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never lost sight of his original aim in life. He soon won distinction among his peers, as the sequel showed. His law praetiee grew into large proportions, and, in 1850, he re ceived substantial proofs of the publie esti- mation of his able jurisprudence by being appointed Judge of the Northern District Court of Illinois. The duties and responsi- bilities of his office soon multiplied on his hands, in proportion as the country increased in wealth, and with it the inevitable rivalship of growing interests, only to be harmonized by the principles of general law, and never, since the days of Moses, the great law-giver, did a jurist find more versatility, more com- plexity, and more fallow ground to break, than has come under the jurisdiction of Mr. Drummond since he has been elothed with the ermine. Sinee December, 1869, he has been Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Seventh Judicial District, em- braced in the States of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. His rural home, near Winfield, to which he came in 1868. evinees his love for domestic life, in its immunity from the turmoil of metropolitan centers like Chicago. Here, at this tranquil retreat, he entertains his coterie of friends who visit him and en- joy his pleasant surroundings at the same time. He has a large family, two of whom have died-his daughter, Annie E., in 1869, and his wife in 1874. To his neighbors he is plain Mr. Drummond at home, and in his official capacity, when they uncover their heads before His Honor, it is done with all the more genuine respect.
JOHN FAIRBANKS, deceased, Turner, is a native of England. He was born in the year 1806, and came to America with his par- ents. They settled in Wyoming County, N. Y. His father was a clothier, and John learned the same trade. When he was about twenty-five years of age, he went to Erie
Co., N. Y., and conducted a woolen factory in Amherst, now Cheektowaga, N. Y. While here, he married, in May, 1838, Miss Pame- lia Levens. She was a native of Erie County, N. Y. After the marriage, they came to Illi- nois and settled on a claim he had bought in the previous year, in what is now Winfield Township, Du Page County, where he lived until his death, on January 11, 1879. He was a Republican, and served as Supervisor of his township a number of years. They had six children, of whom three are living- Mrs. Almina Chatfield, of Turner; Judson Fairbanks, on the old homestead; and Nellie Fairbanks, at home. Mrs. Fairbanks lives in Turner.
JAMES FAIRBANK, farming, P. O. Turner, is a native of Yorkshire, England. He was born in the year 1814, and is the seventh of nine children born to Francis and Jennie Shaw Fairbanks. They were natives of England. They married there; also all the children were born there. He was a manufacturer of woolen goods. About the year 1820, they came to America, and located in Genesee County, N. Y., where they farmed until their death, he in 1847, and she some four or five years later. John Fairbanks. the eldest son of Francis, manufactured woolen gouds in New York until 1837, when he and his brother James started by teams for the West. They proceeded as far as Erie, Penn., when, owing to the roads, James took the wagons, ete., and went to Chicago by boat, John going through on horseback. they meet- ing at Warrenville, Ill. John bought a claim about three miles northwest of Warrenville, and lived there until his death. James worked by the month at farming for a few years, and then worked at carpenter work for a number of years. He also bought a claim to his present place, and has lived on the same since. In 1839 he married Miss Maria
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Blackman, a native of Erie County, N. Y. She died a few months after the marriage. He married Miss Electa Chandler, a native of Genesee County, N. Y. She came to Du Page County, Ill., with her parents in 1836. By the marriage there were two children, of whom one is living, Allen H. He was Democratic in his politics in early days, then Abolitionist, and has voted Republican since the organization of the party. He owns 220 acres, located three miles south of Turner.
GEORGE FEHRMAN, of George Fehr- man & Son, Winfield, is a native of Hanover, Germany. He was born in the year 1822. He was raised a farmer, and, at the age of fifteen, he apprenticed to the tailor's trade, and served four years, and worked some five years as a journeyman. In 1849, he came to America, and first stopped at Dunkle's Grove, now Addison Township, Du Page Co., Ill., where he worked at his trade one year, and then opened out for himself at Addison Vil- lage, and, some two or three years later, he added general merchandise, and continued the business until 1865, when he sold out and lived three years in Chicago and conducted a produce commission business. He then went to Lombard, in Du Page County, where he conducted general store until 1871, when he went to Bloomingdale Township and farmed three years. He then rented his farm and came to Winfield, and, two years later, he and his son William opened the present store. In 1853, he married Miss Catharine Oehman, a native of Germany. She died in 1870. By the marriage there were seven children, six of whom are living. In 1876, he married Mrs. Kerch.
