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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
the parents of two children: Frank William, who died in 1895, and Mrs. Fanny Henderson, of Aurora. Mrs. Bishop is still living (1903).
FRANCIS H. BLACKMAN, physician and surgeon, Geneva, Ill.; born at Naperville, Ill., Aug. 28, 1846; was reared on his father's farm and obtained his academic education at Clark's Seminary (Aurora) and Lawrence University (Appleton, Wis.) ; graduated from the Department of Medicine of the Northwestern University with the class of 1870; located in Geneva immediately after graduation and has since been engaged in medical and surgical practice in that city. June 1, 1871, he married Miss Julia A. Cole, who is also a graduate in the science of medicine.
JOHN M. BLACKBURN, Secretary and Treasurer Elgin Silver Plate Company, Elgin, Ill., born in Cleveland, Ohio, Jan. 29, 1858, was educated in the city schools of his native place, and entered the employ of the Meriden Britannia Company, Meriden, Conn., in 1877 as a clerk. In 1882 he equipped and managed a branch factory at Toronto, Ont. He spent 1889 in Meriden, and in 1890 was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Griffin Silver Plate Company of Chicago. The following year he located
in Elgin, and in 1892 was elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Elgin Silver Plate Company. In political matters he is a Republican, and in 1898 was chosen a member of the Board of Education, where he served three years, two years of that time being President of the Public Library Board. He belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America and the Century Club.
CHARLES L. BLANCHARD, undertaker and insurance agent, St. Charles, Ill., born in Chicago Nov. 27, 1852, son of Zara A. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Blanchard,was brought to St. Charles by his parents when an infant, and was there reared and educated. He was in Kansas from 1869 to 1873, and began his business career as a clerk in the old Kane County National Bank in 1875. In 1879 he went to Kansas City to enter the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad, which he served four years, and for four years following was in the real-estate business in that city. For five years he did a railway contracting business in Kansas and Kentucky. In 1893 he returned to St. Charles, and for a time was inactive, but in February, 1896, took up the undertaking business, in which he is at present, (1903) engaged. Fraternally Mr. Blanchard is a Mason and belongs to Fox River
