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9815
6144
5060
3124
2931
Boone
I2942
II678
7624
1705
Brown
I2205
9938
7198
4183
Bureau
32415
26426
8841
3067
Calhoun
6562
5144
323I
I741
1090
Carroll
16705
II733
4586
IO23
Cass
11580
II325
7253
2981
Champaign
32737
14629
2649
1475
Christian
20363
10492
3203
1878
Clark
18719
14987
9532
7453
3940
93I
Clay
15875
9336
4289
3228
755
Clinton
16285
1094I
5139
3718
2330
Coles
25235
I4203
9335
9616
Cook
349966
144954
43385
IO20I
Crawford
13889
II55I
7135
4422
3117
2999
Cumberland
I2223
83II
3718
De Kalb
23265
I9086
7540
1697
De Witt
I4768
10820
5002
3247
Douglas
13484
7140
Du Page
16685
I470I
9290
3535
Edgar
21450
16925
10692
8225
407I
Edwards
7565
5454
3524
3070
1649
3444
Effingham
15653
7816
3799
1675
Fayette
19638
III89
8075
6328
2704
Ford
9103
1979
Franklin
12652
9393
568 I
3682
4083
1763
Fulton.
38291
33338
22508
13142
1841
Gallatin
III34
8055
5448
10760
7405
3155
Greene
20277
16093
I2429
I195I
7674
Grundy
14938
10379
3023
Hamilton
13014
9915
6362
3945
2616
Hancock
35935
29061
14652
9946
483
Hardin
5113
3759
2887
1378
Henderson
12582
9501
4612
Henry
35506
20660
3807
I260
4I
Iroquois
25782
I2325
4149
1695
Jackson
19634
9589
5862
3566
1828
1542
Jasper
II234
8364
3220
1472
Jefferson
I7864
I 2965
8109
5762
2555
691
Jersey
15054
I2051
7354
4535
To Daviess
27820
27325
18604
6180
2III
Johnson
II248
9342
4114
3626
1596
843
Kane
39091
30062
16703
6501
24352
15412
Kendall
12399
13074
7730
7060
274
Lake
21014
18257
14226
2634
La Salle
60792
48332
17815
9348
Lawrence
I2533
9214
6121
7092
3668
Lee
2717I
17651
5.292
2035
Livingston
31471
I1637
I553
759
Logan
23053
14272
5128
2333
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Kankakee.
Knox
39522
28663
13279
*23
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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.
POPULATION OF ILLINOIS-CONCLUDED.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
1830.
1820.
Macon
2648 1
13738
3988
3039
II22
Macoupin
32726
24602
I2355
7926
1990
Madison
4413I
31251
2044I
I4433
6221
I3550
Marion
20622
I2739
6720
4742
2125
Marshall
16950
I3437
5180
1849
Mason
16184
10931
5921
Massac
9581
6213
4092
McDonough
26509
20069
7616
5308
(6)
Mc Henry
23762
22089
I4978
2578
McLean
53988
28772
10163
6565
Menard
II735
9584
6349
4431
Mercer
18769
15042
5246
2352
26
Monroe.
12982
I2832
7679
4481
2000
1516
Montgomery
25314
13979
6277
4490
2953
Morgan
28463
22112
16064
19547
12714
Moultrie
10385
6385
3234
Ogle
27492
22888
10020
3479
Peoria
47540
36601
17547
6153
(c)
Perry
I3723
9552
5278
3222
1215
Piatt
10953
6127
1606
Pike
30768
27249
18819
II728
2396
Pope
II437
6742
3975
4094
3316
2610
Pulaski
8752
3943
2265
Putnam
62So
5587
3924
2131
11310
Randolph
20859
17205
11079
7944
4429
3492
Richland
12803
97II
4012
Rock Island
29783
21005
6937
2610
Saline
12714
933I
5588
Sangamon
46352
32274
19228
14716
12960
Schuyler
17419
14684
I0573
6972
b2959
Scott
10530
9069
7914
6215
Shelby
25476
14613
7807
6659
2972
Stark
1075I
9004
3710
1573
*5
St. Clair
51068
37694
20180
13631
7078
5248.
