HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO - BIO: W. K. VAN HORN (1883)

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From the The Ohio Biographies Project
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Transcribed by Patti Graman.

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KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS     
William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas, 
was first publiched in 1883 by AT Andreas, Chicago, IL
 

W. K. VAN HORN, carpenter and builder, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, 
1829, and was raised there until twenty years of age, and learned the 
carpenters' trade. From twenty to twenty-six he was rambling and traveling in 
the Western States and Territories, and as far south as Mexico. He then 
located in Butler County, Ohio, and was there until tober(sic), 1861, when he 
enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Ohio, Volunteer Infantry, serving three years; 
received several slight wounds while in the service; was discharged and 
mustered out in 1864; in 1870 emigrated to Kansas, locating in Jewell County 
and took a homestead near the present site of Jewell City; put up the first 
frame house in the county, and was among the very first who settled in the 
county, was thirty miles from a post-office and fifty miles from a blacksmith 
shop; at the end of two years sold out and located at Jewell City and opened 
a grocery store, and continued in this business about two years; he then 
located at Beloit and worked at his trade, remaining there until June, 1882; 
then located in Scandia and commenced contracting and building; was Deputy 
County Surveyor of Jewell County; was Justice of the Peace for a number of 
years, and when the first store was opened in the county, bought the first 
goods sold, the article being a plug of tobacco. He was married in 1855, to 
Miss Mary J. DRAKE, of Ohio. They have three children--W. H., Eva A. and 
Harry K. His wife died in 1867, and he was married again in 1869, to Miss 
Edith JONES, of Hamilton County, Ohio. He is a member of Jewell Lodge, No. 
116, I. O. O. F., and has been a member of the G. A. R. for a good many 
years.