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MRS. NANCY JONES, an aged and venerable lady of Hun- tington Township, was born in Frederick County, Va., December, 11, 1796, and was the daughter of William and Mary (Ashby) Reveal, both natives of Virginia. She grew up to womanhood in her native county. When she was about twenty years of age she accompanied her parents to .Highland County, Ohio, where she was married to Samuel Jones, July 25, 1825. He was born in Pennsylvania, December 20, 1790. In 1833 she, accompanied
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by her husband and children, moved to this county and settled on the present site of Warren. That was the first settlement in Salamonie Township. They continued together in that Township until their union was broken by the death of her husband, August 9, 1873. Since that time she has lived with her children. She is now living with her son, Samuel W. Jones. She is now in the ninety-first year of her age and is probably the only person liv- ing who is entitled to the credit of being one of the first settlers of Huntington County. She is supposed to be the oldest person in the county.
SAMUEL W. JONES, one of Huntington County's prominent farmers, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born September 16, 1834. He was the third in a family of four children born to Samuel and Nancy (Reveal) Jones, a sketch of whom is given above. As stated above, the father and mother had located in this county the year previous to his birth, but a visit of the latter to her old home in Highland County, Ohio, during the following year, grants to our subject the distinction of being a Buckeye. The latter grew up to manhood at the home of his parents in this county, assisting to clear and cultivate the farm. He at- tended the district school, in which he secured a common school education. In 1857, he located upon a farm of his own in Section 36, Huntington Township, where he has ever since resided. His life occupation has been that of a farmer, and as such he has been very successful. Minerva Morgan, a native of Union County, this State, born April 30, 1835, became his wife August 25, 1857. She was the daughter of John and Barbara (Miller) Morgan, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter a native of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had six children, John A., born Septem- ber 2, 1860; died September 13, 1863; Charles F., born June 20, 1863; Sarah E., April 6, 1867; Margaret E., born August 28, 1868, died December 6, 1870; Hannah E., born December 16, 1869, and Will- iam A., born February 13, 1871. Mr. Jones is a member of the F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F. Lodges, and a Democrat in politics. He owns a handsome farm of 160 acres, situated in one of the best farming districts in Huntington County. His farm is fitted up with good buildings and fences, and is a very desirable loca- tion.
J. B. KENNER is a native of Maryland, having been born there November 5, 1846, in the town of Hancock, Washington County. His father was Alexander Kenner, and was descended from an old and prominent family of Virginia, and was of Eng- lish descent. His mother is descended from the German, and came from the eastern shore of Maryland; her name was Burgan. Mr. Kenner lived in the town of his birth until he was eleven years of age, during which time he made rapid progress in school. In 1857 his father and his family removed to Huntington County and settled in the Township of Jackson, near the Whitley County
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line-that part of the county at that time was very new, and schools few, and the boy engaged in what nearly every man and boy was then doing- clearing the forests from the new lands and securing a few months' country school in the winter. At an early age he began to make his own living, and we find him at sixteen years of age contracting and conducting contracts for himself. At sixteen years of age he enlisted in the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Indiana Volunteers, but on account of his age was not mustered. At seventeen years he again enlisted in the One Hundred and Forty-Second Indiana Volunteers and served until the close of the war. In the fall term, 1865, of the Roanoke Classical Seminary, he entered that excelient educational institu- tion and remained three years, except the winter term of each year, when he taught school. In 1868, having determined upon the profession of law for his life work, he began its study with Hon. H. B. Sayler, in Huntington, Indiana, and read diligently for two years, when he entered the law department of the Indiana University and took a course there in the law, graduating in March, 1871, with high honors and receiving his diploma invest- ing him with the honorable degree of Bachelor of Law. Mr. Kenner at once in April, 1871, began the practice of his profes- sion, and for sixteen years with but little interruption, has industriously and assiduously applied himself to his business. He has had, and still has, a large legal business, and his success in his business has been marked. In 1880 he was elected to rep- resent his