Hon. Daniel Kaine and Eliza Jane Irwin

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Husband Hon. Daniel Kaine ^{1 2}

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           Born: 10 Dec 1811 - Lebanon, Lebanon Co, PA 2
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           Died: 16 Feb 1885 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Kaine (      -1817) 2
         Mother: Nancy Little (      -Aft 1817) 2

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       Marriage: 1842 3

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Wife Eliza Jane Irwin ³

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           Born:  - Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV
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         Father: Dr.  Irwin (      -      ) 4
         Mother: [Unk] Waugh (      -      )

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Children

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1 M Lyman P. Kaine ³

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2 M William Kaine ³

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3 F Mary Kaine ³

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4 F Kate Kaine ³

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5 M Elisha Kent Kaine ³

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6 M George B. Kaine ^{3 5}

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           Born: 25 May 1855 3
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         Spouse: Patti Adams Gilmore (      -      ) 3 5
           Marr: Oct 1886 3

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7 M Charles Irwin Kaine ³

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Daniel Kaine

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He came to Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1820, where he learned the shoemaking trade under Joseph Herbert. He soon abandoned this avocation to accept a clerkship in a general store at Connellsville, and resigned from his latter employment after a short service to engage with a company at Finley, or Break Neck furnace, where he became thoroughly versed in the business, simultaneously with the dissolution of the company. From earliest youth, he was ambitious of possessing an education, and to that end without a teacher, while on the shoe bench, in the store and at the furnace was constant in his pursuit of knowledge, and thus acquired not only very much more than a rudimentary acquaintance with the common branches, but a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and French as well. During these years, too, he chose the law as his profession. In 1839 he entered the office of General Joshua B. Howell, and was admitted to the Fayette County bar in 1842. His political career commenced in 1837 when he was elected clerk of the State senate. In 1842 he was elected prothonotary of Fayette County and re-elected four years later, serving until 1850. In the latter year he was a candidate for the Democratic Congressional nomination, the district then comprising Fayette, Greene and Washington counties, running against Hon. John L. Dawson, who received the nomination. In 1861 Mr. Kaine was elected a member of the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, and made chairman of the judiciary committee over such talented and eminent lawyers as Charles R. Buckalew and James Hopkins. He was regarded as the ablest lawyer in the house, as one of its most active members and an acknowledged leader. In 1863 he was chairman of the investigating committee which considered the case of Simon Cameron, charged with bribing members of the Pennsylvania legislature, to secure his election to the United States Senate. Mr. Kaine was a candidate for president judge of this judicial district in 1865, but was defeated. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania Constitutional convention in 1872 and served as chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1874 he was a candidate for lieutenant governor of the State, but was defeated in the convention, assembled at Pittsburgh.
It is due in large measure to his public spirit, energy and perseverance that Uniontown had one of the finest public school buildings in western Pennsylvania. His law practice was large and lucrative; his forensic ability and legal acumen being known and acknowledged, not only in Fayette County, where he practiced for more than forty years, but also in other counties, as well as in the higher courts to which his practice extended. He died possessed of a large estate.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 479.

2 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 622.

3 Editor, Nelson's Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Uniontown, PA: S. B. Nelson, Publisher, 1900), Pg 625.

4 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 478.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 466.