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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
GEORGE H. BURNETT, merchant and City Clerk, Batavia, Ill., born in Batavia March 7, 1870, son of John and Prances (Ballard) Burnett, her father being a native of England, and the mother of Batavia. Educated in the Batavia schools and trained to mercantile life, George H. has taken an active part in city and county affairs, and up to the present time (1903) has served ten years as City Clerk of Batavia. He is owner and manager of the undertaking establishment of George H. Burnett & Co. In Masonry he is an advanced member, belonging to Aurora Temple, Fox
River Chapter, Royal Arch, and is Senior Warden of Batavia Lodge, No. 404, A. F. & A. M. He belongs also to Rowena Lodge, No. 535, K. P., and to the M. W. A. He was married, Feb. 5, 1896, to Miss Charlotte Maud Spencer. of Watervliet, Mich.
JOHN BURROWS, farmer, Batavia, Ill., born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1849, was brought to the United States by his parents in 1853, and grew to manhood in Kane County, Ill., where he was given a public school education. He began farming while yet a boy, and continued that occupation until 1902, when he removed
to Batavia, where his home is still located. In 1877 he married Miss Jane E., daughter of Asa B. and Amanda (McKee) Knapp, of Maple Park.
LESTER M. BURROUGHS, physician, Batavia, Ill., born in Portage County, Ohio, Sept. 25, 1820, son of Daniel Burroughs, Jr., and grandson of Daniel Burroughs, Sr., the latter a soldier in the War of the Revolution. Lester M. obtained his early education in the Ohio schools, finishing in the Kane County schools, whither his parents removed in 1836. He read medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Waldo at Kenosha. Wis., and later with Dr. Gardner at Blackberry, Kane County, in 1846. A prominent position among the pioneer physicians of Kane County was assured him, and his practice covered a wide territory. In 1861 he established his home in Batavia, where he continuously practiced medicine until 19Q3, his practice being very large, not only in the city but throughout the adjacent country. His active professional life covered a period of fifty-four years, and he is the dean of the medical profession in the Fox River valley. In 1849 he married Miss Elmira, daughter of David and Judith Wheeler, pioneers of Kane County.
Dundee Area History
