KENNETH GRANT has been a resident of this county for thirty-five years. When he came here it was still in the hands of the pioneers and he joined them in their work and has since performed his share of the vast labor that was needed to make this county what it is to day, one of the wealthiest and best developed regions in all the State. Our subject has been greatly prospered in the pursuit of his calling as a farmer and stockraiser, and owns a choice farm on section 34, of Millbrook Township, where he has a pleasant and happy home.

Our subject was born in the Highlands of Scotland June 7, 1818. When he was about twelve years old, his parents, Donald and Anne Grant, emigrated to this country, taking passage at Glasgow for Liverpool, on a sail vessel and from there to New York, where they landed in safety after a long ocean voyage of seven weeks and four days. The father was a stonemason and for a short time carried on his calling in Philadelphia, then in Pittsburg, and finally crossed the Pennsylvania State line into Ohio, and became a pioneer of Columbiana County.

Kenneth Grant grew to manhood in Ohio and received his education in its early subscription schools, which were conducted in a primitive log house with puncheon floor and a chimney of rude construction. When a young man he became employed in a grist and saw mill, receiving $8 a month and his board for his service. In the spring of 1855, thinking he could make more money on the rich virgin soil of the Prairie State, he came here with his family, traveling by the river route, and the first season rented land in Brimfield Township. That gave him an opportunity to look around him and select a suitable location, and he subsequently purchased land in that township and in the course of years improved it into a good farm, on which he resided until 1876, when he moved to his present home in Millbrook Township. Here he has two hundred and forty acres of fine farming land that is cultivated to a high degree and is supplied with a neat set of farm buildings and machinery of a good class to carry on his agricultural operations.

In the summer of 1876, Mr. Grant visited the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and afterwards took a trip across the water to his native Scotland and revisited the scenes of his boyhood, enjoying his journey very much and then returning contented to the home he had built up in Illinois.

Our subject was married February 14, 1841, to Isabelle McIntosh who was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, December 9, 1818. They have

shared the joys and divided the sorrows of life for nearly half a century, for if they should live they will celebrate their golden wedding in little less than a year. Theirs has been a happy and peaceful union and has been productive to them of a large family of whom the following are still living: Winslow, in Brimfield Township; Anne, wife of Willard Brooks of Oak Hill; Elizabeth, wife of Dr. O. B. Will of Peoria; Belle, wife of Dr. Robert A. Kerr of Dunlap; William, in Stark County; and Ulysses K. in Millbrook Township. The names of the deceased are, William, Geneva, Milton and Mary J.

Mrs. Grant was born December 9, 1818, being the daughter of William and Jeanette (McCoy) McIntosh, early pioneers of Ohio. Her father was a native of Scotland and her mother of Pennsylvania. The former was an early settler of Columbiana County. They were the parents of five children, of whom the following three are living: Mrs. Grant; Elizabeth, now the widow of Mr. Martin of Elmwood Township; and Mary, the widow of Mr. Waters, living in Brimfield Township.

This brilliant record of a busy life shows that our subject is possessed of more than ordinary ability for conducting business to successful issue, that he has an acute, discerning mind and is prompt and methodical in his habits, or else he could not manage his large interests so easily. He takes a deep interest in all movements that look to the advancement of township and county, and his liberality often is the cause of their success. He is a conscientious and upright Christian, and he and his wife are valued members of the Presbyterian Church at French Grove, and contribute generously to the support of religion. In his political views Mr. Grant is a firm adherent of the Republican party.

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