Commemorative portrait and biographical record of Kane and Kendall Counties, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biographicalsketches of prominent and representative citizens of Kane and Kendall Counties, together with portraits and biographies of the presidents of the United States, Part 30

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in 1841, removing to Dundee, Kane Co., Ill., in 1851, where she was educated. Mr. and Mrs. Shed- den have nine children, as follows: Robert, born September 26, 1857, a resident of Kankakee, Ill .; Jane, October 23, 1860; Andrew, December 25, 1862; Maggie, January 22, 1865; William, July 11, 1867; Walter, October 22, 1868; George, October 16, 1870; Charles, June 5, 1873; Grace, March 29, 1876.

W ILLIAM STURGES is one of the most prominent and influ .gil Township, stan neighbors, respectec 1-04/20 many good qualities of head has prospered in those things humblest life well worth livi $ 1.000 proved farm is well stocked w - cattle and horses, and provide residence and farm buildings and comfort on every hand. in Section 11. Mr. Sturges 1 .. 10 / 116. . August 1, 1828, his parents Elizabeth (Martin) Sturges, w upon the farm in his native co this memoir spent the days of . April 28, 1851, William St 2 3 wedlock with Susan E. Mould ing May set sail for America. were born two children: 01 the other, Robert, is a re Upon reaching America Mr. year in New York . as a f: 1853 he went to Ohio, but only one year he started we Batavia, Ill., where he found ment as a teamster. In this på died in July, 1854. In 1858 moved to Virgil Township, and until 1868, when he bought eig Kalb County. In 1861 he marr of Batavia, who lived but twc marriage, dying in October, 186 Mr. Sturges married Mrs. Ann ] horn, who was born in County March 25, 1830; her father diec

eight years old, and in 1845 her mother came to America, locating at Springfield, Mass., where Ann found employment as a servant girl until her marriage February 8, 1850, with George J. Du- sold. They had four children: George H., a resident of Chicago; Emma, who became Mrs. Kilgore; Margarette A., now Mrs. Henry Allen, and Louis Dusold, all citizens of Iowa. In 1851 Mr. and Mrs. Dusold came to Kane County, and lived in Batavia fifteen years, when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and was killed at South Mountain Gap July 10, 1863. Mrs. Dusold

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account, which he conducted until 1871, when he lost everything in the great fire of that year.

He subsequently accepted a clerical position with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, continuing with that corporation seven years, when he resigned, and soon after, Septem- ber 1, 1SSO, purchased an interest in the hardware business, with Mr. Kendall, continuing the same to the present time. During Mr. Holden's busi- ness life and residence in Aurora he has taken an active part in promoting some of its prominent commercial and other interests, and has acquired a reputation for business integrity, enterprise and public spirit second to none other of its citizens. He has served acceptably on the East Aurora Board of Education for twelve years, occupying the chair of presiding officer dur- ing the whole time, and is now so serving. He is the present supervisor of Aurora Town- ship, and in other ways has served his fellow citi- zens in places of honor and trust. He is a mem- ber of the G. A. R. post; an attendant of the People's Church of Aurora. He was married in Aurora to Miss Marian Howell, a daughter of Dr. O. D. Howell, one of Aurora's most honored phy- sicians and pioneer citizens, who died in 1887. Mr. and Mrs. Holden have two children-Frank and Ben.

