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She has not only won a complete success in the struggle with the ignorant prejudices of men, and taken a prominent position'among the physicians and surgeons of the day, as well as made a comfortable fortune by her practice, but has won the higher vic- . tory of commanding respect and admiration of the other physicians, with whom she has been often called in consultation. To all these she has demonstrated that in every way a woman may be eminent in the learned professions, but at the same time be a model mother and housekeeper. Her pleasant and elegant home, and its happy surroundings, are the palpable evidences on this subject. She is espe- cially active in temperance work, and no beggar ever went unfed from her door.
The children born to Dr. and Mrs. Whitford are as follows: Jessie E., born September 20, 1856, married Henry Lea in August, 1876, and has one child, Carl Henry, born February 28, 1886 (they reside in Woodstock); Henry Edgar, born November 20, 1859 (he was graduated from the Chicago Eclectic Medical College; attended two years the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is now a prominent resident physician of Englewood, Ill .; in January, 1886, he married Miss Ida Axtell); Susie E., born October 16, 1862; (is in the elegant home of her parents, one of Elgin's active young ladies), and Nell Newell, born October 16, 1872, died when three years of age.
EORGE O. SPOONER. This well-known and much esteemed gentleman is a native of Belchertown, Mass., born November 29, 1842, son of John M. and Phœbe (Chapin) Spooner, also natives of Massachusetts, the former of whom was a machinist employed in the United States armory at Springfield, Mass., twenty-one years. The subject of this sketch, at the age of seventeen, entered the photograph gallery of his brothers at Springfield, where he remained till en- listing in August, 1862, in Company K, Twenty- seventh Massachusetts Volunteers. He was imme- diately placed on detached service as a clerk in the commissary department at New Berne, N. C., and was subsequently promoted from one position to another, till, finally, at the general muster out, he
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found himself agent of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, at Raleigh. In this capacity he remained until August, 1870, when he came to Batavia, and has ever since been in the employ of the U. S. Wind Engine & Pump Company, in the capacity of corresponding sec- retary.
In December, 1864, he became united in mar- riage at Boston, Mass., with Addie M. Breed, of Lynn, Mass., a native of Nasliua, N. H., and daughter of Isaac B. and Mary (Grove) Breed, the former of whom was an extensive boot and shoe manufacturer in Lynn. The result of this union was two children: Beulah B., born at Raleigh, N. C., December 17, 1867, and M. Susie, born at Raleigh, N. C., June 21, 1869. Mrs. Spooner passed to her long sleep June 17, 1879, and Octo- ber 31, 1881, Mr. Spooner married Mrs. Amy S. Belding, born at Dover Plains, N. Y., December 11, 1846, widow of S. P. Belding (by whom she had two children: Fred and Harry), and daughter of Milton and Jane M. Tabor, of Chicago.
Mr. Spooner is a Republican in politics, and has served as village clerk. He has been N. G. of Rock City Lodge, No. 718, I. O. O. F., and is a member of Aurora Encampment, No. 22; also of Batavia Post, No. 48, G. A. R., in which he has held the positions of Adjutant and Commander. He was assistant inspector general on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Gen. Lucius Fairchild, and reappointed to the same position on the staff of Commander-in-Chief John P. Rea.
W ILLIAM F. AVERILL, Batavia, was born at Sand Lake, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., September 30, 1840, son of John F. and Fannie (Hutchins) Averill, also natives of New York State, where the father was a hotel- keeper, and who, after coming to Illinois, and settling near Aurora, in 1854, carried on farming. William F. at the age of nine years, began to shift for himself, following agricultural pursuits until 1879, when he embarked in the meat market busi- ness, to which he has since prosperously devoted his time.
September 22, 1861, Mr. Averill married Cal-
ista Dailey, a native of New York State, born May 25, 1845, daughter of John and Ann (Streeter) Dailey, now citizens of Batavia. The lot of Mr. and Mrs. Averill has been brightened by two chil- dren: Frank S. and Harry E., born June 22, 1863, and April 6, 1866, respectively. The parents are members of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Averill is trustee. He is a member of Lodge No. 404, Batavia, F. & A. M., and is Warden in Rock City Lodge, I. O. O. F. In politics he is a Republican. .
AMES O. MCCLELLAN. This gentleman, a graduate of the Columbian College of Law, holds high rank in his profession in Kane County. He is a native of Kendall County, Ill., born March 28, 1840. His parents, the father, James, a native of Massachusetts, and the mother, Eunice C. (Sherman) McClellan, a native of New York State, came to Chicago in 1833, where the father was employed in teaching in the public schools. Later, he was for many years, in company with Z. Eastman, editor of the Western Citizen, having previously carried on farming in Kendall County.
