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nent and greatly esteemed citizen, and at one time representing the district in the state legislature. He died January 5, 1859, aged about forty years.
In 1859 the newspaper files show additional attorneys in Aurora in the persons of C. J. Metzner, John W. Ray, L. R. Wagner and E. A. Prichard. George W. Grow came some time previous to 1860.
In December, 1847, Messrs. Champlin and Dodge (John C. Champlin, of Ottawa, and A. R. Dodge, of Aurora) announced through the columns of the Beacon that they were ready to practice law in the counties of Kane, Kendall, DeKalb and McHenry. Mr. Dodge has been previously mentioned.
Senator Albert J. Hopkins is a native of DeKalb county, Illinois, and a graduate (1870) of Hillsdale (Michigan) College. In August, 1870, he came to Aurora and began the study of law with C. J. Metzner, at that time one of the leading members of the Kane county bar. In September, 1871, Mr. Hopkins was admitted to practice by the supreme court of Illinois, and a year later in all the United States courts. He was elected state's attorney for Kane county in 1872 and made a splendid record, the beginning of the career which has placed him at the head of the criminal lawyers in the county. He enjoys an extensive and increasing practice, and the well known firm of Hopkins, Aldrich & Thatcher are acknowledged leaders among the professional firms of northern Illinois. In 1885 Mr. Hopkins was elected to congress from the fifth district of Illinois to fill out the unexpired term of Hon. Reuben Ellwood (deceased), of Sycamore. He was reelected continuously for twenty years, and in 1902 was promoted to the senate, being the first citizen of Kane county to enjoy that distinction. In 1908 he was renominated by the popular vote at the primary election in August, and will doubtless succeed himself.
N. J. Aldrich studied law at Aurora with M. O. Southworth, and took a two years' course at Ann Arbor, Michigan, graduating in 1876. He was admitted to the bar the same year at Mount Vernon, Illinois, before the supreme court, and commenced practice at Aurora with A. J. Hopkins in 1878. He has made an enviable reputation and now stands among the leaders at the bar.
Frank A. Thatcher was graduated from the East Aurora High School in 1877, and from the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, in the class of 1881, receiving the degree of Ph.M. Mr. Thatcher studied law for two years with Hopkins and Aldrich, was admitted to the bar in 1883 upon ex- amination by Judge Upton, and of the appellate court. He became a member of the firm of Hopkins, Aldrich & Thatcher in 1884, where he continued until lie formed his present partnership with N. J. Aldrich.
William George was graduated from the West Aurora High School in 1879 and took a collegiate course in the University of Iowa. He studied law with W. H. and J. H. Moore in Chicago and at the same time took a full course in the Union College of Law in that city, receiving the degree of LL.B. He was graduated from that institution and admitted to the bar at Ottawa in June, 1885, and is now practicing in Aurora. For two years he was associated with the firm of Hopkins, Aldrich & Thatcher.
Fayette W. Winslow, a native of Kane county, and a graduate of the West Aurora High School, is also a graduate of Sterling College at Beloit,
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Wisconsin, and the Columbia Law School at New York city. He was ad- mitted to practice upon examination before the appellate court at Ottawa, Illinois, in December, 1883, and in June, 1884, opened an office in Aurora in company with Frank G. Hanchett.
Frank G. Hanchett is also a graduate from the West Aurora High School. In 1882 he was graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago and took a thorough law course at Iowa City, Iowa, graduating in 1883. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1884 and has since been engaged in practice at Aurora.
Charles L. Allen, now of Sterling, Colorado, where he is engaged in lucrative business, was formerly a resident of Aurora, and numbered among the able young lawyers of that city. He was at one time city attorney.