W ILLIAM H. PAULL. Among the sub- stantial citizens of Sugar Grove Town- ship, which has been his home for well nigh half a century, is William H. Paull, who was born in Medina Courty, Ohio, July 14, 1819, and took up his abode within the bor- ders of Kane County in February, 1841. Here he now owns a farm of 180 acres, his home being lo- cated ou Section 33. During his residence in this vicinity he has been engaged in the various duties of a thrifty farmer. He has held positions of greater or less importance in his township, having been pathmaster and school director for several years; also filled the office of highway com- missioner for one term of three years. In politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Paull's first wife was Susan A. Willey, a native of New York, who is now deceased and

resting in Sugar Grove Cemetery. Their children were Elizabeth, who married Marcus Eaton, and is now residing in Ellsworth, Kas .; Edwin, who died and was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, and Susan, who married William Martin, now re- siding in Iroquois County, Ill. When Mr. Paull a second time entered the marriage relation it was with Lucretia M. Sackett, a native of Pennsyl- vania. Their children are Corinth A., married to Charles C. Cutting, and residing in Sugar Grove Township; Henry F., married to Emma K. Kilts, also in Sugar Grove; Mina A., married to John Doty, and now a resident of Adams County, Iowa; Ethzelda, married to Pierce Green, and residing in Batavia, Ill .; Delano W., married to Capitola Landis, and residing in Sugar Grove Township, and Frank O., the youngest son, residing at home.

A LBERT FAYETTE WADE, the present superintendent of streets for city of Auro- ra, was born in Newark Valley, Tioga Co., N. Y., July 20, 1834 His parents, Lewis and Harriet (Bowen) Wade, were natives of Rhode Island, and of English ancestry. Lewis Wade was a blacksmith by trade. He served in the War of 1812, and died in Newark Valley in 1862, after an active and useful life. Albert F. Wade grew to man - hood in his native town, and completed learning the trade of stone and brick mason there. In 1857 he left his home, and came west, locating in Aurora, Ill., and here worked at his trade as well as in other places. Upon the breaking out of the Civil War he was at Janesville, Wis., and there offered his services as a soldier in defense of the Union. He was accepted, and joined Company D, Second Wisconsin Volunteers, for three months' service. Before the expiration of bis time he re-enlisted for a three years' term, and did active and honorable service in all the battles of the campaign of 1861-62. He served at first as orderly sergeant; was promoted to a first lieutenancy, and was in the line of fur- ther promotion when he was compelled to resign his commission on account of disability. He had worked hard and earnestly in his new life, and the consequent strain on his system becoming too great he accepted an honorable discharge March 19,

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1862, and returned to Aurora, where, after about a year spent in recuperating, he resumed his trade and prosecuted it successfully until the spring of 1873, when he was elected to his present official position, to which he has been returned by his many friends in fifteen subsequent elections.

Mr. Wade is married to Elizabeth, daughter of William Postle, a pioneer farmer of De Kalb County, Ill., who came from Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Wade have one son and three daughters: Asa V., Nellie E., Myrtie E. and Mabel. The parents are members of the People's Church. Mr. Wade is a member of Aurora Lodge, No. 254, A. F. & A. M., and of the Royal Arch Masons, No. 22, also a member of the G. A. R., and is president of the benevolent society in connection with that institu- tion. He is also Commander of the Aurora branch of the society of the A. L. of H. He is a genial gentleman, and an earnest advocate of what he con- siders good measures, characteristics which have assisted in gaining for him the extensive popularity he enjoys among his fellow citizens in Aurora.

E DWIN W. THOMPSON. The family of Thompsons, of whom the gentleman whose name heads this commemorative biography is a worthy representative, were among the earliest settlers of Kane County. But about eleven years had elapsed from the time the first set- tler erected his cabin in the county's limits when the parents of our subject, John and Julia (Colson) Thompson, with their family, located in Kane Coun- ty; this was in the year 1845, Edwin W. being but an infant, having been born June 7 of that year, at Dorset, Bennington Co., Vt. John Thompson was a native of Windham County, Vt., and after his settlement in Sugar Grove Township, being a man of fine ability, natural and acquired, soon occupied a prominent position among its citizens, took an active part in its public affairs, and was officially identified with its interests, filling the office of township collector and justice of the peace for twenty years or more, and serving in other minor offices, such as highway commissioner, etc. He was a son of William and Betsy (Holmes) Thomp- son, all natives of Vermont.