On the death of his father, James O. made his home with his grandparents, in Kendall County, Ill., and at the age of seventeen attended James- town Academy, New York. Completing his cur- riculum here, he entered the University of Chi- cago, where he took a classical course, and gradu- ated in 1862. The War of the Rebellion being now at its height, Mr. McClellan enlisted for serv- ice in Company C, Sixty-ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was soon commissioned first lieutenant, promoted afterward to the cap- taincy. At the expiration of his term of service Mr. McClellan returned home, and entered on the study of law in the office of Plato & Smith, at Geneva, Ill. Being appointed, in 1865, to a posi- tion in the treasury department at Washington, he availed himself of the opportunity, and there at- tended the Columbian College of Law, from which he graduated in 1867, and in 1869 he returned to Batavia, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of his profession.
October 21, 1868, Mr. McClellan married Car-
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oline A. Albee, born in Grand Haven, Mich., April 7, 1845, and who had been a teacher in Mr. Buell's select academy at Washington. Her par- ents, Clark B. and Caroline (Hathaway) Albee, came from Vermont to Michigan when the latter place was comparatively a wilderness. To Mr. and Mrs. McClellan five children have been born: Florence, born July 4, 1870; Edith, born Novem- ber 6, 1871; Caroline, born July 4, 1878; James Sherman, born October 6, 1879, and Julia, born December 22, 1880. Since 1875 Mr. McClellan has been master in chancery of the circuit court of Kane County. He is a member of the G. A. R. Post No. 48, at Batavia, also of the I. O. O. F., and is a F. & A. M. While at Washington he was a member of Columbia Commandery, with which President Garfield was connected.
D AVID W. STERLING. This much es- temed old resident of Kane County was born in Montgomery County, N. Y., De- cember 26, 1815, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Denning) Sterling, the former of whom, a car- penter and joiner by trade, was a native of Scot- land; the latter, whose father served in the War of the Revolution as a drummer, was a native of Connecticut. The subject of this biographical sketch had comparatively meager educational ad- vantages, and from the age of twelve until he was twenty-one worked for his father, learning his trade, which he afterward worked at as a journeyman and contractor in his native State.
In 1854 he came to Illinois, and purchased a farm in Kaneville Township, this county, being among the early pioneers of the place, and four- teen years later he moved into Batavia, where he established a furniture business in company with a Mr. Payne, under firm name of Sterling & Payne. One year from the establishment thereof Mr. Payne withdrew, and Mr. Sterling assumed exclusive con- trol of the business, which he managed until 1884, when he retired from active business.
In 1840 he married Mary Hinkston, a native of New York, born December 9, 1818, daughter of Chauncey and Phebe (French) Hinkston. No children have blessed this union, but three were at
different times adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Sterling, of whom two are now living: Ira S. Dauberman, proprietor of a fine stock and grain farm in Kansas, and Fannie E. Adams, at home. Mrs. Sterling, who had been an invalid for years, departed for her long home March 14, 1884, a respected member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Sterling is recording secretary and trustee. She was very prominent and sincere in all works of charity and benevolence, and was held in high es- teem by all who knew her.
E DGAR CLINTON HAWLEY, though one of the young, is yet one of the promi- nent and leading business men of Dundee and vicinity. Not yet at the age that is considered the prime of life, he is, nevertheless, the leading merchant, the banker, and one of the largest real estate owners in Dundee Village, and also is the owner of farming land in Minnesota, Florida, Nebraska and Texas, and has a fine ranch near Prescott, Ariz., on which are 1,000 cattle; also a half interest in a fine ranch near Springer, N. M., with 1,600 cattle. His brick business block in Dundee, in which are his bank, store and a fine opera-house, with suites of offices in the second story, is much the finest building in the place, and is the general business headquarters. The block is 40x90 feet, and of three stories. In many re- spects Mr. Hawley stands the foremost man of Dundee, and his liberal and generous treatment of men, his integrity and upright course in life, have merited for him this distinction.
