HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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institution, he was a student at Oberlin College. In 1840 he married Miss Esther Ann Edwards in New York. Two years later the young married couple came to Illinois, and made their home at Dundee, where Mr. Hunt started a pioneer store. Winning success in this enterprise, he established the first hanking house in the village of Dundee, the management of which he retained in his own hands until his retirement from business, when it was entrusted to his son-in-law, Edgar C. Hawley. He was also a large land-owner, and a thoroughly practical farmer. For fourteen years he was on the Kane County Board of Supervisors, and was a member of the State Board of Equalization from the Kane County District four years. To Mr. Hunt and Mrs. Hunt have been born nine children, of whom four were living in 1903, one of them (Mrs. E. C. Hawley) on the old homestead at Dundee.
GEORGE HUNTER, Consulting Superintendent National Watch Company, Elgin, Ill., was' born in Wendell, Mass., Nov. 13, 1834, and educated in the public schools. He learned the machinist trade and came to Elgin in 1864 to install the machinery department of the National Watch Company. Mr. Hunter served as foreman of the machinery department until 1872, when lie was appointed Superintendent of the plant, and which office he held until Jan. 1, 1903, when his present position was created for him. In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Hunter is a stockholder in the Elgin National Watch Company, the Home National and the Home Savings Banks, and a director of the last named corporation. He is a member of the Century and the Country Clubs of Elgin, and has long been active in Monitor Lodge, A. F. & A. M.
GEORGE E. HUNTER, Superintendent Elgin Watch Factory, Elgin, Ill., was born in Waltham, Mass., Nov. 29, 1859, son of George Hunter, and was brought by his parents to Elgin, Dec. 26, 1864, where he attended the public schools, graduating from the Elgin Academy in 1877. The same year he entered the Watch Factory as an apprentice in the machinery department to serve three years. He remained in this department six years, when he was appointed assistant foreman of the escapement department in 1883, and was made foreman of the same room in 1885. In 1888 he was made Assistant Superintendent in charge of the mechanical branch of the work, holding this position until Jan. 1, 1903, when he was appointed Superintendent with full charge, his father having been promoted on that day to the office of Consulting Superintendent. "The Watch Factory has grown from a capacity of but a few hundred in 1871, to a capacity of 2,000 a day under George and George E. Hunter." Mr. Hunter is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is now serving his second term on the Elgin Library Board. He was married in 1885 to Miss Belle M. Taylor, of New York, and is the father of two sons and a daughter by this union. Donald Taylor, the oldest son, was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., May 20, 1903; the other two children are Marjorie Bell and George Richard.
THOMAS M. HUNTER (deceased), Batavia, Ill., who was long identified with the stone-quarrying interests of Kane County, was born in Ida, Mich., Aug. 10, 1838, son of Benjamin and Anna (Miller) Hunter, where he was reared to manhood and educated in the local schools. In his early manhood he came to Illinois and was engaged in the railway service, and also in farming. In 1868 he established his home
