JOHN KAPS was born near
Baden, Germany, Nov. 2, 1836. His parents came to the United
States when he was an infant, and located in Portsmouth. He
spent the earlier years of his life in a brick-yard, and learned the
bricklayer's trade. In 1857-'58 he was in the grocery
business, and since then has been contracting and building.
April 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company G, First Ohio Infantry, and
served three months. In June, 1862, he was appointed First
Lieutenant, and helped recruit Company C, Ninety-first Ohio
Infantry. He was subsequently promoted to Captain. He
participated in fourteen hard-fought battles and many skirmishes.
Among the more important battles were, first Bull Run, Fayetteville,
Cloyd Mountain, Lynchburg, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar
Creek. He served over three years, and was honorably
discharged. Feb. 13, 1873, he married Jennie McIntyre,
a native of Portsmouth, and a daughter of Daniel McIntyre,
who came from Ireland to Portsmouth when twenty-one years of age.
They have two sons - John and Harry. Mr. Kaps
is a member of the Masonic fraternity.
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PETER KAPS was
born in Bavaria, Germany, May 19, 1833, a son of Casper Kaps.
His parents came to the United States in 1836, locating in
Portsmouth. His father died in 1857, aged sixty-one years.
They had a family of four children - Caroline, now the wife
of Christian G. Leiberherr, a teacher, of Quincy, Ill.;
Elizabeth, now Mrs. Leopold Kessler; Peter and
John. Peter is the eldest son. When twenty
years of age he began to learn the bricklayer's trade, and, with the
exception of his term of service in the army, has followed that
vocation. He enlisted in 1861 in Company K, Fifteenth Kentucky
Infantry, and served three years and three months. He
participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga,
Dallas, Resaca, Jonesboro. At Chattanooga by James B.
Steadman. He enlisted as a private, and was promoted
several times, and was discharged First Lieutenant. In
business he is associated with his brother, and together they
have had the contract for building some of the best residences and
public buildings in the valley. They are now at work on the
sewer running from Chillicothe to Union streets - distance 3,000
feet, four feet in diameter - and will cost $16,000. Mr.
Kaps was married Jan. 1, 1871, to Elizabeth Evans, of
Portsmouth. They have three children living - James E.,
George P. and Henry H. Casper died Nov. 29,
1882, aged two years. Mr. Kaps is a member of the I. O.
O. F. fraternity.
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FRANK B. KEHOE was born in
Portsmouth, Ohio, Sept. 27, 1852, a son of Murlaugh Kehoe, a
boot and shoe merchant, who died in 1874, aged seventy-seven years.
From 1870 till 1876 he was engaged in the drug business in
Manhattan, Riley Co., Kan. He was afterward engaged in the
grocery business five years and a half in Portsmouth. In the
early part of 1883 he purchased a wharfboat of J. O. Murfin's
estate. It was built in 1879, and has a tax valuation of
$2,500. July 22, 1879, Mr. Kehoe married Mary
McClain, a native of Ohio, Clermont Co., Ohio. He is a
member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias fraternities.
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PHILIP H. KELLEY,
son of Timothy Kelley, was born in Ireland, April 9, 1823.
He came to the United States in 1848, and lived one year at Auburn,
N. Y. In 1849, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and engaged in
stone-cutting two years, after which he worked on the railroad two
years. In 1853 he began contracting on railroads, etc.
In 1857 he came to Portsmouth and built the Suspension Bridge across
the Scioto River, and also helped build the city water-works.
He was married in 1855 to Anna Hayes. They have had ten
children.
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B. F. KINNEAR,
manufacturer of chair stock, Portsmouth, Ohio, established this
business in August, 1882. He employes about twenty hands, and
ships his stock in car-load lots to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York City, Boston, and other points in the East. He ships
three car loads a week, and consumes annually 1,000,000 feet of
lumber. He was born in Williamsport, Pickaway Co., Ohio, in
1844. His father, Joseph Kinnear, was an early settler,
and helped lay out the town of Circleville, Ohio. He was a son
of Judge David Kinnear. His father being a merchant, he
clerked for him till 1861, when he spent two years in school.