He is a native of Illinois, born in Barrington Township, Cook County, February 20, 1850, son of George C. and Anna (Nute) Hawley, the father a native of Massachusetts, the mother of Camp- belltown, Steuben Co., N. Y. Philip Hawley, * paternal grandfather of Edgar C., came to Illinois in 1835, and settled at Miller's Grove, Cook Coun- ty, at which time George C. was six years of age. Philip was an agriculturist by proper occupation, and had settled on his farm, but in the East he had learned the trade of wagon-maker and builder, and, being generally a good mechanic, was' com- pelled by circumstances to give much of his time
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to his neighbors in that capacity, and as a builder, the want of skilled labor always being a mate- rial one among the pioneers. Here, on his father's farm, George C. was reared, and here he 'spent the most of his days, until he removed to Dundee Vil- lage, where he now resides, retired from the active labors of the farm. He owns 320 acres of fine land near the village. His wife, Anna, is a daughter of Renselaer and Eva Nute, who came to Illinois in 1837, and located in Dundee, where the father died some years ago; the mother still survives.
Edgar C. Hawley was reared on his father's farm, trained as a thrifty honest farmer's boy, working afield and attending the public schools of Dundee, and also the Elgin Academy, where he gained a good literary education. His father opened a brickyard in Dundee, and when he was fifteen years of age Edgar was employed in the business as his father's assistant. Here he rap- idly gained important lessons in the conduct of business affairs. By his promptness and energy, after five years in the yard he was made a partner in the concern. Thus he commenced life at twenty, and from this period he rose rapidly, making an extensive acquaintance with the prominent busi- ness men of the country. In fact, he has been growing up among the larger business affairs of his times continuously since the age of fifteen years, when he became employed in his father's brickyard.
Edgar C. Hawley and Esther E. Hunt were joined in wedlock March 2, 1871. She was born September 12, 1847, a daughter of H. E. Hunt. [On another page of this volume will be found an account of her family. ] In the fall following his marriage, Mr. Hawley accepted a position in the store of his father-in-law, at Dundee. This was his first lesson in the mercantile line, but such were his quick and ready resources that in a short time he was master of the secrets of the trade. This post he held until 1883, when he secured at the hands of the Governor the appointment of cash- ier of the Illinois State Grain Inspectors, Chicago. He filled this arduous and responsible position four years, and in April, 1887, returning to Dundee, he purchased the business of his former employer,
Mr. Hunt, including his large store and banking house. Thus it may be seen these rapid steps made by Mr. Hawley were all upward and onward.
In the midst of his other fast-growing busi- ness affairs, Mr. Hawley has not neglected the social and friendly side of life, even at times giv- ing some attention to politics, and aiding in the careful course and management of the Republican party, with which he acts. For ten years he has served as school treasurer, several years was trus- tee of the village, and also president of its board. During the years 1878-79 he was a member of the county board of supervisors. He is a Sir Knight, and a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
To Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have been born three children: Henry E., born January 6, 1875, died January 4, 1881; William A., born May 26, 1877, and Esther A., born December 10, 1881. The family worship at the Congregational Church, of which he has served as trustee.
M RS. ELLEN C. HYDE, widow of Daniel Hyde, for several years a much respected and highly successful farmer of Batavia Township, is a native of Vermont, born at Brattleboro, July 11, 1825, daughter of Henry and Emily (Church) Stearns, who came to Illinois, and settled in Blackberry Township, in 1844. Mrs. Hyde received a good education, and was for some time engaged in school teaching. April 25, 1845, she married Daniel Hyde, also a native of Vermont, born in Strafford, Orange County, March 30, 1819, son of James and Eunice (Pennock) Hyde, both of whom died in Vermont.
When nineteen years of age Mr. Hyde came west, remaining in Michigan for a short time, thence moved to Illinois, where he purchased a farm in Batavia Township. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde had a family of five children, as follows: Milton D., born April 2, 1846; Frank E., born March 12, 1849, died February 9, 1875; Ella M., born November 5, 1852, died March 10, 1856; Bertie G., born December 27, 1856, died March 10, 1864; Willis D., born September 27, 1860. Mr. Hyde's demise occurred June 20, 1862. The progenitors
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of his family came to America from England prior to the Revolutionary War, his father serving seven years in that struggle. Mrs. Hyde now resides on her farm, one mile and a half west of Batavia, where she has 192 acres of well-improved land.
L EVI H. ISBELL. This gentleman, who is an engineer of a passenger train on the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, with residence in Aurora, Kane County, dates his initial railway work from the spring of 1860, when as a fireman he engaged with the above-named company. He served in this capacity a little over three years, and was then promoted to the position of engineer; after a short service in the yards in Chicago he was sent on the road, and was rapidly promoted, having had charge of a passenger en- gine since January, 1871. He retains the confi- dence of the railroad company in an eminent de- gree, having well earned the reputation of being a thoroughly competent engineer and trustworthy employe.
