
 Cook Co., about a mile and a half east 
 of Elgin, the same Fall ; Mr. T. now 
 resides on the claim made in Kane Co. 
 the following year ; owns 269 acres of 
 land, valued at $20,000 ; also one-half 
 interest in 160 acres in Iowa, valued at 
 $3,000 ; Rep.; Lib.; served as Assist- 
 ant Supervisor of Elgin Tp. three terms ; 
 Com. of Highways several terms ; 
 married in 1811 to MissDalinda West; 
 she was born in New York ; two chil- 
 dren living Rhoda J. and Frank ; lost 
 three Mary E., other two died in in- 
 fancy. Mr. T. is a member of the follow- 
 ing Masonic bodies : Elgin Lodge, No. 
 117, dimitted from Fox River Chapter, 
 No. 14, charter member of Bethel Comd., 
 No. 36, K. T. 
 
 Tuck, Reuben, coal and wood ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tabor, Ann, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Turner, H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Treadwell, J. M., far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Townsend, H. J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thomas, Mrs., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Ticknor, R. S., lum.", P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ticknor, Jno. L., him.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Todd, W. F., mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Todd, Mrs. Thos. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thomas, Hiram, watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Turner, Dr. A.. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 This, Henry, P.' 0. Elgin. 
 
 TOWN, MORRIS C., Cashier of 
 the First National Bank of Elgin ; P. 0. 
 Elgin ; was born Feb. 7, 1818, in 
 Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., and 
 is a son of Bester and Betsey (Martin) 
 Town ; his father was a merchant farmer 
 and manufacturer ; he removed in early 
 childhood with his parents to Erie Co., 
 Pa., where he was educated, and entered 
 his father's store, at the age of 16, as a 
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 clerk ; and, in 1840, became a partner, 
 where he continued until 1846, when he 
 removed to Chicago, and opened a dry 
 goods and grocery store ; he removed to 
 Elgin in 1847, where he was engaged 
 in mercantile pursuits till 1851, at that 
 time opening a banking office, which 
 was the first in Elgin ; the following 
 year a charter was obtained, and the 
 Bank of Elgin was established, with 
 Mr. Town as President ; this was the 
 first bank in Kane Co. organized under 
 the State Banking Law; in 1858, the 
 business was closed, and he removed to 
 Chicago, where he was connected with 
 the Board of Trade for about two years, 
 returning to Elgin, and engaging in the 
 mercantile business, which continued 
 about one year; he then formed the 
 banking firm of Lawrence, Pease & 
 Town, which was afterward merged imo 
 the First National Bank of Elgin, of 
 which he became Cashier, and has since 
 held that position ; he served as a 
 member of the City Council in 1862 
 and 1863, and as one of the Trustees of 
 the Elgin Academy since its incorpora- 
 tion in 1854 ; he was a Director and the 
 Treasurer of the Fox River R. R. from 
 the commencement of the organization 
 until it was transferred ; he is Manager 
 and Director of the Elgin City Banking 
 Co., and was at one time a Director of 
 the Wis. Central R. R. ; in 1874, he 
 erected what is known as Town's Block, 
 at a cost of over $30,000 ; he was mar- 
 ried in 1840 to Hannah S. Oviatt, of 
 Ohio ; she died in 1843, leaving one 
 daughter Helen S., now wife of Wm. 
 0. De Long, of Titusville, Pa. ; he was 
 again married, in the Fall of 1844, 
 to Maria Selkregg, of Erie Co., Pa. ; 
 four children by this union Ella, 
 wife of L. B. Hamlin. of Chicago ; 
 Hattie E., wife of J. H. Volk, of 
 Chicago ; Frank and Carrie M. 
 
 Townsand, M. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tilden, G. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 THOMPSON, JOHN (Newman & 
 Thompson), proprietors of Spring Brook 
 creamery ; Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Elgin ; Mr. T. 
 was born in Derbyshire, Eng., Sept. 8, 
 1836 ; he came to this country Feb. 19, 
 1870, stopping a short time in N. Y. 
 City and Chicago, and locating in Elgin 
 the same year ; Rep. ; Liberal. 
 
 Trambly, Alex., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tunney, James, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tucker, Robert, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Thompson, C. E.. watchman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Timerhoff, Wm., smelter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Taylor, John, shoemaker ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Thompson, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Truesdell, W. H., dentist ; P, 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tyler, L. S. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Turner, Ellen M. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TODD, WILLIAM T,, machinist, 
 P. O. Elgin ; born in Franklin Co., Vt., 
 Sept. 27, 1821 ; came West, with his 
 parents, in the Fall of 1837, and lo- 
 cated where he now resides; owns 60 
 acres of land, valued at $12,000 j 
 Greenbacker; Cong. Married, in 1849 r 
 to Miss Mary E. Murray ; she was born 
 in Tompkins Co., N. Y. ; three children 
 Frank M-., Ella M., wife of S. Billings, 
 Charles F. ; Mr. T. manufactures a bar- 
 ometer, also publish, s a weather calendar. 
 
 Todson, A. M. C., mer. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tetzner, Henry, saloon ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Townsand, Charlotte ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tyler, Mrs. Calvin ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Truax, J. S., carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tyrrell, Dr. P. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 TODD, HUGH, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sees. 2 and 3 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in 1818 ; came 
 to America in 1 837 ; in the Spring of 
 1838, came to Dundee ; owns 196 
 acres of land, 20 in Dundee, also two 
 houses and lots in same place ; finished 
 present fine residence in 1877 ; has 
 extensive dairy ; Rep. ; Cong. Married 
 Magdalen Rankin at Dundee, in 1847; 
 she was born in Ayreshire,in 1828 ; eight 
 children Jane C., Grace H., Mary R.. 
 James, William, Hugh, Allen and Robert. 
 Taylor, J ames, merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Thompson, C. L. F., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Tidmarsh, Wm., blacksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Thompson, M. H., Sec. Gas Co. ; P. 0. 
 
 Elgin. 
 
 TTLSAVER, JONATHAN, stone 
 LJ quarry; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 ULSAVER, STEPHEN, dealer in 
 stone and lime ; P. 0. South Elgin ; 
 born in Oswego Co., N. Y., April 9, 
 1822 ; came to Illinois in June, 1845 T 
 locating in Elgin ; owns 20 acres of land, 
 valued at $5.000 ; Ind. ; Meth. Mar- 
 ried in April, 1860, to Miss Sarah J. 
 Paulding ; she was born in Brownville
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 703 
 
 Jefferson Co., N. Y., April 14, 1831 ; 
 had four children, three living Cora E., 
 Effie M., Ervin S. ; lost one in infancy. 
 
 Underbill. G. W., carp. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 UNDERBILL, MONROE, far ; 
 
 Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Jefferson 
 Co., N. Y., Dec. 9, 1823 ; came to 111. 
 in May, 1853, locating in Elgin Town- 
 ship, Kane Co. ; Dem. ; Liberal. Mar- 
 ried Nov. 6, 1856, to Miss Martha 
 Kenyon ; she was born in Granville, 
 Washington Co., N. Y., April 12, 1835 ; 
 have five children living Ervin M., 
 Eva , Ella U., Hazen M. and Lillian 
 E. ; lost one. Mrs. Underbill's father, 
 Joseph C. Kenyon, was born in Argyle, 
 
 , N. Y., Nov. 2, 1792, and died Jan. 10, 
 1877; her mother, Martha (Richard- 
 son) Kenyon, was born in Vermont, 
 Aug. 13, 1798, died Nov. 2, 1873. 
 
 Underwood, Amos, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ultes, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 "TTAIL, JOHN, watch factory ; P. 0. 
 V Elgin. 
 
 Van Drisen, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Van Ostrand, Peter, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vail, R. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vinton, Mrs. Phoebe, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vollor, Joseph, gun factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Volstorff, C. F., butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Volstorff, F. A., butcher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vickers, J., butcher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Volch, Mary, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Volstorff, Charles, mason ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vice, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vierk, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vasey, John, watch factory ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Van Nostrand, G. Y., carp.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Valstorff, Gustave, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Vaughn, Pat, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Vaughn. Mary, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 Wing-, J. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WILCOX, WILLIAM H., attor- 
 
 ney ; Elgin ; he was born in Montgom- 
 ery Co., N. Y., Jan. 13, 1836 ; he has 
 resided at Elgin since May 24, 1842, at 
 which time he came to the State with 
 his father, Gen. E. Wilcox. Lel't Camp 
 Lyons, Nov., 1861, as Capt. of Co. G, 
 52 Ills. Inf. Vols.; was mustered out at 
 Savannah, Ga., Dec. 19, 18_64; was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1871 ; Dem. ; Uni 
 versalist. Married, Jan. 19, 1857, to 
 Miss Mary A. Greene, of Galesburg, 111. 
 Mr. W. is a member of Monitor Lodge, 
 No. 522, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Walker, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilber, L. D., carpenter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wheeler, Mrs. C. E., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webster, Hazen, fruit dealer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wardlan, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wright, S. N., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Welch, John, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webster, B. F., dairyman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Williams, E., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Ward, F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ward, J. H., music teacher ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wascher, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walter, A., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilbern, A. W., merchant ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Weare, David, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walker, Abel, mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WILLIS, HENRY B., attorney; 
 born in Bennington, Vt., May 8, 1848; 
 came to Illinois in 1852, locating in 
 Sycamore Tp., De Kalb Co.; came to 
 Elgin, his present home, in July, 1872; 
 graduated at Albany, N. Y., in 1871, 
 and was admitted to the bar of that 
 State same year ; admitted to the bar of 
 Illinois in 1872 ; held office of Super- 
 visor in Elgin Tp. two years ; elected 
 State's Attorney, in Nov., 1876 ; Rep. ; 
 Liberal. Married Miss Lucy E. Wait, 
 of Elgin, in 1874. 
 
 Wilcox, J. H., Asst. P. M.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilson, B,, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wait, M. T., merchant; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walters, Geo., watchmaker; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Witmore, B. J., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilson, W. H., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WELD, SALEM E. (R. & S. E. 
 
 Weld); dealer in drugs and medicines ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; born in Elgin, 111., Aug. 
 3, 1841 ; second white child born in the 
 city ; graduated at Cincinnati Eclectic 
 Medical College in 1866 ; was member 
 of City Council two years ; Rep. ; Lib- 
 eral ; Mr. Weld is member of the fol- 
 lowing Masonic bodies : Elgin Lodge, 
 No. 117, A., F. and A. M. ; Loyal L. 
 Munn Chapter, No. 96, and Bethel 
 Commandery Knight Templars, No. 36 ; 
 served as Hospital Steward in 127th 
 111. Inf. Vols., from 1862 to the close of 
 the war. 
 
 Wing, G. H., watch factory ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Whitney, Mark, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walsh, John, farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Weld, 0. B., farmer, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Whitton, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Works, Geo., grocer; P. O. South Elgin.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 WELD, NELSON A., physician; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; born in Orford, N. H., 
 Sept. 11, 1832 ; came to Illinois in 
 June, 1838, locating about three miles 
 west of Elgin ; graduated at Bennett 
 Medical College, of Chicago, in 1870; 
 was married Nov. 1, 1855, to Miss 
 Frances S. Scott, of Elgin ; two chil- 
 drenWilliam C. and Winfield S. ; 
 Rep. ; Cong. 
 
 Westman, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wright, Nat., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wetherell, H., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wetherell, Jas., watch fac. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walker, J. M., carp, ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 W T alters, J. B., watchman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ward, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wood, E. N., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wanzer, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WING, WILLIAM H., attorney, 
 Elgin ; born in Washtenaw Co., Mich. ; 
 came to Illinois in 1846, locating at 
 Elgin, his present home ; commenced 
 the study of law in the office of Judge 
 Wilcox in 1865, and was admitted to 
 the bar in 1867 ; opened a law office in 
 the Fall of the latter year with Col. E. 
 S. Joslyn as law partner, which continued 
 some four years, since which time Mr. 
 Wing has operated alone; was City Attor- 
 ney in 1870, and at present is attorney 
 for the First National Bank of Elgin, 
 also on the list of bank attorneys pub- 
 lished by James Hogan of St. Louis, for 
 the use of wholesale merchants and others 
 throughout the U. S. Owns 110 acres 
 of land, valued at $8,000 ; Rep.; Lib. ; 
 married July 18, 1861 to Miss Abbie 
 C. Saunders of N. H. 
 
 Welch, Edward, bl'ksmith ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Woodruff, L. D., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Woodward, J. S., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilson, Frank, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Whitford, J. F., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Welch, J. B., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 WORKS, GEORGE, groceries, 
 crockery, boots and shoes, hats and caps ; 
 South Elgin, 111. ; born in Wind ham 
 Co., Vt., Sept. 17, 1823 ; came to 111., 
 in 1848, stopping one year in Chicago, 
 and locating at Elgin in 1849 ; has re- 
 sided at South Elgin since 1866 ; Rep.; 
 Lib.; married in 1851 to Miss Althea 
 Rutherford ; she was born in the State 
 of N. Y.; four children Fred. J., Anna 
 M., Alia M. and George E. 
 
 Waterbury, J. H., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Ward, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wright, Joseph, wood turner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wilkins, Jno. D., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wiglie, Wm., P. O. Elgin. 
 Wright, Wm., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wheeler, Peter, P. 0. South Elgin. 
 Webb, Geo., painter ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WRIGHT, CHARLES, wagon 
 
 maker and blacksmith : P. 0. South 
 Elgin; born in Devonshire, England, 
 Jan. 2, 1842 ; came to this country in 
 1857, locating in Detroit, Mich., where 
 he remained until 1860, when he re- 
 moved to his present location ; Rep. ; 
 Free Meth. Married in 1864, to Miss 
 Lydia M. Delano ; she was born in 
 Vermont; had fire children Frederick 
 J., Erbet T., Eva May, Gracie M. and 
 Ida M. 
 
 Wahl, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Waldo, Henry, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wahl, J. F., express ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Woodruff, Chas. H., clerk; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webb, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wightman, Walt, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilson, Jno., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wedgewood, E. L., clerk ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walker, Abel, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Warne, Fred, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Watson, E. B., agent C. &. N. W. R. R.; 
 P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Williams, Sarah, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webster, G., horse trainer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walters, J. B., watchman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webster. Virgil, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WHEELER, SYLVANUS M., 
 
 farmer, Sec. 36 ; P. O. Elgin ; born in 
 Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., April 22, 1830 ; 
 came to Illinois in 1850, locating in 
 Du Page Co., and removed to Kane Co. 
 in 1862 ; Rep. ; Liberal. Married in 
 1861, to Miss Emaline A. Doane ; she 
 was born in the State of New York ; 
 had four children Nettie B., Eddie 
 D.. Cora L. and John. Mr. Wheeler is 
 a member of Clintonville Lodge, No. 
 511, A., F. & A. M. 
 
 Wood, E. G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wahl, Chas., omnibus line ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Welch, E. N., traveler ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilthers, Mrs. A., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Whitford, H. K., physician; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Westerman, Henry, merch.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wiltsie, Jno. C., stock dealer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Wall, J., shoemaker ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 KANE COUNTY: ELGIN. 
 
 705 
 
 WARREN, FREDERICK W., 
 
 proprietor of Riverside Billiard Hall ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Boston, Mass., 
 Feb. 24, 1848, but removed, in 1859, to 
 Waltham, Mass., where he resided until 
 1867, when he located at Elgin, his 
 present home ; Rep. ; Lib. ; married, 
 Dec. 13, 1868, to Miss Julia E. Lee, of 
 Elgin ; have two children Etta H. and 
 Edward F.; Mr. Warren is a member of 
 Washington Lodge, No. 13, A. 0. U.W. 
 
 Woodruff, vRev., L. M., min.; P. 0. Elgin. I 
 
 Wolf, Charles, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilcox. Sylvanus, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wolf, Fred, milkman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Walmouth, Chris., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Whalen, John, laborer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WEIGHTMAN, WALTER S. 
 
 ( Weigh tman & Plant), groceries, provi- j 
 sions, crockery, etc.; P.O. Elgin ; was born I 
 in Nottinghamshire, Eng., July 16, 1847; < 
 he came to this country in 1852, locat- 
 ing in Schuylkill Co., Pa., and about six 
 years prior to coming West, removed to 
 Boston, Mass.; came to McHenry Co., 
 111., in 1865, where he resided until 
 1872, when he located in Elgin ; Rep.; 
 Lib.; married, in 1871, to Miss Amelia 
 M. Longley ; two children Walter F. ! 
 and Katie. 
 
 Wanzer, Sidney, cheese mfr.; P. 0. Elgin. ! 
 
 Webster, H., fruit dealer; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Wilder, S. D., Elgin Brick Co.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wright, Jos., wood turner ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Woodward, H. D., house mover ; P. 0. El- 
 gin. 
 
 WHELPLEY, JOHN M., farmer ; 
 Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was born in Ul- 
 ster Co., N. ., March 16, 1807 ; came 
 to Illinois in the Fall of 1837, stopping 
 in Cook Co. till the following Summer, 
 when he located in Du Page Co.; re- 
 moved to Hampshire Township, Kane 
 Co., about eleven years later, and to his 
 present home in Elgin Township about 
 eight years since; owns 115 acres of 
 land, valued at $9,000 ; Rep.; Liberal ; 
 married Maria Terwilleger in 1827; 
 she was born in New York ; died in 
 1867 ; six children by this union ; three 
 living Edwin W., Jane T., wife of E. 
 Ketchum, John H.: lost three Anson, 
 died Feb. 15, 1829; James W., May 
 - 9, 1843 ; Mary A., Feb. 28, 1852 ; was 
 again married Sept. 1, 1868, to Phebe 
 Terwilleger. 
 
 Wenterfelt, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 Welch, Thos. R., grain dealer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wheeler, D. B., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wellsby, J., carpenter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wilcox, Jno. S., Postmaster ; P. O. Elgin. 
 Wilcox, Mrs. Louisa, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Wilkins, J. D., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Waldron, E. D., City Treas.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Woodruff, Louisa, P. 0. Elgin. 
 Weatherell, H. G., P. 0. Elgin. 
 WEIGHTMAN, HENRY, far- 
 
 mer ; Sec. 18 ; P. 0. Udina ; was born 
 in Canada East Aug. 30, 1827 ; came to 
 Illinois in the Spring of 1855, locating 
 in Burlington Township, Kane Co.; re- 
 moved to his present location two years 
 ago ; owns 340 acres of land in Plato 
 Township, valued at $45 per acre ; also 
 five acres in Elgin Township, valued at 
 $2,000; Rep.; Liberal; married Sept. 
 24, 1850, to Miss Henrietta Shufelt ; 
 she was born in Canada East Nov. 25, 
 1830 ; seven children living Serena A. 
 (wife of Charles Graves), born July 13, 
 1852; William H., May 8, 1854; 
 Franklin R., Nov. 10, 1856 ; John E., 
 Feb. 10, 1859 ; Sarah M., May 3, 1861 5 
 Susan M., Aug. 11 : 1864; Henrietta 
 M., Nov. 10, 1868 ; lost one in infancy, 
 born May 14, 1875, died Aug. 16, 1875. 
 
 Whitcomb, E. K., lumber ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wetherell, Jane, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Worden, William, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wooley, P. A., contractor; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WING, WASHINGTON, farmer, 
 Sec. 10; P. 0. Elgin; born in Madison 
 Co., N. Y., Dec. 3, 1808; removed to 
 Washtenaw Co., Mich., in 1831, and 
 came to Elgin Township, Kane Co., in 
 June, 1845; owns 126 acres of land, 
 valued at $12,600 ; Rep.; Meth.; served 
 as Supervisor of Elgin Township several 
 terms, and has also held other minor 
 offices. Married, in 1836, to Catharine 
 Himes; she was born in Michigan; died 
 in 1854; had three children; two living 
 William H. and Orlando A.; lost one 
 Mary, died Dec. 26, 1862; was again 
 married, in 1856. to Adeline Willets; 
 she was born in Washtenaw Co., Mich.; 
 two children by this union Katie L. 
 and Edwin W. 
 
 Webb, George, painter; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wicken, Win. T., watch fac.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wright, A. K., watch fac ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ward, Mrs. W. J., P. 0. Elgin.
 
 706 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Waite, John, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Webster, B. F.. dairyman ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WELD, OWEN B., farmer, Sec. 16; 
 P. 0. Elgin; born in Orford, Grafton 
 Co., X. H., Oct. 24, 1831 ; removed to 
 Illinois in childhood, with his parents, 
 who located on the farm where he now 
 resides, in June, 1838 ; owns 717 acres 
 of laud, valued at $43,000 ; Dem.; Lib. 
 Married, Jan. 11, 1854, to Miss Eliz- 
 abeth *M. Kelley; she was born in Sche- 
 nectady, N. Y.; have two children 
 Hattie E.. wife of Orlando A. Wing, 
 and May. 
 
 Walter. Henry. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wedell, J. 0.^ jeweler; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilbern. A. W., bakery ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wahl, Wui., music hall, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WILSON, HIRAM, farmer; Sec. 
 8; P. 0. Elsin; born in New London, 
 Merrimack Co., N. H., Aug. 27, 1811 ; 
 came to Illinois, June, 1 838, locating on 
 the farm where he now resides ; owns 
 300 acres of land ; value, $15,000 ; 
 Rep.; Liberal. Married in 1838, to 
 Miss Elizabeth Kimball (now deceased); 
 
 , she was born in New Hampshire ; six 
 children by this union, five living 
 Joseph F., Mary, wife of George Sails- 
 bury, William H., Susan C., wife of 
 Cyrus J. Cole, Adelbert ; lost one 
 Melvina. 
 
 Weld, Russell, drugs ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Waters, H. B., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 WHITCOMB, ALBERT B., lum- 
 ber; P. 0. Elgin; born in Cook Co., 
 111., Oct. 20, 1847; removed to this 
 county in 1856, locating at Elgin, his 
 present home ; graduated at Western 
 Unioo College and Military Academy at 
 Fulton, 111., in 1863; owns 3,500 acres 
 of pine lands in Wisconsin, valued at 
 $15.000 ; Dem.; Liberal. Married in 
 1868 to Miss Ann Van Drusen ; she 
 was born in New York ; three children 
 Albert B., Emily and Elias K. 
 
 Welch, Albert, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wright, Farwell, mechanic ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Wilbur, Mrs. L. P., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Winchester, Wm.. phys.; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 ^VTOUNG, C. L., watch factory ; P. 0. 
 JL Elgin. 
 
 Young, Conrad, cabinet mkr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Young, Adam, wagon mkr.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Yarwood, L. H., Librarian Puo. Library ; 
 P. 0.. Elgin. 
 
 Young, Charles. P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Yurs, Fred., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Younger, Catharine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Yarwood, Sarah J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Yeo, Wm.. watch factory, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Yarwood, Mrs. R. L., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Young, Wm., farmer; P. 0. South Elgin. 
 
 r/ORNER, JOHN, lab.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Zj 
 
 Zimmerman, William, section boss; P. 0. 
 Elgin. 
 
 VIRGIL TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A NDERSON, PETER, farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 'jLJL. Lodi. 
 
 Anderson, F. 0., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Axal, C., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 ADAMS, HORACE, carpenter and 
 builder ; P. 0. Lodi : born in Tomp- 
 kins Co., N. Y., Nov.' 20, 1824 ; mar- 
 ried Nov. 27, 1845, to Miss Maria 
 Van Vlack, of Tompkins Co. ; removed 
 to Kane Co. in 1863. settling at Lodi ; 
 they have two children Edgar A., 
 born Aug. 13, 1847 (now a resident 
 of Indianapolis); and Sarah E., born 
 May 30, 1852 (now Mrs. John H. 
 Hoyt, of Lodi) ; he is a Republican. 
 
 Adkins, Levi, railroad man ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Anderson, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Allen, Spencer, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 AUSTIN, MRS. L. M., whose maid- 
 en name was Miss L. M. Hall, was born 
 in Herkimer Co., N. Y., in 1833 ; mar- 
 ried, in 1851, to the late E. J. Austin, 
 of Albany Co., N. Y., who died in July, 
 1874 ; removed to De Kalb Co., 111., in 
 1863, and to Lodi in the year following; 
 owns land in De Kalb Co., also the Na- 
 tional House and other property in Lodi : 
 has five children Annetta M., Willie 
 E., Ida M , Wallace H. and Willie F. ; 
 Mrs. Austin is a Methodist.
 
 KANE COUNTY: VIRGIL. 
 
 707 
 
 ALLEN, J. S., farmer; Sec. 3 ; P. 0. 
 East Burlington ; owns 160 acres of 
 land, valued at $40 per acre ; Rep. ; 
 Free Meth. ; was born in the Province 
 of Quebec, Oct. 21, 1828; he removed 
 to Kane Co. in 1849 ; he settled on his 
 present home in 1850 ; he was married 
 May 8, 1859, to Miss Maria Barber, of 
 Camptou, who was born in the Prov- 
 ince of Quebec, June 5, 1840 ; have 
 seven children Eva L., born July 21, 
 1861 ; Paulina, Jan. 15, 1863; Carrie 
 D., May 19, 1864 ; Elon R., Aug. 29, 
 1866; Linus W., March 23, 1869; 
 Ennis, March 17, 1871; Clark R., 
 March 11, 1874; Mr. Allen held the 
 office of Road Commissioner from 1874 
 to 1877, when he was elected Justice of 
 the Peace. 
 
 Anderson, Aug., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Auble, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Anderson, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 ANDERSON, MRS. ANNA, Sec. 
 
 25 ; P. 0. Blackberry ; was born in 
 Sweden in 1807 ; she was married in 
 1838 to the late Andrew Anderson, 
 who died in 1859 ; came to Kane Co. 
 in 1852 ; has five children living 
 Andrew, born Nov. 26, 1839 ; he mar- 
 ried, in 1871, Miss Carrie Samuel- 
 son, of Elgin, and has two children 
 Victor and Annie C. ; Peter G-., born 
 Oct. 9, 1841 ; August, Feb. 23, 1844 ; 
 Clark, Nov. 15, 1846, and Emma C., 
 Oct. 23, 1850 ; the last four being un- 
 married, and living at home ; owns 232 
 acres of land, valued at $9,000 ; Mrs. 
 Anderson and family are Lutherans. 
 
 Bert, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Butler, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 BAKER, GEORGE, farmer and 
 stock raiser ; Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Campton ; 
 Rep.; born in Lincolnshire, England, 
 Dec. 29, 1832; came to Kane Co. in 
 1851 ; married, Dec. 20, 1859, to Miss 
 Caroline Lawrence, of Clayton Co., la.; 
 they have five children living Wm.G., 
 born April 27, 1862; Fred. E., born 
 May 18, 1865 ; Walter J., born Aug. 29, 
 1867 ; Delbert E., born Oct. 13, 1869 ; 
 Estella M., born Sept. 8, 1874 ; owns 
 a farm of 215 acres, valued at $10,750. 
 
 Breman, Win., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Bushby, Jno., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Barnard, Wm.. farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Benedict, C.; farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 BEAMISH, ABRAHAM, far.; 
 
 Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Sycamore ; Rep. ; be- 
 longs to the Church of England ; born 
 in Ireland in 1816 ; came to the United 
 States in 1840, settling in Kane Co. ; 
 married, in 1843, to Miss Sarah Mitch- 
 ell, of the Province of 'Quebec; they 
 have four children living Samuel, born 
 June 21, 1844; John, born April 3, 
 1846 ; Jane, born Sept. 27, 1849 ; and 
 Lillie, born June 14, 1857 ; owns 120 
 acres of land, valued at $4,800. 
 Bennett, W. H., hotel ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 BEVERLY, ALBERT, farmer; P. 
 0. Lodi. 
 
 Brown, David, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Baldwin, John, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 BEVERLY, MELVIN, carpenter 
 and builder ; born in Chatauqua Co., 
 N. Y., Sept. 21, 1842; raised a farmer ; 
 came to Kane Co. .in 1860 ; enlisted, in 
 May, 1862, as Corporal of Co. K, 65th 
 111. Vols., serving ten months, and after- 
 ward for a short time in the 13th Reg- 
 ulars ; Republican. 
 
 Barker, Jno. B . far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Butler, Dennis, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Ball, W. H., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 BROWN, R. S. dealer in hardware 
 and lumber; was born in Virgil Tp., 
 Kane Co., in June, 1 842 ; he is of Scotch 
 parentage, being a son of David and Ellen 
 Brown, who came direct from Scotland 
 to Kane Co., in 1840. He was married, 
 Dec. 16, 1875, to Miss Hattie Robert- 
 son, of Lodi ; they have one child 
 Esmond R., born March 30, 1877 ; Mr. 
 Brown is a Democrat. 
 
 BOARDMAN, WILLIAM, far. ; 
 
 Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Blackberry ; born in 
 Lancashire, Eng., June 27, 1831 ; came 
 to Kane Co., in 1847 ; Rep. Married, 
 Jan. 1, 1854, to Miss Elizabeth Malls, 
 of Virgil Tp. (then Franklin), who died 
 Nov. 22, 1868; married again in 1869, 
 to Miss Eveline Burrows, of Rock Island 
 Co., 111. ; have six children living 
 William, born Jan. 18, 1855; Martha, 
 born Oct. 10, 1856; Eliza, born Jan. 
 15, 1859; Lydia, born May 9, 1862; 
 Charles E., born April 1, 1866 ; Maud, 
 born May 16, 1875 ; Mr. B. was asoldier 
 in the Union army, enlisting in Co. B, 
 124th 111. Vols., in 1862, and was dis- 
 charged the following year; owns farm 
 of 180 acres, valued at $9,000.
 
 708 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Blackman, S. B., butcher ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Burke, Michael, shoemkr. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Beamish, Samuel, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Barker, John A., far. ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Bolster, A., far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Blackman, W. S., butcher; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Bennett, J. W., hotel ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Bucklin, A. N. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Bucklin, H. C. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Brophy, Wm., far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Barmesk, Samuel, far; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Bennett, Silas, railroad man ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 f^ONGLE, JOSEPH, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 V_y Sycamore. 
 
 Catentine, Alex., far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Collopy, Timothy, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 CLYNE, JOHN, dealer in general 
 merchandise ; P. O. Lodi ; was born 
 in Ireland in 1846 ; he came to this 
 country in 1 861, engaging in his present 
 business. He was married in 1876 to 
 Miss Mary Fitsgerald, of Lodi; they 
 have one child, Charles Francis Clyne ; 
 Mr. Cline is Independent in politics. 
 
 Cox, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Crook, Millard, far; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Copey, J., far.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Carver, Daniel, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Chrystal, Geo., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Cotting, Henry, far. ; P.O. Sycamore. 
 
 CURRIER, ABNER, retired farm- 
 er ; born' in Holland, Erie Co., N. Y., 
 in i813, was married in 1833 to Miss 
 Melissa C. Norton, of Holland, who 
 was born in Rutland Co., Vt. Mr. 
 Currier came to this country in 1837, 
 settling in Campton Tp., where he held 
 the office of Justice of the Peace for 
 several years, and served one year as 
 Town Cjerk. He subsequently removed 
 to Blackberry Tp., and in 1864 came to 
 Lodi. He belongs to the Republican 
 party. 
 
 Chrystal, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Cain, R., farmer ; P. O. Sycamore. 
 
 Cook, S., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Collins, Owen, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Caldwell. E., far ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Clark, James, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Cobourn, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Coyle, Joseph, fanner ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 DAVIS, WILLIAM, farmer; P. 0. 
 Sycamore. 
 
 Dougherty, Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Derwin, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Doyle, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 DOBSON, MRS. MARY, Sec. 13; 
 
 P. O. Blackberry Sta. ; born in Ireland, 
 and came to this country when about 15 
 years old ; married, in 1847, to the late 
 Abraham Dobson, who was born in New 
 Brunswick, March 25, 1810, and came 
 to Kane Co. in 1838 ; Mrs. Dobson has 
 six children living Mary J., born Feb. 
 9, 1848 ; Juliette T., born March 17, 
 1849 ; Frank I., born June 27, 1851 ; 
 George A., born Feb. 27, 1854 ; Elenor, 
 born July 3, 1855 ; Abraham A., born 
 June 8, 1857 ; the estate comprises 355 
 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre. 
 
 Downing, Jackson, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Downing, S. F., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Derrick, James, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 DOWNING, S. F., farmer. Sec. 29 ; 
 P. 0. Lodi ; born in Queens Co., Long 
 Island, Aug. 12, 1845 ; came to Kane 
 Co. in 1868, settling on the farm now 
 owned and occupied by his brother, G. 
 J. Downing ; in 1877, he removed to 
 his present farm ; married Feb. 8, 1877, 
 to Miss Jennie Thatcher, of Virgil Tp. ; 
 owns a larm of 200 acres, valued at 
 $8,400; Rep. 
 
 Dooley, James, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Dayton, James, farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Downing, 0. J., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Dickson, Norman, jeweler ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 DOWNING, G. J., farmer and stock 
 raiser ; Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Blackberry Sta. ; 
 Rep.; born in Queens Co., Long Island, 
 Sept. 29, 1830 ; married Feb. 6, 1861, to 
 Miss Phoeba C. Albertson, of the same 
 county ; came to Kane Co. and settled 
 at their present home; '' Woodland 
 Farm," in 1869 ; owns 570 acres of 
 land, valued at $23,000 ; is largely en- 
 
 gaged in stock raising ; has two children 
 Lizzie L., born Jan. 5, 1862 ; Hicks 
 A., born Dec. 1, 1863. 
 
 THAGAN, WM., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Ellithorp, Cass., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Ellithorp, L. S., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Ellithorp, T. C., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Ellithorp, P. C., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 TWEENY, DENNIS, farmer.; P. 0. 
 JJ Sycamore. 
 
 Freeland, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Friuk, J. S., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Footh, Levi, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Fitter, Nicholas, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Footh, Simon, farmer ; F. 0. Sycamore.
 
 KANE 'COUNTY : VIRGIL. 
 
 709 
 
 Fitzgerald, Jos , saloon ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 FILLMORE, B. J., farmer, Sec. 
 30 ; P. 0. Lodi ; Rep. ; Adventist ; 
 born in New Brunswick, June 25, 
 1833 ; lemoved with his father's family 
 to Kane Co. when he was 12 years of 
 age, settling in Virgil Township ; mar- 
 ried Dec. 24, 1854, to Miss Mary Boyd, 
 of Chicago ; they have five children 
 Eugene W., born Jan. 28, 1856; Rosa 
 E., born June 23, 1858 ; Lillian A., 
 born Sept. 22, 1861 ; Henry 0., born 
 June 17, 1864; Mary E., born Oct. 17, 
 1867; owns farm of 195 acres, valued 
 at $8,000. 
 
 Fillmore, David, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Flood, Philip, farmer; P.O. Lodi. 
 
 Filhnore, John, farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Finkeburg. F., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Fiddler. Nicholas, far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Foss, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Foss, E. J., farmer ; P. 0. Svcamore. 
 
 i^\ OLDSBERG, A., farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 OT Lodi. 
 
 GOODER, GEO. C., farmer ; Sec. 
 21 ; P. Lodi ; born in Yorkshire, 
 England, in 1825 ; came to the United 
 States in 1849 ; after spending some 
 time in R,hode Island and Ohio, he 
 settled in Kane Co. ; he was engaged in 
 the construction of the first railroad in 
 the State of Ohio ; married in England 
 in 1847, to Miss Ellen Brunt, of Brad- 
 ford, England, who died in 1856 ; she 
 was the mother of his two children, 
 John and Hannah ; married again in 
 1857, to Mrs. Eliza McKinley, daughter 
 of Henry Krows, one of the earliest 
 settlers of the township ; they own 50 
 acres of land in Virgil Township, and 
 120 acres in Iowa ; Rep. ; Meth. 
 
 Granger. , Thos.. far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 GANNON, PHILLIP, far; Sec. 
 20 ; P. O. Lodi ; Dem.; Rom. Cath.; I 
 born in Ireland ; came to this country 
 when about 15 years of age ; he was 
 married in 1848 to Miss Catharine Ma- 
 loney, who died in 1 860 ; married again 
 in 1861 to Miss Bridget Hennigen, of 
 St. Charles, 111. ; they have seven chil- 
 dren living* William P., Edward, Mar- 
 garet J., Thomas A., Katie, Ellen and 
 Jane ; owns 220 acres of land, valued 
 at S60 per acre. 
 
 Garin, E., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Grace, Edw., lab.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 GALE, JOHN, farmer, blacksmith 
 and dealer in agricultural implements ; 
 born in Oxfordshire, Eng., removing to 
 New York State with his parents when 
 a child ; came to Illinois in 1840, and 
 settled in Lee Co.; removed to De Kalb 
 Co. in 1854, and to Lodi in 1859 ; mar- 
 ried in 1848 to Miss Maria Ramer, of 
 Du Page Co. ; they have had five chil- 
 dren George, born March 24, 1849; 
 Lucy J., born July 14, 1855 ; Eliza- 
 beth, born Feb. 19, 1857 ; John E., 
 born April 16, 1859, and died Aug. 18 
 of the same year; Mary, born Sept. 10, 
 1860. Owns a farm of 160 acres in 
 De Kalb Co., valued at $8,000 ; Rep.; 
 and with his family belongs to the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 GRAY, JOS., farmer; Sec. 25; P. 
 0. Blackberry Station ; born in New 
 Brunswick April 22, 1830; came to 
 Kane Co. with his parents in 1849, set- 
 tling on his present homestead ; mar- 
 ried Sept, 15, 1859, to Miss Juliett Wood- 
 man, who was born in New Hampshire 
 June 2, 1841 ; they have four children 
 Alice, born Oct. 30, 1864 ; Wilber, 
 born Aug. 26, 1866 ; James R., born 
 June 14, 1874 ; John, born Feb. 17, 
 1877. Owns 347 acres of land, valued 
 at $60 per acre, a large portion of which 
 is under drainage ; has a creamery man- 
 ufacturing 300 Ibs. of butter a week, of 
 the finest quality, which during the past 
 year has found its way direct to the 
 tables of the Palmer House in Chicago. 
 
 Gray, John, far.; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 Green, John, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 OYT, John, iner.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
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 Holdridge, Clark, R. R. man ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Hinds, Hawley, farmer ; P. O. Blackberry. 
 Hastret. John, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Humphrey. Russell, far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 HOPKINS, MICHAEL, Sec. 7 ; 
 
 farmer ; born in Mayo, Ireland, in 1836; 
 when 15 years old, left home and went 
 to England, where he was married in 
 1854, to Miss Mary McGreal, of Mayo; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1864 ; three 
 children living Margaret, born 1856 ; 
 John, born 1860 ; and Peter, bora 
 1864; Cath. 
 
 Hopkins, James, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Hopkins, Pat., Jr., far.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Hopkins, P., farmer; P. 0. Lodi.
 
 710 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 HOWARD, C. H., farmer ; Sec. 29 ; 
 P. 0. Lodi : he was born in Yorkshire, 
 England, Feb. 9, 1809. In 1844 he 
 came to this country, the passage across 
 the Atlantic occupying six weeks, and 
 two weeks longer were consumed on the 
 canal, on his journey from N. Y. to St. 
 Charles ; arriving at the latter place, he 
 spent the first night in a barn. He was 
 married March 13, 1832, to Miss Anna 
 Moriah, who became the mother of five 
 of his children, and who died in March, 
 1846. He was married again, Sept. 2, 
 1853, to Miss Esther Gregory, who was 
 born in Conn., in 1821. He has nine 
 children, all living Harness J., Emily 
 M., Sarah M., Charles R., Lydia, Chris- 
 tiana D., Ella E. E., Paul and Georgiana. 
 
 , Mr. Howard is Liberal in politics, 
 although voting with the Republican 
 party on questions of State and National 
 issue ; he owns 110 acres of land, valued 
 at $50 an acre, which he purchased direct 
 from the Government more than thirty 
 years ago, and has occupied ever since. 
 
 HALWICK, IRA, farmer; Sec. 28; 
 P. 0. Lodi ; he was born in Tompkins 
 Co., N. Y., July 27, 1824, and removed 
 to Kane Co. in 1844, residing three 
 years at Batavia, when he settled on 
 his present farm ; he was married Nov. 
 7, 1847, to Miss Deborah McKinley, a 
 native of Ulster Co., New York; she 
 was born Sept. 23, 1826, and came to 
 Kane Co. in 1837 ; they have ten chil- 
 drenMartha L., born Dec. 22, 1848 ; 
 Josephine, born Feb. 10, 1851; Julia, 
 born July 9, 1853; Emma, born April 
 5, 1855, died April 13, 1875; William, 
 born Jan. 4, 1858 ; Charles A., born 
 Jan. 31, 1860; Hugh E., born March 
 3, 1862, died June 3, 1866; Mary 
 D., born July 17, 1864 ; Rachel A., 
 born Jan. 16, 1868, died May 10, 1869 ; 
 Mabel E., born March 20, 1871, He 
 owns 248 acres of land, valued at $50 
 per acre ; Rep. 
 
 HOYT, JOHN H., firm of Shoop 
 & Hoyt, general merchants ; Rep.; P. 0. 
 Lodi ; born in Conn, in 1844 ; raised a 
 farmer ; when he was about 9 years old, 
 his parents removed to Kane Co., settling 
 in Kaneville Township ; came to Lodi 
 in 1876, and entered his present busi- 
 ness ; married in 1869 to Miss S. E. 
 Adams, of Lodi. 
 
 Honschneth, Jos., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Henrie, Jas., hotel ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Hall, Ira B., furniture ; P.O. Lodi. 
 
 Hines, B. H., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 HINES, H. J., farmer, Sec. 35; P. 0. 
 Blackberry Station ; Rep.; born in Erie 
 Co., N. Y., in 1818 ; married, Dec. 19, 
 1843, tp Miss Harriet Thorp ; removed 
 to Kane Co. in 1845 ; they have one 
 childliving Mary, born Aug. 27,1856 
 (now Mrs. Leroy Sharp, of Virgil Town- 
 ship) ; owns 80 acres of land, valued 
 at $4,800. 
 
 Hard, Milton, farmer; P. 0. DeKalb. 
 
 Hall. Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Blackbery. 
 
 Hackett, Samuel, blacksmith ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 HOLDRIDGE, AARON, farmer; 
 Rep.; born in Bridport, Vt., in 1816; 
 twice married; in 1841, to Miss Maria 
 Patchen, of Burlington, Vt., and again, 
 in 1847, to Miss Miranda Eddy, of 
 Bristol, Vt.; removed to Burlington 
 Township, Kane Co., in 1853, and to 
 Virgil Township, in 1870; he has six 
 children Daniel M., born in 1843; 
 Everrand A., born in 1848; Clarence 
 E., born in 1851; Clark B., born in 
 1854; Mary L. (now Mrs. Tuttle, of 
 Cortland, HI), born in 1857; and 
 Luella M., born in 1858. 
 
 Henderson, 0. H., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Hodges, L., real estate; P. 0. Lodi. 
 RWIN, HENRY, hotel; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
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 JACKSON, E. V., far.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Jones. Thomas, farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 JACKSON, E. V., butter and cheese 
 manufacturer and miller, Sec. 5 ; P. 0. 
 Sycamore; Rep.; value of property, 
 $6,000; born in Jefferson Co., N. Y., 
 June 15, 1841 ; came to Kane Co., in 
 1853; served in the Union army, from 
 1862 until the close of the war, as a 
 member of the 127th 111. Vols. Mar- 
 ried, Nov. 17, 1868, to Miss Jennie M. 
 Benedict, of Virgil Township. 
 
 Jackson, John, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Johnson, N., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 JOHNSON, ANDREW, farmer, 
 Sec. 36 ; P. 0. Blackberry Sta. ; born in 
 Sweden, Sept. 5, 1821. Married Oct. 
 20, 1850, to Miss Johanna Valan tines, 
 of Skaraborg State, Sweden, who died 
 Feb. 7, 1866; came to Kane Co. in 
 1852 ; owns 63 acres of land, valued at
 
 KANE COUNTY: VIRGIL. 
 
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 $2,500 ; has six children living John 
 H., born Aug. 22, 1852; Matilda C., 
 born Sept. 17, 1854; Augusta J., born 
 Nov. 24, 1856; Anna C., born Nov. 
 28, 1860; Frederick, born Dec. 28, 
 1862; Einma L., born in 1864; Mr. 
 Johnson is a Republican and Lutheran. 
 
 Johnson, J. A., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Jaynes, John, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Jones, B. P., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 TT^EIFER, JOHN, far.; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Kenyon, S. P., P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Kelley, David, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Keegan, James, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 KEEFE, PATRICK, farmer ; born 
 in Ireland ; at an early age removed to 
 New Brunswick, and in 1845 to Kane 
 Co.; has two sons living. 
 
 KEEPE, JOHN C., son of the above ; 
 born in New Biunswick in 1836; re- 
 moved to Kane Co. with his parents in 
 1845 ; engaged chiefly in farming ; mar- 
 ried in 1873 to Miss Annie Meehan, of 
 Elgin, 111.; one child George P.; Rep. 
 
 KEEPE, CULLEN, dealer in grain, 
 coal, stock and agricultural implements ; 
 son of Patrick Keefe ; was born in New 
 Brunswick in 1836 ; removed with pa- 
 rents to Kane Co. in 1845 ; Rep.; mar- 
 ried in 1869 to Miss Ella J. White, of 
 Lodi ; they have one child Frank A., 
 born in 1871. 
 
 Karp, John, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 KENDALL, ORSON, farmer and 
 stock raiser ; Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Campton ; 
 born in Hartford Co., Conn., April 24, 
 1813; came to Kane Co. in 1837, and 
 opened up his present farm in 1844, en- 
 tering 80 acres direct from the Govern- 
 ment ; married June 10, 1840, to Miss 
 Fannie M. Read ; she was born in New 
 Brunswick, and came to this township 
 in 1838 ; they have seven children 
 Flora H., born Oct. 15, 1841 (now Mrs. 
 A. Moody, of Ogle Co., 111.) ; Newton 
 J., born May 5, 1843 (now a resident 
 of Dundee Township") ; Joseph E., born 
 March 27, 1846 (now living in Ogle 
 Co.) ; Albert 0., born March 10, 1848 
 (now engaged in trade at Campton) ; 
 Otis Read, born Dec. 29, 1849 (now liv- 
 ing in Campton) ; Morton H., born Jan. 
 23, 1852; Ruthie H., born May 20, 
 1854 ; owns farm of 260 acres, valued 
 at $13,000 ; Rep.; Bapt. 
 
 Kier, Edward, clerk ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Keifer, Peter, farmer; P.'O. Blackberry. 
 
 Krows, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Kane, F., farmer ; P. 0. Burlington. 
 
 Keating, B., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Kasser, C., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 KENNEDY, W. H. H.. attorney 
 at law ; born in Ash tabula Co., Ohio, 
 August 13, 1840 ; at an early age he 
 removed to Crawford Co., Penn. ; was 
 educated principally at Allegheny Col- 
 lege, Meadville, Penn.; has been a resi- 
 dent of Lodi since 1857 ; admitted to 
 the bar in 1 860 ; elected a member of 
 Board of Supervisors in 1866, and 1867, 
 and again in 1874, '5, '6 and '7 ; mar- 
 ried in 1863 to Miss Celia Kenyon, 
 daughter of Crandall Kenyon, of Elgin ; 
 they have one child Pearl, born in 
 1876. Mr. Kennedy is a War Demo- 
 crat. 
 
 Kirk, F., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Keller, David, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Kelley, P., farmer : P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 T AKIN, Calvin, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
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 Lowery, A. M., far.; P. 0, Sycamore. 
 
 LEES, SILAS, farmer ; Sec. 2 ; P. 0. 
 East Burlington ; Dem.; Presb.; owns 
 164 acres of land, valued at $6,600 ; 
 born in Ireland, March 16, 1837 ; came 
 to Du Page Co., 111., in 1854, and 
 settled on his present farm in Kane Co., 
 in 1868; married March 27, 1863 to 
 Miss Sarah McCulla. who was born in 
 Ireland Dec. 12, 1837; they have three 
 children living Enos H., born July 22, 
 1866 ; Elmina J., born Sept. 19, 1868 ; 
 Henry E., born March 18, 1875. 
 
 Lyon, W., P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Lawerson, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 LATHROP, REV. J. P.. senior 
 member of the firm of Lathrop & Snow, 
 general merchants, Lodi ; was born in 
 Montgomery Co., N. Y., March 24, 
 1817 ; when he was ten years of age his 
 parents removed to Windsor Co., Vt. ; 
 received an academic education ; removed 
 in 1837 to Erie Co , N. Y., where he 
 was married in 1839 to Miss Cathrine 
 Kelley of Hamburg, N. Y. In 1843 
 he came to Du Page Co., 111., and two 
 years later to Kane Co. In politics he 
 is a Republican, in religion a Baptist ; 
 has one child living (now Mrs. Thos. J. 
 Brown of Lodi).
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Lowing, Robt., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Lowery, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Loveland, Mrs. E., far. ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 MAYER, NICHOLAS, farmer; P. 
 0. Blackberry. 
 
 McCormack, Thos., far.; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Meternash, Henry, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 MARVIN, GEO.W., farmer; Sec. 
 27 ; P. 0. Lodi ; Rep. ; born in the 
 State of New York, Dec. 1, 1833 ; came 
 to Kane Co., with his parents, when he 
 was about ten years of age. Married 
 April 22, 1862, to Miss Robenia Parker, 
 who was born in Scotland, Oct. 16, 
 1842; they have five children living 
 Minnie M., born Nov. 29, 1863 ; Aie j 
 A., born May 27, 1866 ; Ella C., born ' 
 June 21, 1869 ; Jennie June, born 
 Dec. 8, 1872 ; Nettie N., born Jan. 27, 
 1876. Owns farm of 320 acres. 
 
 Mahar, Danl., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 McGough, Jas., blksmith ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 McHenry, A., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 McNAIR, ROBERT, M. D.; born 
 in Erie Co., Penn., in 1815, of Scotch- 
 Irish parentage ; his grandfather being a 
 cousin to Capt. Jno. Paul Jones, of revolu- 
 tionary fame ; in 1837, he came to Kane 
 Co., being a passenger on the first line 
 boat ever run from Buffalo to Chicago ; 
 after about seven years, his health fail- 
 ing, he returned home and began the 
 study of medicine, and practiced it in 
 his native State about seven years, when 
 he removed to Wisconsin and engaged 
 in the practice of his profession ; in 1862, 
 he removed to Kane Co., since which 
 time he has been practicing medicine at 
 Lodi. Married about 1846, to Miss 
 Mary Ann Lakin, of Blackberry ; they 
 have had ten children, five of whom are 
 living. 
 
 Miller, Mich., blacksmith ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Mayhum, Swancy, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 McDuff, Frank, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Mason, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 ~AT ICHOLSON > William, farmer; P. j 
 
 JM 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Nyland, Martin, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 NIBBE, JOHN, P. 0. Lodi; was 
 
 born in Germany, in 1824; raised a 
 commission merchant ; was married, in 
 1842, to Miss Catherina Ehinke, of 
 Holstein, Germany ; came to Chicago, in 
 1850, where he continued to reside, en- 
 gaging in the grocery trade, manufacture 
 
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 of brick, navigation of the lakes, dealing 
 in grain, wood, etc., until the great fire 
 in 1871. when he removed to Lodi. 
 'MALLEY, D., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 O'Malley, Peter, P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Ottaway, H., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Olson, Ira, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 ORMSBY, M. M., carp, and builder; 
 Rep.; was born in New York, in 1842 ; 
 raised a farmer ; when 2 years old re- 
 moved with his parents to Kane Co.; 
 was married, in 1866, to Miss Helen 
 Hardy, of Virgil Township ; two chil- 
 dren living Myrtie E., born in 1869, 
 and Jennie B., born in 1877. 
 
 O'Sullivan, Dena, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Outhouse, L., farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 >ERRY, A. 
 
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 Perry, M. C. 
 Perry, M. H. 
 
 Pratt, J. V., P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Percil, John, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Pratt, J., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Pulson, N., far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Pew, John, Constable ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 Powel, James, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Percy, M. far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Peterson, J., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Poff, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 TTPDIKE, W. C., farmer, P. 0. 
 U Lodi. 
 T3 AND, A. J., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Ryan, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Reilly, Pat., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Robertson, J. Q., carpenter ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Ryan, Thos., far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 READ, ALBERT, farmer and stock 
 raiser. Sec. 13; P. O. Campton; Rep.; 
 born in New Brunswick, Oct. 19, 1829 ; 
 came with his parents to Kane Co. in 
 1838, being but 9 years of age ; was 
 married April 3, 1861 to Miss Catha- 
 rine E. Sweet, who was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania in July, 1841 ; they have four 
 children Flora A., born March 5, 1852 ; 
 Albert E., born May 29, 1854; George 
 H., born Nov. 8, 1867 ; Frank A., born 
 Sept. 12, 1872 ; owns 295 acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; Mr. Read and 
 his wife are members of the M. E. 
 Church. 
 
 Root, Wm. E., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Rood, E. 0., wagon maker ; P. 0. Lodi.
 
 KANE COUNTY: VIRGIL. 
 
 713 
 
 HEAD, C. C., farmer and stock raiser, 
 Sec. U ; P. 0. Blackberry Sta.; son of 
 Eliphalet Read ; was born in Campton 
 Tp., Kane Co., Dec. 22, 1844; married 
 Der. 17, 1874, to Miss Ella Wilson, who 
 was born in Whiteside Co., 111., 1?eb. 
 22, 1852 ; he owns a farm of 271 acres, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; Rep. 
 
 RAMER, PHILLIP, farmer, Sec. 
 31 ; P. 0. Lodi ; Rep.; born in Ohio in 
 1840 ; removed to Kane Co. in 1866; 
 married Jan, 1, 1866, to Miss Olivia 
 Watson, of Kaneville ; they had four 
 children Elvin W., born June 13, 
 1867 ; Fieldon A., born June 11, 1870, 
 and died July 31, 1870; Harlie E., 
 born Nov. 3, 1872 ; Charles W., born 
 Aug. 24, 1876 ; Mr. Ramer served 
 about a year in the war for the Union, 
 enlisting Nov. 9, 1861, in Co. "G" of the 
 58th 111. Volunteers ; owns 80 acres of 
 land valued at $4,000 ; belongs to the 
 M. E. Church. 
 
 Richardson, J. A., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Robinson, Geo., tuer. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Read, Richmond, far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 READ, CHARLES, far. ; Sec. 23; 
 P. 0. Blackberry Station ; one of the 
 earliest settlers of the township ; born 
 in New Brunswick Nov. 12, 1816 ; re- 
 moved with his parents to Kane Co. in 
 1838, still occupying the old homestead ; 
 married, Sept. 1, 1852, to Miss Adeline 
 B. Baxter, who was born in Orleans 
 Co., Vt., Jan. 26, 1835 ; they have had 
 seven children, five of whom are living 
 Frederick B., born Sept. 14, 1853, 
 died Jan. 10, 1855; Charles T., born 
 Nov. 11, 1855; Orrissa E., born Feb. 
 17, 1858 ; H. G. Martin, born July 22, 
 1860 ; Clara C., born Sept. 22, 1862 ; 
 died Feb. 11, 1863; Harry B., born 
 July 21, 1864; Frank G., born June 
 14, 1867 ; Rep.; owns 340 acres of 
 land, valued at 817,000 ; Mr. and Mrs. 
 Read are members of the First Baptist 
 Church, of Campton ; Mrs. Read is a 
 contributor to the Aurora Beacon, and 
 has been an occasional contributor to 
 the Standard, Advance and Pomeroy's 
 Democrat. 
 
 Read, Albert, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 
 Read, Allen, farmer ; P. 0. Blackberry.' 
 
 Reed, E., farmer ; P. ,0. Blackberry. 
 
 Rand, Warren, farmer; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Read. H. L., farmer; P. O. Blackberry. 
 
 READ, OTHO, farmer and stock 
 raiser; Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Lodi; Rep.; one 
 of the earliest settlers of Virgil Tp. ; 
 born in New Brunswick Oct. 5, 1825 ; 
 removed with his father's family direct 
 to Kane Co., in 1838, and opened up his 
 present farm in 1850 ; owns 350 acres 
 of land, valued at $50 per acre, 120 
 acres of which he entered from the 
 Government about the year 1845 ; has 
 a fine brick house, built of brick made 
 on the place, the clay being cut from 
 the spot where the house now stands. 
 
 ROBERTSON, E. P., Rep.; born in 
 Saratoga Co., N. Y., in 1828 ; raised in 
 a shoe shop and a roadside country 
 school house; married, in 1848, to Miss 
 Julia A. Esmond, of the same county ; 
 they have had two sons Fred., who 
 was a drummer in the 46th 111. Vols., 
 and died at Vicksburg at the age of 15 
 years, and Ira D., a member of the 
 141st 111. Regt, who died in 1873. Mr. 
 Robertson removed to Ohio in 1851, 
 and to Lodi in 1856 ; was the first Jus- 
 tice of the Peace in Lodi, in 1857 ; has 
 been Express and Station Agent for 
 eighteen years. 
 
 Ragam, M., farmer, P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 SCHRAMER, NICHOLS, farmer; P. 
 0. Campton. 
 
 SMILEY, C. E., Rep; born in Mid- 
 dletown, N. Y., in 1843; went to New 
 York City in 1852, and entered a drug 
 store, since which time he has fought 
 his own way ; in 1858, he came to Kane 
 Co.; entered the army in 1861, in the 
 42d 111. Vols., serving till the close of 
 the war, when he returned to Lodi ; 
 married in 1868 to Miss Emeline A. 
 Brown ; they have two children Clyde 
 and Gay ; Mr. Smiley is senior member 
 of the firm of Smiley & Brown, drug- 
 gists, which business he entered in 1869. 
 
 Schramer, John, far. ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Sullivan, Dennis, far. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Sturges, William, far. ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Seaman, W. H., far.; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Snyder, G., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Sharp, G. L., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Shoop, John, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Schreider, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Smith, John, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Spaulding, John, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Snyder, Jos., tailor; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Shoop, Benj., farmer; P. 0. Lodi.
 
 714 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Smith, John S., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Stephens, A., farmer ; P. O. Lodi. 
 
 Sloan, A. 
 
 Snow, N. I., P. M. ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 rpHOMPSON, ARTHUR, far. ; P. 0. 
 
 JL Lodi. 
 
 THATCHER, E. W., farmer ; Sec. 
 21 ; P. 0. Lodi ; Rep. ; was born in 
 Tompkins Co., N. Y., in 1818; he 
 was married Jan. 17, 1843, to Miss 
 Adelia Van Vlack, who was born in 
 Dutchess Co., N. Y., Dec. 30, 1820; he 
 settled on their present homestead in 
 1854 ; they have had nine children 
 Delphine, born March 30, 1844 (now 
 Mrs. Coburn, of Kaneville Township) ; 
 Mary H., born Jan. 17, 1846, and died 
 Sept. 4, 1848 ; Frank, born Oct. 17, 
 1847 ; Elbert, Feb. 24, 1850 ; Jane A., 
 Feb. 1, 1853; Homer, July 11, 1855, 
 and died Aug., 29, 1856 ; Daniel H., 
 born June 22, 1858 ; Cora I., Feb. 17, 
 1860, and De Witt, Aug. 10, 1862; 
 Mr. Thatcher Owns 200 acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre. 
 
 Turk, Frank. 
 
 Tukeberg, F.. farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 THATCHER, FRANK S., far. ; 
 
 Sec. 28 ; P. 0. Lodi ; Rep. ; was born 
 in Ithaca, N. Y., Oct. 17, 1847 ; he re- 
 moved with his father's family to Kane 
 Co. in 1854 ; he was married Nov. 22, 
 1871, to Miss Anna Snook, of Virgil 
 Township, who was born Oct. 29, 1850 ; i 
 they have two children Winnefred, 
 born Oct. 12, 1873, and Edmund, 
 Dec. 14, 1876 ; owns a farm of 74 acres, i 
 
 Thompson, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Thornton. M., farmer ; P. 0. St. Charles. 
 
 THOMPSON, J. W.,M. D. ; P. 0. 
 
 Lodi; was born in Ireland in 1853; 
 when he was 3 years of age, his parents 
 removed to this country, settling in De ' 
 Kalb Co., 111. ; he came to Lodi in 
 1875, and entered upon the practice of ; 
 medicine ; he is a graduate of the Chi- 
 cago Medical College ; Republican. 
 
 Turner, W., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Truly, S. K., harness maker ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 "YTANDERVULGAN, C. M., farmer ; 
 V P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 VAN VLACK, RICHARD, ret. 
 
 farmer ; P. 0. Lodi ; was born in Duch- 
 ess Co., N. Y., in 1814 ; he came to | 
 Kane Co. in 1844, and settled on a farm 
 about two miles east of Lodi, where he 
 
 resided until 1866, when he moved into 
 the village ; he was married, at the age, 
 of 22, to Miss Avoric Howland ; they 
 have two children Fernando, who oc- 
 cupies the farm above mentioned, and 
 Cornelia fnow Mrs. King, of Chicago) ; 
 he is a Republican. 
 Van Vlack, F. C., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 WALKER, NELSON, farmer ; P. O. 
 Campton. 
 
 Wilson, William, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Warble, Aug., farmer; P. O. Campton. 
 
 Waiters, Hugh, farmer ; P. Lodi. 
 
 WHITE, SOLOMON, retired far- 
 mer ; born in Wiscasset, Lincoln Co., 
 Maine, June 3, 1801 ; married June 3, 
 1825, to Miss Joanna Hathorn, of Wool- 
 wich, Maine ; she died in Sept., 1856 ; 
 removed to Kane Co. in 1855, settling 
 at Lodi and engaging in the grain, stock 
 and lumber trade, which he followed 
 some fifteen years ; he has eight chil- 
 dren Hannah W. (now Mrs. John Ha- 
 thorn, of Kansas) ; Mary (now Mrs. 
 H. Ford, of Cortland, 111.) ; Rachel (now 
 Mrs. Soper, of Buchanan Co., Iowa) ; 
 Elizabeth (wife of William Gary, of 
 Wheaton, 111.), Solomon, Jr. (now a res- 
 ident of Vinton, Iowa), Sophia (now 
 Mrs. Ward Norris, of Kansas), Frank 
 (now Mrs.. Clark Henrie, of Kansas), 
 Ella J. (wife of Cullen Keefe, of Lodi). 
 Mr. White has held the office of Assess- 
 or for about six years ; Rep.; Meth. 
 
 Winters, J. F., farmer ; P. 0. Lodi 
 
 Wallace, Edmund, farmer ; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Walsh, Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Walker, Hiram, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Warbury, John, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Warford, John, farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Wilcox, S., farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Wadley, C. P., farmer; P. O. Sycamore. 
 
 Wilcox, John, farmer ; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Winchester, Samuel, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Walker, J. N., farmer; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 Wilson, Huson, farmer ; P. 0. Campton. 
 
 WALRAD, JAMES, farmer; Rep.; 
 was born near Albany, N. Y., in 1818 ; 
 when about eight years old he removed 
 with his parents to Allegheny Co.; came 
 to De Kalb Co., Ill, in 1846, and four 
 years later to his present farm in Virgil 
 Township ; married in Allegheny Co. in 
 1838, to Miirs Eliza Hovey ; four chil- 
 dren living ; Mr. and Mrs. Walrad are 
 members of the Methodist Church.
 
 KANE COUNTY: BIG ROCK. 
 
 715 
 
 WILKINSON, SAMUEL, farmer; 
 Sees. 33 and 34 ; P. 0. Lodi ; born in 
 Beaver Co., Penn., March 10, 1827; 
 came to Illinois in 1846, spending a 
 short time in Ogle Co., and settling in 
 Kane Co. in 1 847 ; was married Dec. 22, 
 1847, to Miss Sarah Smith, of Black- 
 berry Township, daughter of James 
 Smith, one of the earliest settlers of 
 Kane Co.; they have had twelve chil- 
 drenMary J., born Nov. 13, 1848 
 (now Mrs. C. L. Gilbert, of Nebraska) ; 
 Lucetta A., born Jan. 7, 1850 (now 
 Mrs. Julius Lee, of Huron Co., Ohio) ; 
 John J., born March 3, 1852 (now a 
 resident of Black Hawk Co., Iowa) ; 
 William W., born Nov. 8, 1853, and died 
 
 May 11, 1871 ; Frank B., born Aug. 9, 
 1855 ; Harvey S., born April 22, 1857 ; 
 Georgia, born March 27, 1859, died 
 Jan. 1, 1863 ; Luella A., born April 13, 
 1861 ; Nora S., born Feb. 1, 1863 ; 
 Perry B. born June 10, 1865; Miles 
 W., born June 28, 1869 ; Clark G. born 
 March 1 8, 1872. Is a Free-Will Bapt.; 
 Rep.; owns a farm of 374 acres, valued 
 at $20,000. 
 
 Winterhatter, J. B., farmer ; P. 0. Black- 
 berry. 
 
 White, J. P., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 White, J. C., farmer; P. 0. Lodi. 
 
 Wyman, H. D., farmer; P.O. Sycamore. 
 
 "\TEOMAN, MARK, farmer; P. 0. 
 Lodi. 
 
 BIG ROCK TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A NDERSON, OSCAR, laborer ; P. 0. 
 JL^ Big Rock. 
 Ament, Mrs. S., P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Abby, Henry, P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Allen, James, farmer ; P. 0. Piano. 
 Ament, B., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Andrews, Andrew, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Ament, 0. N., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Allison, J. D., laborer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Ashton, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 "OARTLETT, S. B.; farmer; P. 0. 
 _O Little Rock. 
 
 Brady, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Brooks, Mrs., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 BARTON, GEORGE, Sec. 23; 
 P. 0. Big Rock ; owns 90 acres, valued 
 at $4,000 ; Dem.; Lib.; was born in 
 Somersetshire, England, in 1815 ; im- 
 migrated to New York, in July, 1835 ; 
 remained in New York one year ; thence 
 to Big Rock Township, Kane Co., 111., 
 in July, 1836, and has been a resident 
 of this county ever since, except two 
 years which were spent traveling in the 
 South ; married Sarah A. Ferguson, in 
 1853; had twelve children, eleven liv- 
 ing Martha A., Sarah J., Fannie M., 
 Emma H., George C., Frank L., Addie 
 E., Erne M., Charles H., and John and 
 Jessie, twins ; Mrs. Barton was born in 
 Portage Co., 0., in 1835, and came to 
 Kane Co., Ill, with her parents, in 1852. 
 
 Benton, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Brackett, M. V., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Barton, Geo., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Boyce, S. E., farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 CARTER, ALEXANDER, farmer; 
 P. 0. Hinkley. 
 