Stephenson
30608
25112
II666
2800
Tazewell
27903
21470
I2052
722I
4716
Union
16518
III8I
7615
5524
3239
2362
Vermilion
30388
19800
II492
9303
5836
Wabash
8841
7313
4690
4240
2710
Warren
23174
18336
8176
6739
308
Wayne
19758
I2223
6825
5133
2553
III4
White
16846
I2403
8925
7919
6091
4828
Whitesides
27503
18737
5361
2514
Will
43013
29321
16703
10167
Williamson
I7329
I2205
7216
4457
Winnebago
2930I
24491
11773
4609
Woodford
18956
I3282
4415
*49
Total.
2539891
1711951
851470
476183
I57445
55162
Washington
17599
13731
6953
4810
1675
1517
¥21
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PRODUCTIONS OF AGRICULTURE, STATE OF ILLINOIS, BY COUNTIES .- 1870.
Improved Land.
Woodl'nd
Other un -! improved
Spring Wheat.
Winter Wheat.
Rye.
Indian Corn.
Oats.
COUNTIES.
Number.
Number.
|Number. 1,491.331|
Bushels.
Bushels.
Bushels.
Bushels.
Bushels.
Total ..
19.329.952| 5,061.578|
10.133.207|19 995. 198 2.456,578 129.921.395 42.780.851
Adams.
287.926
112,576
19,3701
16,191|
947.616
20,989
1,452,905|
759,074
Alexander
13.836
17,761
42,658
30
244,220
21,627
Bond ..
145,045
42,613
1,915
200
368.625
6,240
1,064,052
461,097
Boone .
137,307
29,886
2,658
241,042
599
35,871
466,985
579,127
Brown ..
57,062
35,491
25.608
13,276
117.502
4,742
337,769
70,852
Bureau.
398,611
41.866
15.803
465,236
724
43,811
3,030.404
987,426
Calhoun
37,684
63.443
2,754
75
221,298
186
234,041
26,234
Carroll
186,864
29.793
33,302 6,604
12,165
127,054
2.772
1,146,980
168,784
Champaign
419,368
16,789
58,502
102,577
123,091
45.752
3.924,720
721,375
Christian
241,472
19,803
19.173
18,360
504,041
10.722
1,883,336
383,821
Clark
118,594
102,201
5,420
1,894
85,737
3,221
1,019,994
269.945
Clinton
150,177
48,868
8,722
500
610,888
1,619
813.257
446.324
Coles ...
208,337
45,214
3,274
2,651
154,485
8,825
2,133.111
315.954
Cook.
348,824
19,635
17,337
144,296
4,904
20,171
570,427 581,964
136,255
Cumberland
75,342
40,334
5,604
550
84,697
14,798
403,075
171,880
DeKalb
334,502
17,722
6.551
398,059
190
21,018
1,023,849
1,087,074
De Witt ..
168,539!
29,548
17.633
106,493
11,695
11 540
1,311,635
216,756
Douglas
147,633
7,316
7,683
65,461
9,017
1,680,225
225,074
DuPage.
164,874
3.851
106,096
693.
7.532
331,981
860,809
Edgar ..
265,458
66,803
14,282
13,283
247,360
37,508
2,107,615
290,679
Edwards.
58,912
57,585
830
77
195,716
19.759
620,247
386.073
Fayette.
187,196
16.786
42,571
1,008
11,577
565,67]
154,589
Franklin.
80,749
2,996 3,994
86,710
365
111,324
5.195
653,209
222,426
Fulton
228,132
123,823
4,076
193,669
223,930
131,711
1,508,763
261,390
Gallatin.
49,572
68,750
2.565
83,093
512
509,491
27,164
Greene ..
175,408
93,242
29.653
21,700
150
4,930
295,971
269,332
Hamilton.
