Abraham Kagey was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia, in January, 1818, a son of John and Catherine (Coughnour) Kagey. The name has long been identified with the annals of American history and has stood for the highest type of citizenship and the most exalted patriotism. The original American ancestor was John Kagey, who emigrated hither from Switzerland, prior to the middle of the seventeenth century, taking up his abode in Virginia, and a number of the family were patriot soldiers in the Continental line during the war of the Revolution, while many of the name have been prominent in the public life of the nation, representatives being now found in the most diverse sections of the Union, though the Old Dominion still claims a number of the family as residents. When the father of the subject was a child his parents removed from Virginia to Trumbull county, Ohio, being numbered among the pioneers of that section of the Buckeye state. There his father died when Abraham was but seven years of age, and he then became an inmate of the home of his uncle, Henry Kagey, who soon afterward removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, where the father of the subject was reared to manhood on a farm, receiving such educational advantages as the pioneer locality afforded. As a young man he came to Stark county for a visit, and while here he met Miss Hannah Snyder, with whom he successfully pressed his suit, as is shown in the fact that they were shortly afterward married. They passed the first two years of their married life in Columbiana county, and then came to Stark county, in 1843, when he sold the property and purchased the farm now owned by the subject, on section 35, Nimishillen township, the same comprising one hundred and eighteen acres of as fine land s can be found in the county. Here he resided until the time of his death, which occurred on the 21st of June, 1873, his demise being the direct result of injuries received by being thrown from a horse about a score of years previously, his health having been much impaired ever after this accident. He was a prominent member of the German Baptist church, in which he held the office of deacon for a number of years. In 1879 his widow consummated a second marriage, becoming the wife of Christian Sollenberger, and she died about five years later, in 1884, having likewisebeen a devoted member of the German Baptist Church.