 Carpenter, E., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Carpenter, R., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Cone, A., farmer ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 Crane, E., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Chapman, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Casselman, A., farmer; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Coster, Peter, farmer ; P. 0, Hinckley. 
 Clark, C. P., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 Crawford, L. B., farmer ; P. O. Big Rock. 
 Chapman, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 Clark, John, farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 Carpenter, Luman, far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Carpenter, Julia, P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Carpenter, Wm., far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Grouse, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Grouse, E. A., farmer ; Big Rock. 
 Carpenter, Israel, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Codingt-on, Daniel, far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Cleveland, Fred., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Chapman, A. W., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 DRAKE, E., farmer; P. 0. Kane- 
 ville. 
 
 Drake, G., farmer; P. 0. Kane\ille. 
 Davies, J. D., farmer; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 Davies. Susanna, farmer; P. O. Hinckley. 
 Davies. Robt, farmer; P. 0. Big Rock.
 
 716 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Durkee. N. D., farmer; P. O. Jericho. 
 
 Dean, Lewis, farmer ; P. O. Jericho. 
 
 Dugan, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, Widow, fanner ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Denny, Catherine, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 DUGAN, WM. (deceased), Sec. 24 ; 
 P. 0. Big Rock ; estate of 400 acres, 
 valued at $40 per acre ; born Feb. 20. 
 1802, in Dublin, Ireland; married 
 Maria Hall, in Lancashire, England ; 
 she was born March 31, 1808, in Lan- 
 cashire ; have four children Wm. H., 
 born in Lancashire; Geo. H., born in 
 Paterson, N. J. ; Mary E., born in 
 Boston, Mass. ; Charles R., born in this 
 county ; Mr. Dugan, with his wife and 
 child, emigrated from England to the 
 United States in 1842, and located in 
 Boston, where they remained four years ; 
 thence to this county and to their pres- 
 ent farm in 1846, where he resided un- 
 til the time of his death, Nov. 13, 
 1877 ; he held the offices of Highway 
 Commissioner and School Trustee vari- 
 ous terms ; Wm. H. enlisted, Sept. 3, 
 1861, in Co. B, 36th 111. I. V.; was 
 promoted to First Lieutenant April 30, 
 1863, and was promoted to Captain 
 Nov. 30, 1864 ; was mustered out Oct. 
 23, 1865, having served over four years. 
 
 Davies, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Dugan, Wm., farmer; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 DALE, RICHARD, Sec. 23; P.O. 
 
 Big Rock ; Dem. ; Epis. ; owns 214 
 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre ; 
 born July 28, 1824. in Durham, En- 
 gland ; married Ann Summers, March 6, 
 1856, in Aurora; have five children 
 Joseph H., John R., Martha M., Annie 
 S., and Sydney J., ; Mr. Dale came to 
 this county with his father's family, and 
 located in this township, where he has 
 resided since, except a short time in 
 Iowa ; Mrs. Dale was born in Somerset- 
 shire, England ; she came to United 
 States with her father's family in 1834 ; 
 her father, Joseph Summers, moved his 
 family to Kane Co. in 1836, being one 
 of the first to settle in Rig Rock Town- 
 ship ; he was one of the most prominent 
 and energetic farmers of this township, 
 owning quite a large estate ; his wife, 
 Mrs. Summers, died in January, 1866 ; 
 he was living with Mr. Dale at the date 
 of his death, Jan. 12, 1870. 
 
 Dick, John, farmer ; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Davies, Benj., farmer ; P 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Denny, Major, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Denny, M. M., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies. Levi, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, J. E., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Dale, Richard, fanner; P. 0. Rig Rock. 
 
 Dugan, Geo. H., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, J. R., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Dugan, G. A., fanner ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Doty. H., farmer ; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Dean, John, farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Davies, Levi, Jr., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Dorr, Jas., farmer; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Davies, D., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Delano, Edward, farmer ; Big Rock. 
 
 Davies, John, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 T^LLINGTON, JOHN, farmer. ; P. 0. 
 fiJ Jericho. 
 
 EDWARDS, JAS., farmer; P. 0. 
 Big Rock ; owns $2,500 personal prop- 
 erty ; born April 15, 1853, in Cardigan- 
 shire, Wales ; he emigrated to the 
 United States with his grandmother and 
 uncle his parents having died in Wales 
 when he was quite young ; married Mar- 
 garet Ingram Feb. 24, 1875, in the 
 township ; she was born Mar. 8, 1854. 
 Have one child Evan. 
 
 Erwin, Edwin, far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 EVANS, JAMES, Sec. 9; P. 0. 
 
 Big Rock ; farmer ; owns 40 acres of 
 land, valued at $4,000 ; Cong.; born, 
 May 17, 1823, in Cardiganshire, Wales, 
 and emigrated to U. S. in 1840 ; came 
 direct to this county, and located in 
 Big Rock Township ; married Jane 
 Owens, Jan. 24, 1865. in Licking Co., 
 0.; she was born April 21, 1836. in 
 Maryonethshire, Wales, and came to U. 
 S. with her father, David Owens, and 
 six children, who located in Ohio ; Mr. 
 E.'s father came to U. S. on a prospect- 
 ing tour, aud shortly after his return to 
 Wales, his wife died ; he then returned 
 again to the U. S., bringing along seven 
 of his children, leaving one in England, 
 who had studied for and adopted the 
 profession of the ministry. 
 
 Evans, J. M., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 EVANS, DANIEL, Sec. 24 ; P. 0. 
 
 Big Rock: far; Rep.; non-sectarian; 
 owns 202 acres, valued at 850 per acre ; 
 born in 1827 in Cardiganshire, Wales ; 
 married G. Leyson, Dec., 1854 ; had
 
 KANE COUNTY: VIRGIL. 
 
 717 
 
 four children Annbert M., Howell A., 
 Annalon M., Lizetto H.; Mrs. Evans 
 was a native of Pa.; she died here in 
 1868; married his second wife, Sarah 
 A. Owens, April, 1873 ; she was born 
 in N. Y., and came to this county with 
 her parents in 1859 ; have two children 
 Edith L. and Alice A.; Mr. E. emi- 
 grated to the U. S. with his father (his 
 mother having died in Wales) in 1840; 
 they located on what is his present farm ; 
 Mr. Evans was elected Township Super- 
 visor, April, 1874, which office he has 
 held ever since. 
 
 Evans, Thomas, far. ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Evans, John, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Evans, D. J., farmer ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 EVANS, JOHN M., Sec. 8 ; P. 0. 
 Big Rock; farmer; owns 197^ acres, 
 valued at $50 per acre ; Rep. ; Cong. ; 
 born June, 1818; married Jane Eynon 
 in 1861 ; she was born Feb., 1825, in 
 Cardiganshire, Wales, and came to Wis. 
 in 1850 ; Mr. E. embarked at Liver- 
 pool in the " Julia Howard," May 20, 
 1852, and arrived at N. Y. after 
 33 days' sailing ; thence to Chicago ; 
 thence to Kane Co., and hired with 
 Foff Bradley, of Campton Township, 
 for $120 per year ; he worked some on 
 the C. & N. W. R. R., afterward coming 
 to Big Rock Township, and worked by 
 the month for various parties, until he 
 paid for 80 acres, which was his first 
 purchase, in 1854, which he still owns; 
 his father, David Evans, was a teacher ; 
 he taught school from the time he was 
 25 years old until his eightieth year, and 
 died in Wales at the advanced age of 
 82 years ; Mrs. Evans' father, Richard 
 Eynon, was a soldier in the British 
 army, and participated in the battle of 
 Waterloo. 
 
 Evans, Isaac, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 TpOSTER, URIAH, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 _j Jericho. 
 
 Ferry, J. S. 
 
 f^\ REEN, JOHN, farmer ; P. 0. Jeri- 
 
 \JT cho. 
 
 Graham, J. C. 
 
 Grass, Adam, shoemaker ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Goodale, John, farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Goodale, J. W., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Greenacre, Jas., far.; P. 0. Bristol Station. 
 
 HADDEN, JAMES A., farmer, P. 
 0. Jericho. 
 
 Hazzard, Wm., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Houghtaylem, S., far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Harbar, Charles, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Hadly, Robert, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Houghtaylem, Herick, far.; P. 0. Little 
 
 Rock. 
 
 Hatch, Isaac, far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 Hall Eugene, farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Henry, Lamont, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 HUGHES, WILLIAM, far. Sec. 
 
 14; P. 0. Big Rock; Rep.; Bapt.; born 
 in 1800, in Carnavonshire, Wales. 
 Married Grace Williams, in 1827; em- 
 igrated to New Brunswick, in 1831 ; 
 had six children; all but two died in 
 infancy; they moved from New Bruns- 
 wick to New York, thence to Pennsyl- 
 vania, where they lived twelve years, 
 thence to this State,, in 1843, and 
 located in Big Rock Township, on his 
 present farm; Mrs. Hughes died in 
 1865. He married second wife Dinah 
 Edwards in 1869; she was born in 
 Wales ; his son Hugh was Conductor on 
 the I. C. R. R.; he married Margaret 
 Jones in 1866, in Moonee, 111.; she was 
 born in Wales, and emigrated to this 
 country when quite young. H. died at 
 Chicago, Feb. 21, 1871, leaving three 
 children Sarah E., Alice J. and Will- 
 iam; his son William, Jr., emigrated to 
 California in 1864; he returned in 
 1874; went back to California in the 
 Spring of '75, and returned here again 
 in September, 1876, and now resides on 
 old homestead. 
 
 Halsted, J., mer.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Hodgeman, W. C, far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Hodgeman, J. H, far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Hogeland, George, far ; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Hall, Alexis, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Hanson, Cornelius, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Hoagland, Aaron, farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Hoagland. Alfred, farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Hemmingway, S. F, far.; P. O. Little 
 Rock. 
 
 Herrington, R., far.; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Hughes, William, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Hodgeman, F., farmer; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 TNGRAM, EVAN, farmer; Sec. 
 I 16 ; P. 0. Big Rock ; owns 120 acres, 
 valued at $60 per acre ; Rep. ; Cong. ; 
 born Feb. 1,1828, in Montgomeryshire, 
 Wales ; married Elizabeth James Sept. 
 29, 1852, in Utica, N. Y. ; she was born 
 April 7, 1825, in Montgomeryshire, 
 
 L
 
 718 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Wales ; had four children three living 
 Margaret (now Mrs. Edwards), Ed- 
 ward and John T., all born in this town- 
 ship. Mrs. Ingram died Dec. 6, 1867. 
 Mr. Ingram married his second wife, 
 Ann P. Evans, June 17, 1876 ; she was 
 born April 23, 1832, in Denbighshire, 
 Wales. Mr. Ingram emigrated to the 
 United States June, 1851, lived in New 
 York about eighteen months, thence to 
 Kane County in Nov. 1852. 
 TILES, B. E., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 James, Mrs., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Johnson, R. -B., farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Jones, D. W., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Jones. Evan, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Jones. Hugh, Jr., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 JONES," DANIEL W., blacksmith 
 and farmer; P. O. Big Rock; Rep.; 
 Epis.; owns 120 acres of land valued at 
 $50 per acre; was born in March, 1824, 
 in Cardiganshire, Wales. Married Mar- 
 garet Thomas in January, 1849, in 
 Wales; have five children James, Lewis, 
 Annie. William and Thomas all born 
 in Wales. Mr. Jones emigrated from 
 Wales to United States, in September, 
 1868 stopped a few months in Chicago, 
 thence to Kane Co., and located in Big 
 Rock Township, and pursued his busi- 
 ness that of blacksmithing with un- 
 tiring energy, which has been rewarded 
 with success. 
 
 James, Richard, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Jones, John, farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Jones, J; T., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Jones. Thomas, farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 JONES, THOMAS, farmer, Sec. 14 ; 
 P. 0. Big Rock; Rep.; Cong.; owns 178 ; 
 acres of land, valued at $50 per acre ; 
 born in Cardiganshire, Wales, in 1813. 
 Married Anna Evans, in 1838, in South 
 Wales ; she was born in Cardiganshire, 
 Wales, in 1815 ; have six children living 
 Evan T., born in Wales Elizabeth, 
 James C., Mary A., David 0. and 
 Albert R.; the five last named born in 
 Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Jones emigrated 
 from Wales to the United States in j 
 1840, and located in this county and 
 township, where they have resided ever 
 since, and secured a good and comfort- 
 able home. 
 
 Jones. Hugh, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 James, Thomas, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 KING, H. G., farmer ; P. 0. Little 
 Rock. 
 
 Keasler, William, farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 T EWIS, R. D., farmer; P. 0. Bi^ 
 I 1 Rock. 
 
 Long, C. S., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Lamson, L. J., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Leke, Henry, farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Long, E. R., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Long, J. L., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Long, Mrs. S. 0., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 LONG, J. L., Sees. 19 and 20 ; P. 0. 
 Big Rock ; farmer ; owns 197 acres, 
 value $75 per acre ; Rep.; non-sectarian : 
 born August 14, 1818 in Greenfield. 
 Franklin Co., Mass. ; married Sarah A. 
 Cornell, March 30, 1842 ; she was born 
 July 4, 1823, in New York City, and 
 came to this county with her uncle 
 (Shepard Johnston), in 1839 ; have six 
 children living Chas. S., born Jan. 17. 
 1844; Flora M., born February 1, 1849^ 
 A. L., born Feb. 11, 1852 ; E. 0., born 
 Aug. 11, 1854; E. C., born Feb. 13, 
 1856 ; Geo. S., born Jan. 15, 1858 ; Her- 
 bert C., born Sept. 11, 1859, and died 
 Sept. 3, 1860. Mr. Long came here with 
 his parents in 1840 ; his father, Dr. Silas 
 Long, of whom mention has been made 
 elsewhere, practiced medicine in this vi- 
 cinity at an early date ; his practice ex- 
 tended to such a distance that he was often 
 out several days before he could return ; 
 later iu life, he practiced in Aurora; he 
 died here Oct. 27, 1857. His wife, after 
 prolonged illness, died July 28, 1845. 
 
 LONG, E. R., Sees. 19 and 20; P. 0. 
 Big Rock ; farmer ; owns 265 acres: 
 value $75 per acre Lib ; non-sectarian : 
 born Sept. 21, 1827 in Greenfield, Frank- 
 lin Co., Mass. ; married Emma Dale iu 
 Aurora, 111., Nov. 13, 1854 ; had six 
 children ; two dead, Alice and Johnnie, 
 and four living Fred. E., Caroline 
 A., Harry S., and Minnie E. ; Mrs. 
 Long was born Oct. 23, 1834, in Fitting- 
 ton, Durham Co.. England ; she is a 
 daughter of the late Thos. Dale, wha 
 with his wife and 8 of their 15 children 
 emigrated to the United States, and lo- 
 cated in this county in 1852. Two of 
 her brothers were sea captains, Henry 
 and William ; the latter sailed in com- 
 mand of a vessel to the East Indies 
 about 28 years ago; after arrival at their 
 destination he was never heard of more.
 
 KANE COUNTY : VIRGIL. 
 
 719 
 
 Henry died four years ago in Sligo, 
 after about thirty years of seafaring 
 life. Mr. Long came to this county 
 with his parents June 19, 1840 ; his 
 father. Dr. Silas Long, bought a claim 
 of his son, S. 0., and his son-in-law, A. 
 Hall. Mr. Long's present farm is a 
 portion of said claim, which his father 
 bought in 1840. 
 
 ASON, J., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Norton, O. M., far ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 " >TT, CHARLES, far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 O' 
 
 M 
 
 Murphy, H., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Morrison, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Big 
 
 Rock. 
 
 ^Morgan, E., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Mighell, N. C., farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 Mighell, Albert, farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 Myers, William, farmer; P. 0. Grouse. 
 Mead, Wm. D., farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Mead, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 Morrison, Richard, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Murphy, H. M., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Michael, Thos., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Miller, G. L., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Moore, W. B., farmer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Myers, D. J., farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 MORRISON, RICHARD M., 
 
 farmer, Sec. 14 ; P. ^0. Big Rock ; 
 owns undivided half interest in 185 
 acres of land, valued at S75 per acre ; 
 Liberal ; non-sectarian ; born in 1834, 
 in Oneida Co., New York; married 
 Mary R. Greer, Oct. 24, 1869; she 
 was born in 1843, in Johnson Co., Mis- 
 souri ; had six children, four living 
 Louisa E., Sarah A., Mary L. and 
 Minnie E. ; Mr. Morrison's father, 
 Richard Morrison, was born in 1802, in 
 Wales, and his mother (who is still liv- 
 ing on the old homestead) was born in 
 1797 ; they emigrated to the United 
 States in 1829 ; lived in New York 
 about five years ; moved to near Joliet, 
 111., in 1836, and to Kane Co. in 1837, j 
 and located on what is their present j 
 farm ; Mr. Morrison, Sr., died in 1820 ; 
 Richard M. and family have spent some 
 years in California, but have lately re- j 
 turned to their old home in Big Rock. 
 
 Masterson, John, farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Morris, Nathan, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Morgan, E. J.. farmer; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 . Maltby, H. A., grain dealer ; P. 0. Hinck- 
 lev. 
 
 XTICHOLS, CLARK, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 Ovitt, S. A., far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 T3ALMER, H., far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Pratt, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Perry, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Philips, I. W., wagon maker ; P. 0. Big- 
 Rock. 
 
 Price, M., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Price, Edward, farmer ; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Price, Eugene, farmer; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 Parsons, Widow, P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Price, William, farmer ; P. 0. Grouse. 
 
 Philips, John, farmer ; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 
 Perry, H. J., laborer ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 PERRY, WILLIAM, far. ; Sec. 9 ; 
 P. 0. Big Rock; owns 116 acres of 
 land, valued at $60 per acre ; Rep. ; non- 
 sectarian ; born May 14, 1854, where 
 he now resides. Married Ida J. Hought- 
 ling, Oct. 1, 1873; have two children 
 Stella May and Hattie Viola ; Mrs. Perry 
 was born, in 1858, in Adams, Mass.; 
 their family moved to Conn., thence 
 to Kane Co., 111., in 1868; her father, 
 Wm. Houghtling, enlisted, in the late war 
 in Co. A, 61st Mass. V. I., and was 
 killed in the battle of City Point, Va., 
 April 2, 1865 ; Mr. Perry's father, Wm. 
 Perry, Sr., was born in 1817, in N. Y. , and 
 came to this county when quite young ; 
 was one of the first settlers in this tp. He 
 married Eliza Cleaveland ; she was born 
 in N. Y., in 1825, and came to >:his Co., 
 with her parents, in 1842; Mr. Perry, 
 Sr., died Sept. 3, 1871. 
 
 Palmer, Jos., farmer; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Pierce, John, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Pierce, Edward, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Pearsons, James, laborer ; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 TWITTER, GEORGE, farmer; P. O. 
 
 JLi Big Rock. 
 
 Roberts, Edward, far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Roberts, Mrs. C. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 RHODES, JOSHUA, merchant and 
 Postmaster ; P. 0. Big Rock ; owns 
 280 acres of land, valued at $16,000, 
 besides his interest in the mercantile 
 establishment of Rhodes Bros. ; Rep. ; 
 non-sectarian; his father, Joshua H. 
 Rhodes, was born Dec. 21, 1800, in 
 Burnstown, near Manchester, Eng. ; his 
 mother died when he was 8 years old, 
 and being a devoted Christian mother,
 
 720 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 before and at the time of her death, ! 
 made such a favorable impression upon 
 her son's mind, tha 1 : he joined the Wes- 
 leyan Methodist Church when he was 
 12 years old ; he emigrated to the U. S., 
 in 1818, landing in New York, after an 
 eight weeks' voyage; after .spending 
 three years in the States of N. Y., Pa., 
 Conn, and Mass., he returned to Eng. ; 
 he did not remain long, but returned to 
 Boston, Mass., in 1823 ; he there dis- 
 posed of a bale of woolen goods, which 
 attracted the attention of Messrs. Rob- 
 inson and Dickenson (woolen manufac- 
 turers) ; Mr. Ehodes was employed in 
 the manufacture of woolen goods, rising 
 from one positi n to another, until he was 
 overseer of the largest establishment of the 
 kind in Mass. ; some of his woolen goods 
 were awarded the first prize at the first 
 National Fair ever held in the U. S., at 
 Phila., Pa. Married Jennetta Powel, of 
 Watertown, Mass., in 1828 ; they moved 
 to Northfield, La Salle Co., 111., in 1837, 
 thence to Big Rock, in 1839, where 
 they still reside ; had eleven children, 
 three of whom died when small, in the 
 East ; he has held various offices of trust 
 in this township ; was the first Assessor 
 in this township ; was Town Clerk, most 
 of the time until 1867 ; was appointed 
 Postmaster, in 1851 ; for a long time 
 carried the mail 8 miles, for a shilling a 
 trip, until the stage route was established, 
 and continued Postmaster until 1857 ; 
 was the founder of tbe Big Rock Far- 
 mers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., which 
 was organized in 1863; owing to his 
 business tact and forethought, the above 
 named Co. received a State charter ; 
 the Co. is in good standing ; its present 
 officers are : Pres., Alexis Hall ; Sec., 
 J. Rhodes; Treas., A. W. Chapman; 
 Gen. Agr., Charles Schryver. 
 
 Rhodes, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Rawlinson, C. T., lab. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Richard, Michael, ; P, 0. Big Rock. 
 
 SHUETZ, JOEL, far; P. 0. Little 
 Rock. 
 
 Sprague, C.,far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Summers, Alfred, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Sedgewick, Dr., phys.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Schryver, Wm., ins. agt.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Spangler, Edw., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Seavy, Amasa, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 Swan, Edwin, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 SUMMERS, ALFRED, Sec. 23 ; 
 
 P. 0. Big Rock ; owns 290 acres, val- 
 ued at $5 5 per acre; Dem.; Epis.; born 
 Jan. 9, 1832, in Somersetshire, Eng.; 
 came to this Co. with his father's fam- 
 ily (Joseph Summers) in 1836 ; mar- 
 ried Caroline Dale Feb. 22, 1865 ; have 
 two children Ellery A. and Laura L.; 
 Mrs. Summers was born in Durham, 
 Eng., and came to this country with her 
 parents and family in 1852 ; there were 
 in all fifteen children which lived to 
 man and woman's estate, but did not all 
 come to the United States ; one was in 
 the British East India service, and there 
 fell in battle. Her father (Thomas 
 Dale) located in this Tp., and here he 
 remained until the date of his death, 
 July, 1862, aged 75 years, 11 months 
 and 15 days; her mother died here 
 March 20, 1876, at the advanced age 
 of 81 years and 11 months. Mr. Sum- 
 mers spent about seven years on others 
 farms, but returned from his farm at 
 Squaw Grove to the old homestead in 
 1872, where he now resides. 
 
 Severance, G. W., far.; P. O. Big Bock. 
 
 Severance, G. W., Sr., far.; P. 0. Hinck- 
 ley. 
 
 Swan, Jarvis, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Shultz, Jeff., far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Shultz, W. C., far.; P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 Snook, John, far.; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Severance, F. C., far.; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 rpHOMAS, WM. T., far.; P. 0. Big 
 
 JL Rock. 
 
 Thomas Lewellyn, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 THOMAS, JOEL, Sec. 11; P. 0. 
 
 Big Rock ; farmer ; Rep.; Bap.; owns 
 340 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; born 
 in 1837 in Pembrokeshire, Wales ; mar- 
 ried Winifred Evans April 2, 1863, in 
 Wales ; Mrs. Thomas was born in 1834 ; 
 have five children John H., David 
 A., William E., Winifred E. and Mar- 
 garet J.; all born in Wales. Mr. 
 Thomas and family emigrated from 
 Wales to the United States October 10, 
 1871, and located where he now resides 
 in 1872. 
 
 Thomas. David, far.; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 Taylor, Geo., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Thomas, Benj.; far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Thomas Joel, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Travis, Hiram, mer.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Thompson, E. W., far.; P. O. Grouse.
 
 KANE COUNTY : VIRGIL. 
 
 721 
 
 THOMAS, WM., Sec. 15; P. 0. 
 Big Rock ; far.; owns 380 acres, val- 
 ued at $25, 000; Rep.; Bapt.; born in 
 Pembrookshire. Wales, Feb 30, 1833. 
 Married Mary Morrison Feb. 21, 1857, 
 at Chicago; have three children Geo. 
 W., R. M. and W. D.; Mrs. Thomas 
 was born Nov. 26, 1830, in Angleshire, 
 Wales ; emigrated to the United States 
 with her parents in 1831 ; they stopped 
 in Oneida Co., N. Y., five years ; thence 
 to Illinois in 1836, and to Kane Co. in 
 1837. Mr. Thomas emigrated from 
 Wales to Canada in 1851 ; remained 
 there only a few months, thence to 
 Chicago, where he learned and worked 
 at the carpenter trade (with Baker & 
 McKune) ; he resided in Chicago six 
 years; thence to Aurora, where he 
 lived one year; thence to Big Rock 
 Tp., in 1858, and worked at his trade 
 one year ; was a tenant farmer for three 
 years, and in 1863 he purchased the 
 Dundas farm, containing 220 acres, for 
 $17 per acre; it was poorly cultivated, 
 Jas Dundas being more of an inventor 
 and mechanical geniu.8 than farmer, as 
 will be seen in the general history ; to 
 the first Mr. T. has added 160 acres, all 
 well improved, and with good buildings. 
 He has held the offices of School Di- 
 rector, Commissioner, and is now serv- 
 ing his second term as Justice of the 
 Peace ; using his influence with the 
 church as one of its most prominent 
 deacons. 
 
 Tripp, Andrew, far.; P. 0. Jericho. 
 
 Terry, J. S., P. 0. Little Rock. 
 
 "YTORTS, CHAS., far. ; P. 0. Little 
 V Rock. 
 
 Vaughn, J., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Vaughn, G. L., far. ; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Vaughn, Geo., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Vaughn, D. J., P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 TTTATTERMAN, WM., far.; P.O. 
 W Big Rock. 
 
 Williams, Richard, P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Whildin, Edward, P. 0. -Big Rock. 
 
 Wilcox, John, far.; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 Whildin, John, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Wheeler, Edward, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Winslow, L. A., far.; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Williams, David, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Watterman, W. S., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Whildin, J. M., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Williams, Wm.; far.; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 WAGNER, JOEL, Sees. 20 and 29 ; 
 
 P. 0. Big Rock ; owns 362 acres of 
 land ; value, $20,000 ; Ind.; Liberal ; 
 was born in 1834, at Fort Plain, Mont- 
 gomery Co., N. Y. Married Anna 
 Leyson, April, 1865 ; she was born in 
 1841, in Pennsylvania, and came to this 
 State with her parents in 1852, who 
 located at Shabbona Grove ; have two 
 children Willard S. and Arthur H.; 
 Mr. Wagner came to this county with 
 his parents and five children in 1850; 
 he enlisted the 36th I. V. I., in Aug., 
 1861, and served till Dec. 31, 1862, on 
 which day he was wounded, in front of 
 Murfreesboro, Tenn., by a bullet enter- 
 ing his face, immediately below the 
 right eye, passing diagonally under, and 
 emerging on the left side close to the 
 nose, shattering his left jaw-bone and 
 teeth ; has held the offices of Treasurer, 
 Collector and Assessor. 
 
 WATTERMAN, W. S., far.; Sees. 
 9 and 16; P. 0. Big Rock; owns 
 212 38-100 acres; value, $50 per acre; 
 Ind.; non-sectarian ; held offices of As- 
 sessor and Road Commissioner ; born 
 Dec. 6, 1838, in Oneida Co., N. Y. 
 Married Elizabeth James, Dec. 29, 1875 ; 
 she was born May 14, 1858, in Ogle 
 Co., 111.; have one child Myrtle ; Mr. 
 Waterman's father, Wm. Waterman, 
 came to this county with his family of 
 six children Charlotte, Clark, W. S., 
 Sarah, Delia, Mary and Charles (de- 
 ceased), in June, 1844. and located in 
 Big Rock Tp., where he has resided 
 ever since ; W. S. enlisted in the war of 
 the late rebellion, Sept. 1, 1861, in Co. 
 B, 36th I. V. I., and served one year 
 and was discharged at Rienzi, Miss., on 
 account of sickness contracted in the 
 service. 
 
 Way, Joseph, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Winslow, P. S., far.; P. 0. Hinckley. 
 
 Whildin, Jerry, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Whildin, Bichard, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 WHEELER, EDWARD, farmer; 
 Sec. 13; P. O. Big Rock; owns 140 
 acres ; value, $35 per acre ; Liberal ; 
 non-sectarian ; born in 1822, in County 
 Cavin, Ireland. He married Margaret 
 Murphy, July, 1852 ; she was born in 
 1829, in County Down. Ireland ; have 
 eight children Eliza J., Mary, Annie, 
 Robert, James, Daniel, John and Isabell ;
 
 722 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Mr. Wheeler emigrated to this country 
 in Io30; being a mere boy, he remained 
 with two older brothers who had emi- 
 grated some years previous and located 
 in New York ; his parents died in Ire- 
 land when he was quite young, which 
 was the cause of his early emigration ; 
 Mrs. W. came to the United States with 
 her parents in 1847, who settled in New 
 
 York ; shortly after Mr. Wheeler mar- 
 rii-d, they moved to Aurora, in this 
 county, thence to the farm where they 
 now reside, iilarch, 1862. 
 
 Whildin, Win., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Wagner, Joel, far.; P. O. Big Rock. 
 
 Winslow, D. C., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Williams, David, far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Whildin, J. M., far.; P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 RUTLAND TOWNSHIP. 
 
 ADAMS, SARAH W., farmer; P.O. 
 Gilbert's. 
 
 ATCHISON, MRS. MARGA- 
 RET, widow of Geo. Atchison ; born 
 at Londonderry, Ireland, Sept. 16, 1832 ; 
 came to America in 1847 ; married in 
 Rutland Tp. Feb. 20, 1851. Her hus- 
 band was born in Ankin, Ireland, in 
 1809, and died at Rutland Tp. July 19, 
 1873; he came to America in 1833; 
 estate comprises 284 acres, and is worth 
 $20,000 ; thechildren are Martha Jane, 
 born Nov. 19, 1852; Margaret, born 
 Nov. 28, 1856 ; Jas. G., born Nov. 22, 
 1858 ; Wm. 8., born Jan. 17, 1861 ; 
 Emma A., born March 3, 1863 ; Cath- 
 erine, born Nov. 22, 1865; Jemima, 
 born Dec. 27, 1867 ; Gracie, born Dec. 
 29, 1869; Ruth E., born Nov. 23, 1871. 
 
 Anderson, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 BURKE, JNO., farmer; P. O. Gil- 
 bert's. 
 
 BECHTENBERG, JOSERH, 
 
 farmer and dairyman; Sec. 18; P. 0. 
 Huntley, McHenry Co.; born in Prus- 
 sia, Germany, in 1825 ; emigrated to 
 America in 1847, and settled in Rutland 
 Tp. in 1865 ; owns 200 acres of land, 
 valued at $38 per acre ; worth $6,000 ; 
 Dem.; Cath.; was a soldier in the Ger- 
 man War ; married Mi-s Mary Risch- 
 rote in Germany, in 1845 ; children 
 Ubert, born April 26, 1856; Mary, born 
 in January, 1858 ; Peter, born Oct. 1, 
 1861; Fred., born Sept. 21, 1863; 
 Maggie, born May 9, 1 868. 
 
 Blanchard, Mrs., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Brumer, John, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Burns, Hugh, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Burns, David, far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 BINNIE, JOHN, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 12 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Station ; 
 he was born at Sterlingshire, Scotland; 
 June 7, 1835; came to America in 
 1849, and settled in Kane Co. in the 
 same year; he owns 162 acres of land, 
 valued at $50 per acre, and is worth 
 $10,000; Rep.; Presb.; has held the 
 office of School Director ; he married 
 Miss Mary Fairweather, in Clayton Co., 
 Iowa, in Jan., 1859 ; she was born in 
 Jo Daviess Co., 111., in May, 1842; 
 children are Robert, born April 13, 
 1860 ; Katy, t>orn Aug, 18, 1861 ; 
 Agnes, born April 5. 1863; Ella, born 
 Feb. 2, 1857; James, born Dec. 1, 
 1868 ; Elizabeth, born March 28, 1870 ; 
 John, born Nov. 14, 1871; George, 
 born Feb. 25, 1874; and Mary L., June 
 5, 1876. 
 
 BURNS, JOHN, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 1 8 ; P. 0. Holstein ; he was 
 born in Hagerstown, Mass., in 1807 and 
 came West in 1843 and settled in 
 Hampshire ; he purchased 85 acres of 
 land, and in 1859 purchased 150 acres 
 in Rutland ; present value, $50 per 
 acre ; he is worth $10,000 ; Dem.; he 
 has held the office of School Director ; 
 he married Miss Mary Bailey, at War- 
 ren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, in 1832 ; she 
 died May 15, 1839; he then married 
 Elizabeth Weed, at Orwell. Ohio, Sept. 
 12, 1839; she was born in Bloomfield, 
 Trumbull Co., Ohio ; children are 
 Mary M., born July 27, 1840 ; Miranda 
 D., born Feb. 19, 1842; Helen M., 
 born Dec. 9, 1843 ; John A., born May 
 9, 1846; Clara, born May 13, 1848; 
 David H., born Oct. 24, 1849 ; George
 
 KANE COUNTY : RUTLAND. 
 
 723 
 
 W., born Feb. 25, 1852 ; Warren R,. 
 born April 19, 1854; Thomas M., born 
 Sept. 7, 1856 ; James A., born Dec. 13, 
 1858; Oscar 0., born Nov. 24, 1860; 
 Ida A., born Feb. 4, 1865 ; Robert C., 
 born April 17. 1835; Wm. J., born 
 April 29, 1838, died May 21, 1847; 
 Mary M., Thos. M., James A. and 
 Warren R., are also deceased. 
 BURKE, OWEN, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 13; P. 0. Gilbert's Station; 
 was born in Limerick, Ireland, in May, 
 1809; came to America in 1834; to 
 Kane Co. in 1837; lived 11 years in 
 Cook Co. ; moved to Rutland Tp. in 
 1849 ; has owned large property, having 
 divided property among his sons ; now j 
 only owns 150 acres ; his son James , 
 owns 150 and Daniel 80 acres ; he is ! 
 worth $20,000 ; Dem.; Cath. ; he held 
 the office of Collector, Highway Com- ; 
 missioner, and School Director ; he ! 
 married Miss Mary Glass at Albany, 
 N. Y., Sept. 10, 1837 ; she was born in 
 1 804 : they have five children Abigail 
 A., born June 8, 1838 ; James, born 
 Jan. 20, 1840 ; Johannah, born Oct. 
 22, 1841; Mary J., born Aug. 11, 
 1843; Danl, born Nov. 20, 1844; 
 Mr. B. has 21 grandchildren. 
 
 BELLOWS, W^- farmer and 
 
 dairyman, Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Elgin ; was 
 born in Wallpool, Canada, in 1809 ; he 
 came to Kane Co. in 1839 ; owns 315 
 acres of land, valued $35 per acre ; he 
 married Miss Ann Stevens, at Dundee, 
 in 1849. She was born in Susquehanna 
 Co., Penn., in 1830; her children are 
 Augusta, born Dec. 19, 1850 ; Nor- 
 man, born Jan. 10, 1852 ; George, born 
 Sept. 19, 1853; Frank, born Aug. 4, 
 1855; Preston, born Sept. 7, 1857; 
 William, born June 26, 1865 ; John, j 
 born Feb. 5, 1871. Mrs. B. settled in 
 Rutland Tp. at an early day. 
 
 Burke, Daniel, far. ; P. 0. Gilberts. 
 
 BROWN, JOHN J., far. and dairy- 
 man, Sees. 28 & 29; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; 
 was born at Middletown, Middlesex Co., 
 Conn., May 13, 1813; he came to Chi- ! 
 cago, 111., in 1835 ; he came to Kane 
 Co. in 1837, and bought, in 1839, 120 I 
 acres ; he now owns 400 acres, valued ; 
 at $50 per acre ; is worth $25,000 , ! 
 Rep. ; Protestant ; he held the office of 
 Postmaster for six years, Justice of the | 
 
 Peace seven years, and School Trustee 
 for nine years ; he was married to Miss 
 Katherine Holtzlaw, at Somerset, Ohio, 
 Nov. 15, 1855 ; she was born in Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va., Aug. 18, 1826 ; the 
 children are Clara C., born April 4, 
 1858 ; Ernest F., Jan. 31 , 1860 ; May 
 A., July 19, 1862, and died Dec. 15, 
 1866; Minerva, April 30, 1864, and 
 died April 19, 1866. and Lendell L., 
 Feb. 10, 1867 ; he has a farm of 400 
 acres, well watered, timbered and all 
 under a high state of cultivation, and 
 is for sale at the low price of $45 per 
 acre ; part cash, the balance to suit pur- 
 chaser ; long time given at 7 per cent, 
 interest. 
 
 BLANCH ARD,MRS. ON BID A 
 {widow of Keyes W.) ; Sec. 31; P. 0. 
 North Plato ; was born June lt, 1821 ; 
 was marrie'd April, 1841 ; she came 
 West with her husband in June, 1846 ; 
 bought 80 acres ; the estate now consists 
 of 244 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; is 
 worth $10,000 ; her husband was born 
 in 1815, and passed away at North 
 Plato, Dec. 30, 1863 ; the children liv- 
 ing are Charles, born Nov. 7, 1843 ; 
 Almira, Dec. 2, 1846 ; Deane, Oct. 23, 
 1848; Milan, May 9, 1853, and died 
 Sept. 27, 1858 ; Lorenzo, May 20, 1856 ; 
 K yes W., July 30, 1861 : with the ex- 
 ception of Chas., all were born in Kane 
 County. 
 
 BRAYMAN, LA PAYETTE, 
 
 farmer and dealer in an extra grade of 
 timothy and prairie hay ; Sec. 24 ; P. 0. 
 Gilbert's Sta. ; was born in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 in July 30, 1839 ; he came to Kane Co. 
 in 1856 ; owns 253 acres, valued at $65 
 per acre; is worth $50,000 : he married 
 Miss KateTyrell, at Elgin, Oct. 4, 1864 ; 
 she was born in Ireland, April 4, 1841 ; 
 Mr. B. is ex-Supervisor of Rutland 
 Township ; his farm is devoted princi- 
 pally to the raising of hay, both timothy 
 and prairie ; he makes large shipments 
 of loose and pressed hay, and is one of 
 the most extensive hay dealers in the 
 West ; all orders are promptly filled ; Mr. 
 Brayman held stock in the Yuba Canal 
 Water Power Co., of California, and sold 
 his interest in the Autumn of 1876 ; he 
 has some very fine Percheron draught 
 horses. 
 Billings, J. S., far. ; P. 0. Huntley.
 
 724 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Baldwin, Benjamin, far.; P.O. Pingree 
 
 Grove. 
 /"CHURCH, C., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Christie, Stewart, far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 CHRISTIE, MRS. MARY, far. 
 
 and dairy, Sec. 20 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; was born at Perthshire. Scot- 
 land ; came to America May 1, 1844, 
 and came to Udina, Kane Co , where 
 she married Stewart Christie Sept. 8, 
 1854; he was born near Derry Co., 
 Ireland, Sept. 18, 1809 ; came to 
 America, and was married, first, to 
 Eliza J. Hood, May 30, 1839 ; she was 
 born in Ireland, and died at Rutland, 
 July 14, 1853; children Wm., Jas., 
 Matilda, Catherine A., Hattie, Althea, 
 and Stewart ; one, by first marriage, de- 
 ceased ; estate consists of 160 acres, 
 valued $60 per acre ; farm well improved, 
 and, with stock, is worth $12,000. 
 Cannon, B., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 Clinnin, Jno., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 CLINNIN, JOHN, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 5 ; P. 0. Huntley, McHenry 
 Co. ; was born at County Cork, Ireland, 
 about 1817 ; c^me to America in 1847, 
 to McHenry Co. same year ; came to 
 Kane Co. in 1 862, where he has since re- 
 sided ; owns 200 acres, Sec. 5, valued at 
 .$50 per acre; is worth $12,000; has held 
 the office of Commissioner of Highways 
 for three years. Married Mrs. Catherina 
 Long at Cork, Ireland, June 14, 1837; 
 she was born in same parish and county, 
 in 1817 ; children Ellen, Hannah, 
 Catherine, Jas., Mary, John and Mar- 
 garet. 
 
 CROWLEY, JEREMIAH, far- 
 mer and dairyman. Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Hunt- 
 ley, McHenry Co.; was born at Limer- 
 ick, Ireland, Nov. 11, 1803; came to 
 America and settled '.in Kane Co. about 
 1844; owns 240 acres, valued at $60 
 per acre ; is worth $20,000 ; Rep.; held 
 office of Collector in N. Y. State ; was 
 Constable and Collector for 14 years ; 
 married Mrs. Hannah Laury, at Florida, 
 Montgomery Co., N. Y.; she was born in 
 Florida, Jan. 29, 1827 ; children are 
 Winfield S., born April 27, 1847 ; Sa- 
 rah, Oct. 21, 1848 ; John H., Jan. 14, 
 1851; Arietta, Aug. 27, 1852; Jere- 
 miah, Jr.. Dec. 25, 1854 ; Willard B., 
 March 20, 1858 ; Frank, June 5, 1862. 
 
 Conners, J., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Coughlin, Mrs., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Coyle, John, farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Cummings, S., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Connover, John, farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 CLINTON, JAMES, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sees. 25 and 26 ; P. 0. Gil- 
 bert's Station ; was born at County Cavan, 
 Ireland, April 17, 1824; emigrated to 
 America in 1840, and came to the city 
 of Chicago same year ; settled in Kane 
 Co. in 1847, and purchased 80 acres for 
 $250 ; owns 240 acres, which property 
 he has acquired through perseverance 
 and energy ; owns American Express 
 building at Elgin ; farm is valued at 
 $65 per acre ; is worth $23,000 ; Ind. 
 in politics ; Cath.; held office of School 
 Director ; married Miss Margaret Mc- 
 Lain, at Chicago, Feb. 19, 1849 ; she was 
 born at County Sligo, Ireland, in 1827; 
 children are Edward, Bridget, Ellen, 
 Michael, Maggie, Lizzie, Thos., Mary 
 and Sherwin. 
 
 Cady, Wm., far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 DAUM, GEO., farmer; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 Dwyer, Ed., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Dean, Hank, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 DWYER, JOHN, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 10; P. O. Gilbert's Station; 
 he was born at Piqua, 0., in June, 
 1839; Dem.; Cath.; owns 240 acres, 
 valued at $50 per acre; is worth $15,- 
 000; held the office of Road Com- 
 missioner ; married Mrs. M. Tobin, at 
 Gilbert's Station, in 1865 ; she was born 
 at Gilbert's Station, in 1842; six chil- 
 dren Richard, Maggie, John, Thomas, 
 Edward and William, all born in Rut- 
 land. 
 
 DUMISH, ALBERT H., farmer 
 and stock raiser ; Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Pin- 
 gree Grove ; was born in Germany, in 
 1847 ; came to America about 1850 ; 
 settled in Kane Co. the same year with 
 parents, who settled at Elgin and ac- 
 quired a large property ; Mr. Dumish is 
 quite wealty, owning property in Cali- 
 fornia ; he married Miss E. Lynch, at 
 Chicago, Nov. 30, 1866 ; she was born 
 in Rutland Township, Nov. 28, 1848 ( 
 she owns 180i acres; three children 
 William A., born Feb. 17, 1868 ; An- 
 gelina, born April 27, 1873 and Lorena 
 Elsie, Oct. 17, 1877.
 
 KANE COUNTY: RUTLAND. 
 
 725 
 
 Duff, A. D., farmer; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Donahue, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Duff, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Duff, Bobert, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Dunn, P., farmer ; P. O. Huntley. 
 
 Dougherty, Charles, farmer ; P. 0. El- 
 gin. 
 
 DUFF, ALEX., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Station ; 
 was born in Perthshire, Scotland, March 
 30, 1807 ; came to America in 1840, 
 and to Kane Co. the same year; pur 
 chased a farm, first in Dundee, of 120 
 acres ; resided on it twenty years ; pur- 
 chased at Rutland, in 1866, 170 acres, 
 valued at $60 per acre ; is worth $12,- 
 000 ; Rep.; Bapt.; has held the offices 
 of Schood Director and Road Master ; 
 married Miss Helen McCullum at Dun- 
 dee, in 1857 ; she was born in Glasgow, 
 Scotland, about 1827 ; four children 
 Helen, born in 1860 ; Mary, in 1862 ; 
 Jane, in 1864, and Lucy, in 1866, all 
 born at Dundee, Kane Co., 111. 
 
 Driscol, Jno., farmer ; P. O. Gilbert's. 
 
 DARCY, MICHAEL, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 13 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Sta- 
 tion ; was born at Tipperary, Ireland, 
 Nov. 4, 1835 ; came to America in 1855, 
 and to Rutland Township the same year ; 
 in 1858, purchased 80 acres of land ; 
 still own the same ; worth $50 per acre ; 
 is worth $5,000 ; Rep,; Cath.; held of- 
 fice of Treasurer of the Board of High- 
 way Commissioners, also Collector, and 
 now holds office of School Director ; 
 married Miss Mary Ann Ryan in Rut- 
 land Township in 1856; she was born 
 in Ohio ; children Michael, Mary, 
 Alice, John, Patrick, Ellen, Thomas, 
 James, William, Michael, Joseph. 
 
 Donovan, J., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert'*?. 
 
 Dwyer, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Devine, Win., farmer; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 DUFF, JOHN R., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Station ; 
 was born in Rutland Township Oct. 11, 
 1847 ; always resided in the county ; 
 Rep.; Protestant; enlisted Jan., 1864, 
 in Co. I, 8th Cav., at Marengo, McHenry 
 Co., at the age of 16 ; served eight 
 months ; was in the battles of the Wil- 
 derness, Upperville, Aldie, Fort Stevens 
 and numerous other engagements ; was 
 honorably discharged at Washington in 
 Sept., 1864. 
 
 T^PORN, CHARLES, farmer ; P. 0. 
 
 JJJ Gilbert. 
 
 EAKIN, SAMUEL, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 16; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; was born in County Deny, Ire- 
 land, Aug. 12, 1801 ; came to America 
 
 . iu 1848, settled in Kane Co. the same 
 year, purchased 80 acres of land ; now 
 owns 200 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; 
 is worth $12,000; Rep.; Presb.; held 
 office of Town Clerk, School Trustee, 
 Town Treasurer; he has held the latter 
 office 21 years ; married Miss Jane 
 Christie in Derry Co., Ireland, in April, 
 1830 ; she was born in County Derry, 
 Ireland, in 1807 ; her children are 
 Lavina J. S., Wm. Stewart, Martha 
 Ann, Robert, Jas., Mary, David C., 
 David, Bella, S. A. and Mathew M. 
 
 Eakin, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Gilbert. 
 
 TpREEMAN, N., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 Jj Gilbert. 
 
 FLANNIGAN, PATRICK, farm- 
 
 er and dairyman, Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Hunt- 
 ley, McHenry Co.; was born in County 
 Roscommon, Ireland, in March, 1829 ; 
 came to America in 1852, resided in 
 New York, Orange Co., four years ; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1861; owns 80 
 acres of land, valued at $38 per acre ; 
 is worth $5,000 ; Dem.; Cath.; married 
 Miss Hannah Upton at Adams Co., N. 
 Y., in Sept., 1854 ; she was born in 
 County Limerick ; her children are 
 Thomas, born in Aug., 1856 ; William, 
 born 1858; Michael, born 1860 ; James, 
 born 1862 ; John, born 1864 ; Charles, 
 born 1867 ; Edward, born July 31, 1870 ; 
 Robert, born 1873. 
 
 Fitzgerald, M., farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 FREEMAN, MICHAEL, farmer 
 and stock raiser, Sec. 12; P. 0. Gil- 
 bert's Station ; was born in County 
 Tipperary, Ireland, in March, 1825 ; 
 came to America in 1842 and settled in 
 Kane Co. the same year ; Mr. F. owns 
 120 acres of land, valued at $40 per 
 acre ; is worth $6,000 ; Dem.; Cath.; 
 holds office of School Director ; married 
 Miss Mary Welch at Elgin, Jan., 1860; 
 she was born in Ireland. Her children 
 are James, Morris, Thomas, John, 
 Catharine, Mary, Mary, Ellen, and Eliza- 
 beth. 
 
 Flanagan, M., farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Farrell, Thos., farmer; P. 0. Huntley.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 FOLEY, PATRICK, farmer and 
 dairyman; Sec. 14; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; born in County Mead, Ireland, 
 about 1817 ; came to America in 1849, 
 lived in New York State five years, and 
 settled in Kane Co. in 1854 and in Rut- 
 land in 1 865 ; Dem. ; Cath. ; married 
 Miss Helen Reily in Herkimer Co., N. 
 Y., in February, 1853 ; she was born at 
 Cavan, Ireland, in August, 1842 ; chil- 
 dren Peter, Julia, Ann, Patrick, Mary, 
 Christopher and Margaret, all born in 
 Rutland ; owns 97 acres of land, valued 
 at $25 per acre. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Jas., fanner ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 FRASER, THOMAS, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 36 ; P. O. Elgin ; born 
 in Livingston Co., N. Y., Aug. 18, 
 1812; came to Kane Co. in 1839, and 
 purchased, in 1840, 160 acres of land ; 
 now owns 275 acres, valued at $50 per 
 acre; worth $14,500; Rep.; Presb.; 
 held the offices of Town Treasurer and 
 Town Trustee ; married Miss Ann 
 Fraser at Pembroke, N. Y., in October, 
 1839; she was born in Scotland April 
 7, 1818; the children are John, born 
 Dec. 27, 1841 ; William, born Nov. 24, 
 1843 (died at Rutland Dec, 11, 1863, 
 from exposure in the army) ; Daniel, 
 born Dec. 9, 1847 ; Elizabeth, born 
 April 1, 1850; Jennette, born July 4, 
 1852 ; Ellen, born Oct. 4, 1854 ; Katie, 
 born May 13, 1858; Thos. A., born 
 Jan 11, 1861 ; and William and Isabel, 
 deceased. 
 
 Fleming, Mich., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 S^\ ARVY, D., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 GAGE, JAMES H., proprietor of 
 Holstein creamery ; P. 0. Holstein ; 
 was born in Plato Tp., Kane Co., Jan. 
 3, 1843 ; Rep. ; Presb. ; worth $40.000 ; 
 married, in 1867, to Isabel McCornack, 
 at Rutland ; she was born July 15, 
 1842 ; has four children Elizabeth J., 
 Albert, Charles D. and Harry ; his fac- 
 tory was established in 1875 ; is situated 
 11 miles west of Elgin, east 4% miles 
 from Hampshire, and 6 miles southwest 
 of Huntley ; has a capacity of turning 
 out 30 cheese and and over three hun- 
 dred pounds of butter daily ; it is of ex- 
 cellent quality, and the factory has 
 every facility for carrying on a large 
 business. 
 
 Griffith, James, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert. 
 
 GALLIGAN, JAMES, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sec. 4 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Sta. ; 
 was born in Ireland, Jan. 7, 1817 ; came 
 to America in 1837, and to Kane Co. in 
 1857 ; owns 160 acres of land, valued 
 at $40 per acre, and is worth $5.000 ; 
 Ind. ; Cath. ; held offices of Collector 
 and School Trustee, and now holds the 
 offices of Town Clerk and School 
 Trustee ; married Miss Ellen Smith, at 
 New Haven, Conn., Dec. 23, 1856; she 
 was born in Ireland, in 1823 ; has five 
 children Joseph Rernard, born Sept. 
 4, 1857 ; Catherine, born Nov. 4, 1858; 
 James E., born Aug. 12, 1860 ; Rose 
 Ann, born Feb. 17, 1865. 
 
 Gage, L., farmer; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 Griser, John, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Griser, Paul, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 GAGE, SOLOMON, far. and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Hampshire ; was 
 born in New York State, June 15, 1 828 ; 
 came to Kane Co. in 1841, and bought 
 40 acres; crossed the plains in 1852, 
 and spent the Winter in Eureka City, 
 California; in 1853 was engaged in 
 buying and selling merchandise to emi- 
 grants ; in 1854, came back to Illinois, 
 and bought a drove of horses, cows and 
 oxen and returned to the Pacific slope, 
 and engaged in dairying until 1857, 
 when he again returned to Illinois and 
 settled permanently ; owns 140 acres ; 
 value, 860 per acre ; is worth $10,000 ; 
 Rep.; Free-Will Rapt.; held the office 
 of School Director. He married Miss 
 Susan Hogboom, at Geneva, 111., March 
 15, 1854 ; she died in California, March 
 15, 1857 ; he married for his second 
 wife, Mary E. King, in 1858 ; she died 
 June 4, 1871 ; his present wife was 
 Mrs. Rusbin ; they were married in 
 1872. 
 
 ENNIG, LEO, far.; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 H 1 
 
 Hogan, Mrs., P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Haight, Charles, far.; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Hemdrick, P., far.; P. 0. Hampshire. 
 
 HAYES, EDMUND, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 15 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born in Tipperary Co., 
 Ireland, Dec. 25, 1814 ; came to Amer- 
 ica in 1847, and settled in Rutland, 
 Kane Co.; purchased 80 acres ; now 
 owns 240 acres ; value, $45 per acre ;
 
 KANE COUNTY: RUTLAND. 
 
 727 
 
 Dem. ; Cath. ; held office of Town Clerk, 
 Assessor, and other offices of trust. He 
 married Catherine Donovan, at Tipperary, 
 Ireland. Dec. 5, 1835 ; she was born in 
 same county in 1817 ; children David, 
 Patrick, Julia (now Mrs. Truman), Mar- 
 garet and Edmund. 
 
 Higgins, Luke, far.; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Hennessey, James, far.; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 HUNTER, JOHN, farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 21; P. 0. Gilbert's Station ; 
 was born at Deny Co., Ireland, Aug. 
 17, 1809 ; came to America in 1832; 
 lived 10 years in Philadelphia, and set- 
 tled in Kane Co. in 1842 ; purchased 
 80 acres ; now owns 320 acres, valued 
 at $40 per acre; is worth $15,000 
 owns lot in Elgin ; held office of School' 
 Director, School Trustee, and other offices 
 of trust; Rep. ; Reformed Presb. Mar- 
 ried Mrs. Elizabeth Hart, at Philadel- 
 phia, Aug. 25, 1836 ; she was born in 
 Derry Co., Ireland, in 1814. Children 
 are Eliza, Jane, James, William, Hugh, 
 Thomas and Joseph ; deceased are Sarah 
 Ann, Joseph, Matilda and John (who 
 died at Elgin from effects of army life). 
 
 Hyde, N., farmer ; P. O. Huntley. 
 
 Hogan, John, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 HOOD BROS., farmers and dairy- 
 men, Sees. 17 and 20 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove. William was born in Rutland, 
 Vt., March 7, 1852; is Rep.; Prot.; 
 married Miss Hester McArthur at Rut- 
 land, May 11, 1875; she was born at 
 Londonderry, Ireland, about 1854 ; have 
 one child, John W., born April 10, 
 1876. Father of Wm. J. and John, who 
 own the property jointly, settled in 
 1837 ; he was born in Ireland in 1807. 
 The property amounts to $20,000 ; farm 
 is stocked with 50 head of cattle, 6 
 horses, and is devoted principally to dairy. 
 
 Hogan James, farmer ; P. O. Huntley. 
 
 Hollister, Mrs., farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 Henuigan, John, far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 HENNIG, JOHN, farmer, Sec. 5 ; 
 P. 0. Huntley ; was born at Baden, Ger- 
 many, in 1828 ; came to America in 
 1857 ; to Kane Co. in 1862 ; owns 120 
 acres, valued at $40 per acre ; Dem.; 
 Cath. Married Rosa Gallaghan, at St. 
 Charles, Kane Co., Sept. 29, 1861 ; she 
 was born at Cavan, Ireland. Children, 
 Mary, Katy and John. 
 
 Heelan, J., farmer ; P. O. Holsteiri. 
 
 Hadley, Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 HAYDEN, TIMOTHY, farmer 
 and dairyman, Sec. 8 ; P. 0. Huntley ; 
 McHenry Co., 111.: was born at Tippe- 
 rary Co., Ireland, Feb., 1815 ; came to 
 America in 1834, landing at New York 
 city ; lived at city of Newark, N. J., five 
 years ; came West Aug. 16, 1845, to 
 Kane Co. ; purchased in 1845 160 acres ; 
 now owns 280 acres, valued at $60 per 
 acre ; is worth $20,000 ; Dem. ; Cath. ; 
 has held office of Highway Commissioner. 
 Married first in Ireland, when 19 years 
 old, to Miss Susan Gorman ; she died at 
 Newark, N. J., in 1837. In 1839, mar- 
 ried Miss Ellen Kaffe, in Mercer Co., 
 Ohio : she died in 1873 ; the same year 
 he married Mrs. Catharine Devine, at 
 Elgin ; she passed away July 24, 1874 ; 
 present wife was Miss Helen Healan, 
 of Elgin. Had by first marriage one 
 child, Edmund, born in 1836, died in 
 1837 ; by third marriage two children 
 Timothy, born Aug. 31, 1876, and Mar- 
 garet, born July 23, 1877, both deceased. 
 
 TAMES, JOS., farmer; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 
 fj Station. 
 
 KINSAL, AUG., far.; P. 0. Gil- 
 bert's. 
 
 KELLY, JOHN, retired farmer, Sec. 
 32 ; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; was born in 
 Schenectady, N. Y., May 13, 1805; 
 came to Kane Co. March 3, 1845 ; 
 owned at one time 700 acres of land, 
 now owns 400 acres, valued at $50 per 
 acre ; is worth $25,000 ; Rep. ; Spirit- 
 ualist ; held office of Justice of the 
 Peace and Town Trustee four years ; 
 was also School Director some years ; 
 married Miss Eliza Mansfield Sept. 20, 
 1826, at Schenectady, N. .Y. ; she 
 was born in New York, May 20, 
 1808 ; seven children living Alfred 
 W., born March 17, 1828 ; Sarah S., 
 born May 20, 1832 ; Elizabeth, born 
 Oct. 24, 1834: Mary, born Jan. 10, 
 1839, died Oct.' 6, 1864 ; Capt. L. M. 
 Kelly Sept. 28, 1841, and John H., born 
 Oct. 4, 1846 ; A. Lynn, born May 18, 
 1844 ; Charles, born April 14, 1849. 
 
 Kinney, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 KELLY, JOHN, dry goods, groceries, 
 boots and shoes ; P. O. Gilbert's Station ; 
 was born at Hampshire, Kane Co., Ill, 
 Oct. 15, 1853; Dem.; Cath.; holds 
 office of Postmaster ; is also Agt. for
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Am. Ex. Co. ; formerly farmer and 
 teacher ; is worth $2,500 ; married Mrs. 
 Johanna Hogan, at Huntley, McHenry 
 Co., 111., Oct. 26. 1875 ; she was born 
 in Rutland Township, April, 1853 ; 
 have two children Jennie, born Sept. 
 22, 1876 ; Catharine, born Sept. 20, 
 1877. 
 
 Krutzer, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 KELLY. A. W., clerk ^and farmer ; 
 was born in Schenectady, N. Y., March 
 17, 1828 ; came to Kane Co. in 1846 ; 
 owns 165 acres of land, valued at $50 
 per acre ; is worth $8,000 ; Rep. ; held 
 the office of Alderman at St. Charles, 
 and was School Director in Plato for one 
 term ; was also Township Trustee at 
 St. Charles ; is Assistant Postmaster 
 at Pingree Grove ; married Eliza- 
 beth M. Prucher, at Udina, 111., April 
 1851 ; she was born at Romulus, Seneca 
 Co., N. Y., Oct. 27, 1828; three 
 children Sarah E., born Jan. 31, 1852; 
 E. Belle, born Aug. 24, 1854; W. 
 Scott, born July 14, 1857. 
 
 T AWRENCE, WM., far ; P. 0. Dun- 
 
 J_J dee. 
 
 Logue, Hugh, far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 LOWRY, ROBT., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Hampshire ; was born at 
 Co. Tyrone, Ireland, about 1825 ; came 
 to America in 1847 ; came to Kane Co., 
 six years after ; Rep. ; Presb. ; owns 95 
 acres, value $40 per acre ; worth $5,000 ; 
 married Mrs. Mary J. Smiley at Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., in 1853 ; she was born in 
 Tyrone, Ireland, in 1825 ; children 
 Maria, born March 2, 1853 ; Marian, 
 May 24, 1856 ; William, Jan. 28, 1858 ; 
 Eliza, Dec. 2, 1860 ; Sarah, April 20, 
 1862 ; Martha, C., June 5, 1865 ; and 
 Margaret, May 5, 1869. 
 
 Lasher, Joseph, far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 LONG, RICHARD, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 23 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born at Tipperary, Ireland, 
 May 13, 1817 ; came to America in 
 1855, and settled in Kane Co. ; pur- 
 chased 160 acres of land in 1865 at 
 Rutland, value $30 per acre ; is worth 
 $6,000. Dem.; Cath.; married Miss 
 Elizabeth Dundon at Tipperary, Ireland, 
 Oct. 11, 1851 ; she was born at County 
 Cork, Ireland, about 1825 ; children 
 Richard, born Oct. 1855; Cathrine, 
 born Dec. 1854 ; Edward, born 1859. 
 
 Lynch, Mary Ann, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 MAKER, EDWARD, far.; P. 0. 
 Gilbert's. 
 
 Marshall, James, far.; P. 0. Algonquin. 
 
 McGOUGH, HUGH, farmer and 
 stock raiser ; Sec. 14; P. O. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born at Tyrone, Ireland, 
 March, 1830 ; came to America in 1849 ; 
 settled in Kane Co., in 1863 ; owns 60 
 acres ; Dem. ; Cath. ; married Miss 
 Bridget Reily at Elgin in 1863; she 
 died Feb. 28, 1871 ; in 1873 married 
 Miss Helen O'Brien at Elgin ; children 
 by first marriage Mary, Bridget, Hugh 
 and Peter ; by second marriage, Rosa 
 and John. 
 
 McCleland, W., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 MURPHY, MICHAEL, farmer 
 and dairyman, Sec. 14 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born at Limerick Co., Ire- 
 land, in 1829 ; came to America in 
 1854 ; came to Kane Co. in 1856 ; 
 owns 112 acres, valued at $65 per acre ; 
 worth $9,000 ; Dem.; Cath.; married 
 Miss Abbie N. Burke at Rutland, Nov. 
 1, 1857 ; she was born at Elgin Town- 
 ship, June, 1838 ; children are Mary, 
 Bridget, James, Eugene, Homer, Rob- 
 ert, John, Johannia, Margaret and Catha- 
 rine. 
 
 Miller, Fred., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 McLOUGHLIN, JAMES, farmer 
 and dairyman, Sec. 17; P. 0. Huntley, 
 McHenry Co.; was born at County 
 Donegal, Ireland, Aug., 1815 ; came to 
 America in 1834; resided in Penn. 10 
 years; came to Rutland, Kane Co., 111., 
 in 1844 ; purchased 160 acres, valued 
 at $45 an acre ; is worth $10,000 ; 
 Dem.; Cath.; held office of Road Mas- 
 ter ; married Miss Margaret McGrauth, 
 at Gilbert's Station, Sept. 14,1856; she 
 was born at New Haven, Conn., in 
 1840 ; children are William A., James 
 E., Charles P., John J., Hugh F., Henry 
 M., Edward G. ; Thos. G., Thos. A., 
 Mary, Margaret S. and Catharine A. 
 
 Moroney, P., far.; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 McCartney, A., far.; P. O. Pingree Grove. 
 
 MASON, O. H., miller; P. 0. Gil- 
 bert's Station ; he is a member of the 
 firm of Mason, Eatinger & O'Brien ; he 
 was born at Dundee, March 12, 1850; 
 Rep.; Prot.; the mill has a capacity for 
 grinding 800 to 1,000 bushels daily. 
 
 McCartney, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's.
 
 KANE COUNTY: RUTLAND. 
 
 729 
 
 Moore, Thos., far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. ' 
 MANGAN, PHILLIP, farmer and 
 
 dairyman ; Sec. 10 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Sta. ; 
 he was born Tipperary Co., Ireland, and 
 came to America in 1841, and settled in 
 Kane Co., in 1864 ; he lived in Boston 
 seventeen years, and on coming West, 
 purchased 80 acres; he now owns 210 
 acres, valued at $45 per acre; he is 
 worth $11,000; Dem.; Cath.; has held 
 the office of School Director ; married 
 Miss Helen Hayes, at Boston, Mass., 
 Oct. 8, 1848; she was born at Tipperay, 
 Ireland, in 1821 ; children are John, 
 born in 1851 ; Phillip, born in 1852; i 
 James, born in 1854 ; Helen, born in 
 1854 ; Mary, born in 1856 ; Maggie, 
 born in 1858; Bridget, born in 1860; 
 and Patrick, born in 1866. 
 
 MOORE, WILLIAM, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 22 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station; he was born in Derry Co., Ire- 
 land, in 1 807 ; came to America in 1836, 
 and settled in Kane Co. 'the same year ; 
 he purchased 1:60 acres of land, at $1.25 
 per acre. At the time of Mr. Moore's 
 arrival, Frink & Walker's line of stages 
 still ran along the old State road. Mr. 
 M. has, by industry and indomitable 
 energy, accumulated a nice property. 
 He did own 560 acres, and now owns 
 510 acres, worth $50 per acre ; Mr. 
 M. is worth $30,000; Rep.; Presb ; 
 married Miss Mary Cochran, at Derry 
 Co., Ireland, May 19, 1834; she was 
 born somewhere about 1815, and died 
 in 1855 ; children are Mary and 
 Margaret, Catharine, Eliza A., and 
 William. 
 
 McCORNACK, WM., farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 35 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; born at Wiston, Scotland, in 
 January, 1815 ; came to America in 
 1837, and to Kane Co. in 1838; pur- 
 chased 160 acres of land; now owns 180 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; is worth 
 $12,000 ; Rep. ; Presb.; held the office 
 of Assessor two terms ; married Miss 
 Elizabeth Fraser, in Rutland Tp., in 
 November, 1 842 ; she was born in Scot- 
 land in 1817 ; children Isabel, born 
 July 15, 1843 ; Wm. F., born in Octo- 
 ber, 1844; Andrew H., born July 4, 
 1848; John C., born in 1850; three 
 deceased Elizabeth Ann, Ellen Mary 
 and Sarah. 
 
