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previous year. In 1838 they removed to the settlement at Dundee, Kane County, where Mr. Edwards opened a pioneer store. There Henry C. Edwards was reared to manhood, and there he obtained his education in the village schools, supplemented by attendance at Beloit College and at Bell's Commercial College, Chicago. In early life he became interested in the store with his father, and later turned his attention to farming, in which he has been quite steadily engaged to the present time. From 1888 to 1898 he was President and General Manager of the Illinois Iron and Brass Works at Carpentersville. In August, 1861, he enlisted in the Fifty-second Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out at Rome, Ga., Oct. 24, 1864. at the end of three years and two months of active and honorable service. He is a member of Dundee Post, No. 519, G. A. R., and has been its Commander. In 1865 he married Miss Ellen A. Dunton, daughter of William and Mary Dunton, pioneer settlers of Dundee.
ROBERT S. EGAN, lawyer, Elgin, born in Sycamore, Ill., May 10, 1857, and grew to manhood on a Kane County farm, to which his father retired in 1859. His literary education was secured in the public schools and at Elgin Academy; later he read law in the office of Hon. H. B. Willis, now Judge of the Sixteenth Illinois Judicial Circuit, and was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court in 1882. He began practice in Elgin, and has since given his attention to his profession up to the present time (1903). From 1883 to 1899 he was associated with Hon. C. F. Irwin, now Justice of the United States Court, Second District Oklahoma, and from 1883 to 1885 served as City Attorney of Elgin. In May, 1903, he was appointed Corporation Counsel of Elgin. Politically a Democrat, he has been one of the leaders of that party for a number of years.
GEORGE B. ELDEN, retired banker, Elburn, Ill.; born in York County, Maine, May 19, 1832; located in Kane County, Ill., in 1864, where he was engaged in the lumber" trade for over twenty years; purchased the Bank of Elburn in 1887 and conducted that institution until ]900, when he retired from active business; married Nov. 3, 1855.
FRANCIS M. ELLIOTT, M. D., physician, Aurora, born in that city April 5, 1844, son of
the old pioneer, William T. Elliott, mentioned elsewhere in this volume; was reared on the paternal estate, educated in the local schools and at Jennings Seminary, Aurora, and began his medical studies under the direction of Dr. F. S. Hance, graduating from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in February, 1869. He began practice at Blairstown, Iowa, but in 1872 returned to Aurora to succeed to the practice of Dr. Hance. In the thirty years that have elapsed he has built a fine reputation as a skillful, conscientious and faithful family physician. He has been the inventor and patentee of several valuable medical appliances, which now sell throughout the United States and are highly approved by the profession everywhere. He is a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, and has been City Physician of Aurora for several years. His recreation from hard work is painting in oil, and several of his portraits and landscapes have marked merit. -In 1870 he married Miss Lydia, daughter of Rev. Azro and Jane (Hotchkiss) French, born in Nuggar, India, while her father was a missionary in that country. Of this marriage were born three children: Dr. Prank A., of Chicago; Arthur B., an artist of Chicago; and Mrs. Fannie E. Grass, of Chicago.
WILLIAM T. ELLIOTT (deceased), born in Connecticut in 1810, through both parents being descended from Scotch and English ancestry; was taken by his parents to Pennsylvania in 1812, and thence to New York, where he grew up. In 1834 he came to Aurora, Ill., where he purchased land from the Government and became a successful farmer. In 1835 he married Rebecca, daughter of Elijah Pierce, who came from the East and settled at Montgomery, Kane County, three years previous. This was the first marriage in Kane County, and their oldest born was the first white child born in the county. They began housekeeping in a log structure on Fox River, and here their lives were passed. The Elliott farm is now a part of Aurora. Here Mr. Elliott died in 1894, aged 84, and Mrs. Elliott in 1900, at the age of 82.
DE GOY B. ELLIS, lawyer, Elgin, Ill., born in Blaine, Boone County, Ill., Nov. 27. 1877, son of W. B. and Sophia (Bowman) Ellis, wa? reared on a farm and educated at the Belvidero High School and at Dixon College, Dixon, graduating from the latter in the class of 1897 with
