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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [259]

           JAMES KEARNS, farmer, section 18, Sand Beach Township, is the
        son of ALEXANDER and JANE (BENNETT) KEARNS, natives of Ireland, who
        emigrated to Canada where they spent the remainder of their lives.
        The subject of this sketch was also born in the Emerald Isle, and
        was eight years of age when the family came to America.
           In 1868 he came to this county and has since lived here.  He
        owns 120 acres of wild land in Sand Beach Township, and since 1873
        he has also had charge of the farm of CLARK HAYWOOD.  In politics
        MR. KEARNS is a Republican.
           He was married in Canada, to MARGARET McMASTER, a native of that
        country.  They now have six children, named MARGARET J., ALEXANDER,
        WILLIAM, EDWARD, ANNIE and ARCHIBALD.
           MRS. KEARNS is the daughter of WILLIAM and JANE (McMASTER)
        McMASTER, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to Canada, and located
        in Northwest Toronto, where the father died.  The mother is now
        living in Sand Beach Township.

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