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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Board of Trade Regiment," in which he served six months. In 1877 he visited Europe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the same vessel with Gen. Grant. In 1867 he married Miss Adelaide, daughter of E. G. Morse, one of the old settlers of Kane County.
JOSEPH M. FRACE (deceased), farmer, El-burn, Kane County, Ill.; born at Pleasant Grove, Morris County, N. J., Feb. 22, 1820, and came of German parentage; educated in the district schools of his native county; came to Illinois in 1852, and in the same year purchased a farm in Kaneville Township, Kane County, which he conducted until 1894, when he retired from active business life and removed to the village of Elburn, where he resided until his death, April 28, 1902. On Oct. 29, 1857, he was married to Sarah Voorhees, of Pleasant Grove, N. J. Mr. Frace followed diversified farming and was a very successful business manager. His method of holding his grain and other farm produce, and disposing of them at a time when the markets assured the best returns, was one of the principal sources of his success as a business man and property owner.
LINCOLN B. FRAZIER, newspaper publisher, Aurora, Ill., born in the city where he now resides, Oct. 3, 1870, and educated in the West Aurora High School and Lawrenceville Academy, Lawrenceville, N. J. From 1889 to 1902 he was President and Treasurer of the well-known carriage manufacturing plant of W. S. Frazier & Co. at Aurora, being at the same time one of the owners of "The Aurora News," of which he became manager in 1902, and to which lie has since devoted the greater part of his attention. At the present time (1904) he is President of the Aurora Daily News Company and one of the Directors in the firm of W. S. Frazier & Co.; is also a member of the Aurora Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. He was married in 1897 to Miss Bertha M. Plumb, of Streator, Ill.
WALTER S. FRAZIER, retired manufacturer, Aurora, Ill., born at Tully, Onondaga County, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1835, was educated at Homer and Pompey Hill Academies, New York, and trained to merchandising at Syracuse, N. Y. He came to Chicago in 1857, and soon afterwards entered the office of the City Comptroller, where he was Chief Clerk for five years; later was Clerk of Special Assessments in Chicago, and in 1865 was Clerk of the Illinois House of Representatives. From 1866 to 1870 he lived on a farm near Batavia, Ill., and in the latter year removed to Aurora, where he soon became prominent in general business affairs. While breeding and training trotting horses, he invented the Frazier road cart, which has since made his name familiar throughout the country. In 1880 he began manufacturing these carts, and thus established an industry which has since grown to large proportions, and the establishment with which he is connected at the present time (1903) is one of the most widely known manufactories of road vehicles in the country. His sons have succeeded to the management of the business, Mr. Frazier having retired on account of ill-health. In 1891 Mr. Frazier purchased the "Aurora Daily News," which is conducted by his sons. He has served as Mayor of Aurora besides filling other municipal offices, and was for many years a leader in the councils of the Republican party. Mr. Frazier was married in New York in 1855" to Miss Mary Stevens, who died in 1880.
WALTER S. FRAZIER, manufacturer, Aurora, Ill., born in Chicago July 5, 1863; educated in the Aurora High School; has been engaged with his father in manufacturing since 1881; was Captain of the Illinois National Guard four years; Lieutenant-Colonel of the same organization for a like period; is Vice-President of the Aurora Public Library Board.
CHARLES H. FRAEY, M. D., physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., born in Philadelphia July 18, 1865; was educated at St. Mary's College, Penn., and at St. Mary's College, Emmets-burg, Md.; graduated from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1888; served a year on the staff of Jefferson Hospital; in 1889 came west, and before coming to Aurora practiced a year in Champaign County. In Aurora he has taken a prominent position in his profession, and from 1893 to 1897 was Assistant Superintendent of the Illinois Northern Hospital for Insane, at Elgin. Dr. Fraey is a member of the American, the Illinois State and the Fox River Valley Medical Associations. He is Medical Examiner for the Catholic Foresters and the Independent Order of Foresters, the St. Vincent De Paul Society and other orders and
