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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
that at each subsequent presidential election its nominees have received about two-thirds of the entire vote cast; also, that Grover Cleveland was the most popular candidate of his party.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.- Shadrach Bond represented the Territory as Delegate from 1812 to 1814 in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses; Benjamin Stevenson. 1814-1816, in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth, and Nathaniel Pope, 1816-1818, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses. John McLean represented the new State during the second session of the Fifteenth Congress, 1819. Daniel Pope Cook was the Representative in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses, from December, 1819, to March, 1827, and was followed by Joseph Duncan from 1827 to 1834, through the Twentieth, Twenty-first, Twenty-second and part of the Twenty-third Congresses. In 1832 the State was divided into three Congressional Districts, and LaSalle County, which then included Kane, became a part of the Third District. Duncan, having resigned before the expiration of his fourth term to accept the governorship, was succeeded by William L. May, Democrat, of Springfield, who served during the last session of the Twenty-third and the whole of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses (1834-39). In 1839 Kane first voted as a separate county. John T. Stuart, Whig, of Springfield, and Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat, were the opposing candidates for Congress. Stuart was elected and served in the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses until 1813, but in Kane County Douglas received 517 votes and Stuart 311. In 1843 Kane had become a part of the Fourth Congressional District, and John Wentworth ("Long John"), Democrat, of Chicago, represented it in the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses from 1843 to 1851, being succeeded in the latter year by Richard S. Molony, Democrat, of Belvidere, who served' in the Thirty-second Congress-1851-3.
By the apportionment of 1852 Kane was transferred to the Second District, and Mr. Wentworth again represented it in the Thirty-third Congress. James H. Woodworth, Republican, of Chicago, served in the Thirty-fourth Congress, 1855-7, and the district has since that time been strongly Republican. Its Representatives have been: John F. Farnsworth, of
St. Charles, in the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth
Congresses (1857-61); Isaac N. Arnold, of Chi cago, Thirty-seventh Congress (1861-63); Gen. John F. Farnsworth next served five terms-
the Thirty-eighth to the Forty-second Congress - (1863-73). He became a bitter personal enemy of General Grant, in this position antagonizing many of his warm admirers. The congressional convention of 1872 was held in PuBois Hall, Elgin, and was probably the most protracted and exciting congressional con
vention ever convened in the county. After innumerable ballots between the friends and political opponents of General Farnsworth, he was defeated and Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut, of Belvidere, nominated and elected. He served
in the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (1873-7), and William Lathrop, of Rockford, in the Forty-fifth (1877-9), after which John C. Sherwin, of Geneva, was elected to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh (1879-83). By the apportionment of 1882, this district became the Fifth and during 1883-88, Reuben Ellwood, of Sycamore, represented it in the Forty-eighth
Congress. In 1884, Albert J. Hopkins, of Aurora, was elected and served continuously through nine terms-the Forty-ninth to the Fifty-seventh Congress (from 1885 to 1903) -a remarkably long term and covering a period
surcharged with governmental questions of most vital interest. During it all he bore him self with a manly steadiness and fidelity, discharging his duties with an industry and ability that won the confidence of the people of the whole State; and, in January, 1903, the State Legislature, complying with
the nomination of the Republican State Convention, elected him to the exalted
position of United States Senator from this great commonwealth-conferring a
distinguished honor upon Aurora, the city of all his manhood years, and upon the Representative District in which he was born. In 1902 Howard M. Snapp, of Joliet, was elected, and is now the Representative of this Congressional
District which, under the late apportionment, is the Eleventh, and now consists of Kane, McHenry, DuPage and Will Counties.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS AND FKDERAL OFFICERS. -Augustus M. Herrington was chosen a Presidential Elector on the Democratic ticket in 1856; William B. Plato on the Republican ticket