Edwin W. Thompson was reared in Kane County, educated in its schools, and at Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College, Chicago. For sev- enteen years he followed the occupation of a farmer in Sugar Grove Township, and in 1885 he moved to Sugar Grove Station, since when he has been largely engaged in dealing in lumber, coal, tiling and all kinds of agricultural machinery and imple- ments, at the same time owning and conducting a hotel at that place. Mr. Thompson is a man of great versatility, and is regarded as one of the township's most wide-awake, enterprising men. Besides being a general business man, as above stated, he is also well and popularly known as an excellent auctioneer, to which calling he devotes considerable time. He has served his township as highway commissioner, and was school trustee for upward of ten years, in which capacity he is now acting. He is a Republican in sentiment.

Mr. Thompson was married March 5, 1866, to Mary E., daughter of Stephen G. and Roxie (Barker) Paull, natives of near Rochester, N. Y., who settled in Sugar Grove Township in 1838, the former of whom, a prominent man in the county, held the office of assessor, and was a supervisor for his township for fourteen terms. To Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been born two children: Clarence S. and John P.

S ILAS H. MIGHELL. Ezekiel Mighell, father of this gentleman, was born near Rut- land, Vt., December 24, 1799. In his early years he acquired a knowledge of the carpen . ter's trade, which afforded him the means for gain- ing a livelihood while he remained a citizen of Ver- mont. His wife, Lucinda (Todd) Mighell, was also born near Rutland. The family removed to the State of New York about 1833 or 1834, and finally to Illinois, October 22, 1837, locating in Kane County. Ezekiel Mighell, after a long and useful life, died June 10, 1884, and his earthly remains were deposited in Jericho Cemetery.

Silas H. Mighell, was born on the old Vermont homestead December 12, 1829, and came to Illi- nois with his parents in 1837. His occupation has always been that of a farmer, in which he has been

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eminently successful. March 19, 1854, he mar- ried Delana Calkins, whose native place was Corn- ing, Steuben Co., N. Y. where she was born April 16, 1830. Her family was of English descent. Her father, Thomas S. Calkins, was born in Sten- ben County, N. Y., in 1800. His occupation was also that of farming. He removed to the West, and settled in Kane County, Sugar Grove Town- ship, in 1852, his death occuring ten years later, November 27, 1862. His remains were deposited in Jericho Cemetery. His wife, Fanny Clark, was born in Keene, N. H., March 1, 1804. To Silas H. Mighell and wife have been born the following named children: Emma D., who married Franklin H. Eglington, and is now living near Aurora; Fannie L., married to Arthur J. Potter, and re- siding in Sugar Grove Township; Ina M., who graduated at Sugar Grove in 1887, and is now teaching.

The love of home, and the desire to make it al- ways attractive above all places are strongly engraft- ed within the hearts of the Mighell family, wher- ever found, and the pleasant homestead in Sugar Grove Township occupied by Mr. Silas H. Mighell and his family is an evidence of that fact. The farm consists of 256 broad acres of choice land, which goes toward making up the sum total of finely im- proved possessions for which the township of Sugar Grove is so justly noted. The dwelling of the family is located on Section 32. Mr. Mighell's political preferences are in the interests of the Republican party.

C HARLES WATSON. Among those who have been engaged in agricultural pursuits in Kaneville Township during the past thirty-four years no one takes higher rank as a successful farmer and business man than he whose name heads this biographical record. His residence is located on Section 9, in the midst of one of the most valuable and fertile farms in Kane County, lying on Sections 8 and 9, which was bought by him in 1853, and has been the home of himself and family up to the present time (1887). Mr. Watson was born February 25, 1816, in New Jersey, a son of Robert and Esther (Beach) Wat-

son, the former a native of Philadelphia, Penn., and the latter of Newark, N. J., born September 27, 1784.

