Family of Hartman KUHN and Ellen LYLE

Husband: Hartman KUHN

Wife: Ellen LYLE

Child 1: Mary KUHN

Child 2: Charles F. KUHN

Child 3: Elizabeth KUHN

Note on Husband: Hartman KUHN - shared note

Note originally from David Man Family Tree gedcom [Jon Axtell]

Hartman Kuhn, eldest son of Dr. Adam Kuhn and Elizabeth (Hartman) Kuhn, born February 4, 1784, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania,with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, class of 1800. He was one of theoriginal members of the company raised by Col. Clement C. Biddle, May26, 1813, known as the "State Fencibles;" and became captain of the same in 1814-15; was one of the committee appointed in 1813 to preparea plan of defense for the harbor and ports of the river Delaware. A member of the American Philosophical Society, and a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, from 1836 until his death, November 6, 1860. He married, December 15, 1818, Ellen, whose father, James Lyle, was born in Ireland, October 25, 1765, and settled in Philadelphia, where hemarried, October 17, 1792, Ann, daughter of Andrew and Abigail (Franks) Hamilton, of Philadelphia. Mr. Lyle was a merchant and senior member of the firm of Lyle & Newman. He had two daughters, Mary, married Henry, son of Sir John Beckett, and Ellen, married Hartman Kuhn. Mrs. Kuhn was born October 21, 1797, died February 8, 1852.

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