John Kirby
John Kirby was born on September 13, 1826, in Gloucester County, New Jersey, to John Kirby and Beulah Clark. His father was a farmer who owned $3,450 of real estate in 1850. The family lived in Gloucester County, and Kirby began working as a farmer by 1850. He married Harriet Fithian Garrison in Swedesboro, New Jersey, on March 23, 1854, and they had at least two children: Helen, born around 1855; and Catherine, born around 1856. The family moved to Mercer County, New Jersey, sometime before 1880, and Kirby worked as a physician there. He died there on February 27, 1897.
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(371)Kirby, John1826-09-131898-02-27
  • Conflict Side: Union
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  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 14

  • (560) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 3 February 1862
  • (563) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 23 February 1862
  • (566) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 31 March 1862
  • (570) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 3 August 1862
  • (573) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 26 October 1862
  • (581) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 23 May 1864
  • (582) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 31 May 1864
  • (585) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 19 July 1865
  • (587) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, May 1866
  • (588) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 5 May 1865
  • (592) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby and Harriet F. Kirby, 4 June 1871
  • (593) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 3 July 1872
  • (597) [recipient] ~ Amos F. Garrison II to John Kirby, 19 April 1874
  • (603) [writer] ~ John Kirby to Unknown, 13 April 1865

People - Records: 4

  • (371) Kirby, John is the [husband of] (370) Kirby, Harriet Fithian
  • (368) Garrison, Amos Fithian II is the [sibling-in-law of] (371) Kirby, John
  • (369) Garrison, Henry Clay is the [sibling-in-law of] (371) Kirby, John
  • (373) Garrison, Edmund Augustus is the [sibling-in-law of] (371) Kirby, John

Places - Records: 2

  • (576) [birth] ~ Gloucester County, New Jersey
  • (578) [death] ~ Mercer County, New Jersey

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SOURCES

1850, 1860, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; New Jersey Marriage Records, 1670-1965, available from Ancestry.com; New Jersey Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, available from Ancestry.com.