 Moore, Wm., Jr., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station. 
 
 Maher, P., far.; P. 0. Gilbert's Station. 
 
 Moore, David, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Martin, John, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 MURRY, MICHAEL, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 21 ; P. O. Pingree 
 Grove; born in Hampshire, Kane Co., 
 May 22, 1856; Dem.; Cath.; works 
 100 acres, the estate of his father, who 
 was born in Ireland, and came to Kane 
 Co. in 1853 ; his wife was Mary Kalan- 
 her, who was also born in Ireland. 
 
 Murphy, Mrs., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 Manning, P., farmer ; P. 0. Gilberts. 
 
 MOORE, JAS., retired farmer, Sec. 
 30 ; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; was born at 
 Londonderry Co., Ireland, in 1796; 
 came to America April, 1847 ; came to 
 Kane Co. Aug. 10, 1847 ; owned, at 
 one time, 280 acres ; was naturalized in 
 1848, at Chicago; Rep.; Prot. ; served 
 in the war of the rebellion, in Ireland. 
 Married Mrs. Jane Harper at London- 
 derry, in 1825 ; she was born at Lon- 
 donderry in 1800 ; children Thomas, 
 Mary, Margaret, Jane, Eliza, Anna and 
 James. 
 
 Mason, Horace, farmer ; P. 0. Huntley. 
 
 MCCORNACK, JOHN, farmer, 
 Sec. 34 ; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; was 
 born in Galloway, Scotland, in 1810 ; 
 came to America in 1836, and to Kane 
 Co. in 1838; in 1840, he purchased 
 160 acres; now owns 86, valued at 
 $50 per acre; is worth $2,500 ; Rep.; 
 Presb. Married Miss Martha N. Mc- 
 Millian at Rutland, in 1843 ; she was 
 born in Franklin Co., N. Y., April, 
 1825, and died Dec. 12, 1876, at Rut- 
 land ; children Andrew, born April, 
 1844; Elizabeth, born Aug. 9,1846; 
 Minerva, born Sept. 12, 1848; Jean- 
 nette, born Jan. 15, 1852 ; Helen M., 
 born Jan. 31, 1860. 
 
 McClure, John. 
 
 'LEARY, D., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 O' 
 
 O'Brien, Bernard, far.; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 O'BRIEN, THOMAS, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 14 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; he was born in Limerick Co., 
 Ireland, about 1817; came to America 
 in 1834 ; lived two years in Chicago, 
 when it had but two or three hundred 
 inhabitants ; came to Rutland Tp., in
 
 730 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 1837 ; purchased 220 acres at land sale ; 
 now owns the same ; value, $40 per 
 acre; is worth 811,000; Dem.; Cath. 
 Married Ellen Freeman, at Elgin, Kane 
 Co., Feb. 6. 1843 ; she died in 1862, at 
 Rutland ; he married Oct. 26, 1863, 
 Miss Ann Daly ; children by first mar- 
 riage, living, are Thomas, born Dec. 
 22, 1845; Mary, born in 1850; Ellen, 
 born in 1852; Maggie, born in 1854; 
 John, born in 1856 ; Michael, born in 
 1858 ; Bridget, born in 1861 ; second 
 marriage Bernand, born in 1864 ; Ter- 
 rance, born in 1866 ; Elizabeth, born 
 in 1872 and Phillip, born in Nov., 1874. 
 
 O'Brien, Thos., Jr., far. ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 O'BRIEN, THOMAS P., farmer 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 27 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born in Rutland, Oct. 26, 
 1846 ; is Dem.; Cath. Married Mrs. 
 Ellen Clinton, at Elgin, Nov. 13, 1872; 
 she was born in Rutland, in 1852 ; chil- 
 dren Mary, born April 22, 1 874 ; 
 James, born Sept. 13, 1876 ; both born 
 in Rutland; owns 120 acres, valued at 
 $4,000. 
 
 PITCHER, JOHN, farmer ; P. 0. 
 Gilbert's Station. 
 
 PINGREE, ANDREW, farmer 
 and dairyman, Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; is ex-Supervisor ; was born in | 
 Plainfield, N. H., in 1803; came to 
 Kane Co. in 1 838 ; purchased claim of j 
 six or eight hundred acres ; now owns ! 
 1.100 acres in Iowa and Illinois ; Dem.; | 
 Union clergyman ; held office Super- 
 visor 18 years, P. M. 18 years, and 
 Notary Public since 1846 ; County Sur- 
 veyor for many years ; Trustee of Lom- 
 bard College, of Galesburg. 111. 5 stock- j 
 holder in Elgin Academy ; School Di- i 
 rector since 1846; also stockholder of 
 C. & P. R. R.; gave to C. & P. R, R. , 
 Co. $1,000 and right of way of the 
 road ; married Miss Hannah >M. Cur- 
 tis, at Plymouth Co., Mass., in 1844; , 
 she was born in Mass, in 1811 ; adopted 
 child of Mrs. Kelley. 
 
 Pingree, Mrs. S., far. ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove. 
 
 PINGREE, MRS. HARRIET, 
 
 far.; Sec. 33 ; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; born 
 near Zanesville, 0., Dec. 6, 1821 ; was 
 married to Israel S. Pingree, April 13, 
 1844; he died Sept, 18, 1874, at Rut- 
 land; estate consists of 62 i acres, val- 
 
 ued at $45 per acre ; worth $4,000 ; 
 children are Phebe, born Jan. 13, 1847 : 
 Andrew C., Oct. 3, 1848 ; Hiram T., 
 Aug. 13, 1850; Jennie. June 27. 1854: 
 Hannah, July 2, 1857; Daniel C., 
 May 2, 1860 ; died Feb. 8 1863 ; Fran- 
 cis, born March 15, 1862; Lawrence. 
 Jan. 1, 1865. 
 
 Pingree. Stran. far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 PLUMMER, OLIVER, farmer and 
 dairyman, Sees. 20 and 21 ; P. 0. Pin- 
 gree Grove ; was born in Seneca Co.. N. 
 Y., in 1807 ; came to Kane Co., in 
 
 1842 ; settled permanently June 2. 
 
 1843 ; Dem.; owns 160 acres, valued at 
 $55 per acre; is worth $15,000; mar- 
 ried Miss Sarah M. Cady, at YatesCo., 
 N. Y., May 14, 1843 ; she was born 
 in Chenango Co., N. Y., Feb. 13, 1820; 
 five chi'dren Jane, born Feb. 6,1844 ; 
 Mary Ann, June 17, 1845; George 0.. 
 Sept. 13, 1846; Harriet, March 6, 1851 : 
 Frankie, June 24, 1857. 
 
 Rhode, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 RICH, EVELYN E , farming and 
 stock ; Sec. 31 ; P. 0. Hampshire; born in 
 Rutland Tp. April 26, 1839 ; owns 250 
 acres of land, valued at $60 per acre : 
 is worth $16,000 ; Rep. ; Prot. ; held 
 the offices of Highway Commissioner 
 and School Director ; enlisted in Co. K, 
 141st Inf., May 2, 1864, at Elgin, and 
 hon. disd. Oct. 10, 1864, at Camp Fry, 
 Chicago ; married Miss Helen Doty, at 
 Hampshire, 111., March 12, 1861 ; she 
 was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, Oct. 
 1, 1839; five children living Addie 
 E., born July 26, 1862 ; May E., born 
 Dec. 2, 1865 ; Milton, born Sept. 16, 
 1867 ; Henry E., born Oct. 10, 1871 ; 
 Ralph, born March 18, 1873 ; Arthur, 
 died Feb. 6, 1875. Elijah, his father, 
 who came to Kane Co., in 1835, was 
 born June 10, 1795, and died Nov. 10, 
 1871. 
 
 Rhode, Julius, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 ROATH, NATHANIEL, farmer 
 and stock raiser ; Sec. 6 ; P. 0. Hamp- 
 shire ; born in New York Dec. 25. 
 1831; settled in Kane Co. in 1837: 
 owns 60 acres of land, valued at $40 
 per acre; is worth $4,000; Rep.; Prot.; 
 enlisted in Co. B, 17th 111. Cav., Nov. 
 17, 1863; was in many important bat- 
 tles of the war, wounded twice, and hon. 
 disd. at close of war ; married Miss Sarah
 
 KANE COUNTY: RUTLAND. 
 
 731 
 
 Jane Tansey, at Hampshire, Aug. 15, 
 1872 ; she was born in Elgin in 1851 ; 
 two children Rosetta, born July 15, 
 1873, and Abigail, born July 4, 1875. 
 
 T3ANDALL, JNO., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 J_\ Huntley. 
 
 RILEY, EDWARD, far- and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 21 ; P. 0. Gilbert's Sta.; was 
 born at Londonderry, Ireland, in 1807 ; 
 emigrated to America in 1839, and 
 settled in Rutland Township, Kane Co.; 
 owns 200 acres, valued at $40 per acre ; 
 is worth $10,000 ; Rep.; Presb.; held 
 the office of School Director and Road 
 Master. Married Miss Margaret Moore, 
 of Ireland, March 7, 1835 ; children 
 Wm. John, born March 28, 1841; 
 Margaret, born Jan. 6, 1843 ; Jas. R., 
 born March 10, 1844. 
 
 Rich, Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 RO WE, MRS. HANNAH A., far 
 
 and dairy ; Sec. 17 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; was born in Susquehanna Co., 
 Penn , Aug. 12, 1831. Married John 
 L. Rowe at Toronto, Canada ; he was 
 born at Trafalgar, Canada, Jan. 16, 
 1814 ; family moved into Kane Cd. in 
 1838, and settled on 160 acres; her 
 husband died June 17, 1865 ; property 
 worth $5,000 ; now owns 80 acres ; 
 children Mary M., born 1835; Chas. 
 H.. born March 27, 1837 ; Eliza, born 
 Feb. 27, 1839 ; Crist. R., born March 
 
 I, 1841; Daniel H.', born Aug. 30, 
 1843; Hurbert, born Jan. 18, 1845; 
 Hannah, born Dec. 18. 1847 ; Carrie 
 E., born May 3, 1849 ; Harrison, born 
 Sept. 23, 1852 ; Eugene, born Jan. 8, 
 1854; Eunice, Elis, Hannah and Eugene, 
 deceased. 
 
 O HEDDING, J. B. 
 
 SWITZER, JOSEPH M.,far. and 
 sheep raiser of the Spanish Merino 
 breed ; Sees. 6, 7 and 18 ; P. 0. Hoi- 
 stein ; was born at Toronto, Canada, 
 May 21, 1822; came to Kane Co. in 
 1838 ; purchased in 1845, 80 acres, now 
 owns 120 acres; worth $10,000 ; Rep.; 
 member of the New Jerusalem Church ; 
 Justice of the Peace nine years, elected 
 in 1849. Married Mrs. Alice Smith at 
 St. Charles, Kane Co., in 1851 ; she 
 was born at Yorkshire, England, Aug. 
 
 II, 1830; children living Horatio, 
 Howard and Maria. 
 
 Shultz, Wm., far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 Shine, John, farmer; P. O. North Plato. 
 
 Sales, M., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Smithing, Jos., farmer ; P. Holstein. 
 
 SPRAGUE, H. J., farmer and dairy- 
 man ; Sec. 2 ; P. 0. Huntley ; was 
 born at Erie Co., Pa., in 1833; moved 
 to Kane Co. in 1839 ; J. E. Sprague, 
 father, is still living ; he was born in 
 Berkshire Co., Mass., March 2, 1811, 
 and settled in Kane Co. same year as the 
 subject of this sketch. 
 
 Stanley, H. F., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 STARKS, M. G., far. and dairyman ;. 
 Sec. 30 ; P. 0. Hampshire ; born in 
 Rutland Tp., June 7, 1849 ; works 400 
 acres of land, estate of E. R. Starks ; 
 is Rep.; Prot. Married Miss Lucretia 
 Grow, at Udina, 111., in 1869 ; she was 
 born in Pennsylvania, Sept. 8, 1852 , 
 four children Carrie E., born June 11, 
 1871; Eddie, born Dec. 23, 1872; 
 Fanny S., born Dec. 5, 1874 ; Alfred 
 E., born Oct. 6, 1876 ; Eddie died Aug. 
 25, 1874. 
 
 Seymour, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Sprague, S., farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 STARKS, E. R., retired farmer ; Sec. 
 30 ; P. 0. Hampshire ; was born at 
 Williamstown, Mass., March 19, 1813; 
 lived in Vermont until 22 years of age \ 
 came to Kane Co. in 1835 ; is one of 
 the earliest settlers in the township ; in 
 1839, he purchased 240 acres; now 
 owns about 800 acres, valued at $50 
 per acre ; is worth $50,000 ; Rep ; Prot- 
 estant ; held offices of Supervisor, Con- 
 stable and School Trustee ; was married 
 first to Esther Doty in Granville, N. Y., 
 April 5, 1838 ; she was born in Wash- 
 ington Co., N. Y., Oct. 30, 1820; died 
 May 15, 1840 ; his second wife was Sa- 
 loma Gage ; they were married at 
 Hampshire, 111., Dec. 6, 1845 ; six chil- 
 dren, all by first marriage L. G., 
 Evelyn, Milton G., Frank John, Wil- 
 lie and William. 
 
 rpASWILL, JAMES, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 J_ Gilbert's. 
 
 TYRRELL, WILLIAM, fanner 
 and dairyman ; Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Gilbert's 
 Station ; was born in Rutland Township ; 
 owns 160 acres 80 acres in Kansas 
 and 80 acres inRutland worth $6,000 \ 
 Dem.; Cath.; held office of Tax Collec- 
 tor one term ; married Miss Mary Bray-
 
 732 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 man in Elgin in April, 1869 ; she was 
 born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1849 ; one 
 child Katy, born Nov. 3, 1870, in 
 Rutland Township. 
 
 Taswill, William, farmer ; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 TOBIN, WM., farmer and dairyman ; 
 Sees. 23 and 26 ; P. 0. Gilbert's ; was 
 born in Rutland Township, Kane Co., 
 Jan., 1846 ; owns 20 acres in Dundee, 
 and 100 acres in Rutland, valued at 
 $50 per acre ; is worth $7,000 ; Dem. - 
 Cath. ; he married Miss Mary Egan, at 
 Elgin, Oct., 1868 ; she was born April 
 10, 1848 ; at Kilkenny, Ireland ; their 
 children are Albert, born Aug. 14, 
 1869 ; August, April 20, 1871 ; Alice, 
 Jan. 28, 1873; Willie, Jan. 25, 1875; 
 John, Jan. 26, 1877. 
 
 TYRRELL, DAVID, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 42 ; P. 0. Gilbert's ; 
 was born at Tipperary, Ireland, June, 
 1833 ; he came to America in 1847 ; 
 direct to Rutland, Kane Co., in 1854 ; 
 he bought 80 acres, valued at $60 per 
 acre ; Rep. ; he holds the office of School 
 Director, being elected in 1874; was 
 married to Mrs. Mary Hilley, at Elgin, 
 111., Oct., 1862 ; she was born in Ire- 
 land, and died in 1866, leaving two 
 children; in Feb., 1868, he was married 
 to Miss Mary Wiley, at Elgin ; she was 
 born at New Brunswick, British Prov- 
 inces, in 1844 ; the children are, by 
 first marriage, Win. and John ; by 
 the second marriage, Maud, Walter, 
 Nevada and Alba. 
 
 TTTEBSTER, JOS., far.; P. 0. North 
 VV Plato. 
 
 Widner, Adam, far.; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 WEIGHTMAN, WILLIAM S., 
 
 Sec. 1 ; P. 0. Huntley, McHenry Co.; 
 he was born in Nottingham, England, 
 May 14, 1818, and came to America in 
 1851 ; he purchased the property he 
 now resides upon in 1859, consisting of 
 135 acres ; he now owns 280 acres ; 
 
 value of home property, $80 per acre ; 
 the other is worth $35 per acre ; he is 
 Rep.; Episcopalian ; he has held the 
 offices of School Director, Road Com., 
 Road Master ; he married Miss Ann 
 Salmon, at Nottingham, England, in 
 1844 ; she was born~April 4, 1818 ; they 
 have six children Walter S., Roland J., 
 Salmon, John C., William A., and 
 Charles A. 
 
 WILSON, SAMUEL, farmer and 
 dairyman ; Sec. 32 ; P. 0. Pingree 
 Grove ; he was born at Ayrshire, Scot- 
 land, in 1848 ; came to America in 1858, 
 and to Kane Co. in 1868; he rents a 
 farm of Capt. L. M. Kelly, of 480 acres ; 
 Rep.; Cong.; he has held the office of 
 Road Master ; he married Miss Grace 
 Crichton, at Dundee, in 1873 ; she 
 was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 
 1848 ; they have one child living EflBe 
 May, born in 1875, at Dundee; Frank, 
 died Dec. 24, 1876. 
 
 Whiting, B. S., far.; P. 0. Holstein. 
 
 Whitney, B. S., far.; P. O. Campton. 
 
 WELCH, RICHARD, farmer and 
 dairyman; Sees. 31 and 32; P. 0. Gil- 
 bert's ; he was born at Co. Kilkenny, 
 Ireland, in 1827, and came to America 
 in 1849 ; came to Dundee Tp. the same 
 year ; he located on his laud in 1854, 
 and bought 181 acres, which he still 
 owns; value, $60 per acre; he is Dem.; 
 Cath.; married Miss Mary Fleming, at 
 Elgin, 111., in 1856 ; she was born at 
 Tipperary Co., Ireland, in 1827 ; they 
 have seven children Edward, born 
 March 15, 1855 ; James, born Feb. 1, 
 1857 ; Mary, born May 25, 1859 ; John, 
 March 10, 1861; Richard, born March 
 25, 1862 ; Katy, born July 31, 1865 ; 
 David, born May 25, 1870. 
 
 Webster, D., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 ryiMMERMAN, C.,far.; P. 0. Gilbert's. 
 
 PLATO TOWNSHIP. 
 
 A DAMS, BEAM AM, farmer ; P. 0. 
 _/\. Udina. 
 
 Allen, George, farmer ; P. 0. East Bur- 
 lington. 
 
 Anderson, J., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 Adgate. F., blksmith ; P. 0. North Plato. - 
 OROPHY. C., far.; P.O. Camptoi).
 
 KANE COUNTY: PLATO. 
 
 733 
 
 BRITTON, GEORGE H., farmer 
 and dairyman, and grower of many va- 
 rieties of the common potato ; Sec. 12 ; 
 P. 0. Udina ; was born at Cheshire Co., 
 N. H., June 26, 1850 ; settled in Kane 
 Co. in 1861 ; owns 87 acres in own 
 name, and his wife owns 125 acres ; they 
 are worth together $10,000 ; Rep. Mar- 
 ried Miss Sarah Ransted, sister of the 
 Hon. J. W. Ransted, Judge of Kane 
 Co., at residence of parents, April 7, 
 1870 ; she was born in Plato, Aug. 23, 
 1851 ; children are Orie Maud, born 
 Feb. 19, 1871 ; Winfield W., March 
 12, 1873, and John R. and Jessamine 
 A., twins, Feb. 22, 1877. 
 
 BUCKLEY, SAMUEL, farmer, 
 Sec. 25 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in North- 
 amptonshire, England, Feb. 4, 1841 ; 
 removed to Canada in the Spring of 
 1865, and about four years later to Kane 
 Co., 111. ; Kep. ; Lib. Married July 
 16, 1874, to Miss Clara J. Burton; she 
 was born in Plato Township ; two chil- 
 dren, one living, Anna S. 
 
 BAKER, LAWRENCE M. (for- 
 merly of Plato Tp., Kane Co., 111.), now 
 deceased, was born in Wyoming Val- 
 ley, Pa., July 9, 1803 ; removed, in 
 early childhood, to Lancaster, Pa., with 
 his parents, where he grew to manhood ; 
 came to Illinois in the Fall of 1840, lo- 
 cating in Kane Co., where he resided 
 up to the time of his death, June 11, 
 1866 ; he was married in 1829, to Miss 
 Sarah A., daughter of Robert J. Thomp- 
 son, of Bellefonte, Center Co., Pa. ; she 
 was born in Brandywine, Del. ; had 
 seven children by this union Cyrellus 
 C., eldest son, was educated at Mt. Mor- 
 ris, Ogle Co., 111., and, in 1854, entered 
 the United States Survey ; died at Du- 
 buque, Iowa, in August, 1856 ; John 
 T. enlisted in Company B, Cav., 36th 
 111. Inf., in 1861 ; was killed, near At- 
 lanta, Ga., July 23, 1864, while acting 
 as escort for Gen. Hooker ; Nellie B., 
 wife of B. C. Payne ; Mollie M., wife of 
 A. Elwood ; Annie E., wife of F. H. 
 Smith ; Ella M. and Lizzie T. ; Mr. 
 Baker was a member of the Methodist 
 Church from early youth, and served in 
 an official capacity for many years, as- 
 sisting, also, in establishing and main- 
 taining institutions of learning in North- 
 ern Illinois. 
 
 Blow, Mahlon, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Burton, Wm., farmer; P. 0. Genoa. 
 
 Blannchard, C., farmer ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Burnidge, Thos., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Becklin.'er C., farmer, P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Brady, Wm. 
 
 Bode, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 BURNS, ALBERT C., farmer, 
 Sec. 1 ; P. O. Elgin ; born in Ashta- 
 bula Co., Ohio, April 17, 1836; re- 
 moved to Kane Co., 111., in early child- 
 hood, with his parents, who located in 
 Hampshire Tp., in the Fall of 1843 ; 
 came to present location Nov. 10, 1874 ; 
 owns 167 acres land, valued at $8,350 ; 
 Rep.; Liberal ; married March 22, 
 1 863, to Miss Ann C. Doty ; she was 
 was born in Conneaut, Ohio, Jan. 11, 
 1845 ; has two children living Cora 
 D. and Addie J. ; last one died Feb. 
 19, 1869. 
 
 Bean, C. F., Postmaster ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Brisbin, T., farmer ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 /^UMMINGS, J., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Crouther, Robert, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Cornell, E. A., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Crok"r, Joseph, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Campbell, Martha, farmer ; P. 0. North 
 
 Plato. 
 
 Campbell, H., farmer; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Campbell, H., Jr., farmer ; North Plato. 
 Campbell, Daniel, far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Colie, Chas., Postmaster; P. 0. North 
 
 " Plato. 
 
 Can-, J. W., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Collins, Jas., lab.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Carrol, William. 
 
 Colter, William, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Campbell, R., farmer; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 Campbell, C. M., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Crafc, G. P., far.; P. 0. East Burlington. 
 "pvICKINSON, ASA, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 I J Marengo. 
 Dougherty, John, farmer; P. 0. Udina, 
 
 DOUGHERTY, MICH AEL, far. 
 
 and dairyman, Sec. 11; P. 0. Udina ; 
 was born in Clare Co.. Ireland, Sept. 
 27, 1810; came to America, in 1834, 
 and settled in Kane Co. in 1846; pur- 
 chased 80 acres of land; now owns 183 
 acres, valued at $50 per acre ; is worth 
 $15,000; Rep.; held office as Super- 
 visor six years, and School Director 
 twelve years, also numerous offices of 
 trust and responsibility. Married Miss
 
 734 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Mary McKee, in Clare Co., Ireland, 
 in April, 1834; she was born in same 
 county, March 28, 1808; have eight 
 children Mary Jane, born Sept. 27, 
 1835 ; Edmund, born in 1837 ; Jennie, 
 born Jan. 9, 1839; James C., born in 
 1841 ; John, born Sept. 6, 1842; Kate 
 A., born Nov. 6, 1843; Thomas N., 
 born in 1845 ; Elizabeth M., born Feb. 
 1, 1847. 
 
 Davis. E., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Dickson, C. L., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Duril, Joseph, lab.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 DURAND, J. S., farmer and dairy- 
 man, Sec. 9 ; P. 0. North Plato ; was 
 born in Warren Co., N. Y., Oct. 19, 
 1819 ; came West in 1843, and settled 
 in Kane Co., and the same year came to 
 Plato Township 1851 ; owns 300 acres 
 of land, valued at $50 per acre ; Mr. 
 D. is worth $25,000 ; was Second Lieut, 
 of Co. B, attached to 36th Regt.; it 
 was afterward known as the 15th 111. 
 Cav.; was in service three years, and in 
 numerous battles principal one, Pea 
 Ridge; resigned commission at Sugar 
 Creek, Ark. Married Miss Mary Pad- 
 elford. at Elgin, in February, 1847; 
 she was born in Montgomery Co., N. 
 Y., Dec. 14, 1827; three children 
 W. S., Arthur J. and Jay ; Mrs. 
 Martha Padelford, the mother of Mrs. 
 D., resides with them. 
 
 Durfee, J. W., far.; P. 0. Pingree Station. 
 
 Dondenbaven, C., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Dunden, Catharine, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Durand, Sherwood, far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 TpASTMAN, HIRAM, farmer; P. 0. 
 lU North Plato. 
 
 Eastman, John, far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Edmeston, William, far.; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 TpITZIMMONS, P., farmer; P. 0. 
 
 JU Udina. 
 
 Fisher, Chris., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Fisher, Theo., farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Foltz, F., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Foltz. L., farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Fletcher, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 f^\ RENBANKS. JOHN, farmer ; P. 
 
 \JT 0. Elgin. 
 
 GAGE, HARVEY, farmer; Sec. 
 12; P. O. Udina; was born at Orford, 
 Grafton Co., N. H., May, 1808 ; settled 
 in Kane Co. in 1837 ; in 1836, he re- 
 sided in Chicago ; has owned 180 acres ; 
 now owns 45 ; is worth $5,000 ; Rep. ; 
 
 Cong.; held the office of School Trustee 
 for fifteen years ; has been Commis- 
 sioner of Highways ; coming at an early 
 day, Mr. G. has seen vast changes. 
 Was married to Miss Eunice S. Butler, 
 at Plato, July, 1 840 ; she was born in 
 Ontario Co., N. Y. State, Sept., 1818; 
 children Jas. H , born Jan., 1843 ; 
 Myron, born in 1845 ; Emily N., born 
 Oct., 1851 ; Martha, born April, 1854 i 
 Nellie E., born March, 1858; two de- 
 ceased. 
 
 Grow, A. C., far.; P. 0. Blackberry Sta. 
 
 Gelick, Geo., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 GROW, FREEMAN, blacksmith; 
 P. 0. Udina ; born in Wyoming Co., 
 Pa., April 18, 1833 ; came to Illinois in 
 Jan., 1856, locating in Kane Co.; Rep.: 
 Liberal. Married May 31, 1860, to 
 Miss Harriet M. Dean ; she was born 
 in Templeton, Worcester Co., Mass.. 
 June 11, 1834; had four children 
 Ellen E., Susan A., Ruby G., Corena 
 A. Mr. G. was a member of the 153d 
 Regt., 111. Infantry ; enlisted Feb. 14. 
 1865 ; mustered out Sept. 21, 1865. 
 
 Griggs, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gulack, Fred, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Gage, Sylvia, farmer ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 GRIGGS, EUGENE H., farmer : 
 Sec. 31 ; P. O. Gray Willow; born in 
 Kane Co., 111., Jan. 4, 1841; Rep.; 
 Liberal ; served as Collector and School 
 Director for several terms. Married 
 in 1877, to Miss Hattie Patterson ; she 
 was born in Genoa, DeKalb Co. ; Mr. 
 G. is a member of Elgin Lodge, No. 
 117, A., F. & A. M. His father and 
 grandfather were among the first settlers 
 of Plato Township, locating on the farm 
 where he now resides in June, 1835. 
 
 Gardner. Thos., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 TTARGER, Milton, far.; P.O. Udina. 
 
 Hanson, Jno. S., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Hanson, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Hall, A. W., farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 H ARGER, MERRIT T, farmer ; 
 Sec. H6 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Lewis 
 Co., N. Y., July 31, 1819 ; removed to 
 Illinois in 1853, locating on Sec. 1, 
 Plato Tp., Kane Co.; located on farm 
 where he now resides in 1865 ; Rep.: 
 Lib.; owns 410 acres of land, valued 
 at $40 per acre ; has served as Super- 
 visor of Plato Township two terms, also
 
 KANE COUNTY: PLATO. 
 
 735 
 
 held other minor offices ; married in 
 1843 to Miss Mary E. Rogers ; she was 
 born in Lewis Co., N. Y.; one child 
 L. Mariah. wife of James Buzzell. 
 
 Hilts, J. M.,'far. ; P. O. North Plato. 
 
 Hummel, Michal, far. ;. P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Hurlbut, E.;far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 HEATH, AARON, farmer ; Sec. 36 ; 
 P. 0. Gray Willow ; born in West 
 Hartford, Conn., March 2,1825; came 
 to Illinois in June, 1836, locating at 
 Elgin, where he resided until 1870, 
 when he removed to his present location; 
 owns 308 acres of land, valued at 
 $17,000 ; Rep. ; Lib. ; married in 
 1847 to Miss Mary H. Fisher; she was 
 born in Vt.; twelve children, ten living 
 Lyman, Clara, wife of John Seapy ; 
 Frank, Julian, Fred., Malcolm, Lula, 
 Earnest, Martha and Mary ; lost two ; 
 Mr. H. resided on the farm now occu- 
 pied by the Northern Illinois Hospital 
 for the Insane for more than thirty-five 
 years. 
 
 Hanigan, A., far.; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 JOHNSON, DUNCAN, farmer; P. 0. 
 
 rJ Elgin . 
 
 JULIAN, RICHARD, far. ; Sec. 
 21 ; P. O. Elgin ; born in Cornwall, 
 Eng., March 30, 1825; removed to 
 Canada in 1849, where he resided until 
 1854, when he came to Elgin, and 
 located on the farm where he now re- 
 sides in 1869 ; Rep. ; Meth. ; owns 209 
 acres of land, valued at $45 per acre ; he 
 was married in 1850 to Miss Eliza 
 Thompson ; she was born in London, 
 Eng. ; she had seven children ; six liv- 
 ing Richard H., William, Thomas J., 
 Charles, Frank and Helen E. ; lost one 
 John, who died July 21, 1854. 
 
 Johnson, Daniel, farmer ; P. O. Elgin. 
 
 T7^RIGER,WM., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Karstens, H. H., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Kranka, R., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Kranka, Chas., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Kelley, A. W., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 T OVELL, JOHN, farmer; P. O. 
 1 J Elgin. 
 
 Lenz, Andrew, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Larson, L. M., far. ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Lee, A. A., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lee, J. S., Jr., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lee, Geo. F., far. ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Lee, John P., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Loveless, A. C., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Loomis, A. W., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Lathrop, Elijah, farmer ; P. O. Udina. 
 
 Lee, Geo. P.; farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 LENZ, JOSEPH, farmer and dairy- 
 man ; P. 0. Udioa ; was born in Baden, 
 Germany, April 26 ; came to America 
 in 1857 ; settled in Kane Co. the same 
 year ; owns 48 J acres of land, valued 
 at $40 per acre ; is worth $3.000 ; 
 rents 96 acres ; Rep. ; Cath. ; was in the 
 German war ten years ; married Miss 
 Magdalene Hennig, at Aurora, June, 
 1 857 ; she was born at Baden, Germany, 
 in 1832; children are John, born Jan. 
 23, 1858; Albert, born Oct. 29, 1859 ; 
 George, born Nov. 26, 1861 ; Frederick 
 Wilhelm, born Nov. 15, 1864; Henry 
 L., born Dec. 18. 1865 ; Frank L., born 
 Oct. 29, 187 2. 
 
 Long, Alice, P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 LADD, NATHANIEL, farmer, 
 Sec. 36 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Orange, 
 Vt, Aug. 27, 1814; removed in early 
 childhood with his parents to Washing- 
 ton Co., where he resided till October, 
 1835, when he came to Illinois, 
 stopping a short time at Lockport, Will 
 Co., making a claim in Lake Co. the 
 same year ; located on the farm win re 
 he now resides in the Spring of 1838 ; 
 owns 201 acres of land, valued at 
 $12,000; Rep.; Lib.; married, Feb. 
 11, 1838. to Miss Mary Buzzell ; she 
 was born in Orange Co., Vt. ; ten 
 children, six living Emmagine, Eliza- 
 beth, Harriet, Mary, Josephine and 
 Charles L. ; lost four Mark P., mem- 
 ber of 127th 111. Vols., died in the 
 army Jan. 5, 1863 ; Frank P., died 
 Sept. 11, 1853; Lida, died Aug. 4, 
 1855 ; Ella, died March 23, 1862. 
 
 McEWEN, S. R., far. ; P. 0. North 
 Plato. 
 Me Arthur, Norman, far. ; P. 0. North 
 
 Plato. 
 
 Me Arthur, A., farmer ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 McArthur, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. North 
 
 Plato. 
 
 McDonald, Thos. ; P. 0. Udina. 
 McBride, Henry, farmer ; P. O. North 
 
 Plato. 
 McNamara, Mat., farmer ; P. 0. North 
 
 Plato. 
 
 McConnell, L., farmer ; P. O Burlington. 
 , McDearmit, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin.
 
 736 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Miller, G., farmer : P. 0. Udina. 
 
 MCDONALD, WILLIAM w., 
 
 farmer, Sec. 25 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born in 
 Kane Co., 111., Oct. 14, 184(5 ; Rep.; 
 Lib.; married in 1866 to Miss Elizabeth 
 M. Youngs ; she was born in the State 
 of New York ; her two children are 
 Charles A. and John F. 
 
 Martin, John. 
 
 Muirhead, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. North 
 Plato. 
 
 Mock. Win., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Mock, Jas., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Myers, Chester, far. ; P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Miser, Fred. 
 
 Minka, Fred., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 -ATELSON, JOHN. 
 
 Nickel, Henry, farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 Norton, Betsey, far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 .WEN, C. E.,far,; P. 0. N. Plato. 
 
 o 
 
 PINGREE, A. C., far.; P. 0. Pingree. 
 Grove. 
 
 Peterson, Chas., far. ; P. 0. Pingree Grove. 
 
 Potts, M. A. 
 
 PEASE, GEORGE L., far. ; Sec. 
 21; P. 0. Elgin ; born in Cattaraugus 
 Co., N. Y., March 6, 1843; removed to 
 Illinois in early childhood, with his 
 parents, who located in Plato Tp., in 
 1844; Dem.; Liberal. Married in 1860, 
 to Miss Harriet A. Armstrong ; she was 
 born in the State of New York ; has 
 served as Constable for three years ; his 
 father, David Pease, still resides on the 
 farm on which he first located, when he 
 came to the county. 
 
 PINGREE, DANIEL, physician 
 and surgeon ; P. 0. Pingree Grove ; was 
 born at Springfield, N. H., Jan. 26, 
 1819 ; came to Kane Co., in 1838; in 
 1840 he purchased 335 acres of land 
 and still retains the same ; is a graduate 
 of the Indiana Medical College, situated 
 at La Porte ; graduated in 1849 ; prac- 
 ticed medicine for eighteen years ; has 
 had a large practice in Kane Co.; held 
 the office of School Director. Married 
 Miss Jane H. Avenhill, at Newark, 
 Kendall Co., 111., Nov. 10, 1859 ; she 
 was born in Litchfield, Grayson Co., 
 Ky., Nov. 5, 1825; three children 
 Walter, born July 22, 1863 ; Ellen 
 Douglas, born Feb. 26, 1865 ; Jennie, 
 born Jan. 3, 1868. 
 
 Pease, David, farmer; P. O. Elgin. 
 Pugsley, George, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pease, Wm. A., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pease, J. W.. farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pease, A. J., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Phelan, John, far.; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Pickering, Sarah, far.; P. 0. Udina. 
 "T> OSS, THOMAS, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rue, Joseph, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Robinson, Samuel, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Reed, G. B., P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Runge, A. H., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 RUSSELL, IRA N., farmer; Sec. 
 13 ; P. 0. Udina ; born in Wyoming 
 Co., N. Y., Feb. 4, 1833; removed to 
 Illinois with his parents, who settled in 
 Batavia in the Summer of 1844; loca- 
 ted on the farm where he now resides in 
 1865; own 387 acres of land, valued at 
 $23,000 ; Rep.; Liberal ; member of 
 Elgin Lodge, No. 117, A., F. & A. M.; 
 married May 19, 1853, to Miss Charlotte 
 B. Sherburne ; she was born in Essex 
 Co., N. Y., Oct. 2, 1827; four children 
 Emma A. (wife of Joseph Rue), El- 
 len A., Freeman A., Laura A.; Mr. R. 
 is Supervisor of Plato Township; has 
 also held other minor offices. 
 
 Rourke, A. H., farmer; P. 0. North Plato. 
 
 Roach, L. 
 
 Robinson, R. C., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rippberger, Adam, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Ross, Myron, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Rue, E., farmer; P. Elgin. 
 
 Rue, P., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Ribel, L., farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Rowe, W. H., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Robinson, William, far.; P. 0. Sycamore. 
 
 Ripperger, George, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 SHEDDAN, MARGARET, farmer; 
 P. 0. Udina. 
 SCHOONHOVEN, HENRY A , 
 
 farmer ; Sec. 24 ; P. 0. Elgin ; born 
 in Steuben Co., N. Y., June 19, 1839 : 
 removed to Illinois in early childhood 
 with his parents, who located in Cook 
 Co.; came to his present home in the 
 Fall of 1861 ; owns 386 acres of land, 
 valued at $19,000; Rep.; Lib.; mar- 
 ried Sept. 13, 1860, to Miss Martha A. 
 Cass ; she was born in Washington Co., 
 Vt., July 13, 1839 ; four children liv- 
 ing Frank J., Cora J., Eugene H. and 
 Bessie I.; lost two Georsrie, died in 
 April, 18t>9 ; one died in infancy.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 737 
 
 Switzer, J., farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Shuman, Fred., far.; P. 0., Udina. 
 
 Sherwood, Geo., far.; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Shuman, Chris., far. ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Sheddam, Robt,, far. ; P. O. Udina. 
 
 Sheddam, J. R., far. ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Shuman, Aug., far. ; P. O. Udina. 
 
 SEAPY, WM. R., farmer; Sec. 20 ; 
 P. 0. Elgin ; born in Plato Tp., Kane 
 Co., 111., Feb. 27, 1847; Rep.; Lib.; 
 owns 80 acres of land, valued at 
 $4,000 ; married March 4, 1872, to 
 Miss Lottie A. Swan ; two children 
 Charles A. and Bertha E. 
 
 Strickling, H. 
 
 Swanson, Peter, P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 
 Schrader, J., farmer ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Seapy, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Scott, A. D , farmer ; P. O. Udina. 
 
 Sherwood. Seth, farmer; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Seward, C. L., farmer ; P. O. No. Plato. 
 
 Shrader, John, farmer ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Shrader, William, far.; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Skinner, B. 0., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Smith, G. E. 
 
 Schueller, L., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Smith, Joseph, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Seward, Levi, farmer; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Seward, A., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Sherwood, L., farmer ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Stamback, C. 
 
 Schlierback, Conrad, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 Sherwood, A. P., far. ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 
 Sovereign, G. P., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 rpHIES, F., farmer; P. 0. North 
 Plato. 
 
 Tucker, J. R., P. O. Elgin. 
 
 Taylor, J., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tucker, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tucker, Margaret, P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tucker, R. C., farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Tucker, J. W., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 "YTESY, JAMES, farmer; P. O. 
 
 V Udina. 
 
 Vanostrand, H. B., farmar ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Valtz, Lewis, farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 
 WARNER, CHAS., farmer; P. 0. 
 North Plato. 
 
 Walker, J. N., P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Wilkie, Chris. 
 
 Wallace, Pat., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Wallace, Edward, far. ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 Wilcox, A. R., far. ; P. 0. No. Plato. 
 Wardlaw, John, far. ; P. O. Udina. 
 Wilcox, J. W., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Wilcox, O., far. ; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Werbach, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Udina. 
 Werbach, Andrew, Sr., farmer ; P. O. 
 
 Udina. 
 Werbach, Andrew, Jr., farmre ; P. 0. 
 
 Udina. 
 
 Walters, far. ; C. P. Elgin. 
 Wallace, W., far.; P. 0. North Plato. 
 Wright, E. B., far. ; P. 0. Blackberry. 
 Walker, Louisa, P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 Walker, Eugene, P. 0. Campton. 
 Walker, F. P., P. 0. Gray Willow. 
 "ArOUNGS, S., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Youngs, Peter, farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Youngs, M. C., farmer; P. 0. Elgin. 
 Yurz, Carl, farmer ; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 AURORA TOWNSHIP. 
 
 AYRES, CHARLES, carp.; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Arnell, Lewis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Asburgh, John, P. 0. Auiora. 
 Arkwright, Caroline, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 AURORA BEACON, is the oldest 
 
 newspaper published in the Fox River 
 Valley ; it was established in 1846, by 
 Frank and Myron V. Hall ; a small 
 weekly, printed on a sheet 22x32 inches, 
 and has now grown to a semi-weekly of 
 26x42 inches, and a weekly of double 
 that size ; it has suffered several changes 
 
 and some vicissitudes ; in 1854 it was 
 sold by the Halls to James W. and 
 Dudley Randall, who, with the aid of 
 N. S. Greenwood, Brewster & Sons, and 
 Augustus Harman, continued its publi- 
 cation until July, 1857, issuing also a 
 daily edition during the Fremont cam- 
 paign ; at the last date the interests of the 
 Beacon and Guardian were consoli- 
 dated into the Republican Union, under 
 the proprietorship of Simeon Whitely 
 and James W. Randall ; but the affairs 
 of the old Beacon had became so badly
 
 738 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 involved, that Mr. Randall was obliged 
 to withdraw his interests and materials, 
 and place them in the han^s of his credit- 
 ors ; in Sept., 1857, the owuers of the 
 material put it in the possession of 
 Augustus Barman, who had been editor 
 of the daily Beacon, and 0. B. Knick- 
 erbocker, job printer in that office, who 
 revived the Beacon, and Mr. Knicker- 
 bocker has remained with it sinco that 
 time; Mr. Harman, thoroughly impreg- 
 nated with prohibition and woman's 
 rights doctrines, soon withdrew from the 
 paper and established sheets more to his 
 fancy; in 1859, Mr. Whitely, of the 
 Republican- Union, failed, and the mate- 
 rials of his office was bought by George 
 S. Bangs, who had, years before, been 
 in the employ of the Halls, and the 
 two interests were combined, the paper, 
 as the Beacon, enlarged and the busi- 
 ness continued in Temperance Hall 
 block, where it now remains ; the 
 Beacon was the first paper to mention 
 the name of Abraham Lincoln in con- 
 nection with the Presidency, and after 
 his accession to power, he made Mr. 
 Bangs Postmaster at Aurora; in 1866, 
 the Beacon disagreed with Mr. John- 
 son and his policy, and Mr. Bangs de- 
 siring to retain the post office, sold his 
 interests to Mr. J. H. Hodder, who 
 had been connected with the mechanical 
 department of the paper much of the 
 time since 1854 ; the firm then formed, 
 Knickerbocker & Hodder, still own and 
 conduct the paper ; during the first 
 years of its publication, the Beacon 
 was somewhat anomalous of its political 
 character one page being devoted to 
 Democratic principles, under control of 
 B. Frank Hall, and the other to Whig 
 teachings, according to the views of 
 Myron V. Hall ; it afterward passed 
 under the direct control of Myron Hall, 
 and was Whig in principle, until after 
 the Bloomington Convention ; it placed 
 itself square upon Republican principles 
 as enunciated by the platform put forth 
 by that patriotic body ; since that time 
 it has remained unswervingly and con- 
 sistently Republican. 
 
 Messrs. K. & H. have, in connection 
 with the paper, one of the largest and 
 best appointed book and job printing 
 establishments in the State (out of 
 
 Chicago), and a complete bindery and 
 blank book manufactory, being the only 
 one in the south end of the county. The 
 History of the 36th 111. Vols., History 
 of Du Page County, and the History of 
 Kendall County, are among the produc- 
 tions of the past year. The facilities of 
 the Beacon establishment are perfect in 
 every detail, and the proprietors expend 
 their personal efforts to bring all their 
 work up to the highest standard of ex- 
 cellence. 
 
 Oscar B. Knickerbocker was born in 
 Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y., in 
 1837. Passed his younger school days 
 in the public schools of Albany, N. Y. 
 In 1849 removed with his father's 
 family to Lansingburg, N. Y., where in 
 1851, he commenced to learn the trade 
 of printing in the Democrat office, under 
 Old Hunker Democratic influences. He 
 gained further knowledge of printing in 
 the office of the Albany Evening Journal, 
 while Thurlow Weed was its editor, and 
 George Dawsonand Fred. Seward assist- 
 ants. In 1855, he came West, worked 
 a little time upon his father's farm near 
 Earlville in this State. In the Summer 
 and Winter of 1856, he taught the vil- 
 lage school in Earlville. In the Spring 
 of 1857 he came to Aurora, secured a 
 situation with the Messrs. Randall, and 
 on the day of the first municipal election 
 became a resident of the city. His 
 history since that time has been simply 
 close attention to the interests of the 
 Beacon. He was, in 1870-1, one of the 
 Secretaries of the Illinois State Senate. 
 
 John H. Hodder was born in Brid- 
 port, Dorsetshire, England, where he 
 learned the printing and book binding 
 business ; serving a regular five years' 
 apprenticeship. He landed in New York 
 in 1853, at the age of eighteen, having 
 no intention of remaining in this coun- 
 try but a short time ; worked at his trade 
 in New York City for several months, 
 when, taking the Western fever, he came 
 to Chicago in 1854, and from thence to 
 Aurora, where he engaged to work for 
 the Randalls at the time of their pur- 
 chase of the Beacon from the Halls. 
 Shortly after, he established in Aurora 
 the first book bindery in the Fox River 
 Valley, which subsequently became con. 
 uected with the Beacon. He wa? for
 
 KANE COUNTY : AURORA. 
 
 739 
 
 many years foreman and job printer of 
 the Beacon office, and accomplished 
 more toward the advancement in 
 Aurora, of " the Art Preservative of all 
 Arts," than any other member of the 
 craft. 
 
 Artis, Clinton, upholsterer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ashford, Pat., boiler mkr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ashford, John, Sr., lab. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Ashford, John, Jr., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Annis, F. M., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Adams, C. C., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Adams, Hiram, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Anthony, W., traveler ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Anderson, A., tailor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 AURORA GAS LIGHT CO.; 
 
 located on S. River St., near the West 
 Depot of the C., B. & Q. R. R.; this 
 Co. manufactures all the gas used for 
 lighting purposes in the city ; charter 
 first granted to I. W. Buck, Wm. H. 
 Hawkins and others, in 1861, and they 
 held it until 1868, and transferred it to 
 the present Co. ; they manufacture from 
 coal, and the gas is of a superior quality ; 
 Mr. Copley has been a resident of Au- 
 rora since 1868 ; born in Delaware Co.. 
 N. Y., in 1825 ; Major Whiting is a 
 partner and brother-in-law, and was a 
 Paymaster during the war ; after the 
 war had his headquarters at Detroit, 
 Mich. ; was made a Colonel ; Mr. W. 
 is a liberal, enterprising man ; his brother 
 was also a soldier, enlisting in Co. G, 
 8i)th R. R. Reg. ; he was a fine officer, 
 and in every important battle of the 
 war; taken prisoner at Chattanooga, 
 and sent to Libby Prison ; after his re- 
 lease, he was made a Captain ; he fell at 
 the battle of Chickamauga ; it is said of 
 him that no braver man ever entered the 
 field. 
 
 Alden, Thomas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ATWOOD, C. B., Sec. 32; P. 0. 
 Montgomery ; born in N. Y., Nov. 12, 
 1839. He married Miss Cynthia M. 
 Bennett ; she was born in New York ; 
 had four children ; she died May 6, 1873 ; 
 second wife, Miss Moriah C. Smith ; 
 she was born in N. Y. ; no children ; 
 lived in N. Y. 16 years, then came to 
 Geneva, then to Kendall Co., lived there 
 12 years, then to Kaneville, then back to 
 Kendall Co., then to Montgomery, in 
 1875, and has lived here since ; has 
 been School Director. 
 
 Andrus, J. M., marble works ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Allaire, P. A., physician; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Anning, C., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Angel, David, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Angel, Charles, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ayers, J. C., far. ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Adams, Elisha, lab. ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Aucut, Gustavus, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Armstrong, Mrs. Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Andrews, John, mail agt. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Allen, Wm., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Anderson, J. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Allen, Mrs. E. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Allen, E. C., mfr. sash, doors, etc.; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Allen, R. C., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Allen, L. J., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ALLEN & CORSAIR, proprietors 
 of the sash, door and blind manufactory, 
 Aurora. This is the leading manufac- 
 tory of the kind in Aurora. This fac- 
 tory first commenced business in 1870, 
 under the firm name of Allen & Dyke; 
 the present proprietors, Edward C. Al- 
 len (son of the Hon. E. R. Allen), was 
 born in Aurora, in 1849, and is pos- 
 sessed of rare business qualifications ; and 
 David Corsair, a native of Scotland, and 
 one of the most practical of manufac- 
 turers. They make a specialty of ordered 
 work, give estimates on all kinds of 
 work usually done in sash factories, and 
 guarantee all work as represented ; their 
 conveniences for shipping are unsur- 
 passed, as they have a side track ad- 
 joining the works ; they employ from 
 eighteen to twenty men, and find sales 
 for their goods in the States of Illinois, 
 and Iowa. This firm is composed of 
 two of the rising manufacturers who 
 hold a high place in the estimation of 
 the citizens of Kane Co., for their gen- 
 iality, sociability and business qualities. 
 
 Allen, Mrs. S. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ames, E., contractor; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Alexander, Geo., train master C., B. & Q. 
 and C. & I. R. R.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Alexander, E. M.. clerk; Aurora. 
 
 Assell, B., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Adams, C. H., Justice Peace ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Arcouet, C., phot.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Abens, Nicholas, mer.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Abens, Stephen, saloon; P. O. Aurora. 
 Arnes, Fred, mer.; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 740 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 ALLEN, E. R., P. 0. Aurora; was 
 born in Courtland Co., N.Y., in 1819; 
 he left his native home when fifteen 
 years old for Lockport, N. Y., where he 
 remained about fourteen years ; thence 
 emigrated and went to Illinois in 1839, 
 via canal and lake on the steamer Illi- 
 nois ; first settled in Chicago and was 
 in the drug business for two years. In 
 1841, with the inducement of Geo. E. 
 Peck, he came to Aurora, and com- 
 menced partnership with that gentleman, 
 firm Peck & Allen. Then he entered 
 the grocery business and continued 
 until 1849; he built a warehouse and 
 commenced the grain and coal business 
 in 1851 ; he was appointed Postmaster 
 of Aurora, by President Jas. K. Polk, 
 being the second Postmaster of Aurora; 
 was city Alderman in 1859, '60, '61, '71, 
 '72, '73 ; was Mayor in 1860 ; Senator 
 from the 2d District in 1861 and '62 at 
 the breaking out of the late war ; was 
 President of the Board of Education for 
 several years ; all of these were offices 
 of trust, in each of which he has 
 acquitted himself in a very creditable 
 and efficient manner. He has always 
 taken an active part in promoting the vari- 
 ous interests of the city, and to this end 
 has spent much money and time. His 
 father. Edward Allen, is a native of Mass. 
 
 Avery Isaac, lumber inspector ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Albert, Peter, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Andrews, Jno., barber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Austin, A. T. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Alschuler, Jacob, Sr., salesman ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 ALLEN, WM. B., U. S. Internal 
 Revenue Collector ; born in New York 
 in 1821, remaining there until 1849; 
 then emigrating West to Kane Co.; 
 commenced in the drug and book store 
 business 1849, which business he con- 
 tinued in until 1851, thence in the ware- 
 house business with his brother until 
 1867 ; was appointed U. S. Collector in 
 1867 under President Johnson ; in Jan., 
 1876, the Second and Sixth Districts 
 consolidated ; then re-appointed by 
 President Grant. He has creditably 
 filled many offices of public trust; in 
 1858 was elected Mayor of the city of 
 Aurora the second Mayor of Aurora. 
 
 Alschuler, Jacob, Jr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ashling, Thos., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ayres, C. G., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ansley, Ira, P. O. Aurora. 
 Arnson. Thos., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Abel, Chris., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Abel, Chas., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Abell, Jas., expressman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Aldringer, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Aldringer, Jacob, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Aldringer, Theo., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Anson, Leon aid. 
 
 ANGELL, LORENZO, born in 
 
 New Hampshire Sept. 9, 1817 ; son of 
 David and Deborah Angell ; his father 
 was a farmer, and also kept a hotel at 
 Sunapee, Sullivan Co.; here young A. 
 grew to manhood ; received a good edu- 
 cation for those days; at 11 years of 
 age his father died ; on becoming of 
 age, he carried on the hotel heretofore 
 mentioned; in 1835 he married Char- 
 lotte Twiss at Sunapee ; they lived to- 
 gether twelve years, when his wife passed 
 peacefully away; in 1849 he was 
 married to Mary Jane Twiss, sister of 
 his first wife ; in 1853 he came to Chi- 
 cago, 111., and, not liking the looks of 
 the place, went East ; but he again 
 came to the West the following year, 
 and located at Aurora and .bought 252 
 acres of land ; he had very little capital, 
 but plenty <>f 'clear Yankee grit, and in 
 time had as fine a farm as could be 
 found, for the size, in the county ; in 
 June, 1877, he died, and was laid to 
 rest in the beautiful West Side Ceme- 
 tery ; thus passed away a man of ster- 
 ling worth and industry ; the children 
 by the first marriage were David, 
 Charles and Amanda ; by the second, 
 Myron ; after the death of Mr. A., his 
 estate became divided up, Charles hav- 
 ing 80, David 90 and his wife the re- . 
 maindor. 
 
 ANNING, CHAS., dry goods; it is 
 now nearly nine years since Mr. Anning 
 began business in Aurora ; on a strictly 
 cash basis his trade is not restricted to 
 one manufacturer or importer, but has the 
 range of the whole market ; commenc- 
 ing small, relying on twenty years' ex- 
 perience in the leading houses of London 
 and America, establishing as a motto 
 never to be undersold, coupled with one 
 price and a study to please, he has built 
 up a trade on a solid foundation.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 741 
 
 "OEVIER, W. E., tinner; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bevier, W. B., express messenger ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. A. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Roger, mfr. wagons, etc.; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. E. L., millinery; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Brown, S. W., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Frank. 
 
 Breed, James, car repairer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Breed, Abel, prop, stone works; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Breese, G. S., farmer; P. 0. Aurora 
 
 Breese, H. V., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Baker. George, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown. E. L., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BALDWIN, L., merchant (firm of 
 W. Lawrence & Co.) ; was born in Sus- 
 quehanna Co., Pa., April 4, 1824 ; son 
 of Sanmel and Betsey Baldwin, who 
 were natives of Conn., and who moved 
 from the Mohawk Valley to the State 
 of Pa. more than a half century ago ; 
 young Baldwin received an academical 
 education at Montrose ; his father was 
 a farmer, and he remained with him 
 until he came West, in the Spring of 
 1 848 ; passing through Chicago, he lo- 
 cated at Aurora, and entered the em- 
 ploy of Geo. McCollum, piano, carriage 
 and wagon manufacturer, of Aurora ; 
 worked for him five years, and then 
 bought out R. C. Anderson without a 
 dollar of capital, and at the time was 
 receiving $1 a day ; in six months he 
 cleared $2,000 ; at this date, was elected 
 Justice of the Peace and served 12 
 years ; also officiated as Town Clerk, In- 
 surance Agent and Dep. P.M.; in 1864, 
 became partner of D. Volentine and 
 Wm. Lawrence, for the sale of dry 
 goods, &c. 
 
 BURTON, PIERCE, of the firm of 
 Pierce Burton & Co., publishers of 
 the Aurora, Herald ; he was born in ! 
 Norwich, Vt., Dec. 24, 1834, to William 
 Smith and Nancy Russel Burton ; his 
 father died when he was 8 years of 
 age, and at the age of 10 he removed 
 with his mother to Republic, Seneca Co., 
 Ohio ; when 16 years old he taught 
 school in Logan Co., Ohio, during the 
 Winter, working on a farm Summers ; 
 at 18, he was employed in the railroad 
 
 freight and ticket office and grain ware- 
 house at Republic, where he learned tel- 
 egraphing ; at 20 years of age, he visited 
 friends in Massachusetts, where he was 
 employed as assistant electrician to Henry 
 M. Paine, of Worcester, who was then 
 engaged in electrical experiments in pro- 
 ducing gas from water and in construct- 
 ing an electro magnetic motor ; after 
 that failed, he served as telegraph oper- 
 ator for a year ; then he went to Ander- 
 son, Ind., then the northern terminus of 
 the Cincinnati & Chicago Air Line Rail- 
 road, as station agent for that company, 
 where he remained six years. In I860, 
 he was married to Miss Nellie G. Lap- 
 ham, of South Adams, Mass., who died 
 three years afterward ; their only child, 
 Charles Pierce, was born in Anderson, 
 Ind., March 7, 1862. Mr. B. then re- 
 turned to Massachusetts for a short time, 
 then went to Demopolis, Alabama, in- 
 tending to run a cotton plantation, but 
 was made agent for the Freedmen's Bu- 
 reau. While in that capacity he wrote 
 a letter to the Springfield (Mass.) He- 
 publican, giving an account of the work- 
 ing of the tax on cotton upon the for- 
 tunes of the freedmen, which was widely 
 copied and caused his discharge from the 
 Bureau, and, getting into Congress, has- 
 tened the repeal of the tax ; he was 
 afterward employed as Registrar over two 
 counties, under the Reconstruction Acts, 
 and while away from home attending to 
 this duty, was elected, in his own county, 
 Marengo, as Delegate to the State Con- 
 stitutional Convention ; while serving in 
 that capacity, was nominated as Repre- 
 sentative in the Legislature, to which 
 position he was elected, and served as 
 Chairman of the Committee on Finance, 
 and afterward on that of Ways and 
 Means ; while in that body, he became 
 noted for his vigorous opposition to the 
 railroad bond steals, which were being 
 pushed through the Legislature, and 
 saved the State several millions of dol- 
 lars. In 1868, he commenced the pub- 
 lication of the /Southern Republican in 
 Demopolis. In 1870, he was nominated 
 as the Republican candidate for Lieuten- 
 ant Governor ; the ticket was defeated 
 by less than 2,000 votes through a pe- 
 culiar system of "counting" known 
 only in the South. Finding publishing
 
 742 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 a Republican newspaper in Alabama ex- 
 tremely unpleasant, as well as unprofita- 
 ble, he sold out in 1871, and settled in 
 Aurora in December of tbat year, pur- 
 chasing the Aurora Herald, with which 
 paper he is at present connected. In 
 December, 1873, he was married to 
 Miss Maria A. Sibley, of Athol, Mass., 
 by whom he has had two children. 
 
 BUNNELL, A. D., firm of Phillips I 
 
 Bros. & Co.; was born in Litchfield Co., 
 Conn., Nov. 16, 1817; became associ- 
 ated in business with Phillips Bros, in ! 
 1864; this house is well and favorably | 
 known as one of the leading grocery j 
 houses of Aurora ; Mr. B. has held j 
 numerous offices in the East ; was 
 member 2d Vol. Inf., and member Leg- 
 islature from Conn. ; married Miss 
 Phillips at Litchfield ; one child Ly- 
 man P. 
 
 Baker, James, tinner ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Baker, G. W., mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BROWN, PETER, retired farmer ; 
 was born in Rensselaer Co., N. Y., 
 Feb. 4, 1789 ; he acquired his educa- 
 tion as best he could ; at the age of 
 twenty-one, he began life as a farmer 
 at Nassau ; in 1836, he moved to Chat- 
 ham. Columbia Co., and from thence to 
 Salem, Washington Co.; while in Nassau, 
 he had been in the mercantile business ; 
 in 1865, he came West, to Illinois, and 
 settled in Aurora as a farmer ; he accu- 
 mulated a nice property ; he is now 
 nearly ninety years of age and still 
 vigorous for a man of his age ; his first 
 wife was Miss T. Green ; they were mar- 
 ried at Nassau, N. Y., in 1811 ; she 
 died in 1815 ; his second wife was Mrs. 
 Polly Slyter, who died in 1852 ; in 
 1853, he was again united in wedlock 
 to Mrs. Groot of Salem, who is still 
 living. 
 
 Baker, C. M., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bonte, Philip, brewer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Billings, John, tree grafter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Billing, Wm., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Billing, James, gardener ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Butler, Mrs. Nancy, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brennan, Thos., boiler mkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ballard, Joseph, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battle, E. P., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battle, J. W., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barnes, W. B., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beers, Jas. T., agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bristol, Hiram, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Buck, Mrs. G. F., P. (). Aurora. 
 
 BLACKMORE & R,EED, carriage 
 manufacturing, blacksmithing and gen- 
 eral jobbing ; this is one of the old 
 established houses of Aurora, the bus- 
 iness dating back to 1861, when the 
 firm was Blackmore & Russell ; thoy 
 continued in business but a short time ; 
 at the breaking out of the war Mr. 
 Blackmore entered the army, entering 
 in Co. E, 124th 111. Infantry, at Aurora 
 for three years ; participated in the 
 battles of Vicksburg, Spanish Fort, 
 Champion Hills, etc., etc.; he was hon- 
 orably discharged at Vicksburg ; re- 
 turned to Aurora and started in business 
 with W. E. Carpenter in 1875 ; D. B. 
 Jackson became a member, but shortly 
 after started in business for himself; 
 since 1875 Mr. Reed became a partner ; 
 he is a skilled workman, and was a 
 Supt. in Geo. McCollum's shop for a 
 number of years. Mr. B. was born at 
 Eastport, Maine, April 25, 1827, and 
 in his seventeenth year, was apprenticed 
 to the Carriage Manufacturing Co. of 
 Geo. W. Bailey. 
 
 Buffer, Peter, salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Blair, Jno., sheet iron wkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Blair, Miss M. A., millinery ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Blair, Miss L., millinery ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BROWN, BYRON (Lake& Brown), 
 mfrs. and dlrs. in boots and shoes ; born 
 in Rensselaer Co., N. Y.. in March, 
 1826 ; his father was a farmer in good 
 circumstances for those days ; here he 
 received a good education, and, when 19 
 years of age, was apprenticed to Daniel 
 Davis, a carpenter ; worked for him five 
 years, and became a skillful workman ; 
 in 1856, formed a partnership with F. 
 L. Barton, who carried on a general 
 merchandise business ; this became a 
 leading house at a time when the strin- 
 gency of the money market was being 
 felt; came to Aurora, 111., in 1865, and 
 went into the lumber trade ; the firm 
 was composed of D. Valentine, W. Law- 
 rence, D. W. C. Brown (a brother) and 
 himself; continued in it three years, and 
 then became partner of D. W. Simpson, 
 boot and shoe dlr. ; they did a fine trade, 
 both partners being energetic men. D. 
 G. Lake, his present partner, is a 
 wealthy and prominent man.
 
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 743 
 
 Bisbey, B., Empire House ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Barker, Al., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brundage, C. F., engineer; P. O. Aurora, 
 Branch, Hiram, P. Aurora. 
 Burr, Mrs. S. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bellon, J., saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Burgen, L., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BRONSON, EDWIN H., Baptist 
 
 minister ; son of Rev. W. A. Bronson ; 
 born at Dexter, Mich., Sept. 14, 1847 ; 
 in early life, his parents moved to New 
 York; when 10 years old, his father 
 died, and, shortly after, the family 
 moved to New Jersey ; the preliminary 
 education of young Bronson was received 
 at Hamilton, N. Y.; this was the pre- 
 paratory course to entering the Madison 
 University, which he entered in 1869, 
 graduating in 1873, and receiving the 
 degree of Bachelor of Arts; in 1876, 
 received the degree of Master of Arts ; 
 after graduation, became Gen. Supt. of 
 Bible work in connection with the Con- 
 necticut State Baptist Convention ; Jan. 
 21, 1875, was ordained to the work of 
 the ministry, and entered on pastoral 
 duties first at Haddam, Conn. ; in June, 
 1877, became Pastor of the First Baptist 
 Church, in the city of Aurora. Rev. 
 W. A. Bronson, father of Edwin, was 
 born in Oneida Co., N. Y., Sept. 3, 
 1808; in 1830, entered Hamilton Lit- 
 erary and Thenlogu-al Institute ; mar- 
 ried in July 1833 ; he was a man of 
 talent and intellect ; died Mar. 14, 1858, 
 leaving a widow and eiiiht children. 
 When the war came on, three brothers 
 of Edwin entered the army W. A. en- 
 listed in the 127th N. Y., in 1862, and 
 was disd. for disability ; G-eo. enlisted 
 it the 37th N. J. Vok, in 1864, and 
 died at Point of Rocks ; James D. took 
 camp fever at Point of Rocks, and. re- 
 turning home, died four weeks after. 
 
 Bates, T. S., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burlingame, S. A., baggage master ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 BeeJe, J. Cone, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beaupre, Wm S., Dep. U. S. Internal 
 Revenue Tollector ; P. (). Aurora. 
 
 Blasey, Margaret, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Benson, P. G., Alderman ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Bowron, Thos. D., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bowron, Clara, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bryan, H. S.. M. M. C. & I. Railroad. 
 
 Butzen, John, carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BAKER, LEONID AS Z., far ; 
 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Washington 
 Co., N. Y., Dee. 24, 1817; when 8 
 years old, his father disposed of his 
 farm, and moved to Cortland Co. ; 
 Leonidas remained on the old homestead 
 until 1844 ; hfe acquired a good com- 
 mon school education through his own 
 efforts, and at 17 years of age com- 
 menced teaching in the district school, 
 and caught for seven years ; in 1841, he 
 started in the mercantile business, and 
 was very successful ; in 1843, he mar- 
 ried Miss Nancy M. Emrnons, at Lafay- 
 ette, Onondaga Co., N. Y. ; in the 
 Spring of 1844, he came to Illinois, 
 starting on the 23d of May, and reach- 
 ing Chicago on the 23d of June ; they 
 located three miles west of Aurora; 
 here he bought 160 acres; for twenty 
 years he followed farming ; the first 
 were years of hardship and toil, but 
 time brought him a competence ; Mr. 
 Baker was never a politician, and never 
 ran for office ; he was a member of the 
 Church of Christ, and a truly Christian 
 man ; in 1865, he went to Minnesota 
 for his health; he returned in 1867, 
 and became bookkeeper for F. B. Rice, 
 a hardware merchant ; he continued in 
 his employ three and a half years ; for 
 many years he suffered with hay asthma, 
 and in 1870 was attacked with typhoid 
 pneumonia, which resulted fatally, and 
 after a short illness he was laid at rest 
 in the beautiful Cemetery of Spring 
 Lake ; thus passed away a man 
 whom all respected ; six children were 
 born, of whom two are living Alice C. 
 and Albert G. 
 
