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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
manufactories of its kind in the world, turning out in 1903 more than ten million watches. Since retiring from the Watch Company, Mr, Lord has given his time to his private business, though still officially connected with several great institutions, such as the First National Bank of Elgin, and the Illinois Iron & Bolt Company of Carpentersville, of each of which he is the President. The City of Elgin has an enduring-monument of Mr. and Mrs. Lord's public spirit in Lord's Park, a sixty-acre tract, admirably adapted by nature for park purposes, which had been fitted up as a pleasure ground for the people. He is still giving it much care and attention. Mr. Lord has served the city as Mayor and the State as Trustee and Treasurer of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane, besides in the course of his long and busy life, having filled many other official positions.
CHARLES S. LOVELL, farmer and stock-raiser, Kaneville Ill., was born in Kaneville, Dec. 21, 1864, son of Sherman and Eliza (Elliott) Lovell. His education was secured in the public schools, with the addition of four terms at Sugar Grove High School. He was employed on the farm until 1888, when he was put in charge of the Kaneville County Line Creamery, retaining this position until 1894, when he bought' a farm adjoining the town limits of
Kaneville on the southwest. Fraternally he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Neighbors. He was married Oct. 20, 1897, to Sarah Van Arsdale, and they have one daughter.
EDWARD COULTAS LOVELL, son of Vincent Sellar and Lucy (Smith) Lovell, was born in Chicago, July 18, 1842, and in 1844, was brought with his father's family to Elgin, Ill., where he resided until his death, Jan 6, 1902. His parents were of the very best pioneers. He was educated in the public schools of Elgin, at Elgin Academy, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and at Leipsic, Germany, and was subsequently employed for five years as a teacher. During the Civil War he served as Adjutant of the One Hundred and Forty-first Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Captain of Company C, One Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois, and Inspector-General on the staff of Gen. N. A. M. Dudley. He read law in the office of Gen. John S. Wilcox; was City Attorney and Mayor of Elgin (as was also his younger brother, Vincent S. Lovell), and presided as Judge of the County Court from 1882 to 1890. On June 30, 1885, he married Miss Carrie G. Watres, of Scranton, Penn., and three daughters survive them. At the time of his death Judge Lovell wa,s local attorney for the Chicago, Mil-
