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FOR CONGRESSMAN.
William L. May 285
John T. Stewart 66
FOR STATE SENATOR.
William Stradden. 298
George W. Howe 50
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
Henry Madden 189
John W. Mason. 148
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Thomas H. Thompson (Dundee) 323
Claudius Townsend (Aurora) 324
Mark Daniels (Geneva) 235
Eli Barnes 65
Jesse C. Kellogg. 22
FOR SHERIFF.
Benjamin F. Fridley 225
Samuel Cory
102
Ira Minard
5
FOR RECORDER OF DEEDS.
David Dunham
295
Elijah S. Town
35
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR.
Mark W. Fletcher
242
Levi Lee.
84
Horatio Gibson
5
FOR CORONER.
Asa McDole.
324
The abstracts of this election are signed by R. C. Horr, Jonathan Kimball, Justices of the Peace, and Mark W. Fletcher, Clerk of the County Commission- ers' Court of Kane County.
Where Mr. Fletcher got his appointment, the records of the county do not show at present, as the records of the County Commissioners have not been in the County Clerk's office far several years, but his bond being filed June 6, 1836, would appear to show that he must have been appointed by the Commissioners themselves. He was not elected by the people until the Fall of 1837, when he was elected both Clerk of the County Commissioners" Court and Clerk of the
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Circuit Court, and held both offices until 1846, when Josiah L. Warner was elected to the former office, and he was Clerk only of the Circuit until December, 1848, when he was succeeded by Charles B. Wells, and his long term of official service expired, and he retired to his farm, Cincinnatus-like, surrounded by children and children's children, and enjoying a quiet and serene voyage down the current, into the broad expanse of a limitless ocean.
Both of the Justices certifying the abstracts are dead, and nearly all of the persons voted for likewise-Fridley, Fletcher and Town only living in the county at the present time.
At this election, the Sandusky Precinct cast 95 votes, Lake 25 (Mr. Thomp- son, with his well known modesty, refraining from voting for himself and getting but 24), and the Fox River Precinct 78. These comprised all or pretty much all of the present territory of Kane County. This was the election which really set up our county government, and from which it has grown to its present splendid proportions.
Ralph C. Horr and Ebenezer Morgan were elected Justices of the Peace some time previous to July 30th, for that day they, together with Mr. Fletcher, County Commissioners' Clerk, certify to the abstract of votes of a special election, held at T. H. Thompson's house, in Lake Precinct (Dundee and Elgin), for two Justices and Constables, when Wanton Parker was elected Justice in Dundee, and Jonathan Kimball in Elgin, and Seth Green, Constable in the former place, and Samuel J. Kimball in the latter; 35 votes being cast.
The Judges at that election were Thomas H. Thompson, Jonathan Kim- ball and Thomas Deweese, and the Clerks Isaac Fitts and Wanton Parker. In the Orange District, they elected, on the 1st of August, Mark Daniels, Justice, and Joel Jenks, Constable. On the 7th November following, the people of Lake Precinct wanted more justice, or law, and so they called their Constable, Seth Green, to the bench, giving him a unanimous vote of 29 ballots; and at McCarty's Mills they had quite a spirited contest over the office, giving B. F. Phillips 39 votes and Jonathan Benney 20; George W. Gorton, too, had 44 votes for Constable, against 7 votes for Harry White. Ira Minard and Elijah S. Town had, in the meantime, been elected Justices in the central part of the county, and signed the November abstracts.
Since the 1st of June, the few voters in the county had been keeping track of the various elections which had been held; but an important one was com- ing, to which, important to them as these had been, they were but as a tallow dip to a gas jet. The Presidential campaign of 1836 was in full vigor, and " Young Hickory" was pushing the Whigs hard On the 7th of November, the election was held, at which there were only 334 votes polled. The Pleasant Grove returns are not on file. That precinct cast 10 votes in August. The Democratic electors received 235 votes, and Whigs 93. There was an- other set of electors, who received 4 votes, but who they favored is not stated.
