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June 20, 1867, Mr. Carr married Mrs. Eunice Marion Marsden, born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 22, 1836, daughter of William and Lucy Bur- ton, who came to Ohio from the Eastern States at an early day, the former of whom was for many years captain of a steamboat on Lake Cham- plain. Mr. and Mrs. Carr have been blessed with the following named children: Harris F., born July 21, 1868; Lucy Le Baron, born December, 4, 1869, and William, born September. 12, 1879. Politically, Mr. Carr is a supporter of the Dem- ocratic party, and has served as clerk and presi- dent of the school board; he was also elected county surveyor.
G EORGE WEAVER, another of the very early settlers of this section of the county, comes of German ancestry, who settled in America at an early period of its history. He is a native of New York State, born in Ellis- burg, Jefferson County, March 27, 1811, son of John and Charity (Chrisman) Weaver, also of the State of New York. John Weaver's father served in both the Revolution and in the War of 1812. In the fall of 1840 George Weaver came by wagon to Illinois, and here rented a farm until 1845, when he purchased his present property in Batavia Township, consisting at the present time of 377 acres of fine land, located four miles south and west of Batavia Village.
Mr. Weaver has been twice married, his first wife, Abigail, born November 30, 1816, bearing him eight children: Orson L., born September 22, 1836; Electa M., born May 22, 1840; Dealia A.,
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born February 1, 1842; Denison R., born Feb- ruary 25, 1846; Celistia, born January 22, 1851, died April 20, 1866; Luella, born December 5, 1854; Alvaro, born January 22, 1856, died Sep tember 24, 1875, and George, born November 9, 1858, died in April, 1882. August 24, 1881, the mother of this family passed to her last rest, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Weaver then married, July 14, 1883, Mrs. Mary Eardley, a native of England, born May 6, 1835, to James and Esther (Barlow) Green, the former of whom died in February, 1883, and the latter February 1, 1873, both at the age of seventy years. Mrs. Weaver was the widow of William Eardley, whom she married in 1864, and by whom she had the following named children: Ellen F. (deceased), William A., born May 19, 1867; Florence E., born June 10, 1869; Alice M., born November 8, 1872; Frederick E., born August 8, 1874, and Gertrude E., born June 30, 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Eardley and family came to America in 1873, settling in Middle Granville, N. Y., where he died August 29, 1876, at the early age of thirty-nine years. Mrs. Weaver is a mem- ber of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Weaver is now retired from active farm life.
A DAM WEAVER was born at Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., N. Y., January 30, 1827. [For particulars of ancestry see biography of George Weaver. ] When Mr. Weaver was twelve years of age his mother died, and from that time forward he was compelled to support himself. In 1845 he came to Illinois, and settled in Batavia Township, where for two years he worked as a farm hand. February 9. 1857, Mr. Weaver married Mrs. Adelia C. Trumble, a native of Erie County, N. Y , born December 22, 1825, daughter of John and Fanny L. (Curtiss) Tal- madge, who came from Rutland County, V.t., to New York State, moving thence, in 1834, to and settling in Du Page County, Ill. The father died January 23, 1865, and the mother April 15, 1885, aged seventy-three and ninety years, respectively. Mrs. Weaver was the widow of Charles H. Trum- ble, whom she married in 1849, and by whom
she had two children; Adelbert, born November 4, 1849, killed by the cars July 15, 1855; and Ella M., born September 7, 1851, died June 27, 1865. The father died in Oregon in 1852, aged twenty- five years. The following are the children born to our subject and wife: Ada A., born May 31, 1858, died July 19, 1865; Frances E., born December 11, 1859, now Mrs. C. F. Smith, of Batavia; Emogene, born January 13, 1862, died July 13, 1865; Fannie, born May 1, 1864, died April 1, 1865; Orrissa B., born November 22, 1866, now Mrs. T. H. Brandenburg, and Herbert A., born November 14, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver reside on their farm of 240 acres well-improved land, situated two miles west of Batavia Village. In politics, he is independent.
AWRENCE P. BARKER. Because of his business relations with the region sur rounding Batavia, one of the widest known names in Kane County is that of Lawrence P. Barker, son of Lawrence and Sarah (Coon) Barker. the former a native of the city of 'Hudson, N. Y., and the latter of Petersburg, in the same State, farmers by occupation. Lawrence P. Bar- ker was born July 29, 1811, in De Ruyter, Madi- son Co., N. Y. February 5, 1846, he married Mary Gowdy, who was born in Smithfield, same county, March 27, 1812. To them have been given four children: M. De Ette, William P., Susan W. and Mary J.
