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** RETURN TO BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX ** ** RETURN TO HISTORY CONTENTS **   GEORGE WASHINGTON KEELY, D. D. S. - Page 539, Oxford Twp.   ISAAC IDDINGS KEELY - Page 540, Oxford Twp.   AMOS KEMP - Page 606, Madison Twp.   ROBERT KENNEDY - Page 482, Fairfield Twp.   HENRY KESSLING was married in April 1841, to Mary Catherine Werrike, born in Germany in 1816.  They are the parents of six children, of whom only one is living.  Four died in infancy.  Mary Elizabeth died November 8, 1878, aged thirty-six.  Mary Catherine is now the wife of Augustus Soehner.  Mrs. Kessling died March 28, 1875.  After marriage Mr. Kessling engaged in farming, in the vicinity of Hamilton, for some ten years, when he began keeping the hotel known as the Kessling House.  He kept the Schmidtmann House, now known as the Central House, for some five years, during which time he also conducted the marble business, employing some twenty or twenty-five hands, under the firm name of Horssnyder & Kessling.  He sold out to Mr. Horssnyder in 1852, and disposed of his city property for a farm two miles west of Hamilton, in Hanover Township, living there some four years.  He still owns the same place, which consists of one hundred and fifty acres, well improved.  In 1876 he retired from business, and with his daughter made a tour of Europe, being absent four months.  He is a member of the Catholic Church.  While in the marble business he furnished the stone work of many of the principal buildings of Hamilton.   HIRAM KING - Page 538, Oxford Twp.   CHARLES J. KROUSKOPF - Page 586, Union Twp.   FRANCIS KROUSKOPF - Page 586, Union Twp.   THE KUMLER FAMILY - Page 618, Wayne Twp.   JACOB KUMLER - Page 557, St. Clair Twp.   BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KYLE - Page 498, Liberty Twp.   NOTES: