BIO: Isaac M. KESTER, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 504 & 505.
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  ISAAC M. KESTER, general farmer, operating fifty-six acres of land which is 
situated in Pike township, Clearfield county, Pa., at the edge of the borough of 
Curwensville, was born November 1, 1853, at Lumber City, Pa., and is a son of I. 
M. amd Mary (Winner) Kester.
  I. M. Kester was born in Columbia county, Pa., and lived in Greenwood 
township, where he owned a farm of sixty-two acres.  He was a Democrat and 
served in township offices at different times, being a school director and for 
eleven years a justice of the peace.  He married Mary Winner, who was born in 
Lycoming county, Pa., and they had eleven children born to them, eight of whom 
still live.  They were good and virtuous people, consistent in their membership 
in the Society of Friends.  I. M. Kester died at the age of seventy-one years 
and his wife when aged of seventy-six they were laid to rest in the Friend's 
Cemetery at Grampian.  I. M. Kester taught school for six years.
  Isaac M. Kester was reared on the home farm and attended school in Greenwood 
township.  For six months following his marriage he worked in a grist mill at 
Grampian, having been taught the milling business, together with farming, and 
engaged in the former industry for ten years before settling on his present 
farm, the old Benjamin Bloom place, which had been owned by that pioneer, who 
was the grandfather of Mr. Kester's wife.
  On August 21, 1879, Isaac M. Kester was married to Miss Lydia Lucinda Bloom, a 
daughter of Thomas and Ruthanna (Walker) Bloom.  A family of six children has 
been born to them, namely:  Walker Bruce, who was born September 11, 1880, 
resides at Terre Haute, Ind., and married Gertrude Stannert, of Lewisburg; 
Thomas Vincent, born October 2, 1882, resides at Wilmington, Del., and married 
Ethel Pierce of Wilmington; Isaac Lynn, who resides at Curwensville, married 
Lydia Zilliox, of Curwensville; Rutherford Ross, born December 7, 1886, resides 
at Effingham, Ill.; Benjamin Ellis, born June 13, 1889, lives at Wilmington, 
Del.; Oscar Bloom, who was born October 16, 1892, died October 24, 1892, and his 
burial was in the Plain View cemetery.  Mr. Kester and family are members of the 
Society of Friends and he is an elder in this body.  He gives his political 
support to the Prohibition party.  He is a man of substantial standing in his 
neighborhood and has served his fellow citizens very acceptably in township 
offices, having been a school director for three years, road supervisor for two 
years and auditor for six years.  He is secretary of the Plain View Cemetery 
Association.