B. F. KINDIG

KINDIG, MUSSER

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/5/2009 at 20:23:30

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

B. F. KINDIG, farmer, Sec. 35; born Dec. 15, 1837, in Preble Co., Ohio; in 1856, came to Indiana. In 1859 removed to Appanoose Co.; owns seventy four acres of land, valued at $40 per acre. Married Mary Musser, June 1857; she was born in August 1839 in Ohio; daughter of Michael Musser of Bartholomew Co., Ind.; have five children - Ida B., Jessie May, Iowa M., Charles W. and Barbara E. Mr. K. has a book of examples written by his father when attending school in Lancaster Co., Penn., fifty years ago. He was the first man who drilled for coal in Center Tp. M.E. Church; Republican.