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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies
b. 3 Dec. 1852, Elkhart Co., Ind., one of three living children of Joseph and Lydia (Hively) Kane (Part 75/76, pp. 1021–1023). Father Joseph Kane, b. c. 1830, Columbiana Co., Ohio, of Irish lineage; a mason/plasterer; in 1853 purchased 160 acres in Liberty Township, cut a road to it, and built a log house with his brother-in-law William Hively; killed at the battle of Bentonville, N. Carolina, in the Civil War (Part 76). Mother b. c. 1833 in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania-German descent, d. Feb. 1899 at Elmer’s home (Part 76). Elmer was a year old at the 1853 arrival; schooled at the Gearhart log school; farmed, then for the past eight years in the produce business selling to the South Bend market, two trips a week, annual sales $28,000 (Part 76). Began married life with $35 capital as renters; received 40 acres from his father’s estate, sold it, and since 1890 on his present 100-acre homestead (Part 76). “One of the main factors” in the petition to the circuit court to drain nine miles of Liberty Township, converting 9,000 acres to cultivatable land (Part 76). M. 29 Jan. 1874 Lydia A. Hostetler (b. 16 Mar. 1855, Holmes Co., Ohio; came at eleven to Liberty Township); six children, three living — incl. Ella, wife of Charles Earley, the trustee of Liberty township (at pointer here; the Kane entry says Earley’s “sketch appears elsewhere in this work” — that sketch was NOT located in the parts opened, §9, G-P-5) (Part 76). A Republican, first presidential vote for Hayes, four times a county-convention delegate (Part 76). [PROFILE] Carrying fact: the drainage petitioner — nine miles, 9,000 acres — is the largest single public-works fact attached to a Liberty man in either register. His father Joseph is the military set’s killed-in-action entry (Bentonville). Neither is the 1833 John Kane (§3.2).