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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
in the Batavia public schools; in 1881, entered the employ of the Challenge Wind Mill Company, where he learned the machinist trade. Later he was put in charge- of the shipping department of the company's husines, and in 1896 became manager of the W. H. Howell's Sad Iron Manufactory, at Geneva, these works being owned and operated by Snow & Russell, the former the President of the Challenge Wind Mill Company, and the latter a member of the Elgin Bar. Mr. Mair is now a stockholder and Secretary of the Challenge Wind Mill Company; is also a stockholder and Director of the First National Bank of Batavia. In 1900 he was elected to the Batavia Board of Aldermen, and was re-elected two years later. He was married, Sept. 2, 1895, to Miss Ella May, daughter of A. C. May, of Metropolis, Ill.
SMITH L. MALLORY (deceased), pioneer railroad builder, Batavia, Ill., born in Yates County, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1809; went to California in 1849, and located in Illinois in 1852, establishing his home in Batavia; became interested in railroad construction and helped to build a considerable portion of the early lines now included in the Burlington System; was identified with western railroad construction until his death, March 29, 1864. He was married to Jane Henderson of Yates County, N. Y., in 1834.
JOSEPH M. MANLEY, lawyer, Elgin, Ill., born on a farm in Elgin Township, Kane County, July 10, 1874, son of Samuel D. and Cornelia (Carron) Manley; educated in the South Elgin public schools and Elgin Academy; read law with Judge John W. Ranstead and Oscar Jones; admitted to the bar on August 27, 1895, and has since practiced his profession in Elgin; was City Attorney of Elgin from 1899 to 1901; was a candidate for Judge of the City Courts of Elgin and Aurora in 1903; is Secretary of the Republican Club of Elgin and has served as a member of the Republican Senatorial Committee of the Fourteenth District.
ADIN MANN (deceased), soldier and public official, was born in Orford, N. H., Oct. 14, 1816, and died in Elgin, April 2, 1903. He was educated in Meriden College, Meriden. N. H. from which he was graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer. In 1836 he came to Illinois, and established himself as the pioneer surveyor of Kane County, having his office and home at Udina, surveying lands for settlers in all parts of the county. In 1842 he was elected County Surveyor, and for forty years occupied that position continuously. From 1860 to 1862 he was Treasurer of Kane County. At the time of his death he had been a resident of Elgin for twenty years. When he died he was serving as City Engineer and as Deputy County Surveyor, and his knowledge of boundary lines and land marks was regarded as invaluable. He made many surveys in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Kansas, and maps of the entire States of Nebraska and Kansas were made from his surveys and notes. In 1842 he moved from Udina to Elgin, which was his home for the greater part of his life, though he lived for some years at Batavia, in Vicksburg, Miss., for a short time, and later in Kansas. In 1862 he was commissioned Captain of Company B, One Hundred Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and bore a prominent part in the organization of that regiment. He rose to the rank of Major, and was mustered out in 1865, at the end of three years of hard and dangerous service. At the end of the war he engaged in the lumber business near Vicksburg, Miss., but he could not then stem the current of local ill-will against the "wearer of the blue," and he re-