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Lake Precinct cast 42 votes, only 10 for the Whigs. Sandusky east 118 votes, 97 of which were for the Democratie ticket. Fox River Preeinet (Aurora) cast 71 votes, and 19 of them were against " Matty Van." Orange gave the Dem- ocrats all but 4 out of 26 votes, and these 4 did not go to the Whigs, but were the only ones in the county cast for the odd lot.
New names appear on the poll lists at this election which have not been seen before. The Sandusky poll was presided over by Judge Isaac Wilson, William Van Nortwiek, father of Hon. John Van Nortwiek. Read Ferson, Mark W. Fletcher and James T. Wheeler were the Clerks. On the Fox River (Aurora) list are the names of Bob Mathews, N. B. Spalding, the Isbells, Nick Gray, Ayers, Van Fleets, Charles Bates and Daniel Eastman.
To close up the year in good shape, the people in the center of the county held an election for Constables, and managed to get up a nice little fight while it lasted. Wm. B. Arnold and Asahel P. Ward received 21 votes to 18 for David Howard and Charles Ballard.
In -1837, the elections were still frequent. The newly organized county was rapidly filling up, and special elections for Justices and Constables were held in various precincts, and, August 7th, an election for county officers was held, at which two new officers were added to the roster of the county govern- ment, viz., County Treasurer and Probate Justice of the Peace. The first election of County Clerk by the people was also held at that time. The vote was as follows : Isaac Wilson (father of Hon. I. G. Wilson) received 122 votes for County Treasurer, Joseph W. Churchill had 114 votes for County Commissioner, and Mark W. Fletcher had 119 votes for Clerk of the County Commissioners' Court.
There were but four precincts where votes were cast-Fox River, Sandusky, Lake and Fairfield. The latter precinct included Campton, Plato and vicinity, and cast twenty-two votes. Elias Crary, Joel Harvey (father of George P. Harvey, E. E. and J. D. Harvey) and James Corron were Judges, and Stephen Archer and Henry K. Bartlett were Clerks. Joel Harvey and H. R. Bartlett divided the vote for Justice of the Peace, Harvey leading his competitor a single vote. There was not much canvassing necessary in those days, and can- didates' purses were not exhausted before they made their election sure. David Dunham received a single vote in the county for Commissioner, and that was given in Fairfield by one William Bennett. The voters, in those days, had to declare their preferences openly, as all voting was viva voce. There was no dodging nor smuggling in votes, but every man, when he came to the poll, de- clared the man of his choice, and down it went on the poll list opposite his name. Doughfaces had to run a gauntlet that settled their affinities indisput- ably. At the Sandusky Precinct, Calvin Ward and John W. Russell were elected Constables. At Aurora, Asa McDole was elected Justice of the Peace over E. D. Terry, who received twenty-one votes. There were nineteen inen who declined to vote for county officers, who voted for their own neighbors to
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dispense justice to them. John Griggs, Sr., was elected Justice in Fairfield, in June. Nathan H. Dearborn was elected Justice, David Howard, Constable, at Sandusky, March 31st, receiving fifty-eight votes, and, in October following, Hendrick Miller was elected Justice, and James Brown Constable, in the same precinct. The latter was a genius in his way. He used to own the farm that Eben Danford now owns. He was once called upon to arrest a suspected criminal, and he summoned a posse to assist in the grave undertaking. They assembled and went into the old hotel, where the object of the august array of the dignity of the people of the State of Illinois was unconsciously smoking, and the Constable thus addressed him : "We arrest and distrain you in the name of the people. Have you any weapons about you ?" The apprehended said he had a jack-knife. "You will please pass it over, then, and go with me and this 'ere poss. Julus (to one of the posse), you go ahead and I'll bring up behind." And the procession filed away to the county jail.
