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In 1868 the family emigrated to Connecticut, and remained until 1875, when they came to Ohio. Mrs. Keys died in May, 1880. Mr. Keys is a worthy young man, and a good farmer.
KEYES, LEROY, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in this county in 1846, and was married in 1869, to Ida Allbery, who was born in Licking county in 1844. They have three children, viz: Ella, born July 22, 1871; Myrta, May 7, 1876, and Robert, February 19, 1878.
Mr. Keyes is engaged in farming, and owns a well improved farm with good buildings.
KICK, GODFREY, Brown township, farmer, post office, Jelloway, son of Godfrey and Catharine Kick; was born in France April 23, 1822, and was brought to America by his parents when a boy, his father locating in Canton, Stark county, where they remained a short time, and then moved to Holmes county, where the subject of this sketch grew into manhood.
December 6, 1845, he married Mary Wolf, daughter of John Wolf, born in France November 10, 1826. After his marriage he purchased a farm of eighty-five acres in Brown township, Knox county, southwest of Jelloway, about one mile, where he moved, and has since remained, and reared his family. Their marriage resulted in eleven children: Mary A., Daniel, John, William, Priscilla, Henry, Adaline, Matilda, Frederick, Amelia, and David A., all of whom are living. Mr. and Mrs. Kick are members of the German Lutheran church of Brown township.
KIME, JOSEPH, Fredericktown, farmer, was born in Stark county, Ohio, September 22, 1830; came to Knox county in 1842, and was married in 1858 to Hannah R. Filmer, who was born in Knox county. They have two children-George and Ida.
Joseph Kime was a soldier in the late war, being a member of company A, Twentieth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He veteranized at Vicksburgh, Mississippi, and was in the ser- vice for about four years. He received two honorable discharges, and was never sick or from duty for one day.
Mrs. Hannah Kime died in Illinois, June 4, 1858. Mr. Kime was afterwards married in 1864 to Helen Stanfer. They have one son-William H.
KIMMEL, WILLIAM, Fredericktown, was born in Carroll county, Ohio; was married to Louisa Welch, who was born in Stark county, Ohio. They have one daughter, Jessie, who was born in Fredericktown, Ohio. Mr. Kimmel is engaged as a travelling salesman.
Mrs. Susan Welch, mother of Mrs. Kimmel, was born in
Somerset county, Pennsylvania, in 1809, and came to Ohio in 1812. She was the mother of seven children, five of whom have died. Mrs. Welch is now living with her daughter in Fredericktown, Ohio,
Olive Shafer was born in Stark county. Her parents died when she was quite young. She has been reared by Mrs. Kim- mel, and is still making her home there.
KING, WILLIAM L., Mt. Vernon, was born in 1816, at Milton, Middlesex county, New Jersey, where he lived until 1830, when he came with his parents to Newark, Ohio, where they remained about one year, then moving to Granville, where they remained but a short time, when they returned to Newark. Mr. King came to Mt. Vernon about 1834, and learned the hat- ters' trade with his brother-in-law, S. J. Voorhees, served four years, and then formed a partnership with Mr. Voorhees for one year, after which he engaged in business by himself, and con- ducted it successfully until 1874, when he sold his business to Mr. Baldwin and retired from the trade. He learned his trade un- der the old process, when all work was done by hand, and the styles changed once in about seven years, but the times changed and Mr. King made his business change to suit the times.
He was married in 1838 to Miss Caroline, daughter of Tru- man Purdy, of Mt. Vernon, and they have had two children, one son and one daughter.
KINNEY, G. W., Berlin township, post office, Frederick- town, was born in Knox county in 1842, married in 1868 to Jeannette Sharp, who was born in Scotland in 1850. They have two children: James, born in 1868; Bryant, in 1877. Mr. Kin- ney was a soldier in the late war, a member of company G, One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He was in the service for about three years, and was honorably discharged. After going through with his regiment in all the skirmishes and battles, he stands conspicuous among the loyal soldiers of Knox county.
KINSEY, C. R., Fredericktown, miller, was born in Mill- wood Knox county, January 14, 1854; married in 1875 to P: N. Blystone, who was born in Illinois. They have one son-Mor- ris M., born in 1877. Mr. Kinsey moved to Fredericktown in 1880, and is engaged in the mill of S. S. Tuttle & Co.
