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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
Rollins enlisted in Company B, Seventh Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at the outbreak of the Civil War. He served four years in the Union Army, and was in at the ending of the war. At the battle of Corinth he was severely wounded. After the war he came to Carpenters-vine, and learned the machinist's trade. For more than thirty-five years thereafter, and up to the time of his death, Dec. 10, 1902, he was connected with the Illinois Iron and Bolt Company. He was interested at one time in the Star Manufacturing Company, and was always a thrifty and industrious man. For four years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Carpentersville. He was a Master Mason, and a member of the Order of Maccabees. In 1869 he married Miss Ellen Healey, a native also of Oneida County, N. Y., and only two of the nine children born to them are now living: Mrs. Jesse Juletts and Eugene B. Rollins. Mr. Rollins died at his home in Carpentersville.
GARRETT ROSBNCRANS (deceased), pioneer, Elgin, Ill., was born in Sussex County, N. J., April 1, 1820, a son of Asa and Jane (Cole) Rosencrans, whom he accompanied on their removal to Kane County, Ill., in 1837. The father secured a tract of 300 acres near
Elgin, and when he died in 1844, Garrett Rosencrans took charge of the farm. In 1847 he leased the farm, and later sold it. By wise and careful investments he became possessed of much property in Kane County, Southern Illinois and the West, and in his later life became prominent in financial and commercial circles. He was a Director in the Home National Bank, served as City Surveyor, and was Assessor of the town several years. An active part in any matter that looked to the welfare of the community was always taken by him, and he did much to aid the progress of the city. Fraternally he belonged to Lodge No. 47, I. 0. 0. F., and was one of the leaders in the organization of the Young Men's Christian Association Library and Lecture course in 1850. Some of the most noted men in America, such as Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, and others, have appeared in Elgin on this platform. Mr. Rosencrans was engaged in the lumber business at various times in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. He died in Elgin., Sept. 10, 1890, and is now survived by one brother, Hiram D., of Mt. Carmel, Utah, and a sister, Mrs. M. W. Hawes, of Elgin.
FRED ROYSTON, merchant, Aurora, Ill.; born at Churchill, N. Y., April 3, 1854; came to Chicago in 1872, where he became connected with the well-known grocery house of Sprague, Warner & Co., remaining with that establishment twenty-five years; established the wholesale grocery house of F. E. Royston & Co., in Aurora in 1894, and has since been at the head of this enterprise; has been a resident of Aurora since 1874; married in 1876 to Miss Anna Sanford, of Churchill, N. Y.
HENRY G. RUE, real estate operator, Elgin, Ill.; born in Steuben County, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1851; came with his parents to Illinois in 185fi, and grew to manhood on his father's farm in Plato Township, Kane County; in later years he purchased his father's homestead and was successfully engaged in farming in Plato Township until 1898, when he disposed of his farm and engaged in the real estate and loan business in Elgin. Mr. Rue was married in 1873 to Miss Cora A. Skinner, of Plato Township.
SCHUYLER RUE (deceased), pioneer farmer, Plato Township, Kane County; born in Steuben County, N. Y., in 1816; married in New
