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BIOGRAPHIES
 Source:
A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County
from The Earliest to the Present Date
by H. S. Knapp
Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
- 1863 -
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Vermillion Twp. -
WILLIAM KARNAHAN emigrated from Jefferson
County, Ohio, April 16, 1815, with his family, consisting of his
wife, his son Robert M., and daughter Eliza A.
Mr. Karnahan died upon the place he originally selected for
his home, being the southeast quarter of section 23, Vermillion
Township, on the 24th of September, 1852, aged sixty-three
years.
The country at this date was very sparsely settled -
his nearest neighbor being Mr. Emerine, located one and a
half miles distant. About this distance from where he
erected his cabin, on the farm now owned by Mr. Stoufer,
a den of rattlesnakes was discovered, near the entrance to which
as many as twenty-five were killed in a single day. At
another den, on or near the farm now owned by Robert Cowen,
as many as seventy-five of these reptiles were killed in a
single day. On one occasion the family were assailed by a
panther, who approached the house on an evening within a few
rods, and only disappeared after the family had secured the
doors and windows of their cabin, and kindled a brilliant fire.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 281 |
RUDOLPH
KAUFMAN immigrated to Perry Township from Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania, in June, 1822, and purchased of Jacob
Baker the two hundred and thirty-three acres in section 27,
upon which he resided until the time of deceased, which occurred
Mar. 11th, 1825, at the age of twenty-seven years six months and
five days.
The surviving members of his family were his widow and one son.
Emanuel, son of Rudolph Kaufman, was born upon the
place above described July 31st, 1824, and now resides at the
old homestead.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 465 |
Jackson Twp. -
JOHN KEEN, SR.,
immigrated to Jackson Township from Centre County, Pennsylvania,
in November, 1828, and selected for his future home the
northwest quarter of section 16. In 1830 or 1831 he
purchased the northeast quarter of the same section, upon which
he resided until the time of his decease, which occurred on the
8th of March, 1862, in the eighty-sixth year of his age.
When he removed to the township, his family consisted of his
wife and six children - two sons (John and
Daniel) and four daughters. The Ashland
Union, of March
19, 1862, contains an obituary, from which the following is
extracted: -
"The
deceased was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on the 24th of
September, 1776, and experience in his infancy the hardships of
the revolution, as in his old age he saw the perils of his
country in dissolution. His father, Jacob
Keen, had emigrated westward from the older settlements, but
was compelled to flee with his family from the pursuit of hte
savages. In February, 1798, he deceased joined in wedlock with
his surviving widow, whose maiden name was Catharine
Derscham. The two lived and kept house together for a
period of sixty-four years, during which time (excepting the
last few weeks) they were both able to perform the ordinary
duties of their household. In the fall of 1828 the deceased
left his residence in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and emigrated
with his family to this township, where he has ever since
resided. His neighbors several times bestowed upon him the
office of justice of the peace, in which capacity he served
with honesty of purpose and independence of judgment. He left
behind a large family of children, grand-children, and
great-grandchildren. In early infancy he was baptized and
became, upon arriving at the years of discretion, a member of
the German Reformed Church. He was very steadfast in his
purpose upon matters appertaining to the church or congregation
of which he was a member, and although he had to smite his
breast and exclaim, 'Have mercy, Lord, upon me, poor sinner,' he
yet died in the full enjoyment of the hope of everlasting life
through Christ his Redeemer."
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 490 |
Montgomery Twp. -
SAGE
KELLOGG removed to Uniontown (now Ashland) in October,
1818. He taught the first school in Orang Township in the
winter of 1818 and 1819, in a log hut then erected about three
fourths of a mile north of the present town of Orange.
Mr. Kellogg's profession was that of a school teacher.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 195 |
Green Twp. -
PETER KINNEY, formerly a resident of
Columbiana County, entered, in April, 1810, the land upon which
the families of Thomas W. Calhoun and Elias Groff
now reside. He made some improvement, but never removed
his family to this land, having made another purchase in the
adjoining Township of Monroe, to which he removed his family on
the 7th of July, 1819. He subsequently removed to
Illinois, where he died in 1833, at the age of fifty-two.
Abraham Baughman and John Davis had
preceded him to Green Township, but what length of time is not
known to Mrs. James Irwin, (daughter of Mr. Kinney,)
who communicates this memoranda. Mr. Davis was a
widower and had been a revolutionary soldier, and, some years
subsequent to his settlement in the township, was found dead on
the roadside, above Chillicothe, to which place he had been to
draw his pension.
Removal of the
Greentown Indians.