Charles Watson was married in 1841 to Char- lotte Frace, and to this union were born eight children: Mary A., married to W. F. Weston, they live at the Watson homestead; Jacob F., mar- ried to Miss A. E. Tupper, residents of Kaneville Township; Lenora F., married to Benton Van Dyke, a carpenter and builder, of Chicago; Olivia, married to Philip Ramer, they live near Maple Park; James S., married to Eliza Stewart, is now a practicing physician and surgeon at Elburn; Charles W. (deceased); Robert G., farming the homestead, and Emma, wife of R. C. Hoyt, pro- prietor of a butter factory, living at the home place with parents. Mr. Watson is known and recog- nized as a leading spirit in his vicinity in promot- ing the well being of the community, of which he has so long been a prominent factor, and has on various occasions officially transacted its public business. A stanch Republican, he has voted with the party since its organization.

W ILLIAM MALLOCK OWENS was born at Chester, England, July 20, 1830, son of Rev. William Owens, a native of Cheshire, England, and who, in his youth, was a Methodist minister, having charge of congregations at Chester and Wrexham. Rev. William Owens came to America with his family in 1835, arriving at Schenectady, N. Y., on the 4th of July that year, and the same month moved to Mohawk, Herkimer Co., N. Y., where he was engaged in church work for about five years; then for a like length of time was a cir- cuit preacher from the Oneida Conference, after which he moved to Rome, N. Y., where he re- mained until 1857, in the spring of which year he came with his family to Kaneville Township, and here spent the remainder of his days. He died January 1, 1880, and is buried in Kaneville Cemetery. The father of Rev. William Owen, also a native of Cheshire, England, was a skilled manufacturer of anchors, and overseer of an estab- lishment for their manufacture.

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William M. Owens, the subject proper of this sketch, was married in Utica, N. Y., to Victoria E. Boothroyd, a native of Glenham, N. Y., a daugh- ter of Michael and Sarah (Peel) Boothroyd, of Yorkshire, England. To this union were born twelve children: Edwin A., married to Nettie Good, of Hinckley, Ill., now a resident of Friend, Saline Co., Neb .; Anna L., married to William Hastie, of Hinckley, Ill., now a resident of Auburn, Nem- aha Co., Neb. ; Sarah E. married to T. W. Barlow, of Geneva Lako, now railroad station agent at Big Rock, Kane Co., Ill. ; Willie W., deputy sheriff at Winona, Logan Co., Kas .; Florence E .; Frank R., Mary M .; Louis Kossuth; John A .; Charles S. Estella F. and Grace M. Mr. Owens lives on the northeast part of Section 20, and owns a fertile and valuable farm adjoining his residence. Him- self and wife both hold honorable membership in the Methodist Church, of which he has been an active official for many years. He has also been on the board of school directors, and in politics supports Republican principles.

T E. RYAN, a leading attorney of Kane County, is a native of Ireland, born in the city of Limerick, June 22, 1847. When he was two years of age his parents, Terrence and Honora (McCarthy) Ryan, immigrated to Amer- ica, and coming to the West located at Elgin, Ill., where they carried on farming until 1855, when they moved to Virgil. In 1858 they came to St. Charles, where the father died in 1887, in the eighty-third year of his age. The mother, now seventy-five years old, is still living. In 1864 our subject, then seven- teen years old, enlisted in Company E, One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment Illinois Volun- teers, in which he served as corporal. He taught school two years ai South Elgin, and in 1869 he began reading law with Hon. W. D. Barry, at St. Charles, and was admitted to the bar in 1871. In 1880 he was elected to the office of State's attorney for Kane County, a position he occupied for four years. He has also served as city attorney for St. Charles six years, and as alderman five years, and resigned, and is at present attorney for the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railway Company. He is a

supporter of the Republican party; a Knight Tem- plar, and a member of Bethel Commandery, No. 36, at Elgin; a member of St. Charles Lodge, No. 14, I. O. O. F., and of the G. A. R.

