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Source: Commemorative Biographical Record
of the counties of
SANDUSKY & OTTAWA, OHIO
J. B. Beers & Co. 1896
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KARSHNER,
EDGAR *
KARSHNER,
JOHN *
KEATING,
C. S. *
KEELER,
ISAAC M. *
KELLER,
JOSEPH *
KELLER,
REUBEN *
KELLOGG,
C. A. *
KELLY,
JOHN, HON. *
KEMMERLING,
A. B. *
KENAN,
CHARLES DELBERT *
KENAN,
ELIZABETH, MRS. *
KENAN,
GEORGE W.
KENAN,
PETER * |
KENAN,
WILLIAM *
KERNAHAN,
AMBROSE
KERNS,
DANIEL, REV. *
KERNS,
JULIA ANN, MRS. *
KILGUS,
HENRY *
KINDLE,
JOSEPH*
KING,
G. W. (Ballville) *
KING,
G. W. (Rice) *
KING,
JACOB MONROE *
KING,
JOHN A. *
KING,
PETER *
KIRKBRIDE,
THOMAS E. *
KIRSCH,
JOHN * |
KISER,
CHRISTIAN *
KLINE,
HENRY *
KLINK,
A. J. *
KLINK,
CALEB *
KLINK,
CHARLES M., REV.
KLINK,
JACOB *
KOLB,
L. *
KOPP,
JOHN *
KREILICK,
ADAM *
KREILICK,
DANIEL *
KROHN,
PAUL *
KUHLMAN,
JOHN HENRY *
KUHN,
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GEORGE
W. KENAN.
Among the hardy sons of toil who have subdued the towering
forests, drained the malarious swamps and developed the vast
agricultural resources of the region of northern Ohio known as
the Black Swamp, the subject of this sketch deserves honorable
mention. Beginning at the very foot of the ladder, at the age of
ten, he patiently worked his way up the rounds, step by step,
until he reached the height of competence.
George W. Kenan was born July 31, 1824, a native of
Perry county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, James Kenan, was
born about 1778, in Ireland, and died, in 1858, in Jackson
township, Sandusky Co., Ohio. The grandmother was born in 1780.
They reared a family of eleven children, three of whom are yet
living. The father of our subject, Silas Kenan, was born
February 3, 1807, near Wheeling, W. Va., and migrated thence to
Perry county, Ohio, where he remained until 1835, the year of
his removal to Jackson township, Sandusky county,
where he resided till his death in 1875. He married Barbara,
daughter of Jacob and Mary Overmyer, of Harrisburg, Dauphin Co.,
Penn., the father born in Pennsylvania about 1784, the mother
about the same time. They reared a family of nine children, only
one of whom survives, Peter, now aged eighty-five years, and a
brief record of them is as follows: Barbara,
Mrs. Kenan, was
born February 20, 1802. Hugh, a farmer in Jackson township,
married Miss Nellie Yost, and has eight children—
Henry,
Harrison, Mary, John I., Frank Mitchell,
France, Martha and Hiram— three of whom are living; he is a Democrat, and a member
of the Baptist Church. Margaret married Hugh Mitchell, a farmer,
and has four children; Mr. Mitchell is a Democrat and a Baptist.
Lewis, a farmer of Jackson township, like his brothers, is a
Democrat and a Baptist, is married and has five children—Susan,
Ellen, Ben, Catharine and Hugh. Eva married
Rev. Mr. Dahouf.
Catharine married Emanuel Roberts, and had two children, both
now deceased. Polly, who married Benjamin Hammit, a farmer of
Iowa, has eight children; he is a Democrat and a Baptist.
Peter,
also a farmer in Iowa, married Elizabeth
Hill, and had five
children; he is also a Democrat and Baptist. The name of the
ninth child is Betsy.
The children of Silas and Barbara Kenan, parents of our
subject, were: Hugh, who died in childhood;
George W.; Thomas
J., born in 1826, who married Jemima Housman, and was killed in
a runaway at Fremont, Ohio, December 31, 1864, being preceded to
the grave by his wife, who died August 23, 1864; Peter, born
November 22, 1829, who was married March 4, 1856, to Sarah A.
