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ered a period of more than thirty years, and for more than forty years he had been a leading member of his profession in Kane County. Although he had a conscientious and chivalrous regard for all the duties of the medical practitioner and allowed nothing to interfere with its requirements, he was also prominent for many years in Aurora as a man of affairs. He was one of the founders of the Second National Bank of Aurora and of the Aurora Silver Plate Manufacturing Company, in both of which corporations he was a director. An ardent member of the Republican party from the date of its foundation until his death, he took an active part in many political campaigns, but never as a candidate for office. It is of interest to note, in this connection, that the first Republican convention held in the State of Illinois met in Geneva, Kane County, and of this convention Dr. Winslow was Secretary and his father-in-law, Jethro Hatch, was President. He married in 1851 Mercella Prudence Hatch, daughter of Jethro Hatch, a pioneer settler in Sugar Grove Township, Kane County. Dr. Winslow died March 27, 1891 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to which place he had gone in the hope of benefitting his health. Mrs. Winslow died January 24, 1902, in Pasadena, California.-CHARLES E. WINSLOW, physician, eldest son of the preceding, was born in Sugar Grove, Ill., Aug. 19, 1855; was educated at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, studied medicine under the preceptorship of his father and graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the class of 1881. For some time thereafter he was Assistant Physician and Surgeon at the Marine Hospital, Chicago, and later practiced several years in Aurora. Since 1900 he has been resident physician at Bartlett Springs, Cal., a noted health resort. He married in 1883, Miss Louise N. Tracy of Mansfield, Ohio. -FAYETTE D. WINSLOW, lawyer, second living son of Dr. Lawson A. Winslow, was born in Sugar Grove. Ill., Aug. 26, 1857. He grew up in Aurora and, after graduating from the Aurora High School, finished his academic studies at Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., graduating from that institution in the class of 1879. In 1883 he was graduated from the law department of Columbia University, New York, and was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1885. He has since practiced his profession and given attention to various business interests in Aurora, and is the only representative of this pioneer family now residing in the city. He married in 1891 Miss Jennie Waldo Tracy, of Mansfield, Ohio.-MARTHA M. WINSLOW, daughter of Dr. Lawson A. Wins-low, was born in Aurora, obtained her early education in the schools of that city and was graduated from Oberlin College in the class of 1879. She began teaching school under the auspices of the New West Education Commission, in Utah and New Mexico, and has since devoted herself to that profession. After teaching some years she took a special course in Botany at Chicago University, Chicago, and still later pursued a course of study at Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto, Cal., which institution conferred upon her the degree of Master of Arts in 1898. She is now teacher of Botany and Zoology in the high school at Pasadena, Cal.
MARTIN A. WITHEY, farmer and threshing-machine operator, was born June 14, 1853, in Alleghany County, N. Y., and began his education in the public schools of his native State, continuing it in the schools of Kane County, whither his parents removed when he was eleven years old. He began life for himself as a farmer, which he has continued to the present time. For seven years he lived in Iowa, and on returning to Kane County he bought a farm