 BOLSTER, MRS. S. A., born in 
 Herkimer Co., N. Y., Nov., 1826; in 
 1836, in company with her parents, she 
 moved to Chenango Co., N. Y.; in 1839, 
 she married Alva Bolster, and they 
 moved to Illinois the same year, settling 
 at Sugar Grove Township, Kane Co.; 
 bought 80 acres in 1849 ; in 1856, 
 bought 126 acres ; renting this property, 
 he continued his trade of wagon maker ; 
 removed to Lodi in 1858, and to De 
 Kalb Co. in 186H ; in 1875, she was 
 divorced from her husband ; she owns a 
 house and lot in De Kalb Co., and 
 makes it her home there. 
 Badry, Peter, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 744 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 BRADY, LORENZO D., is a 
 
 descendant from the earliest American 
 settlers; was born Jan. 19, 1810, in 
 Westchester Co., N. Y.; his parents 
 were John B. and Lydia C. (Kipp) 
 Brady ; at the age of 12 they removed 
 to New York city to live ; here Mr. B. 
 obtained a situation at a grocery store, 
 as clerk, remaining for six years in that 
 position ; having saved enough money, 
 he commencedjbusiness for himself in a 
 small way, which he carried on until 
 1837, when he emigrated West and 
 settled in Big Rock, Kane Co., 111., 
 where he was engaged in farming for 
 two years ; from there to Little Rock 
 where he was engaged in the general 
 mercantile business until 1848, at which 
 time he was elected a member of the 
 Legislature. One of the leading ques- 
 tions agitating the country then was the 
 acquisition of additional slave territory, 
 to which measure he was conscientiously 
 and firmly opposed. During his term 
 in the Legislature, an election was held 
 for United States Senator, and Mr. B. 
 recorded the first and only vote cast that 
 session in favor of a Free-Soil candi- 
 date. Mr. B. is the author of a charter 
 for a railroad from Aurora to Turner 
 Junction to connect with the Chicago 
 and Galena line, now a branch of the 
 Chicago & Northwestern R. R. ; he 
 afterwards assisted to complete and 
 equip said road. In the meantime, in 
 the year 1848, he removed to Aurora 
 and commenced the mercantile business 
 in partnership with the Hon. E. R. 
 Allen, and afterward as warehousemen 
 under the firm name of Brady & Allen. 
 In 1862 he was one of the firm of 
 Brady, Hawkins & Allen in the bank- 
 ing business until the same was merged 
 into the First National Bank of Aurora, 
 which he assisted to establish ; he was 
 President of the Aurora Fire Insurance 
 Company, which company was ruined 
 by the great Chicago fire in 1871. Of 
 the late rebellion he contributed liberally 
 of his means ; was the first to suggest 
 a monument in Aurora in honor of its 
 defenders; is President of the Aurora 
 Monument Association, the building 
 now nearly completed at a cost of 
 $10,000 ; was one of the first to sug- 
 gest the establishment of free schools in 
 
 Aurora. For the interest he has mani- 
 fested in free schools, the Brady School, 
 one of the public schools of the city, 
 was named after him. He was twice 
 married in 1836 to S. B. Fowler, 
 who died in 1844, and in the following 
 year was married to Caroline Kennon, 
 of Plattsburgh, N. Y., by whom he has 
 one son and four daughters living. 
 
 Blakesly, Ed. N., conductor C. B. & Q. 
 Railroad; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Black, L. 0., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bailey, David, train dispatcher; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Bean, J. S., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bugbce, C. S., carriage trimmer; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Brummel, W., car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Benedict, Lewis, minister ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Berry, T. E., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BRIGHAM, LEONARD R., 
 
 M. D. \ P- 0. Aurora ; was born July 
 11, 1819, in Lake Co., Ohio; he is the 
 son of Jonathan and Melinda (Daven- 
 port) Brigham, and received his educa- 
 tion at Farmington Institute of Ohio ; 
 he began the study of medicine in 1839, 
 and the practice of it, in Thompson, 
 Ohio, in 1843 ; in 1844, he married 
 Eliza S. Fancher, of Auburn, N. Y. ; 
 from 1847 to 1850 he continued his 
 practice at Painsville, Ohio ; since then 
 he has gained a wide reputation in Can- 
 ada and the Western States as a popular 
 lecturer on anatomy, physiology, hy- 
 giene and kindred subjects ; he came to 
 Aurora in 1860, and commenced the 
 practice of medicine ; he receives a large 
 first-class practice, being a gentleman of 
 acknowledged ability, and well educated 
 in the medical profession. 
 
 Bigger, John, carp. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Bigler, Nick, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bowen, C., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battersoll, Jacob, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bunker, Frank, shoemkr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burke, Martin, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brugger, Matt, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bower, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bauer, A., engineer ; P. 0. Anrora. 
 
 Bauer, Mrs. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bauer, Eisen J. M., engineer; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Brooks, Levi, moulder ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brooks, Wm., barber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beard, Jason, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Baumann, Chris., laborer; P. 0. Aurora
 
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 745 
 
 BUSHEE, ABNER, prop. Fitch 
 
 House, Aurora ; P. 0. Aurora ; he was 
 born in Mass, in 1828 ; he came to ( 
 Aurora in 1861, and commenced the j 
 ambrotype business, which he continued j 
 for two years ; he then commenced the j 
 hotel business, first as proprietor of the 
 Wilder House, Aurora ; since he has 
 been engaged in conducting, at Rich- 
 mond, 111., the Richmond House ; Auro- 
 ra House, of Aurora ; Everett House, 
 Chicago, and the Clifton House, West 
 Liberty, Iowa ; he is to-day one of the 
 most experienced landlords in Illinois, 
 having hotel experience of fifteen years ; 
 since taking possession of the hotel 
 he has suggested many improvements 
 which his thorough knowledge of a con- 
 venient hotel demanded, all of which 
 have been carried out ; and now the 
 Fitch House may lay claim to be one of 
 the best of any in a city the size of Au- 
 rora ; the landlord has spared no pains 
 or expense in making it one of the 
 hotels which should give satisfac ion to 
 the traveling public, and induce those 
 once domiciling under its roof to return 
 when occasion required, and to speak of 
 it as it really deserves. 
 BROWN & SOUTHWORTH, 
 
 attorneys at law ; P. 0. Aurora. The 
 above named gentlemen are among the 
 most prominent and thoroughly edu- 
 cated attorneys of this vicinity ; they ] 
 commenced a partnership in 1872; S. 
 W. Brown, the senior member, is one of 
 the oldest attorneys of Kane County, 
 and, probably, he is one of the best i 
 known lawyers in this county, whose 
 ability and knowledge of law is of a j 
 high order ; M. 0. South worth was born 
 in La Salle Co., 111., in April, 1842 ; i 
 having received a full collegiate course j 
 at the Beloit College, of Beloit, Wis., 
 he entered the law department of the 
 Michigan University, at Ann Arbor, 
 and graduated in 1870 ; he then came i 
 to Aurora and commenced the practice i 
 of law ; was elected City Attorney of : 
 Aurora two terms (1874 and 1875), j 
 which office he creditably filled. 
 
 Bolton, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beardsly, E. C., general agent ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Bradley, E. A., Cashier First National 
 Bank ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Byron, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brown, A. M., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BE VIER, ISAAC T., druggist; 
 
 was born in New York in 1818, re- 
 maining there until he was 14 years of 
 age ; thence to Elmira, N. Y., where 
 he was engaged in farming and in the 
 tailoring business until 1844, which 
 year, in company with his family, he 
 emigrated to Illinois and settled in 
 Aurora ; commenced the tailoring busi- 
 ness the year he came to Aurora, which 
 business he followed until 1852 ; at one 
 time he had in his employ Mr. Wm. 
 McMicken ; afterward they formed a 
 partnership in the merchant tailoring 
 business ; from 1850 to 1856 he was 
 Deputy Sheriff of Kane Co., under 
 Sheriff L. Dearborn, N. B. Spaulding 
 and L. P. Barker ; Mr. Be Vier com- 
 menced the drug business in 1856, 
 which business he has been in ever 
 since ; is the oldest druggist in Aurora ; 
 has held various public offices, among 
 which that of East Side Street Com- 
 missioner, and is now filling his second 
 term as Highway Commissioner. He 
 has always taken an active part in the 
 legitimate enterprises that tended to 
 add to the prosperity of Aurora. When 
 Mr. Be Vier first came to Aurora, he 
 was in very poor circumstances, but, 
 with industry and hard labor, he ranks 
 among the leading merchants of Aurora ; 
 his son, John E., was in the late war, 
 did good service and was honorably dis- 
 charged, and is now living in Dubuque, 
 Iowa, in charge of the C., D. & M. R. 
 Car Shops ; William is messenger on 
 the C. A. & St. Louis R. 
 
 Brimeinyer, Jno. A., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battendorff, A., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beaver, John, cabinet maker ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Bock, Henry, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bartholomew, G. W., pattern maker; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barry, Charles, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barrett, C. C., lumber mer.; P. Aurora. 
 
 Berrett, W. H., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barnet, Thomas, moulder; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bartolott, Philip, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barth, Chris., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barth, Jacob, painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barber, S. P., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bristol, George, P. O. Aurora.
 
 746 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Bagg, Mrs. F. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BRUCE, M R., merchant tailor, No. , 
 21 Main st., Aurora; born in Scotland 
 in 1821 ; lived there until 1846 ; then 
 came to the United States and settled in 
 Aurora, and engaged in merchant tailor- 
 ing ; was the first in the cloth business 
 in the city, and has been identified with 
 the business since, in Aurora and 
 Chicago; in 1851, he married Miss 
 Euphenia Parker ; she was born in 
 Canada ; they had nine children, seven 
 living Maggie, teacher in West Side 
 schools ; Mary A., teacher in State Nor- 
 mal School, Terre Haute, Ind. ; John, 
 in commercial business, at Chicago ; 
 Ida, teaching Hebrew and Greek at 
 Cornell University ; Euphenia, teaching 
 music ; Jennie, teaching in City High 
 Schools; Edward M., with his father; j 
 all his children are graduates of the Au- j 
 rora High Schools, but one, the youngest ; ' 
 in a law suit against the city, Mr. Bruce, 
 after twenty-two days' trial, beat and 
 put the Mayor, Street Commissioners, 
 etc., in jail, and it was the means of 
 making him Alderman from his ward. 
 
 BEILER, JOHN, wagon manufac- 
 turer and livery stable ; P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born in Germany, in 1 840 ; emi- 
 grated to America in 1857, and came 
 West and settled in Aurora the same 
 year; Mr. Beiler commenced his career 
 in life by laboring ; was at one time a 
 laborer on a steamer, running on the 
 Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers ; 
 It was on the Tennessee River that a 
 bale of cotton fell on him and crippled 
 him for life, but, by industrious habits 
 and close attention to business, has suc- 
 ceeded in building up a large business ; 
 he keeps forty head of stock, and from 
 fifty to seventy-five vehicles of different 
 kinds ; in his wagon and carriage works, 
 he employs twelve hands, and turns out 
 all kinds of wagons, carriages and sleighs 
 manufactured ; Mr. Beiler, when he first 
 came to Aurora, was in very poor cir- 
 cumstances, but, with industry, hard 
 labor and good management, is to-day 
 one of the successful men of Aurora. 
 
 Beck, Theodore, C. B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. ( 
 Aurora. 
 
 Butler, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Backhouse, Francis, shoemaker; P. 0. Au- ( 
 rora. 
 
 Bishop, W. W., Alderman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bishop, J. R., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Mrs. Jennie, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bates, Chas., butcher; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Biver, Nich., 1st., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Biver, Dominick, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Blair, J. L., sheet iron worker ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Beers, J. T., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Horace, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Roger, wagons, etc.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Breed, J. M., car repairer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Braker, S. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bray ton, Chas.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bowen, Cyrus, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burley, Isabel, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burkhart, J. F., C., B. & Q. R, R.; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Beaver, Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brady, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brogan, James, trackman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beyer, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burkhart, Leonard, capitalist; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Bentz, Mat,, C. B., & Q. R R.; P. O. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Baumann, August, saloon; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bailey, Mrs. Fred, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bailey, Henry, teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barthenclay, M. A., C., B. &. Q. R. R.; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brooks, W. L., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Britton, T. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bershite, Michael, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Batterman, Henry, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 BARTLETT, DR. P. L., Mayor of 
 
 the city of Aurora ; was b.orn in Pough- 
 keepsie, N. Y., in 1843; thence to 
 Maine ; thence to Chicago, remaining 
 there until 1850; came to Kane Co. in 
 1851 ; received a thorough education 
 both in law and medicine, being a grad- 
 uate in the law department in the 
 Michigan University at Ann Arbor in 
 1856 ; also graduated in the Homoe- 
 opathic Medical College of Missouri at 
 St. Louis, in 1868 ; was nominated and 
 placed on the Republican ticket for 
 Mayor of the city of Aurora, in March. 
 1877, receiving an overwhelming ma- 
 jority of about 1,400 votes over his op- 
 ponent ; has also held the offices of 
 City Physician and member of the 
 Board of Education, which offices he 
 has held faithfully for the people of 
 Aurora. 
 Brecker, Nick., lab.; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 747 
 
 Billen, Peter, far. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Billen, Win., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Berenger, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Billen, N., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Beverley, Mrs. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, Jos., carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 BABCOCK, DOUGLAS, Sec 8 ; 
 
 farmer ; P. O. Aurora ; was born in 
 Knox Co., 111., in 1841 ; is the son of 
 Linus and Eophrasia Douglas Babcock ; 
 he remained in Knox Co. until 1843 
 with his parents ; came to Kane Co. 
 and settled on the place he now lives on. 
 Mr. Babcock has held several offices of 
 public trust ; is School Director, which 
 office he has held for the last twelve 
 years. Married in 1869 to Miss Ellen 
 Harris, of New Jersey, born in 1849 ; 
 one child Laura E., born April 23, 
 1875. His brother, Andrew J., born in 
 New York in 1837 ; enlisted in the 
 late war, Lead Mine Regt., for three 
 years ; participated in the battle of 
 Ft. Donelson ; took sick, and died 
 with fever in 1863 ; his remains were 
 brought home and buried at West 
 Aurora Cemetery. 
 Brannon, P., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Breed, Abel, stone works ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Biltgen, Mat, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bendenberger, N., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Berner, Jno., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Binder, Jacob, butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bock, Henry, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Baker, A. L., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Belting, A., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Blassey, Charles, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barchide, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Breen, Dennis, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barthey, F., gen. agt. gas works ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Beck. Henry, blacksmith, C., B. & Q. R. 
 R.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beard, Joseph, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barrett, Thus., moulder ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brennan, John, engineer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Briggs, T. P., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Baker, Mrs. A. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Buck, I. A. W., U. S. Rev. Office; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Blackman, B., teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bellows, Jacob, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beane, John, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burns, James, tank C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Breese, G. S., teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battersoll, Peter, laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Burley, Wm., laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, D. C., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barrett, G. L., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Battersoll, Leon, laborer, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Bow.rs, Mrs., P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Bunnan, Jno. B., watchman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Bowers, E. C., trav. agt.; P, 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ballard, L. W., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burlen, J. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, Alvia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Buck, Ellen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Barker, A. W., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Burk, Delia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Brown, D. W. C., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 Brigham, L. R., physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Beaupre. W. S., Deputy U. S. Int. Rev. 
 
 Coll. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bailey, David D., train dispatcher ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 Berchide, John, C., B. & Q. R, R. ; P. O. 
 
 Aurora. 
 Butsen, John, C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Bassett, Eli ; painter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Baldridge, M. N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bloss, Bertha, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bloss, Henry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Moss, Fred, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, C. F. , laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Boots, J., laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 Brooks, Perry, whitewasher : P. 0. Aurora. 
 Boyer, Stephen. C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Burns, Maria, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Blonguist, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bell, Samuel, whitewasher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Barrett, Orinda, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bargen, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Benedict, W., C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Baulton, W., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Beeler, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brown, Emma, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Briggs, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, Mary A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Breese, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baldwin, Mrs. L.,P. 0. Aurora. 
 Belden, Mrs. Fanny, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brrise, Mr*. J. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Burnham, E. L., C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora, 
 
 Brown, Roger, mfr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Blaekmore, J.H., mfr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Barker, E., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bally, Henrietta, P. 0. Aurora.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Blakeslee, L. W., general trader; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Bowen, E. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Boyle, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Boyle, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bruce, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Blauen, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Behr, F. A., P 0. Aurora. 
 Brown, Robert, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Battendorf, Henry, far ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Barclay. Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bradley, E. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Belden, Ira, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Berringer, Mrs. H. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Boug, Andrew, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bunnell, 0. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bunnell, A. D., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Burnell, K. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Blakeslee, L. W., mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bartlett, A. R., physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bishop, W. W., Alderman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bishop, J. B., horse buyer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baumann. Aug., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Babcock, Mrs. M. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Benton, Chas., blacksmith ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Baldwin, L., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baldwin, Mary A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bishop, J. R., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Behr, V. X., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Babcock, 0. L., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Banker, Conrad, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Budlong, C. A., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brace, Edwin, P. O. Montgomery. 
 Breese, L. C., far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Barckley. Green, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Benedict A. F., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Babcock, Voughten, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brownell, J. H., cheese factory ; P. 0. 
 
 North Aurora. 
 
 Bowler, S. B., mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, E. P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Banker, Frank, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Blackmore, J. H., mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bulnier, R., ticket agt,; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bell, D. W., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, Mrs. L. Z., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Baker, S. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brown, Byron, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Brown, D. W. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bolduc, 0., marble cutter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Bartholomew, J. L., cooperage ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Boyle, Michael, P. 0. Aurora. 
 /^OWDRY, W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Clark, E. M., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 CLINTON, MRS. E. H., Librarian 
 Y. M. C. A. ; born in Geauga Co., 
 Ohio, in 1828 ; her preliminary educa- 
 tion was received in the public schools 
 of her native place, and completed at 
 Norwalk College, New York, also re- 
 mained three years at Oberlin College, 
 Ohio ; taught school in Cleveland one 
 term in 1851 ; married H. P. Clinton, 
 relation of the famous DeWitt Clinton 
 of New York ; her husband was an at- 
 torney. He was educated at Oberlin 
 College. At the time of his marriage Mr. 
 Clinton was in the mercantile business ; 
 he remained in business until the break- 
 ing out of the war ; for a number of 
 years was Secretary and Treasurer of 
 the Iowa & McGregor R. R., when the 
 war broke out, was appointed Quarter- 
 master ; in 1861 enlisted in 7th Wis. 
 Volunteer Regiment at Madison, Wis.; 
 served two years ; obtained the rank of 
 Captain ; engaged in battles of Bull 
 Run and Chickamauga, in 1863 ; while 
 in Virginia he contracted a Southern 
 fever ; obtained leave of absence for 
 twenty-one days, and did not again re- 
 turn on account of health ; he was hon- 
 orably discharged at Washington, D. C. 
 Captain Clinton's energy during the 
 war laid the foundation for the disease 
 which resulted fatally Feb. 25, 1863 ; 
 during his life he had held the office of 
 Postmaster under Lincoln ; soon after 
 he died, his wife succeeded him, giving 
 great satisfaction. 
 
 CRARY, AUSTIN B., barber, 45 
 River street ; P. 0. Aurora ; born at 
 Defiance, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1854 ; his fa 
 ther was a Universalist minister, and 
 settled in Ohio at an early day ; in 1865, 
 the family moved to South Bend, Ind., 
 while there, the head of the family be 
 came Pastor of the First Universalis! 
 Church ; here young Crary attended the 
 public schools, and also acquired the 
 rudiments of a collegiate education at 
 "Notre Dame;" in 1870, came to Elgin, 
 111., and learned the barber trade; in 
 1872, went to Traverse City, Mich., and 
 opened a shop; in 1876, came to Au- 
 rora, entered the employ of Mr. W. E. 
 Brooks, barber, and worked for him 
 seven months ; in 1877, located at the 
 above number.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 749 
 
 Clark, Alex., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Clark, T. H., Prin. High School ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Clark, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 CORYELL, T, C., of the firm of T. 
 C. Coryell & Son ; P. 0. Montgomery, 
 111.; was born in New York, March 29, 
 1814. He married Miss Mary C. Crane ; 
 she was born in New York, Feb. 27, 
 1823 ; married Dec. 15, 1840 ; has two 
 children living ; he lived in New York 
 until he came to Kane Co., in 1844 ; 
 settled in Big Rock Tp.; came to his 
 present place in 1868 ; has been Justice 
 of the Peace seven years, in Big Rock ; 
 also School Director and Asst. Supervi- 
 sor of Aurora Tp. 
 
 Clark, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cook, Amos, moulder; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cook, Almond, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chapin, C. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chapin, Fred., saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cooley, J. B., far. ; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 
 CLAYTON, O. S., merchant; P.O. 
 Aurora ; dealer in wall paper and notions, 
 No. 23 South Broadway ; the above 
 named gentleman is one of the leading 
 merchante in Aurora ; Is the son of Joseph 
 and Rachel (Ross) Clayton ; he was born 
 in New YorkCity, in 1828, where he re- 
 mained until he was 15 years of age, 
 then emigrated West to Chicago, where 
 he entered a paints, oils and notion 
 house as clerk ; he remained in this 
 businets about eight years ; having 
 saved enough money, he went to Free- 
 port, 111., where he commenced the 
 paints, oils and notion business on his 
 own account, with a stock valued at 
 $1 ,000 ; this was in 1854 ; he remained 
 at Freeport until 1867 ; thence to 
 Aurora, where he commenced business 
 in the line of wall paper, fancy goods, 
 paints, oils, glass, lamps, small instru- 
 ments, toys, etc. ; with hard labor, en- 
 terprise and attention to business, he is 
 to-day worth $50,000. 
 
 Carpenter, Mrs. B. C., milliner ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Carpenter, A. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carpenter, W. E , carriage manufacturer; 
 P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carpenter, George, upholsterer ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Crarice, S. E., cond'r C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Corsair, David, mfr. sash, doors, etc. ; P. 
 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Culver, A. B., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clifford, Wm., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 COULTER, MRS. LUCY, P. 
 
 Aurora; is the daughter of Thos. and 
 Fannie (Dye) Miner, and the wife of 
 the late John R. Coulter, who was born 
 in Pennsylvania in 1825 ; is the son of 
 Samuel and Elizabeth (Kreamer) Coul- 
 ter of Pennsylvania ; he commenced his 
 career in life in Armstrong. Penn., as a 
 stone cutter ; in 1852, he came West 
 and entered into partnership with his 
 brother, Samuel Coulter, of Charlotte, 
 .Michigan, where they were engaged in 
 the construction of important sections 
 of the Michigan Central R. R., in 1854 ; 
 he came to Illinois, engaged in the posi- 
 tion of superintendent of the construc- 
 tion of depots and important bridges for 
 that company ; was engaged in erecting 
 the magnificent bridge across the Missis- 
 sippi, at Burlington, Iowa ; after this 
 he came to Aurora, and commenced the 
 banking business, in company with W. 
 W. Bishop, in 1869 and 1870; re- 
 organized under the National Bank Law, 
 and is now known as the Union National 
 Bank of Aurora ; his death occurred 
 May 20, 1873, and he was buried at 
 Spring Lake Cemetery under the aus- 
 pices of the Masons, he being a member 
 of the same, where a monument was 
 erected at a cost of $8,000. 
 
 Church, Z., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Compton, A., merchant tailor; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Chase, F. A., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chase, J. B., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Corbett, Richard, boiler maker; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Cozens, Jas., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carr, Mrs. Julia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carroll, Frank, boilermaker ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Carey, J. A., tinner; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Cottrell, Mrs. A. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Conover, M., livery ; P. O. Aurora'. 
 
 Cherry, Hamilton, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Caster, Nicholas, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Claremont, Lewis, laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Chesley, William, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cornell, A. V., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Collins, Mrs. M. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Campbell, A. carpenter; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Campbell, L. W., mach.; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 750. 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 CANFIELD, HON. EUGENE, 
 
 P. 0. Aurora. It is a well known fact ' 
 that the legal profession is well rep- 
 resented in Aurora. The above named 
 . gentleman is one of the best educated 
 lawyers in the West, and ranks high at 
 the Illinois bar ; was born in Arlington 
 Co., Vt., in 1837 ; he emigrated West, 
 to Illinois, and settled in Aurora, in 
 1860; during the years of 1861 and 
 1872, he filled the office of Attorney 
 for the city of Aurora, and has been 
 elected to the State Senate, from the \ 
 14th District, his term expiring in 1876 ; 
 during his Senatorial experience, he has 
 given entire satisfaction, having proven ; 
 himself a gentleman of acknowledged 
 ability, whose duties have been per- 
 formed in a faithful manner. 
 
 Campbell, B. B., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cassidy, James, far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Cummings, Pierce, blacksmith ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Colville, Bobert, foreman B. H.; P. 0. ! 
 Aurora. 
 
 Cleveland, E. P., expressman ; P. 0. t 
 Aurora. 
 
 Chilvers. Bobert, conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 COULTER, THOMAS B., Treas- 
 urer of Kane Co., and Cashier of the 
 Union National Bank, of Aurora. The j 
 above named gentleman is one of the ! 
 most prominent men of Kane County ; 
 was born in Armstrong Co., March 11, ! 
 1845, where he remained until the 
 breaking out of the late war; when 
 only 16 years old, he enlisted in the 
 llth Pa. B. V. C., and for three years 
 participated in all the battles before 
 Bichmond, also engaged in the second 
 battle fought at iBull's Bun, in 1862; 
 after serving his time, was honorably 
 discharged, and then re-enlisted in the 
 U. S. Signal Corps, where he served 
 until the end of the war, he returned 
 to Elder Bidge, Pa., where he was en- 
 gaged in the dry goods business until 
 1867, and then he came west to Bur- 
 lington, Iowa, where he was engaged in 
 helping build the bridge that spans the 
 . Mississippi Biver at that place, in 1868 
 and '69 ; was connected with the C., B. 
 & Q. B. B., in bridge building; in 
 1869. he came to Aurora, and accepted 
 a position in the banking house of 
 Bishop & Coulter, as bookkeeper, which 
 
 position he held, until the organization 
 of the Union National Bank, of Aurora. 
 in March, 1871 ; was Assistant Cashier, 
 until 1873, when he was appointed Cash- 
 ier, which office he has filled ever since ; 
 held office as Township School Treas- 
 urer for one year 1873 to '74 ; at the 
 end of office, he donated his commission 
 to the school fund. Mr. Coulter, in his 
 political opinion, is a Democrat; in 
 1877, his friends nominated him for 
 County Treasurer, against his opponent. 
 Mr. John Plain, one of the leading 
 Bepublicans and highly respectable Ger- 
 man citizens of Kane Co. Kane Co. 
 has been giving three thousand Bepub- 
 lican majority, but Mr. Coulter over- 
 came all this, and was elected by a 
 majority of 621 votes. 
 
 Christiansen, John, mechanical engineer ; 
 P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Cullan, J. P., restaurant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Challand, Beuben, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Covert, B. 0., pattern maker ; P. O. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Covert, A., moulder; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Covalt, E., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carroll, James, engineer ; Aurora. 
 
 Carroll, Tim., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Culbert, James, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Christie, A.,- carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GUSHING, M. A., M. D., oculist 
 
 and aurist ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Vermont, in 18^1 ; came to Aurora in. 
 1837; he remained here three years: 
 thence to Troy, N. Y., where he com- 
 menced the study of medicine in 1840 : 
 graduated at Castleton Medical College 
 of Vermt nt, in 1847; his first practice 
 of medicine was at Troy, N. Y, thence 
 to Glens Falls, N.Y., where he remained 
 some twenty years ; thence to Kane Co. r 
 Illinois, in 1867. The doctor, beside* 
 his regular profession, has been largely 
 connected with the manufacture of pa- 
 per ; he is the inventor of the process 
 of manufacturing paper out of straw, at 
 Glens Falls, N. Y.; he rebuilt and was 
 engaged in running the Batavia paper 
 mills for one and a half years. He is 
 also the inventor and patentee of the 
 Cushing's Tubular Furnace Grates and 
 Stoves, which is claimed to be the most 
 important invention of the age. 
 
 Cross, J. G. ; teacher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cox, Henry, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY : AURORA. 
 
 751 
 
 Cooney, W., mason; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Coone, A. E., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Coons, J. F., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cunningham, Henry, mason; P.O.Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Carnes, B. F., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carmody, Timothy, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Colby, Moses, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Crandall, D. V., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Coyne, Pat, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Clifford, Robt., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chadwick, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Christman, Matt., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Coyne, Stephen, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Colliver, Jno., conductor ; 0. P. Aurora. 
 
 CREGO, C. OWEN, farmer ; Sec. 9 ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Columbus, 
 Chenango Co., N. Y., Feb. 15, 1839; 
 his father was a farmer; when 13 years 
 old, parents moved to Kane Co. ; lived 
 5 years at Sugar Grove ; in 1857 the 
 family moved to De Kalb Co., and settled 
 on 160 acres of land. Mr. C. continued 
 on the old homestead until 21 years of 
 age, then went to Idaho ; engaged in 
 mining three years, then returned to 
 De Kalb Co.; he worked 180 acres that 
 he had purchased previous to his de- 
 parture ; worked four years on farm in 
 De Kalb Co.. in 1871 married Miss 
 Mary M. Van Fleet, a daughter of John 
 Van Fleet, who came to Kane Co. some 
 40 years ago, why was born in 1804. 
 and raised on a farm ; receiving more 
 than a common school education he be- 
 came a linguist, and studying the higher 
 branches ; in 1837 drifted with the cur- 
 rent Westward, and took up a claim, 
 in Kendall Co.; he was a very enter- 
 prising m in, and highly respected ; it 
 was he who built the dam across Fox 
 River, and probably built the saw-mill. 
 Mr. C. is worth $35,000, and owns fine 
 property. 
 
 Curtis, Asahel, P. 0. North Aurora. 
 
 Clemens, Peter, laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Carp, Mike, laborer ; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Cook, Pat., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cass, J. N., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carroll, Geo., boiler maker; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Graver, Win. 
 
 Cook, Lorenzo, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cottrell, N. A., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Coughlin, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Coughlin, Lawrence, mason ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Carthbut, Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 COOLEY,DeWiTT C ,supt. paint- 
 ing department C., B. & Q. R. R.; 
 Aurora ; was born in Buffalo, N. Y., 
 1830 ; is the son of Anthony and 
 Armanda (Stanley) Cooley ; his father 
 was a landscape and portrait painter ; 
 when quite young, he moved to Michi- 
 gan with his parents, and settled at 
 Kalamazoo, where he remained until 
 1853 engaged in the milling business 
 and learning his trade as a painter, which 
 he commenced when he was ten years of 
 age, he then went to Van Buren Co.. 
 Pean., where he remained until 185G, 
 thence to Aurora, where he has been 
 connected with the shops of the C., B. & 
 Q. R. R.. ever since ; he first entered 
 the shops as an ornamental painter, 
 then took charge of the whole of the 
 painting department of the C , B. & 
 Q. R. R. ; the company has shops 
 at Aurora, Galesburg, Burlington, 
 Crestline and Beardstown, where they 
 employ some two hundred hands in the 
 painting department. Is one of the 
 Directors of the Union National Bank 
 of Aurora. He married Miss Angelino 
 Barrett, daughter of Capt. E. L. Barrett, 
 
 Custer, N., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carpenter, G. W., upholsterer ; .P. 0, 
 Aurora. 
 
 Culver, A. B., machinist; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 CADY, PROP. MARTIN E., 
 
 Jennings Seminary, Aurora ; was born 
 in Middlbury, Vt,, in 1846; the son of 
 G. C. and Eliza L. (Everetts) Cady ; is 
 a graduate of the Middlebury College ; 
 he first commenced school teaching at 
 River Falls, Wis., in 1869 ; was County 
 School Superintendent of Pierce Co., 
 Wis., in 1873 ; resigned office and re- 
 turned East to Vt., where he was Prin- 
 cipal of Troy Co. Academy for three 
 years ; in 1877, he came to Aurora, 
 and was appointed principal of Jennings 
 Seminary, which is among the foremost 
 institutions of learning in the West ; it 
 was founded in the year 1850 ; Prof. 
 Cady was married in 1871 to Miss 
 Helen L. Howard, of Mass., daughter 
 of Rev. Wm. B. Howard. 
 
 Cooley, A. B., farmer ; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Conner, Martin, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Clancy, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Connery. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Colwell, C. B., contractor; P. O. Aurora.
 
 752 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Caldwell, S. C., minister ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Cone, M. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Colby, W. H., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Copley, I. P., Sec. Gas Co.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Chapman, W. H., farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Childs, Mrs. S. E., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Catlin, G. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Case, E., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Clancey, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Auroral 
 
 Cota, L. P., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Crooks, S. B., feed stable ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Curry, J. 0., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Campbell, G. W., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Clark, C. P., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carter, D. C., farmer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Canigan, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Crinnimin, Catherine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Calihan, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cooper. Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cunningham, H., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Crosby, S. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Charles, G. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Carpenter, J. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Cull, Stephen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Card, C. W., tel. operator ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Congdon, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Callighan, Patrick, C., B. & Q. Railroad ; 
 
 P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Curtain, Jeremiah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clark, J. D., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Chilson, J. N., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Carroll, Daniel, C., B. & Q. Railroad ; P. 
 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Clark, Isaac, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cooper, L. C., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Currier, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Curry, J. 0., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Crandall, Sarah. P. 0. Aurora. 
 Corning, S. B., capitalist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cook, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Case, G. S., baggage man ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Crocker, Adelia J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Case, J. N., merchant ; P. Aurora. 
 Clark, W. D., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Campbell, A. C., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cook, Chas. C., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Carpenter, Theodore, P. O. Aurora. 
 Conners, Martin, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cams, J. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Copley, I. B., Supt. Gas Works; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Canisius, Thomas, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clegg, Eliza, P. O. Aurora. 
 Crosby, 0. H., P. O. Aurora. 
 Childs, H., P. 0., Aurora. 
 Collins, G. L., livery ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Crego, G. N., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Carroll, Mrs. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Caldwell, J. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Casler, George, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clark, A. S., C., B. & Q. Railroad ; P. O. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Cooper, J. N.. merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Churcher, Alfred, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Chrich, E., P. O. Aurora. 
 Childs, Lyman, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Churcher, Mrs. Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Crowley, Pat., tankman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Creighton, Mrs. C. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cronk, G. M., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cassidy, Edward, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Campbell, Caroline A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Calkins, Geo., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Crunin, J. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clark, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Campbell, H. A., C.,B.&Q.; P. O.Aurora. 
 Christman, Jno., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Covell, L. R., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clark, Albert, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cullen, M. N., policeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Collins, John, carpenter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Cyr, Felix, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cook, Ed., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Clark, C. P., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cody, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cody, Edward, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Culbert, James, switchman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Cannes, W. W., operator ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 I Congrove, Jas., P. O. Aurora. 
 Christie, C. C., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 DE COURSEY, M., barber; P O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 DICKES, JACOB, of the firm of 
 Jacob Dickes & Bro., hard and soft coal 
 and wood merchants ; was born in 
 Germany in 1835 ; is the son of Peter 
 and Josephine (Kergen) Dickes, of 
 Germany ; he came to America and 
 settled in Aurora in 1854 ; is one of the 
 old settlers of Aurora; when he first 
 came here he worked out as a laborer, 
 thence in the grocer} 7 business, and 
 from there he commenced the coal and 
 wood business ; and ranks to-day as one 
 of the leading merchants in Aurora; 
 having been in the coal trade since 1867, 
 and during that time has been con- 
 ducted with success, and considered one 
 of the representative coal firms of 
 Aurora. He married Miss Maria Lies, 
 of Germany, who died in 1870 ; had 
 one child John L., born 1869.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 753 
 
 Desotell, Stephen, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Desotell, Jos., lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dissell, Frank, teamster; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dissell, Trift. carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dissell, Saml., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 DOUGLAS, HENRY B., farmer, 
 Sec. 34 ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Kane Co., 111., Feb. 16, 1842 ; at the 
 breaking out of the late war he enlisted 
 in Co. A, Cavalry, 36th 111. Volunteers, 
 for three years ; he participated in the 
 battles of Corinth, luka, Pea Ridge and 
 the Missouri campaign ; was taken 
 prisoner at Holly Springs by the rebels 
 under Gen. Van Dome ; was paroled, 
 rejoining his company at Port Hudson ; 
 after the fall of Vicksburg he enlisted 
 as a private, discharged as Orderly Ser- 
 geant. He then commenced work in 
 the Engineer Corps as Chief Clerk ; he 
 was engaged in the New York harbors, 
 where he remained for two years ; from 
 thence home to Kane Co., where he 
 commenced farming, which business he 
 has been engaged in ever since ; owns a 
 farm of 84 acres of land ; was at one 
 time Highway Commissioner, which 
 office he held for three years ; he is a 
 Republican in politics. He married 
 Miss M. L. Brockway in 1873; they j 
 have two children Mark H. and Ger- 
 trude. 
 
 Dapprich, F., proprietor vineyard ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Dickens, B., 'carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 DICKES, PETER, of Jacob Dickes ; 
 & Bro., dealer in all kinds of hard and 
 soft coal and wood ; P. 0. Aurora ; was 
 born in . /ermany in 1838; is the son 
 of Peter and Josephine (Kergen) 
 Dickes, of Germany ; came to America 
 and direct to Aurora, in 1856 ; at the 
 breaking out of the late war, he enlisted 
 in Co. D, 7th Kan. Cavalry, for three 
 years ; he served his time and re-enlisted 
 in same regiment, and served until the 
 end of the war ; he participated in some 
 of the hard-fought battles ; his regiment 
 and other Kansas regiments were known 
 as the Kansas Jayhawkers, and when 
 there was any hard fighting to be done, 
 the Kansas Jayhawkers always took the 
 lead ; at the end of the war he returned 
 to Aurora, and was engaged in the C., 
 B. & Q. R. R. shops, thence with his 
 brother in the coal business. 
 
 DENNEY BROS., furniture, uphol- 
 stery and undertakers' goods ; P. 0. 
 Aurora; business established in 1851; 
 is now the most extensive and successful 
 house of its kind in this vicinity, and 
 one that has always held a foremost and 
 prominent'position in the furniture line. 
 All kinds of furniture, from the most 
 superb to the ordinary, is kept on hand, 
 and sold at lower prices than the same 
 can be purchased for in any of Aurora's 
 competitive cities. In looking over 
 their extensive establishment we were 
 surprised to see the large and various 
 stock on hand. They have every style 
 and variety of furniture, from which 
 persons in any station of life may select 
 whatever they may need. Their house, 
 which is located at No. 29 Broadway, is 
 three stories high with basement, and 
 is so arranged that the basement, 57 by 
 100 feet, is used for storing, receiving, 
 and unpacking of goods ; the first 
 floor is used for office, reception room, 
 and customers, and for the display of 
 goods; the second floor, 57 by 100 feet, 
 is used for kitchen and sitting room and 
 furniture ; the third floor, 57 by 100 
 feet, is used for upholstery goods and 
 chamber suites of the latest styles. 
 Their shop is in the rear of main build- 
 ing, where they keep constantly em- 
 ployed hands in the manufacture of all 
 their upholstered goods ; also in furnish- 
 ing, putting together, and setting up of 
 furniture. The firm is composed of 
 Joseph, a native of England, who com- 
 menced the business in 1851, and then 
 took in as partners his three brothers 
 Thos., H., and E. All have had a life 
 long experience in the furniture busi- 
 ness, as their father, Joseph Denney, of 
 England, was engaged in the furniture 
 business; value of stock, $10,000. 
 
 Dickinson, D. D., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 DeWitt, B. A., P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Delatour, J. J., bookkeeper ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Damin, T. G., trav.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Denney, Thos., furniture ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Denney, Jos., Jr., furniture ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Denney, Mrs. T., milliner-; P. 0. Auroia. 
 
 Denney, H., furniture ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dorn, Jos., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doran, Jas., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doran, Hugh, machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dolan, Thos., lab.; P. O. Aurora.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 DOUGLA.S, C. T., contractor and 
 builder ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Aurora in 1837 ; was the second white 
 child born in Aurora. He is one of 
 the okhst citizens and one of the lead- 
 ing contractors and builders of Aurora, 
 whose business transactions inspire 
 confidence in his skill and integrity ; 
 has been awarded some of the largest 
 and most responsible contracts in the 
 city, among those worthy of special 
 mention are Young's school house, Y. 
 M. C. A. building, Allen's Block, Mrs. 
 L. J. Hawley's store and a great many 
 others, all of which prove him a mas- 
 ter builder. Mr. Douglass was in the 
 late war; enlisted as Corporal of Co. H, 
 52d 111. Vol. Inf., for three years ; he 
 participated in some of the most severe 
 battles under Gens. Grant and Rose- 
 crans ; received three wounds at the 
 battle of Pittsburg Landing ; at the 
 battle of Corinth he received a very 
 severe wound, which disabled him for 
 service, and was honorably discharged. 
 
 Donovan, Dan., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Donaldson, Robt., drayman ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Donahy, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Donahy, Arthur, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Donahue, Pat, lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Denney, Eb., furniture ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Darling, A. S., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dren, Jno., baker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, W. A., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Daily, C. D., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Desjardines, A., traveler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Day, T. H., capitalist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Douglass, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dox, Jacob, laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dockendorff, Mich., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Droudt. Jno., farmer; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 
 Durkey, Matt., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 David, Wm., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora 
 
 Drain, Mrs., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, John, laborer ; . 0. Aurora. P 
 
 Dickinson, W. F., Sec'y Silver Plate Man- 
 facturing Company ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Deliaden, John, far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dunn, Thomas, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dewey, Mrs. S.. P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Danley, E Iward, painter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Darling, A. S., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Darling, D. S., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dunn, John, butcher; P. 0. Elgin. 
 
 Dunn, Charles E., upholsterer: P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Daprick, F., saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Darlington, H. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dusking, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Diedrich, Mat., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davenport, Oscar, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dalschen, Susan, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Desold, Stephen, far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 David, W., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Donner, Mrs. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dennison, S. S., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Duning, J. S , P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dykeman, S. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Diebold, C. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dale, Lincoln, tailor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis. M. J., conductor : P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, John E.. P. 0. Big Rock. 
 
 Darling, P. S., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dayton, E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Downer. Mrs. M. W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Donivan, J. H.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dale, C. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dale, J. H.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, J. J., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dale, W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Downer, G. 0., canvasser ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Duncan, A., machinist ; P. Aurora. 
 
 Dillenburg, Frank, blacksmith ; P. 0. 
 Auror.i. 
 
 Delaney, James, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dewey, J. M., boarding house; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 DUNNING, J. D., ret. farmer ; was 
 born in Ticonderoga, N. Y., Feb. 25, 
 1803, and resided there up to 1840 ; 
 while in the East he was engaged in 
 farming and teaching school ; was Post- 
 master in 1843 ; he came to Illinois, 
 and settled at Big Rock, Kane Co. ; he 
 bought 200 acres, and afterward owm-d 
 300 acres : he came to Aurora in 1856, 
 and bought the present residence of 
 George Hoyt ; in 1858, he built a large 
 block known as Dunning' s Block. 
 
 De Gerld, Henry, yard master ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Draper, Jonathan, packer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dalidan, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dykes, Mrs. I., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dyckman, John, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dalton, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dieterich, L. P., coal mer.; P. Aurora. 
 
 Drake, Daniel, drayman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Drake, J. B., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Deerfield, John, railroad lab.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Doetschmann, Fred, stone cutter ; P. 0. 
 Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 755 
 
 DORR S ALVIN, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born in Cheshire Co., N. H. ; he 
 acquired a good common school educa- 
 tion in his native place, and was 
 brought up on a farm; when 21 years 
 of age he became employed as shipping 
 clerk at Taunton, Mass. ; in 1841 he 
 came, via the Lakes, to Chicago ; from 
 this point he went to Knox Co., 111., in 
 1843 ; he located at Sugar Grove, and 
 bought 80 acres, and improved it ; he 
 came to Aurora in 1875 ; he married 
 Hannah Howard, in Mass., in 1836 ; in 
 1846 she died quite suddenly ; they had 
 six children ; three of them are now liv- 
 ing ; the boys were all in the army ; 
 George and Charles enlisted in the 36th 
 I. V. I., and Henry in the 8th Missouri ; 
 since the close of the war George has 
 been Deputy at the Joliet Penitentiary. 
 
 Durr, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Drake, Jacob, policeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Delatour, S. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Drummond, D. G., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dennison, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Daggert, Mrs. H. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dickens, Wm., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dunham, W. H. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dugdale, Peter, fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Demorest, Mrs. D. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Denny, E., furniture ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dumphry. Thomas, stone cutter; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Dear. J, Q., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dahn, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Derr, Martin, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dumars, J., mer., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doyle, Mrs. G. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dean, N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 David, J. L., P. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dickes, Peter, Jr., coal dlr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dutton, E. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dodson, Mrs., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Day, Christopher, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doyle, M., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doyle, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Doty, H. F., carp.; P. O. Batavia. 
 
 Dirks, Chris., mer.; P. O. Piano. 
 
 Douglas, P. A., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Desotel, Isaac, carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 ( Desotel, Sophia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Douglas, Mrs. A. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davenport, Homer, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 David, W., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Deto, Alexander, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dunning:, Mrs. E., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Dunn, W. H., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dunn, W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Diviky, John, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Devin, Mary A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Devin, Kate, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dennstor, Ann, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Donovan, Pat, conductor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Deiuing, J. R., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dial, W.. teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Davis, A. J., traveler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dean, L. A., P. Aurora. 
 
 Dumphy, Robt., marble cutter ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Doty, Robinson, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Downer, Roswell. farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Daily, G. W., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Deer, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dombernosky, A.,shoemkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dorr, Geo., mail agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Debold, Charles, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dotterwich, John, grocer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dutton, C. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dewitt, Sainl., blacksmith; P. 0. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Danforth, Chas., far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Doremus, J. A., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Dennison, G. P., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Drain, A., farmer; P. O. Montgomery. 
 
 Day, E. S., farmer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Downer, Lucinda, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 DURRAN, JOHN, H., practical 
 jeweler ; the oldest jewelry house in the 
 city is that owned and conducted by the 
 above named gentleman ; it was estab- 
 lished in 1847 ; for over sixteen years 
 Mr. Durran has done busines in Aurora, 
 and is one of the most conscientious 
 jewelers who ever located here ; inci- 
 dentally we will mention that the first 
 log cabin in West Aurora occupied the 
 site where Mr. Durran now carries on 
 an extensive jewelry business ; he is a 
 practical watchmaker and jeweler, of 
 many years' experience ; he buys close, 
 and gives his customers the benefit ; has 
 built up a large trade ; is a very popular 
 man ; it is a mistaken notion that goods 
 can be purchased in Chicago cheaper 
 than Aurora ; on comparing prices at 
 this house and leading houses in Chicago, 
 it will be found that Mr. Durran can 
 offer as good goods, at lower figures, 
 than can be found in the Garden City, or 
 perhaps any similar establishment in 
 the West.
 
 756 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Downer, Alfred, farmer : P. O. Aurora. 
 
 DOWNEY, CORNELIUS, grocer 
 
 and coal merchant ; P. 0. Aurora ; son 
 of Daniel and Mary Downey ; was born 
 in Ireland ; his father was a quarryman 
 and fanner ; young Downey remained in 
 Ireland until he was 30 years of age : 
 March 7, 1851, he emigrated to Amer- 
 ica, and came from New York to Chi- 
 cago via the lakes ; in October of the 
 same year he located in Aurora ; his 
 brother was then Superintendent of the 
 old Black Hawk Mills, and he entered 
 the same establishment ; in 1852, he 
 ran a boarding house, and was also in 
 the employ of the C., JB. & Q. R. R. ; 
 Mr. D. made money rapidly in these en- 
 . terprises, and started a hotel on South 
 River sf.. which also proved a financial 
 success; in 1867, he built his present 
 store, situated near the depot, and here 
 can be found everything usually kept in 
 a first-class grocery; he also owns four 
 fine houses and lots in Aurora, and 
 160 acres of land in Iowa. 
 
 ESSER, W. J., merchant ; P. 0. 
 Aurra. 
 
 Esser, Joseph, saloon; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ELLIOTT, H. T., merchant, of the 
 firm of Foss. Elliott & Co., No. 164 
 Washington st., Chicago ; was born in 
 Kane Co., Ill . AprilS, 1838 ; was about 
 the first white male child born in Auro- 
 ra Township ; is the son of Wm. T. and 
 Rebecca (Peirce) Elliott, who are among 
 the oldest settlers of Kane Co., hav- 
 ing settled in county in 1834 ; Mr. 
 Elliott was farming until the breaking 
 out of the late war ; he enlisted in Co. 
 E, 124th I. V. I., for three years; re- 
 enlisted in the 50th U. S. Infantry ; par- 
 ticipated in some of the hard-fought 
 battles ; enlisted as private, and mus- 
 tered out as First Lieutenant ; at the 
 close of the war he went to Iowa, and 
 commenced farming on a very large 
 scale; in four years he raised 16,000 
 bushels of small grain ; in 1872, he 
 moved to Chicago, where he commenced 
 the grain business ; married Jan. 28, 
 1858, to Miss Harriet F. Meeker, 
 daughter of David Meeker ; three chil- 
 dren two living William W. and 
 Letta Belle. 
 
 Evans, Wm., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Evans, Griffith, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Empy, J. (jr., carpenter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Elmore, Mary J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ellwood, W. S., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ellsworth, Sam., agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ELLIOTT, FRAN CIS M., M. D., 
 
 P. 0. Aurora; was born in Kane Co., 
 111., April 5, 1844 ; is the son of Wm. 
 T. and Rebecca (Peirce) Elliott, who 
 are among the oldest settlers of Kane 
 Co., having come here in 1834 ; Dr. 
 Elliott spent his boyhood days on the 
 farm with his parents, his first business 
 in life was learning to be a photographer ; 
 on account of his health he retired : he 
 then commenced the study of medicine 
 with Dr. S. F. Hance ; thence entered 
 the Rush Medical College of Chicago in 
 1866, and graduated Feb. 3, 1869: his 
 first practice after graduating was at 
 Blairstown, Iowa, Spring of 1869. 
 where he remained until 1872 ; he then 
 came to Aurora and commenced his pro- 
 fession ; the successor of Dr. S. F. 
 Hauce ; is City Physician, which office 
 he has held very satisfactorily for three 
 terms ; is a member of the Congrega- 
 tional Church ; married Feb. 28, 1870, 
 to Miss Lydia French, who was born in 
 Ahmed Nuggur, Hindostan, Sept. 26, 
 1844 ; is the daughter of Rev. Osro and 
 Jane (Hotchkiss) French ; two children 
 Frank O.-ro and Fannie Jennivave, 
 born in Blairstown, Iowa, April 28, 1871 . 
 
 English, T.. moulder ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ey, Joseph, expressman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Edwards, Wm., butcher : P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 EARLE, CHAS. C., banker ; P. O. 
 Aurora; born in New York in 1822; 
 is the son of Nathaniel and Mary F. 
 Earle ; remained in his native State until 
 he was 13 years old. with his parents, 
 when they moved to Worcester, Mass. ; 
 here he was engaged in business until 
 1856; he then came West and settled 
 in Aurora, and commenced the foundry 
 business with W. W. Bishop, the firm 
 being known as W. W. Bishop & Co ; 
 was engaged in this business for twelve 
 years, and then in the lumber business 
 for seven years ; now retired from busi- 
 ness ; was at one time City Alderman, 
 from the old Second Ward ; is a stock- 
 holder in the First National Bank of 
 Aurora; married Miss Mary J. Shep- 
 pard ; have two children Clara A. and 
 Charles F.
 
 KANE COUNTY : AURORA. 
 
 757 
 
 EVANS, HON. H. H. This gentle- 
 
 man is probably one of the best known 
 and most highly respected men of Au- 
 
 . rora ; he was born in Canada, in 1836, 
 and is the son of Griffith and Elizabeth 
 (Weldon) Evans; when he was three 
 years old, his parents left Canada and 
 settled in Aurora ; Mr. Evans commenced 
 his business carrer by clerking in a store, 
 by which managed to save a little money, 
 and then commenced the restaurant bus- 
 iness ; at the breaking out of the war, 
 he enlisted in Co. H, 124th I. V. I., for 
 three years ; was in the most severe battles 
 under Gen. Grant ; served three years 
 and was honorably discharged at Camp 
 Douglas, in 1865 ; now ranks as Col., 
 Aide-de-Camp of Governor's staff; Mr. 
 Evans was elected to the Legislature 
 from the 14th District in 1876 ; Alder- 
 man from the 9th Ward for the last two 
 years ; these offices he has held with 
 credit to himself and to the people he 
 represented ; owner of the Fitch House 
 and furniture. Was married to Miss 
 Alice M. Rhodes, daughter of A. C. 
 Rhodes, of England, Nov. 3, 1858 ; one 
 child Arthur R., born in Aurora, July 
 31, 1867. 
 
 Edwards, Isaac, stone mfr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eresch, J. P., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eresch, J. W. ; engineer, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eberline, Wm., shoe mkr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eberly, Jeremiah, car repairer ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Ebersoll, G. W., mach. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eitelgeorge, Charles, stone cutter ; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Enoch, Terry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ELLIOTT, WILL AM T., farmer; 
 Sec. 33; was born in Conn., in 1810 ; 
 on account of the war of 1812, his 
 father and family moved to Pa., remain- 
 ing there but two years, thence to N. 
 Y., where he remained until 1834, en- 
 gaged in farming and learning the black- 
 smith's trade; he emigrated West, to 
 Kane Co., in 1 834 ; is one of the oldest set- 
 tlers in the county ; went to hear the first 
 sermon that was preached in this part of 
 the county; when Mr. E. came here he 
 was worth about $15, but through indus- 
 try and hard labor, is one of the success- 
 ful farmers of Kane Co.; owns 190 
 acres of land, valued at $100 per acre. 
 Married Rebecca Peirce, of Ohio, daugh- 
 
 ter of Elega Peirce, in 1835 ; she was 
 born in 1818 "i<_>M children Emme- 
 line, Homer. T.. Franc-is M., Mary E., 
 John, William, Sarah, Byron ; had three 
 sons in the late war; Homer T. enlisted 
 for three years, in the 124th I. V. I.; 
 was under General Grant in his most 
 severe battles ; William enlisted and did 
 good service ; Byron B. went out in the 
 36th, came home, and then enlisted in 
 the 153d ; all were honorably discharged. 
 
 Elliott, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Edwards, Peter, laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Echorn, Gustave, mech. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Engler, Peter, mech. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eberline, Andrew, mech. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Erwin, Fowler, mas<>n ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eberline, M., mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Evans, Leonard, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ellis. Nancy, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Evans, C. G., livery ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Edert, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Edwards, Wm., butcher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Edwards. Enoch, tailor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Evans. Thos., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Emmons, F. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Egermann, W., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Egleston. J. A., Asst. Cashier Sec. Nat. Bk. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Evans, Robt., farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Evans, L. H., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ernst, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Eitelgeorge, N., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Exheben, F. E., painter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Eddy, John H., mech.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ellis, Nancy, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Ericson, H., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TpICKENSHER, HENRY, barber ; P. 
 
 Jj 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fickensher, P. W., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fox, R. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fox. Judson, conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 FRITZ, GEORGE, of the firm of 
 Stickle & Fritz ; P. 0. Aurora ; he was 
 born in Germany, in 1849 ; came to the 
 United States in 1863, and settled in 
 Aurora ; in May, 1877, he engaged in 
 his present business ; he married Miss 
 Emma Donohue, Nov. 14, 1877; she 
 was born Feb. 21, 1857. 
 
 Fox, Ira, conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fox, D. W., agent, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Farwell, S. M., foundry ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Felsenheld, S., clothing ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Felsenheld, H., clothing ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flick, Wm.. baker; P. 0. Aurora,
 
 758 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 POSTER, HENRY W., conductor 
 
 on Toledo & Wabash R. R.; was born 
 in Chelsea, Orange Co., Vt., in 1830 ; 
 resided there until 27 years of age ; in 
 1857, he came West, stopping first at 
 Chicago, where he was employed by a 
 wholesale grocery house for five or six 
 months ; in 1859, he engaged with the 
 . & N. W. R. R.; afterward entered 
 the employ of the C., B. & Q. R. R. and 
 has worked for this company and the T. 
 & W. until this date ; has held the posi- 
 tion of conductor on both roads ; mar- 
 ried Miss Charlotte M. Stowe, at St. 
 Johnsbury, Vt., in July, 1855: one 
 child Grace Lulu. 
 
 Farrell, R. W., restaurant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fredenburg, I. W., teacher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fisher, C. B., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Frank, Alonzo, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Farrington, C. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ferry, M., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flowers, James, blksmith ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Frear, George, carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 FREESE, DANIEL, prop, sample 
 room, 19 Broadway ; P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born in Germany, March 5, 1833 ; 
 is the son of Christian and Caroline 
 Freese, of Germany ; he emigrated to 
 America in 1854 ; came direct to Au- 
 rora, where he commenced his trade, 
 cabinet maker ; remained here but a 
 short time ; he then went to Chicago 
 and worked in the shops of the C., B. 
 & Q. R. R., finishing passenger coaches ; 
 he remained there two years ; returned 
 to Aurora and was engaged with the 
 same company until 1861, when he 
 opened a sample room ; in 1863 he pus- 
 chased the place where he now lives, 
 known as Dan. Frees' centennial sample 
 rooms and restaurant ; is the oldest 
 fireman in Aurora, having joined the 
 fire department in 1 856, and has been a 
 very active member ever since ; was 
 foreman of No. 1 for three years ; when 
 .he resigned the office he was presented 
 with a fine table caster, by the members 
 of the company ; in politics he is a 
 Democrat ; member of the Lutheran 
 Church. Married in 1856, to Miss 
 Louisa Hansey ; four children Lena, 
 Edie, Bertha, Otto 
 
 Freeman, James, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frenier, Morris, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fridrus. Philip, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fitch, Tra, Justice ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fauth. Fred, machinist ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Ford, J. L., produce dlr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 FARNSWORTH, ASA PAR- 
 
 KE R, was a farmer and dairyman ; P. 
 0. Aurora, ; had 240 acres of land ad- 
 joining the city limits ; was born in 
 Dublin, Cheshire Co., N. H., in 1815; 
 came to Battle Creek. Mich., in 1843, 
 and engaged in teaching; in 1844-45, 
 he came to Aurora and located his farm 
 from the Government. He married 
 Susan Mann, with whom he lived eight 
 years ; they had two children, both 
 having died in infancy : she died of con- 
 sumption, in 1854; in 1862 he married 
 Lydia A. Drane (whose parents were 
 among the early settlers of Aurora); 
 they had four children, only one of 
 which is living Jessie Estella, born 
 Jan. 13, 1870; Mr. F., after a severe 
 illness for one week, died in April. 1873 ; 
 he was a self made man, and died re- 
 gretted by the whole community. 
 
 Felton, Henry, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fulton, Joseph, iner.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fullerton, J. T., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fowler, Mrs. M. G., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fahnestock, J. D., dentist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fillmore, P. P., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fickett, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Funk, Stephen, peddler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frauenhoff, F., lab.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Finch, Luther, canvasser; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Foster, Rev. C., Bible agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fosmer, Jos., cabinet mkr ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ferris, Wm., teamster ; P. 0. Nurora. 
 
 Feiertag, Rev. Jno., min.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fitzgerald, Edw., barber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Figge, Fred., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Freidendale, Fred., far. ; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Fish, Mrs. G. 0., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fitzgibbins, Thos., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fitzgibbins, Jno., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fidlt-r, Stephen, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fridrus, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Aurora^ 
 
 Fleming, Susan, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Farnsworth, Lydia A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fecher, Lawrence, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fichtell, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Faber, Peter, cabinet mkr ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Friders, Nick., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Felton, Matt., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fridrus, Mike, far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fiddler, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fidler, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 759 
 
 Ferry, J. S., farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Flood, Michael, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fitzgibbins, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fish, J. M., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Frenier, Eusebe, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fenton, Mrs. Eliza, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fulton, John, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fish, J. M., far.; P. 0. Kaneville. 
 Fellows, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fallen, John, shoemkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Frost, C. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Frenzer, Joseph, P. 0., Aurora. 
 Ferry, J. S., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fracy, John, P. 0.; Aurora. 
 Frydendall. F., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Flynn, James, brakeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ford, Win., brakeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Fletcher, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PRAZIER, WALTER, S., P ; 
 
 Aurora ; was born in Onondaga Co., N. 
 Y.,in 1885; received an academical ed- 
 ucation ; when he was 17 he clerked in 
 a dry goods store in Syracuse, N. Y. ; 
 from there came to Chicago, in 1857 ; 
 capital then $300 ; accepted several re- i 
 sponsible salaried positions, adding, 
 meanwhile, to his possessions by judicious 
 management in real estate ; in 1865, 
 was elected Clerk of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives, in the Illinois Legislature by 
 a Republican majority, a position of 
 great honor and responsibility at that 
 time ; the Springfield Register said of 
 him, " He is notably a most competent, 
 courteous and graceful officer ;" from the 
 St. Louis Democrat, 1 -- He is the best Clerk 
 that ever officiated in the House of Rep- 
 resentatives; " from the Chicago Times, 
 ' He is acknowledged, on all sides, to be 
 one of the best, most accommodating 
 and popular Clerks the House of Repre- 
 sentatives ever had ;" at the close of the 
 session, the members, through Judge 
 Plato, of Jo Daviess Co., presented him 
 with an elegant watch and chain ; see 
 Judge Plato's speech, House Journal, 
 1865, page 1,202 ; in 1866, Mr. Frazicr 
 was taken ill and came to Aurora ; he has 
 retired from business ; is a member of 
 the Board of Education ; he has a fond- 
 ness for horses, and is breeding some 
 choice ones of Royal blood ; the well- 
 known trotter, Brother Jonathan, grad- 
 uated from his elegant private stables 
 an animal that was a source of pride to 
 the people of Kane Co. 
 
 Fox, J. D., lawyer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flannigan, Wm., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fuller, Antin, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Franzen, Matt., laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fecker, Mrs. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frest, Anthony, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fouth, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fitzpatrick, Thos., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Foster, D. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frink, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Farrell, Mrs. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fickett, R. W., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fribley, Chris., P, O. Aurora. 
 
 Frerbile, Jacob, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fitzgerald, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flynn, Elizabeth, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flynn, Miehael, shoemkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Flinn, John, carpenter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fickensher, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Furman, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frazier, W. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fuller, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Foster, Mrs. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fox, Emily, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Frary, A. N., lightning rods ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fridley, B. F., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ferris, R. R., livery ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Fergerson, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Filkens, A., farmer ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Flanigan, John, section boss; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Fergerson, Ira, farmer ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Fletcher, 0., farmer; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Farr, Anna H., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Fredenburg, Mrs. H. H., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Frerbile, Henry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ferris, W. N , teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Frauenhoff, F., laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 ARDNER, T.. engineer; P. 0. Au- 
 roru. 
 
 Gardner, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, J. W., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, John, cooper ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 GRAY, RUFUS, far.; Sees. 5 and 6, 
 Kendall Co. ; P. 0. Montgomery ; 
 owns 200 acres, valued at $75 per acre j 
 was born in New York, Feb. 19, 1817 ; 
 he married Miss Angeline Van Alstine, 
 Jan. 18, 1854 ; she was born in N. Y. 
 in 1 825 ; she had seven children, four 
 living ; he lived in N. Y. eighteen 
 years ; he came to his present place in 
 1835, and has lived here since ; he has 
 been Justice of the Peace sixteen years ; 
 he expects to move to Aurora in the 
 Spring ; his uncle was the founder of 
 Graytown, now Montgomery.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 GOLDSMITH, N ATH AN,double 
 
 palace clothing house ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 As in most other branches of business 
 and manufactures, Aurora takes a lead- 
 . ing position in the clothing and furnish- 
 ing goods, having several of the leading 
 houses of the kind in the West, which 
 take rank with those in many cities of 
 50,000 inhabitants. The leading one of 
 the clothing business is that of N. 
 Goldsmith, whose business has been es- 
 tablished since the year 1863, when he 
 started with a stock valued at $5,000 ; 
 his business since then has grown to 
 metropolitan proportions, commanding a 
 trade throughout Illinois ; the immense 
 trade of this house has been accomplished 
 through various reasons, among which 
 may be mentioned sagacity, tact and the 
 admirable judgment of the proprietor's 
 unswerving business integrity and the 
 valuable location of the city in which he 
 is located. Mr. Goldsmith has marked 
 his goods in plain figures and has adopt- 
 ed the one-price system, the merits of 
 which are attested by every one, the 
 more so as it is known that he allows no 
 deviation on the part of his clerks, who 
 are, also, required to be pleasant and 
 polite to the trade. The double store 
 he occupies is located at Nos. 8 and 10 
 South Broadway ; 45 feet front and 85 
 feet deep, first and third stories, and is 
 one of the most elegant and palatial 
 business houses in the West, and 
 thoroughly devoted to ready-made cloth- 
 ing, hats and caps, trunks and valises, 
 gents' gloves and furnishing goods, la- 
 dies' and gents' laces and furs ; the cus- 
 tom department is conducted by Mr. A. 
 D. Rude, an experienced cutter, formerly 
 of St. Lnuis, where he was identified as 
 a leading cutter of that city. Mr. Gold- 
 smith's first experience in the clothing 
 business was at Alexandria, Va., where 
 he was employed as clerk in a clothing 
 house at three dollars per month, and 
 by his close application and sterling bus- 
 iness qualities he has risen from an ob- 
 scure clerkship to proprietor of his pres- 
 ent mammoth business, occupying two 
 floors 45x85 feet, and employing six 
 clerks, a bookkeeper and cutter, beside 
 his own personal attention, and carrying 
 a stock of from $50,000 to $75,000 ; 
 and we may say, in conclusion, that no 
 
 business man in Aurora commands higher 
 esteem or has a greater number of friends 
 than Nathan Goldsmith. He has had 
 twenty-eight years' experience in the 
 clothing business. 
 
