Adam KÜCHMANN

<p>Obiutuary: History Of The Western Reserve By Harriet Upton</p><p><p>Adam Kishman - The late Adam Kishman, who passed away at his home in Brownhelm township, Lorain county, November 28, 1901, was awell known and most highly respected citizen. He was born in Hesse Castle, Germany, July 22, 1831, a son of Werner and Catherine (Leidheiser) Kishman, Adam Kishman came to Lorain county, Ohio, in 1850, and carried on fishing and farming. He purchased a one hundred acre farm on the lake shore in Brownhelm in 1861, and carried on this farm in connection with his fishing interests. He was a Democrat in politics and served as justice of the peace, and in various township offices. Mr. Kishman was a member of the German Reformed church, and was a most capable business man and useful citizen. Hemet with success financially, and was industrious and enterprising and a self made man. After the death of Mr. Kishman, his widow continued to live on the home farm, and still resides there with herson Louis. </p><p><p></p></p><p><p>April 3, 1854, Adam Kishman married Martha Claus, who was born July 17, 1835, in Brownhelm township, a daughter of Adam and Catherine (Gronewalt) Claus, natives ofHesse Cassel, Germany. Adam Claus and his wife came to New York in a sailing vessel, thence via the Hudson river and the Erie canal to Buffalo, and by way of the lake to Cleveland, Ohio. They settled in Brownshelm township, Lorain county, in the woods, and built there a log cabin; they cleared the land and made a fine, fertile farm. Mr. and Mrs. Kishman became parents of children as follows: Augusta, who died at the age of three years and ten months; Anna, died at the age of five years; Magdalena, Mrs William Jacobs, of Lorain, has one daugher, Irma, who is Mrs. William G. Gollmar; Henry B.of Brownhelm township, mentioned elsewhere; Eliza, Mrs. Christopher Leimbach of Brownhelm township, has three children, Martha L., Robert L. and Milton C.; Charles of Lorain, married Anna Leimbach and has Florence E., Karl L. and Fladys I.; Edward, of Vermilion, married Nora Cooley, and has two children, Adaline M. and Myron E.; Emma, Mrs. Henry Haber, of Vermilion; Albert, of Brownhelm township,married Harriet Henkes and they have Lloyd A., Helen L., Kenneth D. and Marion M.; Louis, living on the home farm, married Emma Krapp and has Walter L. and Lucille; William, died at the age of eightyears; and Ida, died at the age of three years.</p><p> </p>

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