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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
the maternal side, Alfred Churchill, who was one of the early settlers of Kane County, was a member of the Illinois Constitutional Convention of 1847.
SAMUEL H. HANECY, brick manufacturer, Carpentersville, Kane County, born in Bangor, Me., Aug. 1, 1822, son of James P. Hanecy, a sea-captain and a merchant. In 1833 the father took the son to New Orleans with the intention of rearing him to a sea-faring life, but while there the father was stricken with yellow fever and black vomit, and although he recovered, was left a cripple for life. On the homeward voyage his father's ship was caught in a storm, and was fourteen days making the trip to Charleston, S. C., where he was compelled to stop for extensive repairs. Three months later the son was sent to Boston and from there to Bangor. In 1836 Captain Hanecy came with his family to Illinois, settling in Rock Island County, where Samuel H. completed his schooling, and learned the brickmaking trade, in which he established himself in Chicago in 1848, and in which he was very successfully engaged until 1860. Afterward he operated with partners and for the city of Chicago at the Bridewell, and for twelve years was engaged in merchandising in Wisconsin. In 1880 he established his home in Chicago, but continued to do business in Chicago for several years thereafter. Retiring from active business, he has since lived in Carpentersville, where he is now serving his fourth term as Justice of the Peace. He has also acted as local representative of the ^Etna Fire Insurance Co. In 1849 Mr. Hanecy married Miss Martha A. Piney, of Bristol, and has reared a family of seven sons and one daughter. His oldest son, Edward, who was connected for twenty-seven years with the Bridewell Prison of Chicago, is now Deputy Warden of the Wisconsin State Prison at Waupuii. His second son, Jerome, is in business at Pullman, Ill.; Prank, the third son, is superintendent of a factory in Oshkosh, Wis.; William., the fourth son, is superintendent and chief engineer of the United States Appraisers' building in Chicago; Arthur, the fifth son ,is an expert iron moulder at. Harvard, Ill.; Joseph, the sixth son, is engineer at the silver plate factory at Elgin; and Charles, the youngest son, is superintendent of the Borden Condensed Milk Factory, at Auburn, Wash. The daughter married L. J. Wright, who is connected with the Borden Condensed Milk Factory at Carpentersville.
EZRA HANSON (deceased), pioneer farmer, Elgin, Ill., was born April 22, 1806, in Lebanon, Me., then an integral part of Massachusetts, and was a son of John B. and Dorcas (Libby) Hanson. In his early life in the East he operated a tanning and currier business, but when he came west in 1837, located on a farm in Ohio Grove, DeKalb County, where he acquired a large tract of land. In 1844 he sold his land and removed to a farm in Burlington Township. This farm be increased by subsequent purchases until, at one time, he owned over 1,400 acres of land in one body. For years he devoted his attention to raising grain, and was one of the few who never engaged in dairy-farming. In 1856 he left the farm and removed to Elgin, but continued his agricultural labors as long as he lived. Mr. Hanson was married Sept. 5, 1833, to Miss Katharine Kimball Upton, of Danvers, Mass., who died in Elgin, March 28, 1876, and there Mr. Hanson also died, June 15, 1890. Only two of their children reached maturity. Of these Joseph Haven Hanson, who was born Oct. 16, 1835, became a lawyer and died Aug. 14, 1892, and Mary Upton Hanson, born Jan 10, 1839, is still living in Elgin.
ABNER HARD (deceased), physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., was born at Geneva, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1821; spent his early boyhood in his native State, coming from there to Unadilla, Mich., in 1832; educated at a seminary at Ypsi-lanti, Mich., and began the study of medicine in that State; graduated from Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk, Iowa, and later from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He began the practice of medicine in Aurora about 1848, and soon became one of the leading members of his profession. He died in Aurora in 1885. He was married in 1844 to Miss Laura E. Vreeland, whose home was then at Flat Rock, Mich., but whose birthplace was Geneva, N. Y. Mrs. Hard comes of an old Pennsylvania family which was almost exterminated at the Wyoming Massacre, which occurred during the Revolutionary War. She survives her husband and still lives in Aurora. The living children of Dr. and Mrs. Hard are: Mrs. W. H. Van Arsdale, Mrs. W. T. Murphy and Mrs. Charles C. Shepard. Mrs. Florence Todisneau, another daughter, died leav-
