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Welcome to Kane County
Illinois Genealogy Research
Geneva Eastside school children 1897
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Kane County Illinois
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Kane
County Data
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Brief
History:
On January 16,
1836, the Illinois legislature formed a new
County and named it after Elias Kent Kane,
the highly-respected
attorney who helped draft the Illinois
constitution and was the first Secretary of
State. Kane was later elected to Congress
and
represented Illinois in the U.S.
Senate until his death in 1835.
The new "Kane
County" included what is now DeKalb County
and part of the northern portions of
Kendall.
DeKalb subsequently separated from
Kane County in 1837 and Kendall in 1841.
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