JOHN M. FAESSLER, retired, Turner, is a native of Baden, Germany. He was born in the year 1828, June 11. His father, also his grandfather, were carpenters, and he learned the same trade, and, at the age of
twenty, came to America. He worked one year in New York City, and then went to Portsmouth, Ohio, where he worked for about four years. In the fall of 1854, came to Turner, Ill., and bought a farm, two and a half miles west of the town, where he farmed until 1869, when he removed to Turner, where he has lived since. In 1852, he married, at Portsmouth, Ohio, Miss Mary Walter, a na- tive of Germany. She came to America two years after he did. They were acquainted in the old country. They had five children, of whom but one is living, Charles F. M. Faes- sler. The four deceased all died within one week, by the scarlet fever. He is Repub lican in his politics. He is a member of the Evangelical Association, and is one of the pioneer members of the St. Michael's Church of that denomination in Turner. Mrs. Faes- sler is also a member of the church. Dur- ing his residence in Turner, Mr. Faessler has farmed his place by a tenant.
SEBA FRENCH, farmer, P. O. Warren- ville, is a native of Painesville, Lake Co., Ohio. He was born in the year 1819, and was raised on a farm. Hereceived a limited common-school education. 3 His father was a clothier by trade, though, in later years, followed farming. He also conducted a saw- mill. Our subject worked on the farm, and, in 1842, married Miss Elizabeth Clark, a na- tive of New York. She died here in Illinois. They had three children-Abigail Peas, liv- ing in Wisconsin; D. C. French, living in - Boone County, Ill .; Lucy R. Brown, living in Parsons, Kan. In 1862, he married Miss Harriet Woodburn, a native of New Hampshire, and living in Lake County, Ohio, at time of marriage. They have one child, Hattie E. In February, 1854, Mr. French came to Illinois and bought a place one mile north of Naperville, where he farmed two years, and then came to his present place,
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which contains 129 acres, located one mile west of Warrenville. . He is a Democrat in politics, and has served as Road Commis- sioner one term.
JACOB A. GALUSHA, retired farmer, Warrenville, is a native of Burlington, Vt. He was born in the year 1803, aud is the second of ten children born to Ezra and Ma- bel Barney Galusha. They were natives of Connecticut and Vermont. He was a farmer, and, when a young man, went to Vermont, where he married, and, in 1834, they came to Illinois and located on a claim in what is now Milton Township, Du Page Co., Ill., and lived there a few years, and lived thereafter with their sou until their death. Our sub- ject was raised on the farm. He received a common-school education. On becoming of age, he began on his own account, farming a piece of land he had bought, and upon which the family lived. In 1833, he came West, over the canal and lakes, and made a claim to his present place, and, the next year, his father sold the property in Vermont and came West with his family and made a claim ad- joining his son's. Mr. Jacob A. Galusha was married to Miss Parmelia K. Foote, of Kane County, III. She died in 1870. They had three children-Ezra and Edwin, farm- ing the old homestead; and Mrs. Cora Han- cock, of Chicago. In 1872, he married Mrs. Bisbee, formerly Annie Jayne, a native of Susquehanna County, Penn. She came to Du Page County, III., in 1864. By the first marriage, she had three children -- Alonzo and Albert, farming in Nebraska; and Mrs. Net- tie Henderson, living in Reedsburg, Wis. He is Republican in his politics, and a mem- ber of the Universalist Church since he was a young man.
JUDE P. GARY, deceased, was a native of Pomfret, Windom Co., Conn. He was born February 3, 1811, and was one of the pio-
neers of Du Page County, Ill., where he set- tled in the year 1832, making a claim near the present village of Warrenville, fuller par- ticulars of which are given in another part of this work. In 1851, he married Miss Margaret L., daughter of the Rev. Mr. Kim- ball, who is spoken of elsewhere in this work. She died July 25, 1862. By the marriage there were eight children-George P., Lucy M., Leora M., Jude F., Lovisa J., Edwin A., Laura E. and William S. In 1863, Mr. Gary married Mrs. Dr. Rose, formerly Miss L. M. Sherwood, a native of Chenango County, N. Y., born April 28, 1827, by which marriage there were born four children, three of whom are living-Eben S. Gary, Lewis E. Gary and Charles L. Gary. By her first marriage, Mrs. Gary had one child, Mrs. Mary Rose Wilson. Mr. Gary died May 11, 1881. Mrs. Gary is living on the old homestead near Warrenville.
