Ancestry of
James S. Kemper

Founder, Kemper Insurance Cos.

James Scott Kemper

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Hathaway Kemper 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Jessie Scott   
  • Birth Date:
  • 18 Nov 1886 
  • Birth Location:
  • Van Wert, Van Wert Co., Ohio 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1981 
  • Death Location:
  • Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum, Chicago, Cook, Illinois 
  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Kemper Insurance Companies

• Marriages for James Scott Kemper

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  • Spouse:
  • Mildred Hooper
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1891
  • Marriage Location:
  • Illinois

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  • Spouse:
  • Gertrude Ziesing

• Sources for James Scott Kemper

  • ¹ Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois), 19 SEP 1981, p. 68, Obituary for James S Kemper.
  • ² Germanna Foundation Database of Descendants, ID-I049864, Record for James Scott Kemper.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/29/2021).
  • ⁴ Illinois, U.S., Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947, Death record for spouse Mildred H Kemper.
  • ⁵ Ohio, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973, Birth record for James Scott Kemper.
  • ⁶ Chicago Historical Society, Encyclopedia of Chicago: Kemper Corp., (accessed 04/29/2021).
  • ⁷ Kemper, Willis Miller and Harry Linn Wright, Genealogy of the Kemper Family in the United States: Descendants of John Kemper of Virginia, Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt and Co., Printers (1899), 199.
  • ⁸ McComb, Virginia Mary, Kemper Records (1946): A Supplement to The Kemper Family (1899), Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: n.p. (1946), 133.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "James S. Kemper", (accessed 04/29/2021).