Jacob Kemp
Jacob Kemp, farmer and attorney-at-law, was born April 5, 1819. His parents,Jacob and Mary Magdelena Kemp, came here early in the present century. Jacob Kemp, the father, came to this county and entered a section and part of a section of land, upon which his son now lives. It was all in woods, and inhabited along the Great Miami River by Indians. On the farm where Mr. Kemp, Jr., now lives were at that time wild animals such as bears, deer, and wolves. There were no roads or markets. Mr. Kemp was a minister in the United Brethren Church, and in addition was a farmer. He practiced medicine also for some years before his decease, which was in 1851, at the age of sixty-two. In 1812 he and his team of four horses were pressed into service. They were taken north to the lake, where he lost the horses, mostly for want of food, for which he never received any compensation. He and his wife were born and reared in Berks County, Pennsylvania, and were married there. The fruit of this marriage was four children, two sons and two daughters. The oldest, a daughter, was born in Pennsylvania, and is now dead, and the other three in Ohio, all now living. Mrs. Kemp was a member of the United Brethren Church, in which she took a great interest. The meetings then were held in Mr. Kemp's house and barn, and others in the neighborhood. His wife took great delight in providing food and lodging for ministers and members of her Church. She died in 1840, aged about fifty. The present Mr. Jacob Kemp has been twice married. His first was to Mary A. Zahring, daughter of Philip and Barbara Zahring, a native of Montgomery County, and his second was to Mary M. Miltonburger, daughter of William and Mary Ann Miltonburger, born in Warren County. By these wives he had six children--Leonidas Lycurgus, Emma, Charles Edwin, Horace William, John H., and Bertha Brown. Mr. Kemp was elected a justice of the peace in 1854, and served till 1875--twenty-one years; township clerk in 1855, and served till 1875--twenty years; and in 1874 was elected a representative to the Legislature, serving till 1878, making two terms.
From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.