 Gilbert, E. W., salesman; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gilbert, J. H., jeweler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gilbreth, F., conductor ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gunnison, John. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, Luther, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, Saml., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, W. E., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gunnison, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goldsmith, Aaron, clerk; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goldsmith, David, clerk ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Goodwin, Mrs. S. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Griffin, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Griffin, Maria, P. 0. Auroia. 
 
 Groat, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GRISWOLD & GILLETT, Au- 
 rora, drain tile and brick works ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; they commenced the manufac- 
 ture of tile by hand power in 1869 ; 
 from that to horse power, their demand 
 being so large that they now manufac- 
 ture by steam power ; these works were 
 established nine years ago, and since 
 then they have been gradually brought 
 from an insignificant beginning to a 
 point of excellence and standard sur- 
 passing most others in the State ; to-day 
 they are being rewarded by a large 
 trade ; the manufactures of these works 
 are principally drain tiles, sizes from 2 
 inches to 8 inches; the proprietors 
 have 14 acres of ground here, and 
 buildings, sheds, kilns and other appa- 
 ratus, including one tile and brick ma- 
 chine operated by steam power, enabling 
 them to turn out 500,000 tiles per 
 year ; they give employment to an aver- 
 age of twelve hands ; these are the only 
 tile works in Kane Co., and rank 
 among the largest in the State ; Mr. 
 Rufus Griswold was born in Vermont in 
 1818, and emigrated to Illinois in 1858 ; 
 Mr. Geo. E. Gillett was born in N.Y. in 
 1821 ; he came to Aurora in 1869. 
 
 Gabel, H. G., physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gibbs, W. P., machinist ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Griswold, R., brick works ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gandal, W. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gould, Jas., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodrich. S. L., mechanic ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Goodrich, H. N., fanning mill ; P. 0. 
 Aurora.
 
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 761 
 
 Greaves, G-eo., foreman fdry. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GARMS, FRED., sample rooms ; No. 
 19 S. Broadway, Aurora; was born in 
 Germany, 1836 ; came to America and 
 direct to Aurora 1859 ; commenced 
 work in the machine shops C., B. & Q. 
 R. R., where he was engaged about 
 two years. In 1861 he opened his 
 sample rooms and up to this time he 
 has been noted for keeping a quiet, 
 orderly place. The sample rooms of 
 Fred. Garms are among the well kept 
 places in the city, every person known to 
 conduct himself improperly being refused 
 admittance, however profitable his cus- 
 tom might be. 
 
 Geyer, F. C., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gait, Rev. Thos., minister; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Guempelein, L., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Guild, Albert, capitalist ; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Gale, G. C., bl'ksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Glover, W. W., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Grant, Geo., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Grannis, Mrs. Fannie, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 GRASS, GEO., prop, of Grass House, 
 corner of River and Walnut streets ; 
 was born as Hesse-Darmstadt, Ger- 
 many, March 24, 1821 ; his preliminary 
 education was received in the seminary, 
 at Friedberck, and was completed when 
 eighteen years old ; he then received his 
 diploma, and began to teach school in 
 1844; he entered the army, being as- 
 signed to the 2d Regt. Infantry ; at the 
 end of six years he was made an under 
 officer at the battle of Hemsbeck ; he re- 
 ceived the medal of honor for bravery 
 in action, in 1851. He married Miss 
 Helena Koch at Darmstadt, on the 2d 
 of June ; it should have been mentioned, 
 Mr. G. served his full time, seven years, 
 in the army ; in 1852, he came to 
 America and landed in New York city 
 on the 4th of July ; a few days after he 
 came to Chicago, remained about two 
 years ; in 1854, he settled at Aurora, 
 for Mr. Haroon, who kept a match 
 factory on River street ; in 1856, he 
 became a teacher and organist of the 
 German Lutheran Church ; in 1859, he 
 opened a saloon and grocery on River 
 street, and in 1862, he bought a hotel 
 and saloon, now known as the Grass 
 House. 
 
 Gray, Virgil, teamster ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Graham, W. J., engineer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Grometer, J. M., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Gromeder, Geo., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GRAMPP, CONRAD, prop. Ger- 
 
 mania Hotel ; P. 0. Aurora ; the above 
 named gentleman was born in Germany 
 in 1840 ; emigrated to America in 1866 ; 
 when he first came to America, he was 
 worth about eleven hundred dollars ; his 
 first business in the United States was 
 in Baltimore, where he was engaged in 
 a brewery for a year, thence to St. 
 Louis, Quincy, Davenport and Rock 
 Island, at this point he was foreman of 
 the leading brewery, where he remained 
 for three years, thence to Galesburg, 
 where he was engaged in the manufac- 
 ture of spruce beer, also proprietor of a 
 large beer garden ; he then came to 
 Aurora, where he opened the Germania 
 Hotel in 1875 ; he refitted and refur- 
 nished the house and made it one of the 
 leading hotels of Aurora ; Mr. Grampp 
 has been in Aurora but three years, and 
 during that time has won a host of 
 friends ; is a liberal, enterprising gentle- 
 man, and to this fact he may attribute a 
 large measure of his success ; in connec- 
 tion with his hotel, Mr. Grampp is 
 engaged in bottling lager beer, manufac- 
 tured by Bartholomae & Leicht Brewing 
 Co. of Chicago ; all orders sent to Mr. 
 G. will receive prompt attention ; price, 
 pint bottles 85 cents per dozen ; quart 
 bottles $1.50 per dozen. 
 GEORGE, ALONZO, President 
 Second National Bank ; P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born in Orange Co., Vermont, in 
 1822 ; remaining there until 1860, en- 
 gaged in the mercantile business ; he 
 emigrated West, to Illinois, and settled 
 in Aurora, in 1860 ; was engaged in 
 the wool business, also the lumber trade, 
 for six years ; commenced the banking 
 business in 1872 ; the Second Na- 
 tional Bank of Aurora was started Jan. 
 1, 1872, with a paid-up capital of 
 $100,000; Mr. George has held many 
 public offices of trust, in each of which 
 he has acquitted himself in a very 
 creditable and efficient manner ; was 
 Mayor of the city of Aurora in 1873, 
 and Supervisor in 1870; his father, 
 Ebenezer George, was born at Stratford, 
 Vt., in 1786 ; was in the war of 1812 ; 
 draws a pension ; is now living at his 
 native home in Vermont.
 
 762 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Gropengiesser, H., blksmith; P. (). Aurora. 
 
 Grass, Jacob, teamster; P. Aurora. 
 
 Gumz, Jno., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gass, Jno., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Geiser, Jon is, policeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gillespie, Sanil.. engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GREEN, G. W., manufacturer of 
 bottled soda water, seltzer water and 
 syrups, champagne cider and Belfast 
 ginger ale ; P. 0. Aurora ; commenced 
 business in 1871, known as Green Bros. 
 (G. W. & J. W. Green) ; Mr. J. W. 
 Green retired from the firm in 1877; 
 This manufactory is located at 53 N. 
 Broadway, and is well equipped with a 
 fine class of machinery and everything 
 necessary for the business ; employs four 
 hands, being enabled to turn out soda 
 water at the rate of 600 dozen bottles 
 per day ; Mr. Green was born in Wis- 
 consin, in 1847 ; has been engaged in 
 the soda water business eleven years ; 
 his first experience in the business was 
 at Fond du Lie, Wis. ; thence to Water- 
 town ; from there to Aurora, where he 
 has built up a good paying trade, hav- 
 ing proven to the citizens that he under- 
 stands this business thoroughly, and 
 produces a superior beverage. 
 
 Gengler, Fred., merchant tailor ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Gilbert, H., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Giles, W., sewing machines ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gamwell, Ed., billiard room ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gesper, Matt, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Glesen, Jacob, wool buyer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gates, R. Wilder, U. S. Commissioner ; 
 P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gates, Mrs. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Guhl, Fred., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gudgson, W., stone cutter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Goodman, Mrs. S. M., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Grubber, Leonard, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Geik, Jacob, laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gutche, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gillett, S. C., phys.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gillett, W. B., trav. agt.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Grupe, Henry, lamplighter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Grupe, Chris., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Graves, A. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Griffith, Seth, traveler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gavney, Thos., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gavney, Edw., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodwin, J. lightning rods ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gregory, H. H., machinist ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gray, Amelia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gray, C. J., fisherman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Graham, Sarnl., expressman ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Guinang, Jno., burnisher : P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gilbert, S. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Grass, Geo., brding house; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Groinberg, C. A., tailor ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gemeleah, J. C., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gray, Jno., far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Gillett, L., farmer ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Grommer, Ph'l., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodall, Frank, farmer: P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gray. L. W., far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gray, Mary J., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Gale, W. H., dentist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gath, Saml., blksmth ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodell, J. M., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodell, N. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, Jacques, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Granger, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gibney, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gaffery, Felix, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Greaser, Geo., P. O Aurora. 
 
 Grannis, F. C , P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Goodroad, Geo.. fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gardner, L. G., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gorham. Saml., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Glath. Saml., blacksmith; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gibson, F., far.; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 
 George, B., far., P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 
 Gardner. Wm., capitalist; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Goodale, J. W., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gilbert, Horace, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gates, Mrs. C.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gronberg, C. P. ; laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gridley, F. L., stock dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gregory, H. H., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Greenwood, N. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Green, J. A., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Graves, A. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Gray, L. W., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 GRAY, LESTER W., P. O. Aurora : 
 born in Tioga Co., Pa., July 18, 1811 : 
 he worked his father's farm at the age 
 of 17 ; he then became apprenticed to a 
 tanner at Milton ; finished his trade at 
 the age of 21 ; married Diantha Put- 
 nam (a daughter of Thomas Putnam) 
 in 1833: after working at his trade 
 three years, he moved to Illinois in 1837 ; 
 in 1838, moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa : 
 resided in Galesburg, 111., five years ; in 
 1852, he moved to Aurora, and is now 
 one of its wealthy and prominent men : 
 was Supervisor, and has been Alderman 
 thirteen years, and is a member of the 
 Board of Education.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AUROBA. 
 
 763 
 
 (iray. Margaret, I*. O. Aurora. 
 
 GRAVES, CAPT. A. C., P. O. 
 
 Aurora; was born in Cortland Co.. N. 
 Y., Feb. 15, 1825; resided with his 
 parents in New York State until 9 
 years of age; in the Winter of 1834 
 they located near Lockport, 111.; his 
 father had only about $300, but he 
 purchased a claim and some oxen, and 
 followed farming for several years ; in 
 1837 he settled about four miles south- 
 east of Batavia, purchasing some 260 
 acres, and, notwithstanding a large fam- 
 ily (ten still living), he accumulated a 
 handsome property ; he is still living at 
 Warrensville, near Batavia, with his 
 wife, and is 77 years of age. Capt. G. 
 did hard work on the farm, and in 1854 
 he was elected Sheriff of Du Page Co.; 
 upon the expiration of his term, he was 
 made Deputy ; in 1857 or 1858 he was 
 again elected Sheriif ; during this term 
 of office he was running a livery stable, 
 which afterward was destroyed by fire. 
 Prior to his election as Sheriff he was 
 Constable and Collector; in 1862 he 
 enlisted in Co. D, 105th Inf., at Na- 
 perville ; he organized the Co., and was 
 elected Captain ; the regiment went into 
 camp at Dixon, 111.; six companies were 
 from De Kalb and four from DuPage ; ' 
 this regiment was commanded by Capt. 
 Graves all through the Atlanta cam- 
 paign ; at the close of Sherman's raid 
 he was removed (very much against his 
 will ) to the Officers' Invalid Hospital 
 at Chattanooga. ' In the Fall of 1864, 
 on account of his health, he obtained a 
 leave of absence, and returned home, 
 and was unable to rejoin his command ; 
 in 1867 he came to Aurora, and has 
 since made it his home, and been prom- 
 nently identified with the place. He 
 was Deputy Sheriff four years, and was 
 also elected Citv Marshal. 
 
 HALL. JOHN, wagon maker; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hall, John S., carpenter : P. 0. Aurora 
 Hagadone. B. Y.. conductor ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Hagadone, J. L., sprinkler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hayward, Willard, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hayward, L., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanks, W.. carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanks, Matt., engineer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Holden, J. L., insurance; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 HOBBS, N. R, manufacturer and 
 dealer in all kinds of upholstering goods, 
 furniture and undertaking, No. 36 So. 
 River St., West Aurora; the business 
 of this house dates back to the year 
 1867 ; he has built up a large business 
 through upright, square dealing ; is a 
 thorough businessman, and as a natural 
 consequence has been very successful ; 
 he does his own upholstering, and his 
 immense stock of ornamental and plain 
 furniture was bought in New York, Bos- 
 ton, Grand Rapids, Mich., and many 
 other points noted for their elegant and 
 substantial goods and superior furniture^ 
 he owns the store, pays cash for what 
 he buys, and offers great inducements 
 to purchasers ; Mr. Hobbs has resided 
 within a few miles of Aurora since 1855. 
 
 Holden, W., stone cutter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HAWKINS, WILLIS B., son of 
 
 William H. and L. Brooks Hawkins, 
 was born August 15, 1852, in the 
 then village of Aurora ; living with 
 his parents until his twelfth year, 
 he divide I his time between the public 
 schools, Clark Seminary and the occu- 
 pation of train-boy on the old main 
 line accommodation of the Chicago, Bur- 
 lington & Quincy Railroad ; in September, 
 1864, he entered the military academy, 
 Immanuel Hall, at Lake View, 111., 
 from which he emerged three years later ; 
 one year in Clark Seminary (now Jen- 
 nings Institute) closed his school expe- 
 rience, and, under the administration of 
 Hon. Geo. S. Bangs, P. M., he entered 
 upon the duties of a clerk in the Aurora 
 Post Office ; this position was soon 
 yielded up to satisfy a desire for knowl- 
 edge of telegraphy, which was gained 
 under the tutorship of Mr. T. L. Cleve- 
 land, of Batavia ; this occupation was 
 plied at different points on the C., B. 
 Q. R. R. Naperdlle, West Aurora 
 (Mr. Hawkins opened this office). Aurora 
 yards, Piano and Ottawa until, in 1871, 
 he accepted a position in the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Aurora ; with this insti- 
 tution, the subject of this sketch re- 
 mained until the Fall of 1872, when he 
 joined a detective corps in Chicago, from 
 which, however, the distasteful decep- 
 tion necessary to be practiced soon drove 
 him ; in the following Spring, Mr. Haw- 
 kins proceeded to S r . Paul, Minn., where
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 the clerkship of a Minnesota River 
 packet awaited him ; a season of naviga- 
 tion, during the latter part of which he 
 performed the duties of pilot, and an- 
 other change, much to his liking, placed 
 him in a lucrative position with the 
 Minneapolis Tribune ; under the tutel- 
 age of Clifford Thomson, brother of the 
 late Mortimer Thomson (" Philander 
 Doesticks") our subject became some- 
 what familiar with the details of jour- 
 nalism, and not until the Tribune, was 
 sold to the Pioneer Press did he leave it 
 and proceed to Indianapolis, where he 
 engaged as editor of the Courier, in 
 which paper he owned a half interest; 
 an acquaintance with Wong Chinfoo, 
 the well-known Chinese lecturer, and a 
 desire to further his studies of Chinese 
 history and customs, prompted his relin- 
 quishment of the Courier chair, and 
 until January 1876, he managed and 
 traveled with that Oriental gentleman 
 through the far East and West ; in the 
 month last named, Mr. Hawkins pur- 
 chased a half interest in the Aurora 
 Daily News, and took the editorial chair, 
 to which he is now glued ; in December, 
 1876, enlarged the Daily Aews to 24 
 columns; December, 1877, commenced 
 the issue of a weekly ; in December, 
 1876, put in steam power and cylinder 
 press. R. W. Corbett is Local Editor. 
 In some circles, the non de plume ' Ben 
 Wilde" will be, perhaps, more familiar 
 than Willis B. Hawkins. 
 
 Hopps, Walter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hartman, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harmow, Jacob, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hopps, George, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hartman, Thos., conductor; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Hackney, Miss Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hackney, Mrs. L. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hackney, Jerry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hilt, J. D., auctioneer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Hilts, Daniel, hay and wood ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hild, Wm. J., teacher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hoyt, A. J., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hoyt, E. W., supt. cement works; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Howard G. S., carpenter ; P 0. Aurora. 
 
 Howard, Mrs. E. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Howard, L. T., contractor ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Hopper, H., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hopper, Jacob, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hubbard, J. H., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HASTINGS, L. M., Superintendent 
 of the West Side Public Schools, Dis- 
 trict No 4; is the son of L. M. and 
 Margaret Hastings, and was born in 
 Worcester Co., Mass., April 18, 1837 ; he 
 received his preliminary education at 
 common school and the Thomas Acad- 
 emy, in 1854 ; he went to Fort Edward 
 about a year, taking a classic course ; in 
 1860, he came to Batavia, 111., and 
 remained one year, continuing his stud- 
 ies at the Batavia Institute ; he taught 
 at Birmingham, and also eight years in 
 Decatur Co.; he founded the Garden 
 Grove Academy there, in 1858 ; had 
 charge of the public schools in Ottumwa, 
 Iowa, for eight years ; he took charge of 
 the Graded Public School, at Litchtield, 
 111., in 1873 ; he has taken charge of 
 District No. 4, by request of the Board 
 of Education. 
 
 HARRIS, O. M., proprietor of the 
 Tremont House. The first of im- 
 portance to point out to the public is a 
 good hotel at which to stop and refresh 
 satisfactorily the wants of the inner man, 
 and this can conscientiously be said in 
 naming the Tremont House. Before 
 opening the hotel, the proprietor ex- 
 pended a large amount of money, de- 
 termined to have a house that should 
 give satisiaction and recommend itself 
 through their attention and the comforts 
 and fare offered. How well he has suc- 
 ceeded their increasing patronage will 
 testify. The Tremont is very centrally 
 located, being adjacent to the depot, 
 business houses and places of amuse- 
 ment. Baggage and passengers are 
 taken from and to the depot free of 
 charge. The house contains about fifty 
 rooms, all of which have been recently 
 newly furnished and the whole interior 
 renovated, giving the hotel a very home- 
 like and cheerful appearance. Mr. 
 Geo. H. Bean, the accommodating Clerk, 
 recently of the Balis House, Indinapolis, 
 and Biddle House of Detroit, and O. M. 
 Harris, the attentive landlord, have 
 made many friends by their uniform 
 kindness and pleasant manners. 
 
 Hubbard, E. B., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Howell, I. M., lumber P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Huntoon, Mrs. M. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hathorn, A. C., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hunton, I. C., mason ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 765 
 
 HAWKINS, W. H M P. 0. Aurora; 
 Vice President of the First National 
 Bank of Aurora, and General Adjust- 
 ing Agent C., B. &Q. R. R .; born in New 
 York, in 1817, remaining there twelve 
 years, thence to Erie Co., Pa., remain- 
 ing there until 1835, engaged in learn- 
 ing a trade as a tanner, thence to Can- 
 ada, where he was engaged in the book 
 and stationery business, until the break- 
 ing out of the patriot war ; rather than 
 enlist and go to war in that country, he 
 emigrated tu Chicago, in 1837 ; was 
 with Maj. Brooke, one of the contractors 
 in building the Illinois Canal, thence to 
 Aurora, in 1 840, and took charge of the 
 West Side of Aurora ; at that time 
 there was two saw-mills, two shingle- 
 mills, and other business, until it was 
 sold to Charles Hoyt ; was engaged in 
 the merchandising busines until 1853 ; 
 has been General Adjusting Agent of 
 the C., B. & Q. R. R. since 1851, which 
 office he has very acceptably and effi- 
 ciently filled. Mr. Hawkins has cred- 
 itably filled man}' offices of public trust ; 
 was Mayor of the city of Aurora, in 
 1862 and 1872, also Alderman of the 
 city for several years. His son, W. D. 
 Hawkins, was in the late war ; first 
 entered the service in Co. C. 7th 111. 
 Vol. Inf., for three months' service; 
 served his time out and was honorably 
 discharged ; then rejoining the army, 
 he entered the 36th 111. Vol. Inf. for 
 three years, or during the war; partic- 
 ipated in hard fought battles, under 
 Gen. Sherman; was honorably discharged 
 June 5, 1865 ; is now engineer on the 
 C., B. & Q. R. R. 
 
 HAWLEY, JOHN S., dry goods, 
 of the firm of Hawley & Otis ; P. 0. 
 Aurora; was born in Fairfield Cb., Conn., 
 in 18^0, whare he remained until he 
 was 16 years of age ; he then immigrated 
 West to Chicago, where he entered the 
 dry goods house of McGee & High as 
 clerk, receiving 8150 per year and board 
 for his services ; Mr. Hawley remained 
 and saved enough money that, in 1851, 
 he came to Aurora and commenced the 
 dry goods business on his own account, 
 and to-day ranks as the oldest dry goods 
 merchant in Aurora ; he was City Treas- 
 urer in 1865, in which office he gave 
 entire satisfaction. 
 
 Hoyleo, Saml., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Henry, John, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hollering, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Huglis, Lavina, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holmes, W. E., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holmes, J. 8., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoffman, J. F., cigars ; P. 0. Aurora; 
 Hoffman, Conrad, cigars ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HALE & CARPENTER, proprie- 
 
 tors of Aurora Carriage Manufactory, 
 established 1865. They commenced 
 business with a capital of about 8200 
 in a little brick building in the rear 
 of the Fitch House. With hard labor, 
 good management, and the manufacture 
 of first class work, to-day they stand 
 among the leading carriage manufac- 
 turers of the West. They are located 
 on the corner of Water and Benton 
 streets, where they attend to light 
 work and turn out carriages and bug- 
 gies which for beauty of design and 
 proprietors see that nothing leaves their 
 finish are not excelled either East or 
 West. The material used by this firm 
 is of the very best to be obtained. They 
 employ twelve practical men, and the 
 shop unless first class. Geo. Hale was 
 born in Pennsylvania ; came to Aurora 
 at an early day, where he commenced 
 his trade as a blacksmith, which busi- 
 ness he has followed ever since. W. E. 
 Carpenter was born in Michigan ; came 
 to Aurora in 1856 ; was in the late war ; 
 enlisted in Co. H, 124th 111. Volunteers, 
 and served three years, from 1862 to 
 1865. These gentlemen are honorable 
 and enterprising, and from their long 
 experience and facilities are able to 
 compete with any other establishment 
 for like work. 
 
 Hitchcock, Mrs. F. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hitchcock, W., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hitchcock, S., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hodges, Laura, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hillock, R. J., merchant ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Hiller, Stephen, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill, Thos. E., author and ex-Mayor; P. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hill, H. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill, L. 0., Alderman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hennig, Herman, bridge builder ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hattery, A. J., purchasing agt.; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Higbee, A., P. O. Aurora.
 
 766 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Healy, John, machinist ; P, 0. Aurora. 
 
 HO WELL, DR. O. D., P. 0. Au- 
 rora ; the subject of this sketch is prob- 
 ably one of the best known and highly 
 regarded business men of Aurora, having 
 resided in Aurora since the year 1855 ; 
 he was born in New York, in 1818 ; he 
 commenced his career in life by teaching 
 school, where he saved enough money to 
 pay his tuition in college ; he graduated 
 at the New York University, in the 
 medical department, in 1840 ; he immi- 
 grated West to Aurora, in 1855, where 
 he commenced the practice of medicine, 
 which he has followed ever since ; was 
 in the late war as Surgeon ; at the close 
 of the war was Examining Surgeon for 
 the United States Pension Department, 
 appointed by President Lincoln ; is Vice 
 President of the Union National Bank 
 of Aurora, which was organized March, 
 1871, with a paid-up capital of $125,- 
 000. The Union National Bank is one 
 of the most solid and reliable in the 
 country, whose officers and stockholders 
 rank among the leading capitalists and 
 men of Aurora ; Dr. H. delivered the 
 first temperance lecture in Aurora, in a 
 school house on the site where now stands 
 John Plain's liquor store; his son, Dr. Ed- 
 win B. Howell, is one of the best edu- 
 cated doctors in Aurora ; is a graduate 
 of the Chicago University, also in French 
 and German schools of medicine of the 
 highest class in Europe. Persia and Vi- 
 enna. 
 
 Hawks. George, Inspector ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Huntington, A., ins. agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hawkins, Delos, eng.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hale, Geo., carriage infr.; P. 0- Aurora. 
 
 Holt, J. M., foreman R. R. carp, shops; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hanson, C. E., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harral, J. F., star churn ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Haney, Chas., bkpr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Holcolm, 0., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hendricks, M. S., machine works ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hassett, Michael. merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hollis, Fred, mach.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Halkyard Jas.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Henn, Frank, shoemkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hadden, Mrs. Helen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hirsh. L., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harrington, Jesse, auctioneer ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 HARD, ABNER, M. D., P 0. 
 
 Aurora ; he was born at Geneva, N. Y., 
 Dec. 3, 1820, and is the son of Peter 
 N. and Mary Hard. When he was 
 thirteen years old his parents left Geneva, 
 and settled in Livingston Co., Mich.: 
 here, as well as in his native town. Dr. 
 Hard attended the district school, mak 
 ing the best use of the adva ntages afforded 
 by them. He early decided upon the 
 medical profession, but not having means 
 sufficient to pay his expenses through 
 a regular course of study, he taught 
 school through the winters, and through 
 the summer months studied for his pro- 
 fession in the vicinity of Detroit ; this 
 he continued for four years, and in 1851 
 came to Aurora, 111. In 1852, he went to 
 Keokuk, Iowa, and afterward graduated 
 from the medical department of the 
 Iowa State University ; he is also a 
 graduate of the Rush Medical College, 
 of Chicago. He began the practice of 
 his profession at Ottawa, Illinois, and 
 remained there and at Marseilles two 
 years. In 1854, with a view to locating 
 permanently, he returned to Aurora. In 
 addition to his professional work, he has 
 filled many important positions. He 
 entered the army in 1861, as Surgeon of 
 8th Regiment 111. Cavalry, and held the 
 position till the close of the war. For 
 his meritorious services while in the 
 army, he was breveted Lieut. Colonel. 
 In 1868 he was elected Alderman of the 
 city, and in 1869 was appointed Post- 
 master of Aurora, and held the position 
 until 1873. He was President, Secre- 
 tary and Treasurer of Fox Valley Medi- 
 cal Association ; was a member of the 
 State Medical Association, and also of 
 the American Medical Association ; 
 besides, he has written and published a 
 history of the 8th Regiment 111. Cav- 
 alry. Socially, he has a pleasing ad- 
 dress and genial manners, that win the 
 respect of all. He is a member of the 
 Congregational Church; his political 
 opinions are Republican. He was mar- 
 ried May 7. 1844, to Miss Laura E. 
 Vreeland, by whom he has four 
 daughters. 
 
 Hodder, J. H., publisher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Haeni, J. F., mer. P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Hawley, Mrs. H. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Habermeyer, J. G., P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 767 
 
 HIGGINS, DR. GEO., P. 0. Au- 
 
 rora ; born in Vermont, Dec. 27, 1826 ; 
 when he was quite young, his father 
 with his family moved to Canada ; thence 
 to New York, and back to Canada; Dr. 
 H., in company with his father. Winslow 
 Higgins, came West and settled in 
 Aurora, in 1 835 j was engaged in farm- 
 ing when he first came here ; he also, in 
 the Fall of 1835, helped his father build 
 the first frame house in Aurora ; was 
 built on the site of what is now called 
 Allen's warehouse ; is a graduate of the 
 Rush Medical College, of Chicago; grad- 
 uated in 1 850 ; has been following the 
 practice of medicine ever since. 
 
 Habermeyer, Michael, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hough, J. W., drayman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hadlock, W. S., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harrison, Alfred, clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Huston, J. E., mnfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HATCH, A. P., of the firm of Judd 
 & Hatch, dealers in agricultural imple- 
 ments, grain and seed ; P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born fn New York, in July, 1844, 
 remaining there until 1847 ; came West 
 and settled in Sugar Grove Tp.; engaged 
 in farming ; thence to Aurora and com- 
 menced the druggist business in 1868, 
 which business he followed until 1876 ; 
 sold out and entered into partnership 
 with H. A. Judd, in the agricultural 
 business, in 1876 ; Rep. 
 
 Hunt, Mrs. E. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hummel, Rev. C., min.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hooker. M. F., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hamilton, A. A., bkpr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hermon, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hurley hy, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HOLDEN, T. N., bookkeeper loco- 
 motive department C., B. & Q. R. R.; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; is a native of Sullivan 
 Co., N. H. ; came West in 1853; was 
 engaged with Fuller, Finch & Fuller, 
 druggists, of Chicago, as clerk, from 
 1858 to 1866 ; this year he was taken 
 in as partner, and continued with the 
 firm until 1869; he then entered the 
 glassware business, which he continued 
 until the great Chicago fire of 1871, 
 when his entire stock was consumed in 
 fire ; he then came to Aurora in 1871 ; 
 in 1872, he entered the office of the 
 C.. B. &. Q. R. R.,as bookkeeper in the 
 locomotive department ; is President of 
 the East Side Board of Education. 
 
 Heimsath, Henry, manf. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Herrick, D. A., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Howell, E. B., surgeon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hawley & Otis, merchants ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hopkins, Rev. W. C., minister. 
 Hardy, Sandford, coal and wood ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hettinger, Peter, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 Hiltgen, Nicholas, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hess, Jno., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hess, Nicholas, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hines, John, painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hermus, Nicholas, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hinnen, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hettinger, Matt., farmer ; P. 0. North 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hanks, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hankers, Peter, fanner ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Harnon, Goodhart, farmer; P. O.Aurora. 
 Harvey, Alexander, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Heitz, Dominick, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanks, Fred., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hennis, N., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Huss, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hammer, Joseph, mason; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hartz, M., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Heitz, Nicholas, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hornly, Mrs. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hill, Mrs. Nancy, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holden, Mrs. Sarah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoffman, J. G. F., cigars ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hall, Abby B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, C. L., manufacturer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, L. P., manufacturer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hay ward, Ansel, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hartman, Margaret, P. O. Aurora. 
 Hopp, W. J., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Harris, R. C., far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 Hines, Harrison, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Harman, Sarah A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hatch, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Huntoon, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Harris, Jas., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hotz, Fred., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hyland, Mary A., P. O. Aurora. 
 Hinman, Mrs. Sarah J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hcaton, Jno., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hathron, M. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hass. Michael, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanson, Norman, carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Holbrook, Mrs. B. N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holbrook, Betsey, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hibbard, Mrs. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Howard, Theodore, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hale, A. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kurd, D. W., mer.; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 768 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Hoyt, L. B., mfg.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hotz, Emeline, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hardy, Jno. W., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hunt, M. R,., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hurd, Saml., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Higgins, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holbrook, A., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanchett, J. L., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hamilton, 0. S., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hitchcock, Greo. I., engineer; P. O.Au- 
 rora. 
 HOPKINS, ALBERT J., the sub- 
 
 ject of this sketch, was born on his 
 father's farm near Cortland, De Kalb 
 County, Ills., Aug. 15, 1846. His pa- 
 rents are Cyrus B. and Fannie Hopkins, 
 who were among the earliest settlers of 
 Northern Illinois, having made their 
 home in De Kalb County nearly forty 
 years ago. Those born amidst the cir- 
 cumstances of pioneer life, must neces- 
 sarily imbibe something of the nature of 
 their surroundings. The freedom of the 
 life from the cares and responsibilities 
 that ever attend the older forms of 
 society, tends to produce a spirit of in- 
 dependence and vigjr, which are un- 
 known in the latter ; while the isolation 
 of the life develops a fertility of resource 
 and an energy of action that might other- 
 wise have remained dormant. Amid these 
 surroundings, young Hopkins spent his 
 childhood and early youth, working on 
 the farm from the time he was able to 
 handle an ax or hold the plow, and in 
 the Winter gathering what instruction 
 the rude "district" school of the period 
 could afford. At seventeen, at his own 
 'earnest entreaty, he was permitted to 
 attend school at Sycamore, the county 
 seat of De Kalb, and such was his industry, 
 that in one year he fitted himself to enter 
 the preparatory course of the Hillsdale 
 College at Hillsdale, Mich. Twelve 
 months in that course fully equipped j 
 him for entrance into the college, and 
 there he spent four years, graduating in j 
 1870, and receiving the degree of A. B. ' 
 Hopkins' thoughts as to a life pursuit 
 had long since been directed toward 
 the law. His father came home one day 
 from court, where he had been serv- 
 ing as a juror, and his description of court 
 scenes, and particularly of the passages 
 at arms between the lawyers, and their 
 eloquent appeals to the jury, awakened 
 
 in the lad an ambition that had slum- 
 bered. On graduating from college, 
 however, he received a tempting offer to 
 take charge of an academy in Maine, but 
 through some misunderstanding on the 
 part of the trustees of the institution the 
 project fell through. His mind then 
 reverted to the dream of his early boy- 
 hood. He came to Aurora in August, 
 1870, and began the study of law with 
 C. J. Metzner, then one of the leading 
 members of the bar in Kane County. 
 Hopkins brought to his law studies zeal, 
 industry and determination to succeed, 
 and in September, 1871, he was ad- 
 mitted to practice by the Supreme Court 
 of Illinois, and a year later in all the 
 United States Courts. In 1872. he was 
 elected State's Attorney for Kane County, 
 and held the office for a term of four 
 years, greatly distinguishing himself by 
 the energy and success which attended 
 his criminal prosecutions. It has be- 
 come a custom to confer this office upon 
 young lawyers, and in no term since the 
 organization of the county has there been 
 secured so large a number of convictions 
 for criminal offenses as during the term 
 it was held by Hopkins. Since his re- 
 tirement from office, Mr. Hopkins has 
 devoted his entire attention to his prac- 
 tice, which is extensive and lucrative, 
 and constantly growing. Some men pursue 
 the law merely as a means of livelihood, 
 just as they might engage in trade, or 
 saw wood, or keep a hotel for a living. 
 With Hopkins the law is a part of his 
 life. The dream of the farmer's boy 
 has not only never faded, but its realiza- 
 tion in the highest sense has become a 
 passion. His ambition is to distinguish 
 himself in his chosen profession, and 
 particularly as an advocate. To this ob- 
 ject he bends all his energies with the 
 zest that marked his early studies. He 
 understands well the importance of 
 thoroughness of preparation, and he never 
 enters a court room with a case without 
 being thoroughly equipped for its pre- 
 sentation. He studies it from both stand- 
 points, and is as ready to meet and repel 
 the arguments of opposing counsel as to 
 press his own. It is this thoroughness 
 that makes him ready for the most -un- 
 expected emergency that may arise in 
 the course of a trial, and to his unwearied
 
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 industry he owes much of his success, 
 which is seldom equaled in the early 
 career of lawyers. His temperament is 
 the nervous and sanguine, and this, 
 based upon a vigorous constitution, makes 
 him a hard hitter. In politics Mr. Hop- 
 kins is a Republican, and in every elec- 
 tion for several years past he has been 
 one of the most effective stump speakers 
 of that party in Kane County. His 
 name has been frequently mentioned in 
 connection with a seat in the Legislature. 
 
 Hoppenger, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hickey, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill. H. R., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill! J. E., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hughes, John, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hogan, James. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hogan, John, laborer : P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hawkins, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hines, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill, John, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hinds, James, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hinds, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hillock, James, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harding, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Holland, Thomas, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hough ton, Hannah J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hackett, John, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Halpin, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hannon, John, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hayward, A. B.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hughes, Michael. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Henning, L., P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Hotz, Fred, salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hadlock, J. C., railroad man ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Hartzburg, W. A., sash fac. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hotchkins, W. H., engineer ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Hall, S. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Holmes, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hackenburg, C. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Horton, Caroline, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hork, Julia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hamsmith, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hamsmith, Ed., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Holden, Whitaker, stone cutter; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hamsmith, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hall, J. M., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Hogan, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hayes, Thos. E., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hollis. Fred., Jr., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hastings, Dan'l, switchman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hank. S. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hanna, Robert, mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Howe, James, mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Houghlin, Frank, P. O. Aurora. 
 Host, Peter, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Higgins, George, physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Haggarty, Charles, wagon maker; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Hopps, Mrs. Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hard, Abner, physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Houston, Mrs. Alex., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hareiman, Hiram, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hannon, Sarah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hall, J. G., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hathaway, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hassett, R., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hassett, Michael, mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hobbs, N. R., furniture; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hannah Bros., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hanna, Robt.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, Willis, mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, Mrs Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, Mrs. S. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, L. P., mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hoyt, Agnes; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hagerty, Chas., wagon mkr ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hale, Horace, brkman.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hume, T. J., marble cutter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holstin, Martha, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Holstin, Julia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Howard, P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Huntoon, E. C., P. 0. Aurara. 
 Hubbard, N., mail carrier ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hubbard, Mrs. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hewett, E. E., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hart, J. W., painter ;.P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hinckley, L., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hammond, K. S.. carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Higerins, M. A., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Higgins, Jas., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hastings, L. M., Supt, West Side School ; 
 
 P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hawley, S. B., phys. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hauser, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hamilton, Pat., lab.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Huntiugton, J. H., clerk; P. O.Aurora 
 Holbrook, Mrs. B. N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hatch, Mrs. M. P., P. O. Aurora. 
 Hill, Rev. D. D., min.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hord, L., miller; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hord, M. P., miller ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Haigk W. C., tailor : P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hayward, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hadden, A., shoemaker; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hartigan, Thos., bill poster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hunt, Herman, butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Hurd, D. W.. merchant; P. O. Aurora.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Hanna, Jno., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hanna, Geo., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hotz, F. H., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hord, Emmons & Co., flour-mill: P. O. 
 Montgomery. 
 
 Hammond, JDO., sash, doors and blinds ; 
 P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Hager, Joseph, mer.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Humphry, Geo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hardy, J. W., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hopkins, H. L., dairyman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hill, D. L., milkman; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hayes, Abigail, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hough, J. W., drayman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Harwood, Mrs. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hurd, Samuel, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Hal pine, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Haroley, Mrs. H. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 HIGGINS, M. A., of the firm of 
 W. Lawrence & Co.; P. 0. Aurora ; was i 
 born in Jamaica. Windham Co., Vt., 
 Dec. 16, 1827 ; was educated there; his 
 father was a farmer in good circum- 
 stances ; when 15 years old he entered 
 the employ of Higgins & Summers, his 
 father being the senior member ; he re- 
 mained as clerk five or six years ; two 
 years after he opened a general mer- 
 chandise store in his native place, and 
 continued in business five years ; while 
 here he married Miss Martha A. Reed 
 in 1853; he went to Washington Co., 
 and entered into partnership with Mr. 
 Lawrence, his present partner ; they 
 commenced on a small scale, but in a few 
 years their sales reached $100,000 per 
 annum ; at the end of seven years the 
 firm dissolved ; nine years from this 
 time he came to Aurora, and went into 
 the lumber business, and finally again 
 became a partner of Mr. Lawrence. 
 
 ILIFF, DAVID, insurance agent ; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Irwin, Fowler, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Irvin, Jerry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Isbell, E. K., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Isbell, Levi H., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Innes, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Isbell, Mrs. A. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 JONES, MRS. LETITIA, P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Jameson, J., miller ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Johnson, W. J., agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Jones, Wm., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Jones, H. R., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Johnson, Joseph, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 JUDD, ASAHEL, retired farmer ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Franklin 
 Co., Mass., in 1808, where he remained 
 until 1853, and then emigrated West 
 to Kane Co., and settled in Sugar Grove 
 Township, where he commenced farming, 
 which business he carried on very suc- 
 cessfully until 1868, when he moved to 
 Aurora ; Mr. Judd. when he first came 
 to Kane Co., was worth about $5,000 ; 
 he invested in farming land, and with 
 hard labor and industry, is to-day one 
 of the successful farmers of Kane Co. ; 
 Nov. 25, 1841, he married Miss Mary 
 Ann Bates, daughter of John and Ann 
 Bates, of Hampshire Co., Mass.; she 
 was born in 1817 ; three children 
 Henry A., born in 1847 ; engaged in 
 the agricultural business in Aurora ; 
 married Miss Jane Smith ; William B., 
 traveling salesman of Wright & King, 
 of Chicago, married Annie T. Graves ; 
 Mary L., married James Davis, farmer. 
 
 Johnson, L. E., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, W. J., traveler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, J. B., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, G. N., traveling agent ; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Jackson, Rev. J. L., min.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jackson, Fred, painter ; P. 0. . Aurora. 
 
 Judd, Theo., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Judson, L. B., ins. agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jurden, W. E., physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 James, J. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 James, F. D.. merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 JUDD, HENRY A., of the firm of 
 Judd & Hatch, dealers in agricultural 
 implements, grain and seed. Aurora, 
 111. ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Frank- 
 lin Co., Mass., in 1847, remaining there 
 until 1853 ; thence West to Kane Co., 
 111., and settled in Sugar Grove Town- 
 ship ; he engaged in farming ; he came 
 to Aurora, and started in the agricul- 
 tural business in 1871 ; he holds the 
 office of Supervisor, which he was elect- 
 ed to in 1876 ; Rep. ; Episcopalian. 
 
 Jassoy, Mrs. A. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jenkins, Ed., mason; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jacoby, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jameson & Russell, city mills ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Jenkins, D. J.. farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Jungles, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jungles, Philip, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jungles, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 771 
 
 Jacobs, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, John, mason ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Jungles, P. M., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, W. H., auctioneer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jenks, Mrs. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Janes, N. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 James, H. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, W., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, E. T., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Judd, A. T., lumber dlr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Judd, Charles, lumber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jameson, John, prop, mill ; P. 0. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Jackson, A. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, Juo., traveler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, M. F., teamster; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, John, contractor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, 0. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jenks, Joel, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jackson, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnston, Joseph, mnfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, G. N., traveler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, A. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, W., Jr., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jorbon, John, watchman ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 JONES, 6. T., retired farmer ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; he was born at North Wales, 
 Jan. 15, 1809; in 1838 he came to 
 America, and settled down in the State 
 of New York ; he remained four years, 
 working out for $8 per month ; in 1836 
 he came West to Illinois, passing through 
 Chicago, and eventually settling down 
 at Somanauk, De Kalb Co. ; here he 
 gave $200 for 340 acres of land, and the 
 same year split rails and built fence and 
 also erected a log cabin ; the following 
 Spring he hired six yoke of oxen and 
 broke about 40 acres and put in his 
 crop; in Oct., 1837, he was married, at 
 Chicago, to Miss Elizabeth Williams, at 
 the residence of E. Van Lewis ; on his 
 return he farmed it very successfully 
 for ten years ; in 1847 he moved to 
 Alexandria, near Sandwich. 111., where 
 he resided for eight years; in 1866 he 
 came to Sugar Grrove and purchased 155 
 acres; he disposed of this in 1868, and 
 in 1869 came to Aurora, lived a short 
 time in the city, and finally purchased 4 
 acres just outside the city and built 
 himself a handsome residence ; has four 
 children Albert, William D., Clayton, 
 and John T. 
 
 Joyce, Cordelia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Johnson, M. T., lab.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Jones, Jurby, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Jurand, Jacob, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 JACKSON, S. L., P. 0. Aurora ; was 
 born in Chautauqua Co., N. Y., Aug. 6, 
 1819 ; when 10 years old, moved with 
 his parents to Ashtabula Co., Ohio ; his 
 father, a blacksmith, early instructed 
 him in the trade, but, at 18, young 
 Jackson determined to try his fortune 
 in the West ; with the consent of his 
 parents and $80 in money, he started 
 bon voyage fording rivers, doubling 
 teams through swamps and highways, 
 and guessing the road in sparsely settled 
 localities, guide boards being few and 
 far between ; an idea may be had of the 
 difficulties in the way of the emigrant 
 when it is stated that, in a distance of 
 thirty miles, thirty-one taverns were 
 counted ; this was en route through 
 the Maumee Swamps, and it was no un- 
 common occurrence to see nine yoke of 
 oxen trying to pull a wagon out of a 
 plunge hole ; in some places, holes were 
 so deep that the mud and water would 
 force their way through the bottoms of 
 the wagons ; old settlers will remember 
 the Pre-emption Hotel, the favorite 
 stamping ground of the emigrant; for 
 four or five years, Mr. Jackson followed 
 blacksmithing and farming in Chicago 
 and in McHenry and Du Page Counties ; 
 in 1843, he established himself in a 
 blacksmith shop at Naperville, and 
 continued there for fourteen years; 
 at 27, married Miss Sarah A. Baker, 
 of Aurora ; two sons and two daugh- 
 ters are the result of the union ; for 
 a number of years, Mr. Jackson held 
 the office of Alderman in Aurora, and 
 on his retirement from office he worked 
 his farm property for seven years ; in 
 1870, he again came with his family to 
 Aurora, and erected his present resi- 
 dence. Coming to Illinois as poor as 
 the poorest, he steadily went onward 
 and upward ; he is wealthy, affable and 
 courteous. 
 
 JAMES, P. W., photographer ; corner 
 Downer place and River street ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; became established in present 
 business seven years ago ; was born in 
 Wooster, Ohio, Nov., 1847 ; his father 
 was a dealer in musical instruments and
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 music many years ; settled in Ohio forty 
 years ago ; he was also a sea captain in 
 his younger days ; here the subject of 
 this sketch grew up, received a prelimi- 
 nary education, and was afterward fin- 
 ished in Aurora ; when 1 8 years of age, 
 his parents settled in Aurora ; he became 
 an employe of the C., B. & Q. R. R., 
 and worked three years as a machinist ; 
 then became an agent for the Florence 
 Sewing Machine Co. Mr. James had 
 also had a large experience in the photo- 
 graph business with D. C. Pratt and 
 others. 
 
 JACKSON, D. B., blackMnith and 
 carriage maker, and a teacher of pen- 
 manship ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born 
 at Naperville, Du Page Co., in 1850 ; his 
 father was a blacksmith and wagon 
 maker ; when he was six years old his 
 parents moved to Aurora, and remained 
 three years ; the family then moved on 
 to a farm of 270 acres, three miles north- 
 west of the city ; there young Jackson 
 grew to maturity ; in early youth he 
 attended the District School ; at 15 years 
 of age he became a student in the North- 
 western Business College in the city of 
 Aurora ; took a course in the higher 
 branches and penmanship ; then at- 
 tended Jennings Seminary ; in penman- 
 ship he studied under Prof. Cross ; on 
 leaving the seminary, he worked on the 
 farm a short time, and in 1871 he went 
 to Kansas and bought a farm, which he 
 still owns ; May 15, 1872, he married 
 Julia L. Felton, daughter of J. M. 
 Felton, at Winfield, near Arkansas City ; 
 while on the farm Mr. Jackson had be- 
 come a skillful workman ; he is one of 
 the best wagon makers in Aurora, and 
 a fine penman ; resides clo^e to shop. 
 IT^ELLEY, JOHN, expressman; P. 
 l\. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kelly, W., mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kelly, L., laborer ; P, 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kelly, J. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kelly, Pat. laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Killian, Emil, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knight, I. J., shoemaker ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Kinley. J. A., clerk; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knott, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kuchue, E. H., engineer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Kramer, J. J., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kranert, Fred., fruit dealer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Karl, J. H., stone quarry ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 KLEIN, PETER, editor and propri- 
 etor of the Aurora Volks Freund ; 
 he was born in Nussbaum, Prussia, near 
 Bingen on the Rhine, Sept. 1. 1849 ; 
 is the son of Henry and Elizabeth 
 (Kessler) Klein ; Mr. Klein came to 
 America with his father in 1862 ; his 
 first business in this country was clerk- 
 ing in Chicago; from there he came to 
 Kane Co. and settled in Aurora in 1804, 
 where he commenced clerking in a store ; 
 thence in the insurance business, which 
 he continued until 1868; he then en- 
 tered into partnership with Mr. Sieg- 
 mund in the publication of the Volk* 
 Freund, the only German paper in the 
 Fox River Valley ; on the 1st of July, 
 1870, Mr. Klein bought out the half 
 interest of Mr. Siegmund, and continued 
 to publish the paper alone ; when the 
 first number made its appearance, few 
 entertained the belief that it would live 
 any length of time ; but with a firm and 
 powerful will and the good business 
 qualifications that, characterize i's pres- 
 ent publisher, the paper has been grad- 
 ually brought to a firm, substantial basis, 
 and may now be deemed one of the per- 
 manent institutions of Aurora. 
 
 Klarnser, Joseph, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kutler, John, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 KING, ALFRED, farmer; resides 
 in Aurora; born in N. Y.. in 1825. 
 He married Miss M. Dean ; she was 
 born in New York, 1845 ; have four 
 children, three living ; lived in New 
 York until 1856, then came to Aurora, 
 then to Big Rock, then to Aurora; lias 
 been Highway Commissioner and School 
 Director ; he owns 153 acres in Sees. 
 18 and 19, in Aurora Township, valued 
 at $65 per acre. 
 
 Keith, James, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keepers, I. B., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keyes, S. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kirsch, Peter, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kirsch, Nick, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kendall, J. W., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kearns, B., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kyle, T. A , engineer; P. A. Aurora. 
 
 Keil, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kiesel, C., butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keup, Jos., peddler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Krauter, G-eo., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Koening, Jno. , shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kehm, Fred, laborer; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 Kansler, Albert, brooms ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kramer, Conrad, far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Kramer. John, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kartizer, Barney, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kartizer, Theo., car repairer; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Kartizer, John, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Komas, Jno., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kartizer, Peter, car repairer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kartizer. Michael, far.; P. 0. North 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Krantz, Nick., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kramer, Wm., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Krantze, Lawrence, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Krutchen, Jno., far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Komas, Frank, far.; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 Komas, Anton, far.; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 Komas, Nick, far. ; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 Komas, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kale, Harry, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 King, Betsey, Mrs., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kraymor, N., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Karthizer, Mat., far.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Keifer, John, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kranz, Peter, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kaley, Henry, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kline, N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kirchens, P., blacksmith ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Kinley, J. R, ticket agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kohra, Jno., P. O. Aurora. 
 Kattler, Jno., butcher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 King, Mrs. Amelia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Knight. Chas. B., cond'r; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kerwin, M. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kellam, Frank, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kimball, Wm., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kennedy, Thos., flagman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kelly, .Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kraft. Philip, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Klamser, Joseph, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Keefe, Morris, lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kingsbury, S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Keenan, Jno., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kealey, Henry, C. B. & Q. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Keep, Emma, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kelsey, C. E., P. O. Aurora. 
 Kaiser, John, shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kohn, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Krawsenkle, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Keefe, John, laborer; P. O. Aurora. 
 King J. R., clerk ; P. 0. Sugar Grove. 
 King, Nancy, P. 0. Aurora. 
 King, Aimer, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Kennedy, J. D., P. 0. Aurora 
 Kehl, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Karl, J. H., stone quarry; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kinney, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keck, Leander, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kennedy, Geo, C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0, 
 Aurora. 
 
 Kennedy, J. M., conductor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kavanaugh, M., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kuapp, Valentine, wagon maker ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Karb, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knight. D. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knickerbocker, H., printer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knickerbocker, W., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Knickerbocker, Geo., mfr.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Kemp, Jno., harness maker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keasler, I., jeweler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keasler, B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kilbourne, Dr. E. H.. dentist; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 King, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kennedy, Chas., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Keck, Daniel, farmer ; P. O. Aurora, 
 
 Keck, Jas., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Klepper, Nich., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Keck, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Keck, Walter, farmer ; P. 0. Montgomery, 
 
 Keck, Nimrod, far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Knight, I. J., mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kelley, Bridget, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kearns, John, watchman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kranard, Fred., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Koller, Anna, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roller, Miss W., P. Q. Aurora. 
 
 Krouse, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kalf, Leonard, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Kinley, W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Kinley, W. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 T ONG, J. H., painter; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 _LJ 
 
 LOSER, ANTON, senior member 
 of the firm of Loser & Son, dealers in 
 groceries, glassware, wines, liquors and 
 cigars ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born at Lux- 
 emburg, Germany, Sept. 21, 1821 ; in 
 1857 he became established in business 
 in Aurora, and ranks among the oldest 
 business men of the place; a few years 
 ago, Christopher Loser, his son, became 
 a partner ; he is a young man well liked 
 for his pleasing manner, and possesses 
 good business qualifications ; they are 
 located at 45 River street ; they carry 
 a fine line of goods, and customers 
 always get their money's worth ; every- 
 thing applying to groceries may be 
 found at this house ; also a fine line of 
 wines, liquors and cigars.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Long, Fred., policeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Long, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, Mrs. I. P., milliner; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 LEWIS, JAMES, wool merchant; 
 P. O. Aurora ; was born in Jefferson 
 Co., New York, in 1836; up to the 
 time he was 14 years of age, his parents 
 resided at Jefferson ; they then removed 
 to Cayuga Co., and thence to Washing- 
 ton Co., where they still live ; James 
 received a good common school educa- 
 tion in the same county, and remained 
 on the farm there until he was 2 6 years of 
 ae ; in 1864, he came West and located 
 first at Montgomery, about two miles 
 from Aurora ; while there, he was em- 
 ployed to run a flax-mill, by an Eastern 
 firm ; in 1867, he came to Aurora and 
 entered the employ of Hon. D. Vol en- 
 tine, and, in 1872, became a member of 
 the firm ; this house transacts the 
 heaviest wool business of any firm in 
 the Northwest; bujs very largely in the 
 States of Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, 
 Missouri, Illinois, and many other North- 
 western States ; their shipments are 
 made East, principally to Boston ; to 
 give the reader a little idea of the im- 
 mense amount of business transacted by 
 this firm, it would take one n an six to 
 eight months to repair the sacks used 
 in shipping. 
 
 Leonard, John, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 LAWRENCE & CO., W., dry 
 
 goods and groceries ; of the many suc- 
 cessful business houses of Aurora, there 
 are none that rank ahead of the above 
 enterprising firm ; they were established 
 in 1862, commencing in a small way ; 
 they now command a trade for miles 
 around the city, and ship their produce 
 to an eastern market ; they occupy the 
 double store, 42 and 44 South River 
 St., one of the most palatial business 
 houses in the West, devoted exclusively 
 to dry goods, groceries, pork, butter and 
 produce ; principal shipments are made 
 to Boston ; the members of the firm are 
 Wm. Lawrence, Lyman Baldwin and 
 M. A. Higgins ; W. Lawrence is also 
 Treasurer and Director of the Aurora 
 Silver Plate Mfg. Co., member of the 
 West Side Board of Education, and 
 Vice President of the Second National 
 Bank. 
 
 Leonard, Philip, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, B. F., carpenter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Loomis, John, lumber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lindsley, Wm., loan agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lowry, J. K , painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Layton, Henry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lindsley, G-. W., gilder ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lowry, Mrs. J. B., dressmaker; P. (). 
 Aurora. 
 
 Lackner, John, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Little, Miss R. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loser, M., mason; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Loser, Peter, mason ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Lacure, J. P., yard master ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lillie, Mrs. L., F. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lantz, C., watchman; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loucks, P. L.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loucks, Phebe E., P. 0. Aurore. 
 
 Lux, Peter, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lantrom, Nick, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leary, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 LAKE, D. G., boots and shoes, and 
 farming ; was born in the year 1828, at 
 Conneaut, Ashtabula Co., Qhio ; in 1835 
 his parents moved West and reached 
 the banks of the Fox River same year ; 
 the head of the family, who was a stir- 
 ring business man and ambitious to 
 make a home, claimed, in connection 
 with his brother, Tophint, several hun- 
 dred acres, and also bought a claim of 
 Samuel McCarty, John Halbrook, John 
 R. Livingston and Mr. Powers ; after- 
 ward he kept a portion of the claims, 
 and part of this claim is now comprised 
 in the city of Aurora. Theo. Lake, the 
 father of the subject of this sketch, was 
 born at East Bloomfield, N. Y-, Feb. 
 16, 1801 ; as before stated, he came to 
 Aurora in 1835, and was one of the 
 earliest pioneers in Kane Co.; he and 
 the brother heretofore mentioned started, 
 probably, the first general merchandise 
 store in Aurora. As an instance of the 
 growth of Kane Co., Mr. Lake states 
 that when he was nine years of age he 
 rode on horseback and plowed corn 
 through what is now River street, the 
 main thoroughfare on the west side of 
 the river; this was in 1835, when 
 Aurora had but two log houses and the 
 frame for a saw-mill on the east side of 
 the river, and but one log house stood on 
 the west side, where Dunning Block 
 now stands. 
 
 Litz, Matt, mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 Lee, C. W., car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lombard, W. E., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ladd, A. H., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Laundry, 0., wood and coal ; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Ladd, J. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lamb, Pat., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lamson, E., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 LOSER & EGERMAN, grocers; 
 commenced business in 1857 ; the business 
 of this firm was established by Anthony 
 Loser; in 1870 they were located at 45 
 River St., but soon after removed to 
 their present spacious quarters at 33 
 River st. ; they are doing a good busi- 
 ness, and are one of the leading houses 
 of the city. 
 
 Linington, C. A., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lutekerne, Conrad, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lincoln, W. H., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lehinann, Fred., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Longenburger, M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Laplansg, H., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leins, Isadore, painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lintner, Samuel, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 LE BARON, J. K., ret. far.; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; was born in Roxbury, Mass., 
 in Sept. 1810 ; after serving eight years 
 as clerk and bookkeeper in a bank, im- 
 pelled by the glorious accounts of the 
 beauty and fertility of the Western pra- 
 ries, he started f< >r Illinois in 1835, and 
 settled in what is now Kendall Co. ; 
 purchasing a large farm, he resided upon 
 it until 1871, when he sold and removed 
 to Aurora, in Kane Co. ; while a resi- 
 dent of Kendall Co., Mr. Le Baron was 
 a successful farmer and held many offices 
 of trust and responsibility. 
 
 Lee, L. C., jeweler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lord. Curtis, far. ; P 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loucks, Jesse, farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Lies, Nicholas, farmer ; P. Aurora. 
 
 Lenekugal, Lewis, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leweck, Jacob, Sr., mach. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Linden, Peter, 1st, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lies, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Linden, Barney, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Linden, Henry, wool dealer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Linden, Peter, 2d, wool dealer; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Lund, A. A., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lintz, C., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loucks, A., farmer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Lucille, C., mechanic; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Light, Mrs., M. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lane, Catherine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 LITTLE, ALEXANDER C., 
 
 attorney at law: Little & White ; born 
 in Rome, N. Y.. in 1838, remaining at 
 his native State until 1851, then emi- 
 grating West, in company with his 
 father and family, to 111., and' settled in 
 Kendall Co. in 1851. remaining there 
 three years, engaged in farming ; grad- 
 uated in the Medical College at Keokuk, 
 Iowa, in 1858; at the breaking out of 
 the late war he enlisted in Co. K, 127th 
 I. V. I., serving until the close of the 
 war ; was wounded at the battle of East 
 Point, which disabled him for a few 
 months, and then rejoined his regiment 
 with Gren. Sherman in the Carolinas, on 
 their way to Washington ; participated 
 in agreat many battles under Gren. Sher- 
 man ; the most severe were Champion 
 Hill, Vicksburg, Mission Ridge, Kene- 
 saw Mountain, Resaca and Decatur, G-a., 
 where the gallant McPherson fell ; en- 
 tered the service as private, mustered 
 out as Captain ; was at the grand re- 
 view at Washington ; returning from 
 the war, he commenced the law business 
 in 1865 ; is to-day one of the mos- 
 prominent and thoroughly educated ac- 
 torneys of this vicinity ; he has credit- 
 ably filled many offices of public trust ; 
 was City Alderman in 1869, City At- 
 torney in 1873, Mayor of the City in 
 1874 ; his father, John Little, is a na- 
 tive of Scotland. 
 
 LIES, MICHAEL, conveyancer and 
 ins. agt.; is the son of Nicholas and 
 Maria (Weller) Lies, of Europe ; he was 
 born in Luxembourg, Europe, in 1841; 
 with his father and family he emi- 
 grated to America in 1852 and settled 
 in Aurora, where he commenced farming 
 and continued until 1856, thence in 
 the grocery business for eight years ; in 
 1864 he commenced the insurance 
 business. Mr. Lies has held several 
 offices of public trust that of City 
 Collector in 18K5, Town Clerk in 1868, 
 and Town Collector in 1874. In all of 
 these offices he acquitted himself in a 
 a very creditable manner. He is a 
 Democrat in politics; is a member of 
 the Catholic Church ; married Miss 
 Catharine Krantz, of England ; they 
 have six children. 
 
 Levy, M., P. O. Aurora.
 
 776 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Loveque, Jacob, C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lies, Catherine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Linster, Nicholas, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lang, Nicholas, teacher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lynch, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Larson, Gustaf, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Lindberg, G. H., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Landray, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Landray, B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loser, A., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lovejoy, Mrs. C. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lallaway, T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lathrop, S. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leland, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lassing, Mrs. M. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lawton, John, gas fitter , P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lankaw, Fred., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Laging, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lillie, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, Wm., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Linden, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leonard, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lawton, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lovett, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Logan, Thos., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loser, John, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lincoln, R. 0., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lutekuhem, Stephen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Luse, M. 0., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lenox, Ellen G., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lone, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lynch, Pat., baker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loveque, Geo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leach, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lammonix, J., P. 0., Aurora. 
 
 Lombard, Wm., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Leveque, P., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 
 Longhurst, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Lanabee, Catharine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lowery, Mrs. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 La Brick, Frank, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Loucks, J. H., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 La Clair, Alex., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lee, Clancy C., teamster ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Leveque, John, C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Leveque, Augustus, Sr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Leveque, Jos., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lowery, D. D., hotel ; P. 0. Yorkville. 
 Long. R. B., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lutkehom, Conrad, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Laden, Michael, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lanigan, J. A., painter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Loser, Peter, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loser, C., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loser, A., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Landis, Joseph, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lankow, Fred, fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Loomis, Jas., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lennington, Geo., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lennington, W. C., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lord, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Longworthy, A. C., mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Long, S. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lathrop, W. B., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lancaster, L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lawton, Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Lansing, W. H., wagon maker ; P. O. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Lindgreen, G., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Leonard, John. 
 
 Loucks, Erastus, lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Loucks, Mrs. E. M., P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Lillie, E., laborer ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Lyon, Lewis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lucas, William, far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Lennington, I. B., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lowry, R. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lee, Caroline, P. 0. Aurora. 
 La Planck, H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Lewis, A. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MILLER, H. H., jeweler; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Jacob, cigars ; P. 0. Auroi a. 
 Miller, Chauncey, mnfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miller, Jno., blacksmith ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Miller, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miller, W. J., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miller, Martin, millwright ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miller, W., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Miller, Anthony, blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miles, M. M., physician ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Martin, Isaac, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Meyer, Frank, butcher : P. 0. Aurora. 
 Myers, L. F., coppersmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Meyer, Joseph, wagons ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MARSHALL, MRS. J. W.; came 
 
 to Illinois in 1842, and to Kane Co. in 
 1855 ; was born in Alexandria, N. Y., 
 March 26, 1824 ; her parents came 
 West in February, 184^, and settled 
 four miles west of Aurora ; in 1846, she 
 married John W. Marshall, and went to 
 Millville, where her husband commenced 
 mercantile business ; was there nine 
 years, engaged in trade, and, being a 
 man of great energy, was very success- 
 ful ; came back to Aurora in 1855, and, 
 having bought out W. B. Gillett, con- 
 tinued in a mercantile capacity.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 777 
 
 Meyer, John, mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myers, John J., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McNett, D. G., pawnbroker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCabe, L. S., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McKEE, DAVID, retired far.; Sec. I 
 11 ; P. 0. Aurora; the subject of this 
 sketch is the oldest of the living set- i 
 tiers that first settled in Chicago ; he 
 was born in Louden Co., Va., Dec. 2, j 
 1800 ; is the son of John F. and Jane i 
 (Marple) McKee, of Scotland ; Mr. 
 McKee, with his father and family, 
 moved to Pennsylvania, where he re- i 
 mained but a short time ; thence to Cin- 
 cinnati, 0., in 181. -5, where he learned 
 his trade, blacksmithing ; he remained 
 there until 1821 ; made a trip to New 
 Orleans and St. Louis that year ; came 
 back to Cincinnati and was appointed 
 by the Government to go to Chicago and 
 do the blacksmithing for the Indians, 
 as the treaty was the Government would 
 furnish the Indians with a blacksmith ; , 
 he arrived and commenced work in 
 1822 ; he relates that when he first 
 came to Chicago, the bones of those who 
 were slain in the massacre at Fort Dear- 
 born, in 1812, were still lying on the 
 ground, and Capt. Bradley, with soldiers, 
 gathered them up and buried them in 
 two large boxes, about two miles south 
 of Fort Dearborn ; he remained as black- 
 smith for the Indians, eight years ; was 
 the first Constable of Chicago ; he was 
 engaged for one year carrying the U. S. 
 mail from Chicago to Fort Wayne, in 
 1828 ; on his way from Fort Wayne 
 was caught in one of the most severe 
 snow storms ever known in that section ; 
 was six days making the trip from Niles 
 to Chicago; found a soldier frozen to 
 death, who had been discharged from 
 the garrison at Fort Dearborn the pre- 
 vious day, and was on his way home, 
 east; in 1827 he married his first wife. 
 Miss Wealthy Scott, born in 181 2, and 
 died in 1835 ; he went to Naperville 
 and was engaged in building the first 
 house at that place ; he remained here 
 until 1836; thence to Du Page Co., 
 where he settled on a farm of 400 
 acres ; remained there until 1874 ; 
 thence to Kane Co., 111.; in 1836, mar- 
 ried his second wife, Miss Sarah Ward, 
 of New York ; daughter of James and 
 Laura (Dayton) Ward; she was born in 
 
 1816 ; two children by his first wife 
 Stephen, born in 1830, and Joseph, 
 born in 1833, died in 1833; three 
 children by second Wealthy, born in 
 1837 ; James W., born in 1839, and 
 Carrie, born in 1842. 
 
 McWilliams, F., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mclntosh, A., pattern mkr ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McAlpine. Dr. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MEREDITH, THOMAS, P. 0. 
 
