HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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been local manager for the Chicago Telephone Company since it established a Dundee station, and also does a general fire insurance business. For two years he served as Trustee of West Dundee, for twenty years he has been a member of the Library Board, and for four years has filled the President's chair. Dr. Baumann was married, May 5, 1881, to Miss Elizabeth Bartels, daughter of Charles Bartels, of West Point, Neb, hut formerly of Dundee, Ill.
he was elected County Clerk by a large majority and re-elected to the same position in 1890, thus holding the office eight years, and left the position with the good will and esteem of all who had occasion to transact business in his department. In October, 1897, he was appointed by President McKinley, Secretary of Legation and Consul-General at Guatemala, Central America, where he served about three years, when he was transferred to Bogota, Colombia,
ABRAHAM BEAMISH, farmer, Burlington Township, Kane County, Ill.; born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1817; came to America in 1840, locating first in Canada; removed to Kane County, Ill., in 1843, settling in Plato Township. In 1853 he purchased ISO acres of land in Burlington Township, to which he subsequently added forty acres more, and here carried on dairy farming until his retirement in 1896. He was married in 1843, to Miss Sarah Mitchell, and of their children, two sons and one daughter are still living-Samuel, John and Lily Beamish. Mr. Beamish died May 29, 1901; his wife surviving him until February, 1903.
GEORGE A. BEAZIER, retired farmer, Hampshire, Ill, born in the village where he now resides, Sept. 13, 1852, and remained under the parental roof until 1875. In 1875 and '76 he traveled extensively in Europe, and in 1883 purchased a 120-acre farm in Hampshire Township, which he conducted until 1902, when he removed to the village, where he has since lived retired. On January 1, 1877, he was married to Miss Mary M. Munseh, of Hampshire.
ARTHUR M. BEAUPRE. son of Mathias and Sarah ,1. (Patrick) Beaupre, was born in 1853, at Oswego, Kendall County, Ill., where he spent his early boyhood. In 1865 he removed with his parents to DeKalb, Ill., and when sixteen years of age entered the office of the "Dekalb County News" in the last named city, where he learned .the printer's trade thoroughly and made himself generally useful in all departments of the office. At the age of twenty-one years he came to Aurora, where, a few months later, he was elected Clerk of the City Court, and later elected for a second term, hut shortly after his re-election, was induced to accept the position of Deputy County Clerk at Geneva. In 1886 South America. In 1903 he was appointed by President Roosevelt, Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy-Extraordinary of the United States to Colombia, this being one of only two instances where a Consul of the United States has been promoted to the position of Minister. In March, 1904. he was appointed Minister to the Argentine Republic by President Roosevelt, this mission being the most important in South America. On October 20, 1880, he was married to Mary F. Marsh, daughter of Hon. C. W. Marsh, and their only child, Beatrice, was born March 26, 1884, and is now the wife of Spencer Stuart Dickson, British Vice-Consul at Bogota.
WILLIAM S. BEAUPRE, hanker, Aurora, Ill., born at Ottawa, La Salle County, Ill., Oct. 2, 1844, son of Mathias Beaupre, who was ot