May 14, 1874, Mr. Ryan married Emily Mil- lington, who was born in St. Charles in 1853, and is the second daughter of Darwin and Miranda (Boardman) Millington, early settlers of St. Charles, the former of whom was born in 1815, and died in 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Ryan have been blessed with five children (three of whom are living): George S., born July 23, 1877, died October 16, 1886; Mary Ella, born October 28, 1878, died April 28, 1798; Minerva, born October 12, 1881; Hattie Frances, born March 5, 1885; Frank Millington, born December 19, 1886. Mrs. Ryan is a member of the Congregational Church.

HEODORE D. WILLIAMS, M. D., gradu- ate of Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, and author of the " American Homoeopathic Dispensitory," a recognized standard of the Homeopathic school in America, was born at Morrisville, Madison Co., N. Y., April 13, 1842, son of Dwight T., and Ann Janette (Lewis) Williams, former of whom was a merchant in Morrisville. April 1, 1851, Theodore D. moved to Chicago with his parents, where, until the age of fifteen years, he attended public school and private seminary, after which he was actively engaged in the drug business. In 1867 he established the second homœopathic pharmacy in Chicago. In 1868 he entered Hahnemann College, from which he graduated in 1871. For twenty-one consecutive years the homœopathic faculty of Chicago had endeavored to obtain position in Cook County Hospital, without success, till Dr. Williams' per- sonal efforts finally secured the much desired con- summation. He also organized the Homœopathic staff at the hospital, of which he was appointed secretary and attending physician in gynecology, serving in these positions for three and a half years. Dr. Williams also was the first lecturer and professor filling the chair of sanitary science in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College.

September 1, 1886, he came to Geneva, where he

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has since prominently indentified himself as one of the leading physicians of the placc. In 1868 the Doctor married Harriet Dwight Reynolds, a native of Elmira, N. Y., born August 10, 1848, daughter of William H. Reynolds, a prominent contractor and builder, of Chicago, Ill. Dr. and Mrs. Williams' children are Lewis Mattocks and Frank Wilkie. The parents are both members of the Congregational Church, in which Mrs. Williams takes an active interest in woman's work, and is prominent in Sabbath-school labors. Dr. Williams is an active member of the American Public Health Association, Illinois Pharmaceutical Association, Illinois State Medical and the Cook County Medical Societies; belongs to Oriental Consistory, and St. Bernard Commandery, No. 35, K. T., Council No. 4, Cor- inthian Chapter, No. 69, and Covenant Lodge, No. 526, of Chicago. In politics he is a Republican.

F REDERICK L. POND, M. D. This promi- nent citizen of Aurora, and successful profes- sional man, has a fame and reputation for successful treatment and cure of catarrhal affections, diseases of the eye and ear, and es- pecially of cancer, that is co-extensive with the boundaries of this continent, and to some extent of Europe. He is a native of the Green Mountain State, born at Whiting, Addison County, July 16, 1835, and is a son of Lewis and Elvira (Smith) Pond, descendants, respectively, of Scotch and English families, who settled in Massachusetts and Connecticut previous to the year 1700. Members of both families took part in the War of Independ- ence, among whom were the grandfathers, Lewis Pond and Thaddeus Smith, who served as soldiers on the patriot side in that struggle.

Frederick L. Pond attended the schools of his native town until about fifteen years of age, when he became a student at Derby Academy, Hingham, Mass., where he completed an academic course. Subsequently he engaged in mercantile pursuits at New Bedford, Mass., but, having a decided taste for the study of medicine and surgery he, in 1867, began reading physics as a student in New York City, followed by attending the Medical College, at Cincinnati, for one year, then the Bennett Med-

