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BIOGRAPHIES
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Centennial
Biographical History of Hancock Co., Ohio
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1903
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JOHN C. KAGEY
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JOSEPH R. KAGY
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FREDERICK J. KARG
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J. B. KARST
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JAMES KEELEY
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HUGH J. KEENAN
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J. B. KELLEY.
The above named is a practical farmer of Blanchard
township, who owns and operates a farm of eighty
acres of valuable and productive land, which he
cultivates by modern and up-to-date methods.
He is a member of a family long resident in Ohio,
whose representatives have been identified with the
agricultural development of their respective
localities in such a manner as to take rank among
the model farmers. The first of the name in
this state were Ezekiel and Rachel Kelley,
who came from their native state of Pennsylvania and
located in the neighborhood of Fostoria, on a large
tract of land purchased from the government.
This couple had six children, five of whom are still
living, and among this number is C. S. Kelley,
who, at the time of his parents' arrival, was
still a youth, his birth having occurred in Wayne
county, Ohio, in 1825. After reaching manhood
he purchased a farm of eighty acres four miles west
of Fostoria, to which he subsequently added one
hundred and thirty-five more, besides one hundred
and sixty acres owned by him in Michigan at one
time. This statement would indicate of itself
that he has been quite successful in business, but
in other ways also he impressed himself upon his
community. He has served as justice of the
peace for twenty-six years, was county commissioner
two terms and held numerous other offices of minor
importance. He first married Mary Jane
Hagerman, by whom he had one child, and by a
second marriage, with Mary Bryan,
his family was increased by the births of eight
children, of whom the six now living are:
Cornelia, J. B., M. D., C. C., W. M. and
Mamie. Mr. Kelley
died Sept. 6, 1902, at Fostoria.
J. B. Kelley, the second of his living children,
was born in Washington township, Hancock county,
Ohio, on the 15th of February, 1854. He grew
up in his native place, attended the district
schools and in early life became an agent of the
Standard Oil Company, in whose employment he served
seven years, and during that time traveled
extensively in almost every state of the
Union. After resigning this position he was
employed two years as collector for P. F. Collier,
and in 1887 returned to his native county, of which
he has since remained a continuous resident.
His first investment in real estate was the purchase
of seventy acres of farming land near Arcadia, and
on this place he resided for twelve years. At
the end of that period he disposed of his holdings,
and in 1900 bought the farm in Blanchard township
which constitutes his present homestead. Apr.
11, 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss
Jennie, daughter of Jacob C. and Magdaline
Smith, of Crawford county, Ohio, and from this
union there are two children: Blanch, born
Mar. 11, 1889; and Karl, born Nov. 28, 1891.
Like his father before him, Mr. Kelley is a
member of the Democratic party and very earnest in
the advocacy of its principles. He is a member
of the school board and uses his influence to
advance the cause of education, as well as every
other measure which his judgment tells him will be
for the best interests of the people.
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JAMES W. KELLEY.
The descendants of the Irish race have long been
noted for their adaptability and quickness in
grasping opportunities. Where another man
would fail, the man with Irish blood in his veins
will see the chance of a lifetime, and proceed to
make the most of it in the shortest time.
Of such stock has James W. Kelley descended.
His father, William Kelley, was born in
Ireland in 1812, and came to America in 1839 to seek
new fortunes. He died in 1875, leaving a
widow, who died in 1895, and eight children, five
sons and three daughters.
Mr. Kelley was born in Allegany, New York, in
1866, where he lived until he was twenty-three years
of age. He obtained his education in the
public schools and at St. Bonaventure's College, and
from 1888 to 1891 taught in public schools of that
place. With the view of enlarging his horizon
and engaging in some business enterprise, he
followed his brother, T. C. Kelley, to
Findlay, Ohio, who had preceded him about two years
and was already established in the oil business.
Mr. Kelley decided to hazard his fortunes in
the same manner and at once went into the oil
producing business, in which he is now actively
occupied.
Mr. Kelley is a prominent member of the Roman
Catholic church, and has its interests thoroughly at
heart, as is evidenced by the fact that he is also a
member of the Knights of Columbus. He
thoroughly believes in the principles of democracy,
and carries his belief into his political and
business life. In the spring election of 1902
he was elected a member of the city council by an
overwhelming majority, receiving a greater majority
than his Republican opponent did votes.
