George W. Kern and Margaret Wakefield

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Husband George W. Kern ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1800 - Little York, York Co, PA 3
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         Father: Joseph Kern (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Margaret Steinbaugh (      -      ) 3

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       Marriage: 1828 3

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Wife Margaret Wakefield ¹

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            AKA: Martha Wakefield 2
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         Father: Rev. James Wakefield (1767-1840/1852) 4 5
         Mother: Mary Clark (      -Bef 1880) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Joseph Benson Kern ³

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2 F Mary M. Kern ³

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         Spouse: Abraham Koplin (      -Bef 1880) 3

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3 F Elizabeth Kern ³

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4 F Martha Kern ¹

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         Spouse: Maj. A. J. Bolar (      -      ) 1

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5 M Dr. William H. Kern ^{2 3 6}

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           Born: 8 Jun 1839 - Johnstown, Cambria Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Ella M. Hunter (1842-      ) 3 6

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6 M James Kern ³

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         Spouse: Mary Parker (      -      ) 3

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7 F Lucy Kern ³

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         Spouse: K. W. Dick (      -      ) 3

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8 M George Kern ³

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General Notes: Husband - George W. Kern

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He was a merchant in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, from 1829 to 1857, and for four of those years was postmaster of the town. In 1857, he located on the Wakefield farm, in East Wheatfield township, Indiana County.

He was a merchant of standing, and began his mercantile career at Greensburg, Pennsylvania; removed to Johnstown in 1829; for a number of years kept a drugstore, and later a general store. He was the first post-master of Johnstown, and also the first justice of the peace. He had considerable reputation as an engineer, and surveyed the line for the Somerset plank-road, a distance of eighteen miles, between Johnstown and Stoystown. He was one of the original stockholders and projectors of the bridge between Johnstown and Kernville, which latter place was named for him, he having surveyed and laid out the town.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 422, 424.

2 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 744.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 424.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 422.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 209.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 620.