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CHARLES
A. KELLEY, owner of a valuable farm of
eighty acres, situated in Section 3, Portage Township, Hancock
County, O., eleven miles northwest of Findlay, was born in
Gratiot County, Mich., Aug. 17, 1869, and is a son of Alvin
C. and Sarah A. (Patten) Kelley. When he was about
three months old the family moved to Washington Township,
Hancock County, O., where the father bought a farm. Later
he retired to Bloomdale, in Wood County, where he still resides,
his wife having died there in 1900.
Charles A. Kelley was the third in his parents'
family of four children, the other being as follows:
Edwin H., who died in Washington Township - was a farmer and
a teacher and later engaged in the practice of law in the city
of Cleveland; Lettie, who is the wife of A. E. Hale,
of Findlay; and Louie, who is the wife of James F. Ernest.
Mr. Kelley has been engaged in general farming ever since
his school days. He came to his present place in 1808 and
has made many improvements along sensible, practical lines and
these have materially added to the value of his property.
Mr. Kelley married Miss Emma M. Hale a
daughter of Taylor and Zeruah Hale, of Wood
County, O., and they have four children: Lynn H.,
Curtis E., Claire and Charles. They are being
give many advantages and give promise of growing into admirable
maturity. Mrs. Kelley and family belong to the
Methodist Episcopal Church of North Baltimore, of which he is a
trustee. He is an enterprising and interested citizen of
his township and has served on its school board.
Source: Twentieth Century History of
Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold
Publishing Co. - Chicago - Ill. - 1910 - Page 639 |
Hon. W. H. Kinder |
HON. W. H. KINDER, judge of the Circuit Court in the
Third Circuit of Ohio, to which honorable office, he was elected
in 1908, has been a resident of Findlay for over two decades and
has been a leading member of her bar for the same period.
Judge Kinder was born Oct. 12, 1856, at Hamilton, Ohio,
and is a son of William Ross and Agnes (Long) Kinder.
Judge Kinder's ancestors came to America from
Holland and the first of the family to establish himself in
America as Valentine Kinder, who is recorded as a settler
in Berks County, Pa., in 1756. His son, Philip Kinder,
was born in Holland and he took part in the Revolutionary War.
George Kinder, son of Philip Kinder, was
the father of Abraham Kinder, who was the pioneer of the
family in Ohio. He entered the land which became the
family homestead, in Warren County, Ohio, and it was his
industry and Dutch thrift that cleared up the wilderness farm
and provided abundantly for a numerous progeny. Of his
many sturdy sons, George Kinder, the grandfather of
Judge Kinder, was born in Warren County, in 1800. For
a long time he engaged in farming and he also became the owner
of a line of boats which he operated on the Miami and Erie
Canal. He died in 1863, surviving his son, William Ross
Kinder, for three years.
William Ross Kinder, father of Judge Kinder,
was born in December, 1826, at Franklin, Ohio, and died at
Hamilton in his thirty-fourth year. At an unusually early
age he was admitted to the bar and displayed remarkable legal
ability. When Hon. John B. Weller was appointed a
member of the commission to decide the boundary lines between
Mexico and California, he left Hamilton, of which city he had
been a resident for some time, and went to the West, inviting
Mr. Kinder to accompany him as his private secretary.
When the work of the commission was satisfactorily completed, a
law partnership was formed between Mr. Weller and Mr.
Kinder, and they engaged in practice as a firm, for two
years in California. In 1852, however, Kinder
returned to the East, was married at Cincinnati, and in the same
year embarked in the newspaper business, purchasing and
conducting the Hamilton Telegraph, with which he remained
identified until 1858. In that year he was elected probate
judge of Butler County, but did not long survive his promotion
to the Bench, his death occurring on Feb. 10, 1860. He was
survived by his widow, formerly Agnes Long, a daughter of
Jacob and Maria (L'Hommedieu) Long. To this
marriage were born four sons: William R., Charles L. H.,
Walter H. and Stephen L'Hommedieu Kinder.
Walter H. Kinder was educated in the Hamilton
schools, graduating from the High School in 1874, after which he
taught school for one year, in Putnam County, and subsequently
spent a year as a clerk in Robert Clark & Company, at
Cincinnati. He then turned his attention to the law,
becoming a student under ex-Gov. James E. Campbell, and
was admitted to the bar at Hamilton, Mar. 31, 1879. After
several years of initial practice, at Ottawa, Ohio, he located
permanently at Findlay and has been prominently identified with
the interests of this section ever since. His practice,
with the exception of from 1890 until 1893, has been continuous,
during the above period he having served in public office, being
State superintendent of insurance. When he returned to
Findlay he entered into a law partnership with George W. Ross,
under the style of Ross & Kinder, which continued
until Judge Kinder was elevated to the Bench. For
many years he has been a leader in Democratic circles, but has
been chary of accepting political office which would in any way
interfere with his professional work. His election to the
Bench in 1908, as a just recognition of his judicial qualities
which his many years of legal practice had made many times
manifest.
On August 26, 1886, Judge Kinder was married to
Miss Helen F. Tupper, a daughter of the late Dr. C. E.
Tupper, formerly of Ottawa, Ohio, and they have four
children: Walter Tupper, Margaret V., William Randall and
Charles Edwin. Judge Kinder and family reside in
one of Findlay's handsome residences, their home being situated
at No. 824 Washington Avenue.
Source: Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock
County, Ohio - Published by Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co. -
Chicago - Ill. -
1910 - Page 297 |
