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James Herrington was born in Mercer County, Pennsylvania on June 6, 1824. His father would become one of the founders of Kane County, Illinois. Herrington moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois in 1833. The next year, his father sold the property and purchased a claim west in what is now Geneva, Illinois. [1]
James Henry (1833–1911) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. Henry joined the 113th Illinois Infantry in August 1862, and was mustered out in June 1865. [1] He died in 1911, and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Geneva, Illinois.
Geneva was first settled in the 1830s on an important route from Chicago.Daniel Shaw Haight was the first European settler in Geneva. Haight sold his claim in 1835 to James and Charity Herrington, who were influential in the creation of the town of Geneva. [12]
John J. Mitchell was born in Alton, Illinois, on November 3, 1853, the son of fellow banker William Hamilton Mitchell (1817–1910), and his first wife Lydia. [1] He joined his father's Trust & Savings Bank as a messenger boy in 1873, and was president from 1880 to 1923, then president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, from 1923 until his death in 1927.
Unlike the prototypical Midwestern township, which is a six mile by six mile square, Geneva Township splits such a 6 miles (9.7 km) square with Batavia Township. According to the 2010 census, the township has an area of 16.37 square miles (42.4 km 2 ), of which 16.09 square miles (41.7 km 2 ) (or 98.29%) is land and 0.28 square miles (0.73 km 2 ...
The Midwest League came to Kane County in 1991 when the Wausau Timbers relocated to Geneva, IL. The Wausau (1975–1990) Midwest League franchise was previously based in Decatur, Illinois (1952–1974). [2] The team has been known as the Cougars since moving to Kane County.
James "Pate" Philip State Park, originally known as Tri-County State Park, is an Illinois state park in DuPage County and Kane County, Illinois, United States. The park is named after James "Pate" Philip , a Republican politician.
On 2 March 1903, he married Henriette (née Baron) Pictet (1858–1943) in Geneva. [8] Henriette, the widow of Léonce Pictet, [1] was a daughter of Jacques Louis Aimé Baron. [10] He was a founder and an active member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, also known as the "American Church" of Geneva. [11] Bates died in Geneva on 24 December 1914. [12]