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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
to Aurora, Ill. in 1853; employed in the shops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad from 1864 to 1897, being foreman of the locomotive department most of the time. Mr. Barnes was married in 1858 to Mary E. Crance, of Aurora.
CHARLES HOPKINS BARRETT, retired farmer, La Fox, Kane County; born Oct. 16, 1849, at Lenox, Mass., son of Sylvester and Caroline (Hicks) Barrett, and removed in infancy to Brainard, N. Y., where he began his schooling in a private school. When seven years old he was taken by his parents to Geneva, Ill., where he completed his education in the public schools. His first employment was found on a farm, and farming has been his life-work.
SYLVESTER BARRETT (deceased), La Pox, Kane County, mason and builder, was born in Lenox, Mass., in 1800, and was all his life a mason contractor and builder. Before coming west he served as Selectman in his native place. After his arrival in Kane County, he furnished the stone for the County Court House; also furnished the stone for the first school house in Geneva, and was in great demand both as a stone mason and a dealer in stone throughout this section. Many of the abutments in the highway bridges were constructed by him, and his work was pronounced of the most enduring character. He married Caroline Adelia Hicks, a native of New York, who died in January, 1898. His death occurred in April, 1896.
WILLIAM H. BARRETT (deceased), Aurora, born in London, England, Aug. 13, 1831, and when a year and a half old was brought by his parents to this country, was reared and educated in Detroit, Mich., and became a blacksmith; in 1863 came to Aurora from Detroit, and entered the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co., where with brief exceptions, he remained until near his death, Jan. 30, 1903. He spent a short time in Canada, and about a year at Atchison, Kan., in charge of the railway shops there. He was widely known as a Mason, having taken all the degrees up to and including the thirty-second. For nearly twenty-eight years he was Tyler for Lodge No. 254. His funeral services were attended by many hundreds, attesting their belief in his worth as a man and a Mason. In 1859 he married Mrs. Amarett Rosier, of Aurora. Mrs. Barrett was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, by birth a Selby, and she sur vives her husband, living in Aurora. To Mr. and Mrs. Barrett were born children named Emma W. and Sadie I., of Aurora. George A. Rosier, of Cecil, Penn., Mrs. Fannie Rees, and Mrs. Mary E. Wright, of Aurora, are Mrs. Barrett's children by her first marriage.
BISHOP BARTHOLOMEW (deceased), pioneer farmer, Batavia, Ill.; born at Whitehall, Washington County, N. Y., in 1817; came to Chicago in 1837; settled at Naperville, DuPage County, and there married Elmira Jones, daughter of Z. Jones, one of the first settlers of that county; purchased a farm three miles north of Naperville where he lived until 1884, when he retired and removed to Batavia. He died Oct. 15, 1901. His first wife died in 1848, and in 1850 he married Miss Asenath McFerran of Vermont.
DARIUS BARTHOLOMEW, retired farmer, Batavia, Ill., born near Naperville, Ill., Feb. 14, 1844, son of Bishop and Emma (Jones) Bartholomew; in 1862 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was assigned to the Army of the