88,996
93.878
3,343
129
92.347
11.672
735,25%
203.464
Hancock
311,517
43,385
18.480
181,378
232,750
133,533
1,510,401
579,599
Hardin
28.117
44,771.
107
13
32,306
865
172.651
26.991
Henderson.
140,954
34,705
14,243
161,112
69,062
96,430
1,712.901
229,286
Henry
265,904
31,459
462,379
445
35,766
2,541,685
668,367
Iroquois.
322,510
63,498
57,160
10,480|
23,259
799,810
430,746
Jackson
78,548
5,991
890
329.036
524
611,951
149,931
Jasper
90,867
67,023
12,250
87.808
9,165
461,345
149,214
Jefferson
118,951
94,888
778
100.553
5,934
887,981
285,949
Jersey
94,147
51,427
1,363
282,758
555
7.185
1,286,326
874,016
Johnson.
57,820
79,141
92,191
2.468
343,29t
74,525
Kane ..
240,120
34,646
399
188,826
325
23,618
674,333
785,608
Kankakee.
312,182
10,978
103,466
480
12,935
637,39!
772,408
Kendall.
14,244
2,283
90,681
1,249
5.16: 113,547
2,708,319
787,952
207,779
21,072
24,399
168,914
221
5.87€
517,35;
699.069
533,724
2,356
271,181
2,193
48,30€
3,077,02$
1,509,642
Lawrence
87,828
3,273
264,134
1,121
656,36:
131,386
Lee ..
322,212
12,071
7,409
450,793
2,260
14,829
1,656.978
903,197
Livingston
377,505
12,462
41,788
1,339
26,16:
1,182.69ł
659,300
Logan.
321,709
17,394
408
198,056
40,963
37.232
4,221,641
490,226
205.259
18,153
9,115
55,239
196,613
29,22;
2,214,468
454,648
231.059
81,224
7,343
160
861,398
2,404
1.051,544
459,417
257.032
89,450
13,675 4,142
1,207,181 173,65%
14,517
1,034,057
389,446
Marshall.
166,057
28,260
2,976
106,129
900
36,135
1,182,903
362,604
Mason
209,453
31,739
31,013
73,261
125,628
49,182
2,648,72
272,660
Massac
25,151
33,396
30
72,316
544
133,126
22,097
McDonoughi
52,547
14,035
273,871
36,146
52.401
1,362,490
280,717
McHenry
230,566
57,998
401,790
270
29,264
1,145,00€
910,397
McLean
494.978
49,087
211,801
10,955
39.824
3.723 37!
911,127
Menard.
134,173
34.931
13.952
36,152
45,793
4,28:
1.973.88
235,091
Mercer
222.809
45,977
22,588
289,291
13,203
40.778
2,054,96%
452,889
Monroe.
83.369
666
651.767
1.425
543,718
152,251
Montgomery
47.804
8,495
59
744.891
3,296
1,527,89>
293,450
60,217
1,376
18,196
357,523
5.53.
3,198,835
198,724
144,220
24,783
13.112
17.128
196,436
6,670
1,753 141
263,992
316,883
43,643
14.913
497.038
5,580
157,504
1,787.066
141,540
170,729
48,666
2,516
92,361
31 843
99,502
969,224
93,754
220
26,382
39.762
9.245
1,029.725
130,610
Pike
233.785
128,953
9,302
130
1.057,497
25.303
1,399.188
161.419
Pulaski.
19,319
12,516
4.174
28,137
796
7.707
334,259
86.519
140.764
162.274
1.170
450
1,031,022
3.235
510.08+
414,487
Richland ..
75,079
50,618
2 025
150.268
3.401
482,594
276,575
Saline ..
72,309
70,393
809
200
83.011
568
531,51(
69.793
421.748
51,085
19,932
89,304
247,658
23,072
4,388.76%,
397.718
Schuyler.
96,195
62.477
21,294
56,221
165,724
20,841
Scott
85,331
1,610
18
266.105
930
13.462
Shelby.
