HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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1900. The surviving members of his family are his widow (Mrs. Brown) and children- Fay W., Anna G. and Ray A. Mrs. Brown was born at Naperville, Ill., daughter of Urbin and Octavia (Crampton) Stanley, who were among the earliest settlers of DuPage County.
CORNELL H. BROWN, postmaster, Batavia, Ill., born in Batavia May 24, 1853, son of Rufus J. and Aurelia (McDaniels) Brown, pioneer settlers of Kane County; was educated in the local schools, and became a clerk in the Batavia postofflce when he was about fourteen years of age, a position which he held until about 1878. He was later in the Railway Mail Service, but retired in 1882 to accept a position with the Van Nortwick Paper Company, remaining with that concern until 1896. As trustee of the Van Norlwick estate he spent five years in settling its affairs. For a time he was Cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Batavia, and was one of the reorganizers of the bank prior to its consolidation with the First National Bank of Batavia. For two terms he served as Mayor of Batavia, beginning in 1897. In 1900 President Mc-Kinley appointed him Postmaster at Batavia, and he is still (1903) holding that position. Mr. Brown is a member of the 1. O. 0. F., the K. P., and the M. W. of A. In 1879 he married Miss Florence S. Starkey, of Batavia.
FREDERICK BROWN, Justice of the Peace, Aurora, Ill., born at Hudson, Ohio, Jan. 10. 1828; came to Illinois in 1855, locating in Aurora in 1873; practiced law for a time, and was elected Justice of the Peace in 1881, having held that office continuously since. Mr. Brown was married in 1855 to Jane M. Groat, who died in 187(i. Two of their children are still living, viz., Mrs. Jennie W. Otis and Mrs. Hattie L. Lougee, both of Minneapolis, Minn.
JOHN BROWN, lawyer, Elgin, Ill., born in Genoa, DeKalb County. Ill., Jan. 1, 1849; educated in the public schools of Sycamore, Ill., and at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Mich.); graduated from the Union College of Law, Chicago, in 1877; practiced his profession in DeKalb County until 1893, when he became a member of the Elgin bar and has since practiced in that city. He was married in 1871 to Miss Juliet Strong, who died in 1898, leaving the following named children: Sarah Juliet, John Lincoln and Agnes.
JULIUS G. BROWN, manufacturer, Batavia, Ill., born at Wysox, Bradford County, Pa., April 26, 1827; grew to manhood in the Keystone State, where he also received his educational training; came to Illinois in 1857, locating first at DeKalb, where he was engaged in the lumber trade and interested in the manufacture of sash, blinds and doors; removed to Batavia in 1860, and continued the same line of manufacturing until 1862, when he suspended business operations and enlisted in the Union Army. He enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until 1865, being mustered out at Vicks-burg. Miss. Returning from the war, he was interested in the manufacture of sash, blindf and doors at North Aurora until 1901, when he retired from active business. He married, in 1850, Mary I. Griswold, who died in 1900, and their only living child is Miss Amelia F. Brown, who has long been connected with the public schools of Batavia.
CHARLES O. BRYANT (deceased), undertaker, Elburn, Ill., born in Wayne County, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1812, and coming to Illinois at an early day; for five years conducted business as a carpenter and builder; also bought a farm near Elburn, on which he was engaged for ten years or more. He then moved to Elburn, where he began wagon-making, and opened the pioneer undertaking establishment in that region, which he conducted until his death, Oct. 24, 1874. Ho was married Aug. 23, 1845, to Miss Esther E., daughter of Harry C. and Hannah (Richards) Hotchkiss. He was an active member of the Methodist Church and helped build the first church in Elgin.
ANSON J. BUCK, Carpentersville. Postmaster and noted veteran of the Civil War, was born in Hannibal, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1832, and his parents moved to Bloomingdale, DuPage County, Ill., in 1838. From there they moved to St. Charles, and later to Burlington Township, coming in 1857 to Dundee. Mr. Buck attended the common schools of the county, and as a boy worked on a farm. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army, and after serving nearly throe years in the Fifty-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was mustered out at Washington, D. C., May 1, 1865. He returned to Carpentersville after the war, and has made that place his home to the present time. For some years he was a
