Hon. Joseph Henry Kuhns and Margaret Elizabeth Alexander

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Husband Hon. Joseph Henry Kuhns ¹

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            AKA: Joseph Kuntz 2
           Born: Sep 1800 1
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           Died: Aft 1882 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Kuhns (Abt 1761-1823) 3 4
         Mother: Elizabeth Marchand (1768-1830) 3 5 6

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       Marriage: 1825 1

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   Other Spouse: Harriet Eason (      -1879) 2 7 8

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Wife Margaret Elizabeth Alexander ^{1 9 10}

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           Born: 8 Dec 1800 10
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           Died: 1850 1
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         Father: John Alexander (1753-1805) 10 11
         Mother: Jane Byers (1758-      ) 10 11

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Children

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1 M H. Byers Kuhns ¹

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           Born:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Harriet L. Moritz (      -      ) 12

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2 F Rebecca Kuhns ¹³

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           Born:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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           Died:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Thomas Johnston Barclay (1824-1881) 13 14
           Marr: 5 Sep 1854 13

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Joseph Henry Kuhns

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He first attended school in an old log school-house. He subsequently attended the [Greensburg?] academy, and then went to Washington College, where he graduated in 1820. He read law with Maj. John B. Alexander (whose sister he afterwards married), and was admitted to the bar about 1823. He first practiced, but for a short period, with Maj. Alexander, and subsequently by himself. He soon acquired a very extensive and lucrative practice both in the Westmoreland and Supreme Courts. He retired from the practice in the late 1870s. In 1850 he was elected by the Whig party to Congress from the district then composed of Westmoreland, Indiana, Somerset, and Fulton Counties. He served one term in the national House of Representatives, but declined a re-election, preferring to resume his profession.

With his first wife he had four sons and four daughters.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Elizabeth Alexander

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from Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

1 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 329.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 418.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 523.

4 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 822.

5 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 627.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 357.

7 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 522.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 429.

9 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 21.

10 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 246.

11 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 19.

12 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 118.

13 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 524.

14 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. I (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 350.