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(Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches,
by George William Hill, M.D. - Published by Williams Bros. 1880.)
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WILLIAM KARNAHAN emigrated from Jefferson
County, Ohio, April 16, 1815, with his family, consisting of his
wife, his son Robert M., and daughter Eliza A.
Mr. Karnahan died upon the place he originally selected for
his home, being the southeast quarter of section 23, Vermillion
Township, on the 24th of September, 1852, aged sixty-three
years.
The country at this date was very sparsely settled -
his nearest neighbor being Mr. Emerine, located one and a
half miles distant. About this distance from where he
erected his cabin, on the farm now owned by Mr. Stoufer,
a den of rattlesnakes was discovered, near the entrance to which
as many as twenty-five were killed in a single day. At
another den, on or near the farm now owned by Robert Cowen,
as many as seventy-five of these reptiles were killed in a
single day. On one occasion the family were assailed by a
panther, who approached the house on an evening within a few
rods, and only disappeared after the family had secured the
doors and windows of their cabin, and kindled a brilliant fire.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 281 |
RUDOLPH
KAUFMAN immigrated to Perry Township from Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, in June, 1822, and purchased of Jacob
Baker the two hundred and thirty-three acres in section 27,
upon which he resided until the time of deceased, which occurred
Mar. 11th, 1825, at the age of twenty-seven years six months and
five days.
The surviving members of his family were his widow and one son.
Emanuel, son of Rudolph Kaufman, was born upon the
place above described July 31st, 1824, and now resides at the
old homestead.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 465 |
SAGE
KELLOGG removed to Uniontown (now Ashland) in October,
1818. He taught the first school in Orang Township in the
winter of 1818 and 1819, in a log hut then erected about three
fourths of a mile north of the present town of Orange.
Mr. Kellogg's profession was that of a school teacher.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page |
JAMES
KILGORE, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania,
Dec. 21, 1795. He removed, with his parents, to Fairfield
county, Ohio, in Dec., 1809, when about fourteen years of age.
In 1810, his father located in Franklin county, on Alum creek,
about two miles east of the present site of Columbus. He
resided in a cabin, at this point, when the city of Columbus was
surveyed and numbered in lots, and helped erect the first cabin,
in 1811. This cabin was owned by Adam Hare, and
stood on the corner of Broad and High streets. The
Kilgores helped cut the trees and roll the logs on Broad and
High streets, and hauled the stone for the foundation of the old
capitol building from Black Lick, nine miles east of Columbus.
In 1812, after the surrender of General Hull at
Detroit, a great panic took place in the county of Delaware, and
extended to Franklin, resulting from what was then known as
Drake's defeat, in the southern part of what is now Marion
county. Captain Drake was leading a new company of
pioneer settles from Delaware county, to recruit some advanced
station near Upper Sandusky, to prevent surprise by the Indians,
then largely in the interest of the British. By way of
testing the courage and steadiness of the new troops, after the
company had encamped, and placed a guard about the camp, and
retired to rest, the captain managed to send out a few soldiers,
who were to return from the forest in a short time, crying,
"Indians! Indians!" and fire in quick succession, and thus
arouse the soldiers from their slumber. In due time the
false alarm took place. The new soldiers were greatly
terrified, many taking the back track, and giving the alarm all
along the road to Delaware, while the settlers immediately
became panic-stricken, and, almost in a body, fled toward the
settlements in Franklinton and Chillicothe. John
Bickel, who was engaged on the upper branches of the Scioto,
six miles above Columbus, in the milling business, and others in
the neighborhood, fled to Franklinton, then the capital of the
State, to the stockade. A requisition was immediately made
for the service of all able-bodied men and youth, who were
notified to report for duty at the stockade. James
Kilgore, then about seventeen years of age, took his
father's old gun and obeyed the call. In crossing the
Scioto, at a ford near the site of the present National bridge,
he overtook a woman and three children on their way to the
stockade. He remained at the stockade a few weeks on guard
duty, and when the excitement over the Drake stampede had
subsided, southern Ohio and Kentucky having sent forward a large
number of troops, to recruit the army of the northwest, he
returned home. At the close of the war, the Kilgores
reoccupied their old cabin on Alum creek, and continued their
improvements for six or eight years.
After Columbus became the fixed capital of the State,
the growth of the new city was quite rapid. The
Kilgores participated in its improvement, and Mr. James
Kilgore often stated that he saw the erection of the first
cabin, in what is now the most valuable part of the city, and if
nature had endowed him with a sufficient foresight, he might
have owned some of the most valuable locations. Like
General Cass (when asked how he made so much real estate in
Detroit, responded: "Buy a farm, young man, and have them build
a city on it"), he long since felt that the only mistake that he
did not purchase in the city, instead of in Ashland county.