Mr. Isbell was married, in Aurora, September 1, 1859, to Miss Harriet N. Fuller, daughter of Stillman and Nancy (Stolp) Fuller. She died April 15, 1887, and is buried in Spring Lake Cem- etery. She left one son and two daughters. Al- lan, the son, is engaged as a clerk in a store. The two daughters are named Kate and Ethel. Mr. Isbell is a pushing and enterprising citizen, and an ardent worker in the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He has been honored by his fellow craftsmen as chief director of Division 32 of the brotherhood, having presided with dignity for over nine years, and has been an official of the order in various capacities for about nineteen years.
H B. MATHEWS is a native of Huntingdon, Province of Quebec, Canada, born March 27, 1834, and is descended from English and Protestant-Irish stock. He is a son of Elijah H. and Catharine (Smith) Mathews, the former a native of Champlain, Clinton Co., N. Y. The Smiths were from Adare, Ireland. The elder Mathews was a fine mechanic.
H. B. Mathews remained in the East until eighteen years of age, when he came west, located first at Little Rock, Kendall Co., Ill., and in 1855 removed to Plano, same county. He had learned the trade of a carpenter from his father, which he followed, together with building, until 1868, when he came to Aurora, and established a sewing- machine business, adding, in 1873, a full line of musical instruments and accessories. Mr. Math- ews is well and favorably known in the city and throughout the adjoining country as a reliable bus- iness man and upright citizen. He is a prominent Knight of Labor, Master Workman of L. A. 2164, and was president of the great Knights of Labor reunion held at Aurora August 17, 1887. In the spring of 1887 he was elected alderman of the First Ward of Aurora. He is a member of the Masonic order, and a P. W. M. of Sunbeam Lodge, No. 428, at Plano, IlI.
Mr. Mathews was married in Chicago, Ill., to Mary J. Aussem, daughter of Capt. John H. and Margaret Aussem, of Montreal. They have two sons and four daughters: Arthur C., decorator and painter, in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, at Aurora, Ill. ; Julia A. ; John Edwin, at present foreman of the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Lumber Yards; Ella and Emma, twins; and Carrie, the youngest. Ella is the wife of John Morrison, of Aurora. Mr. Mathews and family attend the People's Church. Both the sons are members of Company D, Third Infantry, Illinois National Guards.
H IRAM NORRIS is a native of Erin, Che- mung County, N. Y., born November 3, 1828, a son of Matthew N. and Julia T. (Vanduzor) Norris. His boyhood days were spent on his father's farm, while he attended the district schools, and in 1844 he came to Kane County with his father, who settled in Blackberry Township. The "gold fever," in 1850, attracted our subject to California, but, being unsuccessful in mining, in the spring of 1851 he moved to Oregon, where he again engaged in mining. In December of the following year he returned to Illinois, and here, April 27, 1853, married Hannah M., daugh-
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ter of Nathan Young, of Kaneville, this county. To this union were born four children: Helen M. (wife of Joseph Slaker). Frank Y. (in Chicago, Ill.). John (in Blackberry Township, this county) and Matthew N. (in Kendall County, Ill.).
Mr. Norris now owns a large farm of 450 acres in Blackberry Township, besides a beautiful home- stead property, of eight acres, in Aurora Town- ship. While actively engaged in farming, our subject devoted his attention to general agricult- ure, but, since his comparative retirement. he has been making a specialty of Hereford cattle, of which he has a fine herd, having the honor of being the first to introduce this famous breed into Kane County. Among his herd are descendants of Hor- ace, or Grove 3rd, also of the famous sire, Suc- cess. Mr. Norris is a Republican, but lays no claim to being a politician.
L EWIS J. ALLEN was born at Ann Arbor, Mich .. November 15, 1828, and is a son of George W. and Temperance (Morton) Allen, pioneer farmers in that State from New York. Lewis J. left the farm in 1854, and found employment with the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, at Burlington, Ill., at carpenter work, May 3. 1855. In the follow- ing July he moved to Aurora, where he has since been connected as an employe of the same cor- poration. He at first worked on cars, and ran machinery. but in 1860 he was promoted to the foremanship of the wood machinery shop, a posi- tion he has since held.