In December, Elgin held her first election as a separate constituency, elect- ing James T. Gifford, Justice, and Eli Henderson, Constable, and casting 42 votes, among them nine Kimballs and two Giffords, and the heads of the tribes of Merrill, Mann, Jenne, Renwick, Lovell, Welch, Stone and Ranstead.
In Dundee (still called Lake), Dr. John R. Goodno was elected to the bench, and John Oatman, Jr., Constable. On the poll list of the latter place are the names of the Carpenters, E. W. Austin and Gen. Mc Clure.
On the 1st day of May, 1837, the question of a division of the county, forming De Kalb County out of the three ranges west of the present county line and as that county is now organized, was submitted to the people of the county. The election resulted in 171 votes for and 83 votes against division. Sandusky Precinct gave 43 votes for and 30 against. Somonauk, in the terri- tory to be set off, voted solidly against the division-43 votes. Kishwaukee gave 2 votes against, and Sycamore 8 the same way, and Orange, in the same territory, solidly for division. Sandusky was the only precinct voting on the question in the present territory of the county. This was the beginning of the troublesome question of county division in Kane County. That question, and the removal of the county seat, was almost constantly a bugbear in the eyes of the people, until they got a $100,000 Court House as a rider of the question, and that broke down the nag and spoiled him for any future race, and Geneva. breathed free, being rid of a horrible nightmare.
In 1838, the towns began to get into their present boundaries on the river, and new precincts were established. Charleston, as St. Charles was first called, held its first election in August, which was the general election for State officers, Congressmen, county officers, etc .- 104 votes. In December, Alex- ander H. Baird was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held uninter- ruptedly nearly, if not quite, thirty years. He is now in Kansas. Dundee gained its present name this year, and elected Zephaniah M. Lott Constable, over his competitor, E. W. Vining, casting 40 votes. Deerfield Precinct comes
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in, too, which embraced Rutland and Hampshire. On the 6th of August, an election for two Justices was held, and John Van Velzer, Thomas H. Whitte- more and Elijah Rich each received 11 votes. The County Clerk put their names in his hat and shook them up and drew out the lot to settle which two of the three should have the honors and emoluments of the office, and Rice and Whittemore were the lucky men. Philo Noble and William Robbe were elected to execute their commands. Rock Precinct, including Big and Little Rock, elected Archibald Sears as its Judge, in June. In Sandwich, Calvin Rawley was elected Constable in March. He was a character known far and wide by his peculiarity of wearing a sword when in the discharge of his official duties. If he was called on to arrest or summon or subpoena a person, he buckled his good sword on, and, with all the dignity of the commonwealth resting upon his shoulders, he read the warrant or writ in a manner so impressive he com- manded the respect and risibilities of his auditor in equal degree.
August 6th, 1838, the general election was held, at which the vote in the county was as follows :
FOR GOVERNOR.
Thomas Carlin, Democrat 511
Cyrus Edwards, Whig 323
FOF LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
Stinson H. Anderson, Democrat. 511 4
W. A. Davidson, Whig. 321
FOR CONGRESS.
Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat. 517
John T. Stuart, Whig. 311
FOR STATE SENATE.
Allen H. Howland, Democrat 248
William Stadden, Democrat. 256
John W. Mason, Whig.
FOR ASSEMBLY.
Jos. W. Churchill, Democrat. 231
Geo. W. Howe, Whig .. 339
S. S. Jones, 1
FOR SHERIFF.
B. F. Fridley, Democrat. 552
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Leonard Howard, Whig. 129
Wm. L. Church, Whig 122
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Colton Knox, Democrat 405
Ira Minard, Democrat. 432
Geo. E. Peck, Democrat 519
Thomas H. Thompson, Whig 343
A. P. Hubbard, Whig. 418
James McClure, Whig. 295
FOR CORONER.
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Asa McDole, Democrat .. 452
315/ Samuel Sterling, Whig.
