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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
CHARLES A. CALKINS, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Sugar Grove, Kane County, Ill., Nov. 2, 1853; brought up on his father's farm and educated in the public schools; began farming near his early home and ten years later purchased the old homestead, where he has lived ever since. He was married in 1871 to Miss Clara Keck, daughter of William Keck, of Sugar Grove.
ELD AD L. CALKINS (deceased), pioneer, was born at Corning, N. Y., in 1805, and grew to manhood in the Empire State. He was a wagon-maker by trade, and followed that occupation and farming in New York State until about 1849, when he came to Illinois. In the latter year he established his home in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, and was one of the successful and prominent farmers of that part of the county thereafter until his death, which occurred in 1879. His wile, whose maiden name was Abisha Allen, was a native of Massachusetts, and died in 1889. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Calkins now living are Charles A. and Mrs. Mercelia (Calkins) Rutt, both of Sugar Grove.
CYRUS CALKINS (deceased), pioneer, was born in Corning, N. Y., in 1815, and was trained to the milling business and farming. He came to Illinois in 1853 and settled in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, and was engaged in farming there until his death, which occurred in 1903. Mr. Calkins was the oldest of the early settlers of Sugar Grove Township at the time of his death. For many years he was Postmaster at Jericho, Ill. He never married.
JOHN P. CALLAN, lawyer, Aurora, Ill., born at Swanton Center, Franklin County, Vt., Sept. 4, 1844, was reared in his native State, attending the public school and the high schools a-: Franklin and St. Albans; came west in 1868 and located in Aurora, Ill.; since then has been in the real-estate and insurance business chiefly to the present time (1903); read law with the Hon. Charles Wheaton, of Aurora, and attended the Illinois College of Law three years, graduating in 1902; had already been admitted to the bar of the Illinois Supreme Court, and has since practiced in Aurora. He has served two terms as a member of the Board of Aldermen of Aurora. In 1869 Mr. Callan married Miss Ellen Miles, a native of Sheldon, Vt.
JAMES CAMPBELL, physician and surgeon, Elgin, Ill., born in the Province of Ontario. Canada, June 8, 1863; reared in his native country and educated in the Canadian schools; graduated from Detroit Medical College in the class of 1890; began the practice of medicine in East Plato, Kane County, Ill., the same year; removed to Elgin in 1893, and has since built up a large general practice in that city. He was married in 1897 to Miss Minnie E. McGregor, of Toronto, Canada.
JAMES CANNON, railway station agent, Geneva, Ill., was born in Fulton, Ill., Aug. 15, 1865, and was reared to manhood in Geneva, where he received his education in the local schools, entering into the employment of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in 1880. In 1888 he was appointed station agent at Geneva. In 1902 he was one of the Organizers of the Cannon Box Company, of Geneva, of which he became President, and is still acting in that capacity (1903), meanwhile retaining his connection with the Northwestern Railway. He is also a stockholder and Secretary of the Cannon Printing Company, of Milwaukee, which em ploys about seventy-five persons. The Cannon Box Company is one of the leading industries of Geneva, employing over one hundred hands.