 Aurora ; was born in Montgomeryshire, 
 Wales, in December, 1812; his father 
 was a farmer, and on the old homestead 
 young Meredith grew up ; his father 
 died when he was but a few years old ; 
 he received a good common school edu- 
 cation, and was gifted with a wonderful 
 memory ; his father had taken a lease 
 of 321 acres of land for twenty-one 
 years, and the young man had the super- 
 vision of it for ten years ; at the age of 
 21 years, he married Miss Sarah 
 Thomas, in May. 1843 ; came to Amer- 
 ica in 1843 ; came by way of the lakes 
 to Chicago, on the steamer Constitution, 
 and settled in Big Rock Tp. ; purchased 
 400 acres of land ; carried on this very 
 successfully till 1865, when he disposed 
 of his property and moved to Aurora, 
 and bought a fine property, including 
 residence ; his children are Thomas, 
 Mary, Ann, John Edwin, George Will- 
 iam, Wynne, Elizabeth, and Helen, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 McConnell, W. H., miller ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McGann, Patrick, shoemkr ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McNulty, Patrick, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McKinney, J. W., laborer ; P. 0. Aarora. 
 
 McKinna, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCullouck, W., shoemkr; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MERRITT, MRS. LUCY D., 
 
 P. 0. Aurora ; is the daughter of E. 
 P. and Sallie (Cutts) Huntoon, and the 
 wife of the late John M. Merrett. who 
 was born in Vermont in 1803, and died 
 at Aurora, in September, 1876. Mrs. 
 M. is one of the old settlers of Aurora ; 
 came here, in 1838, in company with 
 her husband from the East, by the way 
 of canal and lake, and part of the way 
 by wagon, it taking them some three 
 weeks to make the trip; Mr. Merrett 
 was engaged in the boot and shoe busi- 
 ness ; have two children living one. at, 
 present, living in Kansas, the other at 
 home.
 
 778 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 McCollum, James, sewing machines ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Mack, Gottlieb, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mason, J. 0., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mitchell, Robert, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mitchell, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mileham, S. H., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mahar, Harriet, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Maydwell, J. E., tinner; P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 Messenger, F., carpet weaver ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Markes, Peter, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meadows, Wm., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Minnium, F. J., contractor; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Minnium, H., contractor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Montony, R. G., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 MILLER, HOLMES, P.O. Aurora ; 
 merchant of the firm of Miller & Sen- 
 cenbaugh, dry goods ; born in Tomp- 
 kins Co., N. Y., in 1839; leaving his 
 native State when quite young, he em- 
 igrated west, in company With his father 
 and family, and settled in Aurora in 
 1842 ; he first began the dry goods 
 business, by clerking for W. H. Haw- 
 kins, and in July, Ib53, he started in the 
 dry goods business for himself, and the 
 first day's cash sales amounted to $34.84 ; j 
 has held several public offices ; was ; 
 President of the Board of Trustees, 
 and Alderman of the city of Aurora 
 for several years ; these offices he has i 
 held with honor and credit to himself j 
 and to the people he has represented. 
 His brother, Col. Silas Miller, entered 
 the late war in the 36th 111. Vol. Inf.; 
 was mortally wounded at the battle of 
 Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864, 
 from which he died at Nashville, Tenn. 
 
 MARX, "PETER, dealer in groceries 
 and provisions ; the above named gen- 
 tleman is one of the old settlers of Au- 
 rora, having come here in 1854 ; he 
 built the first log house in the northeast 
 part of Aurora Township ; Mr. Marx 
 was born in the Rhine Province, Ger- 
 many, Oct. 3, 1826 ; is the son of Frank 
 and Margaret Marx, of Germany ; his 
 father and mother died at a good old 
 age his father 99, his mother 101 
 years old at their death. Mr. Marx i 
 came to America in 1854, and came 
 West ; was engaged on a farm in Du 
 Page Co. for six months thence ; to j 
 Kane Co., where he was engaged as la- 
 borer on a farm, at $8 per month ; when j 
 
 he first came here he had but $3, but 
 with hard labor and good management 
 he succeeded in saving a little money : 
 he invested it in a small farm, where he 
 commenced to farm for himself; from 
 that on he has been very successful ; 
 owns to-day a fine farm about three 
 miles from Aurora, and one of the lead- 
 ing grocery stores of Aurora ; Mr. 
 Marx relates that the first time he came 
 to Aurora, he thought he knew no one 
 in this part of the country, but was sur- 
 prised to see his old friend, John Plain; 
 they were boys together in the old coun- 
 try ; he married Miss Margaret Coster, 
 of Germany, in 1856, in the Catholic 
 Church at Aurora ; has six children 
 four boys and two girls ; his son Jacob 
 was born in Kane Co., 111., in 1857 ; he 
 has full charge of the grocery store. 
 MIGHELL, EZEKIEL, retired 
 farmer ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Rutland Co., Vt., Dec. 24, 1799, re- 
 maining there until he was 31 years old, 
 engaged in cabinet and joining and 
 farming business; then he went to 
 Tompkins Co., N. iT., where he re- 
 mained for 6 years ; in 1837 he emi- 
 grated, with his wife and six children, 
 west to Illinois, by wagon and team, 
 taking them 24 days to make the trip : 
 he first settled in the north part of La 
 Salle Co., one and a half miles from the 
 mouth of Rock Creek, remaining there 
 about one year ; he came to Kane Co. 
 and settled in Sugar Grove Tp. in the 
 Fall of 1837 ; when Mr. Mighell first 
 came west he was worth about fifteen 
 hundred dollars ; he invested that 
 amount in land, worked hard and faith- 
 fully, and to-day owns over seven hundred 
 acres of fine land in Sugar Grove Tp.; 
 in 1872, on account of the health of 
 his wife, he moved to Aurora, thinking 
 the change would benefit her, but very 
 little benefit was derived ; after very 
 much pain and suffering, she died March 
 26, 1877 ; her name was Lucinda Todd ; 
 five children living Lewis, farmer and 
 warehouseman ; Silas, farmer, Sugar 
 Grove; Albert, farmer, Aurora; Ruel. 
 farmer, Grundy Co., 111.: Franklin was 
 in the late 1 war enlisted in the 8th I. 
 V. C. for three years ; served his time 
 out, and was honorably discharged at 
 Chicago.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 779 
 
 Marme, William, cigars ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muszgung, Joseph, rner.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Maslin, J. C., traveler ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Morin, D. J., saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moss, F. , merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Milgate. Wm., carpenter; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Mann. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meredith. John, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mulvey, Joseph, architect; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mich els, Frank, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Morris, W. G., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Morrison, J. E., mfr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meeker, David, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Maxon, J. B., road-master ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marsh, David, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Murphy, James, carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mears, Wm., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moulton, S. L., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moore, Jas., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moore, John, mechanic ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moore, Eliza. 
 
 Matter, Isaac, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muschler, Andrew, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muschler, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Morris, B. W., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moss, Moses, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCOLLUM, GEO., prop. Pioneer 
 Wagon Manufactory, Aurora ; P. 0. 
 Aurora; was born in N. Y., in 1808; 
 when very young he went to Pa., re- 
 maining there until he was 26 years 
 old ; he engaged in blacksmithing ; 
 thence West to Aurora in 1836 ; when 
 he first came here, he was worth about 
 thirty dollars ; he commenced the black- 
 smith business, and then in the manu- 
 facture of wagons and fine carriages ; 
 also the manufacturer of the McCollum 
 wagon ; with hard labor, perseverance 
 industry and good management, he 
 ranks to-day as one of the leading man- 
 ufacturers of Aurora ; he was one of the 
 first Aldermen of Aurora ; when he 
 fir*t came to Aurora there were about 
 two families living on the East Side, 
 and ten families on the West Side; the 
 rear of Mr. McCollum's house that he 
 now lives in was built in 1838, he 
 drawing all the lumber by wagon from 
 Chicago to build the same ; his son, 
 Orlando, J., was in the late war; he 
 enlisted in Co. H, 124th I. V. I., for 
 three years' service ; he was honorably 
 discharged, and is now engaged with 
 his father in the wagon manufactory 
 business. 
 
 Millard, Mrs. H. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mertz, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Martz, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Modaff, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Modaff, Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 ! Mitchells, Francis, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 | Meyer, Paul, P. 0. Aurora. 
 j Miller, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 ! Millen, Hubart, P. 0. Aurora. 
 i Miller, John, P. Aurora. 
 i Millen, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mazury, John, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marks, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 I Miller, Hiram, farmer ; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 j Miller, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 I Mulitour, Matt, farmer; P. 0. Auror.- 
 
 McLALLEN, J. J., Clerk of the 
 
 City of Aurora ; born in Seneca Co., 
 N. Y"., in 1845 ; at 12 years of age he 
 came West and settled in Aurora in 
 1857 in company with his father, Wm. 
 H. McLallen, who was born in Tomp- 
 kins Co., N. Y., in 1812 ; was engaged 
 in the grocery business in Aurora for 
 ten years, in Texas one year on the 
 Texas & Pacific R. R.; was first elected 
 to office of City Clerk in 1874 and re- 
 elected to same office in '75, '76, and 
 '77, which office he has held faithfully ; 
 also holds the office of Town Clerk ; Rep. 
 | Mulitour, Nick, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 ! May, Nicholas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 McMuller, W., farmer; P.O.Aurora. 
 j Mukour, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 ' Myer, Lambert, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora, 
 i Mettle, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 i Myers, N.. P. O. Aurora. 
 Morgan, Eugene, finisher; P. 0. Aurora.. 
 Mahan, Mrs. Bridget. P. O. Aurora. 
 McGuire, Mrs. Ann, P. O. Aurora. 
 Moon, Martin, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 ! Mighell, A. W., P. O. Aurora. 
 I Morrison, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 McGuire, Edward, fireman ; Aurora. 
 Moon, W. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mallory, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Meek, J. W., conductor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 McGraw, Thomas, P. O. Aurora. 
 Misner, Fred, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Manaban, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Maloney, L., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Manahan, Pat, laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 i Morean, Peter J., shoemaker ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Mulbury, H., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miles, Mrs. M. S., P. 0. Aurora.
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Miller, J. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Merrideth, Geo., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mead, A. P., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McMurry, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mullen, Michael, stock insp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Morsant, Joseph, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Misner, Z. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McArdle, Thos., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Henry, jewelry ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Minor, Amos, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mathewson, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McPillotson, D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Merritt, John, shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McLeod, R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCraskey, J. F., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McKee, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Martz, C. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Monrose, Louise, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moss, L, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Smith, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Montleau. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McNulta,' W. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moss, Leopold, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McDole, R. P., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Massey, Chas., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McWethy,'H. L.,ins. ; P. C. Aurora. 
 
 Manzy, B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Merwin, F. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCollum, 0. J., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Michael, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McKenna, Thos., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meeham, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mulligan, Christ., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Melner, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marden, John, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Morrissey. May, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, K., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mears, Mat., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McGrath, Matt., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Michard, Anthony, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, J. C., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Monroe, 0. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mathews, R. W., tailor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mears, Archibald, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mahl, Frank, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Merwin, Charles, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myer, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mitchell, Moses, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McGuire, Wm., core maker; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Martin, Larry, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mills, Henry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McCann, Geo., metal buffer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Michard, Philip, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Valentine, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Maydwell. L. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Madder, James, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McArdle, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0, Aurora. 
 
 Maloney, Thomas, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Markle, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Manning, Joseph, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Milchert, Mathias, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muse, W., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Moisant, Ben., car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Madoff, H., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moore, T. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myer, Lambert, C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Mortimer, Pat., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, M. B., millwright ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McLallen, W. H., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Mann, Austin, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myers, Joseph, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Minniam, Henry, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mulligan, Henry, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Montony, R. G., attorney; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mears, Jas., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moore, F. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myers, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McNulta, Helen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muscher, A., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Anthony, blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meen, Michael, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miers, Michael, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myers, Jacob, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Matler, Jacob, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McGuire, Margaret, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Muschler, W., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marcy, Elbert, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marsh, C. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mileham, S. H., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McGregor, John, boiler maker ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 McCue, Thos., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Milgate, W. H., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 McCarty, Wm., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Mann, Fred, peddler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Karl, barber ; P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 Miller, 'C. K., blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Jacob, cigar mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meagher, W., marble cutter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marshall, R. W., city hotel ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marshall, Mrs. E. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McMicken, W., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McMicken, W. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McArthur, Jno., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Meredith, Thos., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Merrill, A., stone x worker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Moon, J. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mathews, H. B.; sewingmachine agt.; P.O. 
 Aurora.
 
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 781 
 
 Mathews, R. W., tailor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mighell, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mullen, Jno., blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Moore, Henry, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Myers, Jos., 1st., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mason, Mrs. M. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Metzner, C. G., Clk. City Court ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 McCollum, Orlando, ptr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 McCollum, G. S.. painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Morrison, J. K., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Michels, Jno., moulder; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mclnhill, Victor, propr. brewery ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Mix, E. B., coal dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mix, Mrs. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Meek, J. W., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Miller, T. V. R., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Massy, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mulberry, H., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Mead, L. D., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 McWethy, J., ins. agt. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 MCCARTY, SAML., P. o. Aurora ; 
 
 was born in Morris Co., N. J., March 
 9, 1810 ; when quite young his father 
 and family moved to Seneca Lake, N. 
 Y., where he remained until at the age 
 of twenty-four ; when he was nineteen 
 years old, he entered the millwright 
 business, which he followed until he 
 came West ; his brother, Joseph, came 
 to Kane Co. in the Spring of 1834; 
 with his brother's earnest solicitation 
 and his glowing accounts of the country, 
 whose forethought was that Illinois 
 would be the richest State in the Union, 
 Mr. McCarty left his business and 
 started then for the far West, and settled 
 in Aurora in the Fall of 1834; came 
 via Canal and Lake to Detroit, thence 
 by stage, this being the quickest route 
 West at that time, taking him fourteen 
 days to make the trip ; Mr. McCarty 
 and his brother, Joseph, are the founders 
 of Aurora ; they made Aurora what it 
 is to-day, a flourishing commercial and 
 manufacturing city, with a population of 
 about 13,000 ; Mr. McCarty built the 
 first saw and grist-mill in Aurora ; when 
 he first came here the country was noth- 
 ing but a wild, unbroken waste, in- 
 habited by roving bands of Indians, 
 with here and there an occasional ad- 
 venturous pioneer; to-day he can see 
 what his brother foretold of what Illinois 
 would be, the garden State of the Union. 
 
 McWethy, M. L., ins. agt. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 McLain, Jno., far ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Merrill, Allen N. ; P. 0. North Aurora. 
 
 Miller, Henry, lab. ; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Merritt, Morris, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 McCurdy, Fred., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Marlett, 0. E., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mongan, M., flagman; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Myers, John, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Madonock, Francis ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mulvaney, Hugh, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Mellen, M., far.; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 McGuire, P. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Means, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 METZNER, C. J., attorney at law ; P. 
 0. Aurora ; was born at Hohenstein, 
 Saxony, Germany, in 1834; at the early 
 age of 13 his parents came to America 
 and settled at Erie, Penn., on a farm ; 
 he commenced his education at the age 
 of nine years at the University of Leipsic, 
 and when he became of age he had ac- 
 quired a splendid education ; when 
 fifteen years old he became apprenticed 
 to a blacksmith in Chicago ; with him 
 he stopped a short time and then came 
 to Aurora and started for himself. On 
 account of an accident received, he took 
 up the study of law in 1854 or 1856 
 under Judge Parks; at the end of nine 
 months he was admitted to the bar, and 
 became a partner of Judge Parks in 
 
 1859 ; was elected City Attorney, and in 
 
 1860 was elected to the position of State's 
 Attorney ; this position he filled with 
 great credit; he was Rep., and when 
 Grant became a candidate for the Presi- 
 dency in 1868, he stumped the county 
 for him, making over 70 speeches in Ger- 
 man and English. This in all probability 
 laid the foundation of the disease which 
 resulted in his death August 8, 1874. 
 He was a man gifted with a wonderful 
 memory, and when he died Aurora lost 
 one of its most honored and useful men ; 
 he was entirely a self made man, and 
 rose in his profession until he stood in the 
 front rank. His wife. Susan P. Metzner, 
 resides in a beautiful residence in West 
 Aurora. 
 
 l^TEWTON, H., teamster; P. 0. 
 i\l Aurora. 
 
 Newton, F. H., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Northam, K: R., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Nixon, Richard, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Norris, M. N., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 P
 
 '82 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Nesler, C., gas-fitt r ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Negus, S. B., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nichol, John, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nichols, M., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Norris, M. N., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nicholds, Eugene S., brakeman ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Nesbitt, Isabella, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Needham, Mrs. F. M., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Newlan, Mary J.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nelka, Christ., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nichols, N., attorney; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Newman, W. W., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nobbs, F. E., insurance; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Neale, Robt., policeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nelson, Fred, pattern mkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nelson, E., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Newman, Chas., mill-right ; P. 0. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Nichols, Matt, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Nottingham. J., proprietor of mill ; P. 0. 
 North Aurora. 
 
 Nickley, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ODONNELL, THOS., mer. ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 O'Donnell, J. M., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Olinger, Barney, harness ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Olinger, Mike, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'NEILL, CORNELIUS, Street 
 
 Commissioner ; P. 0. Aurora ; born in 
 Co. Tipperary, Ireland, Jan. 1833 ; ac 
 quired a liberal education in the schools 
 of his native | lace ; his father was a 
 farmer, and young Cornelius lived at 
 home until he was 16 years of age ; then 
 emigrated to America, lived one year in 
 New York ; in 1851, went to Canada 
 West and was employed on the Bytown 
 Railroad, remaining one year; in 1854, 
 became an employe of the G. T. R. R., 
 then being built from Moorehead to 
 Toronto : in 1856. settled in Lyons, 
 Iowa, and was foreman on a railroad 
 there ; in 1867, went to Davenport, la., 
 and was foreman for Boyce & Britton, 
 contractors; soon after went to Mem 
 phis, Tenn.; in 1859, married Miss 
 Mary Mehan. at St. Joe, Mo. ; prior to 
 marriage, was conductor on Overland 
 Mail Route; July, 1860, came to Au- 
 rora ; started a saloon, the new departure 
 proving very successful, continued this 
 until 1872 ; was then nominated for 
 Street Commissioner and elected by an 
 immense majority, being very popular 
 and universally respected. 
 
 Oate, Jno., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Oats, Chas., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Otis, Newton, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Otis, L. F., merchant.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Oxenschlager, M., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Olson, J. P., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Osborne, C., comp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Oberwise, J. P., far. ; P. 0. N. Aurora. 
 
 O'Donnell, Cornelius, moulder; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Otte, C., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ochsenschlager, Adam, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'Dell, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'Neill, C., Road Com. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Oberley, Jacob, lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Owen, Dr. J. H., phys. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 O'Brian, W. H., bUksmith; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Odikirk, Chas., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 OLSAVER, T. J., ornamental painter: 
 is a gentleman of acknowledged ability, 
 and work trusted to him is guaranteed to 
 give satisfaction. 
 
 Olinger, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Olinger, John, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Oberwise, Peter, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 'Donnell, M., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. . 
 
 O^onnell, P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'Riley, John, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'Donnel, J. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 O'Neil, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 0' Conner, Charles, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TARTER, J- C., engineer ; P. 0. Au- 
 I rora. 
 
 Porter, J. H., caipenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Powell, 0. D., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Powell. James, lumber : P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PHILLIPS, TRAVIS, of the firm 
 of Phillips Bros. & Co. ; was born in 
 Litchfield Co., Connecticut, in 1831 ; 
 Mr. Phillips made Connecticut his home 
 for twenty-one years, where he engaged 
 in farming ; commenced the grocer}' 
 business with Isaac W. Phillips and A. 
 D. Bunnell in 1857 ; in the Spring of 
 1877, was elected Alderman of Aurora ; 
 Rep. ; Protestant. 
 
 Pfofflea, George, painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Payne. Oscar, ins. ageut ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Philip, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, W. H., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Payne, George, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Stephen, carpenter ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Albert, pattern mkr.; P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Daniel, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, J. D., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plain, John, City Treasurer ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
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 783 
 
 Plain, Nicholas, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PLUM, WM. V., senior member of 
 fhe firm of Mix & Plum, was born in 
 the city of New York, Jan., 1814, re- 
 siding in the East until 22 years of age ; 
 he came to Chicago in 1836 ; stopped 
 in Chicago one year, when he came to 
 Aurora and established a general mer- 
 chandise store; in 1850 he built the 
 first brick building on Fox River, which 
 is now occupied by Phillips Bros. & Co.; 
 in 1856 the firm became known as Mix 
 & Plum, R. C. Mix becoming a part- 
 ner ; they erected the largest warehouse 
 on the river; in 1857-9 Mr. Plum 
 served as Alderman, and became Mayor 
 of the city. 
 
 POWELL, PROP. W. B., Supt. 
 East Aurora Public Schools ; was born 
 in N. Y. in 1836 ; is the son of Joseph 
 and Mary (Dean) Powell, of England; 
 when quite young, with his parents, he 
 moved to Jackson, Ohio, where he re- 
 mained eight years ; thence to Wai- 
 worth Co., Wis., where he was engaged 
 in farming for five years ; thence to 
 Greene Co., 111., where he took charge of 
 a large farm of 300 acres ; from there 
 he commenced his schooling; he at- 
 tended the schools at Wheaton, and 
 Jacksonville, and Oberlin, where he re- 
 ceived a thorough education ; he then 
 commenced school teaching, first in a ! 
 district school, then at Hennepin, Put- , 
 nam Co., 111.; was engaged in the pub- , 
 lie schools of Peru, 111., eight years ; 
 in 1 870 he was called to Aurora to take 
 charge of the East Side schools; on j 
 the East Side there is a total of 35 ! 
 teachers employed, with Prof. Powell as 
 Superintendent ; each are remarkably 
 thorough in their various departments, 
 while the whole of the schools are con- 
 ducted in a superior manner, showing , 
 conclusively the great advantages to be 
 attained in employing a superintendent 
 of the scholarly attainments and practi- 
 cal experience as those possessed by 
 Prof. Powell. 
 
 Pierpoint. Robert, mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plumstead, G. B., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Purdy, E. S., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Page, M. N., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Painter, Jasper, butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Piedlan, Julius, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Pastle, Martin V., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pulfer, D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plumstead, James, slsmn. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pull, J. P., blksmth ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peetz, Jacob, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 PRATT, D. C., the Pioneer Artist ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Cortland 
 Co., N. Y., Aug. 14, 1823, remaining 
 there until 1845 where he was engaged 
 in sign and ornamental painting ; he 
 then immigrated West to Chicago, where 
 he remained one year ; thence to Wau' 
 kegan ; thence to St. Charles, in 1852 ; 
 in 1853, he first commenced the da- 
 guerreotype business, and continued said 
 business in St. Charles until 1854 ; Mr. 
 Pratt then came to Aurora, where he 
 commenced in business, and it is claimed 
 that he is the oldest artist in the Fox 
 River Valley, and has held a foremost 
 place in this vicinity for many years 
 past, as the leading photographer, hav- 
 ing an elaborate gallery and elegant par- 
 lors in which to conduct his business ; 
 married Miss Mary M. Burdick, of 
 Cortland Co., N. Y. ; have fourchildren 
 living ; his father, David Pratt, is a na- 
 tiveof Conn.; his mother is Electa (Alex- 
 ander) Pratt, of Vermont. 
 
 PORTER, L. C., foreman manufactur- 
 ing department " Aurora Silver Plate 
 Co.; '' was born at Camden, N. Y., in 
 1839 ; when old enough, he entered 
 the employment of Reed & B., silver 
 platers, situated at Taunton, Mass.; this 
 firm was originated in 1827 ; here he 
 served an apprenticeship ; on h's brother 
 becoming general superintendent of 
 the " Porter Britannica & Plate Co.," 
 he joined him the same year ; at the 
 breaking out of the rebellion, he enlisted 
 in Co. G, 4th Mass. Infantry ; during 
 his term of service he participated io 
 the battles of Fort Hudson, Patterson- 
 ville, Brashear City, and many other 
 small engagements ; was taken prisoner 
 at Brashear City and sent to Fort Bu- 
 chanan ; in a few months was paroled 
 and returned home, entering the same 
 establishment he had worked in before, 
 and became foreman of the manufactur- 
 ing department, and held this position 
 fourteen years ; in 1873, he came to 
 Aurora and became foreman of the 
 manufacturing department of the Silver 
 Plate Manufacturing Co. ; is regarded a 
 very superior workman.
 
 784 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 PORTER, E. W., P. 0. Aurora; 
 son of W. W. Porter ; pioneer of brit- 
 tannia manufacturing ; was born in 
 Taunton, Mass., in March, 1831 ; W. 
 W. Porter was identified with the bri- 
 tannia trade, first in Lawrenceburg, 
 Mass, where, in 1824, it was inaugu- 
 rated by the making of cane heads and 
 looking glass frames ; was, for many 
 years, foreman of the famous works 
 of Reed & B., in Taunton ; in 1869. 
 when the sons became identified with 
 the "Porter Britannia and Plate Co.," 
 of that place, he was with them, hav- 
 ing charge of the mixing and rolling 
 department until 1873, when he retired 
 from the business, having been engaged 
 in it nearly one-half of a century ; at 
 the age of 14, in 1845, E. W. Porter 
 entered the manufactory of Reed & 
 B., as apprentice; became journeyman 
 at the ago of 20 ; received, during 
 that year, $1.08 per day; in 1856, was 
 appointed foreman of the manufacturing 
 department; in 1850. electrotyping was 
 introduced into this business; in 1859 
 another company was organized, and 
 Mr. P. was invited to take charge of it 
 as General Superintendent, which was 
 accepted, and the company organized 
 under the " Porter Britannia and Plate 
 Co.; " in 1873, Aurora invited him to 
 take charge of the manufacturing, which 
 he accepted, reaching here in May, 
 found the iactory in a bad state of 
 management, unskilled and intemper- 
 ate workmen ; set to work to reform 
 abuses, and present prosperity of the 
 Aurora plate speaks volumes for Mr. 
 Porter. 
 
 Perrigo, E., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Paxton, J. H., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pope. 0., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pilstrom, Mrs. Betsey, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Prindle, E. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollard, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pullman, Joseph, blksinth ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pooley, John N., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Page, Alonzo, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Poole, Edwin, conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Putnam, G. B., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perry, A. K., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, D. R., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, Madison, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Prentiss, Rev. N. A., min. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pease, J. H., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 POTTER, SILAS, retired farmer; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Dutchess 
 Co., N. Y.; until 21 years old he 
 worked on his father's farm, and then 
 went to Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he 
 remained four years ; his education was 
 acquired at a district school ; he married 
 Cynthia Weir, of Wyoming Co., N. Y.; 
 in 1846 he came to Illinois, and located 
 at Aurora ; two years after he removed 
 to De Kalb Co., and bought 160 acres; 
 it was unbroken prairie ; he resided 
 there twelve years ; in 1860 he removed 
 to West Axirora, and bought 101 acres ; 
 he did not locate permanently until the 
 Fall of 1876; he now owns a fine resi- 
 dence in West Aurora, having built it 
 five years ago, and is a man of consider- 
 able means, and is liberal and enterpris- 
 ing. 
 
 PHILLIPS, T. J., farmer; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; was born at Woodstock, Wind- 
 sor Co., Vt., Nov. 15, 1810 ; was edu- 
 cated in the district schools ; when 21 
 years of age his father disposed of his 
 property at Woodstock, and removed to 
 Windsor, in the same Co., purchas- 
 ing a farm ; T. J. and his father fol- 
 lowed farming for several years ; in 
 1861, he moved to Bethel; in 1865, 
 he came to Illinois, and settled on a 
 farm near Blackberry ; in Dec., 1866, 
 he moved into the City of Aurora, and 
 soon after established a coal yard; he 
 has since discontinued this business ; 
 in 1837 he married Maria L. Graham, 
 at Hartland, Vt.; they had two children 
 Charles H., a locomotive engineer, 
 and Sarah. 
 
 Paradise, N. J., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Polleys, Edward, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Polglase, T. R., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Paradise, N. B., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollock, Alex., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, C. J., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Chester, P. M.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Potter, H. H., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phelps, P. A., dairyman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Potter, Mrs. S., P. 6. Aurora. 
 
 Poss, Barney, far; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plain, Jno., 2d, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Poss. Jno., far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Plant, Moses B., far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Plant, Peter, far.; P. 6. No. Aurora. 
 
 Pettit, Michael, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Plum, John, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 785 
 
 PADDOCK, H. C., President Union j 
 National Bank, Aurora ; was born in j 
 Orleans Co., Vt., in 1834; is the son ! 
 of Col. W. E. and Mary (Clark) Pad- j 
 dock ; he remained at his native State : 
 until he was 21 years of age. where he 
 was engaged in going to school, and re- 
 ceived a thorough education ; was clerk 
 in his father's store ; in 1855, he came 
 West and settled in Aurora, and entered 
 the office of the C., B. & Q. R. R., as 
 clerk ; remained there until 1857 ; he 
 then entered the service of Hall & Bro., 
 in their employ as bookkeeper until 1860 ; 
 returned to the C., B. & Q. office ; there 
 until 1862 ; he then commenced the 
 banking business with Mr. Coffin, known 
 as Coffin & Paddock, which business he 
 continued in until 1864; thence to Ba- 
 tavia, where he organized the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Batavia ; there until 
 1869 ; returned to Aurora, and organ- 
 ized the private banking house of Bish- 
 op & Coulter in 1869, filling the office 
 of Cashier ; in March, 1871, the or- 
 ganization of the Union National Bank 
 of Aurora, with a paid-up capital of 
 $125,000, with John R. Coulter, Presi- 
 dent ; W. W. Bishop, I. A. W. Buck, 
 T. B. Coulter and H. C. Paddock, Di- 
 rectors ; at the death of John R. Coul- 
 ter, May, 1873, Mr. Paddock was elected 
 President of the Bank ; ever since its 
 organization it has been largely man- 
 aged by the President, Henry C. Pad- 
 dock, who has been one of the success- 
 ful bankers of this vicinity fur the past 
 sixteen years ; when he first came to 
 Aurora, in 1855, financially he was 
 worth $1 ; to-day, 1878, is known 
 over a large territory as one of the lead- 
 ing bankers of Aurora, whose financial 
 qualifications and cautious business 
 character have caused him to rank among 
 the most reliable and far-seeing men of 
 this vicinity ; the Union National Bank 
 is one of the most solid and reliable in 
 the country, whose officers and stock- 
 holders rank among the leading capi- 
 talists and business men of Aurora ; 
 the Directors are 0. D. Howell, D. C. 
 Cooley, S. W. Thatcher, H. C. Pad- 
 dock, Mrs. Lucy Coulter, T. B. Coul- 
 ter ; the officers being H.C. Paddock, 
 President ; O. D. Howell, Vice Presi- 
 dent ; T. B. Coulter, Cashier. 
 
 POND, DR. P. L., prop. Aurora 
 Cancer Hospital ; P. 0. Aurora ; was 
 born in Addison Co., Vt., in 1835 ; he 
 was engaged in going to school and 
 attending medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 College until 1852 ; he came West 
 and located at Chicago in 1869; thence 
 to Earl ; from there he came to Aurora, 
 and established the Cancer Hospital in 
 1872 ; a great many patients are now 
 receiving treatment ; it cannot fail to 
 be noticed that confidence and kindly 
 feelings exist toward the Doctor by all, 
 and so pleasant is everything connected 
 with the institution that removes it be- 
 yond all comparison with the dismal 
 reality of most hospitals and institutions 
 of a similar character ; the building 
 will accommodate about one hundred 
 patients ; this is the largest and most 
 successful institute of the kind in the 
 United States, and has proven a bless- 
 ing to several hundred of patients from 
 all parts of the United States who had 
 almost despaired of ever receiving relief 
 in life ; from among the hundreds of 
 testimonials received by the Doctor, are 
 the Rev. Robert Hounold, of the Illinois 
 Conference of the M. E. Church, who 
 was successfully treated, he having a 
 cancer that covered the whole side of 
 his face, and measured 19 inches in cir- 
 cumference ; when taken from him the 
 tumor weighed over five pounds ; by 
 special permission the Doctor refers to 
 the clergy of Aurora, to Drs. L. R. 
 Brigham, F. H. Van Liew, F. M. El- 
 liot, of Aurora ; G. A. Pfrangle, P. M., 
 Aurora, and to hundreds of persons in 
 all parts of the country whom he has 
 cured. 
 
 Plain, Jacob, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Plain, Chas., far; P. 0. No. Aurora 
 
 Pierce, Miss M. Estell, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Porter, Mrs. E. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pfifer, T., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Wm., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pinney, Mrs. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Porter, L. C., foreman metal room ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Page, Mrs. M. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pike, D. J., capitalist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phelps, E. J., furniture ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, I. W., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, Robert, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phillips, T. J., P. 0. Aurora.
 
 786 
 
 TAX-PAVERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Potter, Theron, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 PFRANGLE, CHAS. J., painter; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; bora at Baden, Ger- 
 many, April 21, 1846 ; his parents 
 cami to America in 1853; they came 
 to Chicago, 111.; thence to Wheaton ; 
 the head of the family was a fine musi- 
 cian, and became a Professor of Music 
 at Wheaton College ; in 1858, he moved 
 to the city of Aurora; the subject of 
 this sketch received a liberal education ; 
 is a very fine p3nman ; at the age of 13, 
 he was employed ty the C., B. & Q. 
 Railroad Compiny, in their shops, to 
 learn the trade of a painter ; for this he 
 had a natural gift, made rapid progess, 
 and to-d;iy ranks as one of the best sign 
 and ornamental painters in the West, 
 and it is no exaggeration to say that no 
 other man in Kane County, and perhaps 
 the West, can do work as rapidly as 
 Charles Pfrangle ; was employed by the 
 Railroad Company until the Autumn of 
 1877 ; Mr. P. still works for the Rail- 
 road Company, but devotes most of his 
 time to custom work ; he can be found 
 over Jackson's blacksmith shop ; when 
 you want work done rapidly, skillfullly 
 and reasonably, give Charles Pfrangle a 
 call. 
 
 PAINE, REV. S. D., was born in 
 London, Eng., in Sept., 1836; at the 
 outbreak of the Crimean war between 
 the combined powers of England, France, 
 Turkey and Sardinia against Russia, he 
 enlisted in the English Royal Artillery, 
 and participated in many of the battles 
 in the Crimea, and at the storming 
 and capture of Sebastopol, in Sept., 
 1855. For gallant conduct in the 
 Crimea he received a silver medal from 
 Queen Victoria, and one from the Sultan 
 of Turkey. In 1857, Mr. Paine came 
 to the United States ; in 1861 he helped 
 organize a battery of marine volun- 
 teer artillery, and served during part of 
 the war of the rebellion in Virginia, in 
 the Army of the Potomac, as First 
 Lieutenant of artillery. Mr. Paine 
 fitted himself for the Methodist minis- 
 try at Rent's Hill, Maine, and the 
 Garrett Biblical University, Evanston, 
 111. In October, 1875, he was ap- 
 pointed by the Rock River Conference 
 Pastor of Galena Street M. E. Church, 
 Aurora. The church had been sold for 
 
 an indebtedness of $10,000 ; through 
 the efforts of the newly- appointed Pas- 
 tor and his predecessor, Rev. Jno. Ellis, 
 and Rev. J. H. Austin, who acted for a 
 time as financial agent, the church was 
 redeemed, and is now in a flourishing 
 condition. Mr. Paine is the Chaplain 
 of the State Encampment of the Grand 
 Army of the Republic of Illinois, also 
 of the Aurora Light Guards, and the 
 Aurora Post of the Grand Army of the 
 Republic, and financial agent of Jen- 
 nings Seminary, Aurora. 
 
 PALMER, A. C., carpenter and 
 joiner; he was born at Franklin, Trenton 
 Co.. Vt., May 31, 1823. He was 
 brought up on a farm, and his prelimi- 
 nary education was received in the dis- 
 trict schools. In 1823 he moved with 
 his parents to Canada, settling near 
 Slab City ; when he was eight years old 
 his parents moved to Conneaut, Ashta- 
 bula Co., Ohio. For one Winter young 
 Palmer attended school on their arrival, 
 and had previously acquire 3 some educa- 
 tion through his grandfather. In May. 
 1835, they started for Illinois, overland, 
 and after thirty days' travel settled in 
 Aurora; on arriving here, his father 
 staked off a claim of 160 acres near the 
 present farm residence of Mrs. Farns- 
 worth ; in 1837 he traded this for prop- 
 erty in West Aurora. Young Palmer 
 received a common school education, 
 and at eighteen became apprenticed to a 
 carpenter and joiner ; he worked as 
 builder till 1853. and then went to 
 Montgomery, Kane Co., and worked in 
 Palmer's sash, door and blind factory ; 
 in 1855 he went into the mercantile 
 business ; in 1868 he was foreman of 
 a sash factory at Grand Haven, 
 Mich.; he has held many lucrative posi- 
 tions, and was foreman of the C., B. & 
 Q. R. R., for three years. He owns a 
 fine property. 
 
 Parks, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Mary A.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perry, H. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pritchard, Mrs. S. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Putney, Mrs. H. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pease, Oscar, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Paxton, Jonathan, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peters, Julius, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Powell. E. A., ins. agt. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plutnmer, Jennie, P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 787 
 
 PEASE, MYRON R., groceries; P. 
 
 O. Aurora ; was born in Ohio, in 1832 ; 
 when young, he went with his father 
 and family to N. Y., remaining there 
 two years, then emigrated West to 
 Aurora, in 1836 ; was conductor on 
 the C., B. & Q. R. R. four years 1861 
 to 1865 ; was engaged in the dry goods 
 business for sixteen years ; in the Fall 
 of 1866, he Commenced the grocery 
 trade, which business he has carried on 
 ever since. His father, Anson Pease, 
 was born in Connecticut, in 1807, and 
 died in 1857 ; Oscar C. Pease entered 
 the late war, and served three years in 
 the 89th 111., known as the Railroad 
 Regiment ; was Second Lieut, in Co. E ; 
 is now on railroad in Iowa. The mother 
 of M. R. Pease was Sarah Johnson ; 
 born in New Jersey in 1811, and now 
 living with her son in Aurora. 
 
 PFR ANGLE, G. A., Postmaster; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Baden, Ger- 
 many, in 1845 ; he emigrated to Amer- 
 ica in 1853 ; landed at N. Y., where he 
 remained for two years, thence West to 
 Chicago ; was engaged in going to 
 school three years, at Chicago and 
 Wheaton ; thence to Aurora, in 1858 ; 
 was apprenticed in the Beacon office ; 
 from there he accepted a clerkship in 
 the post office, under Mr. Bangs ; be- 
 came Assistant Postmaster in 1863, 
 which office he held until 1873, under 
 Postmaster Bangs and Dr. Hard ; in 
 1873, he was appointed Postmaster un- 
 der President Grant, which office he 
 has held with honor and credit ever 
 since ; his father, Sebastian Pfrangle, a 
 native of Germany, was an educational 
 man, died in 1 859 ; his mother, Hem- 
 mels Cacb, of Germany, is living with 
 Mr. Pfrangle, at Aurora. 
 
 Perrin, P. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pagel, Charles, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peoples, Robt., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peckham, Margaret, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Porter, T., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plummer, Moses, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, H. J., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Phelps, E. J., furniture ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Painter, J. E., butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perrin, P. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pearsons, Martha, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Postle, M. V., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Parish, H. M.. carpenter , P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollock, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pfrangle, Albert, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Porter, C. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollard, F., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollock. Jas.. car repairer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Patten, David, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Platt. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Parnell, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perry, Mary Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pillow, Patrick, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perkins, Horace, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, George. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peoples, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plant, Moses, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pierce, Mrs. Ruth, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Peckham, T., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pauley, Nicholas, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Perry, A. K., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Putnam, J. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Palmer, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pollock. J. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Payne, P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Paulin, Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pfrangle, C., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pennington, Josiah, tailor ; P. 0. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Pickett, Geo., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Plucker, A., lab.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Pease, E. J., stock dlr.; P. 0. Montgom- 
 ery. 
 
 Phy, Adam, P. O. Montgomery. 
 
 Pfrangle, Mrs. L. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Potter, Silas, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Pope, J. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Parson, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Plum, W. V., coal dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Parish, L. A., car repairer; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Pickens, Alex., merchant, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Percival, Geo., wheelwright ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Palmer, A. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Putnam, C. W., printer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Parrington, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Parrington, J. W., attorney, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Prickett, H., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Philip, Madison, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 /^UACKENBUSH, J. J., painter; P. 
 
 Vc^ 0. Aurora. 
 
 Quereau, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Quackenboss, D. J.. mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Quereau, Susan H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Quinu, B. M., traveler: P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Quick. F. H.. grocer: P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TDICKENGER, PETER, far., P. 0. 
 L\ Aurora.
 
 788 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 RICHARDSON, PERKINS,con- 
 
 tractor and builder ; P. 0. Aurora ; he 
 was born at Watertown, N. Y., Nov. 19, 
 1832 ; his father was a carpenter and 
 joiner, and from him he received his 
 practical knowledge of the business ; in 
 1845, they came West ; when he wa.s 
 9 years old his mother died ; he received 
 a good education for those times ; at the 
 age of 23 he started in business for him- 
 self; two years after he married Miss 
 Frances Mostow, of Aurora ; four chil- 
 dren were born to them Emma, Edward, 
 James and Ruth ; Emma is a natural 
 artist; she is only 18 years old and her 
 work has received much attention ; in 
 1853 Mr. Richardson took the contract 
 for H. White's stone house, at Sugar 
 Grove ; since that time, he has built 
 many beautiful and handsome buildings, 
 but it would be a useless task to mention 
 them all ; the first, public building was 
 the City Hall, and stands to-day a mon- 
 ument of his skill as an architect and 
 builder ; the most substantial blocks of 
 West Aurora were built by him ; in 
 1869, he started a sash, door and blind 
 factory at Montgomery ; this ^as not a 
 success, financially, but the work was 
 done in a superior manner ; Mr. Rich- 
 ardson has more orders for work than he 
 can conveniently fill. 
 
 RICHARDSON, ANOR, retired 
 contractor ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Oneida Co., N. Y.. in 1801, and was the 
 son of Russell Richardson, a farmer ; 
 when eleven years of age his father died ; I 
 his education was acquired in the Win- 
 ters, as he had to work during the 
 Summer seasons ; at the age 17 he built \ 
 a large barn on the old homestead ; this | 
 was quite an undertaking for a boy ; in 
 1845, just after the election of James 
 K. Polk, he started for Illinois by way 
 of the lakes, and landed at Chicago soon 
 afterward ; located at Aurora and became 
 a contractor and builder ; his first work 
 he took for 824 and finished it in seven 
 days ; times were hard, but he always 
 had a fair share of work, and when one 
 job was finished he generally had 
 another waiting for him ; the work was 
 always finished in a superior manner, 
 every detail being carefully attended to ; 
 he is now 77 years old and still vigorous. 
 
 Reeves, 0. H., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reeves, S. D., yard master; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rogers, W. W., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rogers, Ed., mail agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 REYNOLDS, JAMES, retired far- 
 mer; he was born in Sullivan Co., N. 
 Y., Oct., 1812. and lived in the East 
 until 24 years of age. He came West 
 and settled on a farm of 200 acres in 
 Sugar Grove Tp.. Kane Co., and followed 
 farming a great many years; in the 
 early history of the township, he held 
 the offices of Justice of the Peace and 
 School Director ; he retired in 1872, and 
 became a resident of Aurora. 
 Rogers, Mrs. A. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ricker, S. J., physician ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Richards, Henry, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Richards, Wm.. conductor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Richards, W., carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 RACE, A. S., & CO., dealers in dry 
 goods and notions, millinery goods, car- 
 pets and oil cloths, feathers, etc.; this 
 firm do a large business ; were estab- 
 lished in February, 1877 ; they are 
 shrewd advertisers and a strictly honor- 
 able firm ; the members are men of ex- 
 perience in the dry goods line, under- 
 standing every detail ; goods are marked 
 in plain figures, and there is no devia- 
 tion from them; they buy for cash, and 
 cannot be undersold. They have a sim- 
 ilar establishment in Chicago, and one at 
 Coldwater, Mich. Their millinery de- 
 partment is a feature that rivals any- 
 thing of the kind it the West. 
 ROBINSON, F. H., dentist; was 
 born in the City of Aurora in the year 
 1850 ; his father was a wuolen manu- 
 facturer ; he came from England and 
 settled in the Eastern States rnany 
 years ago, and is also an old resident ; 
 he is now in the employ of S. B. Stolp 
 & Co., the woolen manufacturers, and is 
 a skillful workman. The son received a 
 liberal education in the graded schools 
 and also attended the Philadelphia den- 
 tal colleges; at the age of 21 he was a 
 practicing dentist with Dr. Wilson, and 
 became established in business on the 
 corner of River and Downer streets in 
 1874. 
 
 Reilein, L., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rang, W., car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rang, Henry, carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ransr, J. F., mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rink, Jacob, moulder ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 789 
 
 Rink, Casper, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 RICHARDSON, RUSSELL, 
 
 general agent for C. J. L. Myer, South 
 Chicago Sash, Door and Blind Manu- 
 factory ; P. 0. Aurora ; born at Water- 
 town, Jefferson Co., N. Y., March 20, 
 1835 ; when 8 years of age, his parents 
 came to Aurora ; he acquired a public 
 school education, and engaged in busi- 
 ness as a builder and contractor, in 
 partnership with Perkins Richardson; 
 in 1859, he married Miss Eliza Akers, 
 at Elgin, 111. ; when the war broke out, 
 and the second call for volunteers was 
 made, he enlisted in the 124th 111. Vol. 
 Inf. ; he participated in a number of 
 battles ; was at the seige of Vicksburg, 
 and served through the Atlanta cam- 
 paign ; after the siege of Vicksburg, he 
 was transferred to the First Brigade 
 Band ; was honorably discharged at the 
 close of the war; in 1869, he re-entered 
 business as a builder, and, in company 
 with P. Richardson, he started a sash, 
 door and blind factory ; in 1874, he be- 
 came employed by C. J. L. Myer, and 
 is considered a superior salesman. 
 RISING, JOSEPH, of the firm of 
 Rising & Simmons, dealers in boots and 
 shoes, Aurora, was born in Germany, 
 Sept. 28, 1829 ; came to America, and 
 landed in N. Y., in 1845, thence to 
 Cleveland, Ohio, remaining there until 
 1850, engaged in clerking in a boot and 
 shoe store ; thence to the gold fields of 
 California, in the Spring of 1851, and 
 engaged in the mining business, which 
 business he followed with good success 
 for five years, making enough money to 
 come to Aurora and start in the boot 
 and shoe business, in 1855, which he has 
 followed ever since ; in the year 1865, 
 he entered into partnership with N. C. 
 Simmons, to-day forming a partnership 
 in the leading boot and shoe house of 
 Aurora ; holds office of Supervisor, in 
 which office he has served his people 
 and party faithfully, for the last two 
 years ; when Mr. Rising first came to 
 America, he was very poor, but by hard 
 labor, good management and fair- ealing, 
 is to-day one of Aurora's leading mer- 
 chants. Married Miss Mary M. Smith, 
 daughter of E. Smith, who came to this 
 State at an early day ; two children 
 Mary C. and Annie. 
 
 Ross, Mrs. H. D., hair goods ; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Ross, C. M., editor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, N. B., mason; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, F. B., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, Philander, salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, Francis, blacksmith; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, John 0., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rand, G. B., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rand, J. S., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Robinson, Jas., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Raggan. Danl.. carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Robinson, C. K., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, Terrance, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riser, Simon, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, Mrs. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rugh, Chris., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reising, John, mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riddle, A., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reed, W. E., moulder; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ries, J. F. mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rees, Richard, florist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roderick, Theo., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Randolph, J. F., clerk; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roberts, Charles, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rumble, Mary, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 RICE, ISAAC W., City Marshal of 
 Aurora; was born in Vt., in 1838, 
 where he remained until 1844 ; in com- 
 pany with his father, Laton Rice, and 
 family, emigrated West and settled in 
 Will Co., 111., about five miles from 
 Aurora ; he remained here until the 
 breaking out of the war, 1861, and en- 
 listed in Co. A, Cavalry, 36th 111. Vols., 
 for three years ; participated in some of 
 the most severe battles fought during 
 the war, was thrown from his horse 
 during an engagement at Vicksburg ; 
 was taken from the field dangerously 
 hurt ; he came home, with good care of 
 himself for about two months he rejoined 
 hie regiment and served until the end of 
 the war ; enlisted as a private, mustered 
 out as Orderly Sergeant. At the close of 
 the war he returned home and farmed 
 for two years, thence to Aurora, where 
 he was engaged in the grocery business 
 for three years. Mr. Rice has held 
 several offices of public trust, and has 
 acquitted with credit and honor to him- 
 self and to the people he has represented ; 
 was Deputy Sheriff of Kane Co., for two 
 years ; was elected City Marshal of 
 Aurora in 1875, and re-elected in 1876 
 and 1877.
 
 790 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Raymond, J. O., bookkeeper; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Reader, D. L., tailor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reigh, Chris., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Russell, G-eo., City Mills; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rothschild, J., iner. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rhodes, C. W., ins. agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richmond, C. M., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ryder, Sam., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rugg, G. F., mach. ; P. C. Aurora. 
 
 Reinhart, M., mech. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rutishauser, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reddington, Jno., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 .Roesch, John, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Robbins, Dr. M. M., phys. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Heynolds, E. E., painter; P. 0. Aurora 
 
 Rowe, Mrs. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rutter, Jos., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Renland, Nick, boots ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Royston, Henry, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Ruggles, Gr. F., manr. foundry ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Rust, Wm., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, P. J. ., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rockabrand, Louis, shoemaker ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Reiland, Wm., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reiland, Nick., shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rieland, Cornelius, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reder, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ROACH, J. C., of J. C. Roach & 
 Son, Park House Livery Stable ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; born in Orange Co., Virginia, 
 in 1814, remaining there until he was 
 19 years old ; thence to Springfield, 
 Ohio, remained there until 1858, en- j 
 gaged in school teaching and farming ; j 
 thence to Kendall Co., 111., remaining 
 there until 1865 ; thence to Aurora, , 
 engaged in farming until the Spring of i 
 1871, when he commenced the livery j 
 business ; their stock is of the very best, : 
 and their vehicles, hacks and stables are 
 first-class ; Mr. Roach is the oldest and 
 only living one out of seven brothers ; 
 he lost three brothers in the late war ; | 
 his two sons, Newton and John, were in 
 the war ; John entered the service, but on j 
 account of sickness was honorably dis- ! 
 charged ; Newton belonged to the 36th i 
 I. V. I., took sick at Lake Providence, 
 La., and died of heart disease ; his j 
 father, John Roach, died at the age of 
 87 years. 
 
 Reder, D.. far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rausch, Jno., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reckenger, Nick., 2d, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roders, Nick., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reckenger, Matt., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reckenger, Nick., 1st, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rausch, Nick., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rennel, Nick., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 RANDALL, JOHN D., retired 
 farmer ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in 
 Connecticut in 1823; when he was 12 
 years old he, with his father and family, 
 moved to N. Y. State, where he re- 
 mained until 1843, then came West 
 to Illinois and settled in Sugar Grove 
 Tp., Kane Co., where he was engaged 
 in farming ; was a resident of De Kalb 
 Co. for four years, engaged in farming, 
 where he held several offices of trust 
 
 that of Justice of the Peace, School 
 Director, and Township Trustee ; all of 
 these offices he held with credit to him- 
 self and to those he represented ; on 
 account of schooling his children he 
 moved to Aurora; Mr. Randall has 
 made what he is worth to-day by hard 
 labor, industry, and good management; 
 owns 60 acres in Sugar Grove, and 160 
 acres in Aurora Tp. He married Miss 
 Marie L. Barns, of N. Y.; has three 
 children. His brother, S. W. Randall, 
 was in the late war ; enlisted in Co. E, 
 124th I. V. I.; was captured by the 
 rebels in Tenn., and taken as prisoner to 
 Andersonville, where he died in prison, 
 in 1864. 
 
 Roberts, C. W., butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reardon, D., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reed, Mrs. Emma, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ready. Pat., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ries, John F., saloon, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rowell, Mrs. P. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rood, L. W., real estate; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rhodes, A. C., spinner; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, Mrs. R. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richards, Mrs. S. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ruch, Jacob, miller; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ray, William, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, E., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reynolds, Henry, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, Pat, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rhodes, J. H., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roberts, Abby, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Russell, J. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reynolds, Henry, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rogers. Calvin, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Rising, Joseph, Township Supervisor; 
 P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 791 
 
 RANDALL, MRS. NANCY A,, 
 
 P. 0. Aurora ; wife of the late James 
 W. Randall, who was born in Connecti- 
 cut, Nov. 25, 1825 ; at 17 years of age, 
 he came West in company with his 
 parents, and settled in Sugar Grove Tp., 
 Kane Co., where he was engaged in 
 farming; in 1852 he moved to Aurora, 
 and commenced the carpenter's trade, | 
 which business he continued until 1854; ' 
 he then invested his hard earnings in the j 
 Aurara Beacon, which had previously 
 been published by the Messrs. Hall ; re- 
 moved the office from the West Side to the ! 
 East Side ; never man worked harder , 
 than he, frequently spending twenty 
 hoars a day at his business ; in 1857 he 
 failed; he then went West with his i 
 family and settled in Kansas ; he settled ; 
 in a wild country, his wife, Mrs. R., 
 helping him build the log cabin to live 
 in ; there he was somewhat prominent 
 during the famine, in relief work, and 
 afterward entered into some speculation ; ! 
 after the war he returned to Kane Co.; 
 he first commenced making charcoal; , 
 soon after he became interested in the I 
 stone quarries, and the last three years 
 in partnership with Isaac Stevens ; Mr. 
 Randall was attending to some scaffold- 
 ing which was to support a mass of earth 
 when it was loosened; the ground gave 
 way unexpectedly, and crushed him, 
 destroying his life instantly ; the de- 
 ceased was so well known in the city, so 
 universally respected, that the news cast 
 a gloom over the whole city; four chil- 
 dren Sarah F., Charles D., Jay Cook, 
 PaHte B.; Charles D. is engaged in the 
 moulding sand business, having a very 
 extensive trade in Chicago and Aurora. 
 
 Randolph, J. L. F., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Raucher, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reddington, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rampa, August, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ragh, Christian, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rousch, F., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richmond, O. M., far ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rull, J. P., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ry land F., farmer ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, Mrs. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reising, John, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Runey, Mrs. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reynolds, Joseph, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Reed, E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rand, J. S., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rut-li. Michael, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Robinson, Henrietta, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ruste, Mrs. H. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ring, Michael, C., B. & Q. R. ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Reed, Clarissa, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riddle, Adoniram, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rawlin, Jane, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, F. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, J. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Russ, Alfred, painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rink, Christopher, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rodner, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rockabrand, Louis, shoemaker ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Reckinger, Mrs. B., P. Aurora. 
 
 Russeller, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reedy, W., saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Riley, James, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reedy, Ellen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rugg, G. F., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reed, Thomas, grocer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rodener, Jno. M., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Regan, D. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reedy, John, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reidalein, Julius, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, Mrs. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rogers, A. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, C. R., agent; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ross, Jane H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ruste, W., capitalist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Roe, H., P 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reeves, H. E., brakeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Renner, John, boots and shoes : P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Ray, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ragen, Martin, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rumble, M. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rumble, F. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Richardson, Isabella, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rand, G. B., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Robbins, Xorris, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Reynolds, Silas, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Renger, Lewis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Raymond, Lewis, boiler maker; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Robinson, F. H., dentist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, F. B., rner.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, J. D., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, Israel, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Rice, E. W. L., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Race. J. D., conductor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Race, W., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Race, E. D., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 792 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Roach, J. C., livery ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Ryan, H., merchant ; 0. 0. Aurora. 
 Richardson, P., builder ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Richards, D., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rolph, J. G., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rust, Alfred, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Raymond, Gr. C., P. O. Aurora. 
 Randall, J. D.,P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ryder, B. D., tailor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Reynolds, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Reynolds, Mrs. F. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Roberts, J. B., butcher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rising, Leonard, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rystrom, S., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Reed, J. H., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Reyneer, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Rhutassel, Lawrence, farmer ; P. 0. North 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Rhutassel, Frank, far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 Rhutassel, J., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Russ, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Reising, V., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SEARS, NELSON, engineer; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Pat, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, J. F., P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 STANDEN, GEO. H,, lessee of the 
 North Aurora Fiour Mill ; P. 0. No. 
 Aurora ; was born in the town of Rye, 
 England, Sept. 17, 1846 ; remained 
 there until 1870, where he was en- 
 gaged in the milling and bakery bus- 
 iness ; he then emigrated to America, 
 landed at Quebec, thence to Warren- 
 ville, Du Page Co., 111., where he re- 
 mained but a short time ; he then came 
 to North Aurora, where he commenced 
 the flour-mill business at the North 
 Aurora Flour-Mill, one among the best 
 equipped mills on the Fox River. The 
 flour made from these mills meets with 
 ready sales in Aurora and vicinity, as 
 preference should be given to home \ 
 productions, if equal to outside offerings. J 
 Mr. Standen married Miss Mary Goods, 
 of England ; three children. His pa- 
 rents, James and Mary (Hovenden) 
 Standen, are natives of England. 
 
 Smith, Jno. H., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora 
 
 Smith, R. D., clipper; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, R. B., bkpr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Alphonso, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, U. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, W. B., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Wm. E., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, J. H., blacksmith; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SCHUB, FRED., ice mer. and agent 
 for Phillip Best's Brewing Co.; born at 
 Waldeck, Germany, in 1842; in 1854, 
 his father came to Illinois, having emi- 
 grated from Germany, and located on a 
 farm in Sugar Grove Tp. The subject 
 of this sketch was then but 12 years 
 old ; he had attended school a short time 
 in Germany, and at Sugar Grove went 
 for two Winters; in 1864, he followed 
 farming; in 1869, he bought land from 
 Wilder Gates and Charles Buck, and 
 erected some large, roomy ice houses ; 
 in the Winter of 1870, he began the cut- 
 ting of ice, and in the Summer started 
 out with two wagons ; in 1874, he be- 
 came the local agent for Phillip Best's 
 Brewing Co.; from a small beginning, 
 his business rapidly increased ; in the 
 Summer season, he employs twelve men 
 and a clerk, running six ice wagons and 
 two beer wagons ; owns ten horses, and 
 takes the lead in the ice trade ; at pres- 
 ent, is the only ice merchant in the city, 
 and since he became the agent for the 
 brewery he has built up a large business. 
 Mr. S. is a liberal, courteous gentleman, 
 and a hard worker. 
 
 STODDARD & RYAN, manufac- 
 turers and dealers in plain and stamped 
 tin ware, silver ware, glass ware, Jap- 
 anned ware, etc., No. 145 South River 
 street ; P. 0. Aurora ; the firm is com- 
 posed of J. M. Stoddard and H. Ryan ; 
 eight yeara ago, the firm was H. Ryan 
 & Co. (H. Ryan, L. D. Sage and J. M. 
 Stoddard) ; in 1872, Mr. Sage retired, 
 and the firm name has since been Stod- 
 dard & Ryan ; they do a large trade ; 
 they manufacture quite extensively, and 
 can supply every article needed in the 
 kitchen, and of a superior quality ; they 
 own the building they occupy, which is, 
 of course, a benefit to their customers, 
 they have eighteen wagons on the road 
 and employ sober, reliable and industri- 
 ous men, who attend strictly to business ; 
 in addition to the above, S. &. R. are 
 in the fur trade, paying highest market 
 prices for all kinds of furs. 
 
 Smith, C. D. F., attorney; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Leonard, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Fred., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Seidlemann, Martin,, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Seidlemann, P., boiler mkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sims, Z., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 793 
 
 STICKLE, ALBERT H., of- the 
 
 firm of Stickle & Fritz; res. 3 East St., 
 Aurora ; P.- O. Aurora ; born in Ohio 
 Dec. 6, 1845; married Miss Harriet 
 A. Turner ; she was born in New York 
 May 23, 1853, and married Dec. 18, 
 
 1873 ; one child Guy, born Sept. 2, 
 
 1874 ; lived in Ohio until he was 15, 
 when he came to Aurora and has lived 
 here since, except one year in Mendota ; 
 enlisted in Co. H, 124th 111. Inf., and 
 remained three years in service ; was in 
 the battles of Port Gibson, Raymond, 
 Vicksburg, Champion Hills, etc. 
 
 SPAULDING, A., M. D., P. 0. 
 
 Aurora ; was born in Washington Co., 
 N. Y., May 9, 18u7; is the son of Silas 
 and Annie (Brown) Spaulding ; his 
 father was born March 25, 1757 ; was a 
 soldier in the Revolutionary war ; par- 
 ticipated in the battle of Bennington, 
 al-o at the surrender of Burgoyne ; died 
 at Fort Ann, Feb. 29, 1812 ; his 
 mother is a descendant of the Peter 
 Brown that came over on the May- 
 flower ; they had eight children ; five 
 are dead and three living Samuel B., 
 born Jan. 27, 1789, living in Ot.; Ann, 
 born Oct. 13, 1797, married N. Baker, 
 now of Knox Co., 111.; Dr. Spaulding 
 remained at his native State until 1835, 
 where he was engaged in the jewelry 
 business ; he also commenced the study 
 of medicine ; attended medical lectures 
 at Brooklyn, N. Y.; his first practice of 
 medicine was at Jersey City, N. J., in 
 1845 ; thence to New York City, where 
 he remained until 1847 ; the same year 
 he emigrated West to Illinois, and set- 
 tled in Aurora, where he opened a jew- 
 elry store, which business he was very 
 successful in ; retiring from the jewelry 
 business, he put his full time in his pro- 
 fession, electropathic physician. Mar- 
 ried Ephurasia Babcock, of Ct., in 
 1848 ; has three children living Sarah 
 Jane, married Oscar Tanner, engaged 
 in farming in De Kalb Co., 111.; Eliza 
 J., married Harlow Minor, stock rais- 
 ing, Denver, Colo.; Henry A., married 
 Miss Cornelia Russell ; is a stockholder 
 in Tiffany & Co., jewelers, of New 
 York, Paris and London ; he has charge 
 of the house at Paris. 
 
 Sims, Samuel, blacksmith; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 .Sims, Curtis, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SUMMERS, ROBERT, farmer; 
 born at Somersetshire, England, Feb. 4, 
 1826 ; in 1834, his fattier came to 
 America and rented a farm in the State 
 of New York ; in May, 1836, he sent 
 for his family, and they joined him in 
 New York City ; shortly after, they 
 cauie to Illinois, settling at Big Rock 
 Township ; here his father made a claim 
 for 400 acres, and in time possessed a 
 fine property ; he died in 1870 ; in 1830, 
 Mr. S., Jr., bought a farm of 40 acres; 
 married Miss F. Hall ; at one time owned 
 400 acres of land ; was a very successful 
 farmer; was Postmaster uader Fillmore's 
 administration ; also Road Commission- 
 er, etc. 
 
 Sims, E., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stickling, A., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Scharschug. Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spurgeu, J. M., painter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schoemann, M., drayman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Strong, Michael, blksmth.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Strong, C. F., burnisher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Skinner, Jas., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SCHNEIDER, JOHN P., retired 
 farmer; P. 0. North Aurora ; was born 
 near Frankfort on the Rhine, Germany, 
 in 1801 ; he emigrated to America and 
 landed in Philadelphia in 1824, where 
 he remained for four years, engaged in 
 the carpenter trade ; thence to Erie Co., 
 Pa., in same business for three years ; 
 immigrated West to Chicago in 1832 ; 
 thence to Naperville, where he remained 
 but a short time: in 1833, he settled in 
 Blackberry, Kane Co.; thence to the 
 place that he now lives on in 1834; 
 Mr. Schneider, when he first came West, 
 had but very little money, but with hard 
 labor, industry and good management, is 
 to-day one of the successful farmers of 
 Kane Co.; he built the dam across Fox 
 River at North Aurora in 1835 ; also, 
 the saw-mill, which burned ; he after- 
 ward rebuilt the saw-mill ; built the 
 present flour-mill at North Aurora ; was 
 Postmaster of what was then known as 
 Schneider's Mills post office ; Mr. Schnei- 
 der is one among the oldest settlers of 
 Kane Co.; is one who clearly remembers 
 when the beautiful land was an unbroken 
 waste, inhabited by roving bands of In- 
 dians, with here and there an occasional 
 adventurous pioneer; owns 160 acres of 
 land.
 
 794 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Simpson, Gr. 0., mechanic; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Schick, J. F., butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Snow, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spicer, Thos., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Slippick, C., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Santany, David, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Squires, Z., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stearns, C. A., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Searles, A. E., attorney; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Southworth, M. 0., atty.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Snook, N, H., artist; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Siegmund, Jacob, publisher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Slosson, Daniel ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stickle, Thos., marble works ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Standt, J. M., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stoll, Jno., tailor ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 SHEPARDSON, WM , retired far 
 mer; born in Windham Co., Vt., in 
 1804; remained there until 1845, when 
 he settled in De Kalb Co., 111. ; here he 
 purchased about 600 acres of land ; was 
 elected Justice of the Peace in 1846 ; 
 has also been Assessor ; was re-elected 
 J. P., in 1851 ; received the nomination 
 and election in Kane and De Kalb 
 Counties for the State Legislature ; he 
 represented his district for four years ; 
 has also held other important offices of 
 trust and responsibility. 
 
 Straight, J. J., cabinet mkr.; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Stubbs, Joseph, machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Somerindyck, J. Y., merchant.; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 SIMMONS, N. C., manufacturer and 
 dealer in boots and shoes (firm of Raising 
 & Simmons) ; was born at Bridgewater, 
 Mass., in 1838 ; his father was a farmer ; 
 at the age of nine he went to live with 
 an uncle, at Montrose, who was a well- 
 to-do boot and shoe dealer ; resided 
 with him until he was fifteen, getting 
 as good an education as the district 
 school afforded ; he was an apt scholar, 
 and acquired a rather more liberal edu- 
 cation than most bojs ; at 15, he became 
 an apprentice to the trade with his uncle, 
 serving three years ; he became a skill- 
 ful workman ; came to Aurora in 1857 ; 
 became foreman for C. A. Malloy, who 
 kept a boot and shoe store in East 
 Aurora ; worked there a short time and 
 then became partner of Leon & Reising ; 
 in 1863, he became associated in busi 
 ness with Joseph Reising ; is the present 
 Supervisor of Aurora. 
 