340
At this election, St. Charles supported her own citizen, Leonard Howard, against B. F. Fridley, giving him 92 votes out of her 103 polled. Mr. Minard . also led his colleagues Knox and Peck, getting 100 votes, while T. H. Thomp- son had but 6. It looks as though the candidates traded then as they do now sometimes. But in Dundee Mr. Minard received 48 votes to Mr. Thompson's 24, and they were both splendid men. Fridley carried off every vote in Dun- dee, while Churchill had only the Democratic poll, 51. Elgin stood 47 Demo- cratic to 26Whig, Sandusky 84 to 57, Aurora 129 to 69, St. Charles 59 to 45, Rock Precinct 55 to 27, Fairfield (Plato and Campton) 34 to 9, and Deerfield, the present and for years past the stronghold of the Democracy in Kane County (Rutland), gave 14 Whig to 9 Democratic votes. Since then, a differ- ent population has moved into that territory. Fridley received every vote, however, and he was the only scratch on the ticket. The returns from Dundee
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have on them the names of I. C. Bosworth and Dempster, Grant and Rankin, the first comers of the Scotch colony.
Caleb A. Buckingham, one of the Boston company, kept the poll list at Geneva in his very neat chirography. On the list are the names of Joshua E. Ambrose, the Baptist missionary, and John N. Donals, the father of the present Mrs. James C. Baird, of St. Charles, and whose claim was just south of the Judge Lockwood homestead, and included 160 acres of the best timber in the Big Woods, which remained intact up to three or four years ago, when Mrs. Baird sold it to L. P. Barker, who has bought and cleared off more acres of solid timber, in that grove, than any other man. The Batavia and Black- berry people all voted at Sandusky then. On the Fox River list, the names of three Stolps, J. G., John, Jr., and Joseph, appear; also a Knickerbocker, Plato Judd, and Isbells and a long array of familiar names, and some entirely unfa- miliar, they have disappeared long ago from the records of the county.
Silas Reynolds was one of the Clerks of election. The next county election was held in August, 1839, the Democrats electing their candidates by a vote of about 550 to 265 Whig. N. B. Spalding was elected County Commissioner ; David Dunham, Recorder ; Joel Harvey, Treasurer ; Peter J. Waggoner, County Surveyor ; Horace N. Chapman, Probate Justice, and M. W. Fletcher, County Clerk. Fletcher received 787 votes ; Calvin Ward, 4, and R. V. M. Croes, 1 vote for the latter office. Thomas H. Thompson, of Dundee ; Charles S. Clark, of Geneva; Harry Boardman, of Batavia; Nehemiah King, of Au- rora, and A. P. Hubbard, of Batavia, were the Whig standard bearers. Local- ities in those days cut no figure, but the best men they could pick up were taken, irrespective of locality.
At the August election in 1839, several of the precincts elected Justices and Constables. In Sandusky there were six candidates for Justices, but Charles Ballard, at Batavia, and C. B. Dodson, at Clybourne's, won the titles and emoluments. Dr. Pierre A. Allaire was elected in Ellery Precinct,' now Oswego. N. B. Spaulding, who had changed his residence from Aurora to Dundee, was elected Justice in Lake Precinct, against seven other compet- itors ; I. C. Bosworth, now of Elgin, receiving a single vote. His partner, Alfred Edwards, now deceased, also received a similar token of his fitness for the constabulary force. Burgess Truesdell was elected Justice in Elgin, and "Father " Crary, as he was called in later years, received the same position in Fairfield (now Campton and Plato). Robert Corron was chosen to read the greeting of the people of the State of Illinois to unwilling hearers, in the same bailiwick. William B. Plato was elected to dispense justice to those dwelling where Aurora now sits a queen.
Blackberry held her first election, as a separate precinct, January 8, 1839, and elected Samuel Platt and Roswell W. Acers Justices; but in August she voted again for the same officers, and chose William B. West and Mr. Platt. Mr. West then gained his cognomen of " the 'Squire," which he held until his
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death. The unique signatures of David Wheeler and Mr. West are appended to the returns, and show but little change in all the years of their busy lives.