J. P. Cass, John C. Murphy and A. J. King were all examined and admitted to the bar in September, 1882, before the appellate court. Mr. Cass, who was graduated from the East Aurora High School in 1879, and subsequently a teacher for two years, studied law with Judge Parks and A. G. McDole. He opened an office in October, 1882, since when he has been en- gaged in practice. In 1884-85 he served as alderman from what was then the Fifth ward of Aurora. He was in partnership with Judge Parks for a short time; is now a member of the public library board and second lieutenant of Company D, Third Regiment, Illinois National Guard. Early in 1888 Mr. Cass removed to the Pacific coast. Mr. Murphy has been for over two years assistant United States attorney for Dakota territory, and Mr. King, who was for a time in company with M. O. Southworth, is now prospering in the law. loan and real estate business at Overlin, Kansas.
Russell P. Goodwin studied law with Judge Cody at Naperville and M. O. Southworth at Aurora, and was admitted to the bar January 17, 1879, by examination before the appellate court at Ottawa, Illinois, since when he has been engaged in practice at Aurora. He has been public administrator for Kane county, city attorney of Aurora, judge of the city courts, and is now United States customs agent at Chicago.
Thomas B. Swan studied law at Indiana, Pennsylvania, and was there admitted to practice in the fall of 1878. He had been previously graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania. He practiced a few months at Blairsville, in that state, and in 1879 came to Aurora.
A. E. Searles studied law with Judge A. O. Aldis at St. Albans, Vermont, where he was admitted to the bar in 1842. After practicing about twelve years at Sheldon, in the sanie county ( Franklin) he was located in practice at St. Albans until the spring of 1858. when he removed to Aurora. He was several times city attorney of Aurora, and was in partnership with R. G. Montony until the latter was elected judge of the city court. They had an office in Chicago in 1873-74.
Osborn A. Holcomb read law over two years with A. E. Searles and was admitted to practice at Ottawa in December, 1885, after which he located at Aurora.
N. F. Nichols came to Aurora in September, 1857, fresh from the Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, where he had just been
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graduated. He taught school several years at Kaneville, Geneva and Aurora; read law with J. H. Mayborne at Geneva and S. W. Brown at Aurora; was admitted to the bar in 1865 upon examination at Chicago; began practice at Aurora in partnership with S. W. Brown about 1867. Mr. Nichols was sev- eral times city attorney of Aurora and previously superintendent of schools in Kane county.
D. M. Clapsaddle, who died at Huron, South Dakota. in 1886, was in practice in Aurora for a few years and for a time in partnership with N. F. Nichols.
Randall Cassem, an able lawyer, for some years in practice at Yorkville, Illinois, removed to Aurora in the fall of 1887.
Frederick Brown was admitted to the bar in 1853 at Ravenna, Ohio, having studied with Judge Ezra B. Taylor (member of congress and successor to Garfield) and John L. Ranney. After practicing a year and a half he came west and located at Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, where he prac- ticed five years. He was appointed postmaster there in April, 1861, upon the recommendation of Hon. E. B. Washburne, and held the position over twelve years. During the time he served four years in the army, leaving the office in charge of his wife. Resigning the postmastership in 1873, he came to Aurora. He was once a justice of the peace at Pecatonica, but resigned. He has held a similar office at Aurora 1881 ; has been school trustee, etc.
Samuel Alschuler, who studied law at Aurora with Captain A. C. Little, was admitted to the bar before the appellate court at Ottawa in December, 1880, and has been in practice since the latter part of 1881. Mr. Alschuler has made an enviable reputation as an attorney, and is now of the firm of Kraus, Alschuler & Holden, of Chicago, one of the important firms of that city. In 1898 he was nominated for governor on the democratic ticket and made a strong run against Richard Yates. He still resides at Aurora.
Charles I. McNett read law at Ottawa, Illinois, and was admitted before the appellate court in December, 1881. Since December, 1882, he has been a resident in Aurora, where he has an office. He was master in chancery several years.
Asa G. McDole, born in Sugar Grove township, Kane county, Illinois; was the first white male child whose birth occurred within that township, the date being June 12. 1836. Beginning in 1858, he studied law a year with Judge Parks at Aurora, and in 1859-60 attended for six months the first term of the law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was examined for ad- mission to the bar in the fall of 1860 at Chicago by Ebenezer Peck and was cluly admitted in January, 1861. He was city attorney of Aurora from April, 1862, to April, 1864. and again from April, 1879, to April, 1882. He revised the ordinances of the city in 1863 and was for a time master in chancery of the Aurora city court.
