Bosworth Collection

This collection contains portraits of various members of Alfred Bosworth (1846-1930) and Eleanora Maria Wheeler’s (his wife) family. Alfred’s father, Increase C. Bosworth, was one of Kane County’s most successful pioneers. In 1875, Alfred and his father partnered with Julius Carpenter to start their own private banking business called Bosworth, Carpenter & Company. In 1876, their company purchased the controlling interest in the First National Bank of Elgin and the Elgin City Banking Company. Alfred assumed management of both and became general manager of the largest banking business in the county. There are portaits for the following people:

• Mr. Arnold (that’s all that was given, first name unknown)
• Anne Ellen Bosworth
• Alice Evelyn Bowie
• Clifford Hawthorne Bowie
• Evelyn Bowie
• George Lyner Evans
• John Evans
• Emily Farrington
• Gertrude Farrington
• Herbert Farrington #1
• Herbert Farrington #2
• Robert Marsden Fergus Fergusson
• Alfred Bosworth Focke
• Alice Gardner
• Clarence Johnson
• Florence Johnson
• Florence Johnson and another young woman (her name was not provided)
• Harold Johnson
• Roy, Florence, and Ebert Johnson
• Will Johnson
• Anne Bosworth Locke
• Alice Lyner #1
• Alice Lyner #2
• Ethel Lyner #1
• Ethel Lyner #2
• Marsden Family
• Joseph Marsden
• Thomas Meredith
• Mary Pollard
• Elsie Sharp
• Unknown girl (name not provided)
• Edmund Lyon Wheeler
• Joseph R. Wheeler
• Lester Wheeler #1
• Lester Wheeler #2
• Lucius Wheeler
• Maud Wheeler
• Willie Wilnerell
• Xmas 1919 (a woman and a boy, description and date given but names were not)