HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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Niel, and the sisters, Mrs. A. Archibald, Sr., Mrs. D. Clarkson, Sr., Mrs., Robert Griffith, and Mrs. R. Todd, Sr.
JOHN CRICHTON, pioneer farmer, Dundee Township, Kane County, born in Airdrie, near Glasgow, Scotland, Feb. 9, 1811; in 1846 married Miss Margaret Forest, born at Woodhall, near Glasgow, and shortly afterward sailed for the United States. They were on the ocean two months, and landing- at New York, came direct to Dundee, Kane County, where he purchased from the Government a tract of land three and a half miles northwest of Dundee, became known as the John Crichton homestead, in later years he added to the original tract, and became very extensively interested in land, ranking among the largest land-owners of the county. He was thrifty and sagacious, and both kind-hearted and high-minded. Three of his children grew to maturity. Mrs. Charles H. Eatinger and Mrs. William H. Ervin are still living in 1903, both residing near the old Crichton homestead.
WILLIAM CRICHTON (deceased), pioneer farmer of Dundee Township, Kane County, born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1821; came to the United States in 1842, locating on a farm near Dundee, Ill., where he lived for forty-five years and then removed to Dundee, where he died Dec. 7, 1900. He was married in 1848 to Grace Todd, also a native of Scotland.
ALBERT H. CRIPPS, retired farmer, Burlington Township, Kane County, born in Ceci' County, Md., Jan. 26, 1831; came to Burlington Township in 1845; began farming operations for himself in 1856, and was actively identified with the agricultural Interests of Burlington Township until 1900. Mr. Cripps was first married March 29, 1859, to Isabel Parthon, who died in April, 1882, leaving one son and four daughters. On January. 7, 1889, he married his second wife, Addie Buck, of Carpentersville.
DAVID P. CROSBY, proprietor of a livery and sales-stable, Elburn, Kane County, was born in Kaneville Township, Kane County, the son of James and Susan (Shaw) Crosby. He received his education from the district schools and the Elburn high school. His first business was farming, but in 1890 he engaged in teaming in Chicago, where he continued until 1894, when he returned to Kane County. In 1902 he started a livery stable in Elburn. He was married Jan. 1, 1890 to Miss Catherine Johnson, and of this union one son and two daughters were born, one daughter now being deceased. The family belong to the Catholic church.
JAMES CROSBY, retired farmer, Elburn, Kane County, was born May 27, 1835, in County Meath, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1854. He spent two years in New York, and in 1856 made his way to Kane County, Ill., where he found employment for a time on a farm, after which he bought a farm for himself in the Township of Kaneville, two and a half miles southwest of Elburn. In 1894 he retired from active business and moved into Elburn to pass his remaining years in well deserved rest and retirement. For eight years he served his district as School Director. Mr. Crosby is a member of the Elburn Catholic church. In 1862 he was married to Miss Susan Shaw, and of this union nine children have been born-four sons and five daughters.
DARWIN D. CULVER, physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., was born in Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wis., April 6, 1868, where he was reared on a farm, and educated in the public schools, finishing at the State Normal. Normal, Ill. With Dr. O. B. Stanard as his preceptor, he read medicine at Sandwich, Ill., and took a full course at the Homeopathic Medical College, Chicago, from which he graduated in April, 1894. Immediately after the completion of his college work he began practice at Piano, Ill., where he remained three years, and then removed to Aurora, where hi-has since gained professional prominence. From 1898 to 1901 he was lecturer on the subject of nervous physiology in Dunham Medical College of Chicago, and was later tendered the professorship of anatomy in the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical College, which he declined. He is a member of the Illinois Homoeopathic Society, and is a contributor to medical journals In 1894 he married Miss Mary Potter, of La-Sane County, Ill.
EL1SHA E. CURTIS, retired railway conductor, Geneva, Kane County, Ill., born in Hamburg, Spalding County, Ga., Jan. 10, 1844, son
