HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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1892 became sole owner of its successor, the "Aurora Daily Times/' which he conducted for a year and a half. In 1885 he married Miss Letitia Gillespie, of Oswego, Ill., and their children are: Emily, Bessie May, Paul G., and Lysander F.
SIDNEY B. HAWLEY (deceased), physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., was born in Franklin County, Vt, March 9, 1830, the son of Lyman Hawley, a farmer of note in that distant day. Dr. Hawley grew to manhood under the parental roof, and received his academic education from the local schools. In 1852 he graduated from the Brattleboro (Vt.) Medical College, and locating at Jefferson, O., engaged in the practice of his profession with much success. In that community were the homes of Benjamin F. Wade, Joshua R. Giddings, W. D. Howells, and other celebrities. The Wade and Howells families were numbered among his earliest patrons and warmly commended his professional and personal characteristics. After a residence of five years in Jefferson, Dr. Hawley removed to Chicago, where he practiced three years, and in 1860 settled in Aurora. In the summer of 1861 he entered the Union Army as Assistant Surgeon of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was soon transferred to the Thirty-fifth as Surgeon, where he served until the close of the war. His regiment was a part of the Army of the West, and participated in its campaigns. As a consequence Dr. Hawley was always at the front and saw much of the hospital service of the war. Captured by the rebels at Chickamauga, he was held six weeks a prisoner of war in Libby Prison, Richmond. After the war he had a large practice at Aurora until his death, which occurred in 1877. In 1855 he was married to Miss Mary A. Webster, of Fairfax, Vt.
LABAN HAYWARD, merchant, Aurora, Ill., was born in Shrewsbury, Rutland County, Vt., Aug. 21, 1836, and came of an old Vermont family. His father, Willard Hayward, came with his family to Illinois in 1849, and some years later removed to Aurora, where he died in 1880. Laban Hayward received a good education, and taught school for some years in his early manhood. However, as he had been trained to farming life he devoted his earlier years mainly to that occupation in Will County. In 1865 he removed to Aurora, where he at first was engaged in the meat trade and packing business, to which he later added a grocery store. Here he built up a business which he carried on very successfully until 1898, when he disposed of it after more than a third of a century of active work, his sons succeeding him. This business was carried on in a block on Broadway which he had built for himself. Mr. Hayward has been connected with various other interests in Aurora, and for some years was a Director of the First National Bank, and is stockholder in the Home Building and Loan Association. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, and he has been an active and earnest Republican to the present time. He has served one term as a member of the Aurora Board of Aldermen. Fraternally he is a Mason and at different times has represented his local lodge as a member of the Grand Lodge of Illinois. In later years his attention has been largely given to estates entrusted to his care. His wife, born Elizabeth Barclay, is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, but was living in Will County at the time of their marriage.
JOHN L. HEALY, the son of Bernard and Catherine (Laughlin) Healy, the subject of this sketch, was born in the city of Elgin, Ill., where he now resides, on Aug. 3, 1861. His father, Bernard Healy, was born in Dublin, Ireland, and, as a young man, in the year 1842, emigrated from his native country, and after arriving in the United States at once proceeded to Elgin, Ill., where he settled and immediately established a saddlery and harness business, thereby becoming one of its pioneer merchants and business men. The business thus established he continued and successfully maintained for a period of more than fifty years. He was always prominently identified with public affairs and leading enterprises, and at an early day assisted James T. Gifford in laying out the original plat of the city of Elgin. The subject of this sketch obtained his early education in the public schools of Elgin and later attended St. Joseph's College at Bards-town, Ky., and the University of Notre Dame, at Notre Dame, Ind., from which he graduated in the year 1879. Later on he engaged in the study of the law and was admitted to the bar in 1884, and in the year following pursued a course of post-graduate studies in Heidelberg, Germany, and in connection therewith acquired
