Carroll-White County IN Archives Biographies.....Kearns, William B. 1867 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILLIAM B. KEARNS.

   William B. Kearns is a prosperous farmer of Monroe township, who is now
serving his second term as a member of the board of commissioners of Carroll
county, having been elected to the office as a Democrat. He is a native of the
Hoosier state, his parents having immigrated from Mifflin county, Pennsylvania,
to White county, Indiana, in pioneer times. On his paternal side, he is
descended from Irish ancestors and on his maternal side, from Scotch ancestors.

   William B. Kearns, who resides on a farm four miles south and west of Flora
in Monroe township, Carroll county, was born near Burnettsville, in White
county, Indiana, February 19, 1867. He is the son of Thomas and Mary Elizabeth
(Lynch) Kearns, both of whom immigrated to White county, Indiana, from Mifflin
county, Pennsylvania, after their marriage. The Kearns family had come from
Scotland and the Lynch family from Ireland. Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Lynch)
Kearns purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land near Burnettsville and
lived upon the farm for five years, when they moved to a farm of two hundred
acres west of Monticello, where they lived for five years. They then traded for
one hundred and sixty acres of land in Monroe township, Carroll county, where
their son, William B. Kearns, now lives. They lived on this farm for ten years,
until 1876, when Thomas Kearns was accidentally killed. At the time he was
engaged in conducting a general store and elevator at Bringhurst. His widow
lived on the farm until 1898, when all of the buildings burned. She then bought
one hundred and eight acres in Clinton county, near Moran, where she now lives
with her daughter, Mary E.

   Thomas and Mary Elizabeth (Lynch) Kearns were the parents of eight children,
six of whom grew to manhood and womanhood. Fred H. and an infant are deceased.
The living children are Berdelia Nelson, who married Oscar Williams, of
Bloomington; William B., the subject of this sketch; Harry H., a farmer of
Clinton county; Mary E., who lives with her mother; Grace C, the wife of Woodson
Immel, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Thomas A., of Flora.

   William B. Kearns received a good common-school education in the public
schools and afterward attended a business college in Indianapolis, from which he
was graduated. Upon graduating from business college, Mr. Kearns engaged in
farming and now owns one hundred and thirty acres of land.

   On September 8, 1891, William B. Kearns was married to Sadie F. Unroe, the
daughter of Adam. Unroe, who was born in Virginia and who accompanied her
parents to Indiana when eighteen years old. Mr. and Mrs. Kearns have been the
parents of eight children, five of whom are living. Two of the deceased children
are Edna C. and Fred H. The living children are Alma A., Mable E., Hilda C. and
Virginia M., all of whom are at home, and Robert D., who manages the home farm.

   Mr. and Mrs. Kearns are members of the Presbyterian church at Flora.
Fraternally, Mr. Kearns is a thirty-second-degree Scottish-rite Mason and a
member of Murat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Indianapolis. Mr. Kearns
is a Democrat and has been active in the councils of his party all of his life.
His election to the important office of county commissioner, in one sense, is a
reward for his faithful service as a worker in the ranks of his party. His
election to a second term in this important office is a fitting tribute to the
efficiency of his first administration and to the satisfaction which he gave to
the people of Carroll county.


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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana



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