KIRBY, NATHAN, Middlebury township, farmer, born in Knox county, October 23, 1823, and was married January 3, 1845, to Isabella Burk, who was born in Fredericktown, Mary- land, February 13, 1825, and came-to Ohio at the age of ten years. They have the following family of children: Henrietta, born April 14, 1849; Winfield, born February 16, 1852; Adilla, born January 18, 1855; Dayton, born August 20, 1851. Henri- etta was married to David Cosner. Winfield married Samantha . Hair, now residents of Middlebury township. Mr. Kirby has always been a citizen of this township, and is one of its active and energetic men.
KIRBY, ABNER S., farmer, post office, Fredericktown, was born in this county in 1840; he was married in 1866 to Chloe A. Beans, who was born in Richland county in 1848. They have four sons and three daughters-W. B., Etta M., Frank E., Zoa R., W. S., Estelle, and infant son. Mr. Kirby is engaged as an auctioneer, is becoming popular in this busines, and is meeting with success. He was a soldier-a member of com- pany K-Ohio volunteer infantry; and he was engaged for four years.
KIRK, HON. ROBERT C., was born February 26, 1821,
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at Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio. Both his parents were natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a Quaker and farmer. and died in 1838. His mother died at the age of eighty-two. Robert, in his early boyhood, attended district school in his na- tive place, and afterwards became a student in Franklin college, at Athens, Ohio. After leaving college he commerced the study of medicine under the instructions of Dr. William Hamilton, at Mt. Pleasant. After a time spent in this preliminary study, he entered the old university at Philadelphia, where he attended lectures until he was twenty years of age. After attending the course he removed to Fulton county, Illinois, where he began professional practice. In the fall of 1843 he returned to Ohio, and abandoned the practice of his profession. In the spring of 1844 he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Mt. Vernon, forming a partnership with T. W. Rogers in the dry goods business. The association ended with the death of Mr. Rogers. He then . formed a partnership in the same business with Mr. John Hogg, his father-in-law, which continued until 1853, when the firm sold out. In 1857 he went to Winona, Minnesota, and was associ- ated with his brother as dealers in real estate. He returned to Ohio in 1858, and has remained there ever since, except when holding official positions abroad. In 1856 he was elected a member of the Ohio State senate, and served in that body one term. In 1859 he was elected lieutenant governor of the State. He served two years. In 1862 he received from President Lin- coln the appointment of Minister to the Argentine Republic. During his official residence at Buenos Ayres he was successful in settling all the old claims due to American citizens, amount- ing to over four hundred thousand dollars; these claims origi- nated in 1814, and were abandoned by our former ministers. Over nineteen thousand dollars were sent from Buenos Ayres to Mr. Bellows, president of the United States Sanitary commis- sion, for the benefit of our soldiers, during Mr. Kirk's residence there. This position he held until 1866, when he resigned and returned to Ohio. In 1869 he was reappointed by President Grant to the same position, but resigned again in 1871, return- ing home in January, 1872. In February, 1875, he received from President Grant the appointment of collector of internal revenue of the Thirteenth Ohio district, at Mt. Vernon, and that position he held until Congress consolidated the revenue districts, and the office at Mt. Vernon was removed to Colum- bus, Ohio. He was married December 11, 1843, to Eleanor Hogg, daughter of John Hogg, and niece of William Hogg, of Brownsville, Pennsylvania. They had four children, viz: John, who was a member of the Ninety-sixth Ohio volunteer infantry, served during the war of the Rebellion, and died in Mt. Vernon in January, 1873, aged twenty-nine years; Desault was an attorney at Mt. Vernon; Plimpton and William H., twins.
KIRKPATRICK, WILLIAM A., farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Pike township, Knox county, in 1845, on the farm where he now resides. He was married in 1870, to Ella Daniels, who was born in Wayne county Ohio, in 1851. They have four children: William W. was born in 1871; Fran- cis E., in 1874; Emma, in 1876; Morilla M., in 1878. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a farmer. He lias filled the office of assessor of this township with credit to himself and entire satisfaction to the public.
KIRKPATRICK, JOHN WALLACE, deceased; he was born in Knox county, and was married to Sarah A. Dunmire. They had six children: Jacob A., Mollie, Edward L., George,
John, and William W. He is now a member of George Pop- ham's family, and is a very intelligent and faithful boy.
KNERR, AMOS, Pike township, farmer, post office, North Liberty, born in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, in 1810, and was married in 1835, to Catharine Snyder, who was born in Union county, Pennsylvania, in 1814. They have eight chil- dren living, viz: Eliza, John, Mary, William Henry, Malinda, Sophrona, and Alice Amanda. The following have deceased, viz: Sarah, Cyrus, and Catharine Lucinda.