George W. Grove was a practicing attorney at Aurora when Mr. McDole entered the professional field, but subsequently removed from the city and is now deceased.
M. O. Southworth studied law in 1864-65 with DeWolf & Pinckney at Dixon, Illinois, and in 1869-70 at the University of Michigan, from which he
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was graduated in the spring of 1871. He began business at Aurora the same spring, and in 1873 entered into partnership with Sewell W. Brown, who is universally mentioned as one of the most upright citizens Aurora ever pos- sessed. Since Mr. Brown's death Mr. Southworth has practiced mostly alone. He was city attorney of Aurora several terms and was county judge from 1902 to 1906. He still is in practice at Aurora.
Hon. C. D. F. Smith is in all respects an excellent lawyer. He has held the position of judge of the Aurora city court and also that of county judge of Kane county.
J. D. Fox came to Kane county in 1857 and soon after commenced the study of law with C. J. Metzner, continuing same until 1863, when he enlisted in the army. After his return he resumed his studies in the office of his old preceptor, and was admitted to the bar in 1865.
The "old school" of lawyers are fast disappearing in Kane county, and but for a few exceptions such as W. R. S. Hunter, of Elburn; Captain Brown, of Geneva; John W. Ranstead, of Elgin; Judge Montony, of Aurora; T. E. Ryan, of St. Charles, and a few others, have answered the final call or retired from practice. That they were an able body of men none can gainsay. That they lived like men and practiced like lawyers knowing the dignity and honor of their profession none will deny. Wilson, Fridley, Parks, Joslyn, Barry, Dearborn, Herrington, Botsford, Montony, Garfield, Lockwood, Wilcox, Wheaton and Farnsworth are names that will live long in the annals of the Kane county bench and bar. The practices of the later day, now becoming well dominant, are as different from the methods of that early day as the conditions now existing differ from those of the '50s. The multiplication of reports and statutes covering quite every point of experience and setting a rule for quite every case has compelled lawyers to become students of the law rather than orators on the facts. The jury, once more or less supreme, has become more subservient to the judge, and the attorney who formerly en- joyed unlimited time in which to address the jury is now confined to such time as the court may judge sufficient. Rules of practice have become more particular, and the court and the lawyer more circumscribed by precedents that did not exist in the earlier time. Few matters are now heard of outside the court room except criminal cases of importance. While the jury is still of value, the upper courts are more and more in view to the attorney in the trial of cases, for where one case formerly went to a higher court ten are now taken up. A new class of lawyers educated to the newer practices now prevails in the conduct of the courts.
Among the younger members of the profession who have come into prominence the past ten years might be named Charles L. Abbott, at present assistant United States district attorney at Chicago; Frank E. Shopen, T. S. Huntley, referee in bankruptcy ; Frank W. Shepherd, John R. Powers, Walter E. Healy and Roy R. Phillips, of Elgin; Frank G. Plain, county judge; Frank R. Reid, state's attorney; W. J. Tyers, state's attorney-elect, and Judge Mangan, of the city court of Aurora and Elgin.
A list of lawyers in Kane county in 1858 shows the following to have been then in practice :
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At Aurora-James G. Barr, O. M. Bates (law student), S. W. Brown, O. D. Day, S. N. Dickinson, B. F. Fridley, A. C. Gibson, John Little (law student ), Charles J. Metzner, R. G. Montony, William R. Parker, Samuel Parker (law student), B. F. Parks, E. A. Prichard, A. E. Searles, N. J. Smith, James Van Allen (law student), L. R. Wagner.
At Batavia-Judge Samuel D. Lockwood, Thomas C. Moore, Charles Wheaton.
At Elgin-John Calvert. F. Colby, Edmund Gifford, A. B. Phiney.
