KALB, GEORGE E., was born in 1851, in Rushville, Ohio; he is the editor and proprietor of the Thornville News and the Junction City Advocate, both weekly, and both published in Perry county. He is a son of Elijah Kalb, a native of Washington county, Maryland, who settled in Rushville in 1837, where he engaged in the drug trade, and served as post master thirty-five consecutive years.
His birth was in 1803, and in 1829 he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca, daughter of James Tenant, Sharpsburg, Virginia. This gentleman ran off from England in his boyhood, and in after life became the owner of a line of steamers, and large tracts of land near Sharpsburg, Virginia. His steamers were captured, his houses and fences were burned by the soldiery during the Rebellion, and after the war ended he found his splendid fortune wrecked in the whirlpool of revolution. He lived to the year 1866, and died at the age of eighty, near Shepardstown, a poor man in fortune, but rich in all the elements of manhood which values convictions of right and duty more highly than gold or lands.
Elijah Kalb died in May, 1876, ten years after his father-in-law, and Mrs. Kalb is still living, at the age of seventy. The family were strict members of the M. E. Church, and Mr. Kalb was a sincere, upright and honest citizen, and carried to his grave the homage ever paid to sterling worth.
According to Daniel G. Kalb, of Springfield, Illinois, Elijah's family is connected with that of the Baron de Kalb, of Revolutionary fame---exactly how is not at hand now to state. The brother of George E. Kalb, and son of Elijah is Mayberry, a carpenter, Rushville, Ohio. Three sisters are all married and live in Rushville, except one in Zanesville. In 1874 George E. was married to Miss Ruth A. Siniff, daughter of Jacob Siniff, Sr., who died at the age of eighty years. The children of this marriage are Charles de Kalb and Roy de Kalb, of Rushville, the spelling and the naming being intended to assert the title of these sons to the form used by their ancient relative, the Baron de Kalb.