county in the Legislature. He rose at once to promi- nence and was made the leader of the majority in the House by his party. He was chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, was chairman of the new State House Committee and was a member of the Judiciary and Revision of the Laws Commit- tees. The entire revision of the statute laws of Indiana came before this Legislature, and its duties were arduous. The Ways and Means Committee, through Mr. Kenner, secured the passage of the bill revising the entire taxation system of the State, and gave us our present excellent statute. . Through this Legislature he secured the passage of fifteen bills that became laws, among which is our present tax law entire: compelling passenger trains running through Indiana to place in each car an ax, saw, bucket and sledge; compelling minors who sell real estate to pay back purchase money before they can rescind their contracts; allowing women in Indiana to hold school offices; free gravel road bills and many others. Besides this the signal ability and sound judgment of Mr. Kenner is seen in amendments or otherwise throughout the entire large amount of legislation of that long and busy session, and the enactments of the session of the Indi- ana Legislature of 1881 stand and are commended as none others have been recently. In 1880 Mr. Kenner entered into partnership in the practice of the law with Mr. John I. Dille, which firm has existed ever since, and their reputation as careful, able, and hon- orable men is heard on all sides and their success marked and
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continued. In 1883 Mr. Kenner entered into a partnership with Mohler & Mohler, and purchased and edited since that time the Indiana Herald, and under their management the ring transac- tions among the county officers was exposed and laid bare and succeeded in defeating every Democratic candidate who ran on the county ticket in 1886, on account of this exposure. In 1876 Mr. Kenner became an Odd Fellow, and at once took rank in the order, and within ten years he had passed all chairs in the subor- dinate and Grand Lodges, and was at the head of the order, be- ing elected Grand Master of the State, which arduous duty he performed with great ability, and during his year he arrested the standstill and lethargy in the order and filled it with new life, and added in the State 1,400 new members net gain. In 1873 Mr. Kenner was married to Minerva C. Morgan, daughter of John Morgan, Esq., and they have four children. His home is noted. as a happy, cheerful one.
GEORGE. W. KENNER, postal clerk on the Chicago & Atlantic Railway, is a native of Hancock, Washington Co. Md., where he was born April 23, 1850. He was the youngest of three sons born to Alexander and Ann Mariah (Burgan) Kenner, the former a native of Washington City, and the latter a native of Hagerstown, Maryland. In October, 1857, when George was but seven years of age, his parents came to this county and located in Jackson Township. There his youth was spent working upon a farm. During winter he attended the district school and he afterward continued his studies in the graded school at Roanoke. In September, 1873, he entered Hillsdale College in Michigan, and attended one term. In the meantime he had taken up the avocation of a teacher. In Sep- tember, 1874, he became a postal clerk on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, a position he held about fifteen months. He then resigned with a view to secure for himself a better educa- tion, and in the latter part of 1875 he entered the normal school at Valparaiso, where he took a select course, completing it in the summer of 1878. During the following winter he taught school in this county. In 1880 he was appointed Census Enu- merator for Jackson Township. In the fall of 1880 he went to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was engaged in the insurance about nine months. He afterward was engaged in that busi- ness in Omaha three months. He then returned to Huntington and soon afterward accepted a position in the mail service on the Lake Shore Road. From this a few months later, he was transferred to the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Road. In September, 1882 he retired of his own accord. June 4, 1883, he entered the mail service on the Chicago & Atlantic and has thus continued ever since. He was married August 17, 1882 to Hattie White, daughter of David F. and Hannah (Maddox) White, the former a native of Ohio, and the latter a native of Warren County, this State. Mrs. Kenner was born in Tippecanoe County,
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this State, September 6, 1852. This union has resulted in the birth of two children: Gresham, born July 18, 1883, and Edith, born October 10, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Kenner are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The former is a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge, and a Republican in politics. In the fall of 1878 he was the candidate of his party for the office of Surveyor, but failed to overcome an opposing majority. He is an efficient postal clerk and a good citizen.