At Geneva-Judge Isaac G. Wilson, Augustus M. Herrington, J. H. Mayborne, W. B. Plato.
At Lodi Station (now Maple Park) -- William J. Brown, who was also postmaster.
At St. Charles-Alonzo H. Barry, Judge William D. Barry, D. L. East- man, John F. Farnsworth, J. H. Ferguson, S. S. Jones.
KANE COUNTY BAR IN 1908.
AURORA.
O. A. Holcomb
R. G. Montony
F. W. Hartsburg
A. C. Little
J. K. Newhall
A. J. Hopkins
H. D. Cheney
F. M. Annis
Randall Cassem
MI. O. Southworth
Irvin Crego
Frederick Brown
T. J. Merrill
R. P. Goodwin N. J. Aldrich
William F. Fowler
J. C. James
A. H. Switzer
J. P. Callan
Samuel Alschuler
Robert Wing
Theo. Worcester
G. C. Van Osdel
F. G. Hanchett
R. B. Scott
Frank G. Plain
Frank R. Reid
Ben P. Alschuler
Lee Mighell
Morris E. Yager
Fred A. Dolph
J. C. Murphy
W. J. Tyers J. S. Sears
Ray Salfisberg
A. M. Beaupre
Charles I. McNett
W. M. Mercer Thomas B. Swan
F. D. Winslow
William George
C. A. Love Charles Clyne
J. M. Raymond
S. N. Hoover
E. B. Quackenbush
P. Y. Smith
F. M. Outhouse Ralph C. Putnam Fred B. Silsbee
J. I. Montgomery. James F. Galvin Eben Beaupre
Harvey Gunsel
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BATAVIA. William Lesemann Maurice Weigle
H. N. Jones
W. G. Sutfin
Elwood E. Kenyon J. M. Manley Ernest C. Luther
Fred B. Raymond
Ezra Rue
J. F. C. Krahn
Isaac H. Warren
Lawrence M. McNerney
Charles Hopson
Frank C. McCarthy
R. H. Kramer
C. E. Botsford
J. H. Williams
J. P. Mann
John Powers, Jr.
Frank W. Joslyn
Robert G. Earley
Charles H. Wayne
Charles Hazlehurst
James J. Kirby
R. Waite Joslyn
John B. Newman
Mark Hart C. F. Irwin
John S. Wilcox
Charles W. Lehmann
F. W. Shepherd
Roy R. Phillips
Eugene Clifford
Richard Lowrie
Robert S. Egan
J. H. Becker C. H. Fisher
J. G. Spillard
R. D. Hollembeak
D. B. Ellis
Frank E. Shopen
ELBURN.
W. R. S. Hunter
Marie Glidden-Hunter
Edward F. Gorton William J. Brown Urville Peckham
GENEVA.
J. D. Harvey A. P. West Wells M. Cook
ST. CHARLES.
Ernest McGaffey J. Frank Richmond Charles L. Hunt
Charles A. Miller T. E. Ryan H. G. Hempstead
DUNDEE.
ELGIN.
J. W. Ranstead T. S. Huntley
T. J. Rushton
John A. Russell
W. E. Healy
Charles L. Abbott
James F. Flynn
Pierce Tyrrell I. M. Western J. W. McQueen William Perce G. R. Beverly W. H. Wilcox
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CHAPTER XX.
THE PRESS.
St. Charles has the honor of being the place at which the first paper in Kane county and the first in the Fox River valley, above Ottawa, was pub- lished. About December 15, 1841, Rev. William Rounseville, a Universalist minister, well known throughout this section of the country, in company with Rev. Seth Barnes, also a Universalist minister, established in the interests of that denomination a paper called The Better Covenant. The office was in the basement of Mr. Rounseville's stone dwelling in East St. Charles. After a few months the paper was removed to Chicago, where it was subsequently merged in The New Covenant. Mr. Rounseville was afterward connected with other newspaper enterprises in the county.
