Born "on the left bank of the Big Conewago" Creek the son of farmers Joseph J. & Jane Rebecca McCabe Kuhn, in early 1860 he was a student living with his family in East Berlin, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Sometime that same year, after finishing college in Maryland, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he allegedly served with a Nebraska Artillery regiment, although his military data is sparse.
By 1870, he had joined his brother Louis DeBarth Kuhn in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, and admitted to the bar. He became active in the Washington statehood movement, was involved with railroad development, served as judge, mayor, and in the state's first legislature. He died a lifelong bachelor at Sisters Hospital in Port Townsend.
CLICK HERE to see his cenotaph in Pennsylvania.
Born "on the left bank of the Big Conewago" Creek the son of farmers Joseph J. & Jane Rebecca McCabe Kuhn, in early 1860 he was a student living with his family in East Berlin, Adams County, Pennsylvania. Sometime that same year, after finishing college in Maryland, he moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where he allegedly served with a Nebraska Artillery regiment, although his military data is sparse.
By 1870, he had joined his brother Louis DeBarth Kuhn in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington, and admitted to the bar. He became active in the Washington statehood movement, was involved with railroad development, served as judge, mayor, and in the state's first legislature. He died a lifelong bachelor at Sisters Hospital in Port Townsend.
CLICK HERE to see his cenotaph in Pennsylvania.
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