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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
the degrees of B. 0. and B. S.; two years later graduated from the Illinois College of Law, and in October of same year opened an office in Elgin, where he is engaged in professional labor. In 1903 he was elected City Attorney by a plurality of 588 votes. He is a director of the Fraternal Reserve Life Association, with headquarters at Knoxville; is also giving special attention to insurance and corporate law. Mr. Ellis belongs to the Greek letter fraternity Phi Alpha Beta, the Court of Honor, and the Elgin City Club, and one or two other organizations.
STEPHEN R. ELLITHORPE, pioneer farmer, Burlington Township, Kane County, born at Sheldon, Vt., April 16, 1819; came west, driving across the country with team and wagon, arriving in Burlington Township in 1841, where he took up a quarter section of land; conducted his farm in Burlington Township until the time of his death, Jan. 4, 1902. He was married in 1840 to Miss Emily C. Smith, of Canada, who died Nov. 13. 1898.
EDWARD S. END. Superintendent Borden Condensed Milk Company, Elgin, Ill., was born in Honesdale. Penn., May 26, 1848, received his education in the public schools, and in 1868 was clerk in a hardware store. The following year he entered the employ of the Borden Condensed Milk Company, at Brewster, N. Y., coming to Elgin in 1870. In 1881 he was appointed Superintendent of the factory, and is still serving in that capacity. Mr. Eno is a Republican. He was a member of the old Volunteer Fire Department for eight years, and, at, the close of that service, held the position of Assistant Fire Marshal. He served one term on the Board of Education and one term in the City Council. While a member of the Council he was Chairman of the Special Committee on Water-Works, and it was largely through the efforts of this committee that the present system of water-works was installed-the contract for the same being let by this committee at that time. He also served on the Board of Water Commissioners for eight years; at the present time is acting as one of the Fire and Police Commissioners of the city of Elgin; is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane.
WILLIAM H. ERVIN, farmer, Dundee Township, Kane County, Ill., was born in Armstrong County, Penn., Aug. 22, 1852, son of John and Cornelia (Woodruff) Ervin, and reared in his native State; was taken by his parents into Ohio in 1860, and received his educational training in the schools of these two States. In early manhood he was employed in the iron works at Martin's Ferry. In 1875 he came to Illinois, and three years later settled on the farm where he now resides, three and a half miles northwest of the village of Dundee, where he has been largely engaged in dairy-farming and bee culture. Fraternally he has wide connections, being a Mason and Odd Fellow, Modern Woodman, and a Knight of the Maccabees. In 1878 he married Miss Margaret Crichton, daughter of John Crichton, one of the pioneer settlers of Dundee Township.
WILLIAM C. ESTEB, bank cashier, Aurora, Kane County, Ill., was born at Le Roy, Genesee County, N. Y., June 6, 1855; educated in the public schools and Le Roy Academy; came to Aurora in January, 1878, as bookkeeper for the Second National Bank (now known as the Old Second National Bank). He has been cashier of the Second National Bank for nine years (1879-88) and of the Merchants' National Bank for sixteen vears.
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