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LUTHER C. KELLY.
The family of this name, so long and favorably known
in Hancock county, had its Ohio origin in Pickaway
county from emigrants who came west at what the
pioneers called "an early day." We first hear
of Joseph Kelly, who was born in Pickaway
county, about the beginning of the last century, and
he was married in Fairfield county to Sarah Shaw,
an incomer from Pennsylvania. After marriage
this couple located in Pickaway county, where they
reared five children, and of these four came to
Hancock county for residence at different times.
Among the latter was George J. Kelly, whose
birth occurred in Pickaway county, Ohio, in January,
1823, and who remained in his native locality until
about thirty years old. In April, 1842, he
married Caroline Fellers, and eleven years
later left Pickaway to seek a home in Hancock
county. He located on eighty acres of land in
Union township, which embraced the present site of
Rawson, and shortly after his arrival in 1852 this
village was laid out. This made a demand for
lots, and a considerable portion of George J.
Kelly's purchase was thus disposed of.
Subsequently he acquired additional land until his
total holdings amount to two hundred and eighty
acres, besides several houses and lots in Rawson.
He suffered a loss of over seven thousand dollars by
a destructive fire which swept over Rawson in 1887
and practically wiped the village from the map.
Of the eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. George
J. Kelly the six living are: Mrs. Jane
Benedict, Luther C., John A., Mrs. Olive M.
Zugschwert, Mrs. Mary A. Allion and Mrs. Ines
A. Woods, Chester D., the deceased son,
whose death occurred in 1894, was a lawyer of
promise who resided at Kenton, where he served as
prosecuting attorney for two terms. In
addition to his own children Mr. Kelly reared
and educated Scott H. Kelly, his nephew, who
is now practicing law at Toledo, Ohio. Mrs.
Caroline Kelly passed away in 1898, and all
accounts agree in representing her as a most
affectionate wife and devoted mother.
Luther C. Kelly, eldest of his father's sons,
was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, Nov. 10, 1847,
and was consequently four years old when his parents
came to this county. He was reared at Rawson,
and after attending the common schools there went to
Findlay for the purpose of fitting himself as a
teacher by a course in the high school at that
place. After finishing the education
prescribed for him he taught school awhile in
Jackson township, but soon
abandoned this occupation to engage in mercantile
pursuits. Securing a clerkship in an
establishment at Ada, he remained there a year and
then returned to Rawson to go into business with
J. C. Benham. This partnership, after lasting a
year or so, was dissolved with mutual consent and
Mr. Kelly determined to make agriculture a
permanent employment. With this in view he
made his first real estate investment in 1875,
consisting of forty acres of land in Union township,
which he increased in 1880 by an addition of
twenty-one acres, and by subsequent deed from his
father his total holdings were brought up to an even
one hundred acres. On this place he has since
resided, cultivating his fertile fields after modern
methods, raising good stock and otherwise leading
the life of a well-to-do Ohio farmer. Aside
from his own business his public service has
consisted of two terms as township trustee and
several terms as member of the school board, in
whose educational work he has taken an especial
interest.
In 1868 Mr. Kelly was married to Sarah,
daughter of W. C. and Mary A. Needles, by
whom he had one child, Sarah Eva, now
Mrs. M. A. Runkle. In 1883 he
contracted a second marriage with Magdalena M.,
daughter of David and Julia A. Stallsmith,
and the children by this union are Jasper F.,
who married Bessie Reed, of Ottumwa,
Iowa; Florence M., now Mrs. A. B. DeWese,
Homer C., Julia A., Lucia E.
and Zoda J. Mrs. Kelly, who is a
native of Portage county, was a successful teacher
in her earlier life and enjoyed a high reputation in
the educational circles of Portage, Marion and
Hancock counties. The Kellys were
formerly members of the Methodist Protestant church,
but that establishment not being regularly supplied
with pastors the family joined the old Methodist
church, in whose work they are actively interested.
Mr. Kelly and his father have at
different times held nearly every official position
in the church except that of minister. Owing
to their success in business, their exemplary lives
and their value as citizens this family has long
occupied a position of influence in the locality
around Rawson.
