Show I 1 KERN AS HE IS KNOWN I 1 IN indianapolis indianapolis july 10 john worth kern was born bo rn on december 20 1849 i at the village of alto howard county indiana his father dr jacob W kern was a virginian by birth who ale removed to shelby county indiana in 1836 and lived there until 1846 when be moved into the new northern country try john kerns mother was nancy liggett and an she and dr kern viere were married in warren county ohio in 1854 rhen hen john wag five years old the family removed to warren county iowa from the ne time he went to fco iowa until the time he was 15 years old he did not see a a railroad train the family moved back to howard county in 1864 ja in the early sixties while still in iowa mrs kern died two children were left john and his rister eister who is now mrs isaac engel of daleville maleville Da leville virginia john was educated edu cited in the district dis erict school of Kok kodamo indiana riding horseback ten miles ea each ch way every lay day later he taught school near alto ile he earned money to enter michigan university at ann arbor graduating from the law department of that university in 1869 he immediately began begam practicing law in ko komo koino indiana he was dratted drafted when li 0 was 21 years old to make the t n e r race ace for the legislature in the re publican county of howard but was defeated he was chosen city attorney of 0 kokomo kokomos tor for six terms over republican aspirants in 1884 he be was waa elected reporter of the supreme court fince then indianapolis has been hla his home bome yr chere bere he be has baa practiced law behro he has worked tn in every campaign served the county in the legislature and was the leader of his bis party in the I 1 state senate ile he was city attorney under the last two ad ministrations administrations of mayor thomas Tag taggart gari from october to october 1901 in 1900 he was nominated for governor but was defeated before the st louls louis convention of four years ago mr kerns name had been prominently mentioned among the vice presidential possibilities mr kern has been president of the commercial nub and li has as always been conspicuous in all state and civic movements mrs kern is prominent in all of the and literary affairs of the city miss julia kern their duen ter is well known socially there are two other children john W kern jr aged nine and william H kern who is now five years old |