.....William Kern, the father of John J., whose name opens this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania_sic), and was twenty-one years of age when he went with his father to Kentucky. He there married Susan Sears, of that state but of Pennsylvania)sic) descent. To their union were born ten(sic) children, who lived to be grown and were named as follows : Ezra, Noah, Benjamin, Peter, John J., Adam C, Catherine, Louisa, Susan J. and Mary S. ; of these Ezra was born in Kentucky, but early in the century removed to Lawrence county, Ind., with his father, William, who became one of the foremost farmers of that county, and was owner of one the best farms, 160 acres of which he left his children at the time of his death at the age of fifty-six years.
John J. Kern, whose nativity is given above, was born on his father's farm and received a common school education. As a young man he took great delight in hunting and fishing, and, as game was abundant, killed many a deer and wild turkey, as well as bear, catamounts, wild cats and numerous coons, ' possoms(sic), pheasants and squirrels, keeping the family well supplied with provisions, as well as ridding the country of vicious beasts of prey. (A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind., A.W. Bowen, Chicago, 1895, page 343: - in son John J. Kern's sketch)
John J. Kern, whose nativity is given above, was born on his father's farm and received a common school education. As a young man he took great delight in hunting and fishing, and, as game was abundant, killed many a deer and wild turkey, as well as bear, catamounts, wild cats and numerous coons, ' possoms(sic), pheasants and squirrels, keeping the family well supplied with provisions, as well as ridding the country of vicious beasts of prey. (A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind., A.W. Bowen, Chicago, 1895, page 343: - in son John J. Kern's sketch)
.....William Kern, the father of John J., whose name opens this sketch, was born in Pennsylvania_sic), and was twenty-one years of age when he went with his father to Kentucky. He there married Susan Sears, of that state but of Pennsylvania)sic) descent. To their union were born ten(sic) children, who lived to be grown and were named as follows : Ezra, Noah, Benjamin, Peter, John J., Adam C, Catherine, Louisa, Susan J. and Mary S. ; of these Ezra was born in Kentucky, but early in the century removed to Lawrence county, Ind., with his father, William, who became one of the foremost farmers of that county, and was owner of one the best farms, 160 acres of which he left his children at the time of his death at the age of fifty-six years.
John J. Kern, whose nativity is given above, was born on his father's farm and received a common school education. As a young man he took great delight in hunting and fishing, and, as game was abundant, killed many a deer and wild turkey, as well as bear, catamounts, wild cats and numerous coons, ' possoms(sic), pheasants and squirrels, keeping the family well supplied with provisions, as well as ridding the country of vicious beasts of prey. (A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind., A.W. Bowen, Chicago, 1895, page 343: - in son John J. Kern's sketch)
John J. Kern, whose nativity is given above, was born on his father's farm and received a common school education. As a young man he took great delight in hunting and fishing, and, as game was abundant, killed many a deer and wild turkey, as well as bear, catamounts, wild cats and numerous coons, ' possoms(sic), pheasants and squirrels, keeping the family well supplied with provisions, as well as ridding the country of vicious beasts of prey. (A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind., A.W. Bowen, Chicago, 1895, page 343: - in son John J. Kern's sketch)
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