F. F. KIRK, proprietor of the Hotel Lafayette, Driftwood, was born in Lycoming county, Penn., March 6, 1842, and is a son Joseph and Maria (BLAKER) KIRK. He was reared and educated in his native county, and was in the Civil war, enlisting May 30, 1861, in Company C., First Pennsylvania Rifles, Forty-second Volunteer "Bucktails;" was wounded in the hip at Fredericksburg, Va. December 13, 1862; was taken prisoner, and was in Libby prison twenty-seven days, when he was paroled, and later exchanged; was again taken prisoner at Bethesda Church, May 30, 1864; paroled December 23, 1864, after spending time in Libby, Danville, Salisbury, Andersonville, Charleston and Florence prisons. He was sergeant of his company, and was honorably discharged from the service July 3, 1865. In 1867 he engaged in lumbering, and was fourteen years in the business at Williamsport, Penn. In February, 1883, he became manager of the DuBois House, at DuBois, Penn., which he successfully conducted two years, and in January, 1885, he took charge of the Hotel Lafayette, at Driftwood, of which he has since been the efficient and popular proprietor. He was married March 1, 1864, to Ophelia a., daughter of Thomas and Anna (BOWMAN) HARRISON, of Northumberland county, Penn., by whom he had five children:

Fred S.
Matthias H.
Carrie (deceased)
William H.
F. Roy

Mr. KIRK is a member of the I.O.O.F. and G.A.R.; has always been an active Republican, and in August, 1889, was a delegate to the State convention at Harrisburg. He held several offices in the city of Williamsport, and has been burgess of Driftwood for one term.

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