JACOB KUHN
The Twentieth General Assembly was convened at Des Moines, in January, 1884. C. B. Hunt was still in his place in the senate, serving the people of the Eighteenth senatorial district. Jacob Kuhn, was the representative.
Mr. Kuhn was born in Pennsylvania, near the city of Pittsburg, in the year 1844. His great grandfather Kuhn, a native of Prussia, came to this country in 1760, and settled near Philadelphia, in the eastern part of the State of Pennsylvania, where, the grandfather of Jacob was born, about the year 1785. They moved to Alleghany county, in the same State, where the father of Jacob first saw the light, in the year 1805. Jacob Kuhn was reared on a farm, until the breaking out of the war in 1861. He enlisted in the Federal army on the 13th of February, 1864, in Rank's Light Battery, Third Pennsylvania Artillery. This battery was serving with the Eighth Army Corps under General Lew. Wallace, and did valiant service in the defense of the country. Mr. Kuhn was discharged from the service, at the close of the war, on the 28th of July, 1865, and was mustered out at Philadelphia. In 1868 he came to Cass county and engaged in the carpentering and building trade, which he followed until 1879, when he built the mill at Anita, which he operated until he sold it to the present owners. In 1882, he built a flouring mill at Manning, Carroll county, and which he is at present operating, in connection with V. Roush, under the firm name and style of Kuhn & Roush.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 349-350.
