Researching John Kean
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2028 people with the Kean surname? In that year Kean was ranked number 1815 for popularity in the UK. |
The name John means "God is gracious" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of John Kean on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for John Kean and the Kean Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1818 people with the Kean surname in the UK? Kean is now ranked number 2460 for popularity in the UK. |
Kean Family History Databases
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Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on John Kean. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called John Kean
John Kean (New Jersey politician)
John Kean (December 4, 1852 – November 4, 1914) was an American attorney, banker and Republican Party politician from Elizabeth, New Jersey. He represented New Jersey in the U.S. Senate from 1899 to 1911 and served two separate terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1883 to 1885, and from 1887 to 1889. A member of the Kean family of politicians, his great-grandfather, John Kean, had been a delegate to the Continental Congress for South Carolina, his brother was U.S. Senator Hamilton Fish Kean, his nephew was U.S. Representative Robert Kean and his great-nephew was Governor Thomas Kean.
Source: John Kean (New Jersey politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
John Kean (Canadian politician)
John Kean (June 4, 1820 – May 31, 1892) was an Irish-Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented Simcoe East in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative from 1875 to 1879.
He was born in Bushmills, County Antrim, Ireland in 1820 and, in 1832, came to Halton County in Upper Canada, where his parents had settled in 1824. He settled at Brantford, where he worked as a millwright, building sawmills and gristmills in the region. In 1850, he married Mary Jordan and the couple moved to Orillia in 1852. Kean served as reeve for the townships of Orillia and Matchedash from 1862 to 1869 and was warden of Simcoe County in 1868. In 1869, with partners, he built a large sawmill at the outlet of the Hogg River at Victoria Harbour.
In 1880, he was sent by the Canadian government to the Fort Macleod area of the North-West Territories (NWT), where he built a number of sawmills, including one on Pincher Creek. He later worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1883, Kean settled at Lethbridge, NWT, where he built a lumber mill and operated a number of businesses. He died there in 1892.
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