It was fitting that the first newspaper as well as the first religious paper should be published at St. Charles, then the most important place in Kane county ; and consequently we find that on February 5, 1842, Rev. John Thomas, D.D., issued the first number of the St. Charles Patriot and the Fox River Advocate. The office was in the second story of a building which stood on the east side of the river, near the northeast corner of Main and First streets. It was a small sheet, but exceedingly well conducted. Before the third issue the building was destroyed by fire. Another outfit was procured- Ira Minard going to Hennepin, on the Illinois river, to procure a press-and the paper was revived as the St. Charles Patriot, Fox River Advocate and Kane County Herald. Dr. Daniel D. Waite succeeded Dr. Thomas about 1843 and continued the paper as the Fox River Advocate in a little brick office built by Dr. Collins, and later occupied by T. E. Ryan as part of a stable. In the latter part of 1845 Dr. Waite sold out, and in the spring of 1846 Messrs. Smith and Kelsey, school teachers, began the publication of the Prairie Mes- senger, the best of the early papers. It had not continued very long when Messrs. Cockroft and Wilson purchased the establishment and continued it under a new name at Geneva.
In October, 1848, Isaac Marlett established at Aurora a democratic paper called The People's Platform, with Rev. Rounseville as editor. This paper was continued through the presidential campaign of 1848 in the interest of Martin Van Buren and the free-soil party, and on March 8, 1849, was removed to St. Charles, where its name was soon afterward changed to the Democratic Platform. S. S. Jones purchased Marlett's interest about June 1, 1850, and in August of the same year the name of the paper was changed to Kane County Democrat, George C. Hubbard becoming associated with Mr. Jones in its publication. On the morning of January 22, 1851, Mr. Hubbard was found dead near the railroad track. about midway between St. Charles and the junc- tion with the G. & G. U. Railroad. It was supposed he had perished from cold on the night of the 17th while attempting to walk home from the junction (now West Chicago). It was also surmised by a few that he might have been the victim of foul play. The Democrat office was moved to Geneva in Janu-
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ary, 1855, James Herrington becoming editor of the paper. In August following it was moved to Batavia.
The Weekly Argus, the publication of which was begun at Batavia, was removed to St. Charles in the early part of the year 1857, where it was pub- lished by Stitt & Matteson at the corner of Main and Second streets, east side. In the fall of that year the St. Charles Argus, as it was called, was purchased by R. N. Botsford and Ed Furnald, who continued its publication. About March 1, 1858, Mr. Botsford purchased the interest of his partner, and after the November election in that year sold the establishment to John J. Mould- ing and a man by the name of Horton. The paper was merged finally in The Fox River Independent, established by John J. Moulding in January, 1861. The publication of the Independent ceased about September 1, 1861, Mr. Moulding having enlisted for the war in the band attached to the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry. During the Douglas and Lincoln campaign of 1858 Rev. William Rounseville published a campaign paper called The Observer. It was printed on the Argus press, and was discontinued after the November election of that year. After a lapse of several years, in which St. Charles was without a paper, S. L. Taylor, afterward of the Elgin Advocate, estab- lished the St. Charles Transcript in March, 1871. In July of the same year he sold out to Messrs. D. W. Tyrrell and Charles Archer, and removed to Elgin. In June, 1873, the office was sold to Frank McMaster and Hiram N. Wheeler, and in the fall of that year the name of the paper was changed to The Northern Granger, Mr. Wheeler became interested in the Grange movement. In December, 1874, the name was again changed to the St. Charles Leader and the paper enlarged from a seven-column folio to a six-column quarto. Its politics took another swing and became democratic. Early in 1878 the Leader was removed to Elgin and continued as the Elgin Leader. Mr. Wheeler, who had purchased Mr. McMaster's interest in 1876, finally entered the journalistic field at Quincy, Illinois. In September, 1874, D. W. Tyrrell began the publi- cation at St. Charles of the St. Charles Independent, a weekly sheet, which was continued but a few months. Mr. Tyrrell afterward engaged in news- paper work at DeKalb, Illinois.
