Kuhns, Samuel

KUHNS, JOHNS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/12/2013 at 08:30:02

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

KUHNS, SAMUEL - Jefferson Twp - pg 967. Farmer, section 9, P. 0. Belle Plains. Was born February 9, 1815, in Guernsey county, Ohio, where, after finishing his education, he engaged in farming, carpenter work and wagon making until 1864, when he came to Iowa and located in this township, engaging in farming till 1869, when he bought eighty acres in section 20, which he farmed till 1874, then sold that and bought where he now lives and owns fifty acres of choice land. Mr. Kuhns was married in 1840, in Guernsey county, Ohio, to Miss Sarah Johns a resident and native of Ohio, aged eighteen, and from this union they have five children: Sarah K. and Samuel twins (aged thirty; both married and living in this county), Henry, Elizabeth and Dora. They have buried three children: James F., Ruth Ann and Daniel N.