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brought by his parents to Geneva, Ill., where he attended the local schools, beginning his technical training with a course in the Scranton Correspondence School. His practical fitness for the position he now holds was demonstrated in the connection he had with the Charles Pope Glucose Works at Geneva, in which he began as office-boy, working his way up, through the laboratory and foremanship of several departments, to the position oi' Assistant Superintendent in 1901. The following year, although only twenty-seven years of age, he became Superintendent of the great factory. This position he recently resigned to accept another in connection with the construction of the largest independent starch and glucose plant in the United States, for the J. C. Hubinger Brothers Company at Keokuk, Iowa. Mr. Eckland is a Thirty-first Degree Mason, Master of Geneva Lodge, No. 139, A. F. & A. M., and an ardent promoter of Masonic interests.
JOHN K. EDDOWBS (deceased), merchant, Geneva, Ill., born in Middletown, Del., Nov. 17, 1826, spent his early life near Philadelphia, where he attended school. In 1838 the family removed to Savanna, Ill., where they were neighbors to General Grant and his family in after years. When Mr. Eddowes became a young man he engaged in the drug trade, which he followed until his death, Aug. 7, 1897, having spent the last twenty years of his life in Geneva. He was married June 26, 1878, to Mrs. Sarah J. Akers, of Chicago, whose first husband was a charter member of the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Eddowes was one of the pioneer Unitarians of Geneva.
TIMOTHY H. EDDOWES, clergyman, Geneva, Ill., was born in Middletown, Del., May 7, 1837, and was brought by his parents into Illinois the following year. His education was secured in the public schools and the Platteville Academy, Platteville, Wis. He fitted for the ministry at the Theological School, Meadville, Penn., and in 1865 was called to the Unitarian church in Geneva, which he served until 1870. That year he went east and served churches in Littleton Mass., and Farmington, Maine. In 1875 he returned to Geneva, where he has since made his home, though not engaged in active clerical labor.
ALLEN EDDY (deceased), pioneer farmer, Campton Township, Kane County, born in New York State in 1803; trained to farming, and followed that occupation in New York State, later in Ohio, and still later in Illinois; came to Illinois in 1852, and resided in Campton Township, Kane County, until his death in 1877; married Miss Sophia Beardsley, of Ohio.
HOMER EDDY, farmer, Geneva Township, Kane County; born in Vermillion, Erie County, Ohio, Sept. 16, 1847, son of Allen and Sophia (Beardsley) Eddy; came to Illinois with his father in 1852; in 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, serving nearly four months. After the close of the war he engaged in farming in Campton Township, Kane County, remaining there until 1891, when he purchased a farm near Geneva, where he has since resided. He was married in 1869 to Miss Amelia M. Kinnear, daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth Kinnear, pioneer settlers of Kane County.
HENRY C. EDWARDS, farmer and manufacturer, Dundee, Ill., born in Chautauqua County. N. Y., July 14, 1835, son of Alfred and Lucinda (Bosworth) Edwards, in 1837 was taken by his parents to Chicago, then a frontier village, to which the father and husband had gone the
