HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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JOHN H. HALL, farmer, Campton Township, Kane County, Ill., born in Virgil Township, Kane County, Jan. 12, 1868; educated in the district schools of Campton and Elburn; commenced farming on his own account in 1891, and in 1901 purchased his present farm, where he conducts an extensive dairy; married Rosie Crosby, daughter of James and Susan (Shaw) Crosby.
LYSANDER B. HAMLIN, Elgin, was born in Morgan County, Ohio, Jan. 26, 1839, son of Dr. W. S. and Eliza (Welch) Hamlin, and brought up in his native State, where he secured his education in the local schools. As a boy he was trained to farming, but in his earlier manhood joined his older brother, John A. Hamlin, who had engaged in the manufacture and sale of various proprietary medicines at Cincinnati. In 1861 they removed to Chicago, where they became famous for their Wizard Oil, the sale of which was extended throughout the United States and Canada. The business grew to large proportions, and is still owned and conducted by the original proprietors, though the first partnership has given way to an incorporation, of which L. B. Hamlin is now Vice-President. His home was in Chicago until 1886, when he removed to Elgin, where he has since resided. In later years Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin have spent their winters in Florida, where he has become interested in orange and pine-apple growing. In 1868 he was married to Miss Ella L., daughter of Morris C. Town, the widely known banker of Elgin, Ill. The members of Mr. Hamlin's family are: Maud L. (Mrs. M. M. Cloudman), Morris Clinton, Lawrence B., and Harold S.-all of Elgin, Ill.
JOHN S. HALL (deceased), pioneer, Aurora, Ill., was born in Button, Mass., Aug. 4, 181S, son of John and Persis (Cummins) Hall, and was reared to manhood in that State, where he received a public school education, and training as a practical millwright. Later in life he engaged in building in Massachusetts. In 1855 he came to Illinois, spending his first winter in the State in Batavia. In 1856 he located in Aurora, and became connected with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy car shops, remaining in the employ of the company until he retired from active life more than thirty years later. While there he built the first mail-car sent out of Aurora. His death occurred in Aurora, March 7, 1901. In 1841 he married Miss Abbie B. Hastings, daughter of Nahum Hastings, of Berlin. Mass. She survives her husband, still living in Aurora. Their living children are: Mrs. Abbie R. Brundage, of Aurora; Mrs. Mary Wheadon, of Indiana; Marcus M., of Cedai Rapids, low~a; and Mrs. Susie M. Barth, of Chicago. The eldest son, George S., was killed at the battle of Stone River.
FRANCIS G. HANCHETT, lawyer, Aurora, Ill., born Kaneville, Kane County, Oct. 2, 1865, was educated in the public schools, graduated from the old University of Chicago in 1882 and from the law department of the University of Iowa in 1883, and began the practice of law in Aurora in 1884 as junior partner of the firm of Winslow & Hanchett, which became Hopkins, Hanchett & Dolph, A. J. Hopkins, the head of the firm being the present United States Senator from Illinois. When this firm dissolved, Mr. Hanchett began business alone, which he has since continued. For eight years he was Chairman of the Republican County Committee, and for several years served as a member of the West Aurora Board of Education. In 1883 he was married to Miss Lillian L. Scott, daughter of John H. Scott, a Kaneville farmer. David Hanchett, father of Francis G., was an early settler in Kaneville, and his grandfather on
