I. C. Kemp
I. C. Kemp, farmer and stockman, P. O. London, was born in Maryland June 18, 1829. He is the son of Jacob and Julia (Lutton) Kemp, natives of Maryland, of Dutch dedcent. He received a common school education and since then has followed various occupations. His early life was spent with his parents. In 1855, he came to London, and for twenty years was engaged in the grocery business. In 1867, he began farming, and has since followed that avocation with good success now being the owner 202 acres of good well-improved land. He married Ellen Fullerton, by whom he had one child -- Albert, now living at Xenia. Mrs. Kemp died in 1862, and in 1866 he married Mrs. Margaret (Witherow) Rankin, by whom he had four children, viz. : Fulton, Findley, Charles and George. Mr and Mrs. Kemp are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in which he is a class-leader. He is an earnest advocate of total abstinence principles, and votes the Prohibition ticket. He is the proprietor of the London stock yards situated on the Little Miami Railroad, near London. These yards are conveniently situated, well watered and furnished with ample accommodations for any amount of stock that may be consigned to him. The proprietor is an experienced stockman, and attends promptly to all orders. He keeps annually an average of 7,000 head of cattle which are shipped to him to be sold at the London stock sales.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]