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RADO KEMPHER
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JACOB O. KETZENBARGER
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JACOB KIBLER,
one of the representative and prominent farmers of
Eagle township, Hancock county, is a native of Ohio,
his birth having occurred eight miles east of
Wooster in Wayne county, on the 17th of January,
1834. In 1837 he was brought to Hancock county
by his parents, George and Emeline (Hays) Kibler,
who were married in Wayne county. The father
was a native of Virginia and the mother of Arkansas,
she being born in that state while her father was
stationed there as an American officer in the war of
1812. Our subject's paternal grandfather
served all through the Revolutionary war. Both
he and his wife were born in the Old Dominion of
German ancestry and the latter lived to be over one
hundred years of age.
On coming to Hancock county in 1837 George Kibler
had to cut his own road for a distance of ten miles
from Findlay, and owing to high water and other
obstacles he was three days in making the journey.
He settled near Arlington, in Madison township,
where he entered land and at once turned his
attention to its improvement and cultivation.
His brother John, who had accompanied him on
his removal to this county, also entered a tract of
government land, where he lived until his death,
dying of cholera during the epidemic of that dread
disease. The father of our subject died at the
age of forty-five years when Jacob was only
fourteen years of age. His other children were
Luther, who died in Hancock county at the age
of thirty. Mary Ann became the wife of
Adam Wagner and died at the age of
fifty years, the result of an accident.
Isabel married Nels Westcott and
died at the age of thirty-five. Washington,
who now lives in Colfax county, Nebraska, served
through the Civil war and was captured at Harper's
Ferry after being wounded. After his exchange
he rejoined his command and remained at the front
until hostilities ceased. After the death of
her first husband the mother of these children
married Thomas Wheeler, who took
charge of the home farm but spent his last days in
retirement from labor in Arlington, where both he
and his wife died, both being about seventy-three
years of age at the time of their deaths. By
this union there were also five children: Holmes,
now a resident of Arlington; Emeline, the
widow of John Tombaugh and a resident
of Findlay; Millie, wife of Noah
Hindle, of Arlington; Joseph, a farmer of
Madison township; and Milton, who died in
childhood.
After the death of his father Jacob Kibler
worked for three years by the month as a farm hand,
giving his mother his wages to aid in the support of
the family. At that time he only received from
five to seven dollars per month for chopping wood
and farm work. From the age of seventeen until
twenty he managed to save all of his earnings by
living very economically, it being his intention to
purchase forty acres of land. His first
purchase, however, consisted of an eighty acre tract
and he earned the money to make his first payment of
thirty dollars by clearing ten acres of land.
This tract cost him three hundred dollars and was a
heavily timbered place situated east of Arlington,
in Madison township.
Mr. Kibler was married Feb. 23, 1854, to
Miss Rebecca McClelland, who
was then eighteen years of age and whom he had known
from childhood. Her parents were David and
Rebecca (Mercer) McClelland, of Eagle township,
and came to Hancock county in the fall of 1836 and
settled on land in that township, where they
continued to make their home until late in life, but
their last days were spent in Findlay. There
the father died when over eighty years of age, and
the mother at the age of seventy-nine. By
trade Mr. McClelland was a shoemaker and
while engaged in farming he followed that occupation
through the winter months. On coming to this
county he was accompanied by his father, Robert
McClelland, and his brothers, John,
Thomas, James, Alexander and
George, all of whom took up land.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kibler were born seven
children who reached years of maturity: Emza
Jane is now the wife of Theodore
Powell, a farmer of Eagle township; Charlotte
is the wife of Frank Steinman, also of Eagle
township; Flora is the widow of Philip
Wilch and is now teaching school in
Arlington; Etta is the wife of Robert
Baughman, of Van Buren township.
Thomas, who now carries on the home farm for his
father, married Jennie Creighton, who
died leaving one son, Waldo, and for his
second wife he married Amanda Hays, by
whom he has three children: Florence,
Mabel and Gertrude. He is a well
known breeder of Hereford cattle, having one of the
best herds in the county, and his stock always
commands the highest market price. Raleigh,
an attorney at law, was educated at Ada, Ohio, and
is now engaged in practice at Findlay.
