James Kilbourne, U.S. Representative

James Kilbourne

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Kilbourne was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 5th district. In office James Kilbourne was an American surveyor and politician from Ohio.

Kilbourne was born in New Britain, Connecticut, and moved his family to Ohio in 1803, when he founded the city of Worthington, Ohio. In 1805 he was appointed United States surveyor of public lands. During the War of 1812, Kilbourne served as colonel of a frontier regiment.

In 1991, Worthington Kilbourne High School and Kilbourne Middle School, named after James Kilbourne, opened in the Worthington City School District.

He was a trustee of Ohio University from 1804 to 1820.

Kilbourne was elected as a Democratic-Republican to two terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Ohio's fifth district from 1813 to 1817. He was also a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1823, 1824, 1838 and 1839.

Ohio Presidential elector in 1820 for James Monroe.

He was the father of Byron Kilbourn, also a surveyor, who was a founder and mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kilbourne

From its construction late in 1804, James Kilbourne's large brick home southwest of the public square in Worthington, Ohio provided temporary lodging for new arrivals and business travelers. By 1813 Calvin Case was managing its burgeoning business and advertising for "five or six barrels of whiskey" and a "sprightly young lad to attend to the business of a Tavern."

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Kilbourne, James (1770-1850) — of Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio. Born in New Britain, Hartford County, Conn., October 19, 1770. Democrat. Surveyor; merchant; U.S. Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1813-17; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1823. Episcopalian. Died April 9, 1850 (age 79 years, 172 days). Interment at St. John's Episcopal Church Burying Ground, Worthington, Ohio.

Relatives: Son of Josiah Kilbourne and Anna (Neal) Kilbourne; married, November 8, 1789, to Lucy Fitch; married 1808 to Cynthia Goodale; father of Byron H. Kilbourn; grandfather of James Kilbourne (1842-1919); second cousin once removed of Charles H. Eastman; second cousin twice removed of Robert Cleveland Usher; second cousin four times removed of James Warren Driver; third cousin of John Taintor, Roger Taintor, Solomon Taintor and Jonathan Stratton; third cousin once removed of John Adams Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Lemuel Stetson, Samuel Lount Kilbourne and George Eastman; third cousin thrice removed of Warren Walter Rich and Charles Dudley Kilbourn; fourth cousin of Jonathan Brace, Samuel Clesson Allen and Greene Carrier Bronson; fourth cousin once removed of Gold Selleck Silliman, Benjamin Silliman, Thomas Kimberly Brace, Theodore Davenport, Millard Fillmore, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, Elisha Hunt Allen and William Alfred Buckingham.

Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman family; Flanders family of Vermont; Rowell family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).

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