ADAM Q. KENOWER, one of the pioneers of Huntington County, and an old and reliable furniture dealer of the City of Huntington, is a native of Cumberland County, Pa., where he was born July 18, 1829. He was the fourth son in a family of nine children born to Jacob and Sarah (Wise) Kenower, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, of Dutch descent. When our subject was five years of age his parents came west- ward to Ohio, and settled in Clark County. After a residence of one year upon a farm they located in the village of New Carl- isle, of the same county, where the father worked at the trade rs a carpenter. They left there when Adam was fourteen yea n old, or in February, 1814, and came to this county, locating i what was then the village of Huntington. Here the father and mother spent the rest of their lives - their respective deaths oc- curring August 6, 1866, and July -, 1854. At the age of fifteen our subject began to learn the trade of a painter. This he picked up himself without any instruction whatever. He continued to work at this about six years. For some five or six years there- after he worked at finishing in his brother's furniture store. In 1863 he and his brother, John, formed a partnership in the furni- ture business. This partnership existed about two years and a half, when they sold out. From 1865 to 1868 Mr. Kenower was in the shingle business. In the meantime, in 1867, he had again engaged in the furniture business, in partnership this time with James R. Whiteside. That firm existed about thirteen months, since which time Mr. Kenower has carried on the business alone. He has a large and commodious store, well stocked, and is doing a good business. September 28, 1851, he was married to Anna M. Taylor, a native of Mt. Holly, New Jersey, born June 18, 1831. She was the daughter of Charles and Mary (King) Taylor, both natives of New Jersey, the former of Irish, and the latter of English descent. The latter traces her ancestry back to Eng- land - her grandfather being the son of an English Lord. Mr. and Mrs. Kenower are the parents of eight children: Carles E., born January 7, 1853; Kate P., born September 6, 1855, died in infancy; Willis E., born February 13, 1857; Jennie M., born Jan- uary 20, 1860; Mary C., born July 24, 1862, died October 1, 1868; S. Adda, born December 20, 1865; Herbert P., born May 22, 1867, and Sandford K., born July 18, 1St0. Our subject and wife ar members of the Baptist Church. The former is a member of th
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I. O. O. F. Lodge, and a Republican in politics. He has been honored with the positions of City Clerk and Councilman, one year each. He is a charter member of the fire department, having been a member of that organization since 1856.
JOHN KENOWER, who has been conspicuously identified with both the town and county of Huntington since 1841, is a native of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was the second son born to Jacob and Sarah (Wise) Kenower. The for- mer a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, was born October 6, 1791, and died in 1866; the latter, a native of Cumber- land County, Pennsylvania, was born July 15, 1792, and died in 1854. They had born to them nine children, as follows: George, born January 29, 1816; Mary Ann, born March 7, 1818; John, born March 2, 1820; David, born September 13, 1822; Catharine, born December 9, 1824; Sarah, born May 27, 1827; Adam Q., born July 18, 1829; Ann Elizabeth, born November 16, 1833, and Jacob, born November 19, 1834. The subject of this sketch remained in his native county, working upon his father's farm. until he reached the age of fifteen, at which time he accompan- ied his parents to Clark County, Ohio, locating with them upon a farm. In January, 1841, he left home and came to Huntington, which at that time, was a village containing scarcely more than a dozen houses. After working by the month for a short time, he turned his attention to the trade of a carpenter, and to this was joined, in 1847, the trade of a cabinet maker. From the former he retired about 1853, and from the latter in 1863. In the meantime in 1850, he engaged in the lumber trade, and it is through this branch of industry that his influence has been so sensibly felt in the development of both the City and County of Huntington. In the course of a few years he had built up an extensive trade- confined neither to the county nor State. A ready market was thus provided for the product of the forest, as it melted away before the settler's ax. No indus- try has contributed so much toward the improvement and de- velopment of Huntington County, as this, through the indefatig- able push and enterprise of Mr. Kenower. March 18, 1842, he was married to Lucy H. Montgomery, who died on the 18th day of November, following. His marriage to Florence M. Binager occurred April 14, 1847. She died at the expiration of fifteen months, leaving a young child, that followed her a few weeks later. April 15, 1850, Mr. Kenower was married to Sarah Purvi- ance, by whom he is the father of four children: Clara J., William W., Elizabeth J., and John P. Our subject is a member of the Baptist Church, and in politics, is a Republican. He has held the office of County Commissioner two terms, and during his incumbency the present court house was erected. He has also been a member of the City Council a number of years. Various enterprises having for their object the accommodation
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of the public, owe their success, more or less, to his untiring energy and enterprise. No name will shine more brightly to the. posterity of Huntington County than that of John Kenower ..
JOSEPH KINDLER, a citizen of Huntington, was born in Stark County, Ohio, April 5, 1842. He was the oldest of nine children born to George and Catharine (Saal) Kindler, both natives of Germany. The former came to America with his parents in 1832, and the latter came to America with her parents in 1840. Both settled with their respective parents in Stark County, Ohio, where they were married in 1841. When Joseph was fourteen years of age, or in 1856, his parents came to this county, and settled in Jackson Township. There his youth was spent working upon a farm. When he became of age he went to Ft. Wayne, and was employed by Malline, Shunk & Co., manu- facturers of agricultural implements. Two years later he re- turned to the home of his father in Jackson Township, and later was employed upon a saw mill in that vicinity. From that on to the year 1875, he was variously employed. He was mar- ried November 17, 1870, to Margaret Fisher, a native of Ger- many, born July 24, 1848. She was the daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Walter) Fisher, with whom she came to America, and to the city of Huntington in 1852. Immediately after their mar- riage Mr. and Mrs. Kindler located in a comfortable little resi- dence at No. 87 Poplar Street, where they have ever since re- sided. Since 1875, Mr. Kindler has acted as Street Commissioner of this city, and as such he has discharged his duties in a very creditable manner. Mr. and Mrs. Kindler have had born to them six children: Elizabeth, born January 24, 1872, died April 6, 1878; Katie C., born June 21, 1874, died April 6, 1877; George, born September 1, 1877; John W., born March 4, 1880; Barbara H., born October 29, 1882, died November 27, 1886, and Caroline C., born June 30, 1885. Mr. and Mrs. Kindler belong to the Catholic Church.
