HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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ence was had in the office of Pindar Ward, in the abstract business at Geneva. About 1868 he went to Chicago, where he was appointed Deputy Recorder by Norman T. Gassette, then
Recorder of Cook County. After the great fire of 1871 he was employed in the office of Handy & Company, pioneers in the abstract title business, and predecessors of the Chicago Title & Trust Company. While in this business he became known as a most excellent judge of land values, and his judicious investments in real estate brought him rich returns. About 1887 he retired from the abstract business and subsequently devoted his attention to his private affairs. His death occurred March 25, 1892. In 1884 Mr. Martin married Miss Emma L. Tripp, daughter of Rev. G. C. Tripp, of Chicago.
DAVID MARTIN, Geneva, Ill., pioneer, born in Lancaster County, Pa., April 3, 1820, son of David and Fannie (Frick) Martin, and at the age of nine years was taken by his parents to the State of New .York, where they founded a town, which they named after their native town in Pennsylvania, Lancaster. The father and mother came to Illinois in 1848, and established their home in DuPage County, living to be more than ninety years old. David Martin was engaged in farming there from 1843 to 1848, after which he removed to Geneva, where he engaged in the furniture and undertaking business until 1885, when he retired from active business. He was one of the first members of the Geneva Town Council, served as City Treasurer of Geneva, and for twenty-four years he was Commissioner of Highways. From the organization of the Republican party he has been connected with it. Mr. Martin was married to Miss Julia Buck, of Lancaster, N. Y., Feb. 24 only descendants of this family now living are two grandsons, Charles Chester and Edwin Daniel Martin. Mr. Martin died Feb. 19, 1904, Mrs. Martin still surviving him.
DAVID MASON (deceased), pioneer farmer, Dundee Township, Kane County, Ill., born in Savoy, Berkshire County, Mass., June 28, 1818, son of Edward and Mary (Pierce) Mason, was reared on a New England farm, and obtained his education in the common schools of his native State, which he attended during the winter months of each year. In 1838 he married Miss Eliza Colson, who was born in Windsor, Mass., and shortly after marriage
