Charles Kemp was born in West Kent county, England.

The evidence

• “Charles Kemp, for more than half a century a resident of Wisconsin and one of her substantial farmers and representative men, was born in West Kent county, England, August 20, 1826, and is one of a family of nine children born to William and Lydia”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34c-biographical-3.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 468 / book p. 956

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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