MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Billy J. Baker
billybak@erols.com
April 21, 2000
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 
First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.


J. M. KENDALL, farmer, Section 25, P. O. Eureka, was born in 1836, in
Miami County, Ohio, and has ever since he was a boy of nine years been
in the cattle business; his first venture being the purchase of a calf
for the sum of $2.50 in gold. For several years, however, he turned from
the ancestral paths and engaged in the sale of patent rights, wire
fence, agricultural implements, etc., eventually returning to his
boyhood's love (cattle). Mr. K. resided for short periods in many
Western States, and has shipped thousands of head of his early friends
to the Eastern markets and Europe. In 1873, he accompanied a shipment of
his own to England, in which country he remained several months visiting
the principal cattle shows and importing some very fine Durham bulls,
etc. He eventually decided in 1881 to locate permanently in this State,
and selected the above-named section as his starting point, that,
however, being bottom land (corn fifty bushels to acre), he found
insufficient to his wants, and has lately added a section of upland to
his possessions. At present he has besides his imported Durhams several
fine specimens of English thoroughbred Short-horns and other breeds. Of
native cattle he carries usually from 150 to 200 head; hogs he does not
meddle with to any great extent, finding it cheaper to buy and ship. Mr.
Kendall has a very fine frame residence upon his farm, and also several
dwelling houses in town, all of which are insured. He is married, and
has three children; he does not bother with politics, but attends
strictly to business.