In 1863, he enlisted in a Mississippi squadron in the gunboat
service and served during the rest of the war. Subsequently he
spent five years in Tennessee, dealing in cattle and running a
shingle-mill. He afterward traveled eight years for Wood
& Welter, of Mansfield, Ohio, and five years for Hood,
Bonbright & Co., of Philadelphia. In 1868 he married
Harriet Cheny of Joliet, Ill., but a native of New York City.
Mr. Kinnear is a member of the Masonic fraternity. He
is one of the leading and enterprising business men of Portsmouth.
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CHARLES KINNEY,
Treasurer-elect of Scioto County, was born in Springville, Ky., July
7, 1850, eldest son of Charles and Elizabeth (Cox) Kinney.
His father dying in 1861, he removed with his mother to Columbus,
Ind., where he resided until 1872. He was educated in the
public schools, and graduated at the Columbus High School in the
class of 1866. He learned the trade of printer while in
Columbus, which he followed until 1872, when he came to Portsmouth,
and was employed in the Valley Book Store. About January,
1876, he again entered the printing office and worked at his trade
until November, 1877, when he was appointed Deputy County Treasurer
by B. R. Miles, and re-appointed by Alfred Boyer in
September, 1880. In June, 1883, he was nominated by the
Republican County Convention for Treasurer, and elected. Oct.
8, 1879, he married Letitia H., daughter of Jno.
Yoakley of Portsmouth. Mr. Kinney is a member of
Aurora Lodge, No. 48, F. and A. M.; Scioto Lodge, No. 5, I. O. M.,
and Dionysius Lodge, No. 115, K. of P., of which he is District
Deputy, Grand Chancellor and Representative in this Grand Lodge of
Ohio.
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JOHN KIRSCH was born in
Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1848, a son of Michael Kirsch,
proprietor of the Phoenix House. When eighteen years of age he
began to learn the tinner's trade, serving an apprenticeship of four
years. He then worked as a journeyman till 1874, three years
of the time being foreman for A. W. Buskirk. In 1874,
he became established in business for himself on Second street,
between Court and Washington Streets. He keeps all kinds of
cooking and heating stoves, selling from 250 to 300 annually.
He has the finest cooking stove in the market - the Early Breakfast.
It is guaranteed not to contain an ounce of scrap iron, and runs
with less fuel, keeping a regular and steady heat. He
manufactures all kinds of tinware, employing four hands; also makes
a specialty of tin roofing and spouting. He was married in
1870 to Mary R. Leising of Chillicothe, Ohio. They have
five children - Anna, Charles, William, Clara and John.
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HENRY KUGELMAN,
dry-goods and notions, Chillicothe street, opposite Market
place, was born in Germany in 1842. He came to America in
1848, with his father, William Kugelman, who settled with his
family in Portsmouth, where he remained till his death, at the age
of sixty-three years, in April, 1861. His wife is still
living, at the advanced age of eighty-three years. Our subject
began life by helping his father in the foundry. He learned
the cooper's trade when fifteen years old, at which he worked till
1861, when he enlisted in Company D, Twenty-second Ohio Infantry,
and served three months. He re-enlisted in Company C,
Fifty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and served three and a half years.
He was engaged in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hills,
Jackson and Vicksburg. After his return from the army he
worked at his trade one year, after which he clerked in a wholesale
and retail tobacco house in Indianapolis, Ind., three and a half
years. He returned to Portsmouth in 1868, since when he has
been variously engaged till 1880, when he established his present
business. He was married Oct. 19, 1865, to Elizabeth Fuch,
of Portsmouth. There is a family of six children - George
Edward, Harry Richard, Nellie Emma, Albert, Edward and Clara
Louisa. Mrs. Kugelman died Aug. 23, 1883, after giving
birth to twin children; a boy, who died shortly after birth, and a
girl, who died at the age of four and a half weeks. Mr.
Kugelman is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Grand Army of the
Republic. He belongs to the German Evangelical Church.
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