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12361 David Palmer Kenyon, b 27 Dec. 1803; d 31 Jan. 1886; m 1st., 1828, Elizabeth Townley Crane, b 1 Sept. 1804; d 12 Mar. 1877; 2nd., Mary Wait (his cousin on Palmer side); d 8 Oct. 1883.
Children: 1st. Wife
123611 James Henry Kenyon, b 19 May 1829; d-; m-; left two sons, David and William.
12361a Sarah Crane Kenyon, b 14 Mar. 1832; d-.
123612 Job Kenyon, b 19 Nov. 1834; d-; m-; an only son Edward Bowne, died at Princeton University in the nineties.
123613 David Randolph Kenyon, b 30 Oct. 1836; d-; m-; had a son Charles Carhart who had only one daughter.
123614 Charles Spencer Kenyon, b 15 June 1843; d 10 June 1907; m Margaret W. Runyon, b 1845.
He was born at Nine Partners, Dutchess County, N. Y., and died at Raritan, New Jersey. In 1804, he was taken by his parents to Delaware County, N. Y., where he grew to manhood. He was a millwright and followed that occupation in various coun ties of New Jersey and Pennsylvania until the year 1840 and during that time erected and established a large number of mills. In 1839, he was engaged in the iron foundry business at Belvedere, Warren County, N. J., until 1844, when he took up a permanent residence in what later became Raritan, N. J., then known as “Water Power” with but three houses, his own which he soon erected being the fourth. Here he founded the Kenyon Iron Works which he successfully operated until 1864, when he retired from business life, handing over the enterprise to his sons, Job Crane Kenyon and David R. Kenyon, by whom it was carried on under firm name of Kenyon Brothers. According to the Somerset Quarterly Magazine, it was in this plant that a committee meeting decided upon the name of the town as Raritan, N. J. He was one of the founders of the Third Reformed Church of Raritan and one of its first elders, holding that office until his death. He was an active and leading worker in community and welfare work. It is due to the carefully kept records he preserved that this line of the Kenyon family maintained its connection to the immigrant ancestor. He appears to have been the first Kenyon to settle in New Jersey. His first wife was descended from the immigrant Stephen Crane, was the daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Miller) Crane and was born in the old Crane homestead in Elizabeth, N. J. She was named for her grandmother, Elizabeth Townley, who came there a bride (2nd. wife) of Caleb Crane in 1760. Elizabeth Townley was named for her grandmother, Elizabeth Smith of Smithtown, Long Island, who married 1st., Captain James Lawrence of Flushing; 2nd., Philip Carteret, first governor of New Jersey; 3rd., Colonel Richard Townley. The old homestead is still occupied by descendants of the builder.
David P. Kenyon was born at Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., N. Y., on Dec. 27, 1803. The year following his birth he was carried by his parents into the wilds of Delaware County, where, until he attained the age of twenty-one years and four months, he endured with them the privations of a pioneer life, and performed his part manfully in clearing up the wild tract upon which his father had settled. Soon after attaining his majority Mr. Kenyon apprenticed himself to Eliphalet Miller to learn the trade of a millwright. In 1828 he became a journeyman in the business, and on June 21st of that year he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Townley, daughter of Nathaniel Crane, of Elizabeth, N. J. She was born Sept. 1, 1804. lit 1830, Mr. Kenyon started in business himself, and followed the occupation of a millwright in various counties of New Jersey and Pennsylvania until the year 1840, and erected and established a large number of mills in that time. He engaged in the iron foundry business at Belvidere, Warren Co., N. J., where he remained until 1844, when he took up a permanent residence at Raritan, Somerset Co., then known as "the water-power." Here he founded the Kenyon IronWorks, which he successfully operated until 1868, when he retired from business life, handing the enterprise over to his sons, Job C. and Daniel It. Kenyon, by whom they are now carried on under the firm-name of Kenyon Brothers. Mr. Kenyon was one of the earliest residents of what is now the prosperous village of Raritan. When he settled but three houses stood there; his own followed soon after. He has been actively identified with the growth and development of the place for many years, and is one of the best known and most highly respected of its citizens. He is now the last of the old substantial residents of the village, and represents the industry, integrity, and energy of a past generation of workers. He has been associated with several building and loan associations at Raritan, and acted as president of the most successful. In politics Mr. Kenyon is a Democrat, though he held aloof from public office, and filled only the minor ones that were pressed upon him. He was one of the founders of the Third Reformed Church of Raritan NJ, and was one of its first elders, holding that office at the present writing (1880). Mrs. Kenyon died on March 12, 1877. His children are James Henry, who resides in Plainfield, N. J. ; Sarah C., wife of William A. Pembrook, of Elizabeth, N. J. ; Job C. and David It., manufacturers at Raritan and Charles S., of Toronto, Canada.
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