In September following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Barker removed to Illinois, and located at Batavia, where Mr. Barker engaged in the cooper- ing business. In 1848 he was elected constable, serving four years. He was also twice elected township collector, and for eight years, beginning with 1848, held the position of deputy sheriff. This experience fitted him so well for the duties of sheriff, that he was elected to that position, which he held for two years. He was elected to, and served one year in the office of corporation trustee, and since 1862 has so acceptably dis- charged the duties of member of the school board, that he has been returned terin after term, still re- maining in the office. He was president of the
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Challenge Mill Company for eight years; is presi- dent of the official board in the Baptist Church, and president of the Cemetery Association. He is a member of Batavia Lodge No. 404, F. & A. M., and for six years, beginning with 1850, was treasurer of that organization. His political pre- ferences are Democratic. Mr. Barker is best known as one of the proprietors of the Batavia stone quarries.
About 1852, discerning in the fine limestone beds at Batavia a source of future revenue and profit, he purchased an acre of ground, paying for the same $1,000, and proceeded to develop the resources which were known to underlie it. He made sub- sequent purchases of three acres, two acres and one-half acre at a uniform price of $2,000 per acre. His son is now associated with him, under the firm name of L. P. Barker & Son, and their cus_ tomers are located in all parts of the State. The business has grown to wonderful proportions. The capital invested in lands, teams, machinery, etc., is now $14,000, and, on an average, twenty-five men are given employment. The wages of quarrymen average $1.75 per day, and of stone- cutters $3. The firm, in connection with their quarries, conduct general contracting and build_ ing, besides being engaged in farming, and are numbered among the substantial, well-to-do cit- izens of the county. Mr. Barker has been con- tinuously engaged in the stone quarry business " since he made his first investment in it, over thirty-five years ago.
S ELDEN N. BAIRD, one of Hampshire's enterprising young men, has lived in this township only since 1881, but during that short time has risen rapidly-both socially and politically-and, coming as he did a compara- tive stranger, he is enjoying a distinction among his neighbors not often known to one so young to a county. He was born at Watertown, Wis., October 17, 1857, his parents, Samuel and Ann H. (Noyes) Baird, being natives of New York, and early settlers in Wisconsin. His primary educa- tion was obtained in the public schools, and after- ward, entering the Northwestern University at Watertown, Wis., he took a thorough business
course. Then he commenced to learn telegraphy, which occupation he followed until 1881, when he moved to Elgin in order to fill the position of cashier in the freight office of the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, where he remained only until August of the same year, at which time he was appointed station agent at Hampshire for the same road, a position he has creditably filled to the present time. When appli- cations were made for the postmastership at Hampshire, Mr. Baird was one of the applicants, and he received the appointment, which position he had duly earned in helping to organize the first Democratic campaign club in Hampshire. His appointment was dated February 24 (though he did not take possession until the following March), the first Democratic postmaster Hampshire has had. He is one of the founders of Hampshire Lodge, I. O. O. F., and also one of the organizers of Col. Joslyn Camp, No. 79, Sons of Veterans.
October 26, 1881, Mr. Baird was married to Alice Chapman, who was born January 3, 1860, at Constantine, Mich., a daughter of John and Ann (Parker) Chapman, natives of England, Mr. Baird's father was a soldier in the late war, and served with distinction as quartermaster of the Twenty-ninth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteers, entering the service in 1862, and remaining until the close of the war ..
S AMUEL SMITH, one of the earliest of Kane County's pioneers, and a farmer of Black- berry Township, was born in Erie County, Penn., April 8, 1823, son of James and Azubah (Farnesworth) Smith. The progenitors of the Farnesworths came from England at an early day, settling in Connecticut. James Smith was born in Westmorland County, Penn., Novem- ber, 15, 1792; he served in the War of 1812, and helped build Commodore Perry's fleet. In poli- tics he was a Whig. He died in November, 1878. His wife, who was born in Vermont, February 10, 1797, died in January, 1872. Of their eleven children the subject of this sketch is the fourth.
When Samuel Smith was thirteen years of age, his parents came to Illinois and settled in Black-
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berry Township, this county. here he bought a claim and commenced to improve it. He had from early youth been inured to the hard manual labor of the farm, with very few educational oppor- tunities. October 2, 1851, is the date of his mar- riage with Elizabeth A. Conley, who was born in the town of Yonge, Leeds County, Canada. When a child her parents moved with her to Jefferson County, N. Y., and in 1850 came to Illinois, settling in Blackberry Township, this county; two years later they moved to Iowa. Her mother died November 5, 1870, and her father March 14, 1885, lacking only four days of being eighty-nine years of age. They were both respected members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which Mr. Conley was a minister. Mrs. Smith has several relations in the ministry: J. W. Conley, a nephew, is the pastor of the First Baptist Church, at Joliet, Ill. ; and George E. Rarick is a minister at Beloit, Kas.
