HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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raries; his fairness, good judgment and right-mindedness often causing him to be selected as an arbitrator in settling differences which arose between those living in the community. In the early stages of the slavery controversy he took an uncompromising stand in favor of its abolishment, and was long known as one of three abolitionists in Sugar Grove Township. About 1870 he removed to Aurora, where he died in 1884. His wife was Lucinda Todd before her marriage, and was born in Vermont, in the same county as her husband and belonged to a family who also settled in Kane County at an early date. Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Mighell only Silas H., of Sugar Grove, and Franklin P., of Aurora, are living in 1903
LEE MIGHELL. son of Albert W. and Ellen (Curry) Mighell, was born in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Dec. 1, 1870; educated in the public schools of Aurora and at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), graduating from the latter institution in the class of 1892; graduated from Kent Law College (Chicago) in 1893, and was admitted to the bar the same year; has since practiced in Aurora, and has served as Assistant State's Attorney. He was married in 1902 to Miss Gertrude Edwards, of Adrian, Mich.
SILAS H. MIGHELL, pioneer settler, Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Ill., was born in Rutland County, Vt, Dec. 12, 1829, son of Ezekiel Mighell; came with his parents to Illinois in 1837, and grew up among the pioneers of Sugar Grove Township. He engaged in farming in his early manhood, and has since followed that vocation; has lived in the neighborhood in which he was brought up for sixty-six years and is the oldest of the early settlers in Sugar Grove, now living in that township. He was married in 1854 to Miss Delaney Calkins, of Aurora, and their living children are Mrs. Emma D. Egglington, of Aurora; Mrs. Fannie L. Potter, of Sugar Grove, and Dr. Ina (Mighell) Pierce, of Chicago.
HERMAN MILBACHER, physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., obtained his professional education in the Universities at Munich, Bavaria, and at Vienna, Austria, and was graduated from the University of Munich in 1881, receiving his degree in medicine from that institution. The following year he passed at the
University of Vienna, attending clinics and pursuing a post-graduate course. In 1882 he came to the United States and began practice in New York City as House Physician in the German Hospital. In the fall of the latter year he came west and established his home in Aurora, Ill., where he engaged in general practice, which he continued uninterruptedly to the present time (1903). Dr. Milbacher soon took rank among the leading practitioners of Northern Illinois, and his practice has constantly increased as the years have gone by. He is a member of the Aurora Free Public Library Board, and has taken an active interest in the upbuilding of that institution.
ALEXANDER C. MILLER.
ALEXANDER C. MILLER, banker and manufacturer, Aurora, was born in Marion County, Ohio, Jan. 24, 1852, and was educated in the schools of his native county. In 1873 he came to Aurora to take a position as train dispatcher on the Burlington Road, which he held until Jan. 1, 1902. He resigned from the service of the company to engage in a manufacturing business in Aurora and Chicago. In December, 1902, in company with, others, he organized the Aurora Trust and Savings Bank, of which he is President. In January, 1880, Mr. Miller married Julia Ann Austin, daughter of Job Austin, of Kendall County.
