ALBERT KINDER, general farmer and tobacco grower, owns eighty acres of farm land in Lost Creek Township, Miami County, which lies on the Addison and Casstown Turnpike and on the Springfield and and Troy Electric Railroad, about six miles west of the latter city. Mr. Kinder was born on a farm in Warren County, Ohio, April 3, 1848, and is a son of John and Sarah (Maxwell) Kinder, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania and the latter in Ohio. He is a grandson of Abraham Kinder, who settled in Warren County, Ohio, in 1800, and the farm is still in the Kinder name, belonging to a brother of Albert, named John.

Albert Kinder was left an orphan in boyhood, losing his mother when he was only five years old, and his father two years later. He was reared in Warren County and trained to be a farmer. He moved from there in February, 1872, and settled on a rented farm in Staunton Township, Miami County, and in 1886 he came to his present place, finding it in great need of improvement. He erected his residence, his substantial barns and his commodious tobacco shed and now has a very valuable and desirable property. He gives considerable attention to producing tobacco.

In January, 1878, Mr. Kinder was married, in Miami County, to Miss Lettie Rusk, who died October 12, 1907. She was a daughter of William Rusk. Five children were born to this union, namely: William, who graduated in civil engineering in the Ohio Normal University, at Ada, in 1904, and is engaged in professional work in Montana; Effie; Albert, who is filling a position as bookkeeper in a business house in Texas; and John and Mary. Mr. Kinder takes no very active part in politics, although he is ever ready to perform every duty of good citizenship.