James E. Karns

Descendants

Biography

From History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania:

(J. E. Karns) He and his wife both died in 1840. Their children were Charles W. ; William, a hatter by trade, and who was for several years postmaster of Allegheny City; Matthew, a tanner by trade, who died when twenty years of age; James E., Francis, Eliza, who married George Hazlett; Margaret, who married James Potts, and died in Johnstown; Wilson, a soldier in the Florida war, and who died in the service; John, a salt-manufacturer at Karns station, and who died in 1872; Samuel D., captain of one of the river boats, later a sutler in the Mexican war, and who died at Parkersburg, W. Va.

Sources

• Cushing, Thomas. History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (A. Warner & Co., Chicago, 1889, Part 2: p. 583)
• Northwestern Historical Association. Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Northwest Historical Association., Madison, Wisconsin, 1904, Vol. 2, p. 259-260, 345-346)