HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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sonic fraternity, the Order of Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is a Republican.
GUERDON J. HOLLISTER (deceased), pioneer farmer, Batavia, was born in Lenox, Mass., in 1.802, where he was reared and educated in the local schools, and in early life became a wool manufacturer at Lynn. He came to Kane County in 1846, and settling on a farm in Geneva Township, there followed farming until his death in 1886. He married Miss Maria Puller, who was born and reared in Burlington, Vt. Their descendants now living in Kane County are W. J. Hollister and Mrs. N. S. Young, both of Batavia.
FRANK J. HOOKER, Mayor, Batavia, Ill., born in South Edmeston, Otsego County, N. Y., Sept. 14, 1858, son of Charles D. and Juline (Briggs) Hooker; was reared in his native State, and received a public school education, to which was added a course at New Berlin Academy, from which he graduated in 1875. For five years thereafter he engaged in teaching during the winter months, and in butter and cheese making during the rest of the year. In 1882 he came to Batavia, where he soon became engaged in the building trade on an extensive
scale, in his time going as far as Atlanta, Ga., to do business. For two terms he was a member of the Batavia Board of Aldermen; for six months was Commissioner of Highways, and is now serving his second term on the Board of Supervisors. In the spring of 1903 he was elected Mayor of Batavia. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Knight of Pythias. He was married April 2, 1899, to Miss Ella P. Parre, of Batavia.
SIMEON N. HOOVER, attorney, Aurora, Ill., born in Clermont County, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1867; came to Illinois in 1869 with his parents, who established their home at Bloomington; educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University, graduating from that institution in 1887; read law at Bloomington, and in 1889 went to Colorado, where he was admitted to the bar; established his home in Aurora in 1893, where he has since practiced his profession; is identified with the manufacturing interests of Aurora as Secretary of the McKay-Hoover Manufacturing Co.; married in 1901 to Miss Clara Luck, of Aurora.
ALBERT J. HOPKINS, United States Senator, born in De Kalb County, Ill., Aug. 15, 1846, and after graduating from Hillsdale College, Michigan, in 1870, studied law and bega^i practice at Aurora. He rapidly attained prominence at the bar, and, in 1872, was elected State's Attorney for Kane County, serving in that capacity for four years. An ardent Republican, he was soon high in the party's councils, serving as Chairman of the State Central Committee from 1878 to 1880, and as a Presidential Elector on the Blaine and Logan ticket in 1884. The same year he was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress from the Fifth District (now the Eighth), and was continuously re-elected until 1902, receiving a clear majority in 1898 of more than 18,000 votes over two competitors. In 1898 he was Chairman of the Select House Committee on Census, and a member of the Committees on Ways and Means and Merchant Marine and Fisheries. In 1896, and again in 1900, he was strongly supported for the Republican nomination for Governor. In 1902 he was placed in nomination for United States Senator by the Republican State Convention of Illinois, and at the ensuing session of the General Assembly he was elected Senator for {he term beginning March 4, 1903.
