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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
History
of Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Combination atlas map of Tuscarawas
County, Ohio
Strasburg, Ohio: Gordon Print.,
1875
359 pgs. L. H. Everts
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MAJOR HENRY KALDENBAUGH. Among
Tuscarawas
County’s most sagacious and enterprising business men
stands prominent the one whose name appears as the caption of this narrative. He was born in
Adams County, Pennsylvania, Aug. 20, 1836; his father,
Jacob Kaldenbaugh, having emigrated
to that County, from Germany, in the year 18__.
His childhood and youth were passed in the
village of Canal Dover,
where for a number of years he was employed at the German Hotel, as servant boy
and boot-black. When a mere lad, by
his polite demeanor, promptness, and industry, he attracted the attention of
Robert Reilly, Esq., a leading
merchant of Cleveland, and at his solicitation young
Kaldenbaugh repaired to that city and engaged in Mr.
Reilly’s wholesale grocery establishment.
Here he rapidly rose in the confidence and esteem of his employer, and
frequently accompanied him in his trips to New York
and New Orleans, that he might become more fully initiated into the business.
Mr. Reilly intended that his new
clerk should finally take his place in the traveling department, and himself
remain at home.
Upon the breaking
out of the Rebellion in 1861, Mr.
Kaldenbaugh was occupying a lucrative position in
New York City, which he at once
resigned, and enlisted as a private in the gallant 51st O. V. I.,
commanded by Colonel Stanley Matthews. His commanding personal appearance,
and faithfulness in the discharge of duty, soon promoted him through the
intermediate position to that of Captain and Aid-de-camp on the staff of
General Stanley Matthews, and
subsequently upon that of General
Crittenden, and still later he was made Captain and Provost Marshal on the
staff of General O. O. Howard.
While serving
on staff duty he received repeated commendations for gallant and meritorious
services. The boys of the 35th
Indiana and of the 51st Ohio will well remember Mr. Kaldenbaugh at the engagement of Dobbin’s Ford, Tennessee; he at that time was serving as
Sergeant-Major, and, in the absence of all the other regimental staff officers,
he bravely took the lead of the men, about five thousand in number, in the
desperate attack upon the rebel works at that place.
At the expiration
of the “three years’ service,”
Mr. Kaldenbaugh enlisted as “veteran,” and was on the staff of
Major-General Stanley in the famous “Atlanta campaign” of
General Sherman, an also in the
victorious “march to the sea;” and at the close of the war returned home,
wearing the laurels of an efficient and valiant service for his country.
Very shortly
afterwards he was tendered a position as Secretary to the American Consul at
Amsterdam,
Holland, which he accepted, sailing June 20,
1865. After a
year's absence he
returned home to accept a co-partnership in the banking business with Andrew Patrick, Esq., of
New Philadelphia. This arrangement continued for six
years, during which time these gentlemen acquired an enviable reputation for
honorable and impartial dealing. In
1872, at the solicitation of a number of capitalists, the bank was changed to
the “Citizens’ National Bank of New
Philadelphia,” of which institution
Major Kaldenbaugh became a Director
and the Cashier.
In 1863 he was
married to Miss Amanda Forbes,
daughter of James Forbes, Esq., of
New Philadelphia. He has one
son, James Kaldenbaugh.
During his
business connection with the community,
Mr. Kaldenbaugh has evinced a lively interest in all matters of public
enterprise, and has been largely instrumental in the building up of the place. His history is a striking example of
what industry and perseverance, combined with inflexible integrity, can
accomplish, even in a poor boy early thrown upon his own resources. He was never ashamed to work, but in
early childhood eagerly seized upon every opportunity to earn an honest penny,
even though the service performed might be regarded by some of his associates as
quite menial. Scores of times, as
the biographer has learned, has he blacked the boots of a gentleman who, for
some nine years, has been his honorable competitor in business. He ever believed in an acted upon the
sentiment, -
“Honor and fame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, - there after the honor lies!”
His example is well worthy of emulation by all young men who would
lay the foundation for a successful and honorable business career. Appropriate
here are the inimitable lines of Longfellow:
“Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.”
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio
by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia
– 1875 ~ Page 14
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JOHN L. KENNEDY. One
of those who fought under Robert Bruce for the
liberty of Scotland six hundred years ago was knighted for
the service and called Sir John Kennedy. During
the religious persecutions of the eighteenth century, five
brothers among his descendants came to New Jersey. A
grandson of one of these brothers was called Dr. William
Kennedy who married Sarah Carnes and lived at
Island Creek, Jefferson County, where William R. Kennedy
was born May 6, 1816. The father died while the child
was an infant. Twelve years later the mother came to
Tuscarawas County where William R. grew through a
studious youth into a useful life as a teacher of schools
and of vocal music. On Oct. 13, 1836, he married
Matilda, daughter of John and Elizabeth Whitcraft,
who was born in Carroll County, February 27, 1817 and died
July 5, 1881. William R. and Matilda Kennedy
had twelve children of whom six died in childhood.