Hodgson and has had one child; William Manville, who, in 1878,
married Miss Sylvia A. Powell (he has a fine collection of
Indian relics); Minerva, born December 6, 1830, who married
William Jackson, of Fremont, Ohio, and has two children—
Thomas
G. and Charles B. (Mr. Jackson
is a Republican); Mahala, born
April 24, 1832, who married Thomas J. Eldridge, a farmer of
Indiana, who was a soldier in the Civil war (he is a Republican
and a member of the U. B. Church); Francis, a blacksmith of
Green Spring, Ohio, who married Eliza Strouse, and has four
children—Ellen, Minerva, William O. and Birchard
(he served in
the Civil war in Company I, Seventy-second O. V. I.); Mary Ann,
who married Charles Robinson, a farmer of Michigan, and has six
children—Francis, Milo, Charles, Clifford, Howard
and Minnie
(Mr. Robinson is a Republican and a member of the M. E. Church;
he was a soldier in the Civil war); Oscar, who is a farmer near
Galesburg, Ill., married Margaret Ickes, and has five children
(he is a Republican and a member of the M. E. Church); and
Caroline, born July 10, 1847, who married
Daniel Condon, a
carpenter and school teacher, and died July 25, 1871 (they had a
child that died in infancy; Mr. Condon is a Republican).
Our subject started out to work on a farm by the month
when he was only ten years of age, saved his money and made
prudent investments, and is now enjoying the fruits of his early
economy and industry. At the age of twenty-seven, October 13,
1851, he married Miss Elizabeth Posey, who was born August 30,
1832, and they had seven children, of whom, Orin married
Angeline King, and has two children—Frank
and Lulu (he is a
Democrat and a member of the U. B. Church); Charles, who is a
farmer, married Mary Cookson (he is a Democrat and a member of
the Evangelical Association); Lodemie married
Michael Mowery,
and has three children—Charles, Lewis and
Webb; Marshall, a
farmer, married Miss Carrie Smith (he is a Democrat);
Lorema
married Elijah Voorhies, a farmer of Seneca county (he is a
Republican and a member of the U. B. Church); Frank, a farmer,
of
Jackson township, married Miss Clara Havens (he is a Democrat);
the name of the seventh child is Barbara A. Mrs. Kenan is the
daughter of Isaac and Sabra (Preston) Posey, both of whom were
natives of Pennsylvania, the former born in 1804 near
Philadelphia, the latter in 1810 in Mercer county. They had a
family of children as follows: Sarah, Elizabeth (Mrs. Kenan),
Sabra, Luther, Rachel and Hannah (twins),
Harriet, Bell,
Susanna, Martha, Mary, John, David, Esther and William, ten of
whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Posey migrated to the Black Swamp,
Ohio, when Mrs. Kenan was but two years of age, and the father
died in 1858, the mother September 20, 1888. Grandmother
Elizabeth Preston was born in England, about 1777, and had six
children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Kenan's paternal
grandfather, Micaga Posey, was a major in the Revolutionary
war.
The first land Mr. Kenan bought was 180 acres in
Jackson township; he next purchased 122 in Scott township, then
about 200 of his neighbor's land, making in all 327 acres. He
has retired from farming, his son, G. F. Kenan, operating the
farm; but during his active life he cleared many acres of
heavily timbered land which he now owns. He has leased his land
in Scott township to the Standard Oil Co., receiving a snug
income from this source. In politics he is a stanch Democrat,
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AMBROSE
KERNAHAN, deceased. If
character counts for aught, the subject of this sketch was a
wealthy man. His neighbors learned by experience, if they did
not acquire the knowledge by intuition, that the word of Mr.
Kernahan was worth its face value any time, that he never
made a promise without fulfilling it, unless circumstances,
impossible to control, arose to prevent. This regard for his
word, however, was not a hobby with Mr. Kernahan,
nor was it the absorbing quality of his mind; it was only an
index to the moral and mental soundness of the man.
