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HISTORY OF KANE COUNTY.
JAMES B. HORNE, manufacturer, St. Charles, Ill.; born in Wolverhampton, England, Feb. 10, 1863; came to America In 1871; came to Illinois in 1887, and from 1889 to 1891 was employed in the Elgin Watch factory; located at St. Charles in 1892, when he assisted in organizing the Crown Electrical Company, of which he became President; married in 1884 to Viola Rae Steil, of New Britain, Conn.
CHARLES F. HOWARD (deceased), farmer and merchant, Dundee, Ill.; born at Donald-sonville, La., July 2, 1839; came north in youth to attend the Chicago University, and when the war broke out enlisted in a cavalry regiment in connection, with the Fifty-second Illinois, with which he served three years, and in 1865 enlisted in Company C, Ninth Illinois Cavalry. After the war he engaged in farming, and in 1874 became a partner with M. T. Barrows in the hardware business. He was first elected Justice of the Peace in the '80s, and served in that capacity until his death, Feb. 17, 1902. He was married in 1864 to Miss Mary Oatman.
LEONARD HOWARD (deceased), mason and
taken by his parents to New York State in the fall of 1812. They were living at Hamburg, Erie County, in that State, when the father died in 1818. There were eight children in the family, and the widowed mother was compelled to bind out her children. Leonard fell into the hands of one Theodore Coburn, who treated him very harshly, and made his seven years of apprenticeship a period of cruelty. Leonard Howard was married Jan. 27, 1828, to Miss Caroline Esther, daughter of Isaac and Roxy (Morton) Smith. He began business for himself as a contractor and builder in Buffalo, and constructed the first cut-stone buildings of that city in 1828. In 3836 he went to Chicago, where he put up several notable buildings, the old Sherman Hotel being among them, and the following year removed to St. Charles, where he arrived March 9, 1837, after a three days' journey. Here he was employed as depot agent for the St. Charles branch of the Galena Railroad from December, 1S49, for seven years, and also did a large amount of building, having charge of the construction of some of the largest structures of the time, the old Howard House being among them. He was proprietor of the Howard House for several years. In 1839 he was elected Justice of the Peace, and three years later Probate Judge. In 1848 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff, a position he held three years, and was repeatedly chosen Justice of the Peace, Township Assessor, Trustee and School Director. He was the father of fourteen children, six of whom were living in 1903. He was an active and prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, and died at his home in St. Charles, Feb. 21, 1884.
THEODORE HOWARD, contracting mason, Aurora, Ill.; born in Hudson City, Nov. 7, 1842; began learning the mason's trade when twelve years of age, following this occupation until 1861, when he enlisted in Company B, Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, in which he served three years, being mustered out of the service in June, 1864, when he returned to Aurora and has since been occupied at his trade; married Sept. 17, 1866, to Emma R. Graves, of Aurora.
WILLIAM HOWARTH, farmer, Batavia
bricklayer, St. Charles, Ill., was born Aug. 13, Township, Kane County, Ill.; born near Au-
1805, at Sharon, Windsor County, Vt, son of burn, N. Y., March 22, 1840; came with his
Aaron and Pamelia (Brown) Howard, and was parents to St. Charles, Ill., in 1844, but lived
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