The St. Charles Review took the place of the Leader in May, 1878, and was published by D. L. Zabriskie and John F. Dewey, the latter having been formerly connected with the Leader. The Review was an able and exceedingly newsy paper, and during the latter part of its existence was published by Mr. Dewey alone. It was continued nearly two years, when the subscription list was sold to the Elgin Advocate, and its publication ceased. Mr. Dewey later became proprietor of the Aurora Daily News. The latest newspaper to be established in St. Charles was The Valley Chronicle, the publication of which was begun May 27, 1881. by Samuel W. Durant. It was a six-column quarto sheet, republican in politics, and did manful duty in battling for the interests of the place. It had a good circulation and its influence for the best interests of its abiding place can not be disputed. For a little over two years, in 1883- 84-85. when its proprietor was temporarily engaged in other business, the Chronicle was managed a short time by Mr. Durant's two sons, P. A. and S. W. Durant, Jr., and then by P. A. Durant alone. The latter removed to
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Aurora in August, 1885. For a short period in 1877 Rev. D. Matlock pub- lished a small four-column folio sheet called The Quivering Leaf, which was mostly religious in tone and full of the ideas of its publishers. It existed but a short time.
At Geneva the first newspaper was printed in the winter of 1845-46 by Robert I. Thomas and H. Hough, and called the Fox River Advocate. It was continued only for a few months, when it was temporarily suspended, and then passed into the hands of H. Hough, who revived it under the caption of the Star of the West, which, after the issuing of two numbers, set in darkness. In the spring of 1847 Messrs. Wilson and Cockroft ( Benjamin Wilson and Joseph Cockroft) bought the material of the Fox River Advocate office and commenced a paper April I. called the Western Mercury. In about three months the material of the Prairie Messenger. printed at St. Charles. also fell into their hands. The Mercury was continued four years, through the hardest times up to that period experienced by the farmers of the state, for bad crops and low prices, and finally, when the publisher could no longer "work for nothing and find himself," as a contemporary expressed it, the publication of the sheet was discontinued April 24, 1851. Mr. Wilson had also published for St. Charles a small paper, called the Temperance Messenger, which expired two weeks before the death of the Mercury. The job printing department was successfully continued and for many years the old sign. "Book and Job Printing," was suspended before the gaze of passing people. In January. 1856, Messrs. Wilson and Cockroft revived their newspaper, calling it the Kane County Advertiser, the firm at the same time increasing their job printing outfit and commencing a stereotype foundry. About 1867 the name was changed to Kane County Republican, and later to Geneva Republican. About 1870 the office passed into the possession of S. L. Taylor, who in 1871 sold it to D. W. Tyrrell and Charles Archer. In 1873 McMaster, Archer & Wheeler became proprietors, and in 1875 the office became the property of Charles Archer, who continued its publication until the present proprietor, Arthur D. Haynes, purchased it August 12. 1884. The Patrol, a four-column quarto temperance paper, was established in 1884 by J. N. Wheeler, who had associated with him at different times S. D. Tillotson and Forest Crissey, the latter having since made a national reputation as a journalist. The Patrol is still published at Geneva by C. W. Bailey, chiefly as the organ of prohibi- tion : also the Twice a Week Republican, by E. A. Mead.
At Batavia the first newspaper was a democratic sheet, called the Expositor. started about 1852 by James Risk and others. Although Mr. Risk may have been great, the risk he took in essaying the publication of a paper in Batavia was greater. for before becoming firmly established the sheet died a natural death. An old directory. issued in 1857. publishes in the Batavia department the advertisement of the Batavia Weekly Argus. The proprietors. Messrs. T. W. Stitt. M. D. and Elijah H. Eyer, announced that they had fitted up an entirely new office and were prepared to do all work in their line in a first-class manner. This attempt to supply the people of Batavia with a paper proved no more successful than the first one, and the office was soon moved to St. Charles. In May. 1869. Messrs. Roof & Lewis commenced the publication
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