HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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tice at the close of the war. As a Republican he was sent to the Twenty-seventh General Assembly. Promoting the organization of Bennett Medical College he became so important to it that he was chosen Its President at the organization of the school, and has held that position to the present time (1903) since 1870. President Clark's services to the cause of medical eclecticism have been many and important, and he is actively engaged in the work of the National Medical Association, the Illinois State Eclectic Association, and the Chicago Medical Eclectic Society, and has acted as President of each. Dr. Clark was a member of the Illinois State Board of Health for the first fifteen years of its existence. He is a member of the staff of physicians and surgeons of the Sherman Hospital at Elgin, and belongs to the Loyal Legion, the Elgin Post, G. A. R., and is a Knight Templar Mason. For six years he was a member of the Elgin Board of Education, being President of that body for three years.
SAMUEL N. CLARK (deceased), merchant and pioneer, Geneva, Ill., was born in Massachusetts, Feb. 15, 1818, and was there reared to mercantile pursuits. In 1837 he came to Geneva. Ill., where he established a store which he conducted until his death in 1856. In 1844 he married Mrs. Polly H. Patten, who was living in Chicago in 1903, at the age of over ninety years. These worthy pioneers helped to found and maintain the Unitarian church at Geneva, one of the first churches of that denomination in the West.
SCOTTO CLARK (deceased), pioneer merchant, Geneva, Ill., was born Sept. 2, 1782, in Harwich, Mass., where he was reared to mercantile pursuits. After being engaged in mercantile business in Boston, he removed in 1837 to Geneva, Ill., where he had a store for a time. He married Sally M. Freeman in 1808. His death occurred Oct. 12, 1844.
REV. E. F. CLEVELAND, M. D., born Sept. 29, 1841, attended the public and private schools at Port Henry, N. Y., where his parents took up their residence soon after his birth. When about fourteen years of age he was sent to Canada for further study. In May, 1862, he enlisted in Company A, Ninth Vermont Volunteer Infantry and served until July, 1865, being mustered out of service with the rank of First Lieutenant. In March, 1868, he graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, and soon after settled in Dundee, Ill., where he has successfully practiced his profession up to the present time. He married Miss Ella L. Edwards Sept. 22, 1870. He was ordained a deacon in April, 1879, and a priest of the Episcopal Church in September, 1886, being engaged in ministerial work in St. James parish, Dundee, and adjacent territory. As one of the directors, and Vice-President of the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company, Dr. Cleveland has been identified with the business life of the community. He is a member of the Fox River Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and of several scientific and literary societies.
THOMAS L. CLEVELAND (deceased), pioneer merchant, Batavia, Ill., born in Boston, Mass., April 15, 1818, a son of Aaron P. Cleveland, and a cousin of Ex-President Cleveland, was reared to manhood in Boston, where he received his education. He made a trip to the East Indies when he was approaching manhood, and spent, his eighteenth birthday on the banks of the Ganges. On his return to the United States, he spent some time in Charleston, S. C., and in 1839 opened a general store in Geneva, Ill., which he removed the following year to Batavia where he continued it several years. Later he entered the employ of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and for twenty years was station agent at Batavia. He held various town offices, and shortly before his death on April 10, 1882, was elected City Clerk. In 1840 he married Olivia Blanchard, daughter of William L. and Hannah (Hull) Blanchard, pioneer settlers of Aurora.
EUGENE CLIFFORD, lawyer, Elgin, Ill., born in Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1848; in 1854 came west with his parents, who settled in Elgin; admitted to the bar in 1871; practiced in Elgin until 1882, but since the latter date has practiced in Chicago, although he has continued to reside in Elgin. He was married in 1879 to Miss Jennie A. Martin, of Elgin.
REV. LEONARD CLIFFORD, retired clergyman, Dundee, Ill., born at Wales, Erie County, N. Y., August 12, 1819; came with his parents to Illinois in 1834, locating first near Lemont,