C. W. GARY, hardware, tinware and agri- cultural implements, Turner Junction, is a native of Du Page County, Ill., and is the youngest son of Charles Gary. He was born on his father's farm, located two miles south of Turner, in the year 1844. He received a common-school education. At the age of twenty, he began farming on his own account, farming the home farm on the shares, and, on becoming of age, his father deeded him 100 acres, and, after his father's death, he bought out the heirs, and now owns the home farm of 250 acres. In 1877, he bought the hardware business of J. W. Gates & Co., and has condneted the business since. He is Republican in politics, and has held the office of Supervisor for two years. In 1864, he married Miss Maria Pierce, a native of Du Page County. She died in 1873, leaving three children-Charles E., Mary Nettie and Ella M. In 1874, he married Miss Mary Baker, native of the State of Ohio, near Cleve- land. Her parents died when she was a
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child, and she made her home with her un- cle, at St. Charles, Ill. They have one child, Lula.
G. W. GUILD, farming, P. O. Warren- ville, is a native of Huntingdon County, N. J. He was born in the year 1837, and is the eldest of eleven children born to A. E. and Suzan A. Warne Guild. They were natives of New Jersey and now live in Cook County, Ill. In 1839, they moved to Fulton County, Ill., and, about 1843, moved to Sugar Grove, Kane County, and thence to Cook County. Our subject lived at home until he was about twenty years of age. He received a common- school education, attending the Wheaton College for two years. In 1857, he came to Du Page County, and worked on the farm of Mr. John Warne, and, the next year, rented the place, and farmed it several years. He then bought the present place where he now resides, and, in 1881, he bought the adjoin- ing place, now owning 220 acres, located one mile west of Warrenville. In 1858, he mar- ried Miss Abbie E. Warne, a native of Du Page County, Ill., daughter of John Warne, Esq. By the marriage there is one child- John W .- and an adopted daughter, Angusta Guild. He is Republican in polities.
FRANK J. HAGEMAN, farming, P. O. Winfield, is a native of Du Page County, Ill. He was born on his father's farm, in Win- field Township, in the year 1852, and is fourth of five children born to Frederick and Margaret Snyder Hageman. They were na tives of Germany. Frederick Hageman came to America with his parents when a young man, and she with her parents when seven years old. On the way over, his mother and brother were drowned. He and his father went to Chicago. His father was a physician, and practiced in Chicago. Frederick studied medicine in Germany, and got his diploma in the Rush Medical College, Chicago, and
also practiced in that city. He first ran on the lakes, and made headquarters at Buffalo, where he married. His father died in Chi- cago. Frederick came to Du Page County about 1850, and settled on a farm in Winfield Township. He bought first forty acres. and added to it until he had 325 acres. Shortly after coming here, he retired to Wheaton, and lived there at the time of his death. Mrs. Hageman is living there at present. While in Chicago, he served as City Physician and Alderman. Frank J. was raised in Wheaton. He received a course of study in Wheaton College, and learned the painter's trade, which he followed about five years. August 11, 1877, he married Miss Emma Batchelor, a native of Du Page County, Ill. They have three children-Lucy, George and Frank. After the marriage, he came on the old home- stead farm, and has farmed it since.
MATHIAS HILLS, general store, Win- field, is a native of Prussia. He was born in the year 1831. He was raised a farmer. He received a common-school education. In 1854, he came to America, and stopped a few months in Michigan, and thence to Chicago, and, after a few months of sickness, he went to Lake County, Ill., and dealt in stock for two years. He then rented a farm and farmed for about six or seven years, and next went to Cook County and opened a buteher shop at West Wheeling. now Arlington Heights. He remained there three years. He then came to Winfield and engaged in his present business, and has continued since. He is Democratic in polities; has served as Postmaster of Winfield for about four years. He also served as agent for the American Ex- press Company for six years, and station agent for the North-Western Railway Company at Winfield for three years, and Collector of township for one year. In 1855, he married Miss Barbara Nilles, a native of Prussia. K
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They had seven children, five living-Jacob P., Toony, Mary, Eva, Katie.
M. W. HAWKS, carpenter, Turner, is a native of Goshen, Hampshire Co , Mass. He was born in the year 1817. When he was fourteen years of age, he apprenticed to the carpenter's trade, and served until he became of age, after which he worked transient as a journeyman, at Amherst, on the college. He also traveled three years in Canada. While there, he married Miss Julia Wait. She died in July, 1876. From Canada he came to Chicago, where he lived until February, 1846, when he came to Winfield Township, Du Page Co., Ill., where his brother-in-law lived, and bought a small place and farined the same in connection with his trade as car- penter, and lived there until a few years ago, when he moved to his present place, in the village of Turner. By his marriage there were seven children, of whom four are living -- Mary Church, resides near Milwaukee; Cloye Jones, resides in Beatrice, Neb .; Arthur Hawk, telegraph operator ; Clifford Hawk, engineer on North-Western Railway. Sep- tember 16, 1877, he married Hannah Akers, a native of Fulton County, Penn. She resided in Wheaton at the time of her marriage. He is Republican in politics; was Whig, anti- slavery. He is a member of the Congrega- tional Church.
