HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
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market. Mr. Miller is a large land renter and carries on extensive farming operations. He has served as Treasurer of the town of Sugar Grove, and has filled other local positions. In 1875 he married Mary E. Hale, daughter of Stephen B. Hale, of Deerfield, Mass. Their children are: Stephen B., Mrs. Annie Miller Lye, Mrs. Hattie Miller Catlin, John E. and Frank-all of Sugar Grove.
JOHN S. MILLER, M. D., physician and surgeon, Aurora, Ill., was born near Freeport, Ill., in 1858; was educated in the State University of Missouri, receiving his medical degree from that institution in 1879, and from the American Medical College, in St. Louis, the following year. Subsequently he attended clinics at various times in the larger cities of the United States and Europe, taking in the course of his study special instruction in osteopathy. For several years he practiced in Iowa, filling for a time the chair of Children's Diseases in the Medical Department of Drake University, at Des Moines. After this Dr, Miller went to Helena, Mont., where for some years he was engaged in banking, mining and other enterprises. In 1898 he returned to Illinois, and resumed the practice of his profession at Aurora, where he has since gained celebrity through his modern methods of practice, and his scientific use of the most approved mechanical aids to surgery and medicine. He married Miss Abbie M. Kellogg, of Iowa. His children are Zula E., Stella A., McKinley (a daughter), Merrill A., Edith, John S., Jr., and Sarah K.
IRA MINARD (deceased), merchant, St. Charles, Ill.; born at Rockingham, Vt., Nov. 11, 1809; came to Chicago, Sept. 3, 1833, and to St. Charles, Kane County, in 1834, building the first dam and mill and establishing the first store in that village; elected to the State Senate in 1842; married in 1834 to Sarah P. Wheeler. Mr. Minard died Jan. 22, 1876; his wife surviving him until March 30, 1893. Three of Mr. and Mrs. Minard's children are now living-George W., Charles I. and Mrs. Helen Barber.
WESLEY 0. MINER, merchant, Kaneville, Kane County, Ill., born in Kaneville, April 17, 1845, son of Amos and Amanda (Rose) Miner, was educated in the local public schools, and began farming for his father when twenty-three years old, on the farm which has since fallen to him by inheritance. He has since added several acres to it by purchase, and he continued its cultivation until 1898, when he removed to the village of Kaneville. The following year he embarked upon a mercantile career, and in 1902 he built the first brick block, with modern improvements, that had been erected in Kaneville. He was married Oct. 1, 1867, to Miss Mary Hark-ness, by whom he has had six children-three sons and three daughters. Two of the girls are now deceased.
GEORGE H. MINIUM (deceased), farmer, Maple Park, Kane County, Ill., was born in Erie County, Penn., Jan. 25, 1833, the son of John and Maria (Emerson) Minium, and came with his parents to Kane County, Ill., in 1836, where he was reared on a farm in Kaneville Township. In 1852 he left the farm and went 1o California, where for ten years he was engaged in freighting between Marysville and Sacramento. In 1862 he returned to his old home in Kane County, and for thirty years thereafter was engaged in farming. He held various local offices in Kaneville. He married Ellen A. Newton, of Sycamore, and died April 29, 1893.
MARGARET D. MITCHELL, M. D., physician and surgeon, Aurora, was born in Princeton, Ill., March 28, 1866, and graduated from the high school of that city in 1884. Under the preceptorship of Dr. Charles Spencer, of Plain-field, Ill., she began the study of medicine, entering Bennett Medical College, Chicago, in 1894, receiving her doctor's degree in 1897. Opening an office the same year in Aurora, she entered upon her professional labors with zeal and ability, and soon won an enviable standing among her co-laborers. She is much interested in surgery, and enjoys more than local distinction in that line of her profession in Northern Illinois. A capable business woman, her financial success has been somewhat commensurate with her large and growing practice. Thoroughly progressive and practical, she has "kept abreast of all the latest developments of medical science, and plans a private hospital at Aurora at a very early day. Her home has been in Aurora since 1887, the year she became the wife of Dr. William F. Mitchell, who has long been a noted dentist of this city. In this
