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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
iology in 1884, Demonstrator of Chemistry in 1885, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics during the years 1888 and 1889; in 1887 lie was Professor of Chemistry in Wheaton College, and also Professor of Physiology and later Professor of Special Therapeutics in the Chicago College of Ophthalmology and one of its Trustees; President of the Cook County Pathological Society, of which he was one of the organizers; a member of the National Association of Military Surgeons; a Fellow of the American Academy, the Chicago Press Club, and of various medical societies. In 1890 he saw service in the Southwest in Indian warfare. Since 1890 Dr. Starrett has been in the State military service, during the Spanish-American War served as Assistant Surgeon of the Third Illinois Volunteer Infantry and winning distinction in the West Indies, on his return was offered an appointment in the Philippine expedition but declined. He still retains his connection with the Third Regiment. At the meeting of the Spanish-American Veterans, at Springfield, in 1902, he was chosen Surgeon-General of Illinois. In 1895 Dr. Starrett spent several months with the British forces on the river Nile. His family consists of his wife, Jessie L., daughter of Dr. H. K. Whitford, one of the best known physicians of the State, and three children, Carl, Kathleen and David.
JOHN N. STAUDT (deceased), pioneer merchant and druggist, Aurora, Ill., born near Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, June 27, 1827* was left an orphan at an early age, and was reared and educated by an uncle, who gave him thorough training as a druggist. Mr. Staudt came to the United States while still a young man, and was employed at his profession in Buffalo until early in the '50s, when he went to Chicago to take a position in a drug store of that city. After a time he was employed by the same firm at Naperville, and in 1859, in company with J. H. Karl, opened a drug store in Aurora. The two remained together for twelve years, when Mr. Staudt assumed sole charge, while he trained his two sons as competent druggists. They have succeeded to the business under the firm name of Staudt Brothers, and for more than forty years their establishment has been located on Broadway. Mr. Staudt died Aug. 1, 1885, and is remembered as one of the honorable and earnest business men who did much to promote the growth of
Aurora as a solid and conservative business, place. Mr. Staudt married Nellie Carpenter Guild in 1859. Her father, Rockwell Guild, was one of the very early settlers of Downers Grove. To this marriage were born four children now living: Louis C., Aurora; Albert J., Philadelphia; Nellie M. and Fred H., Aurora.
LOUIS C. STAUDT, merchant, Aurora, Ill., was born in the city where he now resides, May 5, 1861, son of John N. Staudt, whose sketch appears in this volume, was educated in the A.urora city schools and the Chicago College of Pharmacy; engaged in the drug business with his father in Aurora in 1885, and succeeded to-the business in company with his brother, Alfred J. Staudt, as head of the firm of Staudt Brothers. He is identified with the banking interests of Aurora as a director of the Old Second National Bank, and is President of the Improvement Building & Loan Association. He married in 1893 Miss Anna Allen, daughter of Edward R. Allen, a pioneer merchant and banker.
HENRY STEARNS, farmer, Blackberry Township, Kane County, born in Brattleboro,. Vt., in 1795; reared and educated in the Green Mountain State; came to Kane County, Ill., in 1844, where he resided for many years, later removing to Iowa, but afterwards returned to Batavia, where he passed the remainder of his life, dying in 1878. His wife, whose maiden name was Emily Church, was also a native of Vermont and died in Batavia in 1884.
REV. C. STBEGE, Evangelical Lutheran minister, Dundee, Ill., born in Germany, August 14, 1841; came to America with his parents when five years of age, locating first at Elk Grove, Cook County, Ill., graduated from the Concordia Seminary (St. Louis) in 1863, and entered the ministry the same year; came to Dundee in 1870. Rev. Steege was married Aug. 2, 1864, to Miss Mary Wagner, of Adrian, Mich.
JACOB STEFFES, farmer, Virgil, Kane County, was born in Germany in February, 1843, and came to Kane County, Ill., in 1866, where he bought a farm two miles southwest of Virgil postoffice. He has devoted himself mainly to the cultivation of oats and corn. Mr. Steffes belongs to the German Catholic church. He was married April 12, 1872, to Miss Mary Reu-