NEWTON HAWKS, farming, P. O. Tur- ner, is a native of Goshen, Hampshire Co., Mass. He was born in the year 1819. His father was a physician, and died when New- ton was young, and our subject was raised in the village until he was eleven years of age. He then went on the farm, living with a rel- ative until he became of age. He then worked one year in a saw-mill, and six years in a flower garden at North Hampton. He then, in 1847, came West and worked at the carpenter business in Chicago for one year,
when he came to Du Page County and bought his present place, though he rented for two years before he occupied his place, and has lived here ever since. In 1858, he married Miss Jane Wood, a native of Vermont. She came to Du Page County, Ill., with her par- ents about 1854. They have three children -- Wilbur D., Louisa C. and Theron B. Mr. Hawks is Republican in politics. He has served in the school offices, and as Road Commissioner. He owns eighty acres, locat- ed one and a fourth miles southwest of Tur- ner.
BENJAMIN HOWARTH, livery, feed and sale, Turner, is a native of New York. He was born in Auburn, N. Y., in the year 1843, and is the fourth of six children born to Sanders and Mary Peacock Howarth. They were na- tives of England. They married there, and moved to New York soon after, and in 1844, they moved to St. Charles, Kane Co., Ill., and in 1846, settled in Milton Township, two miles north of Wheaton, where they carried on farming. He died there in 1879. She is living with her daughter, in Wayne Town- ship. Our subject was raised on the farm. About 1868, he farmed the home farm on the shares, and, in 1875, went to Kane County, where he farmed one year; he then moved on a farm two miles south of Wheaton, and, in 1878, came to Turner and engaged in his present business. In 1875, he married Miss Emma Vandervolgin, a native of New York. He is Republican in politics.
WILLIAM J. HOLLISTER, farmer, P. O. Batavia, is a native of Berkshire County, Mass. He was born in the year 1840, and is the youngest of five children born to G. J. and A. M. Fuller Hollister They were natives of Massachusetts and Vermont. He was a wollen-manufacturer. In 1846, they came West, and bought a place lying on both sides of the county line of Du Page and Kane
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Counties, where he farmed until his death, in 1880. Mrs. Hollister died in 1875. Our subject was raised on the farm: He received an academic course of study at the academy in Batavia. In 1862, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Regiment Illi- nois Infantry, Company B, and was in the service three years. The first year, he served as Clerk in the Commissary Department. He was in the siege and capture of Vicks- burg, siege and capture of Mobile, and the other engagements of the regiment. He re- turned home from the army, and, in 1866, he married Miss Ella Carpenter, a daughter of A. E. Carpenter, an old pioneer of Du Page County, now resident in Aurora, Ill. He lived on the old homestead the first year after he was married, and then came to his present place, where he has lived since. By the mar- riage there are three children-Bertha M., Freddie A. and Robie C. He is Republican. Owns 150 acres located in Du Page and Kane Counties.
A. H. JONES, farmer, P. O. Turner, is a native of White Hall, Washington Co., N. Y. He was born in the year 1824, and is the second of eleven children born to Cornel- ins and Fannie M. Wilson Jones. They were natives of Washington County, N. Y. They married there and, a few years after, moved to Providence, R. I., and, in company 1 with Mr. Jerry Breede, owned and conducted a canal boat for three years. He then re- turned to his native county in New York and farmed until 1835, when he and Reuben Jones, a son of his half-brother, with their families, ! 1 came West by teams to Illinois, and settled on the east side of the Big Woods, in what is | now Naperville Township, Du Page County, where they bought claims and occupied and improved the same. In 1850, Mr. Jones went overland with two of his sons, Franklin and Hiram, to California, where he mined on the 'on the Galena & Chicago Railroad, he being
Yuba River for about three years. He then came tome and sold out and moved to Iowa, where he lived for four years, when he re- turned to a place he bought in Winfield Township, where he lived until 1875, when they moved to Batavia, where they now live, both of whom have passed the age of eighty. Our subject lived at home until the year 1847, when he married Miss Susan Warne, a native of New Jersey. She came to Du Page County, Ill., with her parents, in 1834. After the marriage, they occupied a part of his father's farm, where he farmed until 1852, when he went overland by team to California, and mined one year, and farmed two years in Santa Clara Valley. He then returned home, and, soon after, bought and occupied his present place, where he has since lived. By the marriage there are five children, all daughters-Sarah M. Delana, farming in Linn County, Iowa; · Emma E. Hodges, of Turner, Ill .; Mary Hummel, farming in Ne- braska; Carrie, at home; Josephine, at home. Mr. Jones is Republican. He owns 160 acres, located two and a half miles northwest of Turner.
