Back to Biographies

 BIOGRAPHIES 'K'

CYRENESS KARKEN was born Oct. 13, 1853, at Cobleskill, New York, where he was educated and lived until 1887, when he came to Minneapolis. Here he was in the employ of Mr. Fletcher in the wholesale hardware trade. On the 5th of May, 1889, he came to Anoka and was thereafter in the employ of F. F. Fletcher, a son of his Minneapolis employer, for a period of nearly ten years, but on March 11, 1898, in conjunction with H. C. Loehl established the present firm of Loehl & Karker, hardware dealers. He was married Feb. 24, 1895, to Agnes O'Keefe. The family comprises Mr. and Mrs. Karker, Florence L. Kenney and Agnes Beck. Mr. Karker is guardian for the latter.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JAMES C. KEILLOR (son of William Keillor) was born in the province of Ontario, Canada, July 4, 1860. Obtained his education in New Brunswick and worked on his father’s farm until 1881, when he removed to Anoka Co., where he assisted his brother-in-law, James Hunt, in the management of the latter’s farm in Ramsey until the death of Mr. Hunt, since which time he has had its sole management. Mr. Keillor now owns 80 acres in section 10, where he still resides. He was never married.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

WILLIAM E. KEILLOR was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Oct. 31, 1836, where he lived until the age of nineteen. He spent twelve years in Nova Scotia and Ontario, and then lived again in New Brunswick until 1891, when he removed to Anoka Co. He taught school in Canada for about seven years, and then his health failing, he went to farming, a congenial occupation which he has since followed. In 1901 he purchased forty acres in section 3, town of Ramsey, where he now resides. He was married Jan. 26, 1856, to Mary J. Crandall. Children: Mary E. (Mrs. James Hunt), Rebecca E., James C., Thomas T. (Albert, New Brunswick), Elizabeth J. (Mrs. Herbert B. Crandall), Amelia J. (Mrs. Albin Loucks, Malmo, Aitkin Co., Minn.), and Alfred L.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

FRANK KELSEY (son of Peter Kelsey) was born at Ashtabula, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1854. The next year his parents removed to Anoka county, settling at Round lake in what is now the town of Grow. From 1869 to 1880 he was engaged in brickmaking with his brothers. afterward spending five years in the mines in the Black Hills. From 1888 to 1893 he was in the grocery business, and from 1805 to 1900 was chief of police of Anoka. He is now engaged in raising small fruits on east Main street. He was married Sept. 1, 1881, to Ida Allen. They have three children: Guy, Stanley and Francis.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

GEORGE KELSEY was born April 23, 1827, in New York, moved to Ashtabula county, Ohio, where he worked at shoemaking, afterward moving to Pennsylvania and engaging in the manufacture of boots and shoes, and was married in 1851 to Lydia Sterling. About five years after this event be located at Round lake, and two years later at Anoka, where he went into the boot and shoe business, from which he later retired and engaged in the sewing machine business. He was a county commissioner in the early days. Children: Clarence (died 1853), Melvin (died 1865), Lydia Jeanette (Mrs. W. P. Macomber, Wilton, N. D.) Ella (Mrs. Magson), Hiram A. (deceased) and Georgia (Mrs. Woodworth).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

PETER KELSEY (deceased) was born in New York state in 1825. He came to Anoka county in 1855, settling at Round lake in what is now the town of Grow. He engaged in farming until 1862, when he removed to New York, returning in 1865 to his farm at Round lake, where he died the same year. His wife was Miss Lucy Giddings of Ohio, who died at Round lake in 1886. Children: Claudius L (Eugene City, Oregon), Minnie (Mrs. M. Burns, Grand Forks, N. D.), Porter, Frank, Frances (died 1894), Jackson (drowned in Round lake, 1883).
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

CHARLES WOOD KERR was born in St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 7, 1870. When an infant his parents removed to Anoka, where he received his education at the Anoka high school. He has been for some years employed in the postoffice department. His home is in Minneapolis.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

JAMES ALLEN KERR was born in Allegheny, Pcnn., March 15, 1838. He came to Minnesota Sept. 15, 1855, settling in Hennepin county, and followed lumbering for a livelihood. Oct. 5. 1861. he enlisted in Peteler’s Minnesota Sharpshooters, which became Co. A of the Second United States Sharpshooters. He was wounded in the Wilderness and also at Petersburg. He was mustered out Nov. 6. 1864. He came to Anoka county June 7, 1871, and worked at lumbering for some years. Mr. Kerr was married Aug. 4, 1868. to Emma Parslow Ghostley. Children: Charles W. and Maude M.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

WILLIAM F. KIESEL was born at Langenhagen, in Pommern, Germany, June 10, 1859. Attended the common schools; came to America at the age of twenty-four and spent six years in gardening near St. Paul, and then carried on a farm in Maple Grove four years, living meanwhile in Champlin. In 1895 he purchased a farm in section 35, town of Burns, where he still lives. He has 80 acres, about 45 of which are under cultivation. He was married, Feb. 21, 1886, to Rachel Blesi. Children: Anna M., Emma F., Katherine E., Rosa B., Frediline A.
~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905

ESTES A. KING was born in Charlton, Mass,. July 29, 1817. He early learned the blacksmith’s trade, and having come to Anoka county in 1856 he started a blacksmith shop in Anoka two year later, continuing in that business until about 1875, when he went into the real estate business, which he followed until 1895. He held many school and town offices in the early days. He was twice married. His first wife was Ann McIntyre, who died leaving one daughter, Mrs. H. M. Lambert. His second wife was Lucy Buss, and they had one son, Frank, now a resident of Linwood. Mr. King died March 31, 1900.

~Source: History of Anoka County and the Towns of Champlin and Dayton in Hennepin County Minnesota, by Albert M Goodrich, Minneapolis, Hennepin Publishing Co., 1905