BIO:  Edward J. KUHN, Adams County, PA

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History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania
Chicago:  Warner, Beers & Co., 1886
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Part III, History of Adams County, Page 392

EDWARD J. KUHN, stockman, P.O. Hanover, York County, was born September 23, 
1827, in Union Township, Adams Co., Penn.  The family genealogy dates back to 
Germany.  The paternal grandfather, John Kuhn, was reared on a farm in Berks 
County, Penn., and there followed blacksmithing and farming.  He was married to 
Therese Fricker, and they both died in Conowago Township, this county, the 
parents of eleven children:  Judith, Elizabeth, Margaret, John, Anna (died when 
a young lady), Joseph J., Catharine, Polly, Therese, Abalonia and Magdalena.  Of 
these John is living, aged eighty-nine years.  Joseph J., the father of our 
subject, was born on the old homestead October 4, 1803; was a farmer all through 
life; was educated in this county, and died in Oxford Township September 17, 
1878.  He married Jane McCabe, of Hanover, York County, daughter of Edward and 
Rebecca (Hudson) McCabe, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter of 
Norristown, Penn.  To this union were born eight children who attained maturity:  
Edward J., Louis D. B., Maria (married to Charles Leison, and died in Cuba), 
Charles, Jane E., Joseph A., John and George.  Joseph J. Kuhn was a Whig in 
early life, in later years a Democrat; he was much interested in military 
matters; was elected colonel of the Pennsylvania Militia before he was twenty-
one, and received several appointments from the governors of the State.  He 
filled township and county offices, and, in about 1870, was elected associate 
judge by the people, by whom he was well known and held in high estimation.  Two 
of his sons are stockmen, two lawyers, two represent the medical profession, one 
of whom, Louis, was surgeon in the army and navy.  Edward J. is the only son who 
did not receive a classical education, being chiefly self-educated.  In early 
life he was a stockman.  In 1854 he went to Missouri, and farmed in Lincoln 
County, and the next year married Miss Anna P., daughter of Dr. Presly Gill, 
formerly of Fairfax, Va.  She died in Missouri in June, 1862, leaving three 
children:  Charles F., a physician in New York; Anna, a sister of charity in the 
St. Louis Hospital, and William L., a resident of Hanover, York Co., Penn.  Our 
subject left Missouri in 1864, and returned to Pennsylvania, where he traded 
cattle for eight years.  He was married, on second occasion, in 1870, to Miss 
Sarah J., daughter of Jacob Hilt, of Hanover, Penn., and by this union there are 
five children now living:  Mary A., Guy L., Bertha J., Amelia G. and Sarah E.  
Politically Mr. Kuhn is a Democrat.  He is now engaged in the cattle business in 
this county.  While residing in Missouri he drove cattle there from Texas, and 
thereby saw much of the West.