Excerpt from Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio by A.W. Bowen & Co., pg 397, 398 published Chicago 1896
Mrs. Eliza Fry, the widow of William Kimmell, was born October 24, 1829. Her father, Frederick Fry, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1811. A shoemaker by trade, he conducted a shoe store and met with great success. In 1821 he married Miss Catherine Holderbaum in Holmes county, and by her had the following named children: Eliza, Amanda, Maria, Josiah, John, Jacob, Michael, Julia, Joseph, Rachel, William and Lucinda, five of whom are deceased. Mrs. Kimmell is a highly respected lady, is a consistent member of and a faithful worker in the Presbyterian church, and has numerous friends. She now resides in her beautiful home in Van Wert, where she is passing the evening of her days in the consciousness of a life well spent in devotion to the welfare of her fellow-beings.
Excerpt from Portrait and Biographical Record of Allen and Van Wert Counties, Ohio by A.W. Bowen & Co., pg 397, 398 published Chicago 1896
Mrs. Eliza Fry, the widow of William Kimmell, was born October 24, 1829. Her father, Frederick Fry, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in 1811. A shoemaker by trade, he conducted a shoe store and met with great success. In 1821 he married Miss Catherine Holderbaum in Holmes county, and by her had the following named children: Eliza, Amanda, Maria, Josiah, John, Jacob, Michael, Julia, Joseph, Rachel, William and Lucinda, five of whom are deceased. Mrs. Kimmell is a highly respected lady, is a consistent member of and a faithful worker in the Presbyterian church, and has numerous friends. She now resides in her beautiful home in Van Wert, where she is passing the evening of her days in the consciousness of a life well spent in devotion to the welfare of her fellow-beings.
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