"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 466-467.
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

DEACON J. S. H. KIGEL:  Deacon John Solomon Henry Kigel was born in 
Ohio County on April 10, 1840, and was the son of Solomon and Susan 
Spence Kigel.  His father was born in August, 1801, near 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died in Owensboro, Ky., August 20, 
1856.  He had long been engaged in mercantile pursuits here and was a 
man of prominence and influence in the community.  For years he was a 
member of the First Baptist Church.
	Our subject received his education in private and public 
schools at Owensboro and then became associated with his father in 
the general merchandise business, until his father's death after 
which he spent two years on his uncle's farm.  Coming then to 
Owensboro, he was employed at various occupations for a time and 
subsequently engaged in teaching school, following that profession 
for three years.  He then formed a partnership with Gordon Robinson, 
under the firm name of Robinson and Son, and engaged in the 
mercantile business at Newville (now Maxwell), Kentucky.  At the end 
of six years Bro. Kigel bought his partner's interest and continued 
the business four years under his own name.  In the meantime he had 
established another store at Glenville, Daviess County, Kentucky and 
continued in business there for fifteen years, until March 19, 1892, 
when he sold out and came to Owensboro, where he had made some real 
estate investments.  About the year 1896 he bought Mr. Castlen's 
interest in the firm of A. H. Kigel and Company and became a partner 
with his son, A. H. Kigel, with whom he continued the men's 
furnishings business under the same firm until 1919 when he retired 
from active business.
	Bro. Kigel was married three times; first, on February 20, 1863, 
to Miss Ann Boyd, of Daviess County.  She lived but ten years after 
their marriage.  Six children blessed this union.  Miss Clyde Kigel 
still lives in Owensboro.  Bro. Kigel married Miss Virginia 
Shackelford, of McLean County, on March 12, 1874.  She lived but a 
short time and on November 1, 1876, he married Miss Martha A. Coke, 
of McLean County, who was born June 13, 1844, and died September 11, 
1923, at the advanced age of seventy-nine years.
	He became a member of Green Brier Church by profession and 
baptism about the year 1865.  He was elected clerk of the Church in 
1870 and filled this position for seven years.  He was ordained as 
deacon of this Church in November, 1872, and continued to serve in 
this capacity until he moved his membership to Glenville Church in 
February, 1886, where he continued to serve in the same capacity for 
this Church until 1892, when he came to Owensboro.  He moved his 
membership to the First Baptist Church immediately and remained a 
member until about 1899 when he again moved his membership, this time 
to the Walnut Street Church, where it remained until his death.  In 
that time he served the Church as Deacon in a faithful and efficient 
manner.  From 1906 through 1920 he served faithfully as a member of 
the District Mission Board.
	After a life of unusual activity, both civil and religious, our 
brother departed this life on March 1, 1928, at the advanced age of 
eighty-eight years.  Because of his earnest and upright life, his 
splendid business record, and his public-spirited interest in the 
welfare of his community, he was long regarded as one of the foremost 
citizens of the city of Owensboro and commanded the veneration and 
respect of all who knew him.  His life was a benediction and blessing 
to all who gained his acquaintance.

Kigel Spence Robinson Castlen Boyd Shackelford Coke
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Ohio PA McLean

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