Mr. Knerr came to Ohio in April, 1838, and first located in Wayne county, and remained there nine years. From there he removed to Stark county, and remained six years. In 1853 he came to Knox county, and located in Pike township, and at present owns a well improved farm.
Two members of the family (John and Malinda) are living in Wayne county.
KNERR, HENRY, farmer, Pike township, post office, North Liberty, born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1845, and was married in 1868 to Julian Cayhoe, who was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania. They have three children : Bertie Viola, born in 1868; Nora Ellen, in 1872; Charlie, in 1875. Mr. Knerr came to Pike township, Knox county, in 1872, and is a farmer.
KNOX COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, North Main street, near public square. This bank is one of the solid monetary in- stitutions of this county, and as such is recognized by the best business men wherever it is known. It was organized under the banking laws of the State of Ohio, in 1873, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and a surplus of four thousand three hundred dollars. Its present officers are, Jared Sperry, presi- dent; S. H. Israel, cashier, and C. W. Pyle, assistant cashier. Its directors are, Jared Sperry, General G. A. Jones, John D. Thompson, Samuel Israel, O. M. Arnold, Thomas Odbert, Alexander Cassil, and S. H. Israel.
There has not been a sale of stock in this bank since it was organized, and it does a straight general banking business. Its officers are amongst the most respected and wealthy gentlemen of the county, and are all of marked and well known business integrity and ability; consequently, this is one of the safe and reliable organizations of the county, and everything in the bank- ing line will receive prompt and faithful attention. Parties in any part of the county, or elsewhere, having business to trans- act in the banking line, can have the same promptly attended to by sending instructions to this bank.
KOHL, JACOB, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fred- ericktown, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1850, and was married April 24, 1879, to Flora McMahon, who was born in Knox county in 1856. Mr. Kohl is a farmer by occupation, and is an active and energetic man. He came to Knox county in 1855 with his parents.
KOONS, COLLIN W., engineer of fire steamer, Mt. Vernon. Mr. Koons was born in Marion county, Ohio, August 17, 1846, where he resided until 1849, when his parents came to Mt. Vernon. He received his education in the public schools of this city. When of suitable age he commenced learning the moulding business with the firm of C. P. Buckingham & Co. After completing his trade he went to Fredericktown and engaged with Davis Rankins, with whom he worked until the year 1864, when he enlisted in company B (Captain Larimore), One Hundred and Forty-second Ohio
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National guards (Colonel Cooper), in which he served one hun- dred days. After his return home he enlisted in company K, Ohio sharp-shooters, in which he served until after the close of the war, and was honorably discharged August 17, 1865. He was one of the five men who ventured into Petersburgh, Vir- ginia, at the time of the evacuation and hoisted the United States flag on the city hall. This daring feat was performed before daylight of the morning of April 2, 1865. He also, in trading with the enemy, distributed circulars issued by General Butler offering inducements to the enemy to desert. These circulars were the means of many of the enemy coming into our lines. After his discharge from the army he entered the service of John Cooper & Co. and had charge of the moulding department where he remained until 1875, when the shop temporarily closed business. In the winter of 1875 he took charge of the steam fire engine of the Mt. Vernon fire depart- ment, which position he fills with acceptance.
KOONS, WILLIAM McKEE, attorney, Mt. Vernon, was born in Marion county, Ohio, June 9, 1850. He is the son of George M. and Elizabeth Koons, nee Wilson, who about a year after the birth of William, came to Mt. Vernon, where Mr. Koons died in 1867. His wife still survives him.
The subject of this sketch is the youngest of seven children. He was educated at the schools of Mt. Vernon, May, 1864, learned the tradc of machinist at the shops of C. & G. Cooper, of Mt. Vernon; remained four years and then took up drafting under J. C. Debes, where he remained nine months. He was then offered and accepted the foremanship of Duval's machine works at Zanesville, Ohio, and remained four years. While there he read law during his leisure hours, and then attended law school at Ann Arbor, Michigan. September, 1871, he was appointed by the council of Mt. Vernon as engineer of the fire department, and while there finished his course of reading under William McClelland, esq., and was admitted to the bar, July 7, 1874. He remained in the fire department until January, 1875, when he began practice with D. C. Montgomery, esq., with whom he remained about a year. In April, 1876, he was elected city solicitor, and reelected in 1878, and resigned in 1880. In the fall of 1879 he was elected to the lower house of the Ohio legislature. Mr. Koons is a good lawyer and has a good prac- tice. He married Miss Ella R. Steinmates in October, 1876. They have two children, viz: May A., and William.
