My Genealogy Hound

LEONARD KEARNS, retired, post office Mansfield Valley, was born in Temperanceville borough, Allegheny county, Pa., in 1815. His grandfather, James Kearns, came from Ireland to America about 1780, locating in Allegheny county, Pa., purchased two hundred acres of land, and followed farming. He had eleven children, three sons and eight daughters. Thomas, the second son, was born in 1783, and died in 1867. He married Rebecca Calley, and by her had fifteen children. He was a farmer, and owned a part of the property which his father purchased. Leonard Kearns, his eldest child, was born and reared on a farm. At the age of seventeen years he learned the trade of blacksmith, which he followed all his life. He came to Mansfield, and worked at one place for thirty-three years. In 1843 he married Rosanna, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Farley) Bell, and they have two children: Elizabeth, now Mrs. S. H. Patterson, and Thomas J., who married Lizzie Waker, of Ireland. Mr. Kearns has retired from active work at the anvil, and his son now takes charge of the place where his father labored for thirty-three years. Mr. Kearns is a member of the town council; of the Presbyterian Church; politically a republican.