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and has been a life-long farmer. He has served his township as Road Commissioner, and is one of its most highly respected citizens. (See sketch of John Souders.)
JOHN SOUDERS (deceased), pioneer settler and farmer, Blackberry Township, Kane County, was born Dec. 10, 1807, came to Illinois in the early '30s and in December, 1835, married Mary Lance, daughter of William and Margaret A. Lance. Mr. Souders became a prosperous farmer, and died July 27, 1891. His wife, Mary (Lance) Souders, who was born Sept. 9, 1814. died March 16, 1904, in her ninetieth year, having spent the last years of her life on the old homestead with her son Charles Souders. (See sketch of William Lance and Charles Souders.)
ANNIE W. SPENCER, physician, Batavia, Ill., born in West Chicago (then known as Turner Junction), April 1, 1859, daughter of William M. Whitney; secured her academic education in the schools of Naperville and Hins-dale, Ill., and was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1896. In 1882 she married Dr. E. S. B. Spencer, who practiced medicine in New York prior to his death in 1891. After her husband's death, Dr. Annie W. Spencer came west, and began her medical career in Batavia the year of her graduation. For four years thereafter she was Assistant physician at the Bellevue Place Sanitarium, but has since given all her attention to private practice. She is an occasional contributor to medical journals, and belongs to the American Institute of Homoeopathy; in June, 1903, was elected Second Vice-President of the Institute, and has been chairman of the bureau of pedalogy for the same year; is also a member of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Association.
MARCUS O. SOUTHWORTH, jurist, Aurora, Ill., was born in Mission, LaSalle County, Ill., April 1, 1841, and received his education in the local schools, Batavia Academy, and the literary department of Beloit College, from which he graduated in 1863. He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan in 1871, and the same year began the practice of law in Aurora. In 1894 he was elected County Judge of Kane County, an office he has held to the present time (1904). In politics he is a Republican, and for twenty years has been a member of the Aurora Board of Education, of which he is now the President. He is also a director of the National Bank of Aurora.