In 1818, he located in Stark county, where he married in 1821.
In 1827, he purchased a half-quarter of land, then in Richland,
but now of Ashland county, and removed to it, and continued to
reside there until his decease.
In 1873 he had the misfortune to lose, by death, his
excellent lady. She deceased at the age of seventy-six
years. At the time of her death their family consisted of
one son and five daughters. One son fell in the battle of
Chickamauga, in the war of 1862-5. The other, Silas,
lives on the homestead, and with whom the old gentleman resided
at the time of his demise, July 4, 1878. Mr. Kilgore
is believed to have been a member of the Presbyterian church for
more than fifty years. In politics he was an old time Whig
of the strictest order. He was in full possession of all
his faculties to the last, and was very fond of relating his
pioneer experiences. Upon the organization of the Ashland
County Pioneer and Historical society he became an active
member, and retained a high regard for the society. Thus
one by one, the pioneers pass away. May their exemplary
lives and great sacrifices long impress the rising generation. Peace to their ashes. |
MICHAEL
KIPLINGER emigrated from Pennsylvania to Perry Township
in the spring of 1823, where he remained until the spring of the
year following, when he purchased the southeast quarter of
section 26, in Jackson Township, which land he entered upon and
improved, and has since made his home.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 492 |
| THOMAS
KITHCART, son of Thomas Kithcart, sr.,
was born in Ashland county in 1826, and in 1848 married Anna
Ernst. He has been engaged in farming all his life; has
held the office of trustee for two terms, and is a respected
member of society; is a member of the Evangelical Association, and
is a Republican in politics. He is the father of six children,
viz.: Anna M., deceased, wife of Luther Finley,
of Ashland county; Nathan, who married Emma Bucey;
Newton, Lambert, Sherman, and Sylvia. |
| THOMAS
KITHCART, SR., born in York county, Pennsylvania, in 1796,
came to Ashland county in 1815, and entered a quarter section of
land. He then returned to his native State, and in 1818 married
Deborah Wright. In 1822 with his family, consisting of
himself and wife and three small children, in company with
Thomas Andrews, he returned to Ashland county and
settled on his quarter section, and by perseverance and hard labor
cleared, and had before his death one hundred and twenty acres of
his farm under cultivation. A part of the farm is now owned by
Thomas Kithcart. He was several times elected trustee
of Green township; was a member and supporter of the Presbyterian
church; was a Democrat in politics until the Republican party was
formed, when he voted the Republican ticket. His wife died in
1853, and he died in 1860. He was the father of nine children, of
whom but four are living, viz.: Joseph, who has been
married three times (he first married Mary J. White, then
Phebe Moses, and is now the husband of Mary J. Tannehill,
and lives in Indiana); Thomas, who married Anna
Ernst, and lives in Ashland county; Deborah; and
Anna, who is the wife of Joseph Weltmer, and
lives in Wayne county, Ohio. |
JACOB
KLINGAMAN emigrated from Berks County, Pennsylvania, with
his wife, to Perry Township, in May, 1817, and entered the
northwest quarter, section 8, in said township. The east
half of this section he subsequently surrendered, and retained
the west half. Himself and wife yet occupy the last-named
place.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 465 |
JOHN KRÆMER,
immigrated to Perry Township from Pennsylvania, October, 1829,
and purchased of John Gorsuch the farm which is now owned
and occupied by Samuel Buchanan. During the last
three years Mr. Kræmer has been a resident of Rowsburg.
Source: History of Ashland County, Ohio - publ. 1863 - Page 466 |
JOHN KREBS,
with his family, removed from Columbiana County to the land upon
which he at present resides, in Orange Township, in May, 1829.
Although he settled in Orange Township at a comparatively late
period, his neighbors were few in number - his own land was yet
a wilderness, and his own were the only family in the northwest
part of the township. The nearest east and west road was
one mile south of him; and the most convenient north and south
road was three miles west of his place.
About the second year after he came, he was successful,
through the aid of Jacob Mason, in obtaining from the
Commissioners of Richland County a grant for the present State
road, leading from Ashland to Troy Centre, and which road passes
along his western line. About one hundred days gratuitous
labor were given by those interested to aid in opening the road
- Mr. Krebs and Mr. Joseph Fast each giving twenty
days. The original survey of the road was made by Esq.
Gallup, of Ashland.
The people during the first settlement of the country
not only performed the road labor assessed upon them by law with
cheerfulness, but many added tenfold of voluntary labor.
Supervisors made no charge for their services. The same
personal sacrifices, if continued, would have McAdamized all our
leading roads.
Source: History of Ashland Co., Ohio - Publ. 1863. - Page 51 |
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