He came of Scotch-Irish stock, and was born in
Livingston county, N. Y., July 19, 1836, son of Alexander and
Hannah (Clapp) Kernahan. Alexander Kernahan
was born in Ireland about 1800, and when a young man emigrated
to America, settling first in Onondaga county, N. Y., where he
worked for eight dollars per month, and subsequently moving to
Livingston county, N. Y., whence, in 1854, he came to Sandusky
county, Ohio, where he bought land and spent the remainder of
his years, dying in 1876. In politics he was a Republican, and
in religious belief a Presbyterian. Strict in his habits, he was
universally esteemed. Hannah (Clapp) was a native
of England, and died in Sandusky county. The children of
Alexander and Hannah Kernahan were five
in number, three of whom—Ambrose, James and
Eliza—grew to maturity.
Ambrose Kernahan was reared to farming on
his father's land in Green Creek township. He was a strong Union
man during the Civil war, and was a member of the "One Hundred
and Sixty-ninth O. V. I., which in 1864 was called out in the
one-hundred days' service, and did guard duty at Fort Ethan
Allen and Washington when Gen. Jubal A. Early
was making a demonstration against the capital city of the
nation. After the war he settled on the farm, and in 1870 he
married Miss Elizabeth McKinney, who was born in New
York, July 29, 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Kernahan had no
children. Mr. Kernahan was a prominent member of
Eaton Post No. 55, G. A. R., of Clyde. He was engaged in general
farming, and was progressive and thorough in his methods, being
recognized as one of the best farmers in Green Creek township.
He was a keen observer, noting with intelligent care the
magnitude of the changes which occurred in doing business since
his boyhood days, a half century ago. He was popular in the
community wherein he had so long had his home, and when he was
called from earth, on January 15, 1895, his fellow citizens
mourned the departure of a much beloved and deservedly esteemed
man.
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GEORGE
W. KING,
a well-to-do farmer of Ballville township, Sandusky county, was
born in Pickaway county, Ohio, March 20, 1849.
His father, John King, was born March 2,
1819, in Fairfield county, Ohio, and married Miss Mary
Mowry. Their children were: (1) Catharine, wife of
Valentine Moshier; she died at the age of
twenty-one years, leaving one son, John, living in Allen
county, Ohio. (2) Mary is the wife of Valentine
Moshier, a farmer, residing in Allen county, Ohio. (3)
Elizabeth is the wife of David Roberts, of
Scott township; she died at the age of forty-four years, and is
buried in Oakwood Cemetery. (4) Lydia is the wife of
William Reichelderfer, by whom she had four children—Hattie,
George, Frank and Lettie—and after his
death she married, in 1890, William Slates, a
farmer of Tipton county, Ind. (5) George W. is our
subject. (6) Sarah, born in 1851, in Pickaway county, is
the wife of Jacob Mowery, a farmer of Michigan.
(7) John, born 1854, married Miss Carrie
Hunlock, and has one son, John Clarence. (8)
Jacob, born November 20, 1856, is a farmer in Ballville
township, married to Miss Fredie Crites,
and has two children—Omer and De Witt. (9)
Elmira, born in 1859, is the wife of John
Searfoss, a farmer of Scott township, and has two children—Bessie
and Stella. (10) Perry, a farmer of Scott
township, born in 1861, married Sadie Hunlock, and
has four children—Pearl, Iva, Hazel and
Carrie.
Our subject started out in life for himself at the age
of twenty-two with the health, pluck and perseverance which
ensures success. He worked three years in the oil fields of
Warren county, Penn., then returned and worked at his trade as a
carpenter until December 9, 1875, when he married Miss
Mary J. Ludwig, daughter of Jacob and
Louisa (DeLong) Ludwig, farmers of Allen county, Ohio. He
next farmed in Jackson township one year, then five years in
Allen county, and on his return to Sandusky county, bought
eighty acres of Jacob Ludwig for $4,500. On
January 30, 1882, he moved upon the farm where he now lives,
remained nine years, then located near Fremont, where he
remained three years, finally moving back on the farm of 133
acres, which cost him $ 10, 000. Here he follows mixed farming,
raising grain, grass, fruit and live stock, with good success.
He is a man of enterprise and public spirit, and has held
various public offices. The children of George W. and
Mary King are: M. Louisa, born April
7, 1880; Ada M., September 19, 1883; Charles L.,
July 9, 1885; and Evan M., September 11, 1889. The
brothers and sisters of Mrs. King are Isaac,
John, Charles, Obed and Jacob.
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