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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
Marshall becoming his wife. She was the mother of seven children: Louis A., Charles F., Anna E., Frederick B., Harry B., Chester M., and Eugene R. Mr. Perkins died February 25, 1904.
FRANCIS PERRY (deseased), pioneer farmer, Dundee, Ill., born in Essex County, N. Y., August 5, 1812, came to Chicago in 1834 and purchased four acres of land on the lake front, which he later sold for a pair of boots and $5 in cash; came to Kane County the same year, and in 1838 entered a claim of 222 acres three miles north of Dundee, where he lived until his retirement in 1872. Mr. Perry was married March 14, 1839, to Miss Julia Haasz, and of this union there are now four living children- Mrs. C. A. Smith, Mrs. B. Colvin, Mrs. J. J. Skinner and Mrs. L. J. Corl. Mr. Perry died June 29, 1879; his wife surviving him until Dec. 11, 1901.
PETER PETIT, farmer and manager of creamery, Aurora Township, Kane County, Ill., was born in the township where he now resides, August 14, 1862; was educated in the public schools, and married, in February, 1885, Susan Leis. Mr. Petit began his business career as a farmer in Sugar Grove Township in 1887, returned to Aurora in 1891 and purchased the home farm in 1893; was elected manager of the North Aurora Creamery Company at the time of its organization in 1894, and is still actively engaged in that capacity, having been re-elected nine consecutive years.
ARTHUR B. PHBLPS, farmer and stock-raiser, Kaneville, Ill., was born in New Berlin, Chenango, County, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1845, received his education in the New York schools, and in Illinois, whither his family had removed while he was still a youth. He attended a business college at Aurora one term. The family located on a farm one and a quarter miles east of Kaneville, and Mr. Phelps now owns this place, which came into his possession after the death of his father in 1868. He has been School Trustee since 1902. Mr. Phelps was married Jan. 26, 1869, to Miss Maria Hartwell, by whom he has had six children, four sons and two daughters. One son is dead.
JOHN T. PHBLPS, Geneva, was born in New Berlin, Chenango County, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1855. son of P. M. and Almira (White) Phelps. His parents coming to Illinois in 1861, settled on a farm in Kaneville Township, Kane County, and here Mr. Phelps was reared to farm life and educated in the local school. He has taken an active part in Republican politics, for several years being Secretary of the Republican County Central Committee. In 1898 he was named by Governor Tanner as a member of the State Grain and Warehouse Commission, and he is still filling that position.
ALBERT A. PHILLIPS, retired farmer, Aurora, Ill., born in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County, Dec. 26, 1841; grew to manhood on his father's farm and attended the Sugar Grove schools; was engaged in farming at the old homestead until 1868, when he sold his interest and removed to Kendall County, Ill., purchasing a farm and residing in that locality for fourteen years; later returned to Kane County and purchased a farm near Montgomery, but since 1891 has been retired from active business and has resided in Aurora. Mr. Phillips was married in 1866 to Miss Millis Brau, and their children are: Guy A., Frank L., Clarence A., Edmund B., Charlie F., Harold E. and Fay E.
C. B. PHILLIPS, manufacturer, Aurora, Ill., born at Newark, Kendall County, Ill., Jan. 6, 1870; at the age of fifteen years he established the "Newark Midget," which he conducted successfully for one year; came to Aurora in 1892, where he has since been actively identified with printing business, owning at the present time one of the largest printing establishments of its kind-druggist label printing-in the world. Mr. Phillips was married In 1896 to Miss Clara A. Dubroch, of Aurora.
JACOB W. PHILLIPS (deceased), pioneer, born in New York State and came to Illinois in 1839, locating on Government land in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County. He died on his farm about 1846. His wife was Betsy Holmes before her marriage, and came of an eastern family. She died in 1860. Their children are: Jerome, of Sugar Grove Township; Harriet B., who died in Nebraska, and Albert, of Aurora.
JEROME PHILLIPS, retired farmer, Sugar Grove, Ill., born in Chenango County, N. Y.,