 Somerindyck, A., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Senccnbaugh, S. S., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Satterly, E. S., coal dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sexton, C. M., agent ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stoughton, J. C., minister; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sanburn, C. F., shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sanford, N. R.,car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shoemaker, Walter, lumber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sibley, J. R., clerk; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 STOLP, JOSEPH, farmer ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; born in Columbia Co., N. Y., 
 in 1794 ; is the son of Peter and Cath- 
 arine Stolp, who were among the earlier 
 settlers of N. Y. State ; were natives of 
 Germany ; shortly after Joseph was 
 born his parents moved to Montgomery 
 Co. and purchased a farm ; shortly after 
 moved to Onondaga Co.; Mr. S. lived 
 in Onondaga Co. nearly 20 years ; re- 
 ceived as good an education as the times 
 and circumstances would allow ; at 25, 
 married Miss Margaret M. Arlett, at 
 Marseilles, in 1837 ; came to 111., pass- 
 ing through Penn., Ohio, Mich, and 
 Ind.; from La Porte, Ind., to Joliet ; 
 thence to Naperville; from Naperville 
 to Big Woods, then near present city 
 of Aurora, and joined a brother Fred., 
 who had come one year before ; claimed 
 300 acres timber and prairie ; Mr. S. 
 has lived in Aurora ever since coming, 
 is 84 years old, and has lived to see 
 Kane Co. grow from a wilderness to 
 what it now is ; his wife died but a 
 short time ago. 
 
 Solfisburg, Rudolph, ptr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stinson, J. E., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sperry, J. D., contractor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sperry, B. E., mechanic; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schrolle, A., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stringer, F., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shiltz, John, bartender ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shears, Greorge, Principal school; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Shuman, Jno., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shadock, F., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sawer, Mary J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stenger, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Solfisburg, C., manufacturer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Springer, J. L., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Switzer, Albert, brakeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Scott, R, K., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Swarthout, C.. restaurant; P.O.Aurora. 
 
 Swarthout, Selah, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sparrow, John, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Summers, Andrew, traveler ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 796 
 
 SHEDD, O. N.; P. 0. Aurora; 
 was born in Maine, in 1831 ; is the son 
 of Silas and Clarissa (Noyes) Shedd ; 
 his father was born in 1794 ; he was en- 
 gaged in the war of 1812 ; he is now 
 living in Maine ; his mother was born in 
 1800. and died in 1877 ; Mr. 0. N. 
 Shedd remained at his native State until 
 he was 21 years of age ; he was engaged 
 in going to school and school teaching ; 
 thence to Lawrence, Mass., where he 
 entered a soap factory, and remained 
 there for three and a half years ; in 1855, 
 he came West to Chicago, where he 
 purchased real estate which he owns to- 
 day ; he remained there but a short 
 time ; he came to Aurora in company 
 with Mr. Beach ; they purchased 100 
 acres of land adjoining Aurora ; he laid 
 it out in town lots, and known as Beach 
 and Shedd's addition ; he purchased Mr. 
 Beach's half interest in 1863, and has 
 been dealing very extensively in real 
 estate ever since ; he commenced the 
 soap manufactory in 1856, which busi- 
 ness he has carried on ever since ; he 
 employs from three to four men in the 
 manufactory ; he has held several offices 
 of public trust ; he was City Alderman 
 four years, Highway Commissioner three 
 years and Supervisor two years. 
 
 SLAKER, JOSEPH, far; Sec. 4 
 
 P. 0. North Aurora ; was bora in Ger- 
 many, in 1816; son of Adam and Eva 
 Slaker; came to America in 1840, to 
 Cleveland, 0., where he was engaged in 
 laboring for five years ; thence to Chi- 
 cago, where he remained but a short 
 time; to Aurora in 1846; commenced 
 working in a cooper shop; remained 
 there for two years ; thence purchased 
 farm that he now lives on of 190 acres 
 of land, for $15 per acre ; now owns 
 108 acres, valued at $75 per acre ; Mr. 
 Slaker's name was at one time Joseph 
 Ochenschlager ; in 1874 he had the 
 Hon. Eugene Canfield, at the Legisla- 
 ture, change it to Joseph Slaker. Mar- 
 ried in 1845, to Mary Hiens, of Ger- 
 many ; seven children John, Louisa, 
 Joseph, Mary, Eva, Sophia, Willie, all 
 born in Kane Co., 111. 
 
 Stevens, Emma, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Steadman, H. D., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Scarlett, Wm., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Scarlett, Charles W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SLATER, GEO. K., fanner, Sec. 
 36 ; P. 0. Aurora ; is one of the oldest 
 settlers of Kane Co.; the son of Jona- 
 than and Abigail (Holmes) Slater ; was 
 born in Clinton Co., N. Y., in 1812; 
 remained in his native State until 1835, 
 where he was engaged in farming and 
 the lumber business ; in 1835, he 
 came to Kane Co., 111., and settled on 
 the farm he now lives on. When Mr. 
 Slater first came here, ne was in poor cir- 
 cumstances, but, with hard work, industri- 
 ous habits and good management on his 
 farm, he is to-day one of the successful 
 farmers of Kane Co., owning 255 acres 
 of fine land ; has held several offices of 
 public trust that of Pathmaster and 
 School Director ; married Mrs (Loomis) 
 Wheadon, daughter of W. Wheadon, of 
 New York ; she was born in 1815. and 
 married in 1846 ; have three children 
 Henry, Emma and Frank. Henry was 
 in the late war ; he enlisted in the 124th 
 111. Vol. Inf. for three years, but, on ac- 
 count of sickness, was hon. disd., and is 
 now living at Rochelle, 111., engaged in 
 the lumber and coal business. 
 
 Seymour, H. S.. engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Seymour, Joseph, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SCHNEIDER, J. P., far.; Sec. 4; 
 P. 0. North Aurora ; was born in Phila- 
 delphia, Pa., 1828; came West with 
 his parents and settled in Kane Co. in 
 1834 ; he helped his father, John P. 
 Schneider, build the mill at North Au- 
 rora. Married in 1858, to Miss Charlotte 
 Denham, of England ; six children 
 George W., Emma L., Eva J., Nellie 
 A., Eddie J., Estella. 
 
 Sabin, Wm., drayman; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spink, Edward, compositor ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Spink, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schrader, E., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shepherd, Edward, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shepard, J., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, John, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, J. G., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, K. S., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp. Levi, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sorg, Michael, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sorg, Christian, P. 0. Auvura. 
 
 Scharpenter, Theo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schmahl, Jacob, Sr., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schlicht, W.. lab,; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schiltgen, Peter, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Shorr, Frank, P. 0. Aurora.
 
 796 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Stumin, Jos., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shomer, Nick, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shoger, F., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 SOLPISBURG, CHRISTIAN, 
 
 proprietor of brick yard and lime kiln ; 
 was born in Switzerland, Jan. 12, 1832 ; 
 is the son of John and Mary Solfisburg ; 
 came to America May 1, 1852 ; was 
 engaged in working on a farm, when he 
 first came here, at 810 per month near 
 Naperville ; he came to Kane Co., and 
 settled near Aurora, in 1855 ; com- 
 menced farming and dealing in wood ; in 
 
 1861, he commenced burning lime ; in 
 
 1862, the manufacture of brick ; since 
 he has been in the business, he has fur- 
 nished brick to build nearly all the 
 prominent buildings in Aurora such as 
 Coulter's Opera House. Brady's School, 
 and all the free schools in Aurora. Fitch 
 House and others. When he first came 
 hero, he was worth but very little ; to- 
 day, he ranks as one of the successful 
 business men of Aurora ; owns one of 
 the must extensive brick yards and lime 
 kilns in Kane Co.; 34 acres of fine 
 improved land, where is located his fine 
 brick residence ; one house and lot in 
 Aurora; six lots in South Chicago: one 
 fine improved farm, of 160 acres, in 
 Kendall Co.; all of this made by hard 
 work and good management ; is also 
 engaged with Mr. Kerr, in building a 
 first-class tile manufactory at Hinckle^; 
 was married in 1859, to Miss Elizabeth 
 Love ; she was born in Toronto, Can- 
 ada, March 25, 1843; father Robert 
 Love and mother Margaret (Landers) 
 Love, settled in Aurora in 1852 ; seven 
 children Clara, Albert, Lincoln, Lillie, 
 Kdruond, Adie Bell and Lydia. 
 
 SMITH, C. P., artist, painter and let- 
 terer, for the C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 Aurora; he was born at Frankfort, 
 G-ermany, in 1826, and came to 
 America in 1850 ; his first work in this 
 country was with the well known John 
 Stephenson, car and omnibus builder of 
 N. y.; he remained there about two 
 yeiis; thence went to Jersey City, and 
 thence to Chicago in 1854, where he 
 commenced work for the C., B. &. Q. 
 R, R., and has been in the employ of 
 this company ever since ; he is one of 
 the oldest employes of the C., B. & Q. 
 R. R. ; he moved to Aurora in 1856. 
 
 Schoeberlein, Adam, coal ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Seamans, Mrs. L. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schickler, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schickler, Phillip, mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stone, A. J., P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Stephenson, Wm., milk dealer; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Stone, A. H., R. R. agt.-. P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 SILL, S. B, & SON, dentists ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; established the business in 
 Aurora in 1877 ; they have always held 
 a formost place in the dental profession. 
 S. B. Sill, senior member, was born in 
 Buffalo, N. Y., in 1824 ; is the son of 
 Joseph and Eliza (Berry) Sill ; hi$ 
 father was engaged in the United States 
 Custom House at Buffalo ; when young 
 his parents moved to Oberlin. 0.; re- 
 mained there but a short time, thence 
 to Jonesville. Mich., about 1836, where 
 he commenced the study of dentistry in 
 1846; about 1848 he located at Kala 
 mazoo, and was the first established 
 dentist of that town, where he re- 
 mained until 1853 ; thence to Iowa City, 
 la.; remained there until 1856, re- 
 turned to Michigan and continued the 
 practice of dentistry until 1877, when 
 he moved to Aurora. His son, Edward 
 J., was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 
 1852 ; has had excellent advantages 
 in dentistry with his father and the 
 most prominent dentistries of Michi- 
 gan ; is regarded by the dental profes- 
 sion as one of the finest dental opera- 
 tors in the State. These gentlemen 
 employ no assistants, and the work they 
 do they guarantee to be durable and 
 first-class." S. B. Sill married in 1850 
 to Miss Caroline M. Swayzee, daughter 
 of David Swayzee ; four children, two 
 boys and two girls. 
 
 Shehan, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spoton. Matt, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sargent, E. A., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stewart, Henry, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spang, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Steffers. Valentine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith. Catharine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shuler. John, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith. Peter, farmer ; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Henry, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sachan, John, laborer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 : Sauber, Michael, far.; P. O. No. Aurora. 
 
 Sholan, Peter, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schilling, Peter, lab.; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 797 
 
 Shoden, Catharine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Souter, Michael, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stone, A. H., far.; P. 0. No. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stiffers, Jacob, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Susan, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spray, Mathew, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Squires, Geo. J., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Scharschug, J. J., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schuller, John, farmer ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Skinner, James, insurance ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shedden, L. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Snow, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sullivan, Daniel, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Swan, Hannah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spear, Lewis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stickle, Thompson, marble worker ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Shears, Joseph, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Saulsberry, David, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shannon, Mat, drayman ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Spaulding, H. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Seamans, S. D., lumber dealer; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Schuder Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sullivan, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sawerbucker, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stawss, Felix, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, A. A., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Suitner, Samuel, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schmahl, Mrs. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stinner, Joseph, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schwarzhous, H., Jr., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 Schwartzhous, H., Sr., C., B. & Q.; P. O. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Schorr, Frank, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stolp, J. B., C., B. & Q.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Severance, Absalom, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stewart, Robt., car repairer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Siegers, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Strong, Michael, blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Santry, Michael, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smitt, H. W., P. O. Aurora. 
 Sholes, S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schultz, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shower, Wm., lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Solfisbury, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Scarlett, Wm , P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sexton, Norman, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Summers, Samuel, P. O. Aur ra. 
 Schuller, Nich., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Spencer, Theo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stewart, Jennie, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stewart, Charles, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stephens, Emma A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Saterfield, J., Jr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Safford, H. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stewart, Wm., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stiffens, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sperlein, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Spalding, Joseph, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shepard, L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schillen, N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sechem, Peter, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Santry, John, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sperry, Sidney, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Seamans, C. W., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Swinburn, Wm., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Spear, Ellen, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stoutenger, Mrs. H. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Siegmund, J. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Short, John, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Short, J, M., billiard hall ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shaddock, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Story, M. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shepherd, N. H., stone cutter ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Smith, R. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Severance, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Siegmund, Jacob, Jr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schmahl, Jacob, Sr. mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schmidt, Leonard, C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 
 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 Scherwin, D. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schraeder, Geo., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Scrofford, C. C., C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Sweet, P. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slate, W. L., P. O. Aurora. 
 Steiner, Geo., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stramp, Joseph, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Steuborn, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schmidt, Anton, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Silvey, Walter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schomer, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schietz, August, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Skinner, Eliza, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slate, Mrs. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stolp, E. A., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stuffick, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slaker, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sedgewick, C. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sims, E., dry goods ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Street, B., ice dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stiffen, Peter, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stockwell, D. W., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slaker, F., grocer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stevens, G. W., P. 0. Aurora.
 
 798 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Shafer, Fred, C., B. & Q. R. R. ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Sail, Gust., shoemaker; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Swan, S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stafford, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stafford, N., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, Mrs. E. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sherwin, Mrs. J. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shannon, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, W. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, Edgar, car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, David, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Siegmund, J. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schaffer, Christ, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, W. A., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slate, Mrs. M.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sarchfield, D; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Seigle, E., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sylvester, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Swift, Mrs. Angeline, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slater, Thomas, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, Mrs. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slaker, J. F., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slater. I. B., carpenter; P. O. Aurora. 
 Scott. Henry, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Steffens, Peter, saloon ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schaub, Fred, ice dealer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sorenson, C., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sibell, E. A., trav. agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stockwell, D. W.. dry goods; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slate, G. W., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Simpson, .D. W., traveler; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smedley, C. E., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Stowell, C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Simmons, N. C., mer. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Safford, Mrs. H. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shepherdson, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slaker, Adam, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shelton. A. W., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Staly, J. N., far.; P. 0. Montgomery. 
 Schorf, John, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schollin, John B.. farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schuller, H., farmer; P.O. Aurora. 
 Slattery, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Slattery, Pat, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schickler, Peter, cigar mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Schultz, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Solfisburg, F., laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Smith, W. E., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Shaffer, Adam, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Siegmund, Jacob. Sr., publisher; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Schoberlein, Mike, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Strong, W. J., P. O. Aurora. 
 Sibley. Ralph, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Sheldon, Geo., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, P. D., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sellers, Geo., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sawyer, E. F., P. 0. Aurora, 
 
 Stolp, Joseph, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spencer. Selden, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sullivan, John, road master ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Siegel, E., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, J. G., woolen mills ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, Mrs. J. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stolp, Stillman, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sedgwick, C. S., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stephens, I. S., coal and wood; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sutphen, Geo. E., mfr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Shibley, Ralph, carp. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Summers, Robt., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stoddard, J. M., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Schmidt, Henry, restaurant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, Ann H., P. O.Aurora. 
 
 Simpson, F. M., carriage trimmer ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Smith, L. W., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Smith, F. F., florist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Swanson, A., carriage mkr.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sweet, W. E., barber ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stevenson, W. B., P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Satterly, Mrs. H. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Swarthout, M. F., expressman ; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Satterfield, A., switchman ; P. P. Aurora- 
 Street, B., ice dealer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Sperry, J. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Spear, Warren, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Slaker, Val., cutter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Steele, Wm., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stone, W. T., boarding house; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Smith, R. J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Seamans, Rebecca, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Stewart, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Show, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 rpHAYER, F. L., machinist; P. 0. 
 1 Aurora. 
 
 Taylor, G. L., mach. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TODD, L. M., lumber merchant, cor- 
 ner Lake st. and Downer p1a3e : of 
 the firm of White & Todd ; was 
 born in Vt. in 1839, remaining there 15 
 years ; he then emigrated to Kane Co. r 
 and settled in Sugar Grove, where he 
 commenced farming, which he carried 
 on until he came to Aurora and com- 
 menced the lumber business in company 
 with Fred. 0. White ; Mr. Todd has 
 been in the lumber business for seven 
 years.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 799 
 
 Terry, Sarah, boarding ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TABOR, MERVIN, P. 0. Aurora ; 
 insurance, loans and investments ; office, 
 Room 9, Coulter Block, over the Union 
 National Bank ; Mr. Tabor was born in 
 the town of Ellisburgh, Jefferson Co., 
 State of New York, April 30. 1827 ; 
 at the age of 14 years, he left the pa- 
 rental home, working on a farm during 
 the summer seasons, and attending school 
 winters, doing chores for his board, 
 until, at the age of about 16 years, he 
 commenced teaching a district school, at 
 $12 per month, and, as was the custom 
 at that time, he " boarded around ;" 
 from that time on, for several years, he 
 taught Winters and went to school Sum- 
 mers ; at the age of about 19, he emi- 
 grated to Michigan ; he completed his 
 school education at Albion Seminary, 
 Albion, Mich. ; Dr. Hinman was at that 
 time Principal, since President of the 
 Northwestern University, at Evanston, 
 111.; after completing his school course, 
 Mr. Tabor taught school at Mt. Clem- 
 ens, Mich., Albion, Mich., and finally 
 was appointed Principal of the. Prepar- 
 atory Department of the Michigan Uni- 
 versity, at Ann Arbor ; in the Summer 
 of 1851, he emigrated to Chicago, and 
 on the 1st day of Nov., of the same 
 year, he took charge of the public schools 
 of Aurora, East Division; in 1857, he 
 was elected County School Commissioner; 
 from 1851 to 1865, he was almost con- 
 stantly engaged in teaching or superin- 
 tending schools, or connected in some way 
 with the public school interests of Illinois ; 
 he was, for several years, a member of 
 the School Board of Aurora, East Di- j 
 vision, and was also a member of the j 
 Common Council of the city, from the j 
 8th Ward ; since 1865, to the present 
 time, he has been engaged in life in- 
 surance, connected, most of the time, 
 in some capacity, with the interests of 
 the Mutual Life Insurance Co., of New 
 York; in 1868, he was connected with 
 the home office of this Co., in New York 
 City ; receiving a sun-stroke, during the 
 Summer of 1868, while examining the 
 condition of the General Agency in 
 Vermont, he was obliged to resign his 
 position at the home office ; by the ad- 
 vice of his physician. Dr. Hammond, 
 of 39th St., N. Y., he left the country, 
 
 and spent three years on the Pacific 
 coast ; returned to Illinois in the Fall of 
 1872, with health repaired; again con- 
 n cting himself with the interests of 
 the Mutual Life, of N. Y., he is now 
 special agent for Illinois, appointing 
 and superintending the local agencies of 
 the State, and presenting the merits of 
 the company to prominent business 
 men and capitalists seeking investments ; 
 thoroughly posted in the science of life 
 insurance, and familiar with the condi- 
 tions and history of life companies in 
 America, Mr. Tabor has carved out fur 
 himself an honorable name and national 
 fame among the more intelligent insur- 
 ance men of the country ; he is a member 
 of the First Congregational Church ; poli- 
 tics Rep. Married Nov. 1, 1853, to 
 Sabrah C. Strang, daughter of Deacon 
 William J. Strang, of Aurora ; two 
 children Ida J. Tabor and Fred. S. 
 Tabor. 
 
 Thomas, J. S., fruit-grower; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Thow, Lewis, merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Turner, J. W., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tilton, Geo. B., florist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tucker, Mrs. J. H., P 0. Aurora. 
 
 Todd, C. L., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Todd, J. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Twist, H., engineer ; P. 0. AurolM. 
 
 THORWARTH, J, P., dealer in 
 dry good*, groceries and provisions ; 
 born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1834 ; 
 came to America and landed in New 
 York in 1852 ; came direct to Cook Co. 
 111., in 1852, where he resided until 
 1868 ; engaged in farming and store 
 keeping ; held office of Cook Co. Super- 
 visor in 1864 and 1865 ; also Justice 
 of the Peace and Postmaster ; to-day 
 he is Supervisor of the Town of Au- 
 rora, which office he has faithfully held- 
 for the last three years ; came to Aurora 
 and started in the dry goods and grocery 
 business in 1868; also is connected 
 with well known house of Thorwarth 
 & Fulton, hardware. Mr. Thorwarth, 
 when he first came to America, was 
 financially very poor, but industry, hon- 
 esty and fair dealing have made him to- 
 day one of the successful business men 
 of Aurora ; has made two visits to his 
 old home in Germany to see his father 
 and mother, who are now dead ; his 
 mother died in 1877, his father in 1864.
 
 800 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Town, S., insurance agent ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Tidd, W. S., foreman bindery ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Trouton, P. M., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Titsworth, L., Sr., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Titsworth, J. N., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Titsworth, L., Jr., salesman ; P.O. Aurora. 
 
 Thompson, J. H., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Terwilliger, A. R., Assessor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tighe, Patrick, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tighe, Hugh, blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Thelin, John, coppersmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TITUS & MARSHALL (Herbert 
 N. Titus & Clarence W. Marshall), 
 dealers in coffees, teas, fine family gro- 
 ceries, crockery and glassware, estab- 
 lished in 1873, at 54 N. River street; 
 
 . P. 0. Aurora ; both members have had 
 large experience as business men ; they 
 buy for cash, pay a low rent, and will 
 not be undersold by any house in the 
 same line ; in addition to their grocery 
 trade, they handle country produce, and 
 pay the highest market price for it ; Mr. 
 Titus was born at Rochester, N. Y., 
 Sept. 17, 1842; he worked on a farm 
 until 19 ; he attended a district school 
 at Sheboygan, Wis.; he came to Aurora, 
 and worked for J. B. Bishop; he at- 
 tended Bryant & Stratton's College, at 
 Chicago, and clerked for Phillips Bros., 
 of Aurora, and J. B. Rice ; Clarence 
 Marshall was born in Jefferson Co., N. 
 Y. ; he came to Aurora in 1868 ; he at- 
 tended the public school, and clerked 
 for Phillips Bros., of Aurora. 
 
 HOMPSON, JONATHAN H., 
 
 retired farmer ; Prairie st.; P. 0. Au- 
 rora ; born in Londonderry, N. H., Aug. 
 27, 1809 ; up to the age of 18 he ac- 
 quired a common school education, then 
 began working for neighboring farmers ; 
 when 19 he went to work in a woolen 
 mill ; on becoming of age, was employed 
 by Baker & Hains, woolen manu- 
 turers at Manchester, Vt.; worked for 
 them thirteen years ; during this time 
 he married Miss T. Staples ; in 1844 
 he came west, reaching Chicago on the 
 28th of May, arriving at Aurora, and 
 the same day, he purchased a claim, 
 farmed it until 1856 very successfully ; 
 was elected Deacon of the First Bap- 
 tist Church at Aurora, he still owns 
 1 1 2 acres and a fine property in 
 Aurora. 
 
 TRASK, C. P., farmer; P. 0. Au- 
 rora ; he was born in 1818 ; his father 
 was a farmer and blacksmith and had 
 six children ; C. P. the eldest and only 
 male child ; when thirteen years old his 
 mother died ; he then worked out until he 
 was fourteen years of age. In 1830 
 the family moved to Toledo, Ohio ; in 
 1834 to Sandusky ; his father bought 
 120 acres of land and he worked for him 
 five months, and then, buying his time, 
 became his own master ; he came over- 
 land to Illinois in 1836, with sixteen 
 head of cattle, and settled at Pecatonica, 
 Winnebago Co., 111.; he worked for an 
 uncle the first Winter, and then claimed 
 320 acres of land ; in 1839 he claimed 
 100 acres, and the same year the (rov- 
 enment passed the law in regard to find- 
 ing unoccupied land ; ignorant of this 
 law, Mr. T. came to Aurora, and in his 
 absence the Winnebago Co. land wa- 
 claimed and he never recovered it. He 
 came to Aurora having only 40 acres 
 and a very small sum of money, and 
 took an interest in a saw-mill with 
 Moses Thurston. Mr. T. has owned a 
 great deal of property, and now owns 
 218 acres of choice, improved land, and 
 a fine city property. 
 
 THOMPSON, WILLIAM,retired 
 farmer; P. 0. Aurora; he was born at 
 Grafton, Windham Co., Vt.. June 23, 
 1817, and resided there until the year 
 1835; he then went to Hampshire Tp., 
 Kane Co., and apprenticed himself to a 
 wheelwright, and remained with him 
 four years, serving his time; in May, 
 1839, he was married to Miss Wealthy 
 Gurler ; the tide of emigration to the 
 West was large, and he determined to 
 have property of his own ; his worldly 
 possessions at this time were not very 
 extensive, and June 6, of the same year, 
 he arrived at Sugar Grove Tp., pre- 
 empted 160 acres, and afterward 
 bought 120 acres ; for twenty-five years 
 he followed farming and was highly 
 respected among the people with whom 
 he lived, and by them was elected to 
 many important offices of trust and 
 responsibility, such as Supervisor, School 
 Trustee, etc., etc. In 1865 he came to 
 Aurora, and bought the residence where 
 he now lives, on the northwest corner of 
 South View and Downer place.
 
 KANE COUNTY : AURORA. 
 
 801 
 
 TARBLE, JOY, retired mason ; born 
 in New Hampshire, April 27, 1806; 
 his parents were Asa and Sarah Tarble, 
 who came of good old New England 
 stock ; his father was a stone mason and 
 bricklayer in the State of New Hamp- 
 shire. He received a good education 
 for those early times ; while quite youi g 
 his parents moved to Jefferson Co., N. 
 Y.; in 1812, his father met with an ac- 
 cident which resulted fatally ; in 1818, 
 young Tarble, in connection with his 
 brother, Asa, began the trade of stone 
 mason ; worked as journeyman at 
 Oswego, N. Y., and Sackett's Harbor ; 
 in 1829, he married Harriet Cox; 
 in 1846, he came to Chicago, 111., thence 
 to Aurora. Mr. Tarble, in younger 
 days, was considered one of the best 
 stone masons of the West ; he it was 
 who built Silas Reynolds' building, 
 also built for Wm. V. Plum the store 
 now occupied by Phillips Bros., grocers ; 
 also Temperance Hall, Woodruff Block, 
 and others too numerous to mention, of 
 the most substantial character; for five 
 years he held the office of Street Com- 
 missioner ; for five years held the posi- 
 tion of Senior Warden in Masonic 
 Lodge of West Aurora and Jerusalem 
 Temple ; twenty years ago Mr. T. re- 
 tired to enjoy the fruits of his labor, but 
 his early years were years of toil and 
 hardship. 
 
 TOWN, HENRY B., insurance and 
 real estate agent ; P. 0. Aurora ; he 
 represents the following old and reliable 
 insurance companies : Home Insurance 
 Company, of N. Y.; Hartford, of Hart- 
 ford, and other reliable companies with 
 assets representing over $25,000,000 ; 
 he was born in Troy, N. Y., Feb. 4, 
 1837 ; when quite young he emigated 
 West, in company with his father, and 
 settled in Du Page Co., 111. ; thence to 
 Batavia, Kane Co., remaining there ten 
 years at farming ; thence to Aurora, in 
 March, 1853 ; he taught school for sev- 
 eral years ; he was in the drug business 
 for five years ; thence in the insurance 
 business in 1866, which businsss he has 
 been in ever since ; he is agent for the 
 Great Western Despatch Co.; his father, 
 Silvanis Town, was born in Vt., Jan., 
 1804 ; he was, at one time, in partner- 
 ship with his son in the insurance busi- 
 
 ness ; his brother, L. F. Town, was in 
 the late war ; he enlisted in the 36th 
 111. Vol. I. for three years ; he is now 
 engaged in the real estate business in 
 Chicago. 
 
 Templeman, Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Town, L. F., ins. agt; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Treman, W. G., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Titus, W. M., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Taylor, W. H., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tyres, John, carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tarble, M. J., mason; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tavlin, John, wiper ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Trask, C. P., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Thompson, Rice, horse dealer ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Taylor, S. B., artist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tarble, Jay, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tolman, T. F., Co Treas.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 (TYLER, WARREN, insurance, 
 loan and real estate agent, No. 11 Main 
 street, Aurora ; is an agent for the fol- 
 lowing old and reliable companies : JEtna, 
 of Hartford, Phenix of Brooklyn and 
 other reliable companies ; assets amount- 
 ing to over $50,000,000 ; was born in 
 N. Y., 1834 ; when quite young he 
 emigrated West in company with his 
 father and family to 111., in 1835 ; came 
 all the way from New York to Kane 
 Co., in a two-horse wagon, taking thirty 
 days to make the trip to St. Charles ; 
 27 years engaged in farming and mer- 
 cantile business, thence to Aurora in 
 1862, where he commenced the dry 
 goods business, which business he was in 
 for five years, then in the insurance busi- 
 ness, which business he has been in ever 
 since. His father, Ira D. Tyler, is a 
 native of New York, now living on a 
 farm near St. Charles, Kane Co. ; his 
 brother Geo. W. Tyler, ejlisted in the 
 127th I. V. I. for three years' service; 
 died with concussion of the brain, caused 
 at the bombardment of Vicksburg, 1863. 
 
 Tanner, W. A., hardware; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Thompson, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tanner, Eugene, far ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Trigg, Geo., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tyler, Percy . P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Todd, Levi, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tuttle, D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Thompson, J. H., boots and shoes ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Trigg, Chas., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Trigg, Thos., farmer; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 802 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 THATCHER, S. W., agent Ameri- 
 can Express Co., Aurora; was born in 
 New York, 1830 ; there until he was 
 23 years old ; engaged in farming ; thence 
 to Detroit, Mich. ; his first debut in ex- 
 press business was as messenger on the 
 Michigan Central R. R.; from there he 
 went to Ch'cago and entered the money 
 department of the Aniarican Express 
 Co., which officehe filled for seven years ; 
 agent at central depot, also was route 
 agent on several of the leading rail- 
 roads that lead out of Chicago, C. & 
 N. W. R. R., C. B. & Q. R. R., &c. ; 
 thence to Aurora, where he first took 
 charge of the American Express Co.'s 
 office in July, 1865 ; also has been in 
 the hardware business from 1868 to 
 1875 ; was elected City Treasurer of 
 Aurora in 1876, and to show the popu- 
 larity of Mr. Thatcher, he received all 
 the votes cast, excepting 5. Is a staunch 
 Republican ; member of the Methodist 
 Church ; Treasurer of the Board of 
 Trustees of said church ; President of 
 Aurora Bible Association ; one of the 
 Directors of the Union National Bank. 
 His father, Solomon Thatcher, is a native 
 of New York; born Oct. 28, 1806 ; now 
 living in Cook Co., 111. 
 
 TENNEY, S. A., farmer, Sec. 36 ; P. 
 0. Aurora ; was born in New Hamp- 
 shire, in 1823 ; is the son of Amos and 
 Hannah (Cass) Tenney ; his father was 
 born in N. H. in 1794; died in Jan., 
 1849; was a second cousin of Gov. 
 French, of Illinois; his mother was 
 born in N. H. in 1803 ; died in 1867 ; 
 she was a branch of the Lewis Cass and 
 Daniel Webster families. Mr. Tenaey 
 remained at his native State until 1837, 
 where he was engaged in farming and 
 educating himself as an attorney ; he 
 emigrated West with his parents and set- 
 tled in Kendall Co., 111.; he was at one 
 time one of the prominent attorneys at 
 Oswego ; in 1850 he went to California 
 and commenced the practice of law at 
 Mayersville ; remained there two years ; 
 he returned to Kendall Co. and took a 
 very active part in politics ; was a hard 
 worker for the Republican party, and 
 was pronounced as one of the leading 
 influential speakers of that vicinity ; he 
 purchased a farm of 140 acres of fine 
 improved land, and settled in Kane Co. 
 
 in 1865 ; is a Republican in politics, and 
 member of the Episcopal Church. Mar- 
 ried Miss Mary S. Cleveland in 1853 ; 
 she was born in 1834; is a daughter of 
 A. and Nancy Cleveland ; have four 
 children Jessie C.. Nannie J., Lewis 
 S., Frank M. 
 
 Tanner, Gr. W., clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tiffany, Jos., P. Aurora. 
 
 Terry. Richard, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Trover, Miss J. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 TRASK, E. W., jewelry; P. 0- 
 Aurora ; established 1860 ; watchmaker 
 and engraver, and dealer in Swiss and 
 American gold and silver watches; was 
 born in N. Y. in 1838 ; is the son of 
 S. and Jane (Crane) Trask ; he re- 
 mained at his native State until 1853, 
 thence west to Ohio, where he com- 
 menced his first business in life, that 
 in peddling jewelry throughout the 
 State of Ohio ; he saved enough money 
 to start him in business in Aurora in 
 1860, with a stock valued at about one 
 thousand dollars ; to-day he owns one 
 of the finest jewelry establishments in 
 Kane Co., with a stock valued at forty 
 thousand dollars; owns a fine jewelry 
 store at Galesburg. with a stock valued 
 at sixteen thousand dollars ; at both of 
 these stores can be found the finest lines 
 of jewelry, and everything pertaining 
 to this business, all of which are guar- 
 anteed to be found as represented ; Mr. 
 Trask keeps constantly employed from 
 eight to ten salesmen in traveling and 
 selling jewelry throughout Illinois. 
 Married in 1865 to Miss Addie C. Haw- 
 kins, who died in 1877 ; has one daugh- 
 ter, Lillie. 
 
 Thompson, Mrs. M. L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Titsworth, L., Jr., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Turner, Thos., carp.; P. 0- Aurora. 
 
 Thull, Peter, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Tilton. W. H., florist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Townley, E., P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Tobin, Edward, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tubbs, P. S., C. ; B. & Q. R. R., P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Trernain, W. G., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Town, L. F., merchant ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Town, Margaret A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Taft, A. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Tracy. John, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Thompson, Rice, horse dlr. ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Targe, Ernestine, P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 803 
 
 Tennis, Frank, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Town, H. B., insurance agt.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thompson, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thompson, A. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thompson, Charles, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thompson, Seneca, nier. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tapper, W. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thullen, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thomas, J. S., fruit grower ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tighe, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Thullen, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Terry, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Titsworth, Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tyers, John, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tuttle, Daniel, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tranquillite, T., shoemaker ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Tripp, A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Teaboy, John, P. 0. Aurora. 
 T TNFRIED, FRANK, butcher ; P. 0. 
 
 V_J Aurora. 
 
 ' Urie, William, apiarist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ussher, J. F., car repairer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Uhlig, Charles, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ufford, S. R. S., phys.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Underwood, J. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 "YTASBURG, JASPER, conductor; 
 
 \ P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Vaughan, A. P., freight agt., P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 VOLINTINE, DANIEL, cashier 
 
 Second National Bank, President of Au- 
 rora Silver Plate Manufacturing Co. of 
 the firms of Volintine, Lewis & Co. and 
 Volintiue & Case; P. 0. Aurora. The 
 above-named gentleman is one of the 
 best known and highly regarded busi- 
 ness men of Aurora ; he was born in 
 Washington Co., N. Y., in 1813, where 
 he was engaged in the farming and lum- 
 ber business until he emigrated West to 
 Aurora, with his family, in 1853, where 
 he commenced in business, first in buy- 
 ing and selling wool on a large scale, 
 which business he has been very success- 
 ful in. Mr. Volintine has invested con- 
 siderable of his money in farming lands 
 in Sugar Grove and other localities ; he 
 creditably filled the office of Mayor of 
 the city of Aurora in 1875. Socially, 
 he has a pleasing address and genial 
 manners that win the respect of all ; he 
 is a member of the Baptist Church ; 
 his political opinions are independent ; 
 he married Miss Sarah Jane Ruste, 
 daughter of S. Ruste, of New York ; 
 two children living. 
 
 Van Deusen, Peter, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Van Hassel, J. C., watchman ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Van Liew, Mrs. C. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Van Liew, D. F.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 Valentine, C., far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Vermes, Frank, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Vermilya, W., baker; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Valentine, Mrs. A. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Vaughn, Nathan, inspector ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Voleutine, Joel, wool dealer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 VAN LIEW, P. H., M. D.; P 
 
 Aurora. The 'above named gentleman 
 is the son of D. P. Van Liew and 
 Rebbeca (Babcock) Van Liew, of New 
 York ; he was born in New York, in 
 1828; remaining there, until he was 20 
 years of age, engaged in farming and 
 school teaching with his father and fam- 
 ily ; they moved to Clinton, Oneida Co., 
 N. Y., where he remained for four years 
 the first two years, engaged in going 
 to school, and the latter two years in 
 school teaching; in 1852, he emigrated 
 West to Illinois, and settled in Aurora, 
 Kane Co., where he commenced teach- 
 ing in the public schools of Aurora : 
 was Principal of School No. 5, East 
 Side, for two years ; he then com- 
 menced the study of medicine, and 
 graduated at the Western Homeopathic 
 College of Cleveland, Ohio; in 1858, 
 he returned to Aurora, and opened his 
 office in No. 1 Brady's Block, and com- 
 menced the practice of medicine in 
 1858 ; Dr. Van Liew is, to-day, one of 
 the oldest and among the leading and 
 most successful and largely patronized 
 physicians of Aurora. He receives a 
 large first-class practice, being a gen- 
 tleman of acknowledged ability and well 
 educated in the medical profession, as 
 well as reliable in every particular. 
 The Doctor has taught thiriy-s-ix young 
 men in the study of medicine, who, 
 to-day, are practicing the profession of 
 M. D. throughout the country; is a 
 munber of the Homeopathic Medical 
 Association of Illinois ; was President, 
 in 1876 ; also a oiember of the Amer- 
 ican Institute of Homeopathy ; is mem- 
 ber of the Universalist Church ; has 
 always taken an active part, both in the 
 church and Sunday school. Married 
 Miss Mary Hobert, daughter of Daniel 
 Robert, of New York ; four children.
 
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 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 VAN J^LEET, A., proprietor of the 
 Aurora Livery and Omnibus Stables ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Seneca Co., 
 . N. Y., in 1834; came to Aurora in 
 1853; was at one time school teacher 
 in Woodford Co.; his first experience 
 in livery business was in El Paso, 111 ; 
 was for four years connected with the 
 C., B. & Q. II. R., holding positions 
 from trackman up to that of a conduct- 
 or. The Aurora Livery Stables were 
 first established by Joel Jenks, who was 
 Mr. Van Vleet's partner for eight years?. 
 The enterprise that Mr. Van Vleet has 
 always exhibited, together with the able 
 and accommodating manner in which he 
 has ever conducted his livery business 
 and omnibus line, has gained for him a 
 a host of friends, and secured a large 
 trade. He has about thirty head of 
 fine stock, twenty-five top an 1 open 
 baggies, barouches, hacks, two fine 
 hearses, the only ones in the city, two 
 omnibuses, which convey passengers to 
 any part of the city. 
 
 VAN FLEET, ISAAC, P. 0. 
 
 Aurora; is one of the earliest pioneers 
 iu Kane Co.; was born in New Jersey ; 
 for many years he worked on his fath- 
 er's farm ; he received a district school 
 education ; learned the trade of stone- 
 mason and bricklayer ; with his brother 
 Andrew, at the age of 21, he came to 
 Illinois, and located first near Chicago ; 
 thence he came to Kane Co., settling 
 three miles from the present city of 
 Aurora ; in 1833 he claimed between 
 300 and 400 acres of prairie and timber 
 land that lay on both sides of the river ; 
 the prospect was anything but inviting ; 
 wheat was sold at 30c. per bushel ; pork 
 dressed at fl.50 per hundred, etc.; one 
 Winter he lived on fish, and was com- 
 pelled to eat bread from the bran ; the 
 same year of coming he built a log 
 cabin ; a frame building at that 
 time would have been a curiosity ; 
 some years after saw-mills were built 
 rapidly all along the river. Mr. 
 V. is described as a man of rare 
 energy, working his farm in the 
 day time, and worked at plastering 
 nights ; in 1 838 he built a frame build- 
 ing 18x22 ft., a mansion in its time, and 
 still standing ; Mr. Van Fleet was a 
 very successful farmer, and at the time 
 
 of his death owned 300 acres of well 
 improved land in Will, Kankakee, Kane 
 and De Kalb ; eleven years ago he was 
 laid at rest in the beautiful cemetery, 
 situated in West Aurora ; thus passed 
 away a most remarkable man. noted for 
 his untiring energy and unswerving in 
 tegrity, who has added very materially 
 to the present prosperity of Aurora ; 
 twenty years ago his first wife died ; his 
 second wife still survives ; there are four 
 children Elizabeth, Isaac, William and 
 John. 
 
 Vierschilling, Joseph, painter ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Van Alstine, Sim., P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Vaughn, C. H., carpenter; P.O.Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Vaughn, A. R., carpenter ; P. 0. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Vaughn, C. B., Postmaster ; P.O. Mont- 
 gomery. 
 
 Voorhees, Henry, P. 0. Montgomery. 
 
 Veit, Ambrose, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Vogt, Michael, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Vaughn, H. C., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Van Sickle, Lydia, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WEGNER, REV. HENRY, niin.; 
 Aurora. 
 
 Wagner, Chas., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wagner, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilson, Dr. 0., dentist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilson, Arthur, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilson, Wm., Div. M. M.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 "WARD, J. D., mason and bricklayer ; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; he was born in Bethle- 
 hem, near Albany, N. Y., in 1819, and 
 when two year sold moved to Onondaga 
 Co., N. Y.; after his father's death he 
 remained on the farm until fourteen 
 years of age, working hard and getting 
 his education as best he could ; he 
 entered the employ of a cabinet maker, 
 upon the failure of whom he apprenticed 
 himself to a stone mason, and in due 
 time he became a skillful workman. In 
 1837, with a Lrother-in-law, he came to 
 Illinois, passing through Miami Swamp 
 in Ohio ; he came to Joliet, 111., and 
 built the National Hotel there, and 
 many other substantial buildings in the 
 city. In 1838 he came to Aurora; he 
 owns fine property iu Iowa, and also in 
 Aurora. 
 
 Wilson. J. J., postal clerk; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilson, W. M., eng. ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 805 
 
 Wilson, Geo., engineer ; P. < '. Aurora. 
 
 Wilson, Wm., mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Woodruff, P.'L., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wood, Reuben, butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wood, H. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wood, W. K., machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Woods, Dr. G. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Woods, Jno. N., train disp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Woods, W. S., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wood, C. J., railroad soliciting agent; P. 
 0. Aurora. 
 
 WILDER, MRS., widow of Clark 
 Wilder ; was born at New London, 
 Conn., in 1810; was married in 1833, 
 to Clark, at Rossie, St. Lawrence Co., 
 N. Y.; in 1837, Mr. W. decided to come 
 West ; and with his brother, Russel, he 
 settled at Aurora, Illinois, and purchased 
 200 acres ; he returned East and made 
 arrangements to bring his family ; after 
 several weeks of pleasant travel (in their 
 prairie schooner), they reached Aurora, 
 then comparitively a wilderness of prairie ; 
 several years after he purchased the 
 farm, Mr. W. discovered a valuable 
 stone quarry on his land, and the fine 
 residence where Mrs. W. now resides was 
 built from it; Mr. W. died in 1870, 
 after a life of honorable toil ; commencing 
 with nothing but his hands and great 
 force of character, he succeeded when 
 others would have failed. Wm. W. 
 Wilder, a son, enlisted in Co. H, 124th 
 111. Infantry, at Aurora, for three years, 
 in 1862 ; was in many important battles, 
 and while with Gen. Sherman on his 
 march to the sea, was taken prisoner 
 and sent to Andersonville, and died 
 shortly after release. 
 
 WENTWORTH, AUSTIN, re- 
 
 tired farmer ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born 
 in Berkshire Co., Mass.; he worked 
 hard and obtained a good common school 
 education ; moved to Wisconsin in 1846 ; 
 came to Aurora and having some prop- 
 erty, he erected a house, and shortly 
 after exchanged the same for 40 acres 
 of farm land ; he worked the farm six 
 years ; his health then declining, he 
 traded the farm for a house and lot on 
 Lake street ; went to Aurora ; his wife 
 was Sarah Ann Park ; she was born in 
 Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1814 ; they have 
 one child James P., of the firm of 
 Reed & Wentworth, hardware merchants, 
 Aurora. 
 
 Willis, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wolleng, Jno., blksruilh ; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Wildrick, L. M., conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wright, C. A., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wells, H. S., merchant ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilton, Samuel, tailor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Welton, Peter, boots ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Weinang, C., buicher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Welch, Nick, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 WENTWORTH, J. P.. born in 
 Oneida Co., N. Y., May 2, 1836 ; his 
 father was a farmer in good circum- 
 stances, who then lived near the town of 
 Lee, iilass. ; in 1844 his family moved 
 to Wisconsin and settled at Summit, 
 thirty miles from Milwaukee ; in Spring 
 of '47 they came to Aurora ; while 
 here young W. attended the public 
 schools and received a liberal education ; 
 was connected with the Aurora Beacon 
 four years as a compositor ; also became 
 a telegraph operator at Sterling and 
 Rochelle and remained about two years 
 in this capacity ; in 1857 took charge 
 of Aurora telegraph office ; in 1862 
 became fireman on the C., B. & Q. R. 
 R., and in the same year enlisted in ihe 
 89th R. R. Regiment. Co. E, mustered 
 into service in August ; went into camp 
 at Chicago and shortly after went to the 
 front ; received an honorable discharge 
 at Louisville, Ky., June, 1863 ; re- 
 turned to Aurora and became employed 
 as station agent on C., B. & Q. R. R., 
 until he commenced at his present busi- 
 ness Reed & W r entworth, successors 
 to Chas. Weeks & ^o., hardware mer- 
 chants. This firm commenced business 
 the present year. They carry a full 
 line of general hardware, silver-plated 
 ware, tools, stoves, and everything usu- 
 ally found in this line. Aurora 
 boasts of many first-class hardware 
 houses, but we know of none who carry 
 a better line of goods than the above 
 firm. H. B. Read was born in Prussia, 
 Ger., in 1845 ; his parents emigrated to 
 America at an early day, locating first 
 at St. Louis, thence to Princeton, 
 Bureau Co., 111. Here he received a 
 liberal education, and on arriving at 
 maturity he opened a hardware store at 
 New Iowa, and shortly after moved to 
 Des Moines, same State, and began the 
 tinner business ; on Dec. 17, 1877, he 
 came to Aurora.
 
 806 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Welch, Chas., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Waterman, Mrs. M. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Waterman, Eben, engineer ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Watson, W. H., bookstore ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Watson, Thomas, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Walker, S., butcher; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Werner, Wm., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Walt, John, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Warner, A. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wallace, Jason, carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wenkler, Jacob, watchman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Welfare, John, coppersmith ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Wheeler, A. L., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wheeler Henry, clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Whitefield, Geo., picture frames ; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Whitefield, John, cloth finisher; P. O. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Whitman, J. K., gardener; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 WEST, WILLIAM P., retired far.; 
 P. 0. Aurora ; was born in Chenango 
 Co., N. Y., March 11, 1818, and resided 
 there some 18 years ; at this age he 
 started for Carbondale, Pa.; his means 
 were limited to $1.75 ; soon after his 
 arrival he became employed by the Dele- 
 ware & Hudson Canal Co., and remained 
 with them for six years ; in the Spring 
 of 1842 he came to Illinois and settled 
 in Blackberry, Kane Co.; before pur- 
 chasing property he conceived the idea 
 of selecting a superior grade of sheep '' 
 and bringing them to his future home ; | 
 he accordingly started for Preble Co., j 
 0., and Union Co., Ind., and bought 
 800 head of sheep; the average price 
 was 65 cents per head, and the expense 
 of transfer per head was 20 cents ; this 
 was the second flock ever brought into 
 the county ; has owned some seven or 
 eight hundred acres of land, now owns 
 about five hundred ; has always been 
 very successful as a farmer, and while 
 in the township held the offices of Su- 
 pervisor and Highway Commissioner ; 
 was also elected to office of County 
 Treasurer; Mr. W. took the premium 
 for the best cultivated farm in the State, 
 in 1872 ; be retired and came to Aurora 
 and is now enjoying the fruits of his 
 labors. 
 
 White, C. H., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 White, L. J., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 White, J. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 White, J. A., upholsterer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 White, W. L., mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 White, E. W., car inspector ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Ware, Mrs. B. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ware, E., machinist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Ware, John, laborer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wade, J. A., carpenter; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wade, A. F., Street Commissioner; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Wilcox, W. W.. P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WALKE R, JAMES, foreman of the 
 blacksmithing department of the C., B. 
 & Q. R. R., who has filled the position 
 for over twenty-one years ; was born in 
 the State of Delaware in 1834; at the 
 age of 10 years, he went to Detroit ; 
 thence to Chicago, remaining there for 
 three years ; came to Aurora in the 
 Spring of 1857 ; Mr. Walker was elect- 
 ed Mayor of the city of Aurora in 1870, 
 which office he creditably filled ; his fa- 
 ther, William Walker, who emigrated 
 West with him in 1842, is now dead. 
 
 Ward, Maria, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WHITE, FRED O., lumber mer., 
 of the firm of White & Todd, corner 
 of Lake street and Downer place ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; was born in Mass, in 1839 ; 
 in 1857, he came West, and settled 
 in Sugar Grove Township, Kane Co. ; 
 he was engaged in farming until 1861, 
 when he enlisted in the late war in the 
 36th 111. Vol. L, Aug., 1861, for three 
 years ; he was under Gen. Grant, and 
 participated in a number of the most 
 severe battles ; he was honorably dis- 
 charged at Vicksburg, and then was ap- 
 pointed Paymaster's Clerk in the West- 
 ern Department ; he held office until 
 
 1865, when he returned home; in Feb., 
 
 1866, he commenced the lumber busi- 
 ness, which business he has been in 
 ever since ; Mr. White has held many 
 public offices of trust ; he was at one 
 time City Treasurer for one term ; he 
 has been a member of the Board of 
 Township Trustees ; he has been on the 
 Board of Health ; he was a member of 
 the Board of Education ; these offices 
 he has filled with credit and honor to 
 himself, and to the people he has rep- 
 resented ; he is one of the Board of 
 Managers of the Soldiers' Memorial 
 Building.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 807 
 
 Weiler, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wolsfield, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilber, George, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wingate, Saml., car repairer ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Weldon, George, engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Waterhouse, L. H., contractor ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Washburne, H. C., engineer; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Walters, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Walters, Leonard, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Weissenger, Fned, carp ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Weaner, George., stone cutter ; P. 0. Au- 
 rora. 
 
 Webb, Moses, barber; P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Weber, Adam, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wheaton, Chas., atty.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Worst, Chas., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Whottles, Mrs. D. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Whalton, Jas., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wormley, Mrs. L. B., P O Aur.ra 
 
 Wormwood, 0., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Warnick, G. G., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WIN TON, BURR, by trade a car- 
 penter and joiner ; P. 0. Aurora ; born 
 in Schuyler Co., N. Y., in 1801 ; was 
 the second white child born in Schuyler 
 Co., remaining at his native home until 
 he was, at the age of 37 years, engaged 
 in farming and the carpenter business ; 
 hearing so much of the Western coun- 
 try, his brother and sister then living 
 in Illinois, and his father having made 
 a visit West and speaking so favorably 
 of the Western country, he emigrated 
 to Illinois in 1836, settling at Aurora, 
 then only eight families living in the 
 town ; was twenty-one days making the 
 trip from New York to Illinois, coming 
 by water and stage route ; was unani- 
 mously chosen by the people of Aurora 
 as Postmaster, in February, 1837, being 
 the first Postmaster, which office he held 
 fur ten years with honor and credit to 
 himself and the people ; he was married 
 twice, his first wife being Miss Mary 
 Kilburn, of Connecticut, who died Aug. 
 30, 1842, and his second was Arabella 
 S. Long, of Connecticut, born in 18i3 ; 
 two children, Lucius V., born July 9, 
 1829; Jennie A., born Oct. 16, 1839; 
 His father, Samuel Winton, of Con- 
 necticut, was born in 1778 ; his mother, 
 Ruth A. Hinmann, of Connecticut, was 
 born in 1782. 
 
 Warnick, J. B., far ; P. O. Aurora. 
 Williams, J. C., far; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Warner, J. P., far.; P. 0. Aurara. 
 Wickizer, Mary Ann, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wichizer, Jacob, min.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wydert, N. B., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Valentine, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wiltgen, Peter, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wolf, Matt, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weber, Peter, clerk ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Witrie, Jacob, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weber, John, lab ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Welter, Peter, mfr. boots ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wanunda, Peter, far.; P. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Peter, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 WADDELL, JOHN H., far., Sec. 
 
 17 ; P. 0. Aurora ; was born in War- 
 ren Co., N. Y., in 1829 ; is the son of 
 Hugh and Eveline (Waldren) Waddell ; 
 he remained in his native State until 
 1857, engaged in farming ; came West 
 and settled in Du Page Co. ; engaged in 
 farming ; remained there until 1865 ; 
 he then came to Kane Co. and settled 
 on the farm that he now lives on, and 
 has been farming ever since. Married 
 in 1861, to Miss Elizabeth Ward; born 
 1832, daughter of Dr. L. Ward and 
 Lillie Barton Ward, who were among 
 the first settlers in Du Page Co.; her 
 father was the first doctor in that vicinity, 
 having settled in Du Page Co. in 1835; 
 her brother, Geo. Ward was Colonel 
 in the U. S. Army, aud participated in 
 the Blackhawk war ; died in California ; 
 Mr. Waddell's brother, Hon. Robert 
 AVaddell, was born in Johnsburgh, N. 
 Y., July 29, 1833 ; was a member of 
 Assembly in 1864, 1876-77 ; died at 
 Johnsburgh, N. Y., of typhoid pneu- 
 monia, in 1877. 
 
 Ward, John, bowling alley ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wantz, Margaret, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wright, J. H., far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Welter, John, far.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wagner, Theo., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilder, Burt S., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilkie, C. M., dentist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wait, C. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wolfsfeldt, Peter, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wirbrook, Henry, P. O. Aurora. 
 
 Wilder, Lewis, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilder, Mrs. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilder, George, surveyor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilder, Joel, farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wheeler, Mrs. S. H., P. 0. Aurora.
 
 808 
 
 TAX-PAYERS AND VOTERS OF 
 
 Washburn, H. C., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Woodward, Sarah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Willey. Sardis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilkie, Ellen M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilder, Warren, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, J. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilcox, G. R., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilcox, J. T., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Westover, Mrs. H., P. 0. Auaora. 
 Wendler, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weise, Lewis, butcher ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Webster, D. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Westcott, Mary L., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weise, Albert, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wentworth, J. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Welden, John, P. C. Aurora. 
 Ward, J. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Mrs. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilder, Hannah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waterhouse, W. H. mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Walker, E. M., salesman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Walrath, Mrs. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waterhouse, L. M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, G. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilson, James, gardener ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wood, N. B., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilkie, J. L., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilkie, C. A., mer.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wallace, A. F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Webster, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Warren, W. W., engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Watkins, Daniel, engineer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ware. Geo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Woodward, T. D., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Welch, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wolf, Sarah E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wright, Billings, mach.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, Adam, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Worden, R., P. 0. Piano. 
 Walter, G. W., P. O. Aurora. 
 Winandy, Win., fireman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Whitniore, S. P., brakeman ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Webber, F., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Whitfield, John, cloth finisher ; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Wekerlein, S., P. O. Aurora. 
 Warner, Geo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Woodman, Joseph, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Catharine, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilson, 0., dentist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waterman, E. M., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilbur, C. D., P. O. Aurora. 
 Wheeler, Mrs. E. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ware, Edwin, machinist; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Welch, Sarah, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winton, L. B., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Willing, W. C., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waller, Leonard, 2d, P. O. Aurora. 
 Wolf, Frank, bartender ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weminger, Fred., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, N. O., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Welch, Nick., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Webber, H. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weis, Peter, lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, John, conductor ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wood, Julia M., P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, M., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Walker, W., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ward, Matt., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ward, T. H., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wade. Mary, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wisbirke, Chris., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wellin, W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winkler, J., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wormley, Mrs. L. V., P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, Marcus, P. 0. Aurora. 
 White, T. F., carp. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilson, J. H., cutter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilson, Dr. 0., dentist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Fred, lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wescott, J. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Woodruff, Lyman, mason ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wentworth, A., lab. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wright, S. S., cabinet mkr. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weddell, Andrew, blksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winegar, S. L., traveler ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weise, Louis, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wing, Mrs. E., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilkie, J. L., merchant; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waite, C. B., attorney ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, G. F., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilder, Joel, far. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilder, Mrs. Clark, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waterman, D. B., Prest. C. R. & N. R. R.; 
 
 P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Wilkerson, H., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Ward, Mrs. P. Z., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winslow, L. A., phys. ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winchell. W. F., carp.; P. O. Aurora. 
 Weber, Milton, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weber, P. H., lab.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilder, Geo., surveyor; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wensman, H. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weeks, L. F., hardware ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weeks, Chas., hardware ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Winslow, D. C., druggist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 West, W. P., P. 0. Aurora. 
 West, T. W., carp.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weston, L. W., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Williams, Elisha, farmer; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 KANE COUNTY: AURORA. 
 
 809 
 
 Weston, W. H., collector Q-as Co.; P. 0. 
 
 Aurora. 
 
 Westover, Fred, bricklayer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wingler, W., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Waddell, J. H., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weise, N., laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Whatten, James, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weber, Geo., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Welch, Mrs. A., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weidert, N., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Warm, John, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wagner, Nick, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Weidert, N. B., farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Wilcox, Mrs. R. R., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Walker, James, foreman blacksmith dept. 
 
 C., B. & Q. R. R.; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 YAGER, M. D., machinist; P. 0. 
 Aurora. 
 
 Yager, M. H., artist ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Yeldham, W. H., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Young, J. R., farmer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 YOUNG, PELEG, P. 0. Aurora ; 
 was born in Orange Co., Vt., in 1817, 
 remaining there until he was 21 years 
 old ; emigrated West in company with 
 Mr. Royal Case, who is now living in 
 Minn. Mr. Young first settled in Wis., 
 remaining there but a short time ; he 
 came to Rockford, 111. ; there three 
 years, engaged in farming ; then to 
 Sugar Grove, Kane Co., in 1841 ; moved 
 to Aurora and built the residence where 
 he now lives in 1875 ; in 1851. Mr. I 
 Young went East, and married Miss ' 
 Sophronia Boyce, of Vt., daughter of 
 the late Adam Boyce, of N. H. ; died 
 in Blackberry, Kane Co., in 1874, at the 
 age of 85 years ; Mr. Young's father, 
 Nathan Young, was born in Strafford, 
 Vt., in 1791 ; was Orderly Sergeant in 
 the war of 1812 ; also, was a member 
 of the State Legislature from Strafford ; 
 he died in Kaneville, June, 1869. 
 
 Young, Mrs. E. B., P. 0. Aurora. 
 Young, H. C., engineer; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Young, Albert, laborer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Yeedham, W. H., painter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Young, Wm., carpenter ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Young, Wilhelmina, P. 0. Aurora. 
 Young, Eliza, P. 0. Aurora. 
 rVENNER, PAUL, P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Zj 
 
 Ziegler, Michael, foundry ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Zack, Michael, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 Zengerlie, Nick, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 ZIEGLER, J. MICHAEL, brass 
 
 foundry and lock manufactory ; P. 0. 
 Aurora ; was born in Germany in 
 1829 ; emigrated to America and landed 
 in New York in 1854 ; thence to Newark, 
 N. J., where he was engaged in a tool 
 manufactory for eight months ; thence to 
 Aurora, where he commenced the black- 
 smith trade, and remained at this busi- 
 ness for four years ; thence took charge 
 of the lock department of the C., B. & 
 Q. R. R. shops, where he remained six- 
 teen years. When Mr. Ziegler first 
 came to Aurora, he was worth nothing ; 
 had to borrow money to pay his passage 
 to Aurora ; with hard labor he saved 
 enough money to commence business on 
 his own account ; he is now engaged in 
 manufacturing car locks for the C., B. 
 & Q. R. R., having turned out over five 
 thousand locks for that compnny ; he is 
 the patentee of the " car seat lock," 
 which is used on a great many railroads 
 throughout the United States ; he has 
 manufactured over eighty thousand of 
 these locks ; has empl >yed at his shops 
 six hands, where he is prepared to do all 
 kinds of casting. 
 
 Zinmer, John, tinner ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Zinmer, Chris., blacksmith ; P. 0. Aurora. 
 
 Zenner, Stephen, farmer ; P. 0. Aurora.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 AURORA. 
 
 Aurora Carriage Shop (Hale & 
 
 Carpenter, Proprietors), Manufactur- 
 ers of Carriages of all kinds. All 
 Work warranted to give satisfaction 
 and of the latest styles. Cor. Benton 
 and Water sts. 
 
 Auning, Chas., Proprietor of Little 
 Store around the Corner. Dealer in 
 Dry Goods of superior quality. He 
 owns the store he occupies and leads 
 the market in style, quality and price. 
 
 Allen & Corsair, Manufacturers of 
 and Dealers in Sash, Doors, Blinds, 
 Mouldings, Scroll Sawing, Balusters, 
 Newels, etc., etc., No. 4 North La 
 Salle st., adjoining passenger depot. 
 E. C. Allen, David Corsair. 
 
 Brown & SouthWOrth, Attorneys 
 at Law and Solicitors in Chancery, 
 Room No. 1, Coulter Block. S. W. 
 Brown, M. 0. Southworth. 
 
 Gushing, M. A., M. D., Oculist and 
 Aurist. Chronic Diseases a specialty 
 (especially those of the Eye and Ear), 
 Coulter Block, Room 8. 
 
 Crary, Austin B., Banker. 
 
 Denney BrOS., Furniture Dealers and 
 Undertakers, 29 Broadway. 
 
 Durran, John H., Watchmaker and 
 Jeweler, River street. 
 
 DickeS, Jacob, & BrO., Dealers in 
 all kinds of Hard and Soft Coal and 
 Wood. Office, corner La Salle and 
 Spring streets. 
 
 Downey, Cornelius, Grocer and 
 
 Coal Merchant, South River street. 
 
 Douglas, C. T., Contractor and Builder. 
 House Building, Stairs, Hand Railing 
 and Jobbing of all kinds done to order 
 on short notice. Shop, corner Broad- 
 way and Clark street. 
 
 Frazier, Walter S., Breeder of 
 
 Blooded Horses. Mr. Frazier was the 
 owner of Brother Jonathan, and has 
 one of the finest private stables in the 
 
 West, 
 
 Preese, Daniel, Sample Room, 19 
 
 North Broadway. 
 
 Green, G. W., Manufacturer of Bot- 
 tled Soda Water, Seltzer Water and 
 Syrups, Champagne Cider and Belfast 
 Ginger Ale, No. 53 Broadway. 
 
 GriSWOld & Gillett, Proprietors of 
 Aurora Drain Tile and Brick Works, 
 and manufacture Drain Tile of all 
 the various sizes. Well burned and 
 warranted for durability. Works at 
 S. E. corner of City, on Plainfield 
 Road. P. 0. Box, 509. 
 
 GraSS, George, Proprietor of Grass 
 House, corner River and Walnut sts. 
 
 Goldsmith, N., Palace Double Store, 
 8 and 10 Broadway. The leading One 
 Price Clothier, Hatter and Gents' Fur- 
 nisher. I have but one price, and every 
 article is marked in plain figures. Fine 
 Custom Work a Specialty. A Large 
 Assortment of the Finest Imported 
 and Domestic Cloths always in stock. 
 & OtiS, successors to John 
 S. Hawley, Dealers in Dry Goods. 
 Hosiery and Notions, 25 Main street. 
 F. S. Hawley, L. F. Otis. .
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 811 
 
 HobbS, N. R., Manufacturer and 
 Dealer in all kinds of Upholstered 
 Goods, Furniture and Undertaking, 
 No. 36 River street. 
 
 James, P. W., Photographer, corner 
 Downer Place and River. 
 
 Jlldd & Hatch., Dealers in Agricul- 
 tural Implements, Grain and Seeds, 
 foot of Downer Place. A. J. Judd 
 and A. P. Hatch. 
 
 Loser & Egerman, Family Grocers 
 and Dealers in Groceries, Provisions, 
 Wines and Cigars, Flour and Feed, 
 33 River street. 
 
 Lake & Brown, Dealers in Boots, 
 Shoes and Rubber Goods, 50 South 
 River street. 
 
 LIBS, Michael, Notary Public, Con- 
 veyancer and Insurance Agt., Foreign 
 Exchange and Passage. 
 
 Marx, Peter, Dealer in Groceries and 
 Provisions, Crockery, Glassware, Flour 
 and Feed, etc., 44 North Broadway. 
 
 Mix & Plum, Dealers in Lackawanna 
 and all other kinds of Coal. Yard 
 near the West Depot. 
 
 Miller & Sencenbaugh, Dealers 
 
 in Dry Goods. No. 24 So. Broadway. 
 
 Meredith & Morgan, Clothiers, 
 
 River street. 
 
 Odell, Abraham, Manufacturer of 
 the celebrated Odell Wines. 
 
 Olsaver, T. J., Landscape and Orna- 
 mental Painter. 
 
 Pfrangle, ChaS. J., House, Sign and 
 Carriage Painter. Advertising Signs 
 at lowest prices. 
 
 Phillips BrOS. & CO., Dealers in 
 Staple and Fancy Groceries, Crockery, 
 Willow and Stone Ware, Flour, Feed, 
 Fish, Salt, etc., corner River street 
 and Downer place. 
 
 Pond, Dr. P. L., Aurora Cancel- 
 Hospital. Cures Cancers without the 
 use of the Knife or loss of Blood. 
 Is the largest and most complete in- 
 stitution of the kind in the country. 
 
 Richardson, Perkins, Contractor 
 
 and Builder. 
 
 Randall, Chas. D. (successor to 
 
 Randall & Stevens), Shipper of all 
 grades of Moulding Sand and Loam. 
 All orders promptly filled. Banks, at 
 Batavia, and North Aurora, 111. 
 
 Robinson, P. BL, Surgeon Dentist. 
 Every style of work performed and 
 satisfaction guaranteed. The only 
 place where Gas is administered Free 
 of Charge for extracting Teeth with- 
 out pain. Competent Lady Assistant 
 always in attendance. Office hours: 
 from 7:30 to 12 A. M and 1:15 to 6 
 P. M. Over Phillips Bros. 
 