310,179
9,314
15,526
452,015
23.686
2,082,578
637.812
Stark ..
138,129
12,375
2,783
2,550
1,562 621
1,008
1,423 121
476.851
Stephenson
254,857
13,701
527,394
2.118
135,362
1.615,679
960.620
Tazewell
229.126
14,846
132,417
72.410
59,027
2,062,053
505,841
Vermilion
360,251
53,078
31,122
44,806
249.558
52,476
2,818.027
436 051
Wabash.
54,063
37.558
509
186,290
5,712
72,212
Wayne
147,352
146,794
10,486
266
164,689
8,665
1,179,291 870 521
119 653
Whitesides
289,809
37.310
457,455
264
31.658
2,162,943
880 838
Will.
419,442
24.261
6.335
195,286
1,996
8,030
1.131,458|
1,868.632
Williamson
128,448
1,648
176
170,787
6.228
655,710
180.986
Winnebago.
241,373
15,237
408,606
2.468
137.985
1.237.406
863.003
Woodford
225,504
25.217
23.135
178.139
198,307.
20.426
2,154.185
744,581
Crawford ..
105,505
78,350
27,185
60
212,924
7,308
614.582
212,628
Clay.
146,922
80,612
5,225
418,073
260
25.721
1,367.965
775,100
Cass.
92.902
33.493
55,852
1.931
672.4861
2,576
836.115
404,482
White ..
92,398
869
184,321
418
1,149 878
316 726
St. Clair.
231,117
76.591
43.167 45,268 83.606
5,300
180 231
1,737
679.753
124,473
110,793
Warren.
266,187
27,294
14,583
Washington.
2,982.853
601.054 533,398
Perry
350,446
1,01€
384,446
338,760
Fiatt
94.454
87,754
70,457
2,309
315,958
67,886
44,92
22:
195 735
16,511
204 634
Rock Island.
155.214
31,239
20,755
243,541
2.279
20,003
1,459,65:
Sangamon.
44,633 24,908
124.630
30 534
Union.
75,832
68,470 5,978
13,897
550
3,685
2.127.545
475,252
Marion.
173.081
61,579
25.155
267,764
7,654
415
1,051,313
64,029
Grundy.
193,999
6,256
4,505
122.703
528
352,371
129,152
Effingham.
120,343
56,330
26,206
351,310
25,328
962,525
497,395
Ford.
141,228
93,460
63,976
558,367
519,120
71.770
JoDaviess
156.517
82,076 3
681,267
468,890
Knox.
330,829
41,566
Lake
LaSalle
48,117
72,738
120,206
Macon
261,635
53,293
40,366
92,810
276,682
668,424
Morgan Moultrie.
Ogle ..
Peoria.
334,892
Pope.
55.980
Putnam
37,271
17,184
2,016
202.201
421,361
177.592
78.167 21.823
116.949 37.238
440,975 752.771
119 359
Maconpin
Madison
12,620
22.478 87,642
45,779
10,598
164.004
577,400
15,497
1,584,225
11,897 17,243|
195,118
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ELGIN.
HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
KANE COUNTY occupies a territory of 540 square miles, extending from McHenry on the north to Kendall on the south, and bounded on the east by Cook and DuPage Counties and on the west by DeKalb. It originally com- prised thirty-six townships, eighteen of which are now embraced in DeKalb and three in Kendall, while one of the others has been divided since the township organization, leaving sixteen within its present area. It contains nineteen cities, villages and hamlets, many of the most extensive manufactories in the State, about 105 miles of railroad in successful operation, and has few equals among the counties of the entire country in the variety and extent of its resources. Its chief source of wealth, however, is its rich prairie soil, drained by the beautiful Fox River, which traverses its eastern range of townships from north to south, and by several smaller streams and tributaries, the most important of which are Big Rock, Blackberry, Mill, Ferson's, Tyler's and Kishwaukee Creeks, Something less than one-fourth of its arca is covered with woodland; and its timber, when the country was new, was of a superior quality, including black walnut, hickory and the many varieties of oak, which are still common in its groves. Its geological deposits which appear to the view are limestone. All exposures of rock are, with one slight exception, along the banks of the river. At any point along the valley, a removal of a few feet of soil discloses this rock, which, at Batavia and vicinity, appears as an excellent building stone. Flag-stone, of any required surface or thickness, may there be obtained, which is usually of a buff or reddish yellow hue. An artesian well, bored at the C., B. & Q. car shops, in Aurora, disclosed, first, 30 feet of alluvial deposit, fol- lowed successively by 108 feet belonging to the Niagara limestone group, 165 feet to the Cincinnati group, 232 feet to the Galena and Trenton deposits, and, finally, by 158 feet of the buff and reddish-yellow sandstone. But few fossils have ever been unearthed in the county, and of these few the remains of a mas- todon, found near Aurora and now preserved in Jennings Seminary, are the most important. Further notice of them will be made in the chapter upon Aurora Townsnip. Peat is extensively ranged over portions of the surface of the northern townships, especially in Rutland and Hampshire, and in many sections a
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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
fine quality of brick-clay is obtained, from which brick very similar to the cele- brated Milwaukee brick is manufactured. Water is found in nearly every part of the county by sinking wells from ten to fifteen feet below the surface.
As will be inferred from the above statement, the general nature of the sur- face is level or but slightly rolling, there being but few hills worthy of the name
in the entire county. In summer, the traveler, standing upon the slight eleva- tions along the river bank, may behold for miles the rolling table lands stretch- ing far away toward the rising or setting sun, like cultivated gardens, broken only by the occasional groves, the frequent farm houses, with their clustering barns, the tall poplars around them or the well-built fences and green hedges.
Having thus briefly noticed the boundaries, the topography and the geologi- cal features of the country, we hasten to detail, at greater length, its
SETTLEMENT.
There is probably no county in Illinois that has accumulated its population from such various sources as has Kane County. From first to last there have been no less than ten distinct and separate nationalities which have furnished, not individuals only, but colonies, who have made their settlements in the borders of the staunch old county ; representatives of whom, in greater or less number, are among the residents to-day.
Beginning with the Hoosiers, who came into the county as early as 1833, following closely upon the rear guard of Scott's army upon the settlement of the Sauk, or, as it is commonly known, the Blackhawk war, we find settle- ments successively of Yankees, from Massachusetts and New York ; Scotch, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, French, Scandinavians, Germans, and, lastly, the war gave us, as one of its legacies, Sambo. Gen. Scott pushed the Indians back with his little army, which cut its way through the Little Woods, fording the river at the big bend near what is now known as Silver Glen, and left its trail broad and deep across the prairie through the townships of Elgin, Plato and Burlington.
Not only did the artillery and supply trains leave a broad track in their wake, but Death also traveled with the column, and, under the dread name of cholera, took captive many prisoners who have never yet been mustered for exchange, but whose bones have mouldered away on rounded slopes in Plato, where the mounds may be seen and noted to-day. As Scott solved the Indian question in Illinois, people from Virginia, Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Illinois, all called by the general name of " Hoosiers," came into the county, in big canvas-covered wagons drawn by four or five yoke of oxen, and called "prairie schooners." They located on the southern side of groves and in sunny exposures beside streams and springs, and fenced only as much land as would suffice for a little corn, and gave themselves up generally to the pleasures- of the chase, game being abundant. They were hardy people, fond of pioneer life, regardless of the forms and ceremonial restraints of advanced civilization,
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but noted for their neighborly kindness and hospitality. They lived a careless, easy life, and on the irruption of the Yankees, as a general thing, went again to the border, at that time in Iowa. They were generally inclined to Metho- dism in their religious views, and took naturally to it when Bishop Asbury's itinerating preachers came to the front.
