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3 unusual facts about Kendall County


James Ferriss

James H. Ferriss was born November 18, 1849 in Kendall Township, Kendall County, Illinois, Ferriss moved to southeastern Kansas in 1869 to stake a claim as a farmer, freighter, and storekeeper.

Kendall County, Illinois

Kendall was the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky newspaper, and went on to be an important advisor to President Andrew Jackson.

Kendall County, Texas

:December 20 - Henry Francis Fisher and Burchard Miller sell their rights in the land grant to Adelsverein.


Montgomery, Illinois

In the fall of 1835, Daniel S. Gray, from Montgomery County, New York, visited the area where his brother Nicholas Gray had located in the previous spring, on a farm now within the limits of Kendall County.

West Aurora Public School District 129

The present "West Side" school district covers the city of Aurora with an eastern boundary of the Fox River, a southern boundary of the Kane County and Kendall County line, a western boundary of Aurora's city limits, and a northern boundary of the village limits of North Aurora, Illinois.


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Tentaculites oswegoensis

It ranged from Oswego, IL (Kendall County) to possibly Kankakee River State Park (KRSP) in Will County, Illinois.