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County of Williams, Ohio.

Historical & Biographical
with An outline Sketch of the Northwest Territory, of the State, and Miscellaneous Matters.
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Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS -
1882

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E. B. KAUKE, one of the oldest merchants of Bryan, is a native of Wayne County, Ohio, where he was born May 11, 1830.  His father, Frederick Kauke, was a native of Amsterdam, Holland, and was educated by the Dutch Government, receiving good, practical instruction, for which he gave his services about three years.  He studied navigation and spoke eight different languages.  He came to America at the age of eighteen years, and for some time was at Philadelphia engaged in morocco dressing, afterward going to Wilkes Barre, Penn., where he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Blaine) Inman a widow with two children.  He remained there for some time and moved to Wayne County, Ohio, at a very early day, where he assisted in laying out the county seat - Wooster.  In 1850, he went to California, and after remaining there that season returned to the States, and while on his way home took sick and died in New Orleans in the fall of 1850.  To his marriage with Mrs. Inman, there were born nine children, two of whom are yet living.  E. B. Kauke, of Bryan, is the youngest of this family.  He remained in Wooster until the age of eighteen, when he began learning the tinner's trade.  In 1848, he went to Medina County, finishing his trade and working at the same there about six years.  He married there, in 1851, Jane I. Pardee, and in the spring of 1854 moved to Bryan, then a village of about five hundred inhabitants.  He began working at tinning alone, afterward putting in stores, and in about 1870 added hardware.  He carries a full line of hardware, tinware, etc., and is doing a good business.  His wife died in 1856, leaving one son - Walter E.  His second and present wife, Sallie E. Caldwell, to whom he was married the fall of 1856, has borne him three daughters - Evelyn E., Cora A. and Emma L.  Mr. Kauke began as a poor man, but has succeeded in acquiring a comfortable home and a lucrative business.  He is a member of the I. O. O. F. of Bryan, and in politics is a Prohibitionist.
     G. W. KEISER, D. D. S., is a native of Richland County, Ohio; was born Aug. 20, 1845, and is one of the twelve children of Jacob and Elizabeth Keiser.  His early life was passed on the home farm, and at the age of twenty-one he began the study of dentistry under Dr. William Mitchell, of Mansfield.  After reading for two years, he began practice for himself, and in 1870, located in Shelby, Ohio, where he practiced three years, attending, meanwhile, the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he graduated in the spring of 1873.  The fall of the same year, he located in Bryan, and has here remained in practice ever since.  He was married in December, 1870, to Miss Hettie W. Duffee, of Shelby, and by her is the father of three children - Gertie B., Zula S. and Bessie E.  The Doctor is a Democrat, and a member of the German Baptist Church.  Keiser Brothers have been very successful in their practice, which has from the first rapidly increased, and now extends over Northwestern Ohio, Northeastern Indiana, and Southeastern Michigan.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 564
KEISER BROTHERSDr. E. A. Keiser was born in Richland County, Ohio, Apr. 4, 1838, and was there reared to manhood, receiving such education as the county schools afforded.  He is one of a family of twelve children, nine of whom are yet living, born to Jacob and Elizabeth (Worst) Keiser, who were natives of Pennsylvania and of German descent.  Jacob Keiser was reared in Somerset County, Penn., and at the age of about twenty-three moved to Wayne County, Ohio, where he married and engaged in farming.  He moved from there to Richland County, Ohio, in about 1833, and was among the old settlers of that county.  He continued farming there until 1875, when he moved to Williams County, where his sons were then living, and here Mr. Keiser died in 1876, followed by his widow in Hillsdale County, Mich., in 1878.  The parents of the Doctors Keiser were honest, respected and industrious people, beginning poor and acquiring, only through hard and continuous labor, a comfortable fortune.  Dr. E. A. Keiser came to Williams County, Ohio, in 1860, and began the study of medicine with Dr. A. Netz, of Primrose, remaining here two years.  He then returned to Richland County and completed his studies in 1863, under Dr. Francis Stohl.  He attended medical school at Cleveland the winter term of 1863 - 64, and graduated from the same institution (Homoeopathic Medical College) the spring of 1866.  Dr. Keiser then began the practice of his profession near where he was reared, and in 1867 came to Bryan, entering into active practice.  In this he has been quite successful, and has by diligence and close attention to business acquired a first-class practice.  He began a poor boy, and by laboring at odd times, while pursuing his studies, acquired sufficient means to carry him through college.  He was married, Oct. 10, 1867, to Miss Lydia J. Brown, and to them have been born two children - Romeo O. and Forest L.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 565