A vacancy occurred in the office of Coroner, and a special election was or- dlered, in November, 1839, to fill it, at which David Livingston was elected, receiving 79 votes, to 69 for James T. Gifford, of Elgin ; Bosworth, 4; Ed- wards, 2; and Eaton Walker, 2-the three latter all being in Dundee. Drs. Tefft and Root, of Elgin, each also received a vote, and Mr. Plato had 2. This election possessed little interest to the people, but Blackberry, having lately come to her privileges of an independent constituency, did not neglect the opportunity thus offered to make her record among the archives of the county, and she sent in her returns for the day's work, with just five names upon them, to wit: Abner Rawson, David Wheeler, W. B. West, Marcus White and Hiram S. Reed, and these were the Judges and Clerks who certified to the returns.
In those days, any citizen of the county could vote anywhere he happened to be, and at this election, C. B. Dodson, David Dunham and James Brown, all residents of Sandusky Precinct, are found voting in Fairfield Precinct; and as Mr. Gifford received every vote cast, the query is raised whether or no they were out on an electioneering trip. Sandusky, also, gave all of her votes to Mr. Gifford, but McCarty's Mills were too much for him, and the candidate from the south part of the county won the contest.
The election of August, 1840, for county officers was very closely contested, 1,291 votes being polled, of which James Risk received 647 and Leonard How- ard, 623 for Sheriff; "Bob " Mathews, 679, and Elijah Lee, 511, for Coroner ; William B. West, 693, and Nathan C. Mighell, 598, for County Commissioner ; Dr. Henry A. Miller, 687, and James Brown, 605 votes for County Treasurer. The last two candidates were from Geneva ; Messrs. West and Mighell from the rural districts-the "back towns." "Bob " Mathews was from Aurora ; Lee and Risk from Batavia, and Howard from St. Charles. Locality had its influence at that election, sure.
At a special election August 15, this year (1840), Robert Moody was elected Justice of the Peace, and many laughable stories are told of his court, which was a great institution in those early days. S. S. Jones and B. F. Frid- ley were practicing attorneys in the palmy days of Justice Moody, and were almost invariably pitted against each other in the numerous cases they had before the hard-headed Magistrate, whose strong common sense made up any deficiency there might have been in his legal knowledge. " Shortage " in the latter respect was excusable in those early days, when statutes were not as plenty as now, where jobs are so easily smuggled into their printing. On one occasion, when the two lawyers had a trial in his court, before a jury, after the testimony was in and arguments made, the court began to instruct the jury after the manner of Judge Ford, the then presiding Judge of the Circuit Court. Mr. Fridley interposed and said he must not instruct the jury. The
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court asked why not. Jones, seeing the point for fun, said, certainly, it was quite proper that the court should instruct. Again Fridley interfered, and again the court replied, "Sure, Judge Ford instructs the jury, and why shouldn't I?" "Certainly, certainly," said the mischievous Jones, " the court can instruct the jury." Again the Justice essays to lay down the law, and again is opposed by the persistent Fridley. At length the court, with his Scotch temper fully roused, says, in his broad Scotch accent, " Weel, Muster Fredley, sin ye are sae strenuous about it, ahll note instruct the jury ; but one thing ah wull say, ye've made a vera bahd case o' it."
At the August election, Sugar Grove comes in with her first returns as a separate independency, under her baptismal name, which has never been changed. She cast 84 votes, and elected her first Justice and Constable, Isaac S. and Ira H. Fitch being the honored recipients of her official favors, respectively.