KOONSMAN, ABRAM, Liberty township, farmer, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1821. His father, George Koonsman, was born in 1789, in Bucks county, Penn- sylvania. About 1810 he married Catharine Bowser, who was born in 1784. By trade Mr. Koonsman was a shoemaker, and Mrs. Koonsman a weaver. They remained in Pennsylvania until about 1827, when they emigrated to Ohio, coming by wagon, bringing with them their family and some household ar- ticles, together with some cattle, which they drove. They set- tled in Liberty township, on a tract of land covered with timber, which, with the aid of the family, he cleared up and made for himself a comfortable home.
Mr. Koonsman died in 1854, and his wife died in 1864. They had a family of eight children, four of whom are living, viz: John, born in 1814, is a justice of the peace and resides on the farm, having his office at the farm residence; Sarah B., born in 1817, is also living on the farm; Ann K., born in 1819, resides on the old homestead.
Abram, the subject of this sketch, was married to Miss Mary
Ann Dalrymple in 1858. They had a family of three children, viz: George, born April 6, 1859, died December 9, 1863; James Albert, born November 5, 1861; Maggie Jane, born February 21, 1864. This family has the esteem and respect of the com- munity for their honesty and industry.
KOST, JOHN, deceased, Monroe township, a native of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, was born in 1796. He was a blacksmith by trade, and followed that business as his princi- pal vocation through his life.
In 1815 he married Miss Elizabeth Wolf, of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, born in 1799. In April, 1832, they left their native county with a family of eight children, and a fine horse team for Ohio. After a wearisome journey of five weeks over the mountains, they reached Mt. Vernon on the tenth day of May, where they remained about three weeks, during which time he erected a cabin on his land in Monroe township, which he had purchased of a Revolutionary soldier before leaving Cumberland county. About the last of May he moved his family into the cabin on his land. The farm is now known as the "Big Spring farm," located in the northwest corner of Monroe township, and is owned by his son, Jacob Kost.
He lived in his cabin about two years and six months, and died on the sixteenth of December, 1834, leaving his companion with ten children to her care, in their forest home, viz; Samuel, John, Abraham, Jacob, Mary A., Margaret, Eliza, William, George W. and David L., all of whom are living, except Samuel and Mary A.
Mrs. Kost survived her husband until June 13, 1876, when she died, aged seventy-seven years.
KOST, JACOB, son of the aforesaid John and Elizabeth Kost, was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, December 16, 1822, came with his parents to this county in 1832, and located on the farm where he is now living in Monroe township.
In 1850 he returned to his native county in Pennsylvania, where he married Miss Mary Kost, born in December, 1831; daughter of George Kost. They returned to Ohio shortly after their marriage, and settled on the old farm, where they have since resided. They reared three children-two daughters and one son.
He has one of the best improved farms in Monroe township. His residence is one among the best in the township. He has followed farming and stock-raising as his vocation.
KULB, GEORGE, Middlebury township, carriage painter, post office, Fredericktown, born in Knox county, August 18, 1846, and married July 16, 1868, to Annie Burket; who was born in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1846. They have the following children, viz: Eliza A. (deceased), born June 28, 1869; Louisa J., July 15, 1871; Joseph M., May I, 1874; infant (deceased), July 11, 1876.
Mr. Kulb is a practical painter and a skilful mechanic. He is now engaged as a buggy painter in Waterford, where he does all kinds of work in that line.
KUNKEL, SAMUEL, Mount Vernon, attorney and re- corder, was born in Pike township, October 11, 1850, and is the son of Martin and Leah Kunkel, nee Keller, natives of Pennsylvania, and whose biographies appear in another part of this work.
The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm and attended the common schools, and in 1869 he completed a commercial course at Iron City college, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He at- -
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tended the National Normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and also attended school at Worthington, Ohio. He taught school a number of times and was successful. In 1876 he commenced reading law with General Morgan, of Mt. Vernon. In 1877 he was nominated for the office of recorder by the Democratic con- vention, and was elected the ensuing election.
In 1880 he was again nominated, and after a close contest was elected, being one of three who ran ahead of the ticket. He finished his course of law while attending to the duties of his office, and in 1879 was admitted to practice. He is an efficient officer.
