Illinios:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin.  O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County

J. LEWIS KUHL, grocer, Beardstown; was born in Beardstown, 
July 16, 1850, and is half brother of the Kuhl brothers; 
his father having married at the death of his first wife, 
Mrs. Heminghouse, who bore him four children: J. Lewis, 
Mary, Henry, and Lydia.  Our subject, after a common school 
education, took a course at the Central Wesleyan College, 
Warrenton, Mo., also a partial course at the Illinois 
Wesleyan University, and a commercial course at the Gem 
City Business College, graduating from that institution in 
1872; after which he clerked for some years for Kuhl Bros. 
and at Pekin.  In 1881, he embarked in the grocery 
business, on the corner of Sixth and Monroe streets, where 
he has a fine trade in groceries and queensware.  Jan. 23, 
1879, he married Miss Emma J. McVey, daughter of Rev. W.H. 
McVey, of Griggsville, Ill.

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