They lived to see the other six - one daughter and five sons
- achieve honorable lives. Of these James M.
Kennedy was Clerk of the County Courts from 1867 to
1873. William R. Kennedy died Dec. 9,
1892, on the farm where he had lived sixty-five years
respected by all.
His son, John L. Kennedy, born Feb. 22, 1841,
lived on this farm in Warren Township and was schooled at
home, and then at New Hagerstown and New Cumberland
Academies, while teaching in the winter terms between.
On August 18, 1862, he volunteered in Company D, 52nd Ohio
Infantry, from which he was discharged in July 1863, on
surgeon's certificate of disability. On Oct. 6, 1863,
he married Martha Jane Liggett who was born Mar. 29,
1838. She is the daughter of Joshua and Jane
Guthrie Liggett who are elsewhere mentioned in this
book. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy
moved to the farm where they made all the improvements shown
in the picture below. Only those who have created such
a home known the zest of farming. They speak of it as
the best of their life. There they acquired
independence, and there all their children were born.
As a farmer he has been connected with the Tuscarawas County
Agricultural Society, serving several terms as Director,
Treasurer and President. He also served several terms
as Justice of the Peace. On being elected County
Treasurer in 1881, Mr. Kennedy moved to New
Philadelphia in 1882, where he has since resided in the
house pictured above. This house has much historic
interest as the former home of the noted Lutheran divine,
Dr. E. Greenwald. Mr. Kennedy held the office of
County Treasurer two terms from Sept. 10, 1882 to Sept. 10,
1886. After that he made an extensive trip through the
far West, and on returning, spent a year in the grocer
business with his son-in-law, Frank P. Spratlen.
He then served as Income Tax Collector for ten counties.
In 1890 he became an active organizer of the Tuscarawas
County or "Home' Telephone Company, of which he was General
Manager about four years. He is a large stockholder,
and, at present, is a Director and the Treasurer of the
Company. He also owns the larger part of the
Gnadenhutten Telephone Company, of which he is President and
Manager. He is a comrade of the Grand Army. For
thirty years he has been an Elder of the Presbyterian Church
in which he was raised with all his relatives. His
brothers are also elders of the Church. His wife's
family are all Presbyterians and so are his children who are
named: William Liggett, born May 8, 1865;
Joshua Edson, born July 28, 1866; Laura Jane,
born Jan. 4, 1869; Mary Bertha, born Oct. 29,
1874; and John Vincent, born Jan. 21, 1877. All
these were schooled in New Philadelphia. William, Joshua
Edson, and Laura J. also attended Wooster
College, and Mary B. went to Oberlin.
William L., living on the homestead farm, married
Helen Mar Keel, of Bolivar, on Mar. 21, 1889, and has
seven children: Helen Mar; Walter Keel; Lucile,
deceased; Martha; Robert Eugene; William Harold; and
John L., Jr. - Joshua Edson, General Manager at
Denver, for Colorado, of the Manhattan Life Insurance
Company of New York, married Carrie Lucile Church, of
Denver; Laura Jane living in Denver married Frank
P. Spratlen a wholesale grocer, and has three children,
June, Louie and Frank. Mary Bertha,
on Oct. 10, 1900, married William E. Brown, of
Delaware, Ohio, now living in San Francisco as manager for
the Baldwin Piano Company. Their child is William
E., John Vincent on Sept. 24, 1902, married Elsie
Martha Oberhelman of Cincinnati, where he is manager of
a branch store for the Dennison Manufacturing Company.
Their child is John William. John L. Kennedy is
an enthusiastic believer in the development of his country
in general and in the particular part to be attained by
telephonic service to which he has devoted much of his
fortune and ability. Improving the land, educating the
young, visiting the sick and those in trouble and attention
to religion was the life work of his parents and he has
followed their ways with honor.
(Source: Page 30 - ALSO: Photos of the Residence of John
L. Kennedy, New Philadelphia; John L. Kennedy; Martha Jane
Kennedy and The Farm Home of John L. Kennedy, Fairfield
Township) |
DAVID KNISELY. The
subject of this biographical sketch is one of the oldest
citizens of Tuscarawas County. He is the honored sire
of a progeny more prolific, doubtless, than can be found in
the United States, - perhaps in the world. His
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren number
nearly sevenscore of souls.