When Captain Douglas
of Mt. Vernon, with his command, visited Greentown for the
purpose of removing the Indian inhabitants, a party of Indians,
on the night of the day that
Douglas made his appearance in their town, came to the house
of Mr. Kinney, and stated to him their troubles, and
asked him to intercede for them, and permit them to remain at
their homes. He accompanied them on their return; had an
interview with Captain Douglas, and remonstrated with him
on the injustice and impolicy of removing the Indians
from their town, since they had agreed to give up all their
arms, and have the roll of the men called a day. So
confident was
Mr. Kinney that evil to the white settlers would result
from their removal, and so earnest did he become in his protest
against the folly, that the captain drew his sword upon him, and
might have committed violence had he not been for the moment
surrounded by the anxious and indignant Indians. It is
doubtless true that, had
Mr. Kinney's counsels prevailed, the massacre upon the Black
Fork, would have not occurred.
In was a command under
Colonel Robert Crooks, of Pennsylvania, that burned the
buildings in Greentown a few days after the removal of the
Indians.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp,
Publ. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 331 |
MICHAEL
KIPLINGER emigrated from Pennsylvania to Perry Township
in the spring of 1823, where he remained until the spring of the
year following, when he purchased the southeast quarter of
section 26, in Jackson Township, which land he entered upon and
improved, and has since made his home.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 492 |
JACOB
KLINGAMAN emigrated from Berks County, Pennsylvania, with
his wife, to Perry Township, in May, 1817, and entered the
northwest quarter, section 8, in said township. The east
half of this section he subsequently surrendered, and retained
the west half. Himself and wife yet occupy the last-named
place.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 465 |
JOHN KRÆMER,
immigrated to Perry Township from Pennsylvania, October, 1829,
and purchased of John Gorsuch the farm which is now owned
and occupied by Samuel Buchanan. During the last
three years Mr. Kræmer has been a resident of Rowsburg.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 466 |
JOHN KREBS,
with his family, removed from Columbiana County to the land upon
which he at present resides, in Orange Township, in May, 1829.
Although he settled in Orange Township at a comparatively late
period, his neighbors were few in number - his own land was yet
a wilderness, and his own were the only family in the northwest
part of the township. The nearest east and west road was
one mile south of him; and the most convenient north and south
road was three miles west of his place.
About the second year after he came, he was successful,
through the aid of Jacob Mason, in obtaining from the
Commissioners of Richland County a grant for the present State
road, leading from Ashland to Troy Centre, and which road passes
along his western line. About one hundred days gratuitous
labor were given by those interested to aid in opening the road
- Mr. Krebs and Mr. Joseph Fast each giving twenty
days. The original survey of the road was made by Esq.
Gallup, of Ashland.
The people during the first settlement of the country
not only performed the road labor assessed upon them by law with
cheerfulness, but many added tenfold of voluntary labor.
Supervisors made no charge for their services. The same
personal sacrifices, if continued, would have McAdamized all our
leading roads.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 51 |
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Montgomery Twp. -
JAMES KUYKENDALL, born in Pennsylvania, immigrated to
Montgomery Township, having previously (in November, 1813)
entered two hundred and six acres in the northwest quarter of
section 6, (now known as the "Coup farm,") in March, 1815.
He made the journey from Wellsville, on the Ohio River, through
a country which was settled at intervals of from about four to
ten miles by little towns and cabins of white people - conveying
himself, his wife, one child, a brother, and all his worldly
effected, (except some stock,) upon three horses. Mr.
Kuykendall aided in the erection of the first house (being
of hewn logs) within the limits of what now constitutes the
original town of Ashland, which occupied the ground upon which
Treace's tavern now stands. It was built by
William Montgomery for his own use, and occupied by him for
a tavern."
Mr. Montgomery, when he subsequently laid out
the town, gave it the name of "Uniontown," in honor of his
native town of that name of Pennsylvania. Within the
limits of what now constitutes the town of Ashland, Mr.
Kuykendall informs us that he has killed many a deer.
In 1837, he removed to Fulton County, Illinois, where he at
present resides.
Mr. Kuykendall informs us that the first burial
in the old Hopewell churchyard, one mile west of Ashland, was
the body of Mrs. Griffin, a lady considerably advanced in
years.
Rev. Charles Law, an Old School Presbyterian
clergyman, from Matour's Run congregation, about twelve miles
southwest of Pittsburg, on the Steubenville road, was traveling
as a missionary to the Wyandotte and Seneca Indians, and on his
return was taken ill of fever, and died at the house of
Andrew Stevens, situated on the farm now owned by John
Mykrants. His body was buried in the old Hopewell
grounds, when, after having laid twenty years, it was
disinterred and removed to Pennsylvania.
Source: A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland
County from The Earliest to the Present Date, by H. S. Knapp, Publ.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. - 1863 - Page 196 |
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