The Presidential contest of 1840, between Van Buren and Harrison, brought out 1,584 votes, and the military prestige and the high tide of song of
" Tippecanoe and Tyler too, With them we can beat little Van, Oh ! Van, Van, Van is a used up man,"
carried the county for the Whigs by 36 majority. Among the familiar names on the list of Electors are those of John A. McClernand on the Democratic ticket and Abraham Lincoln and "Buck" Morris on the other. Washington Precinct, now Plato, comes to the front and brings her first offering of separate self-government. Among the returns of this election she cast 47 Whig and 32 Democratic votes, and elected Joel Root and John S. Lee Justices of the Peace. St. Charles cast 97 Democratic and 93 Whig votes. The poll book, which was made by James T. Wheeler, is a perfect model of neatness. It is ruled on blank paper, and the names of the Electors printed on the head of the sheet with a pen, and the names of the voters written with great care, and not a blot appears on it from first to last.
The Fox River Precinct cast 118 Democratic and 113 Whig votes, Elgin 110 to 97 the same way; Sandusky cast 70 to 77 the other way; Dundee gave the Democrats 49 votes and the Whigs 119; Sugar Grove cast 62 votes and gave the Whigs 33 of them; but Blackberry led her sister town 4 votes and gave 42 of them to the opposite party ; Deerfield (Rutland) gave but 12 of her 52 votes to the farmer of North Bend, but Fairfield more than paired off with her by giving 44 of her 59 votes to the hero; Big and Little Rock reversed the list again and counted up for the Kinderhook Fox 94 votes to 50 for his military competitor.
At the election of August, 1841, another office was enrolled upon the county's official roster, that of School Commissioner. Ira Minard received 506 votes to 437 cost for C. B. Dodson. There were 959 votes polled, and Allen P. Hubbard was elected County Commissioner, Bela T. Hunt Treasurer and William C. Kimball Coroner. James H. Ralston received 497 votes against 476 for John T. Stew- art and 28 for Frederick Collins for Congress.
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Dundee outgrew its territorial name of Lake, and took upon herself her new name. The name could not have been distasteful to the Scotchmen whose homes were within her borders. The poll list is made out by Charles B. Wells, and though a younger looking chirography, it is no neater or more uniform than the Captain's is, now albeit thirty-seven years of hard labor have occupied his head and hand since then.
The election of August, 1842, was for State and County officers and As- semblymen, and also for or against a Convention to amend the Constitution. There were 1,240 votes polled. Thomas Ford, the Democratic candidate for Governor, received 750; Joseph Duncan, the Whig candidate, 457, and Chas. W. Hunter, the first standard bearer in the county of the old Liberty party, re- ceived 32 votes. Thirteen of the Liberty votes were cast in St. Charles, and were John L. Wilson, Dean Ferson, Robert Moody, Jr., Millen Bennett, D. W. El- more, Samuel Young, Isaac Preston, Justin Crafts, Robert Moody, Sr., Lu- cius Foote, Reuben Beach, Calvin Ward and Thomas Barland. Elgin gave but 6 votes for the Old Guard, and they were J. H. Scott, Hezekiah Gifford, John W. Hoagland, Abel Walker, Calvin Carr and Ralph Grow. Geneva and Batavia (Sandusky) had 3 votes for the Abolitionists, and they were those of Sylvanus Town, John Gregg and Joseph Worsley. Aurora had 10 men who were brave enough to stand up for freedom for all, black or white, and they were C. Cook, S. K. Ball, B. H. Smith, D. W. Moffitt, Edwin Lockwood, Benjamin Howell, Kimball Favor, Dr. Huson Root, Isaac M. Howell and Lu- cian Farnam.
The Liberty party had a regular ticket in the field, but not all of the votes polled for Governor were given for the rest of the ticket, the votes being cast more by way of protest than anything else. James T. Gifford received 7 and Sylvanus Town 8 votes for Senator. The county voted 628 votes for, to 171 against the Convention. Ira Minard received a majority of the votes for Sena- tor. McHenry, DeKalb and Kane Counties composed the Senatorial District, and Mr. Minard was elected. DeKalb cast 401 votes and McHenry 750; Kane casting more than both.
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