JEREMIAH KALB, son of George and Mary (Kiefer) Kalb, was the eighth child in a family of eleven, and was born in Madison township, Franklin county, Ohio, only a short distance from where he now lives, April 4, 1811.  His parents, and his grandfather, John Kalb, came to Madison township from Frederick county, Maryland, in the year 1805, and made a settlement in seciton fourteen, on the farm now owned by George Kalb, jr.   His father died there in 1836, and his mother in 1846.
     The subject of this brief biography remained upon the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when his father, giving him two hundred dollars with which to purchase land, he walked all the way to Hancock county, and entered one hundred and sixty acres.  He subsequently made of number of trips out to his purchase and back, and always went on foot.  His father finally persuaded him to buy a farm at home.  On the tenth day of April, 1836, he was united in marriage to Mahala

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daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Shoemaker, born Dec. 18, 1809.  Her parents removed to Madison township from New Jersey, in 1811, and settled on the farm where Jacob baughman now lives.  Her mother died there, but her father afterward removed to Hancock county, Ohio, and was subsequently married three times.  He died in 1858.
     The subject of this sketch, after his marriage, located where he ahs ever since resided.  His wife died Apr. 26, 1876, leaving to him to daughter, to-wit:  Mary Jane, born May 30, 1837, who married Thomas Begg, and now resides in Putnam county, Ohio; and Sarah Elizabeth, born Aug. 1, 1839, who is the wife of Jacob L. Bowman, of Madison township.
     Mr. Kalb is a prominent member of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal church of Madison, and contributed liberally to the erection of the new church.  He has been a trustee of the church ever since his first connection with it - a period of about thirty years.

JOHN KERR.     John M. Kerr, one of the four proprietors of the original town plat of Columbus, was born about the year 1778, in County Tyrone, Ireland, and was educated at the University of Dublin.  He came to this country early in the century, and settled in Franklinton about 1810.  His connection with the company entering into contract with the legislation in 1812, has already been given.  Mr. Kerr was appointed, in1813, the first agent of the associates, and continued until 1815, when he declined longer service.  He was also a member of the first board of councilmen, elected in 1816, for the "borough of Columbus."
     He died in 1823, in the same year with Mr. Lucas Sullivant.  Mr. Kerr left a large fortune, at his death, which was soon dissipated.  Mr. John M. Kerr, jr., now nearly sixty-two years old, is the only son living; but a sister (Mrs. Mary F. Heffner, now a widow), resides in Fremont, Ohio.  There is also a grandson, a boy of ten years, bearing the family name - John M. Kerr.
     Mr. Kerr was buried in the old North graveyard, and, as a result of the neglect into which the place has fallen, the headstone placed at his grave has been destroyed, and his children are not able to identify the grave of their father - and he is a man whose active business life was so intimately associated with the early history of the city!
     The son of Mr. Kerr, mentioned above, is now living in Columbus, with his wife and child - the latter a promising boy of about ten years.  Mr. Kerr is a man of much intelligence and literary culture, who made many business ventures with the great wealth which his father left, but failed in them all.  And now, at the advanced age of sixty-one, he finds himself in great affliction from the almost total loss of sight by a painful disease of the eyes, and from the pinchings of absolute poverty.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 582

JOSIAH KINNEAR, sheriff, is the second child of Samuel and Ellen Kinnear.  He was born in Clinton township, this county, on June 27, 1834.  His father came to Ohio, from Pennsylvania, in 1806, first settling in Pickaway county, where he lived until 1833.  He then removed to this county, and opened a hotel in what is now North Columbus.  He was a justice of the peace some thirty-eight years, and died Mar. 6, 1867.  The mother, Ellen Hill, came with her father's family, from Virginia, in 1813.  She was then ten years of age, and rode the entire distance on horseback.  Her parents located near Darbyville, in Pickaway county.  Mrs. Kinnear is now living in Columbus.  Sheriff Kinnear began his education in the Columbus public schools, attended the university at Westerville some time, and finished at the Capital university, Columbus, Ohio.  He began life as a farmer and surveyor, and in the latter capacity, laid out, in 1854, North Columbus.  In 1870, he was elected surveyor for Franklin county, and at the end of three years was elected city engineer.  In the fall of 1877, he was elected sheriff, his term of office expiring in the fall of 1879.  He is a Democrat, a member of the Independent  Order of Odd Fellows, and the Ancient Order of Workmen, of which he has been treasurer since its organization.  His wife is Josephine, a daughter of Captain Alexander and Flora Shattuck, of Locust Grove, this county, by whom for children were born - Samuel A., William S., Edgar F., and Lizzie.
Source: History of Franklin & Pickaway Counties, Ohio - Published by Williams Bros. - 1880 - Page 588