JACOB KELLER, D. D. S., was born in Richland County, Ohio.  Jan. 11, 1840, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Worst) Keiser, and there reared till twenty-one years old, when he engaged in farming on his own account till about 1865, when he moved to Madison Township, this county, purchased eighty acres of new land, and began clearing up, but was compelled by ill health to abandon farm life.  In the fall of 1874, he began the study of dentistry, and for two years read under the instruction of his brother, Dr. G. W. Keiser, of Bryan.  He then attended the Philadelphia Dental College, and graduated in February, 1879, since when he has been engaged in professional work.  He was married in 1863, to Miss Sarah A. Hall, of Richland County, and to this union have been born four children - Minnie J., Ora A., Zella M. and Pearl G.  The Doctor is a Democrat, but liberal in his views of local politics, and he and wife are members of the German Baptist Church.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 814
JACOB KELLY, was born in Stark County, Ohio, Jan. 3, 1822, and is the son of John and Christina (Brothers) Kelly, natives of Delaware and Pennsylvania respectively.  They were married in Stark County, in 1820, moved to Holmes County in 1830, thence to Wayne in 1839, and to this county in 1854.  In 1840, Jacob Kelly began milling in Wayne County, and for fourteen years followed that business at various points.  In 1850, he made an overland trip to California; returned in 1851, and purchased seventy-two acres of land in this township, on which he now has his home.  Jan. 2, 1855, he married Miss Elvira J. Shorthill, a native of Pennsylvania, who has borne him nine children - James Jeff, John C. Fremont, Maryauzonetta, Lew Wallace, A. Sherman, Lincoln, Earl, Harry M. and Tina.  Of these, Earl and Tina are dead.  In 1872, Mr. Kelly was elected by the Republicans to the Auditor's office, and re-elected at the expiration of his first term.  In religion, he and wife are Methodists.  In 1861, Mr. Kelly enlisted in Company H, Thirty-Eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served two years, and re-enlisted at Defiance, Sept. 10, 1863.  On the 7th of August, 1864, he was shot through the jaw, near Atlanta, Ga., and was discharged at Cincinnati, Dec. 22, 1864, with rank as Second Lieutenant.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 566
SAMUEL KEMBLE was born in New Jersey, July 21, 1805, and is the fifth child of a family of thirteen only two of whom, a daughter and our subject, were also natives of New Jersey, the father of English and the mother either of Irish or Scotch descent.  They moved from their native State to Columbiana County, Ohio, near New Lisbon, in the year 1810 and consequently were among the pioneers of Eastern Ohio.  They were farmers, and lived there until their respective deaths, the father dying in about 1847 and the mother being drowned by a flood in 1861.  Samuel Kemble was reared in Columbiana County, receiving only such education as the common schools of that early day afforded.  He was married, Feb. 27, 1828, to Miss Jane Hollingsworth, who was born near Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 1809.  Succeeding their marriage they engaged in farming for a number of years in Columbiana County, afterward moving to Hancock County, where they remained until 1872, when they concluded to come to Williams County, where their only living son Seth was then and is yet living.  They settled on the place where they now reside adjoining the corporate city limits of Bryan, where they have ever since  resided.  Mr. Kemble owns 196 acres of good land, and besides this owns town property.  He makes no specialty in active farming as he is too old for that, and he and wife are really living retired.  They are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and have had born to them a family of ten children - Cynthiann, now Mrs. Lewis J. Dales; Seth, who married Thamer Crawford and came to Williams County in 1865; Err H., who died at home from effects of army life; Phebe, deceased; Susannah, deceased; John, who served his country in the late war and died at home from effects of exposure during the war; Carey, who served in the war, and during the engagement at Dallas was missed, being either killed or taken prisoner, and has never been heard of since; Samuel, deceased; Josephine, deceased, and Emma J., who is single and resides with her parents.  The Kemble family are among the most respected and esteemed  citizens of Pulaski Township.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 567
SETH KEMBLE, son of Samuel and Jane Kemble, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1830, and with his parents removed to Hancock County in the fall of 1851..  He remained with them until he was over twenty-three years of age, when he returned to Columbiana County and was married, June 8, 1854, to Tamar G. Crawford, who was born in Columbiana County Apr. 24, 1831.  He then came back to Hancock County, where he purchased property and remained until the spring of 1854, when he came to Williams County and settled on his present farm, on Section 14, this township.  He was 141 acres of very find land, with a fine brick residence and other first-class improvements.  His wife has borne him eight children, viz.:  Duston, Er. H., Edward C., Victor S., John C., Seth W. (deceased), Nancy J. and Alice L.  He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he and family are regarded as useful members of the Community in which they live.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 775
FRANCIS KENNEDY

Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 568

A. KENNINGER

Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 569

   DR. THOMAS KENT

Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 570

FREDERICK J. KLEIN was born in Bavaria, Germany, Mar. 12, 1854, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Deszloch) Klein, also natives of Bavaria, and is the youngest of a family of ten children.  He was left an orphan when about thirteen years of age, lived with an elder brother, a farmer, until 1869, and then came to Williams County.  He was employed at ditching for some months, and then engaged with Charles Nebelong, a barber of Bryan, with whom he remained nearly three years, and then started business on his own account; ran his shop about four years then started as an insurance and real estate agent, which he followed about two years, and then resumed his trade.  He was married, May 25, 1875, to Caroline Arnold, who was born in Bryan, Nov. 9, 1854, and is now the mother of his two children - Mary L. and Caroline M.  In 1878, Mr. Klein was commissioned a Notary Public, and again in 1882; he is agent for the Hamburg and Bremen Steamship line; keeps employed in his shop two barbers, and is prospering in his three vocations.  Mr. Klein is well educated, both in German and English, and has acquired a thorough understanding of the laws and business customs of his adopted country.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 567
  BENJAMIN F. KNIFFIN

Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 115

DAVID KOLLAR, one of the early settlers of Florence Township, was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, Aug. 14, 1812.  He is one of the nine children of George and Susan Kollar, of which number but four are now living.  Our subject remained at home until his twenty-second year, at which period - May, 1835 - he was married to Amelia Van Buskirk, who is still living.  He followed farming for a number of years, coming to Williams County in 1846, although previous to this time he had entered 160 acres of Government land; he has now 240 acres, with good buildings, one-half of which is under cultivation.  He has had a family of six - Henry, Thomas, Martha, Hiram, George and Maria; three of his sons are stock-dealers.  Mr. and Mrs. Kollar belong to the Lutheran Church.  Mr. Kollar's life may be said to have been a successful one.  When he located on his present farm it was in an unbroken forest, and he was obliged to cut roads, through the woods in order to reach his site.  It was late in the fall, but he got a cabin built, moved in and cleared up as the weather permitted.  The first year after his arrival, he spent twenty-six days in attending "raisings," and the next year he passed twelve days in assisting his neighbors.
Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 750
ANDREW KUNKLE

Source:  County of Williams, Ohio, Historical & Biographical - Illustrated - Publ. Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor - Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor - Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers - 1882 - Page 570

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