Moved from Rock Creek Cemetery, DC.
Benjamin Franklin Karns was born on a farm in St. Joseph Ohio, the 11th and last child of William Means Karns and Mary Isabella Grubaugh. Sometime during the 1860s his family moved to a farm in Iowa. From public data: he was variously a farmer's son, a school teacher, a minister of the Gospel, a Capitalist, a broker, in real estate and President of a gold mining company. He attended Cornell College in Marengo and became a school teacher. In 1874 he married Sadie Gillis, the daughter of a dry goods merchant and Postmaster. He was subsequently ordained a minister in the Methodist church and served two congregations. His son William Arthur was born in 1875, followed by five daughters, four of whom reached maturity. After his father's death in 1882 he began travelling the Southwest and California promoting various mining ventures while also speaking at revival like meetings concerning the temperance movement. In the 1890s he and Sadie made their home in Washington DC. Their daughters were educated at Holy Cross Academy. He was influential in securing funding the Victrola Talking Machine. Following Sadie's death in 1894 he married Mary E. Brew. He died in Maryland in 1921, having led a long and colorful life.
Benjamin Franklin Karns was born on a farm in St. Joseph Ohio, the 11th and last child of William Means Karns and Mary Isabella Grubaugh. Sometime during the 1860s his family moved to a farm in Iowa. From public data: he was variously a farmer's son, a school teacher, a minister of the Gospel, a Capitalist, a broker, in real estate and President of a gold mining company. He attended Cornell College in Marengo and became a school teacher. In 1874 he married Sadie Gillis, the daughter of a dry goods merchant and Postmaster. He was subsequently ordained a minister in the Methodist church and served two congregations. His son William Arthur was born in 1875, followed by five daughters, four of whom reached maturity. After his father's death in 1882 he began travelling the Southwest and California promoting various mining ventures while also speaking at revival like meetings concerning the temperance movement. In the 1890s he and Sadie made their home in Washington DC. Their daughters were educated at Holy Cross Academy. He was influential in securing funding the Victrola Talking Machine. Following Sadie's death in 1894 he married Mary E. Brew. He died in Maryland in 1921, having led a long and colorful life.
Moved from Rock Creek Cemetery, DC.
Benjamin Franklin Karns was born on a farm in St. Joseph Ohio, the 11th and last child of William Means Karns and Mary Isabella Grubaugh. Sometime during the 1860s his family moved to a farm in Iowa. From public data: he was variously a farmer's son, a school teacher, a minister of the Gospel, a Capitalist, a broker, in real estate and President of a gold mining company. He attended Cornell College in Marengo and became a school teacher. In 1874 he married Sadie Gillis, the daughter of a dry goods merchant and Postmaster. He was subsequently ordained a minister in the Methodist church and served two congregations. His son William Arthur was born in 1875, followed by five daughters, four of whom reached maturity. After his father's death in 1882 he began travelling the Southwest and California promoting various mining ventures while also speaking at revival like meetings concerning the temperance movement. In the 1890s he and Sadie made their home in Washington DC. Their daughters were educated at Holy Cross Academy. He was influential in securing funding the Victrola Talking Machine. Following Sadie's death in 1894 he married Mary E. Brew. He died in Maryland in 1921, having led a long and colorful life.
Benjamin Franklin Karns was born on a farm in St. Joseph Ohio, the 11th and last child of William Means Karns and Mary Isabella Grubaugh. Sometime during the 1860s his family moved to a farm in Iowa. From public data: he was variously a farmer's son, a school teacher, a minister of the Gospel, a Capitalist, a broker, in real estate and President of a gold mining company. He attended Cornell College in Marengo and became a school teacher. In 1874 he married Sadie Gillis, the daughter of a dry goods merchant and Postmaster. He was subsequently ordained a minister in the Methodist church and served two congregations. His son William Arthur was born in 1875, followed by five daughters, four of whom reached maturity. After his father's death in 1882 he began travelling the Southwest and California promoting various mining ventures while also speaking at revival like meetings concerning the temperance movement. In the 1890s he and Sadie made their home in Washington DC. Their daughters were educated at Holy Cross Academy. He was influential in securing funding the Victrola Talking Machine. Following Sadie's death in 1894 he married Mary E. Brew. He died in Maryland in 1921, having led a long and colorful life.
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