 Rising & Simmons, Manufacturers 
 of and Dealers in Boots and Shoes, 
 35 River street. 
 
 Race, A. L. & CO., Dealers in Dry 
 Goods, River street. 
 
 Roach, J. C. & Son, Proprietors of 
 Park House Livery, Sale and Board- 
 ing Stables. 
 
 Stoddard & Ryan, Manufacturers 
 of and Dealers in Plain, Stamped and 
 Japanned Tin Ware, Silver Plated 
 Ware, Glass Ware and Wire Goods, 
 145 South River street. 
 
 Schaub, Fred., Ice Dealer, Agent for 
 Phil. Best Brewing Co., Milwankee, 
 Wis., cor. Pinney and River streets. 
 
 Stickle & Fritz, Marble and Granite 
 Works, Original Designs a Specialty. 
 Office and Warerooms south of 
 Fitch House. Business established 
 in 1856. 
 
 Spaillding, A., Electropathic Physi- 
 cian. Agent for Dr. Kidder's Cele- 
 brated Electric Machine, Appliances, 
 etc., 128 South Broadway. 
 
 Slaker BrOS., Dealers in Fine Groce- 
 ries, Teas, Coifees and Spices, Yellow, 
 Rockingham, Wood and Willow Ware. 
 Fine Goods a specialty. 37 River st.
 
 812 
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 Standen, George H., Lessee of the 
 
 North Aurora Mills, Manufacturer of 
 Flour and Feed. 
 
 ThorWdTth, J. F., Dealer in Dry 
 Goods, Groceries and Provisions, 27 
 N. Broadway. 
 
 Thorwarth & Pulton, Dealer in 
 Hardware, Glassware and Crockery, 
 Agricultural Implements, Pumps, 
 Nails, Door Trimmings, Edge Tools, 
 Saws and Shelf Hardware, 9 N. Broad- 
 way. 
 
 Tyler, Warren (Successor to Brady 
 & Tyler), Insurance, Loan and Real 
 Estate Agent (No. 2 Empire Block), 
 No. 11 Main street. 
 
 Tabor, Mervin, Special Agent for 
 the Mutual Life Insurance Co. 
 
 Taylor, S. B., Photographer, 43 River 
 street. 
 
 TitUS & Marshall, Dealers in Coffee, 
 Teas and Fine Family Groceries, 54 
 South River street. Highest market 
 price paid for Country Produce. 
 
 Trask, E. W., Jeweler, Broadway and 
 Fox streets. 
 
 Vleet, A., Livery and Omnibus 
 Stables, Nos. 5, 7 and 9 N. La Salle 
 street. The most elegant Carriages, 
 Buggies, Funeral Equipages and best 
 Horses in the city. Omnibus and 
 Baggage Wagon at every train ; and 
 Passengers and Baggage called for in 
 any part of the city. Checks given 
 for baggage at residences or depot. 
 
 Ward, J. D., Stone Mason and Brick- 
 
 layer. 
 White & Todd, Lumber Dealers, cor. 
 
 Lake street and Downer place. Fred 
 
 0. White, L. M. Todd. 
 
 Ziegler, Michael, Lock, Gun, Ma- 
 chine Shop and Brass Foundry. 
 General Casting and Stove Repair- 
 ing promptly done, cor. Fox and 
 Water streets. 
 
 GENEVA. 
 
 Archer, Charles, Editor and Propri- 
 etor of " Kane County Republican." 
 
 Burton, W. J., Proprietor of Geneva 
 Flour Mills. Mill turns out 100 bbls. 
 of Flour per day. 
 
 Bennett BrOS. & COS, Millers and 
 Flour Merchants. 
 
 Curtis, S. W., Coal, Lumber and Grain 
 Merchant. 
 
 Eddowes, J. K., Druggist. 
 
 Gully, Dr. John B., Physician. Is 
 a graduate of the first Hydropathic 
 as also the Hygienic Therapeutic Col- 
 lege of New York. 
 
 Ho Well & Turner, Foundry; Man- 
 ufacturers of " Geneva Hand Flut- 
 ers," Pumps and Wind Mill Castings, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 McWayne, Andrew, Livery and 
 
 Feed Stable. 
 
 Maybome, J. H., Attorney and Coun- 
 selor at Law. 
 
 Ormsbee & Hoy t, Prescription, Drug 
 and Book Store, Hotel Block. 
 
 Webster, W. H., Proprietor of Union 
 Hotel. $2.00 per day. 
 
 Ward, P. P., & Bro., Abstract of 
 
 Titles. 
 
 Webster, Frank, Proprietor of Do- 
 mestic Livery and Feed Stables. 
 
 LODI. 
 
 Adams, H., Carpenter and Builder. 
 BrOWD,R.S.,& CO., Dealers in Lum- 
 ber and Hardware. 
 
 Beverly, Melvin, Carpenter and 
 Builder. 
 
 Clyne, John, Dealer in General Mer- 
 chandise. 
 
 Gale, John, Dealer in Agricultural Im- 
 plements. Agt. for the Gilpin Sulky 
 Plow, etc. 
 
 Kennedy, W. H. H., Attorney at 
 
 Law.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 813 
 
 Keefe, Cullen, Dealer in Live Stock, 
 Agricultural implements, Coal, etc. 
 
 Lathrop & SnOW, Dealers in General 
 Merchandise. 
 
 McNair, Robert, M. D., Physician 
 
 and Surgeon. 
 
 Ormsby, M. M., Carpenter and 
 Builder. 
 
 Smiley & Brown, Druggists and 
 
 Apothecaries, Stationery, Books and 
 Druggists' Sundries. 
 
 Shoop & Hoyt, Dealers in General 
 Merchandise. 
 
 Thompson, J. W., M. D., Physician 
 and Surgeon. 
 
 BATAVIA. 
 
 Anderson, A. R., Merchant Tailor, 
 cor. Wilson and River streets, East 
 Batavia, keeps constantly on hand the 
 largest assortment of Cloths, of the 
 latest styles ; also Ready-made Men's 
 and Boys' Clothing and Furnishing 
 Goods, which he will sell at lowest 
 prices. 
 
 Batavia Manufacturing Co., 
 
 Manufacturers of Wind Mills, Tire 
 Shrinkers and Clamps. Established 
 Sept. 1st, 1877. 
 
 Bucher, C. A., M. D., Physician 
 and Surgeon. Residence North of 
 East Side School Office ; Island Drug 
 Store. 
 
 Cooley, O. E., Agent for the Ameri- 
 can Central Fire Insurance Co., St. 
 Louis; Springfield, Mass., Fire and 
 Marine Insurance Co., and the 
 Phenix of Brooklyn ; also Agent for 
 the Howe Sewing Machine. Office 
 in Fowler's Store. 
 
 Cooper, C. N., Physieian and Surgeon. 
 
 Coming & Earl, Dealers in Gro- 
 ceries, Boots and Shoes. 
 
 Earl, J. S., Money to Loan on Farm 
 Lands, for a term of years, at low 
 rates. 
 
 Fowler, Geo. W., Dealer in Dry 
 Goods, Groceries, Queensware, Hats, 
 Caps, Boots and Shoes. Batavia, 111. 
 
 Grimes, Alex., Collector and -Money 
 Loaner. 
 
 Mair, James, Custom-made Boots 
 and Shoes. Keeps a general assort- 
 ment of Eastern made work of the 
 best quality ; Wilson street. 
 
 Partridge & George, General In- 
 surance Brokerage and Real Estate 
 Agency; Loans negotiated on the 
 most favorable terms. Office on 
 Island. 
 
 Partridge, Geo. C., Proprietor for 
 Kane County of Elastic Soap Stone 
 Roof. 
 
 Sperry, D. R., & Son, Foundry. 
 
 Van Nortwick, J. S., Dealer in 
 Fine Stock. 
 
 Way, Silas, Aparian, and Dealer in 
 Honey and Aparian Supplies. 
 
 Wood, Theo., Dealer in Grain and 
 
 Coal. 
 Young, N. S., Real Estate and Loans. 
 
 BURLINGTON. 
 
 Christiansen, C. E. J., M. D., 
 
 Physician and Surgeon. 
 
 Mann, F., & Co., Manufacturers of 
 Butter and Cheese. 
 
 Mieth, August, Blacksmith. 
 
 Mann, HapgOOd & Co., Dealers in 
 Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots and 
 Shoes and General Merchandise. 
 
 HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Brown & Carlisle, Dealers in Lum- 
 ber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Doors, 
 Sash, Blinds, Pumps and Farm Ma- 
 chinery. 
 
 Coon, W. S., Plasterer and Mason. 
 
 Howe, Chester E., Proprietor and 
 Editor Hampshire Gazette.
 
 814 
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 ROWell, S. C., Dealer in Dry Goods, 
 Clothing, Groceries, Hardware, Medi- 
 cines ; Country Produce taken in ex- 
 change for Goods. 
 
 Parks, CbaS. H., Proprietor Parks' 
 Hotel. 
 
 DUNDEE. 
 
 Buck, A. J., -Agent for the celebrated 
 Atlantic Mills. 
 
 Betge, Charles, Sole Agent in Dun- 
 dee Township for the Inman and Na- 
 tional Steamship Lines. 
 
 BarrOWS, M. S., & CO., Dealers in 
 General Hardware ; full line of Cook 
 Stoves, Tinware, Plows, Cultivators, 
 etc. ; also make best Milk Cans in 
 the market, and manufacture Tin 
 Roofing, Spouting and Guttering ; all 
 done at bottom prices. Also keep on 
 hand full line of Paints, Oils, Paint 
 Brushes, etc. 
 
 Binnie & Roche, Dealers in all kinds 
 of Hard and Soft Lumber, Lath, 
 Shingles, Posts, Doors, Sash, Blinds, 
 Coal, Lime, Hair, Salt, Feed, Seeds, 
 etc., etc. Office near depot. 
 
 Cleveland, E. P., Physician and Sur- 
 geon ; dealer in Pure Drugs and 
 Medicines and Surgeons' Materials; 
 Prescriptions Carefully and Correctly 
 Compounded. 
 
 Chambers, W, Lee, Business Man- 
 ager Dundee Record. 
 
 Clute, W. S., Manufacturer of Boots 
 and Shoes, and Dealer in Leather and 
 Findings. 
 
 Crabtree, L. A., Physician and Sur- 
 geon. 
 
 Dundee Record, E. F. Cleveland, 
 
 Editor and Proprietor. 
 
 Hodge ss, Borden & Co., Dealers 
 
 in all kinds of Hard and Soft Lum- 
 ber, Lath, Shingles, Doors, Sash, 
 Blinds, Coal, Lime, Hair, Salt, Feed, 
 Seeds, etc. Office near depot, East 
 Side. 
 
 Hill, W. P., Proprietor of the Com- 
 mercial Hotel. 
 
 Hunt, H. E., Dealer in Staple and 
 Fancy Dry Goods, Clothing, Groceries, 
 Boots and Shoes, etc., HunC's Block. 
 
 Haverkampf, P. H., Dealer in Dry 
 Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Boots 
 and Shoes, Hats and Caps ; also Live 
 Geese Feathers. 
 
 Haverkampf, H. P., Manufacturer 
 and Dealer in all kinds of Furniture ; 
 also all kinds and sizes of Coffins and 
 Caskets. Store Room, East Dundee, 
 near depot. 
 
 Illinois Iron and Bolt CO., Man- 
 ufacturers of the celebrated Vulcan 
 Anvils. 
 
 Kelley, Thomas B., Stone Mason, 
 
 Plasterer, Builder, Raiser, etc. 
 Kibby, A. C., Carpenter and Joiner. 
 Morton, ChaS., Wagon Maker; also 
 
 Horseshoeing and Jobbing. Near 
 
 depot. 
 Mason, J. P., Proprietor of Walnut 
 
 Grove Creamery. 
 
 Morton House, West of Depot ; the 
 Proprietor and Hostess will spare no 
 . pains to make the hotel the most de- 
 sirable and commodious for business 
 men upon the road ; Sample Rooms 
 will be furnished to traveling sales- 
 men. 
 
 Nolte, Charles, Proprietor of Spring 
 Mills. 
 
 Nolte, A., East Main street, Manufac- 
 turer and Dealer in Boots and Shoes, 
 Gaiters, Rubbers and Slippers ; Re- 
 pairing done neatly and cheaply; all 
 work warranted. 
 
 Oatman, J,, & Sons, Dealers in 
 Drugs, Medicines and Chemicals, and 
 Proprietors of Oak Lawn Creamery 
 and Dealers in Holstein Cattle, also 
 Poland, China and Berkshire Hogs. 
 
 Richards, Henry, Boot and Shoe 
 
 Manufacturer.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 815 
 
 Torrence, Hiram G., Dealer in 
 
 Groceries, Crockery and Notions. 
 
 Taylor, GeO. P., Cabinet Maker, Fur- 
 niture Dealer and Undertaker. 
 
 Voorhees, John, Manufacturer of and 
 Dealer in Harness, Saddles, Collars, 
 Bridles, Whips, Halters, Combs, 
 Brushes, etc. ; Repairing done neatly 
 and cheaply ; all Work Warranted. 
 
 Wardle, James, Proprietor Dundee 
 House ; Good Stables ; Charges are 
 reasonable. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 DeLancy, J. H., Dealer and Breeder 
 of Norman Horses and Berkshire 
 Hogs, N. W. Corner of St. Charles j 
 Township. 
 
 Duff, JaS. W., Carpenter and Builder, | 
 Dundee Township. 
 
 Duff, John W., Stock Dealer and j 
 * Buyer ; Makes a Speciality of deal- 
 ing in Milch Cows, Dundee Township. 
 
 Dunham, Mark W., is the largest 
 
 Importer of the Percheron-Norman 
 Horse in the United States. Those 
 wishing to purchase a fine Norman 
 will find a large number to select 
 from ; Du Page Co., 111. 
 
 Fortune, Chas. C., Cheese Manu- 
 facturer ; Manages Factory of J. P. 
 Mason, Dundee Township. 
 
 Hyland, Patrick, Blacksmith, Car- 
 pentersville. 
 
 Jones, Daniel W., Blacksmith, 
 
 Horseshoeing and Repairing, Blunt. 
 Johnson, D. D., Proprietor of Cream- 
 ery and Manufacturer of Butter and 
 Cheese, at lowest price, Blackberry 
 Township. 
 
 Jackson, E. V., Cheese Factory and 
 Flour and Feed Mill, Sec. 5 Virgil 
 Township. 
 
 Kelly, John, Dealer in Dry Goods, 
 Groceries, Drugs, Oils, Boote, Shoes, 
 Notions, Stationery and General Mer- 
 chandise. Highest Price Paid for 
 Country Produce, Gilbert's Station. 
 
 Kershaw, A., Breeder of the finest 
 stock of Short Horns, for Milk and 
 Beef. Having cultivated the milk- 
 producing strains, as his own Cows 
 will show, those wishing to improve 
 their stock are invited to call and ex- 
 amine, Wayne, Du Page Co., 111. 
 
 Marvin, Robert J., Contractor and 
 Builder, Grouse. 
 
 Osbom, GeO. L., Dealer and Broker 
 in all kinds of Live Stock, Kaneville 
 Township. 
 
 Pingree, Dr. D., Thankful for all fa- 
 vors, respectfully asks his patrons to 
 settle all demands he holds against 
 them. Residence and Office: N. E. 
 Plato. 
 
 Rhodes Bros., Dealers in General 
 Merchandise, Big Rock Township. 
 
 Sugar Grove Normal and In- 
 dustrial School, Sugar Grove 
 Township, Frank H. Hall, Principal. 
 Courses of Study : The Industrial 
 Course embraces all those studies 
 usually taught in High Schools, ex- 
 cept Latin, French and German. 
 Among other branches that receive- 
 attention are Chemistry of the Farm 1 
 and Farm Products, Farm Bookkeep- 
 ing, The Management of Milk in 
 Butter-making, Animal Husbandry, 
 and Practical Entomology. 
 
 Wright, S. N., Dealer and Breeder of 
 pure Holstein Cattle and Chester 
 White Hogs, St. Charles Township. 
 
 Wanzer & Eatinger, Cheese Man- 
 ufacturers, Dundee Township.
 
 816 
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 KANEVILLE. 
 
 Gary, B. & A., Proprietors of Kane- 
 ville House, Stage Line and carriers 
 of the United States daily Mail be- 
 tween Kaneville and Blackberry Sta- 
 tion. 
 
 Hardy, H. T., M. D., Physician and 
 Surgeon. 
 
 Perry, Frank, Dealer in Dry Goods 
 and Groceries, Boots and Shoes, and 
 Hardware. 
 
 Ravlin, John E., Proprietor of Meat 
 Market. 
 
 Samuels & Needham, Blacksmiths 
 
 and Machinists. Horse-shoeing and 
 Job Work done expeditiously, and all 
 kinds of machinery repaired in the 
 best possible style. 
 
 Scott, J. H., Dealer in General Mer- 
 chandise. 
 
 BLACKBERRY STATION. 
 
 Cobb, A. C., Spring Creek Creamery, 
 Blackberry Township ; Manufactures 
 best qualities of Cheese and Butter at 
 lowest rates. The patronage of the 
 public is solicited and satisfaction 
 guaranteed. 
 
 Clark, Thomas, Miller, and Proprie- 
 tor of Planing-Mill. 
 
 Gray & Warne, General Merchan- 
 dise. 
 
 Hunter, W. R. S., Attorney, Real 
 Estate and Insurance. 
 
 McNair & Lewis, Drugs, Groceries, 
 Crockery, etc. 
 
 Read, L. R., Banking and Real Estate. 
 
 Willis, Swain & White, Dealers 
 
 in Stock, Grain, Hay, Coal and Agri- 
 cultural Implements. 
 
 ST. CHARLES. 
 
 Adams & PierSOnS, Grocery and 
 Provision Store. Buys and sells all 
 kinds of Produce ; pays the highest 
 price in cash and sells for the same. 
 Store on East Side. 
 
 Crawford, H. M., M. D., practices 
 
 in this and adjoining counties as 
 Counsel and in Surgical Operations. 
 
 Conklin, W. G., Miller and Grain 
 Dealer. 
 
 Colton, Moses W., Dealer in and 
 Breeder of Ayrshire Cattle, two 
 miles west of St. Charles. 
 
 Coleman, Sumner, Dealer in the 
 finest Vermont Merino Sheep, and 
 Berkshire and Chester White Hogs. 
 Farm near South Elgin. 
 
 Gallagher, T. J., Manufacturer and 
 Dealer in the only File adapted to 
 all kinds of Hard and Soft Metals, such 
 as Lead, Hard and Soft Steel, etc. 
 These files are of his own invention, 
 and when once used take the place 
 of all others. 
 
 HulS, Hugh, Dealer in Grain, Feed, 
 Coal, etc. 
 
 Haines, Robt. J., Merchant Miller. 
 
 Hunt, B. T., Hardware Merchant. 
 
 Klink, Louis, Manufacturer of all 
 kinds of Wagons, Buggies and Car- 
 riages. ' Call and see him. 
 
 MattiSOn, Wm. M., Dealer and 
 Shipper of Pork, Veal and Poultry. 
 Highest price paid for the same. 
 
 Minard, Chas, I., Lumber Dealer. 
 
 Nichols, A. J., General Auctioneer. 
 
 Phillips, E. P., Dealer in Farm 
 Machinery, Hard and Soft Coal, and 
 Iron and Wood Pumps. 
 
 Rockwell, H. T., Farmer and In- 
 surance Agent. Represents several 
 of the leading Fire Insurance Com- 
 panies. 
 
 Ryan, T. E., Attorney at Law. 
 
 Switzer, Martin, Manufacturer of 
 Butter and Cheese, at his Factory. 
 
 Wheeler, H. N., Editor and Pub- 
 lisher of the St. Charles Leader. 
 
 WilCOX, Sam'l L., Real Estate 
 Dealer.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 817 
 
 UDINA. 
 
 Bean, Charles F., General Stock of 
 Merchandise, consisting chiefly of 
 Groceries, Crockery, Notions, Boots 
 and Shoes. 
 
 Grow, Freeman, Biacksmithing 
 
 and all kinds of Repairing promptly 
 . attended to. Repairing Plows a 
 Specialty. 
 
 SOUTH ELGIN. 
 
 Becker, D. C., Practical Miller and 
 Millwright. Orders solicited for all 
 kinds of Mill Machinery. Plans 
 furnished for improved methods of 
 Bolting and best dress for Millstones. 
 
 Hoag, Charles, Dealer in Groceries, 
 Notions, Boots and Shoes, Crockery, 
 Hats and Caps, and all other Mer- 
 chandise usually kept in a general 
 stock. 
 
 Mitchell, Henry J., Manufacturer 
 of Cheese Boxes. 
 
 Panton, V. W., Proprietor of Panton's 
 Mills, and Manufacturer of Cheese 
 Boxes and Butter Tubs, Clintonville. 
 
 Ulsaver, Stephen, Dealer in Stone 
 
 and Lime. 
 Works, George, Dealer in Dry Goods, 
 
 Groceries, Crockery, Hats, Caps, Boots, 
 
 Shoes, Notions, etc. 
 Wright, Charles, Wagon Maker and 
 
 Blacksmith. 
 
 ELGIN. 
 
 Adler, L., Dealer in Men's, Boys' and 
 Children's Clothing, Hats, Caps, | 
 Gents' Furnishing Goods, Trunks and 
 Valises. Also Imported and Do- 
 mestic Cigars, Tobaccos and Smokers' 
 Articles, No. 2 Town's Block, Foun- 
 tain Square. 
 
 Barclay, D. F. (successor to Mallery ; 
 & Co.), Hardware Dealer and Manu- 
 facturer of Cheese Vats, Steam Boil- 
 ers, Engines and Dairy Supplies. [ 
 
 Baldwin, L. A , & CO., Dealers in 
 Merchant's Gargling Oil and Mer- 
 chant's Worm Tablets, Drugs, Medi- 
 cines, Chemicals, Fancy and Toilet Ar- 
 ticles, Soaps, Brushes, Sponges, Per- 
 fumery, etc., etc. Physicians' Prescrip- 
 tions carefully compounded, and orders 
 answered with care and despatch. 
 Farmers and physicians from the 
 country will find our stock of medi- 
 cines complete, warranted genuine, 
 and of the best quality. L. A. Bald- 
 win, A. B. Fish. 
 
 Becker, J. H., Justice of the Peace. 
 Special Attention given to Collecting 
 and Conveyancing. Money Loaned. 
 Marriage Licenses Issued. Office, 
 Room 4 Bosworth Block. P. 0. 
 Drawer No. 30. 
 
 BoSWOrth Bros. & Peck, Whole- 
 sale and Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, 
 Notions, Carpetings, Oil Cloths, Live 
 Geese Feathers, Furs, etc. Every- 
 thing usually found in a first-class 
 Dry Goods and Carpet Store. Bos- 
 worth Block, Fountain Square. 
 
 Botsford & Barry, Attorneys at 
 Law, Town's Block. 
 
 BoSWOrth, F. S., General Stock of 
 Hardware, Stoves and Tinware ; 
 Manufacturer of and Dealer in Dairy 
 Apparatus, Comprising, in part, Fac- 
 tory Vats, Steam Boilers, Engines, 
 Churns, Milk Cans, Weighing Cans, 
 Press Screws, Curd Knives, Test- 
 ing Instruments, etc. Complete Fac- 
 tory Outfits a Specialty, and very 
 Favorable Terms Made. Store at 
 No. 11 Chicago Street. 
 
 Borrman, Theo. F., Florist; Pro- 
 prietor of Riverside Green-House, 
 Grove avenue ; House and Bedding 
 Plants, Bouquets, Wreaths, Crosses, 
 and all kinds of Decorations furnished 
 at short notice. Finest Stock of 
 Winter Flowering Plants.
 
 818 
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 Burlingame, D. E., M. D., Phy- 
 sician and Surgeon. Office and 
 Residence, cor. Du Page and Center 
 streets. 
 
 Chapman, S. & S. W., Proprietors 
 Elgin City Mill?, and Dealers in 
 Grain, Flour and Mill Stuffs. 
 
 C his holm, O. P., Attorney at Law. 
 Rooms 1 and 2 Martin Block. 
 
 Cheap Charley (C. Bachrach), Fash- 
 ionable Clothier and Dealer in Gents' 
 Furnishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, 
 Caps, Trunks, Traveling Bags . and 
 Valises ; also Clothes made to Order. 
 No. 15 Douglas avenue. 
 
 Christie, W. J.,' Dealer in Staple and 
 Fancy Groceries, Provisions, Flour, 
 Crockery, etc., No. 64 Chicago st. 
 
 Clifford, Eugene, Attorney at Law, 
 Solicitor in Chancery and Notary 
 Public. Office in Bosworth's Block, 
 Fountain Square. 
 
 Christie, Will J., Publisher and Pro- 
 prietor of the Daily Bluff City, 
 of Elgin ; a paper devoted to local 
 and general news. This was the first 
 daily newspaper published in Kane 
 County. Has a circulation of about 
 850, and constantly increasing. All 
 kinds of Job Work promptly and 
 neatly done at this office, on reason- 
 able terms. 
 
 Clark, Dr. A. L., Physician and Sur- 
 geon. Office at residence, corner 
 Spring and Division streets. 
 
 COX & Knott, Dealers in Staple and 
 Fancy Groceries, Crockery and Glass- 
 ware. Fine Teas a Specialty. Terms 
 Cash. River street. 
 
 Deano, C. P., Groceries, corner of 
 River and Prairie streets. 
 
 DeniSOn, H. H., Dealer in Books, 
 Stationery and Fancy Goods, Home 
 Bank Corner. 
 
 Eaton, L. S., Dealer in Lumber, Lath, 
 Shingles and Posts. Terms, Cash. 
 Office and yard, near corner of Main 
 and Bridge streets, West Side. 
 
 Elgin Board Of Trade meets every 
 Tuesday, at 12 M., and closes at 4 
 P. M. Bulletin Board Announce- 
 ments show the prices of many of 
 the leading markets, both in this 
 country and Europe. 
 
 Elgin City Banking Company. 
 
 Officers : J. A. Carpenter, Pres- 
 ident ; Lyman Black, Vice Pres- 
 ident; S. S. Mann, Cashier; M. C. 
 Town, Manager. 
 
 Elgin Printing CO., Editors and 
 Publishers of The Daily News. 
 Established June 17, 1876. Daily 
 Herald consolidated with News Oct. 
 30, 1877, making the most widely 
 circulated paper and best Advertising 
 Medium in the city. The best ap- 
 pointed Job Office in Elgin. Over 
 1,000 Cartoon and Business Cuts. 
 Jewelers' Printing a Specialty. 
 
 Fay, Elbridge E., Stock Dealer and 
 Shipper. Has made this business 
 a specialty for the last fifteen years, 
 always paying the highest market 
 price for all kinds of Live Stock. 
 
 First National Bank of Elgin. 
 
 Capital, $100,000 ; Surplus, $20,000. 
 I. C. Bosworth, President ; A. C. 
 Fuller, Vice President ; M. C. Town, 
 Cashier; A. C. Hawkins, Assistant 
 Cashier. 
 
 Fehrman, Fred., Dealer in Dry 
 Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Boots 
 and Shoes, No. 17 Douglas avenue. 
 
 Gould, C. W., Manufacturer of Home 
 Creamery Butter, and Wholesale 
 Dealer in Butter and Cheese. Orders 
 Solicited.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 819 
 
 Gieske, John H., Owner and Pro- 
 prietor of the American House. No. 
 24 South River street. Transient 
 Guests will find First- Class Accom- 
 modations, and at Gieske's Restau- 
 rant, connected with the House, 
 Refreshments at all hours. Oysters 
 in every style, on short notice. 
 
 Grote & Ettner, General Stock of 
 Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, 
 Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, 19 
 Douglas avenue. 
 
 Harvey, GeO. P., Fire, Life and 
 Accident Insurance Agent. Rep- 
 resents the following reliable Fire j 
 Companies : ^Etna, of Hartford ; 
 Springfield F. and M., of Springfield, 
 Mass. ; Rhode Island Insurance Associ- 
 ation, of Providence, R. I., and Man- 
 hattan, of N. Y. 
 
 Hawthorne, Geo. E., & Bro., 
 
 Dealers in General Hardware, Tin- 
 ware, Milt Cans and Dairy Goods ; 
 also a full line of Builders' Hardware 
 constantly on hand. Farming Tools, 
 Clinton Wire Cloth, Stoves, etc., at 
 less than Chicago prices. Examine 
 our stock and prices. We are 
 also Agents for the celebrated Glid- 
 den Patent Barbed Wire. Dubois 
 Block. 
 
 Hoagland, W. K., Dealer in Books 
 and Stationery, Gold Pens, Pictures, 
 Frames, Toys and Albums, Perfum- j 
 ery, Fancy Goods, Brackets, Photo- 
 graphs, etc. No. 4 Town's Block, I 
 Fountain Square. 
 
 Hunter, W. J,, & Co., Dealers in 
 Coal, Wood and Brick. Office, Dex- 
 ter avenue. 
 
 Illinois Condensing Company, 
 
 H. L. Borden, Superintendent. 
 
 Illinois Northern Hospital for 
 the Insane at Elgin; E. A. 
 
 Kilbourne, M. D., Superintendent. 
 Before taking a patient to the Hos- 
 pital, parties should see that all the 
 formalities of the law have been com- 
 plied with, without which even the 
 Certificate of Admission may be un- 
 availing. 1. A copy of the jury ver- 
 dict must be known to be at the Hos- 
 pital, or must accompany the patient. 
 2. Patients must always be sent by 
 , Sheriff's warrant. The friends of 
 patients should always bear the war- 
 rant when they desire so to do. 
 The verdict and warrant should both 
 bear the county seal. 4. In all cases 
 (paupers, so declared in the verdict, 
 excepted), the bond required in the 
 law shall be presented with the other 
 papers. It shall, besides the princi- 
 pal, have two sureties, and shall bear 
 the certificate of the County Clerk or 
 a Notary Public, under seal, to the 
 effect that either of the sureties is 
 responsible for all the conditions of 
 the bond. No female patient should 
 ever be sent to the Hospital, except 
 when attended by her husband or 
 nearest relative, unless accompanied 
 by one of her own sex. 
 
 Jackman & Blackmer, Founders 
 
 and Machinists; Manufacturers of 
 Engines, Horse Powers, Corn.Shellers, 
 Wood Lathes, etc. All kinds machin- 
 ery Repaired on short notice. Small 
 Castings a Specialty. Shops and 
 Foundry on River street, second door 
 north of Woolen Factory Block. 
 JenckS, D. R., & Co., General Fire, 
 Life and Accident Insurance, Real 
 Estate and Loan Agency, over Home 
 Bank. Oldest agency in the city. 
 $20,000,000 solid assets to back us. 
 Fair settlements ; prompt payments. 
 Agents Cunard Steamers. Fire, Life, 
 Accident, Marine.
 
 820 
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 Johnson, Duncan, Proprietor of 
 the following Butter and Cheese Fac- 
 tories : Plato Center Factory, White 
 Clover Brand of Butter ; Gray Wil- 
 low Factory, Cold Spring Brand of 
 Butter ; Johnson Factory, in Bur- 
 lington Township, White Clover 
 Brand of Butter. The product of 
 the above factories is over 1,000,000 
 Ibs. of cheese and 160,000 Ifos. of 
 butter. 
 
 Keogll, Edward, Editor and Pro- 
 prietor of the Elgin limes, at present 
 the leading Democratic and Green- 
 back paper in Kane County. All 
 kinds of Job Work promptly and 
 neatly executed at this office. 
 
 Kelly & Hart, Central Drug Store, 
 Wholesale and Retail Dealers irf 
 Drugs, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall 
 Paper, etc. Prescriptions carefully 
 compounded. 
 
 King, H. & W. D., Successors to 
 Geo. B. Adams, Jewelers. Largest 
 Stock of Fine Goods in the City. 
 No. 38 Chicago street. 
 
 Kim ball & NiSCh, the Oldest Hard- 
 ware Store in Elgin, Dealers in Hard- 
 ware and Manufacturers' Supplies. 
 Milk Cans and other Dairy Goods a 
 Specialty. Jobbing of every kind 
 well and quickly done. Corner Main 
 and Bridge streets, West Elgin. 
 
 LOUCkS, T. C., & CO., Dealers in 
 Lumber, Lath and Shingles, Posts 
 and Pickets. Office and Yard at C. 
 & P. Depot. 
 
 Llind Brothers, Manufacturers of 
 and Wholesale Dealers in Pure Can- 
 dies, Ice Cream and Soda Water. 
 Also choice Confectionery. Fruits, 
 Nuts, Cigars, etc., No. 46 Chicago st. 
 Oyster Stews and Fresh Oysters by 
 the Can, in their season. 
 
 Mann & Sherwin, Wholesale Deal- 
 ers in Butter and Cheese, Salt, Fac- 
 tory and Dairy Supplies. Cheese a 
 Specialty. Hoagland's Block. Ref- 
 erence First National Bank. 
 
 Marshall, GeO. P., Carpenter and 
 Builder. Farm Buildings and Cheese 
 Factories a Specialty. Residence, 
 
 Sec. 27. 
 
 Muntz, Henry, Saddler and Harness 
 Maker. A fine stock of Trunks, Har- 
 ness, Collars, Whips, Curry Combs, 
 Blankets, Sheets, Fly Nets, Chamois, 
 Sponges, etc., always on hand. Fine 
 Harness a Specialty. Repairing of 
 all kinds promptly attended to. Cor. 
 of Brook and Division sts. 
 
 Newman & Thompson, Proprie- 
 tors of Spring Brook Creamery, lo- 
 cated six miles southwest of Elgin. 
 The product of this institution is 
 about 350,000 Ibs. of Cheese and 50,- 
 000 Ibs. of Butter per annum, and al- 
 ways brings the highest market price. 
 
 Newman, John, Wholesale and Re- 
 tail Dealer in Staple and Fancy Dry 
 Goods and Groceries. The Old Re- 
 liable Tea, Coffee and Spice House. 
 Fine Cheese and Creamery Butter, 
 Specialties. Proprietor of Spring 
 Brook Creamery. 
 
 Price, A, E., Sculptor. Manufacturer 
 and Dealer in Marble, Granite and 
 Building Stone. Importer of Scotch 
 Granite direct from Aberdeen. 23 
 River street, Fountain Square. 
 
 Ranstead, John W., Attorney at 
 Law. 
 
 Rippberger, Charles, Dealer in 
 
 Groceries, Flour, Crockery, Glassware, 
 Boots and Shoes. 
 
 Rue, Ezra, Attorney at Law and No- 
 tary Public, Room No. 6 Town's 
 Block.
 
 BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 
 
 821 
 
 SaunderS, William, Restaurant and 
 Sample Room, No. 14 Chicago street. 
 
 Schlager & Flinn, Dealers in Gro- 
 ceries, Provisions, Boots and Shoes, 
 Main street. 
 
 SchultS & TodSOD, Wholesale and 
 Retail Dealers in Dry Goods, Carpets 
 and Oil. Cloths. 
 
 Sherman & Gerlach, Photograph- 
 ers, No. 30 Chicago st. Children's 
 Pictures a Specialty. 
 
 Smailes, William, Jr., with Smailes 
 
 & Son, Merchant Tailors, No. 13 
 Fountain Square. 
 
 Stone, R. R., Manufacturer and Whole- 
 sale Dealer in Factory Butter and 
 Cheese ; Creamery Butter a specialty. 
 
 Stowe, Ii. S., Dental Rooms, Office over 
 Hemmens & Jones, No. 36 Chicago 
 street. Dr. 0. S. Adams, operator. 
 
 Stone & Gibbons, Wholesale Deal- 
 ers in Factory Butter and Cheese ; 
 Manufacturers of Butter Tubs, Pails 
 and Cheese Boxes, and Wholesale 
 Dealers in Cheese Box and Butter 
 Tub Stock. 
 
 Taylor, S. L., Printer and Publisher; 
 Proprietor Elgin Advocate. General 
 Book and Job Printing and Binding ; 
 14, 16 and 18 River street. 
 
 Todd, William G., Manufacturer of 
 Barometers, and Publisher of Weather 
 Calendar. 
 
 Warren, Fred. W., Proprietor of the 
 
 Riverside Billiard Hall, and Dealer 
 in Imported and Domestic Cigars and 
 Tobacco, first door east of the bridge, 
 Chicago street. 
 
 Weld, R. & S. E., Dealers in Drugs, 
 Medicines, Chemicals, Paiats, Oils, 
 Varnishes, Glass, Wall Paper and 
 Hangings, Fine Soaps, Perfumery and 
 Dye Stufis, corner Chicago street and 
 Fountain Square. 
 
 Weightman & Plant, Dealers in 
 Groceries, Provisions, Crockery, etc. 
 We will make it an object for those 
 paying cash to give us a call. No. 53 
 Chicago street. 
 
 Weld, N. A., Physician and Sur- 
 geon. Special attention paid to dis- 
 eases of Females and Children, and 
 Chronic Diseases generall}'. Resi- 
 dence, No. 5 College street, in the 
 second block south of the Academy. 
 Private office over R. & S. E. Weld's 
 drug store. 
 
 Willis, Henry B., Attorney at Law, 
 Solicitor in Chancery and Notary 
 Public. Office with Judge Ranstead, 
 Lynch's Block, West Side. 
 
 Wing, W. H., Attorney at Law. 
 Money to Loan, and Collections 
 promptly attended to. Office, over 
 First National Bank. 
 
 WilCOX, William H., Attorney and 
 Counselor at Law. Office, Rooms 5 
 and 6, Town's Block.
 
 A TABULAR STATEMENT SHOWING THE TOTALS OF THE FOOTINGS 
 
 OF REAL ESTATE, TOWN LOTS AND PERSONAL 
 
 OF ILLINOIS, AND THE GRAND TOTALS OF 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 IMPROVED LANDS. 
 
 UNIMPROVED LANDS. 
 
 RAILROAD LANDS. 
 
 1 
 TOTAL LANDS. 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Acres. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Aurora 
 Batavia 
 Big Rock 
 Blackberry .. 
 Burlington... 
 Camp ton 
 Dundee 
 Elgin 
 
 17996 81 
 10454 91 
 20616 00 
 21251 19 
 16371 07 
 22269 11 
 22566 71 
 18510 57 
 9479 74 
 22672 73 
 21780 14 
 20548 84 
 19229 98 
 21467 51 
 21640 06 
 22173 18 
 
 309028 55 
 
 8600480 
 209413 
 616777 
 502725 
 177854 
 448570 
 593609 
 628385 
 307434 
 452676 
 476756 
 387310 
 290334 
 579514 
 491520 
 324185 
 
 7187542 
 
 $33 36 
 29 59 
 29 92 
 23 66 
 10 86 
 20 14 
 26 30 
 33 95 
 32 43 
 19 96 
 21 89 
 18 84 
 15 lOi 
 27 00' 
 22 71 
 14 62 
 
 23 26J 
 
 716 85 8 20535 
 388 72 8797 
 1638 88 41423 
 704 92 10080 
 5109 12 51397 
 
 828 50 
 22 62 
 25 27 
 14 29 
 10 00 
 
 52 72 
 3 02 
 
 81960 
 126 
 
 $37 00 
 42 00 
 
 i 18766 38 
 10846 65 
 ! 22244 88 
 21956 11 
 ! 21480 19 
 22269 11 
 22606 71 
 18588 20 
 9479 74 
 22915 73 
 22421 40 
 21221 33 
 22907 58 
 21630 50 
 22306 12 
 22173 17 
 
 323823 81 
 
 8622975 
 318336 
 658200 
 502805 
 229251 
 448570 
 594209 
 634278 
 307434 
 457718 
 486467 
 399380 
 321118 
 582184 
 501170 
 324185 
 
 7398280 
 
 $33 1!) 
 29 34 
 29 59 
 23 36 
 10 68 
 20 14 
 26 28 
 34 12 
 32 43 
 19 97 
 21 69 
 18 82 
 14 02 
 26 93 
 22 47 
 14 62 
 
 22 84 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 40 00 
 69 21 
 
 600 
 5718 
 
 15 00 
 82 87 
 
 
 
 
 842 
 
 175 
 
 21 87 
 
 Geneva 
 Hampshire... 
 Kaneville ... 
 Plato 
 
 243 00 
 641 26 
 672 49 
 3665 25 
 122 74 
 666 06 
 
 5042 
 9711 
 12070 
 30698 
 2118 
 9650 
 
 20 74 
 15 15 
 17 96 
 8 37 
 17 22 
 14 49 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 Rutland 
 St. Charles.. 
 Sugar Grove. 
 Virgil 
 
 12 35 
 40 25 
 
 86 
 552 
 
 7 12 
 13 80 
 
 
 
 
 County 
 
 14678 50 
 
 207839 
 
 14 16 
 
 116 76' 2899 
 
 24 78 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 HORSES. 
 
 NEAT CATTLE. 
 
 MULES AND ASSES. 
 
 SHEEP. , 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 AT. Val. 
 
 Aurora 
 Batavia 
 Big Rock 
 Blackberry .. 
 Burlington... 
 Campton 
 Dundee 
 Elgin 
 
 1105 
 572 
 610 
 568 
 472 
 607 
 601 
 1072 
 405 
 633 
 775 
 620 
 592 
 801 
 669 
 494 
 
 10696 
 
 844470 
 15700 
 18061 
 20710 
 19369 
 22703 
 23955 
 39350 
 13115 
 17884 
 26625 
 16501 
 22071 
 29780 
 21129 
 16570 
 
 367993 
 
 840 24 
 27 45 
 29 61 
 36 46 
 41 03 
 37 40 
 39 86 
 36 70 
 32 38 
 28 25 
 34 35 
 26 61 
 37 28 
 37 18 
 31 58 
 33 54 
 
 34 73 
 
 2045 
 1445 
 2582 
 2402 
 2196 
 2707 
 4130 
 3059 
 1001 
 3158 
 2356 
 2484 
 2937 
 3010 
 2647 
 2288 
 
 40447 
 
 829260 
 18050 
 28989 
 31117 
 29189 
 46971 
 55586 
 48348 
 17262 
 29233 
 29577 
 32324 
 41611 
 41022 
 31802 
 24874 
 
 534215 
 
 814 30 
 12 49 
 11 23 
 12 95 
 13 29 
 16 98 
 13 46 
 15 80 
 17 24 
 
 
 13 01 
 14 17 
 13 63 
 12 01 
 10 87 
 
 13 21 
 
 35 
 23 
 
 81500 
 335 
 11401 
 890 
 
 842 85 
 33 50 
 45 60 
 38 69 
 
 579 
 1174 
 217 
 2046 
 415 
 560 
 438 
 184 
 1150 
 814 
 1060 
 875 
 593 
 1062 
 3158 
 982 
 
 15306 
 
 8 928 
 2051 
 242 
 4061 
 684 
 1032 
 438 
 264 
 2137 
 1218 
 1712 
 881 
 922 
 1495 
 4797 
 1965 
 
 24827 
 
 81 60 
 1 74 
 1 21 
 1 98 
 1 65 
 1 84 
 1 00 
 1 43 
 1 Sf, 
 I 50 
 1 61 
 1 00 
 I 56 
 1 41 
 1 52 
 2 00 
 
 1 62 
 
 2 
 2 
 23 
 
 
 100 
 80 
 956 
 
 50 00 
 40 00 
 41 52 
 
 Geneva 
 Hampshire...! 
 Kaneville ... 
 Plato 
 
 3 
 23 
 10 
 3 
 
 101 
 1030 
 355 
 150 
 
 33 66 
 44 78 
 35 50 
 50 00 
 
 Rutland 
 
 St. Charles... 1 
 Sugar Grove. 
 Virgil 
 
 County i 
 
 46 
 1 
 
 206 
 
 1990 
 36 
 
 8661 
 
 43 26 
 35 00 
 
 42 04 
 
 TOWNS 
 (Continued). 
 
 Total of 
 Value Columns 
 Brought 
 Forward. 
 
 Melodeons & Organs. 
 
 Annuities 
 and 
 Royalties. 
 
 PATENT 
 RIGHTS. 
 
 Goods Materials 
 and and MTd 
 Mdse. Articles. 
 
 Mn'facturers' 
 Tools and 
 Machinery. 
 
 Agricultural 
 Tools and 
 Machinery. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No.' 
 
 Value. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Aurora 
 Batavia 
 Big Rock 
 Blackberry . 
 Burlington .. 
 Campton 
 Dundee 
 Elgin 
 Geneva 
 Hampshire... 
 Kaneville ... 
 Plato 
 
 8153229 
 58834 
 62841 
 66777 
 58166 
 81262 
 95707 
 149871 
 50009 
 58313 
 76746 
 58486 
 73062 
 94485 
 75148 
 51265 
 
 1264201 
 
 120 84140 
 24 674 
 27 1025 
 35 905 
 3 120 
 24 905 
 36 1090 
 79l 2824 
 28 915 
 21 667 
 36 1580 
 9 275 
 
 $34 50 
 28 08 
 37 96 
 25 86 
 40 00 
 37 71 
 30 43 
 35 75 
 32 68 
 31 76 
 43 89 
 30 55 
 
 
 
 
 
 l 
 8189540 8 28385 
 29842 28765 
 2875 25 
 16375 
 
 8 12900 
 20532 
 26 
 175 
 
 * 1665 
 1615 
 3900 
 2604 
 3603 
 3424 
 7990 
 3263 
 1886 
 4449 
 5264 
 2903 
 3911 
 3964 
 3601 
 3180 
 
 57-222 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1500 
 
 
 
 
 
 500; 
 
 3000 
 17335 
 114360 
 157 
 142 
 
 
 
 
 
 29950 14300 
 108395 213513 
 13140 1200 
 7070' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3500J 40 
 350 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 395 
 
 Rutland 
 St. Charles.. 
 Sugar Grove. 
 Virgil 
 
 County 
 
 
 
 
 
 200' 75 
 17240 2195 
 2468 
 
 53 
 
 23 
 7 
 
 525 
 
 1267 
 888 
 282 
 
 17557 
 
 23 90 
 38 61 
 40 28 
 
 33 44 
 
 
 "/ 
 
 
 
 3190 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6875' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4273521 290966 
 
 172211
 
 OF THE SEVERAL COLUMNS OF EACH OF THE ASSESSMENT BOOKS 
 PROPERTY OF THE COUNTY OF KANE AND STATE 
 ALL SAID BOOKS, FOR THE YEAR 1877. 
 
 Acres Wheat. 
 
 Acres Corn. 
 
 Acres. Oats. 
 
 Acres Meadow. 
 
 Acres other 
 Field Products. 
 
 Acres Enclosed 
 Pasture. 
 
 ACRES 
 OBCIIAED. 
 
 ACRES 
 WOODLAND. 
 
 Acres. lOOthn. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. Acres. lOOths. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. 
 
 Acres. lOOths. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 101 ... 
 
 2138 79 
 
 870 34 
 
 1917 39 
 
 149 35 
 
 4047 84 
 
 62 40 
 
 945 57 
 
 200 ... 
 430 .. 
 
 4200 ... 
 3220 14 
 
 2250 ... 
 2655 91 
 
 5100 ... 
 4337 29 
 
 500 ... 
 518 20 
 
 7325 ... 
 6756 15 
 
 351 ... 
 115 37 
 
 2020 ... 
 3448 13 
 
 50 ... 
 23 ... 
 
 3713 47 
 2821 26 
 2214 ... 
 4349 75 
 
 3077 56 
 2116 83 
 1227 .. 
 2217 50 
 
 3166 39 
 3478 78 
 2988 ... 
 4362 84 
 
 280 12 
 108 15 
 110 ... 
 1218 84 
 
 8497 39 
 6340 97 
 2440 ... 
 7803 71 
 
 
 
 208 27 
 192 98 
 27 ... 
 204 ... 
 
 2767 35 
 1680 09 
 400 ... 
 2617 18 
 
 429 ... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30 ... 
 62 ... 
 136 ... 
 
 2537 .. 
 3606 50 
 7182 55 
 
 1631 ... 
 2634 16 
 2643 74 
 
 5334 06 
 5317 52 
 4521 ... 
 
 13 79 
 1160 73 
 
 11468 72 
 4960 02 
 6247 84 
 
 126 62 
 92 03 
 121 27 
 
 1754 04 
 2949 96 
 1170 83 
 
 
 
 1461 
 
 35983 46 
 
 21324 04 
 
 40823 27 
 
 4059 18 6P887 64 
 
 1500 94 
 
 19653 15 
 
 HOGS. 
 
 Steam Engines, including 
 Boilers. 
 
 Fire and Burglar Proof 
 Safes. 
 
 Billiard and other Tables. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Ay. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 1794 8 5522 
 1262 3011 
 3017 7072 
 2260 5008 
 1613' 3379 
 1553 4973 
 487 1618 
 785 2304 
 719| 2165 
 1370; 2990 
 3918i 10410 
 1028 3884 
 697 1071 
 1212 3201 
 3393 9461 
 15221 4461 
 
 26730| 70530 
 
 83 08 
 2 38 
 2 34 
 2 21 
 1 97 
 3 20 
 3 32 
 2 94 
 3 01 
 2 11 
 2 65 
 3 70 
 1 53 
 2 64 
 2 78 
 2 93 
 
 2 64 
 
 10 
 3 
 1 
 
 8 I960 
 1375 
 1250 
 
 8 196 00 ; 
 458 33 
 1250 00 
 
 50 
 11 
 
 82270 
 716 
 
 45 40 
 65 00 
 
 26 8 990 
 
 2 50 
 
 838 04 
 25 00 
 
 
 
 
 1 40 
 
 40 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 13 
 
 2 
 
 1960 
 6218 
 275 
 
 390 00 
 478 31 
 137 50 
 
 8 
 40 
 7 
 
 315 
 1193 
 210 
 
 39 37 
 29 80 
 30 00 
 
 
 
 19 836 
 
 46 10 
 
 5 
 
 185 
 
 37 00 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 co to * 
 
 345 
 1900 
 470 
 
 86 25 
 950 00 
 156 66 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9 
 
 255 
 
 28 33 
 
 3 
 
 155 
 
 51 66 
 
 3 
 46 
 
 300 
 16043 
 
 100 00 
 348 76 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 125 
 
 4959 
 
 39 66 
 
 56 2256 
 
 40 28 
 
 Gold and Silver 
 Plate and 
 Plated Ware. 
 
 i 
 
 T.. Money of : Credits of 
 Diamonds Bank) Banker>i Bank) Banker, 
 
 Jewelrv Broker or Broker or 
 ' elry - Stockjobber. Stockjobber. 
 
 Money other 
 than of 
 Bank, 
 Banker, <fec. 
 
 Credits 
 other than 
 of Bank, 
 Banker, 
 &c., <tc. 
 
 Bonds 
 or 
 Stocks. 
 
 Shares of 
 Stock of Com- 
 panies not In- 
 corporated by 
 the Laws of 
 this State. 
 
 Pawnbrok- 
 ers' 
 Property.. 
 
 $1020 
 160 
 
 8780 89000 
 
 81750 
 
 $155875 
 2316 
 
 8 4050 
 72089 
 
 82750 
 3900 
 
 
 8400 
 
 
 
 4700 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19750 
 
 
 
 
 :;:"":."".'" :::::::::::: 
 
 6400 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2300 
 22500 
 172879 
 25125 
 23425 
 11050 
 2500 
 450 
 45092 
 13546 
 13900 
 
 428655 
 
 
 
 
 
 3000 
 236 
 
 79780 
 
 
 
 
 233 
 280 
 
 250 
 150 
 50 
 
 12728 
 
 1000 
 
 
 
 4712 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2485 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 636 
 
 216 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8000 
 259568 
 
 
 
 2329 
 
 1446 
 
 21728 
 
 9686 
 
 76501 
 
 400
 
 ASSESSOR'S REPORT Continued. 
 
 IMPROVED LOTS. 
 
 UNIMPROVED LOTS. 
 
 RAILROAD LOTS. 
 
 TOTAL LOTS. 
 
 j 
 Lots, j Value. 
 
 1 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Lots. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Value. 
 
 Lots. Value. Av. Value. 
 
 Lots. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Value. 
 
 2351 
 846 
 33 
 278 
 23 
 
 $1811570 $770 55 
 322770 i 381 52 
 10447 ; 316 57 
 58325 j 209 80 
 3372 146 61 
 
 2086 
 171 
 27 
 5 
 48 
 
 $166580 
 7865 
 600 
 390 
 278 
 
 579 85 
 46 00 
 22 22 
 78 00 
 5 79 
 
 21 
 2 
 
 $185496 $8833 30 
 127 63 50 
 
 445 
 1019 
 60 
 283 
 71 
 
 $2163646 
 330762 
 11047 
 58715 
 3660 
 
 5485 34 
 325 11 
 184 12 
 207 47 
 51 41 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 977 
 2131 
 915 
 143 
 
 179075 
 1433555 
 244773 
 31240 
 
 183 29 
 672 71 
 267 51 
 211 46 
 
 43 
 
 519 
 2 
 50 
 
 1820 
 47882 
 185 
 2485 
 
 42 32 
 92 25 
 92 50 
 49 70 
 
 
 
 1020 
 '2661 
 925 
 193 
 
 180895 
 1485137 
 245158 
 33725 
 
 177 34 
 558 11 
 265 03 
 174 74 
 
 11 
 
 8 
 
 3700 
 200 
 
 336 36 
 25 00 : 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 1167 
 
 660 
 217915 
 
 165 00 
 186 73 
 
 40 
 85 
 12 
 
 17 
 
 3105 
 
 480 12 00 
 2904 34 16 
 240 20 00 
 350 j 20 59 
 
 232059 ; 74 73 
 
 
 
 
 44 
 1252 
 12 
 302 
 
 12300 
 
 1140 
 220819 
 240 
 40327 
 
 4775261 
 
 25 91 
 176 37 
 20 00 
 133 53 
 
 388 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 285 
 9153 
 
 39977 
 4353679 
 
 140 27 
 475 65 
 
 
 
 42 
 
 189523 ; 4512 45 
 
 Carriages and Wagons. 
 
 Watches and Clocks. 
 
 Sewing and Knitting 
 
 Piano Fortes. 
 
 Total of 
 
 
 
 
 Machines. 
 
 
 value column 
 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 carried 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 'Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 No. 
 
 Value. 
 
 Av. Val.' 
 
 1 
 
 forward. 
 
 887 
 
 $28155 
 
 $31 74 : | 665 
 
 $8989 ; $13 51 
 
 772 
 
 $11685 $15 13 
 
 209 $17500 
 
 $83 73 ; 
 
 $153229 
 
 325 
 
 8584 
 
 26 41 
 
 393 
 
 2362 , 6 01 
 
 203 j 2724 
 
 13 41 
 
 52 
 
 3877 
 
 74 56 ' 
 
 58834 
 
 243 
 
 5390 
 
 22 18 
 
 152 
 
 177 j 1 16 
 
 86 480 5 58 
 
 1 
 
 40 
 
 40 00 
 
 62841 
 
 249 
 
 3279 
 
 13 17 
 
 108 
 
 151 i 1 40 i 
 
 114 
 
 1106 9 70 
 
 10 
 
 415 41 50 
 
 66777 
 
 215 
 
 3673 
 
 17 08 
 
 128 
 
 206 1 61 
 
 82 
 
 1201 
 
 14 64 
 
 11 
 
 465 ! 42 27 
 
 58166 
 
 178 
 
 4476 
 
 25 14 
 
 161 
 
 214 1 33 
 
 89 
 
 1238 
 
 13 90 
 
 7 
 
 555 79 28 
 
 81262 
 
 379 7613 
 
 20 09 
 
 405 
 
 1017 2 51 
 
 146 
 
 2240 15 34 
 
 14 
 
 895 
 
 63 93 
 
 95707 
 
 849 ! 22213 
 
 26 16 1295 
 
 7793 ! 6 02 
 
 499 
 
 5890 11 80 
 
 163 
 
 14507 
 
 89 00 
 
 149871 
 
 294 8351 
 
 28 40 , 388 
 
 2390 ; 6 18 
 
 150 
 
 1814 12 09 
 
 32 
 
 2290 ! 71 58 
 
 50009 
 
 274 
 
 4556 
 
 16 63 ! 221 
 
 396 ' 1 97 
 
 111 
 
 1465 13 20 
 
 5 285 
 
 57 00 
 
 58313 
 
 223 
 
 5180 
 
 23 23 ' 
 
 164 
 
 553 ! 3 36 
 
 93 
 
 1234 13 26 
 
 5 
 
 428 85 00 
 
 76746 
 
 242 
 
 3092 
 
 12 77 
 
 158 
 
 261 i 1 65 
 
 69 
 
 768 11 13 
 
 .3 
 
 75 
 
 25 00 
 
 58486 
 
 251 
 
 4287 
 
 17 08 
 
 132 
 
 240 j 1 82 
 
 69 
 
 785 11 37 
 
 1 
 
 25 
 
 25 00 ; 
 
 73062 
 
 535 
 
 10313 
 
 19 28 
 
 432 
 
 2326 5 38 
 
 136 
 
 2663 19 58 
 
 45 
 
 2805 
 
 62 33 
 
 94486 
 
 270 
 
 3896 
 
 14 50 
 
 161 
 
 496 3 08 
 
 76 
 
 1042 
 
 13 71 
 
 6 
 
 535 
 
 89 16 
 
 75148 
 
 107 
 
 2440 
 
 25! SO 
 
 5 
 
 45 1 9 00 
 
 29 
 
 575 
 
 19 83 
 
 
 
 
 51265 
 
 5521 
 
 125498 J 22 73 
 
 4968 
 
 27616 : 5 56 
 
 2724 
 
 36910 
 
 13 55 
 
 1 564 
 
 44694 
 
 79 24 ; 
 
 1261201 
 
 Bridge 
 Property. 
 
 Property of 
 Saloons and 
 Eating 
 Houses. 
 
 Household 
 and office 
 Furniture. 
 
 Investments in 
 Real Estate and 
 Improvements 
 thereon. 
 
 All other 
 Property not 
 otherwise 
 Listed. 
 
 Shares of 
 Stock of 
 State or 
 National Banks. 
 
 Total Value 
 of Personal 
 Property. 
 
 Personal of 
 Railroads. 
 
 $10 
 
 - $1040 
 
 $74665 
 19769 
 
 $ 45 
 
 $16465 
 3780 
 
 $ 181250 
 31500 
 
 $838959 
 273776 
 
 $206785 
 222 
 
 
 
 2892 
 
 
 
 
 78283 
 
 
 
 
 4134 
 
 
 
 
 110720 
 
 120 
 
 
 
 1703 
 
 
 
 
 71492 
 
 
 
 
 2830 
 
 
 
 
 94221 
 
 
 
 
 16425 
 
 
 10953 
 
 
 299030 
 
 
 
 4'H90 
 
 66692 
 
 
 29531 
 
 113750 
 
 993915 
 
 336 
 
 
 
 18629 
 
 
 4955 
 
 
 121158 
 
 484 
 
 
 
 4625 
 
 
 1853 
 
 
 100594 
 
 
 
 
 1645 
 
 
 250 
 
 
 100075 
 
 
 
 
 2544 
 
 280 
 
 2716 
 
 
 72934 
 
 
 
 
 2265 
 
 
 
 
 79963 
 
 40 
 
 
 10 
 
 10205 
 
 
 5594 
 
 25000 
 
 209094 
 
 65 
 
 
 
 5675 
 
 
 1325 
 
 
 102650 
 
 
 
 
 3270 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 86872 
 
 310 
 
 10 
 
 5440 
 
 237968 
 
 325 
 
 77522 
 
 351500 
 
 3633736 
 
 208361
 
 PE 
 
 I I 
 
 SONAL fr |J t{,TY. 
 I * - l * 
 
 ITE3VLS. 
 
 No. 
 
 Av. Val. 
 
 Assessed Val. 
 
 
 
 
 10596 
 40447 
 206 
 15306 
 26730 
 46 
 125 
 56 
 5521 
 4968 
 2724 
 564 
 525 
 
 $34 73 
 13 21 
 42 04 
 1 62 
 2 64 
 348 76 
 39 66 
 40 28 
 22 73 
 5 56 
 13 55 
 79 24 
 33 44 
 
 $867993 
 534215 
 8661 
 24827 
 70530 
 1604? 
 4958 
 2256 
 125498 
 27616 
 39910 
 44694 
 17557 
 
 
 
 
 3 Mules and Asses of all ages 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8 Billiard, Pigeon Hole, Bagatelle, or other similai 
 
 Tables 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16 Patent Rights 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 427352 
 290956 
 
 172211 
 57222 
 2329 
 1446 
 21728 
 9686 
 259568 
 428655 
 7650 
 
 19 Material and Manufactured Articles on han 
 '20 Manufacturers' Tools, Implements and Ms 
 Boilers, which are to be listed as su 
 21 Agricultural Tools, Implements and Machi 
 22 Gold and Silver Plate and Plated Ware 
 
 <j 
 
 
 
 
 ichinery (other than Engines and 
 
 c h)..- 
 
 / 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24 Moneys of Bank, Banker, Broker or Stock 
 25 Credits of Bank, Banker Broker, or Stock J 
 26 Moneys of other than Bank, Banker, Brok 
 27 Credits of other than Bank, Banker, Broke 
 28 Bonds and Stocks 
 
 Jobb 
 obbei 
 jr or 
 r or 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Stock Jobber.. 
 
 
 
 Stock Jobber .. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 29 Shares of Capital Stock of Companies and Associations not incorporated by the 
 
 30 Pawnbroker's Property 
 
 
 
 
 
 400 
 
 31 Property of Companies and Corporations other than hereinbefore enume 
 32 Bridge Property -- 
 
 
 
 10 
 5440 
 237968 
 325 
 77522 
 351500 
 
 33 Property of Saloons and Eating Houses 
 
 
 
 
 
 34 Houshold or Office Furniture and Property 
 35 Investments in Real Estate and Improveme 
 36 All other Personal Property required to be 
 37 Shares of Stock of State or National Banks 
 
 Total Value of Personal Property 
 
 
 
 
 
 ats t 
 listec 
 
 lereon (See Se 
 
 c. 10)... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 $3633736 
 
 LANDS. 
 Improved Lands 
 
 
 s. 
 
 Av. Val. Per Acre. 
 
 $7187542 
 207839 
 
 309028 55 
 14678 50 
 
 $23 
 14 
 
 26 
 16 
 
 Unimproved Lands 
 
 
 Total Value of Lands 
 
 
 $7395381 
 
 TOWN AND CITY LOTS. 
 Improved Town and City Lots 
 
 
 No. of Lots. 
 
 Average 
 
 Value. 
 
 $4353679 
 232059 
 
 9153 
 3105 
 
 $475 65 
 74 73 
 
 Unimproved Town and City Lots 
 
 
 Total Value of Town and City Lots 
 
 $4585738 
 
 PROPERTY BELONGING TO RAILROADS. 
 
 $ 2899 
 189523 
 208361 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Personal Property other than " Rolling Stock " 
 Grand Total of all Property as ass 
 
 
 
 
 
 essec 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 $160156:58 
 
 Acres of Wheat 1461 00 
 
 Acres of other F 
 Acres of Enclose 
 Acres of Orchart 
 Acres of Wood 1 
 
 ield Proc 
 d Pastur 
 I 
 
 ucts 4059 18 
 
 Acres of Corn 35983 46 
 
 B 65887 64 
 
 Acres of Oats 21324 04 
 
 1500 94 
 
 Acres of Meadow 40823 27 
 
 jand 
 
 19653
 
 POPULATION OF KANE COUNTY, 
 BY TOWNSHIPS. 
 
 TOWNS. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1860. 
 
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 m 
 
 & 
 
 1 
 
 
 ft 
 o 
 
 CM 
 
 oi 
 
 IS 
 & 
 
 T3 
 V 
 i, 
 O 
 
 'o 
 
 O 
 
 d 
 
 3 
 * 
 
 T3 
 
 
 
 o 
 "o 
 
 O 
 
 Aurora 
 
 2033 
 11162 
 760 
 480 
 1037 
 497 
 639 
 1368 
 929 
 1448 
 1465 
 1225 
 1314 
 3018 
 
 1274 
 8091 
 594 
 380 
 873 
 354 
 318 
 833 
 692 
 1089 
 1156 
 786 
 1016 
 2231 
 
 759 
 3071 
 166 
 100 
 164 
 143 
 321 
 535 
 237 
 359 
 309 
 439 
 298 
 787 
 
 2017 
 11013 
 748 
 474 
 1008 
 486 
 639 
 1368 
 922 
 1444 
 1403 
 1225 
 1296 
 2972 
 
 16 
 149 
 12 
 6 
 29 
 11 
 
 1395 
 .5999 
 
 
 Aurora City 
 
 12 
 
 First Ward 
 
 Second 
 
 
 Third 
 
 
 Fourth 
 
 
 
 Fifth 
 
 
 
 Sixth 
 
 
 
 
 Seventh '. 
 
 7 
 4 
 62 
 
 
 
 Eighth 
 
 
 
 Ninth 
 
 
 
 Tenth 
 
 
 
 Eleventh 
 
 18 
 46 
 
 
 
 Batavia 
 
 2338 
 1606 
 911 
 1080 
 886 
 1027 
 1888 
 1390 
 2797 
 544 
 1505 
 997 
 1049 
 1072 
 1007 
 1013 
 2491 
 1816 
 967 
 1209 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 
 Big Rock 
 
 829 
 1173 
 919 
 957 
 2079 
 1298 
 5441 
 
 645 
 985 
 687 
 745 
 1320 
 997 
 3989 
 
 184 
 188 
 232 
 212 
 759 
 301 
 1452 
 
 829 
 1171 
 919 
 956 
 
 2079 
 1298 
 5360 
 
 
 Blackberry 
 
 2 
 
 
 Burlington 
 
 
 Campton 
 
 1 
 
 
 Dundee 
 
 1 
 
 Elgin 
 
 
 Elgin City 
 
 81 
 
 
 Clinton City 
 
 
 Geneva 
 
 1829 
 
 1350 
 
 479 
 
 1789 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 Hampshire 
 
 1049 
 999 
 1004 
 960 
 2281 
 
 815 
 840 
 773 
 682 
 1720 
 
 234 
 159 
 231 
 278 
 561 
 
 1049 
 998 
 1002 
 960 
 2261 
 
 
 1 
 
 Kaneville 
 
 1 
 2 
 
 Plato 
 
 1 
 
 Rutland 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 20 
 
 6' 
 6 
 
 2 
 
 St. Charles City 
 
 Sugar Grove 
 
 787 
 1273 
 
 667 
 944 
 
 120 
 329 
 
 779 
 1272 
 
 8 
 1 
 
 Vireil...

 
 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 
 
 THE PAST AND PRESENT OF KANE COUNTY. ILL