Benton is also a graduate of the college at Ada
and is now a druggist of Alliance, Ohio. All
the children have at some time engaged in teaching
school and all have been given better educational
advantages than the home schools afforded. The
youngest passed the county teachers' examination at
the age of fifteen years with only home advantages.
His own education being limited, Mr.
Kibler has provided his children with the best
opportunities along that line so as to fit them for
any position in life which they might be called upon
to fill. He has assisted each as they have
needed it and all are now doing well, being a credit
to their parents. He now has sixteen
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. and Mrs. Kibler began their married life
amid primitive surroundings, he having built a cabin
on rented land and furnished it with the simplest of
furniture. Later he sold his eighty acre tract
and about four years after his marriage bought the
old homestead of his mother. Within a few
years this was all paid for and he built thereon a
good house and made many other useful improvements.
After residing upon that place for four or five
years he bought his present farm of eighty acres in
Eagle township in 1864, only forty acres of which
had been cleared at that time, while a cabin
constituted the only improvement, there being no
ditches or tiling upon the place. This
property cost him twenty-six hundred dollars and in
buying it he went fifteen hundred dollars in debt,
but this was all paid off at the end of five years.
He cleared and tiled the land, at the same time
placing it under excellent cultivation, and in 1874
he replaced his cabin home by his present
substantial brick residence, so that he now has one
of the best improved and most desirable farms in the
locality. He bought more land but has since
sold a tract of forty acres, and now has one hundred
and twenty acres of rich and arable land.
Starting out in life with scarcely any advantages
and no capital, he deserves great credit for the
success he has achieved in life, his prosperity
being due entirely to his own industry, perseverance
and good management.
Politically Mr. Kibler is a stanch
Democrat and has served as a delegate to the county
conventions of his party. He and his wife are
members of the English Lutheran church in Eagle
township, in which he has served for years in an
official capacity, and he has given liberally to its
support. Public-spirited and progressive, he
never withholds his aid from any enterprise
calculated to advance the moral, social or
educational interests of his community, and well
does he deserve mention in the history of his
adopted county.
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R. J. KIBLER. Although a young man and only a
member of the
Findlay bar about ten years, the
gentleman whose life is herein outlined has made a creditable record both as a
practitioner and man of affairs. He
has been sufficiently successful in practice to steadily increase his patronage
and has risen to prominence in politics on the Democratic side, which he
espoused at an early age and has always supported zealously. His father,
Jacob Kibler, was born in
Wayne county, Ohio,
in 1831, and has devoted practically all his life to agricultural pursuits. He removed to Hancock county in later
years and located on a farm in Eagle township, which afterward continued his
place of residence.
On this Eagle township
homestead R. J. Kibler was born Jan.
20, 1868, and there he was reared while being educated in the country schools. In 1884 he began teaching school in
Hancock county, and continued this occupation during the five succeeding
winters, while in summer he took advantage of the vacation season to pursue his
own studies. In 1888 he secured a
position as instructor in the high school at
Ada,
Ohio, and discharged the duties of this place until 1890,
when he began devoting his time to the study of law. In December, 1891, he was licensed to
practice by the supreme court at Columbus, and shortly thereafter took up his
residence at Findlay, sine which time he has been one of the busy attorneys at
the bar of that city. As previously
stated, Mr. Kibler is Democratic in
his politics and has always shown a warm interest in its campaigns for
supremacy. As one of the recognized
leaders of this locality he was appointed state supervisor of elections, and is
at present holding that position. In
1896 Mr. Kibler was married to
Miss Carrie, daughter of
Captain William B. Richards, the
ceremony being performed at the residence of the bride’s parents at Bluffton, Ohio.
Mr. Kibler’s only fraternal
connections are with the Knights of Pythias, of which popular order he has long
been an enthusiastic member.
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WILLIAM I. KIEFER
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JACOB A. KIMMELL
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WALTER H. KINDER
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JAMES W. KIRKBRIDE
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JOHN L. KISSEBERTH
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BENJAMIN KISTLER, SR.
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HIRAM D. KRABILL
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CHARLES J. KRAUSS
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WILLIAM KUHLMAN
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