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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
EDGAR C. HAWLEY, Dundee, legislator, born at Harrington, Cook County, Ill., Feb. 20, 1850, son of George C. and Anna (Nute) Hawley, was reared on the farm and educated in the public schools. In 1873 he established himself as a merchant in Dundee, and was later there engaged in banking. He was a member of the Kane County Board of Supervisors two terms, and in 1888 was elected a Representative in the General Assembly from Kane County, by re-elections serving four consecutive terms in that body. He has since been connected with State Board of Grain and Warehouse Commissioners in Chicago. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, in which he has taken all the degrees except the Scottish Rite. In 1871 he married Miss Esther E., daughter of Henry E. Hunt, of Dundee, and their living children are: William A., a civil engineer, now connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad; and Esther A., now a student at the University of Illinois; Henry E., the first born, died in 188].
JOHN S. HAWLEY.
JOHN S. HAWLEY (deceased), was born in Ridgefleld, Conn., Oct. 22, 1820, his ancestors being among the number who came to America in the "Mayflower." Mr. Hawley came to Chicago in the spring of 1836, when that city contained about 4,000 inhabitants, and here obtained his first employment in the mercantile business with Magie & Pitkin. He removed to Aurora in 1851 and started in business at the corner of Main street and Broadway-known as the McLellen property-and early in the fall of the same year built a store on Main Street, where he was actively engaged in business for forty-four years, or until stricken with paralysis on Feb. 22, 1895, which resulted in his death March 12, of the same year. The handsome brick residence at 171 LaSalle Street was built by Mr. Hawley, and here he resided until his death. He was a member of the order of Odd-Fellows, but withdrew a few years before his death; was also a member of the Calumet Club of Chicago, and of the first fire company ("American") in Aurora from 1857 to 1864; was one of the originators of the Aurora National Bank, in which he was a stockholder and Director. On May 8, 1850, Mr. Hawley was married in Detroit, Mich., to Mary Malcolm, who died Dec. 8, 1894. Not having any children of his own, he adopted a little girl in 1858, who survives and lives in Southbridge, Mass. Mr. Hawley was a man of sterling disposition, straight-forward in business and exemplary in all his habits; his every-day life was his religion.
FRANK O. HAWLEY, farmer and real-estate dealer, Aurora, was born in Oswego, Kendall County, Ill., Nov. 20, 1850, son of Frank G. Hawley, a settler in Kendall County in 1837, and long a member of the Bar of that county, as well as a large land owner, was educated in the local schools, Knox College and Northwestern University, and for a time read law, but turning his attention to a business career, engaged in the handling of real estate in Kendall County. From 1878 until 18841 he was in the storage and loan business in Chicago, when he returned to Kendall County to take care of his real estate interests. From 1890 to the present time his home has been in Aurora, where his real estate transactions have been both extensive and profitable, including several additions to the city, as well as a nuimber of large deals in farming lands in the West and elsewhere. In Kendall County he is an extensive landowner, and is now (1903) engaged in building up Oswego, to which he has made an important addition. A prominent Democrat, he has refused official position. Was one of the founders of the "Aurora Daily Democrat," and in
