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the "Elgin Daily News." For several years he was in the railway mail service, and in later years he has been connected with the Cook Publishing Company. He married Miss H. Isadore Padelford, daughter of Rodolphus W. Padel-ford, a noted pioneer of Elgin.
ALFRED H KING (deceased), farmer, born near Rome, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1825; obtained a practical business education, and was trained to farming; came west in 1856, locating on a farm in Big Rock Township, Kane County, where he was successfully engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1871, when he retired from active business and removed to Aurora, where he died March 25, 1875. He was married in 1864 to Miss Marian E. Dean, who still survives and resides in Aurora. Their living children are: Delia M., Minnie A. and Alfred D.
ANDREW KINMAN (deceased), pioneer farmer, Campton Township, Kane County, was born Sept. 1, 1816, in New Brunswick, and there was reared and educated; came with his family to Illinois in 1846, and settled on a large farm in Campton Township, Kane County, where he made his home until his death in 1867. He reared a family of sixteen children, all of whom lived in Illinois, reaching maturity. Three of his sons served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He married Elizabeth Kline, also a native of New Brunswick, who survives her husband, still living in St. Charles.
ISAAC B. KINNE, merchant, Minneapolis, Minn.; born in Syracuse, N. Y., March 26, 1829; engaged in agricultural pursuits in New York State and later in Illinois; located in Batavia, Ill., in 1872, and became interested in the Challenge Wind-mill Company; established the drug and grocery business in Batavia in 1874, which was the foundation of the present department store of Kinne & Jeffery, in which he was succeeded by his son, M. M. Kinne. In 1887 he removed to Minneapolis, Minn., and has since heen engaged in business there as President of the Kinne Manufacturing Company.
MYRON M. KINNE, merchant, Batavia, Ill., horn in Saratoga Township, Grundy County, Ill., May 1, 1856; engaged in the mercantile business in Batavia in 1876 as junior member of the firm of I. B. Kinne & Son; later purchased his father's interest in the business, and in 1887 became head of the firm of Kinne & Jeffery, which is one of the leading department stores of the Fox River Valley; is also interested in the Kinne Manufacturing Company of Minneapolis, Minn., manufacturers of sheet iron goods. He was married in 1876 to Miss Lillian F. Johnson, of Batavia.
JOSEPH KIRK, retired farmer, Geneva, born Aug. 24, 1843, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of Joseph and Charlotte (Scholes) Kirk; came to the United States in 1857, when about fourteen years old; lived at Northford, Conn., until 1860, when he came to Illinois and settled on a farm east of St. Charles, Kane County, remaining four years, when he located on a farm which he had bought north of St. Charles. He spent a year in Maple Park and about four years in what is now Lily Lake. In 1873 he moved to a farm of 160 acres which he now owns, and on which he lived until he retired from active work in 1900. The latter year he removed to Geneva, where he now (1903) resides, and rents his farm to his two sons. While a resident of District No. 6, near St. Charles, he served twelve years as School Director. Mr. Kirk was married March 17, 1865, to Miss Mary Ann, daughter of William Marshall, of St. Charles. In political belief he is a Republican.
PETER KLEIN, editor and publisher, Aurora, Kane County, Ill., born near Bingen-on-the-Rhine, in Rhenish Prussia, Sept. 1, 1849; obtained his elementary education in the schools of his native country, and completed his studies in Chicago, to which city his father came with his children in 1862-the mother having died in Germany. In 1864 they removed to Aurora, where Peter Klein grew to manhood, his first business experience being in the dry-goods trade, but later he engaged in the insurance business. In 1868, when only nineteen years of age, he established the "Aurora Volksfreund," the first German paper published in Central Illinois, which was conducted as a weekly until 1895, when a daily edition was issued and has been continued to the present time. Mr. Klein is the owner as well as editor and publisher of these papers, and, as a leader of Republicanism, has been prominently identified with the politics of Kane County since 1870. For nine years he was a member of the Aurora School Board; was a member of the Aurora Board of Public Works one term; served