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LAFEVER, WILLIAM, deceased, was born near Hagers- town, Maryland, in 1788. By trade he was a cooper, and fol- lowed coopering as his vocation in connection with farming, making the latter his principal business. He married Miss Mary Price, of Pennsylvania. In 1810 they emigrated to Knox county, Ohio, and located near Fredericktown, where they lived until 1822, when he purchased and moved on a farm near Mar- tinsburgh, same county; remained there ten years, and in 1832 he purchased and moved on a farm now owned by his son, Thomas P. Lafever, on the Brandon road, about three miles from Mt. Vernon. They lived on this farm about six years, when he purchased and moved on the old Sawyer farm in same township, adjoining his old farm on the north, where they re- mained a few years, retaining his other farms. He bought and moved on the farm now owned by Isaac Sperry, on the Newark road. They lived on this farm four years, he then sold it and purchased and moved to a farm near Martinsburgh; remained there about five years. His last purchase was the property now owned and occupied by his son, Thomas P., on the Newark road, about three-fourths of a mile from Mt. Vernon. Here his wife died in 1864, and he passed the remainder of his days among his children, living with one awhile and then with another. He deceased in 1870, age eighty-two years.
They reared a family of thirteen children, viz .: John, Darcus, Thomas P., Isaac, James, Mimard, Samuel, Wiley, Abram, Sprague, Margaret, Rebecca, and Chambers. Four of whom ( John, Isaac, James, and Rebecca, ) are dead.
LAFEVER, THOMAS P., farmer, second son of the afore- said William and Mary Lafever, was born near Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, September 2, 1812. He was reared a farmer, and has followed farming as his principal vocation through life. In 1840 he married Miss Eliza Beam, daughter of John and Mary Beam. They settled in Clinton on a rented farm; remained on rented land until 1842, when he purchased his father's old home farm in Clinton township, on which he lived until 1878, when he rented the farm to his son Calvin and moved on the property where he is now living a retired life, near Mt. Vernon. They had five children-Emeline, Merrit, Wil- liam S., John, and Calvin, all now living.
LAFEVER, WINARD, farmer, fifth son of William and Mary Lafever, was born near Fredericktown, Knox county, Ohio, April 12, 1815. He was brought up on a farm, and has made farming his principal vocation.
April 22, 1841, he married Miss Emily J. Blake, born in Knox county, Ohio, March 3, 1820, daughter of William and Hannah Blake, deceased. They settled on the farm now owned by William Shineberry, in Clinton township. They lived on three different farms in Clinton township until 1854, when he
purchased and moved on the farm where they are now living in the same township. Their union resulted in two children- daughters.
LAFEVER, WILLIAM, Wayne township, farmer, post office, Fredericktown, born in this township in 1830, and was married in 1864 to Mary Lafever, who was born in this town- ship in 1856. They have one son, Frederick Earl, born in 1874. His father, John Lafever, was born in Pennsylvania in 1809, and was married to Deliah Herod, who was born in 1808. Their children were William, Isaac, Molancy, Morgan, and Eli who enlisted in the late war, in the One Hundred and Twenty-first regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was killed at the battle on Kennesaw Mountain. His body was left on southern soil. Mr. John Lafever was one of the early settlers and pioneers of this county.
LAFEVER, M. H., Fredericktown, salesman, was born in Knox county, Ohio, in 1847, and was married in 1868 to Eunice Bricker, who was born in Liberty township in 1847. They have one son, John C., born in 1871. Mr. Lafever is engaged as salesman with the firm of Hill & Hagerty, dealers in hardware and furniture. He has always been identified with this com- pany, and has resided in Fredericktown for a period of five years.
LAFEVER, THOMPSON, Middlebury township, farmer, post office, Levering, born in Knox county, August 28, 1848, and was married to Helen Wilkins, who was born in 1837, in this county. They had the following family: Ella, Emma L., James F., Olive May, and Oliver (twins, deceased), Anna Bell, and Charlie Gay. Miss Ella Lafever was married to Clinton Ewers, who was born in this county. They have one son, Guy L., born July 3, 1879.
LAHMANN, GEORGE (retired), Morris township, post office, Mt. Vernon, was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, in 1810, came to Ohio in 1820, and was married in 1834 to Hannah Weyner, who was born in 1810, in New York, and came to Ohio when a child. They had seven children, viz : Lewis W., William (deceased), Augustus (deceased), Robert, Mary, Sarah, and George. Augustus volunteered in the late war, and was a member of company A, Sixty-fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was wounded at the battle of Stone River. Forty-one days after he was wounded he died, after a severe and painful suffering.
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