ISAAC KITT, one of the pioneers of Huntington County, and one of her most highly respected citizens, was born in Stark County, Ohio, December 15, 1809. He was the fifth in a family of fifteen children, born to Jacob and Barbara (Wolf) Kitt, both natives of York County, Pa., the former of English and German, and the latter of German descent. Jacob Kitt was born about 1781, and at the age of nineteen he was married to Barbara Wolf with whom he moved to Stark County, Ohio, in 1804. In about the year 1850 he came to this county whither his son, Isaac Kitt, had come in 1837. Here Jacob Kitt spent the rest of his life, his death occuring October 28, 1883, at the advanced age of one hundred and one years. When our subject first came to the county, he settled in the woods of Clear Creek Township. He im- mediately went about clearing his land and in the course of a few years he had a handsome farm. In those early days a great deal of
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hard work naturally devolved upon him. He chopped, grubbed, burned brush, rolled logs, and in fact all kinds of hard work, which the development of a new country necessitates. He en- joys the credit of erecting the first frame barn, and of occasion- ing the presence of the first threshing machine and clover huller, in Clear Creek Township. Amid all the hard work during pio- neer life, he found time to shoulder his gun and pursue the deer, a thing he frequently did. He remained upon the scene of his labors until in March, 1875, when he sold his farm, and since that time he has been a resident of Huntington. He was married June 5, 1833, to Catharine Slusser, a native of Adams County, Pa., born August 11, 1813. She was the daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Minnich) Slusser, both natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent. They have had born to them ten children, as follows: Emeline, born Feburary 8, 1835, died Feburary 19, 1835; Delilah, born March 16, 1836, and Caroline born October 31, 1837. The next was Lucinda, born September 9, 1839. She was the second white child born in Clear Creek Township. Then Ma- tilda, born September 13, 1841; Jacob, born April 18, 1843, died September 22, 1871; Silvanus S., born September 11, 1845; Eliza- beth, born December 15, 1846; Amanda J., born December 13, 1849, and Sarah C., born May 12, 1857. Mr. Kitt is a member of the Lutheran Church and Mrs. Kitt is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics the former is a staunch Democrat. His first vote was cast for Andrew Jackson and he has tenaciously supported the principles of the Democratic party ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Kitt have now lived together over fifty-three years, and they now have living eight children, twenty-three grandchildren and five great grandchildren.
JESSE LANDIS, proprietor of the feed mill and saw gum- ming establishment on State Street, and an influential citizen of Huntington, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, December 25, 1841. He was the oldest of nine children born to Samuel G. and Mary ( Summers ) Landis, the former a native of Lancaster County, Pa., and the latter a native of Montgomery County, Ohio, both of German descent. His boyhood and youth were spent in his native county, during which time he was chiefly employed in a flouring mill and in a distillery. At the age of nineteen, or in the spring of 1861, he came to this county, and during the three years that followed he was employed as head sawyer in a saw mill. In May. 1864, he enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Thirty-Eighth Indiana Volunteers, with which he served until in September, 1864, when he re- ceived an honorable discharge. He then returned to this county and took charge of a saw mill, owned by his father. To this his attention was directed about five years. On the 1st day of January, 1871, he went into the employ of Col. C. E. Briant, with whom he remained nearly thirteen years. He began as a common laborer, but afterward cut staves four years
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and then was employed as foreman, in which capacity he served seven years. He discharged his duties to the complete satisfac- tion of his employer, Mr. Briant, and the relations between them were at all times most amicable. Since September, 1883, he has given his attention to his feed mill and saw gumming establishment. It has become one of Huntington's established industries, and the credit is all due to the energy of Mr. Landis. He wishes, however, to acknowledge his obligations to Col. Briant who has substantially aided him and contributed to his success. March 24, 1867, he was united in marriage to Mary C. Cawley, daughter of Phineas and Elizabeth (Van Dorsten) Cawley, the former a native of Luzern County, Pa., of English descent, and the latter a native of Stark County, Ohio, of Dutch descent. Mrs. Landis, was, also, a native of Stark County, Ohio, where she was born July 1, 1845. Her marriage to Mr. Landis has resulted in the birth of two children, Manasseh G. W., born April 16, 1868, and Oscar C., born February 19, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Landis are members of the Baptist Church. The former is a member of the G. A. R.
