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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
igan in 1856, and later removed to Rockford, Ill.; studied medicine in New York City, and received his degree of medicine from the medical department of the University of New York City in 1886; began practice at Big Rock, Ill., in 1890, and has since been a leading practitioner in this portion of Kane County. Doctor Nash was married in 1891 to Miss Mary Watson, of Rockford, Ill.
JOHN K. NEWHALL, attorney, Aurora, Kane County, Ill., was born at Crab Orchard, Neb., Aug. 13, 1874, obtained his elementary education in the public schools of Aurora, Ill., and afterwards attended the University of Iowa, Iowa City; read law under the preceptorship of Hon. Samuel Alschuler and John C. Murphy, of Aurora., and was admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1899, when he began practicing his profession in Aurora. In 1901 he became a member of the firm of Murphy, Alschuler & Newhall, and in December, 1902, became junior member of the firm of Raymond & Newhall, one of the leading law firms of Kane County, with which he is still associated.
JOHN NEWMAN, banker and manufacturer, Elgin, Ill., born at Bishop Stortford, Herefordshire. Eng., March 11, 1842, received his education in the public schools, and removed to Chicago in October, 1859, where he was employed by Potter Palmer, and Ross & Foster as a clerk. In 1864 he purchased the dry-goods business of M. & J. McNeil, of Elgin, and in 1877 established the Spring Brook Creamery, which in 1893 passed into the hands of the John Newman Company. Mr. Newman is President of the Elgin Board of Trade, the Elgin City Banking Company, and a Director in the First National Bank of Elgin, is President of the Century Club, and Vice-President of the W. S. Moore Company. In political matters he is a Democrat, and has been a member of the Board of Education for twelve years, one-half this time being President of the Board. Mr. Newman has also served as a Trustee of the Northern Illinois Hospital for the Insane.
JOHN NEWMAN, Jr., manufacturer, Elgin, Ill., born in Elgin, Nov. 1, 1870, son of John and Harriet (Beaty) Newman, educated in the Elgin public schools and the University of Notre Dame, and graduated from the Law Department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1894, with the degree of LL. B. He was immediately admitted to the bar in Illinois, but has never practiced law. Between his courses at Notre Dame and the University of Michigan he began his business career as a clerk in his father's store and creameries, and after completing his law studies he spent three years in the First National Bank of Elgin. In 1897 he was made inspector of creameries for the John Newman Company, and in May, 1900, he became Secretary of the W. S. Moore Company, of Chicago, of which his father was Vice-President. He is Superintendent and Inspector of creameries for the Moore Company, representing the Newman interests in this corporation. Mr. Newman is Secretary of the Elgin Opera House, and fraternally belongs to the M. W. of A. He was married, Jan. 31, 1900, to Jennie M., daughter of Franklin and Helen Shepherd, and one child, Harriet Virginia, has blessed their union.
JOSEPH NEWMAN, President State Dairymen's Association, Elgin, Ill., born at Bishop Stortford, Herefordshire, England, May, 10, 1854, educated in the public schools, and removed to Chicago in 1869, where he was employed by Morton & Company. In 1872 he came to Elgin, and entered the employ of the First National Bank as a bookkeeper. In 1880 he
