HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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reared to manhood and educated in the city schools. In 1896 he became junior member of the grocery firm of Lennartz & Lennartz, now one o£ the leading business houses of the city. In 1901 he was elected City Treasurer of Geneva, and in 1903 is still holding that office. He is an active Republican, and is influential in local politics. Fraternally he belongs to the order of the Knights of Pythias. In 1900 he married Miss Grace Gould, of Geneva.
CHARLES E. LEWIS, manufacturer, Carpentersville, III., was born in Sharon, Littlefleld County, Conn., in 1847, and was reared to manhood in the State of New York. He received his education in the public schools, and came to Illinois in 1865, establishing his home in Elgin. In 1870 he went to Kansas, where he spent six years as a pioneer. At the end of that period he returned to New York State, but later entered the employment of the Borden Condensed Milk Company, with which he has been continuously connected to the present time (1903). P'or the last fifteen years he has been superintendent of the company's extensive plant at Carpentersville, Ill., and is recognized throughout the country as one of the best informed and most thoroughly practical men engaged in the business, being frequently called upon to aid in establishing and putting in operation the company's plants in different parts of the United States and Canada, and has traded largely in the company's interest. He is a Mason and a member of the Modern Woodmen of America.
CLARK A. LEWIS, editor and publisher, Batavia, Ill., born in Port Wayne, Ind., May 5, 1841, there reared and educated in the city schools, and there learned the printer's trade. In 1860 he began publishing a paper at Kendallville, Ind., but soon enlisted in the Twelfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, his regiment being mustered in at Indianapolis in May, 1861, and soon sent to the front. He served in Maryland and Virginia thirteen months, when his command was discharged on account of expiration of service. He worked at his trade in Fort Wayne until 1868, when he went to Peoria, Ill., and worked on "The Daily Transcript" of that city until the following spring, when he came to Batavia and established the "Batavia News," of which he is still the editor and publisher. He is a Mason, a Modern Woodman, and is conspicuous in the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1865 he married, at Fort Wayne, Ind., Miss Laura A. Barker, of Jefferson County, N. Y.
JAMES K. LEWIS, retired physician, St. Charles, Ill.; born in Onondaga County, N. Y., June 23, 1822; received his medical training in the Geneva Medical College (New York), graduating from that institution in 1846; came to St. Charles in 1852, where he remained in active practice until 1892; married, in 1847, Louise M. Ferguson, who died Feb. 14, 1903, leaving two children-Genevieve (who resides with her father) and John H., of DeKalb County, Ill.
D. B. LINCOLN, Superintendent Aurora Sil ver Plate Company, Aurora, born at Taunton, Mass., Jan. 26, 1844, son of Horatio and Lu-cinda (Field) Lincoln, received his education in the Taunton city schools, where he was studying when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted in August, 1862, in Company K, Thirty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. This was his third enlistment, his father having twice taken him out of the service on account of his extreme youth. He served to the end of the war, being mustered out at Readville, Mass., in June, 1865. He was married Sept. 6, 1865, and immediately went into the Taunton Silver Plate
