BIOGRAPHIES:  Sumner B. KIRKHOFF, Eau Claire, Eau Claire Co., WI 

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Sumner B. Kirkhoff, of Eau Claire, has been one of the leading men
of this county for years, was born here on Jun 19, 1866, the son of
Frank and Ada (Hughes) Kirkhoff.  His father was a native of
Pennsylvania and during the civil war enlisted in Company E, 13th
Pennsylvania regiment, volunteer infantry, and was a brave and
efficient soldier.  At the expiration of his army service he came to
Eau Claire with his wife in 1865, and besides our subject, Sumner B.,
one daughter, Hannah, was the only other child born to them.  Hannah
has been twice married, her first husband was Mr. Hathaway, a veteran
of the civil war, by whom she had four children:  Percy S., Grace R.,
Maud and George E.  Percy S. married Della Fety and they have two
children, Loy and Verne.  Grace R. married Charles Deans, and they
have two children, Dorothy and Warren.  Maud is now Mrs. George
Selick.  George E. is a teacher at West Salem, Wis.  He married Miss
Burgie Worthington, and they have one son, Parker.

Her second husband is C. L. Beardsly (whose sketch appears elsewhere
in this volume).

Benjamin F. Kirkhoff, grandfather of Sumner B., was born in New
Jersey, and when a small boy his parents moved to Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, and thence to Crawford county, Ohio, where he followed 
the occupation of machinist and blacksmith, and was married to Miss
Rebecca George, daughter of Michael George, an old and respected
resident of the county.  They had a family of six children, viz: 
Caroline J., Sarah E., Minnie E., Frank L., Sumner B., and Martha L. 
These were all born in Mineral, Penn.

Sumner B. Kirkhoff was for twenty-three years successfully engaged
in farming and during ten years of that time he conducted a
blacksmith shop in the town of Pleasant Valley, and for the past nine
years he has been Deputy State Game Warden.  He was County
Superintendent of the Poor for two years, and served four years in
the City Council of Eau Claire.  He is a member of the Modern Woodmen
and the Beavers.

In October, 1889, Mr. Kirkhoff married Miss Clara Smith, of Pleasant
Valley, and they have four children, viz:  Warren O., Helen R.,
Sumner B., Jr., and Harris S., all born in Eau Claire.

-Transcribed from the "History of Eau Claire County Wisconsin,
1914," pages 760-761

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