Bedford County PA Archives Biographies.....Kichinann, Adam 
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Adam KICHINANN, a highly respected citizen of Hopewell 
township, Bedford County, is a worthy representative of the 
thrifty German element that has contributed so large toward 
the establishment and advancement of the industrial 
interests of the Keystone State.  He was born on March 13, 
1838, in Germany, where he received his elementary 
education.  
  When twenty years old Adam Kichinann, with the ambitious 
enterprise characteristic of his race, determined to come to 
the New World to seek fortune if not fame.  Accordingly, 
taking passage at Bremerhaven on a sailing-vessel bound for 
America, he was landed in New York City, after a stormy 
voyage of five weeks, on October 28, 1858.  He spent the 
following year in Erie County, Ohio, whence he came to 
Bedford County, Pennsylvania.  Locating in South Woodbury, 
he completed his education by attending school during the 
two succeeding winter terms.  In February, 1865, he was 
enrolled in Company D, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry, which was placed under Grant's command, and after 
participating in the battle of Form Steadman, the siege of 
Petersburg, the engagement at Seven Pines, and at the battle 
of Hatcher's Run, he was at Appomattox when General Lee 
surrendered.  In July, 1865, he was honorably discharged 
from the service, and immediately returned to South Woodbury 
township, Pa., where he resided a short time.  In 1867 Mr. 
Kichinann came to Hopewell township, intending to make this 
place his permanent home.  The money that he had accumulated 
he subsequently invested in land, and he is now the owner of 
a good farm of ninety-six acres, which he has brought to its 
present state of productiveness by his untiring and 
well-directed industry.  He affiliates with the Democratic 
party in politics, and is a member of the reformed church, 
to which his estimable wife also belongs.
  On July 4, 1860, Mr. Kichinann married Miss Mary A. 
Nicodemus, who was born and bred in South Woodbury township, 
where her father, Samuel Nicodemus, was an early settler.  
Mr. Nicodemus was very prominent in local affairs, being for 
many years a member of the township School Board and Road 
Supervisor.  Of his children three survive, namely: Mrs. 
Kichinann; Mrs. Samuel Carpenter, of Blair County, 
Pennsylvania; and Emanuel Nicodemus, of Woodbury, Pa.  Of 
the children that blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. 
Kichinann five are now living, namely: Sarah M., wife of 
Joseph K. Eichelberger; Lydia A., wife of Edward Shoeman; 
William H.; John F.; and Emma F.  Mr. and Mrs. Adam 
Kichinann have fourteen grandchildren now living, and two of 
these - namely, Adam Eichelberger and Freddric Kichinann - 
are staying with their grandfather and grandmother 
Kichinann.



Source: Bedford Biographical Review, 1899, Bedford Co., Pa