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BIOGRAPHIES
(Source #1: Mack, Horace - History of Columbiana
County, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches of
some of its prominent men and pioneers.
Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879, 372 pgs. )
(Source #2 - History of Upper
Ohio Valley - Vol. I - Madison, Wis. - Brant & Fuller - 1891)
(Source #3
- History of Columbiana County, Ohio:
Historical Publ. Co. Topeka - Indianapolis - 1926)
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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JOHN
McBANE KERR has had a successful career as an
agriculturist and is a member of a family that has long been
identified with the history of Columbiana County. He
was born in Madison township, this county, April 17, 1870,
and is the son of Thomas Barr and Nancy (McBane) Kerr.
John McBane, maternal
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, settled in the
county 100 years ago, having come here from Scotland.
He married Miss Jennie Orr of Genesee County, N. Y.,
and they were the parents of five daughters, all of whom are
now deceased except Mrs. Thomas Kerr. The
McBane homestead has always remained in the family and
is now occupied by John McBane Kerr, His
father, Thomas Barr Kerr was born in Washington
County, Pa., Aug. 14, 1841 and in 1856 settled in
Columbiana County, where he engaged in general farming.
He served one hundred days during the Civil War with the
Forty-Third Volunteer Regiment, Ohio National Guard
and died Feb. 2 1900. His widow lives in Yellow Creek
Township, Columbiana county. To Mr. and Mrs. Kerr
were born six children: Mary Alice,
married Samuel J. Kerr, both deceased; Ella E.,
married George F. McCready, lives retired at
Wellsville; John McBane, the subject of this sketch;
Catherine, married William Frazier, lives in
Pittsburgh; Jeanette and Christine, who live with
their mother.
John McBane Kerr grew up on his father's farm,
attended the public high schools of Wellsville, and was also
a student at Indiana State Normal School. He has
always been interested in dairy farming and operates 250
acres of good farm land. Locust Farm, as it is known,
is among Columbiana County's fine farms.
Mr. Kerr was married Jan. 12, 1910, to Miss
Marietta Davidson, of Wellsville, who was born May 26,
1869, the daughter of Peter and Hannah (Fraser) Davidson.
Mrs. Kerr has a brother, James A., who lives at
Wellsville. Her mother died Aug. 19, 1875, and her
father Feb. 18, 1902. By a second marriage to Miss
Nancy Morris, who died Dec. 1, 1904 he had
a daughter, Anna, who married O. H. Lowary,
and they live at Painesville, Ohio. Mr. Davidson
served during the Civil War as a member of Company B, 46th
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr
have no children.
Mr. Kerr is president of
the Columbiana County Farm Bureau. He has served as
township trustee for 14 years and was a candidate for county
commissioner on the Republican ticket. He and his wife
are members of the United Presbyterian Church and are highly
esteemed citizens of the community.
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EDWARD
M. KUNTZ, the popular proprietor of the hotel
Orient, at Wellsville, Ohio, was born in Lycoming county,
Penn., on the 30th of September, 1857. Soon after his
birth his parents, Lewis and Eleanor (Hay) Kuntz,
removed to Clifford county, Penn., where young Edward was
reared. His mother was the daughter of Mr. Hay,
who came to this country from Bavaria in 1822, and settled
in Pennsylvania, where he worked at the miller's trade until
1855, when he embarked in farming, and also operated a large
lumber business. He lived to be eighty-five years if
age. He was a member of the German Reform church, as
was also his wife. For three years he was a
commissioner of Clifford county, Penn. Having received
a good education, and having been brought up to a farmer's
life, in 1875, Edward Kuntz was joined in marriage to
Miss Anna E. Henderson, whose parents were Samuel
and Hortense (Brisbine) Henderson, natives of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Kuntz began life's battle
without a dollar. His first start was obtained by
clearing land. He took a contract to clear twenty
acres of heavily timbered land in Pennsylvania. He
resided in the latter state until May, 1890, at which time
he removed to Wellsville, and embarked in the hotel
business, having previously operated a hotel in Jefferson
county, Penn., for four years, and also one at Du Bois,
Clifford county, Penn., for an equal length of time.
For a year and a half Mr. Kuntz lived at Fort Smith,
Ark., where he was engaged in business. Sine coming to
Wellsville he has made a host of friends, and is considered
one of the best of hotel men.
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