Click on the PDF Document to view the sketches of prominent Sugar Grove Homesteads from the 1871 Atlas of Kane County alongside the modern streetscape of 2020.
Farmer, Sections 29, 30, 31, 32; P.O. Jericho, and is present Postmaster; has 163 acres valued at $50 per acre; Rep; Ind; born in Steuben County, New York, January 14, 1815; lived in New York until 1853, then came to Kane County and…
Sec. 14, Sugar Grove Township; farmer; P. O. Aurora; Rep.; S.G. Christian Union; he was born in Hartford, Vermont, September 15, 1815; he married Miss Kate S. Densmore; she was born March 25, 1817 in New York, and was married…