The Alexanders came to Geneva from Southern Illinois, about 1835, and John Tucker, a fine courtly gentlemen from Virginia, came about 1836-7, and with his sons, Charles and John R., and several daughters, settled in Campton, on what is still held as the Tucker homestead. Some of the daughters married into the Corron families, thus connecting two of the oldest families in the county. Richard J. Hamilton, Col. Strode and Buckner J. Morris, largely interested at that time in Kane County, also came from Kentucky, but located in Chicago. Bird built a log house on his claim near the ravine, just north of A. M. Herrington's farm house, in Geneva. Haight built his house near the large spring just opposite the old Webster House that was in Geneva. Crow built on the east side of the river. Newton Shelby took up the site of East St. Charles, and sold all of the claim north of the main street to Calvin Ward, in 1835, for $75. J. M. Laughlin made his claim at Round Grove, east of St. Charles, and subsequently purchased it of the Government. He married into the family of Gartons, who lived near him. John Hammers took up the old Western Enterprise Claim, just east of St. Charles Village, and subse- quently sold out and moved to Hoosier Grove, northeast of Elgin, where, with Abe Leatherman, he soon gathered about them a fine sturdy lot of brother Hoosiers, many of whom are still living in the western part of Cook County, and make Elgin their market. Wm. Franklin located the claim now known as the Gray farm, near Laughlin's, and the Stewarts located on the Dutton farm. At Dundee, around its sheltering mounds so picturesque and beautiful, and beside its clear, unfailing springs, Rice and Dewees squatted and built the Spring Mills, supplied with power by the springs which flow from the mounds, which subsequently have proven to be valuable sources of wealth in material for the justly celebrated white brick of Dundec. They also built the usual accompaniment, in those days, of a grist-mill, a distillery to provide a market for the corn raised in the county, on the principal that as corn in the raw was unpalatable, yet if it was worked up into whisky, a little of it could be worried down.
Wmn. Welch also came, an old veteran, whose history reaches back into the bloody days of Boone, in Kentucky, and who was one of Boone's companions in many a weary hunt and dangerous campaign. In 1812, Mr. Welch took a supply train from Blue Lick, Ky., through the unbroken wilderness in Ohio, Pennyslvania and New York, to the army at Sackett's Harbor on Lake Ontario. It was a thrilling story to hear " Uncle Billy " relate this episode in his life. Benj. Marks, a relative of the Welches, entered large tracts of land in the town- ships of Elgin and St. Charles at the land sale, the patents for which from the
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Government, signed by John Tyler, President, are on record in our Recorder's office. The Oatmans came early and staid late, Jesse Oatman being still an honored resident of the town of Dundee. The Ashbaughs, a large family of large boned, muscular men and women, came and settled down in the north- western part of the town, and Andrew, one of the sons, still resides on the old homestead. The Ashbaughs had a huge Hoosier breaking plow, with which, and a team of eight yoke of oxen, they broke up prairie in nearly every town in the northern part of the county. The Ashbaughs and their breaking team were an institution in the early history of the county, and no record of those times would be complete without honorable mention of their doings.
Strode, a brother of the Colonel, settled just north of the town line, where he took up a large tract of land and subsequently bought it of the Government, and which he held until within a short time ago. John R. Tucker bought a large tract of land in the northern part of Campton, and added farm to farm until, at his death, his heirs divided up among themselves as noble a patrimony as has fallen to any children in the county. On the old Tucker homestead can be viewed one of the rarest landscapes in this region.
Just south of the house, as the road rises to the summit toward St. Charles, the beholder stands in the center of a magnificent sweep of prairie and timber. To the west and southwest stretches a natural basin of prairic, the horizon of which is bounded by the wooded slopes in the southern part of the town. To the northwest lie the fertile lands of Burlington, and north and northeast he looks out over the splendid farms of Plato and Elgin with the city's spires in the distance. Eastward are the woods on the river, and the slopes beyond in Du Page County. Southeast, St. Charles nestles on the banks of the Fox, and the Court House-the judgment seat to many a willing and unwilling litigant -shows its white walls, distance lending its enchantments in concealing the ugly iron spots in its surface which so vex the eye on nearer inspection. Southward, the view is closed in by the grove of noble old oaks, a portion of the original forest which has been left standing, thanks to the discovery of coal and its general use for fuel.