J. J. KAUTZ, farming, P. O. Turner, is a native of Baden, Germany. He was born in " the year 1828. He was raised on the farm. He received a common-school education, and, at the age of twenty, he entered the army, and was engaged in the war or rebellion against Prussia. In 1849, he came to Amer- ica, and stopped in Erie Coun y N. Y., where he worked at farming and lumbering for about two years, when he came to Illinois and located at Turner, where he had relatives. He worked at gardening, and, the following spring, his parents, Christian and Mary Pfei- fer Kautz, came and bought a farm in Win- field Township, Du Page County, where they lived until their death. J. J. Kautz worked
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foreman of a gang of laborers, and, the next winter, went to live with his parents, and has lived on the farm since, he buying out the heirs after their deatlı. He married, in 1856, Miss Saloma Hansel, a native of Germany. She came to America with his parents in 1852. They had nine children, of whom three are living-Christian, farmer in Kane County; Charles, at home; Louisa, at home. He owns 208 acres, located on county line, three miles west of Turner.
MARTIN KAUTZ, farming, P. O. Geneva, is a native of Baden, Germany. He was born in the year 1829. He was raised on the farm and received a common-school education. In May, 1855, he came to America and settled in Turner, Ill., where he had relatives living. He then worked as a helper to a mason in Geneva, and then rented one of his present places for four years, and then bought the place, and has lived there since. He now owns 223 acres, located on the line, three miles west of Turner. In 1855, he married Miss Barbara Hawk, a native of Baden, Ger- many. She came to America on the same vessel he did, and also came to this county with him; they were married a few months later. They have seven children-Carrie Wolf, farming in Kansas; Mary, Martin, Jr., Jacob, Frederick, Barbara, Christina. He has earned all his property.
EDWARD LAMBE, milling, Warrenville, is a native of Yorkshire, England; he was born in the year 1831; he received a common- school education, and, at the age of fifteen, began clerking in a railroad office, where he continued about three and a half years. In 1850, he came to America with his parents, William and Mary Watson Lambe; they were natives of Yorkshire; they settled on a farm in Du Page County, Ill., where the family lived till 1857, when Mr. Edward Lambe bought the mill in company with Mr. Victor
Fredenhagen, and the family moved to War- renville, where Mrs. Lambe died a few years later. In 1862, Mr. Lambe sold one-half his interest in the mill and moved to a farm in Downer's Grove, where he farmed for eleven years, during which time his father died. In 1873, he returned and bought Mr. Freden- hagen's one-fourth interest in the mill. giv- ing him then one-half interest, and, a few years later, he became the sole proprietor. August 11, 1879, the mill was destroyed by fire, and was rebuilt, on a more extensive plan and improved pattern. In 1855, he married Miss Sofa Fredenhagen, a native of Germany; they have four children-William Victor, Paul Edward, Mary L. and Carrie A. Both the sons are engaged in the mill.
J. E. LEHMAN, farmer, P. O. Batavia, is a native of Lee County, Ill. ; he was born in the year 1847, and is the second of three chil- dren born to Samuel and Mrs. Foutz Lehman. Our subject was raised on the farm in Lee County, Ill., until he was ten years of age, when the family moved to Warrenville, III., where our subject lived until 1871, when he came to his present place, and has lived here since. In 1873, he married Miss Emma Pratt. a native of Du Page County, Ill. By the marriage there are three children-Wil- ton, Della and Luke. He owns 130 acres lo- cated two and a half miles southwest of Tur- ner.
JAMES W. McKEE, farmer, P. O. War- renville, is a native of Du Page County, III .; he was born in the year 1840, and is the sec- ond of three children born to David Mckee and his second wife, Sarah Ward. David McKee (deceased) was a native of Loudoun County, Va .; he was born December 2, 1800; his parents were John F. and Jane Marple McKee, of Scotland; they settled in Virginia, from which State they went to Pennsylvania. and. in 1813, they went to Cincinnati, Ohio,
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