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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
marriage occurred in 1870, with Miss Martha L. Hatch, of English Prairie. After her death he married, in 1900, Miss Clara Pettis, of Elgin.
SPENCER B. HULS, St. Charles, merchant, was born in Seneca County, N. Y., June 16, 1828, and educated in the schools of his native county. In 1843 he arrived in St. Charles in company with his parents, and was there engaged in farming until I860, in the meantime taking a trip to California in 1850 during the gold-mining period, and remaining there four years. In 1868 he established the retail grocery in which he is still engaged. Mr. Huls was the first City Treasurer, and has served as Alderman four terms. In 1854 he was married to Miss Mary J. Mallory, daughter of B. D. and Ann (Henderson) Mallory, both natives of Yates County, N. Y. One son, S. S. Huls, is a partner with his father in the grocery business.
CLARK M. HUMISTON (deceased), farmer, Kaneville, Kane County, was born in Connecticut in 1822, and came to Illinois in 1853, settling in De Kalb County, where he remained for twenty years, when he bought a farm in Kane County, on which he lived until his death, which occurred in November, 1884. For a number of years he was Supervisor of the town of Pierce, De Kalb County. He belonged to the Masonic fraternity. About 1851 he married Elizabeth Price, who bore him thirteen children, and died in the fall of 1898.
MAJ. B. T. HUNT, retired merchant, St. Charles, Ill.; born at Abington, Mass., Oct. 19. 1812; came to St. Charles, Ill., in 1836, where he engaged in the mercantile business in 1838. which he conducted until 1850, when he built a tannery. Mr. Hunt's tannery was destroyed by fire in 1861, and he then established a hardware store, which he conducted until 1890, when he retired from active business life. He was married Oct. 2, 1842, to Harriet H. Lathrop, and they have one son, F. B., who is now Mayor of St. Charles.
EDWARD L. HUNT, retired merchant, Batavia, was born in Princeton, N. J., July 22, 1817, son of William and Eleanor (Schenck) Hunt, both of whom came of Revolutionary ancestors. He was educated in the public schools of Princeton and trained to mercantile pursuits as a boy. In 1853 he came west and established his home in Batavia, Ill. He was engaged in merchandising there until 1837, when he sold out and removed to Sangamon County, Ill., where he farmed for five years thereafter. While there he became acquainted with some of the distinguished Illinoisans of that period, the most noted of whom was Abraham Lincoln. In 1862 he returned to Batavia and soon afterward enlisted in the Union Army for service in the War of the Rebellion. He was mustered into Company B, of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and was mustered out in 1865, at the end of three full years of active service. In the course of this service he participated in the battles at Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hills, the siege of Vicksburg, the siege of Spanish Fort, and two other sieges, and fourteen other engagements and skirmishes. In all he was under the fire of the enemy eighty-two days and sixty nights. At the close of the war he returned to Batavia and in 1871 became head of the mercantile firm of Hunt & Davis, with which he was identified until 1891, when he retired from business. Since then he has been called upon to settle a number of bankrupt estates in addition to looking after his property interests. He married in 1841 Miss Catherine F. Ross, daughter of Robert R. Ross, of Princeton, N. J.
F. B. HUNT, merchant, St. Charles, Ill.; born in the city where he now resides, June 1, 1848; educated in the public schools of St. Charles and Fulton Military Academy; engaged in the hardware business with his father in early manhood, and in the spring of 1886 removed to Iowa, where he purchased a ranch and raised horses; returned to St. Charles in 1897, where he has since been engaged in the hardware business. Mr. Hunt has served his city as School Director, Police Magistrate and Mayor. He married Miss Barritt Flint, and they have four children-F. C., Bertha L., Eva May and Effie W.
HENRY E. HUNT, pioneer merchant and banker, Dundee, Ill., born in Brandon, Vt., April 19, 1819, in the same house in which Stephen A. Douglas was born, went into Western New York with his father when a boy, and there grew to manhood. In the early history of that