EZRA T. LEE, Auditor of Huntington County, whose por- trait appears in this work, is a native of Delaware County, this State, and was born June 26, 1840. He was the youngest son born to William and Margaret (Haney) Lee, natives of Virginia and Ohio, respectively. When he was six years old his parents came to Wabash County, and located in the woods. There he grew up to manhood working upon a farm. At the age of eighteen he took up the vocation of a teacher in which capacity he was successfully engaged for about twenty-one years. His summers were spent upon a farm. He came to this county in 1862 and located upon a farm in Huntington Township. About a year later he came to the city of Huntington, but a year after he located upon a farm in Union Township. There he was en- gaged in agricultural pursuits until the time of his election to the Auditor's office, which occurred in the fall of 1882. While a res- ident of Union Township he was honored with the Trustee's office two terms, and the Assessor's office two terms. He was married November 5, 1862, to Amanda A. Kindall, by whom he has three children: Laura V., Margaret A. and Elda V., all of whom are living. Margaret A. was married to William H. Line, and resides in the city of Huntington. Our subject is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F., F. & A. M., K. of P., and Royal Arcanum societies, and a Democrat in politics.
WILLIAM H. D. LEWIS, one of the pioneers of Hunting- ton County, settled with his parents in the woods of Union Township, in 1835. This was the first white settlement in the township. He was born in Niagara County, N. Y., October 20, 1820, being the eldest of eight children - five boys and three girls - born to John and Mariam P. (Douglas) Lewis, both natives
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of the state of New York, of English descent. When William was about three years old his father removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and for a short time he continued the business of merchan- dising, a pursuit he had previously been engaged in at Niagara County. Thence he went to New York City and conducted a livery until he came to this county as aforesaid, in 1835. In 1844 our subject accompanied his father to Ft. Wayne, whence he be- came his partner in mercantile pursuits. The firm name was Lewis & Son. A year later they came to Huntington. Here they resumed merchandising and also took charge of a large saw-mill which they had purchased, at the junction of the Wabash and Little Rivers. About one year later their store was moved to the site of the mill and the two industries received their attention a number of years, abandoning the store in 1851, and the mill in 1856. In the spring of 1857, he engaged in the hardware business in this city, in connection with his father and William Hunter. The name of this firm was Hunter & Lewis. Later on it was changed to J. & C. H. Lewis & Co. It thus con- tinued until dissolved by the death of his father in 1870. The firm then did business until 1878, under the name of C. H. Lewis & Co. William Lewis then formed a partnership with his son- in-law, J. R. Weaver, and for six years they conducted a dry goods and notion store in this city. In April, 1884, the store was moved to Decatur, Ill., where it is now conducted by Mr. Weaver. Mr. Lewis, however, still retains his interest. He was married November 16, 1845, to Minerva L. Shearer, a native of New York, born December 17, 1824. She was the daughter of Merrick and Asubah (Moody) Shearer. She died August 12, 1849, and on the 7th day of December, 1851, Mr. Lewis was married to Celinda W. Swail, who was born in the city of Thorold, Canada, June 13, 1831. She was the daughter of James H. and Louisa (Webster) Swail, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter a native of Utica, N. Y. Her father was of English and her mother of English and Scotch descent. By his first wife Mr. Lewis had one child, Lucy A., married to J. R. Weaver, and resides in Decatur, Ill. Mr. Lewis and his present wife have had six children, Douglas W., William H., Anna L., Willie, John H. and Jennie H., all of whom died in infancy, except Anna L. She became grown, was mar- ried to B. F. Meech, in April, 1880, and died in April, 1883, leaving one child, Charles L., who is now with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. Our subject is a member of Mystic Lodge of F. & A. M., No. 110, Huntington Chapter No. 27, Huntington Council No. 51, La Fontaine Lodge of I. O. O. F. No. 42, and of Silica Fons Encampment No. 88. He was the first Mason initi- ated, and at present is both the oldest Mason and Odd Fellow in Huntington County.
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