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 AMES KANE owns eighty acres of good
land on section 1?, in Humbolt Township,
where he has built up a good home and is
surrounded by all the comforts of life, he
commenced life without means and his accumulations are the result of his own perseverance and
energy. His birthplace was on the other side of the
Atlantic in the city of Belfast, Ireland, in about
December, 1834, and he is the only survivor of ten
children born to his parents, Patrick and Eliza
(O’Harry) Kane. The parents also died in their
native Ireland many years ago. Their children
were named respectively, Mary, Rosanna, Eliza,
Sarah, Ellen, Margaret, John Patrick, Robert and
James, our subject being the youngest. Mr. Kane
spent his boyhood and youth in his native city,
and after beginning to think of the future, saw
little in that part of the world to induce him to
remain. Accordingly in 1854, he secured passage
on a sailing-vessel, and after a voyage of seven or
eight weeks, found himself in the city of New
York. From there he proceeded to Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, and commenced in earnest the later
battle of life. The year following his arrival in
this country he was united in marriage with Miss
Mary Brady, their wedding taking place in Madison,
Ind., on the 15th of May, 1856. Mrs. K. is a
native of the same country as her husband, born
in County Math, in 1836, and is the only child of
James and Rosanna (Riley) Brady, also natives of
Ireland. Her father died in the county of his
birth, and her mother, emigrating to this country,
departed this life in the city of New Orleans in
about 1850. The eleven children of Mr. and Mrs. Kane are Eliza, John, Patrick, Robert, James, Rosanna; Ellen, the wife of John Stewart, of Indiana; Sarah. Mary, Margaret and Daniel C. All are members of the Catholic Church, and Mr. Kane, politically, votes with the Democratic party. During the late war he enlisted as a Union soldier in the 22d Indiana Infantry, participating in many important battles, and being wounded at Pea Ridge in both feet by a piece of shell. He was mustered in in 1861 and discharged in 1863. |
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