Mr. Allen became united in marriage in Ann Arbor, Mich .. in September, 1854, with Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Nuttey (Smith) Richard- son, natives of Yorkshire, England, who settled in early times in Scio, Washtenaw Co., Mich., where Mrs. Allen was born. They have reared a family of three sons and two daughters: George F. (a physician, serving his third term as chairman of the Board of Health of Aurora), Charles L. (an attorney, now of Sterling, Col., who, while a resi- dent of Aurora, served as its attorney, two years); Harry Judson. Grace C. and Sadie E. still share their parents' home. Mr. and Mrs. Allen have
lost one daughter, Nellie, who is interred in Aurora Cemetery. Mr. Allen worships at the Methodist Church, with which denomination he has been connected since his twelfth year, and has held official positions in it here for many years. Mrs. Allen holds membership in the Park Place Baptist Church, and is a co-worker in the interests of the home and foreign mission societies of that faith. Mr. Allen has always avoided public life, but has served with credit upon the board of edu- cation of East Aurora for the past three years, and stands well in the estimation of all who know him.
A LBERT C. LANGWORTHY was born in Hampton, Washington Co., N. Y., March 1, 1814, and is a son of James and Rhoda (Shaw) Langworthy, of that locality, whose ancestors were of English pioneer stock in the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut, re- spectively. Albert C. grew to manhood in Chau- tanqua County, N. Y., whither his parents had removed, and at the age of twenty-three formed a matrimonial alliance in Ellery, that county, with Caroline, daughter of Capt. Jared Nicholson. In 1854 Mr. Langworthy removed with his family to the State of Illinois, locating in Marengo, McHenry County, where he carried on farming, and dealt in real estate. In the spring of 1861 he was called upon by the board of regents of the Garrett Biblical Institute of Evanston to take the management of the financial interests of that institution, a position he creditably filled for four years, retiring from it to engage in real estate business.
In 1873 he came to Aurora, where he invested in real estate, and has also done a fair share of building. In the meantime he was four years in connection with Jennings Seminary as steward. November 11, 1884, Mrs. Langworthy died, and was buried in the family lot at Marengo, Ill. Of their family now living, James is foreman of the extensive business of W. S. Frazier & Co .; Cynthia i's the wife of Alfred J. Hanchett, a merchant, of Waverly, Iowa, and Albert Darwin is deputy for Sheriff Matson, of Chicago. The latter was grad- uated from the Northwestern University, and has
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held important clerical connection with railroad business. September 26, 1886, Mr. Langworthy was married to Mrs. Marie Louise (Miles) Twist. She is a member of the W. C. T. U., and with her husband attends the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which she has held membership for nearly forty years.
W ILLIAM VAN FLEET, another of the representative farmers of Aurora Town- ship, residing on Section 4, where he owns 100 acres of choice land on the bank of the Fox River, is a native of Aurora Town- ship, Kane Co., Ill., born March 17, 1846, to Isaac and Barbara (Lance) Van Fleet, the latter a daughter of William Lance, of Blackberry Town- ship, this county. Mr. Van Fleet lived under the parental roof until he was twenty-five years of age, securing good school training and farm life expe- rience. In 1876 he paid a visit to the Black Hills, returning in 1884, and March 3 of the following year he married Eliza Stevens, born December 23, 1864, in England, a daughter of Charles Stevens, a resident of Aurora.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Fleet have been blessed with one child, Anna P., born January 9, 1886. In his farming operations our subject gives attention al- most exclusively to the production of grain and root crops, and the raising of graded cattle. Polit- ically his sympathies and influences are on the side of the Republican party.
S FRANK DOWNING. The Evergreen Lawn Stock and Dairy Farm of S. Frank Down- ing, of Virgil Township, is one of the noted spots in Kane County. In the choice, rich agricultural portion of Illinois, where are so many rich and prosperous farmers, so much enterprise and developed wealth, and pride in being known as the advance in agricultural pursuits, it is no small matter, especially for a young man, to be one of these leaders in this peaceful and noble struggle. The farm above referred to comprises 240 magnifi- cent acres, and to the natural wealth of the soil has been added every improvement that could both
ornament and enrich it, hereby increasing its yield in those things that go to feed and clothe, and to spread abroad the luxuries and pleasures enjoyed in the average life of man. A large and commo- dious residence, surrounded on every hand with evidences of comfort, and an abundance of this world's goods; the smooth, green, well-kept lawns, the shade trees and trim walks, all are the general things that strike the eye of the approaching visitor. In the short distance are the great barns and sheds, grain and hay houses, and in the past- ures peacefully graze the fat and lazy herd of Hol- stein cattle, that to the keen eye of the lover of fine stock are more attractive than even the pictures of Rosa Bonheur. Altogether this splendid farm is one of the favored spots in the rich agricultural county of Kane. It is much the fruits of the in- dustry, enterprise and ripe judgment of the gentle- man whose name heads this memoir, who is yet comparatively one of the young and rising farmers in this part of Illinois.
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