KUHN. N.C.

KUHN, BIVENS, BOWLS

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Date: 1/27/2005 at 12:50:33

Biography reproduced from page 430 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

N. C. Kuhn, the subject of this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania, July 12, 1831. He learned the carpenter trade at Shipington, Penn., and followed that business until the year 1856, when he moved to Prairie City, McDonough Co., Ill., where he remained nine years, making building and contracting his business. In 1864 he removed to Galesburg, Ill., where he worked at his trade for the next nine years, and in 1866 he bought eighty acres of land in Kossuth Co., Iowa. In 1872 he removed to Algona, and followed his trade until the spring of 1873, when he commenced breaking and improving his farm on section 35, township 96, range 29, and for the next two successive years the grasshoppers destroyed his crops entirely. He was married March 16, 1852, to N. A. Bivens, who also was a native of Pennsylvania. Her parents still reside in Illinois. They have had nine children, of whom seven are living—O. B., Charlie C., William, Joseph E., George, Fred T. and Nellie. Jennie and Mary J. are deceased. William is married to Sarah Bowls. Mr. Kuhn at present follows carpentering and farming. He has eighty acres under cultivation. He belongs to the M. E. Church. In politics he is a republican.