John Bugher “Bud” Kuhns and Tade Hartsuff

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Husband John Bugher “Bud” Kuhns ^{1 2}

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           Born: 7 Apr 1861 - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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           Died: 2 Jan 1906 - Baltimore, MD 3
         Buried:  - Greensburg, Westmoreland Co, PA

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         Father: Philip Stambaugh Kuhns (1823-1884) 1 4
         Mother: Ellen Bugher (      -1893) 1 2

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       Marriage: 1886 3

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Wife Tade Hartsuff ^{2 3}

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - John Bugher “Bud” Kuhns

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He received a common school education in Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and in 1884 graduated from the University of Indianapolis. Upon graduation he engaged actively in business. In 1891, having previously converted his share of the family estate into cash, he with his brother-in-law, C. L. Goodwin, removed to Dunlo, in the Allegheny mountains, where they engaged in the lumber business. Mr. Kuhns devoted himself intelligently and industriously to the task he had fixed, and within a year after he had entered the mountain ranges he was esteemed one of the largest lumber men in the state. The mountains yielded rich returns for his energies, and ere he left the lumber fields he had harvested every available stick on his vast possessions. About 1904 Mr. Kuhns disposed of his Dunlo lumber interests, and with his wife returned to Greensburg. He was interested in lumber tracts in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, and had other investments, especially in West Virginia, and his time was principally spent in looking after these holdings.
Mr. Kuhns' death, at the Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, was due to Bright's disease, and the ailment dated back twenty years, his father and uncles on both sides of the family having died of the same disease. His life was undoubtedly prolonged by his open air occupation, this particular field of industry being selected because of the advice of Dr. De Costa, of Philadelphia. Mr. Kuhns was a man of refined tastes and scholarly attainments. His reading was always along the lines of the classical. Burns was his favorite poet. He was a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln and Henry George, because they believed in the common man, and man's justice to his fellowman. Mr. Kuhns was always kindly considerate for those in his employ. He believed that true philanthropy consisted in good wages for a fair day's work. All those who had been in his employ from far and near that could possibly come, attended his funeral or sent messages of sympathy. In his younger days Mr. Kuhns was something of an athlete, and greatly encouraged through life all healthy, clean sports. He was one of the first to help build up an interest in baseball in Westmoreland County, and in later years, many an old timer would recall the pitching and batting and running of Bud Kuhns. He was also a fine shot and fond of hunting.

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General Notes: Wife - Tade Hartsuff

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She was a member of a prominent New Castle [Pennsylvania?] family. She met her husband while they were students in the same university.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 410.

2 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 189.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 411.

4 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 187.