HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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these-probably also the most noted of the world-is the Yuba River plant, which carries electricity to San Francisco two hundred miles away. Mr. Meredith was engaged in 1903 in equipping a plant costing $2,000,000, at Vancouver, B. C. He is the inventor of several valuable electrical appliances, and is a man of much note in the engineering world. His wife was Miss Marie Haeni, of Aurora, before her marriage.
EDWARD MERRILL, farmer, Batavia Township, Kane County; born in Cambridgeshire, England, May 2, 1861; reared and educated in his native country, and was trained to farming; came to Kane County, Ill., in 1881, locating near Batavia, where he has since been successfully engaged in dairy farming. He was married In 1883 to Miss Navern Kirchen, of Cambridgeshire, England.
FRANK W. MERRILL, farmer and stock-raiser, Kaneville, Kane County, born Feb. 28, 1853, in Grafton County, N. H., son of Thomas W, and Harriet T. Merrill, came with his parents to Kane County, where he was educated in the public schools. He began farming when a young man, and added to it a creamery business on the death of his brother in 1890. The creamery he sold in 1891. He is also interested as President and Director in the El-burn Coal and Lumber Company. He is a Republican, and has been School Director for the last six years. Religiously he is associated with the Baptist church, of which he has long been a faithful and devoted member. Mr. Merrill was married March 20, 1882, to Addie J. Lovell, daughter of Sherman and Eliza (Elliot) Lovell. To this marriage have come a son and a daughter. Mr. Merrill has served four years as a member of the Farmers' National Congress, and having been appointed to a four years' membership is now entitled to life membership.
THOMAS W. MERRILL (deceased), formerly of Kaneville, Ill., was born in 1825. in Thornton, Grafton County, N. H., and came to Kane County, Ill., at an early day, where, during his lifetime, he was a man of more than local importance. For seven years he was a School Director, and also Township Trustee for a number of years. In 1848 he married Harriet Thornton, who was a daughter of W. S. and M. (Walker) Thornton. They came to Kane County in 1854. They had a family of two sons and four daughters, of whom one boy and two girls are now dead. Mrs. Merrill's father, William S. Thornton, was grandson of Matthew Thornton, who was one of the signers of the