There is another fine view on the old Oatman homestead, north of the present village of Dundee. The house, a roomy and capacious one, is built at the foot of a finely wooded bluff nearly a mile from the river; and in front of it, and reaching to the river, is a magnificent field of bottom land, as level as a house floor, which takes a circular sweep southward until it is shut in by the bluff, which, at the distance of nearly a mile, comes down to the river, from which it rises abruptly from that point to the village two miles below.
These old Hoosier families did not all "go West," however, on the advent of the Eastern men, but intermarried with the new comers, and raised up chil- dren, who have become and are a pride to their families and an honor to our county. Many of our most worthy and honored citizens to-day are repre- sentatives of those old families. Among them are Jesse Oatman, Thomas R.
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Welch and Andrew Ashbaugh, of Dundee; George Hammers, whose daughter is the estimable wife of D. F. Barclay ; Leatherman and M. J. Amick, of Elgin; the Corrons, Robert, Joseph P. and Wesley, of Clintonville and Campton ; J. M. Laughlin, of Round Grove ; Julius Alexander, of Geneva, beside many others, descendants of the first white men who came to the county to stay and make for themselves a local habitation and a name within its borders.
The first ripple of the incoming tide of Eastern immigration from New York and New England showed itself in 1834 in Kane County, while Waubansie, the war chief of the Pottowattomies, and his people yet held possession of the country. In 1835, Capt. C. B. Dodson removed the old chief and his tribe to Council Bluffs and Kansas, and the beautiful ridge on the west bank of the Fox, just north of Aurora, in which the tribe had buried its dead for many suns, was claimed by McNamara and others; and soon the bones of the once powerful tribe were exposed by the plowshare, and the implements of the chase placed beside the dead warriors gathered as relics or cast aside as rubbish. Waubansie was the friend of the whites, and strongly resisted his removal from the scenes of his youthful exploits and the acts of bravery of his later years; but the decree was inexorable; the white man wanted his land, and the old warrior turned from his home much in the same humor his pale-face brother would if a stronger power than he could say, " My people want this country, therefore you will move on."
New England and New York gave Kane County a class of men who estab- lished its reputation for good order on a firm basis, organized its legal existence, began its system of manufactures which have been so wonderfully developed, laid the foundation of its excellent schools, built its early churches and gave it its splendid farms, the real source of all its wealth. Other good men and true have come in from other parts and nobly helped in the splendid achievements of suc- cess and fame, who will be named under the heads of other colonizations. Mas- sachusetts sent of her sons from 1835 to 1840, as follows: The " Hub " gave us Charles Patten, of the " old corner," C. A. Buckingham, the different Clark families, Scott and his son Charles, Samuel N. and the family of Marshall Clark, Peter Sears, Cleveland, Whiting and Haskins at Geneva ; Major Osborn at Batavia, and Hunt and the Brookses at St. Charles. The Wards and Durants came from the Connecticut Valley and settled in St. Charles; the Bunkers of Geneva and Kaneville were New Bedford men, while the Berkshire hills, gor- geous in their glories of crimson and gold, gave up the Kingsleys, Wilmarths, Hoxies, Masons, McClouds, Brownings, Slades, Parkers and Wells, at Dundee and vicinity, and the Judds at Sugar Grove. The Aments, Alexis Hall, the Longs, the Severances of Big Rock, who settled in' what was called the " Col- ony " in that township, W. B. Plato at Aurora, and the Danfords-five brothers -Eben, the inventor of the double motioned sickles for mowing machines and the super-heating steam generator, at Geneva, all came from the old Bay State. Dr. Le Baron, our late worthy and competent State Entomologist, came from classic Andover.
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