Immediately after marriage Mr. Smith com- menced farming in Blackberry Township. Begin- ning life with nothing but his energy, Mr. Smith has, by industry and economy, established a com- fortable home, on a fine stock and grain farm of 344 acres, his residence being two miles south of Elburn. At the time of his settlement here, Geneva consisted of only three houses. He once drew a load of wheat to Chicago, and sold it for 23 cents a bushel. Mr. and Mrs. Smith's children are Winfield G., born August 13, 1852, now carrying on the home farm; Sylvia A., born August 11, 1855; Martha J., born August 20, 1858; Emma D., born February 4, 1862; George L., born February 10, 1864; and William J., born June 18, 1870. Winfield G. married December 25, 1877, Sophia M. Hunt, who was born September 21, 1858, and was killed by lightning August 27, 1881; May 26, 1885, he married Hannah L. Studie, of Wayne County, Ind., who was born May 27, 1855. Sylvia A. is the wife of Frank Ken- dall, Esq., an artisan of Plano, and has two sons and one daughter. Martha J. is the wife of Will- iam V. Henrie, of Maple Park, Ill., proprietor of a hotel and livery stable. Emma D. is the wife of Adelbert Flowers, and lives on the old homestead in Blackberry Township.
Religiously, Mr. Samuel Smith is a member of the Christian Church, and was deacon and trustee of the first church of that denomination at Elburn; his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically, he was in early days an Abolitionist, and since then a Republican.
H ON. JOHN STEWART, one of the most prominent, wealthy and influential citizens of Kane County, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, August 10, 1825, of Scotch parentage. His father, Thomas Stewart, was born in Inverkip, Renfrewshire, Scotland, December 22, 1797, and came to New Brunswick in April, 1823, where he married in 1824, Jane Moody, who was born in Ayr, Scotland, in December, 1796, coming to New Brunswick in 1822. To them were
born six children. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart were of a hardy and valorous race, deeply possessed of the idea of popular liberty, and of the ability and dis- position to maintain it. They removed to Kane County, Ill., in 1851, settling upon a farm in Campton Township, where they passed the re- mainder of their lives. Mrs. Jane (Moody) Stew- art died March 5, 1869, and her husband May 16, 1872.
John Stewart, the subject of this sketch, re- mained with his parents until twenty-two years of age, receiving such education as the times then and there afforded; steady manual labor, however, occupied most of his time. In 1848 he came to St. Charles, Kane Co., Ill., remaining three months, then moved to Marathon County, Wis., where he, with his brother Alex., engaged in lum- bering, and retains to the present his valuable in- terests in the lumber business. Purchasing land in Campton Township, he has here since made his home, and prospered in business affairs, both here and in Wisconsin, to an unusual degree. In 1886 he removed to the village of Elburn. His magni- ficent farm of 800 acres is situated two miles north of Elburn; 200 acres of this is timber land. His farm is known far and wide as one of the richest and best improved in Kane County. In his pas-
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tures are fine Clydesdale horses; here also browse a herd of Polled-Angus cattle, and one hundred head of Ayrshire milch cows, of which he is a noted breeder. He is a stockholder in and direct- or of the Aurora Cotton Mills, also a partner with Mr. Patrick in the lumber business at Aurora, and one of the owners of the St. Charles Bank. Although not aware that he possessed any of the elements of a politician, yet in 1884 the people turned to him as a safe and reliable leader, and elected him to the State Legislature, where he was one of the Spartan band that finally succeeded in electing Gen. John A. Logan United States Sen- ator, after one of the most prolonged and heated contests ever witnessed at the Illinois capital. The Republicans had one majority in the Senate, and the Democrats one in the House, and on each side were a few venal men who supposed they could thus hold the balance of power and make barter and trade of the unusual circumstance. Mr. Stewart was one of the band of 103 brave men who never swerved from either faith or party. At the close of Mr. Stewart's term he was re-elected to the Legislature, and in the last Assembly was chairman of the Committee on Claims, and also a ' member of the Appropriation, Public Charity and Penitentiary Committees. No man to-day in Kane County stands higher in the estimation of the people. His sterling integrity and clean record stand unimpeached by even his most vigorous political enemies.
