Bios: ANKENY, Edmund K., Indiana Co, PA SUBJECT: ANKENY, Edmund K. SUBMITTER: E.K. Warner EMAIL: wgene@twd.net DATE: Sep 17, 2000 PASSWORD> SURNAMES: ANKENY, FAIRMAN, KELSO, KIMMEL, KING, KLINGENSMITH, LICHTY, MOORHEAD, SAYLOR, WATTERSON, WHIPPY as recorded by Prof. J. T. Stewart in “Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People, Past and Present” Published by J. H. Beers & Co., 1913 Reformatted by E.K. Warner, September 2000 USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. EDMUND K. ANKENY, farmer of White township, Indiana county, living one mile from the borough of Indiana, has resided at that place since the fall of 1900. He is a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., born near Derry Sept. 23, 1858, son of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lichty) Ankeny. The parents were both natives of Somerset county, Pa. They had a family of six children. The father served as a Union soldier during the Civil war. He died when his son Edmund was very young, and the mother subsequently married his brother, J. D. Ankeny. When Edmund K. Ankeny was but an infant his parents removed to Somerset County, this State. He was only seven years old when he lost his father. For a few years during his boyhood~he lived in Plumcreek township, Armstrong county, where he attended school, and he was employed at farm work from an early age. At the age of twenty-three years he went out to Waterloo, Iowa, where he worked on a farm for his uncle, Jacob Lichty, and in the fall went to Thayer county, Nebr., being one of a company of eighteen formed at Waterloo to go to that county. He worked at carpentry with a cousin, Frank Kelso, picked and cribbed the corn from a hundred acres, and then went with another cousin, Jacob Whippy. He next went to Atchison, Kans., for eight weeks, at the end of that time going to Brown county, Kans., and from there to Richardson county, Nebr. He then farmed for U. M. Saylor, in Brown county, after which he came back to Pennsylvania and commenced farming on his own account, living near Elderton, Armstrong county, on a tract of 120 acres, for nearly two years. His next change was to the William Watterson farm in White township, Indiana county, where he remained one year, moving from that place to the Kimmel farm in White township, where he followed general agricultural pursuits and ran a dairy for nearly eleven years. In the fall of 1900 he came to his present farm, in White township, then known as the Jacob Moorhead tract. At that time the principal buildings on the place consisted of a one and a half story house and a log barn, both of which have been supplanted by substantial modern structures, Mr. Ankeny having built his barn in 1901 and his house in 1903. He has made numerous other improvements, has a fine peach and apple orchard, and has the property in creditable condition in every respect. Mr. Ankeny deserves great credit for his present comfortable circumstances for they are the result entirely of his own efforts, and he is one of the most respected men in his locality. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Indiana, and politically is a Republican in sentiment, but votes independently. On July 12, 1887, Mr. Ankeny married Mary King, of South Bend township, Armstrong county, daughter of Daniel and Catherine Ann (Klingensmith) King, and they have had the following children : Arthur, who is now attending the normal school at Indiana; Lottie, wife of Earl Fairman, of Apollo, Armstrong Co., Pa.; Olive, who died in infancy; Roy (a student at the normal school) and Ross, at home; and Jessie, a student at the normal school. ----------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.