Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Jefferson Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   ALLEN W. KENOYER, carpenter, was born April 29, 1850, in Newton (then
Jasper) County, Indiana, and is a son of Rev. Jacob and Jane T. (Frame)
Kenoyer, the former a native of Indiana, the latter of Ohio.  The father
was a minister in the United Brethren Church for thirty years, and 
labored in Indiana and Illinois.  He died July 23, 1870, aged
forty-nine years, a pioneer of the county.  Mrs. Kenoyer is still living, 
aged sixty-two.  Her father, Col. James Frame, was a pioneer and 
favorably known in Eastern Illinois.  She is a sister of Thomas Frame, 
whose death by freezing, December 21, 1836, is referred to in the 
history of Iroquois County, Illinois.
   Allen W. Kenoyer was reared on the farm until he was seventeen years 
of age, when he went to college at Westfield, Illinois, two terms, and 
after taught one term, with good satisfaction.  November, 1871, he 
married Millie J. Littlejohn, of this county.  They have three children
-- Edith A., Centennial May, and Effie E.  The father is a member of the 
United Brethren, the mother of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Mr. 
Kenoyer has worked at carpentering the past two years, and is classed
among the finished workmen.  He is a Republican of the abolition school.

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