HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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now resides, Nov. 9, 1859; entered Rush Medical College in 1879, receiving his degree of medicine from that institution in 1882; subsequently took a post-graduate course at the same institution, giving special attention to surgery and clinical work; began practicing his profession at Bellevue, Iowa, but since 1890 has made his home in Aurora, where he has conducted a successful practice. In 1882 the Doctor was married to Miss Rose Cobb, of Andrew, Jackson County, Iowa, who died in Aurora, Dec. 7, 1902.
ALBERT H. JONES (deceased), Batavia, Ill., born in Whitehall, N. Y., March 19, 1824, came with his parents to DuPage County, Ill., in 1838, and was reared on the farm which his father bought from the Government. He lived thirty-nine years on a farm in DuPage County, and then removed to Batavia, where he died Sept. 14, 1898. Fifty years before he had married Miss Susan Warne, daughter of John Warne, who settled in DuPage County in 1834, and was one of the widely known pioneers of that early day. Mrs. Jones survives her husband and is a resident of Batavia. Few now-living have so broad a knowledge of the early history of this portion of the State, her recollections going back to the Pottawatomie period, and her descriptions of pioneer days and experiences are extremely interesting. Always devoted to the doing of good, she is noted for her kindness to her neighbors in time of sickness and distress, and her memory lingers like a benediction with the younger generation. She has frequently nursed in families where contagious diseases were prevailing, but has always escaped the contagion. Born in Warren County, N. J., in 1826, the twin sister of Mrs. Gates, the mother of John W. Gates, of Chicago, Mrs. Jones preserves in her family many historic relics, including a bowl and tea-pot made in the first china-ware factory established in the United States, and a pair of the first shears manufactured in this country. She has also gathered much valuable historical data, and is regarded as unquestioned authority on the early settlement and development of the country in which she has lived seventy years.
MAYER A. JOSHED, merchant, Geneva, Ill., was born in Touraggen, Russia, April 24, 1870, and was educated in the private schools of his native country. He came to the United States in 1886, landing at Baltimore, Md., where he spent some six months. After this he came to Missouri, and spent two and a half years in St. Joseph. In 1891 he located in Chicago, where he engaged in business when just twenty-one years of age. The following year he came to Geneva, where for two years he was engaged in the dry-goods trade, when he sold out, and established a flour, feed and coal business, with which he is still connected. Mr. Joshel was married to Miss Anna Swanson, of Geneva, Ill., in 1895.
FRANK W. JOSDYN, lawyer, Elgin, Ill., was born in Elgin, April 27, 1860, the son of Col. Edward S. and Jennie (Padelford) Joslyn, received his educational training in the public schools and at the Elgin Academy, graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1881. He was admitted to the bar in 1884, and has since been in active practice in Elgin; was elected City Attorney of Elgin in 1885; appointed Master in Chancery for the City Court of Elgin in 1889; elected State's Attorney of Kane County in 1892, and re-elected in 18'96, serving eight years. Mr. Joslyn has been prominent in the councils and campaigns of the Republican party, and has also taken a prominent part in most of the fraternal organizations, being affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Elks and Modern Woodmen of America, was organizer of the Dodge of Woodmen in Elgin, and for four years was consulting attorney of the order throughout its entire jurisdiction. In 1886 Mr. Joslyn married Miss Carrie A. Mead, daughter of Frank W. and Emma A. Mead, formerly of McHenry County, Ill. They have one son, Paul Mead Joslyn.
ROBERT W. JOSDYN, Secretary Elgin Doan & Homestead Association, Elgin, Ill.; born in Elgin, Sept. 25, 1864; educated in the public schools of his native city; began his business career as an employee in the Elgin Watch Factory; later became a clerk in the First National Bank, and has held his present position since 1888. Mr. Joslyn was married in 1888 to Miss Isabel E. Jackman, of Elgin.
DEXTER C. JUDD, Sr. (de-eased), pioneer; was born in Connecticut of English ancestry, and early removed to New York, whence he came to Illinois about 1834. A blacksmith and