He was born in York County, Pennsylvania, on the 8th
day of July, 1792. His father, John Knisely,
came from Pennsylvania to Ohio in the year 1803, and
purchased about four thousand acres of land, embracing a
part of what is now Tuscarawas County. In the
following year he came with two of his sons and laid out the
town of New Philadelphia, and in the spring of 1805 moved
with his family to this place. The subject of this
sketch was then only thirteen years of age. At that
time the territory of Tuscarawas was known as Muskingum
County, and the country was a dense wilderness, filled with
wolves, bears, and numerous other wild animals. The
nearest settlement was at Goshen, some four miles distant,
and consisted of some fifteen families of civilized Indians.
Mr. Knisely and his family encountered all the
inconveniences, hardships, and dangers of the true pioneer,
- the streams were unbridged, the roads not yet opened, and
very few clearings begun. The young people of the
present day can form no adequate conception of the
privations and toils of the first settlers of any country.
Those were the days of the log cabin with its ground floor,
greased-paper windows, and mud-and stick chimney. Most
striking is the contrast between those humble structures and
the commodious and elegant habitations of more modern times.
Yet, despite these inconveniences and privations, many
pioneers will tell you that they enjoyed more solid comfort
then than now. The reason is found in the fact that
"Hearts, not places, make our home.
"Be our home a cot or palace,
Lowly hut or mansion fair,
There we drink from love's sweet chalice;
Home is where the loved ones are."
In February, 1816,
he was united in wedlock with Miss Sarah Bowers, a
native of York County, Pennsylvania, born Oct. 23, 1792.
Miss Bowers's father died when she was quite young,
and in the spring of 1809 she came with her mother and
stepfather to Tuscarawas County. The father of Mr.
Knisely lived to see his eighty-fourth year. This
marriage resulted in the birth of fourteen children, eleven
of whom became heads of families.
FAMILY RECORD: -
Births -Mary Ann, born Oct. 20, 1817;
Elizabeth, born Feb. 12, 1819; Sarah, born Apr.
18, 1820; Daniel, born Nov. 5, 1821; Rebecca,
born Feb. 25, 1823; Jonas, born Oct. 8, 1824;
Susan, born Feb. 3, 1826; Sabila, born June 5,
1827; David, born Feb. 24, 1829; John, born
Nov. 27, 1830; Solomon, born Jan. 19,1 833; Oliver,
born Aug. 4, 1834; Luther, born May 6, 1837;
Isaac, born Jan. 23, 1839.
Deaths. - Of the foregoing the following died
unmarried:
Solomon, on Mar. 1, 1833; David, Feb. 3,
1849; Luther, Mar. 20, 1849.
The following are the marriages in this family:
Mary Ann married Jonathan Romich, had
nine children; died Mar. 14, 1851.
Elizabeth married George Cribbs; had six
children. Mr. Cribbs was killed Dec. 31, 1845,
by the falling of a tree. Her second husband was
Mr. Warner. She died June 16, 1854.
Rebecca married Thomas Mitchal; has six
children.
Jonas married Elizabeth Wright; has had
eleven children.
Susan married William Wallace; has had
twelve children.
Sabila married William Mitchal; has had six
children.
John married Emma Johnson; has had six
children.
Oliver married Annie
O'Donnell; has had four children.
Isaac married Lucinda
Demuth; has had two children.
From this record it will be seen that Father Knisely
- as he has long been familiarly known - has had fourteen
children and seventy-seven grandchildren, while the number
of his great-grandchildren runs well on to fifty. It
is also a fact well worthy of notice that his oldest
daughter, Mrs. Mary Ann (Jonathan) Romich, herself
had twenty-six grandchildren.
Some years since Father Knisely removed from his
farm residence into the city of New Philadelphia, where,
with the faithful companion of his youth, he proposes to
spend the remnant of his laborious and useful life. He
is the only person now living who was a citizen of this
place when the village was laid out. Both he and his
companion are within a few months of the same age, - he
being in his eighty-fourth year, - and both are in a
remarkable state of preservation for their advanced age.
They united with the Lutheran Church at an early age,
and now in the evening of their life they are reaping the
fruits of a well-spent life, and while they enjoy the
respect and esteem of the community, they are quietly,
patiently, waiting the call of the Master that shall bid
them enter upon the glorious awards of the future day; and
it is quite probable that they will cross the river very
near together.
Source: Combination Atlas Map of
Tuscarawas County, Ohio
by L. H. Everts & Co. – Philadelphia
– 1875 ~ Page 12 |
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