OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL INDEXES: 1879 1889 1903 1911 1930 BIOGRAPHIES Source: HISTORY OF VERMILION COUNTY, ILLINOIS by H. W. Beckwith Publ. Chicago:  H. H. Hill and Company, Publishers 1879 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z   Elwood Twp. - JACOB KENDALL, Long, Farmer and stock dealer, section 35, was born in Greene county, Ohio, on the 17th of May, 1825, and was raised to the occupation of a farmer.  He came to this state in 1839, settling in this township.  He had but little property with which to commence life, but by industry, economy and fair dealing he has acquired a good property.  Mr. Kendall has been twice married: first, on the 2ed of January, 1848, to Elisabeth Hall, who was born in Pennsylvania, and died in 1852.  They became by this marriage the parents of two children, now deceased.  Mr. Kendall was then married, on the 21st day of June, 1853, to Catharine Patterson, who was born in Tennessee in  1829.  They have six children by this union, four of whom are living.  The names of the living are Enos, John, Joseph and Jacob;  of the deceased, Ivy and Jennie.  Mr. Kendall has held the office of road Source: History of Vermilion County, Illinois - H. W. Beckwith - 1879 ~ Page 597   Danville Twp. - G. L. KLUGEL, Danville, of No. 47 West Main street, dealer in and manufacturer of galvanized-iron work, is probably a better workman, and is engaged more extensively in this business, than many of the citizens of Vermilion county are aware of.  He has had sixteen years' experience in this line, first serving an apprenticeship of seven years with his brother.  He is a native of Berlin, Prussia, coming to the United States in 1859, when he was six years old, becoming a resident of Dayton, Ohio.  It is there he learned his trade.  He has traveled over quite a number of the states, executing large contracts in his line of business.  Among these we mention a few.  In 1870 he first came to Danville, and did the iron-work of the high-school building; in 1872 he did the cornice-work on Abe Sandusky's residence; in 1877 he did that of the court-house of Washington, Indiana, and in 1878 finished the Ann Arbor court-house; in 1879 he finished the Wabash courthouse of Indiana.  These are some of the important jobs he has done, and are certainly evidence enough of his ability as a workman and contractor.  In 1873 he became a resident of Danville, and now gives employment to about four men regularly, and is doing a business, in point of execution, equal to any in the west. Source: History of Vermilion County, Ohio - Chicago: H. H. Hill and Co., 1879 - Page 477 NOTES:

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