My Genealogy Hound

ROBERT KANE. Among the descendants of the people whose lives are spent amid the beautiful lakes and hills of Ireland, the “Emerald Isle of the Sea,” we enroll the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. Robert Kane, a son of Thomas and Mary (Conigham) Kane, was born on the 10th day of June, 1852, his native city being Dunkirk, Chautauqua county, New York. Charles Kane (paternal grandfather) was a native of Ireland, where he lived until summoned to another and a better world. The maternal grandfather of Robert Kane, James Conigham, was also a native of Ireland, where he spent his entire life. Thomas Kane (father) was born in Ireland, but emigrated to “the land of the free and the home of the brave” in 1845, and located where he landed, in the city of New York. He resided here a few years, and deciding he could better his fortunes by seeking “fresh fields and pastures new,” removed to Dunkirk, this State, in 1860. For the past few years he has been a resident of Jamestown, his occupation being that of a boiler-maker, in which he is accounted a skillful workman. Politically he is a democrat, and in his religious convictions Roman Catholic, being a member of that church. He married Mary Conigham and has had seven children, two of whom have passed away to realms above, two reside in this county, one son is a resident of Erie, Pa., and a son and a daughter reside in Colorado.

Robert Kane was reared in Dunkirk, where he received a common school education and began the industrial era of his life by learning the same trade that has provided a livelihood for his father, that of a boiler-maker, and when he located in Jamestown, in 1886, he engaged in that business in a large building on Seventh, Eighth and Monroe streets, manufacturing all kinds of boilers, and employing in their construction sixty men. Mr. Kane is also interested in the oil-producing business in Pennsylvania. He votes and works for the success of the Republican ticket, and is a member of the Roman Catholic church.

Robert Kane married, in December, 1881, Jennie H. Arthur, of Kane, Pa., and to them have been born five children, two sons and three daughters: Mary Cecelia, Frank, Robert, Jr., Beatrice and Rose, all living in Jamestown, the paternal home.