In the county of Erie, Penn., October 20, 1857, were joined in marriage John Stewart and Martha A. Thomas. The lady was born in Cambridge, Crawford Co., Penn., August 31, 1833, the daugh- ter of William and Eliza (Burt) Thomas, both natives of Massachusetts. Her father was born in 1799, and died in 1840; and her mother. born in 1809, is now spending the evening of her life with her daughter, Mrs. Stewart, in Elburn, and, for one of her years, is comparatively hale and active. To Mr. and Mrs. Stewart have been born five chil- dren: Thomas B. (born September 28, 1858, living at the homestead. in Campton Township). Eliza (born February 14, 1861. is now Mrs. Dr. Watson, of Elburn), Mary E. (born December 30. 1864, died December 17, 1866), Mattie (born Janu-
ary 4, 1867, is now at Wellesley College, Mass., and will graduate in June, 18SS), and Nellie I. (born May 22, 1873, at home with her parents).
OHN WARNE, a prominent and wealthy cit- izen of Blackberry Township, is a son of Henry and Charity (Stires) Warne, and was born in Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon Co., N. J., September 6, 1821. His father was a native of the same place, and his mother was born ten miles west of Mount Pleasant. His grandfather was an Englishman, who came to America and settled in Mount Pleasant about 1717. In the family of Hen - ry Warne were born the following named children: Daniel; Susan, afterward Mrs. L. N. B. Burr; John; Lucinda, who became the wife of J. F. Glid- den, living in De Kalb County, Ill .; Eliza, who married W. F. Gates, and lives in David City, But- ler Co., Neb. In 1831 the family removed to Liv- ingston County, N. Y., where were born the fol- lowing: Elisha and Isabel, latter of whom married M. W. Willis; after the family came to Illinois, G. W., now of Campton Township, was born.
The claim purchased by Henry Warne soon after his arrival lay in portions of Sections 29, 30 and 31. in Campton Township, and comprised about 640 acres. The next spring he built his cabin on the southwest quarter of Section 31. This ground is now occupied by his son. Gideon W. In his native place Henry Warne had learned the tanner's and harness-maker's trades, which he carried on, in connection with a small farm, until he went to New York, in 1831, when he gave his attention exclusively to his farm. The arrival of this large and respectable family in Campton Town- ship in 1837 was an important accession to the new settlement. At their house, on Section 31, was established the first postoffice, called Avon, and Mr. Warne was the town's first postmaster. The first year Mr. Warne and his son. John, made ex- cursions through the wilderness as far as Fountain County, Ind., and purchased and hauled to Camp- ton corn, oats and pork. The new settlers were literally out of anything to eat, and this was their only way to market. They there bought corn and
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oats for 10 cents a bushel, and pork for 23 cents a pound. Bringing these products to Campton, they sold the oats at 75 cents, corn 80 cents, pork 14 cents a pound, and hams at $5 apiece. At these prices neighbors would come to buy for forty miles around. The stuff had to be wagoned a distance of 200 miles, and if time, labor and team were estimated, the profits, even at those figures, were very small. Henry Warne, although never an actual member of any religious denomination, attended services at the Presbyterian Church. He voted the Democratic ticket until Lincoln's first nomination, after which time he was a Republican. He died in March, 1865, his wife having departed this life in February, 1864. During his life Mr. Warne had kept the tavern known as the "Half-way House," on the public highway running east and west. At this house Judge Ford, afterward gov- ernor, a friend of the family, was a frequent visitor and guest.
May 16, 1847, John Warne and Olive S. Burr were united in marriage. The young man's for- tune, as named in his father's will was $1. He was dressed in a suit for which he had gone in debt and given personal security. His first team of horses cost $60 cash, and he got a wagon on credit. He made his farming implements with his own hands, and he and his wife began housekeep- ing as happy as the proverbial high-tide clams. "Look on that picture and then on this." Behold their present surroundings-as good as any other family in Campton or Blackberry Townships! Mr. Warne is worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars, his possessions comprising about 800 acres of rich soil. The old family homestead is upon a tract of 360 acres, which is as finely improved a farm as can be found anywhere. Five acres are within the town limits of Elburn, 170 adjoin the village, 100 are in St. Charles, and 150 adjoin that town. For four years Mr. Warne was a partner in the general store of Gray & Warne, at Elburn, and for more than twenty years has held a large interest in the extensive mills and lumber manufactories of Mara- thon and Lincoln Counties, Wis .; was a stock- holder and charter member of the Kane County National Bank, St. Charles, and vice-president of the same during its existence, and is a stockholder
in the Aurora Cotton Mill, etc., -a vast fortune, in- deed, that has come from the lowest beginnings by the slow accretions of his unaided hands and brain. He made his money at first mostly by teaming or hauling to Chicago, and for some time threshed grain on shares, his pay being one-tenth of the grain. For hauling to Chicago, he would receive $4 a load, and out of this he would pay his ex- penses. The trip required three days. He has hauled to Chicago and sold there many a load of dressed pork at $1. 25 to $2 per hundred, and wheat at 35 cents to 40 cents a bushel.
