Columbia-Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....KARNS, Sedgwick B. 1869 - living in 1899
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  SEDGWICK B. KARNS, a promising young attorney residing at Benton, Pa., who has
  been practicing before the Columbia County Bar since the spring of 1898, was
  born in Benton township, Columbia County, Pa., November 14, 1868, and is a son
  of Hon. Russell and Elmira (Cole) Karns.
  
    Peter Karns, the grandfather of our subject, was of German origin and was a
  resident of Columbia County all his life; he resided in Benton township, where
  he successfully pursued the vocation of an agriculturist.
  
    Hon. Russell Karns, the father of our subject, was born in Benton township,
  March 17, 1842. He carried on general farming in his native township until 1880,
  when he became a resident of Laporte, Sullivan County, Pa., where he has since
  been proprietor of the Laporte Hotel; he is a very popular citizen and landlord
  and his hotel is made the headquarters of all traveling men who make that town
  on their route. He is a veteran of the Civil War and served as lieutenant of
  Company E, 2O9th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf. Politically he is a stanch Democrat, and is
  an active and consistent worker in his party. He represented Sullivan County in
  the State Legislature from 1891 to 1893. Mr. Karns was united in the bonds of
  wedlock to Elmira Cole, a daughter of William Cole, a prominent citizen of
  Ben-ton township, Columbia County, and they are the parents of six children,
  three of whom are now living, namely: Sedgwick B., the subject of this sketch;
  Mrs. Cora Stomont, widow of the late Robert M. Stomont of Laporte, Pa.; and
  Harry A., a law student of Laporte and an active worker of the P. O. S. of A.
  
    Sedgwick B. Karns acquired a liberal education in the public schools of his
  native town and then attended the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, graduating,
  in 1891; he then took a one-year course in the Law Department of the University
  of Pennsylvania, and returning to Laporte he completed his law studies in the
  office of T. J. and F. H. Ingham, the leading attorneys of that borough.
  December 17, 1896, he was admitted to the Sullivan County Bar and practiced in
  Laporte one year and three months. In the spring of 1898 our subject was
  admitted to the Columbia County Bar and has since practiced in the town of
  Benton, where he is winning hosts of friends and bids fair to become one of the
  leaders of his community.
  
    Mr. Karns is a member of Russell Karns Camp No. 319, Sons of Veterans, of
  Benton; and a member of Washington Camp No. 123, P. O. S. of A., of Benton. In
  politics our subject is a solid Democrat. In November, 1890, Mr. Karns was
  united in the bonds of matrimony to Carrie S. Keeler of Laporte, and they are
  the parents of two children, Helen Corinne and Ruth Louise.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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