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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
second term as President of the State Association of Circuit Clerks and Recorders. He is President of the Board of Education of East Batavia, a member of the Republican County Central Committee and is acting as Treasurer of the latter. Fraternally he is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Modern Woodman.
FRANCIS K. GEORGE, retired, Batavia, Ill., born in Strafford, Orange County, Vt., Dec. 31, 1819, the son of Ebenezer and Betsy (Kibbling) George, and the grandson of two revolutionary veterans. His father was a soldier of the War of 1812. Francis K. George was reared in Vermont and educated in the public schools of that State, learned the wool-carding and cloth-dressing trade while still a boy, and in 1864 removed to Illinois, settling on a farm near Batavia. Two years later he moved into the city, where for twenty years he was actively engaged in the real-estate business. Still later he was a partner, with his son Frank E., in the grocery trade; also served as Assessor eight years and two terms as Town Clerk. In 1844 he married Miss Edna Williams, of Strafford, Vt., who died in November, 1882.
WILLIAM GEORGE, financier and attorney at law, Aurora, was born in Aurora, Sept. 23, 1861, a son of Alonzo and Lydia (May) George,
secured his academic education in the Aurora public schools, was graduated from the West Aurora High School in 1879, and a member of the class of 1884, of the University of Iowa. In 1885 he graduated from the Union College of Law, Chicago, and was admitted to the Bar of Illinois the same year. From 1885 to 1887 he was associated professionally with Senator A. J. Hopkins, in the practice of law, and from 1887 to 1893 was alone in his legal work. In 1893 he formed a partnership with F. D. Wins-low, and later with N. 3. Aldrich, who left the firm of Hopkins, Alurich & Thatcher, to become identified with, the firm of George & Winslow. Some years later, because of demands on the time of Mr. George in other directions, he withdrew from active practice, giving his attention only to such legal matters as concerned corporate interests in which he and his friends were interested. In 1893 he became one of the Vice-Presidents of the Old Second National Bank, of Aurora, and two years later, on the occasion of the retirement of his father, succeeded to the presidency of that institution. Mr. George is a director o£ the Aurora Cotton Mills, and Director or otherwise officially connected with other institutions in Aurora and elsewhere. In addition to these interests he is associated with his uncle, Benjamin George, in stock farms near Aurora and Galena, where they have successfully established large herds of registered Hereford cattle, many of them directly imported by Mr. George from England. He is Vice-President of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association, and is President of the Illinois Bankers' Association, as well as member of Union League and Hamilton and Saddle and Sirloin Clubs, of Chicago. Mr. George was married Oct. 11, 1887, to Miss Alice Maude Lounsbury, daughter of E. W. Lounsbury, D. D., at Dayton, Ohio, and they have one child, Alice May, born Nov. 12, 1892.
CHRTSTOFER FREDERICK GEYER (deceased), Aurora, born in Wurtemberg, Germany, Oct. 22, 1839, and died in Aurora, June 9, 1903; was associated with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company as machinist and in other capacities for over forty years; married March 29, 1864, Miss Caroline Scharschug, and by this union there are three children: Mrs. Mary Lincoln, Clarence and Edna I. Mr. Geyer was in all probability the oldest
