JAMES M. KERN, son of Aaron and Mary Ann (Buck) Kern, was born April 1, 1869, in Washington township. He was educated in the public schools, supplemented by a course in a business college, graduating in 1893. He was employed successively as a bookkeeper and clerk for various firms, and was with Koch Brothers for eight years. In 1907, he removed to Slatington, and took up farming on the Elias Remaly place of 35 acres. Mr. Kern is quite devoted to stock raising and dairying. In politics he is a Democrat. He is a member of Slatington Lodge, No. 440, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master by merit. The family are members of St John's Reformed church, Slatington, of which he was a deacon for four years and financial secretary five years.

James M. Kern married (first) Cora E. Remaly, daughter of Elias and Fianna (Schosse) Remally, born in 1876. Mrs. Cora E. Kern was killed in a railroad accident, August 22, 1900, at Benninger's crossing, on the Lehigh and New England Railroad. James M. Kern married second) in 1902, Ida S. Rauch, daughter of Andrew Rauch, of Cetronia, Pa.