- CHARLES KEMP, for more than half a century a resident of
Wisconsin and one of her
- substantial farmers and representative men, was born in West
Kent county, England, August 20, 1826, and is one of a family
of nine children born to William and Lydia (WACKER) KEMP, the
former born in West Kent county and the latter in Lincolnshire,
England, where they passed their lives. The father was a farmer.
- On May 1, 1851, Charles embarked for the United States and
on the 2d of June following landed
- in New York, thence going up the Hudson river, spending five
years in Oneida county, New York, and from there in 1856 he removed
to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where he continued farming till
1863. From that time till 1869 he rented and cultivated a farm
in La Prairie township, Rock county, then farmed four years in
Janesville township, thence going to the township of Johnstown,
and thence in 1878 to Bradford township, and there continued
his occupation of farming. In 1885 he bought eighty acres of
land in section 3, to which he afterwards added 140 acres in
section 4, and there made his permanent home. Under his careful
management this farm has been finely improved with good farm
buildings and modern equipments and is justly regarded one of
the model farms of Rock county.
- Mr. KEMP is a Republican in politics, though he takes no
active part in political affairs more than
- to perform his duties as a citizen, and in religious faith
he is affiliated with the Methodist church at Fairfield.
- On February 26, 1856, Mr. KEMP married Miss Mary, daughter
of William and Esther (COOK)
- GOODSON, who was born at Marshall, Oneida county, N.Y., June
1, 1835, and received her education there. Her parents, natives
of England, came to the United States in 1829 after the birth
of their third child and settled in 1856 to Harmony township,
Rock county, Wisconsin. After the death of the mother, which
occurred in 1873 when seventy years of age, the father made his
home with his daughter, Mrs. ______ WILCOX, at Janesville, till
his decease June 2, 1894.
- Of eight children born to Mr. and Mrs. KEMP, the eldest,
Henrietta, born September 4, 1857,
- died when two years old; Emery W. lives on his farm of ninety-five
acres in Harmony township with his wife, Mattie, nee COATS, and
their two children, Edith and Earl; Josephine is married to Mr.
William LAMB, a farmer of Johnstown township, and they have two
children, Mary and Charles; Philo is a blacksmith and married
Miss Susan JONES, of Emerald Grove, where he has his home; Henry
T., born March 30, 1867, has always lived on the family homestead.
He was educated in the district schools of Johnstown and Bradford
and is a wide-awake farmer, of the younger generation. He is
a Republican in politics and a worthy member of the Methodist
church. Zeda is married to Mr. Charles HACKWELL, who lives on
his fine farm of eighty acres in Bradford township; Esther lives
at home; Charles married Miss Agnes RICE and lives on the eighty-acres
farm owned by his father.
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- Taken from "Rock County, Wis." by William Fiske
Brown, (c)1908, pp. 956-958.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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