Mrs. Warne is a daughter of Atwell and Betsey (Wheeler) Burr, who came to Illinois from Pom- pey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., in 1836, and settled on Section 6, St. Charles Township. Mr. Burr was a native of Pompey, and Mrs. Burr of Reho- both, Mass., both of English descent. After re- siding two years on the farm which he purchased in St. Charles, he changed his residence to Section 34 in Campton Township. He died April 19. 1852, in Campton, and his widow, December 13, 1881, at Lafox. She was a daughter of Rev. James Wheeler, a Baptist minister, and was the eldest of twenty-three children. Mr. and Mrs. Burr brought with them to this county nine chil - dren: Lucien; Love, now Mrs. George P. Harvey, of Elgin: James and Marshall (deceased); Frank- lin; Ann, who died unmarried; Olive S., now Mrs. John Warne; Betsey, who became Mrs. John Morse, and is now deceased, and Gerdensia.
The children of Mr. and Mrs. John Warne are Julia Ann, still with her parents; Elsie E. who married Mr. Gray, and is now a widow; Emma W., now the wife of Elry Hall, of Sycamore, Ill. ; Henry A., who died at the age of eleven years; Susan B., who died in Campton; De Ette O., now the wife of A. T. Mathewson, druggist, in El- burn; and Mary G., living with her parents. The year before his marriage, Mr. John Warne built a house on the land which he had purchased of the Government, January 30, 1844, and fol- lowed farming on 120 acres of Section 31, Campton Township, a part of the claim which his father had purchased in 1837. In 1870 he removed to Elburn, where he has since resided. The old homestead house was destroyed by fire in 1872,
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and with the building went many a fond and cherished object of pleasant memory. Mr. Warne has been a justice of the peace for some years. assessor and supervisor of Blackberry and Camp- ton Townships, and has filled other offices in his township. He has partially retired from the active cares of life.
OHN F. DEWEY, the editor and proprietor of the Aurora Daily News, was born in Ge- neva, Kane County, September 23, 1856. His father, John H. Dewey, was a native of New York State, born in Caldwell, Warren Coun- ty, in 1826, and the family name and lineage are attributed to the North of Ireland. His mother, whose maiden name was Maria A. Butterworth, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1829. The majority of her male relatives are still tradesmen in Manchester and Liverpool, England, and Dub- lin, Ireland. Her father was by occupation a brass founder and machinist, and came to this country to establish himself in business in 1833, locating in Chicago a few years after the city was settled. While engaged in erecting his foundry buildings, he was stricken down with malarial and brain fever and died, leaving his property in such a condition, that but little was realized from the estate for the support of his family.
Mr. Dewey's parents first met in Geneva, in 1849, and were married two years later in Chicago. Five children were born to them: Charles L., in 1852: Lillie A., in 1854; John F., in 1856; Carrie M., in 1858; and Jessie M., in 1860. Lillie A. and Carrie M. are deceased.
John F. Dewey was educated in the common schools of Batavia, and in the various newspaper establishments of the county. He began the print- ing business in June, 1869, in the office of Roof & Lewis, publishers of the Batavia News, with whom he continued until 1871. Since then he has worked at his trade in nearly all the river towns in the county, and has done duty as an editorial writer on five different Kane County journals, besides serving as correspondent for three or four others. From 1878 to 1880 he owned and edited the St. Charles Review, a paper conspicuous for its clean typography and general excellence of makeup.
In 1885 he became a partner in the Aurora Eve- ning Post, his interest in which he sold out two years later to his partner. Politically, Mr. Dewey is a Republican, and an enthusiastic one. He has, in his ten years of political life, been a member of a score of Kane County Republican conventions, and also a delegate to several district and State conventions. In 18SO he was census enumerator for St. Charles. In 1881 he served in the Legis- lature as secretary of the Senate Committees on Education, Insurance and Penitentiaries; in 1883 he was appointed private secretary for the lieuten- ant-governor, whom he served during the session of the Legislature. Upon the assembling of the Legis- . lature of 1887 he was elected chief enrolling and engrossing clerk of the Senate, which position he filled, it is said, most creditably. Religiously, Mr. Dewey is liberal, being a member of no church.
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