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been associated with the latter for some years. The younger Dr. Bartlett and Dr. Colwell are still associated in the practice of their profession, Dr. Frederick L. Bartlett being retired. Dr. F. A. Bartlett still retains the old office so long occupied by his father and his grand father.
JOHN E. BARTLETT (deceased), farmer, Campton Township, Kane County, was born Sept. 15, 1850, in Campton Township, and received his education from the district schools of his native town. He worked on the farm with his parents until his marriage, March 4, 1873. He bought a farm in 1875, two miles northeast of Elburn, and died Nov. 17, 1889, leaving a widow and five sons. Mrs. Bartlett's maiden name was Elsie Richmond, and her parents were Almon and Hannah (Smith) Richmond.
JOSEPH P. BARTLETT (deceased), farmer and school teacher, was born Jan. 16, 1810, at Campton, Grafton County, N. H., and came to Illinois in 1843. For five years he made his home in Winnebago County, and then bought Government land in Kane County, where he lived until his death. He was married Dec. 31, 1843, to Miss Julia Ann, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Robie) Elliott. By this marriage he became the father of five children-two daughters and three sons. He died in March, 1893, his wife having passed away March 22, 1876.
L. EDWIN BARTLETT, farmer, Elburn, Kane County, born Sept. 15, 1850, on the farm where he now lives, two and a half miles northeast of Elburn, was educated in the district school, and has devoted his life to farming. He has served his neighbors two terms as School Director.
JAMES W. BATTLE, prominent business man and ex-Mayor of Aurora, was born in Gill, Franklin County, Mass., Oct. 5, 1831, son of Ichabod and Miranda (Moore) Battle, was educated in his native town and variously employed in Massachusetts and Vermont until 1853. The latter year he came west, and was locomotive fireman for a lime in Ohio; later he returned east, but soon came to Michigan City, Ind., where he secured employment with the New Albany & Salem Railroad, soon after connecting himself with the Michigan Central Railroad. In 1859 he was with the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad, but the following year he went back to Massachusetts, where for two years he was engaged in merchandising. Since 1862, with the exception of four years in which he was on the Northwestern as an engineer, for most of the time until 1871 he was in the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad as engineer. For six years thereafter he was a grocer in Aurora, was the first superintendent of the first street car line established in Aurora, and in 1886 was appointed Superintendent, of the city water works. In 1878 he was elected City Alderman and served four years; in 1882 was chosen Mayor, and in 1892 again made Alderman, and in 1894 was a second time elected Mayor. Although "counted out," the Illinois Supreme Court confirmed his claim, and he served his term. In 1898, he was elected to the County Board, and served a year as Superintendent of the water works. In 1903 he was chosen on the Kane County Board of Review, a position which he still fills. He has been associated with the various manufacturing interests of Aurora and is a director and Vice-President of the Aurora Silver Plate Manufacturing Company. In 1854 he married Miss Cordelia Lobdell, born and bred in Ohio, but who died in 1856. Three years later Miss Isabella Gilbert, a native of Massachusetts, became his wife.
GEORGE BARTON (deceased), pioneer settler, born in England in 1815; came to the United States in 1834, locating first in New York State, removing to Kane County in 1836, where he purchased a tract of government land upon which he resided until his death, August 27, 1903, dying at the age of eighty-eight years; married in 1853, Miss Sarah N. Ferguson, who still survives and resides on the old farm in Big Rock Township.
HENRY J. BAUMANN, druggist, Dundee, born in Dundee, Kane County, Ill., June 27, 1859, son of John Baumann, a native of Germany, was educated in the Dundee schools and graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1878. He was employed as clerk in Dr. Cleveland's store until 1880, when he bought a half-interest in the establishment, the following year purchasing the remaining interest and now being sole proprietor. He has
