HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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began reading medicine with Dr. N. F. Graham, Professor of Surgery in Howard University, and graduated from the Medical Department of that institution in 1878, and has since taken clinical courses in Chicago and New York. In the fall of 1878 he removed to Batavia, and established a practice which has been continuous to the present time and has grown to large proportions. It is general in character, but in it the Doctor has displayed a surgical ability that has gained him prominence in high medical circles. He is an occasional contributor to medical publications, and has served as United States Pension Examiner and almshouse physician. He is local surgeon of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway and head of the Batavia Health Department, and has been a member of the West Batavia Board of Education since 1882. In 1881 he married Miss Nellie Whitney, daughter of William M. and Sarah (Clark) Whitney, of Hinsdale, Ill.
T. P. FLANDERS, farmer and stock-raiser, Kaneville, Kane County, was born Aug. 28, 1851, in Hill, N. H., and was brought by his parents to Kane County in 1854, when they settled on the farm on which he now resides, three miles west of the village of Kaneville. His education was acquired in the local schools and in Jennings Seminary at Aurora. Mr. Flanders has won a good standing in the community where his life is passing, and is the Secretary and a large stockholder in the County Line Creamery. He has been on the County Board four years, and for eighteen years a Justice of the Peace; is also School Director and a member of the Republican Central Committee for Kane County. Mr. Flanders belongs to the Kaneville Baptist church, and was married Aug. 28, 1876, to Miss Grace R. Lee, by whom he has had two children: T. Delos, born Jan. 22, 1879, and Elmer Lee, born Feb. 17, 1882.
MARK W. FLETCHER (deceased), lawyer and farmer, St. Charles, Ill., born at Thetford, Vt, Oct. 15, 1803; graduated from the law department of Dartmouth College in 1825, and practiced his profession at Batavia, N. Y., until 1835; came to Geneva, Kane County, in the fall of 1835; was the first County Surveyor and first County Clerk of Kane County; purchased 519 acres of land northeast of St. Charles at the Government land sale in 1844, upon which he located in 1848 and lived there the remainder of his days. On Aug. 25, 1846, he married Harriet Dunham, and of their eight children there are now (1903) living: Charles E., James M. and Hattie L. Mr. Fisher died Feb. 3, 1899.
JOHN E. FORBES, farmer, La Fox, Ill., born in Saratoga County, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1840; acquired his education in the home district schools, completing his educational training at the Fort Edward Institute, and engaging in farm work with his father during the summer season and teaching school in the winter, until the family came to Kane County, Ill., in October, 1869. He then bought a farm two miles southwest of La Fox, where he has carried on farming and dairying until the present time. He has been Town Clerk, Highway Commissioner, Assessor, School Trustee, and has proved himself a good citizen., He is a member of the Methodist church at Elburn, of which he has-been trustee and steward. Mr. Forbes was married March 31, 1864, to Geraldine, daughter of John H. and Matilda (Cox) Miller, all of the State of New York. James D. and Ann M. (DeWitt) Forbes were also natives of that State, and four of their five children are now living.
JAMES E. FORREST, printer and publisher, Geneva, Ill., born in Galesburg, Ill., Feb. 12. 1844, was educated in the schools of his native city and Chicago; in the former he learned the printer's trade, and helped start the first daily paper in that city. In 1859 he went to Chicago, and was connected with the "Times" under Wilbur F. Story until 1880, when he became assistant foreman of the composing rooms of the "Chicago Globe" during the first year of its existence; after this bought the "Geneva Republican," and published it for two and a half years, when he established a printing office in Chicago. After conducting this eleven years, in 1902 he removed it to Batavia, retaining, however, patrons and contracts in Chicago as before. At the present time (1903) he is the publisher of three monthly magazines, and at one time owned and published the "Irrigation Age." For seven years he published the "Clinical Review" of Chicago, was the chief promoter of the "Operative Miller," and for seven years printed the "Registered Pharmacist." When seventeen years of age Mr. Forrest enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-fourth