ical College, of Chicago, for two years, and fin- ishing his professional education as a student at the United States Medical College, New York, where he received his diploma as a graduate in medicine and surgery in March, 1872. Thus he had devoted five years' time to close application in the study of his chosen profession, thoroughly qualifying himself as a general practitioner. Dur. ing this time he had become deeply interested in the study of catarrhal affections, of diseases of the eye and ear, and especially of cancers, their na- ture, treatment and cure. After long and careful research and experiment, the Doctor discovered a specific for the cure of the latter, and decided to make the treatment and cure of the above diseases a specialty of his life's work. In 1872 he came to Aurora, and founded what is known as the " Aurora Medical and Surgical Institute," of which he has ever since remained the proprietor, and his subse- quent career is the best commentary on the ability and professional acquirements of the man. From the start the "incurable disease," cancer, as de- scribed by other physicians, succumbed to his treat- ment, and his success attracted patients in such numbers from all parts of the country, that he was in a short time obliged to erect the large building he now occupies, with conveniences for accomoda- ting 300 patients; the structure is built of brick, four stories in height, with a frontage of 120 feet and two wings, extending to the rear, $30,000 being expended in its erection. The building is furnished throughout with all modern improve- ments, is heated by steam, lighted by gas, with cold and hot water throughout the building, includ- ing bath rooms and other accessories necessary for the convenience and comfort of patients. The surroundings are extremely pleasant and attract- ive, enclosing extensive grounds that are carefully tended, provided with well kept walks, evergreens and shrubbery, and located in the heart of the city of Aurora, affording a most delightful retreat for patients while undergoing treatment. Hundreds have entered its doors, bowed down with the fear that speedy death was inevitable through the ma- lignant nature of their cancerous disease, and left it with the bloom of recovered health upon their cheeks, and hearts full of gratitude for the cure

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effected, and that they could once more look for- ward to the future with pleasant anticipation and buoyant hope, where but a short time before had been but a dark and cheerless blank, or at least a hideous nightmare, in which they were ever to be accompanied with loathsome disease.

Dr. Pond, to a certain extent, inherited his taste and talent for the profession, his father hav- ing also been a physician; for fifteen years a res- ident of Illinois, and for cleven years of Aurora, he proved himself a successful practitioner, practical and energetic in his treatment, and, while retiring in disposition, was thoroughly qualified; he died in Aurora in October, 1882. Dr. F. L. Pond was a trustee of the United States Medical College, of New York City, from 1879 to 1881. He is a member of the West Side Medical Society, of New York City, and represented that society as a delegate to the cull- vention of the National Eclectic Medical Associa- tion, held in Chicago in 1880, of which he is also a member. He is a member of the First Method- ist Episcopal Church of Aurora, of which for ten years or more he has served as trustee, and for a long time as treasurer; has been a member of this denomination for thirty-five years. He has been all his life an active temperance advocate, both by precept and example, and in politics he is a straight-out Republican. He became a member of the Star of the East Lodge, F. & A. M., at New Bedford, Mass., in 1861; of Massachusetts Con- sistory of Boston, Mass., in 1863, and the same year was raised to the degree of Sir Knight in the De Molay Commandery of the same city, still re- taining his full standing in that order. In addi- tion to the multifarious duties connected with his profession, the Doctor has found time to devote to other business. He is at present one of the larg- est real estate owners in East Aurora, having some 150 aeres in and adjoining the corporation, and twenty acres laid out in town lots; he has erected some twenty dwelling houses, costing from $1,000 to $6,000 each, and is now the owner of about that number. Among the buildings which he has erected is Pond's Block, on Short Street, the first block, and.up to the present time the largest block, of flats ever built in Aurora. He is now building on Short Street, in rear of his hospital buildings, a

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Commemorative portrait and biographical record of Kane and Kendall Counties, Ill. : containing full page portraits and biographicalsketches of prominent and representative citizens of Kane and Kendall Counties, together with portraits and biographies of the presidents of the United States, Part 30

Author: Publication date: 1888 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Beers, Leggett & Co. Number of Pages: 1040

Author:
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Beers, Leggett & Co.
Number of Pages: 1040