OTHER EARLY ARRIVERS
| Other branches of the family tree
were planted by Richard Kirkman who stepped ashore in Pennsylvania in 1682, another
Richard who landed in Philadelphia in 1725, and Sarah Kirkman who came to
America in 1772, apparently as a bonded servant girl. Elizabeth Kirkman did the
same in 1775, men named Henry and James landed in Philadelphia and Baltimore in the
early 1800s, and Christian Kirkemann arrived in New York in 1852. One of the northern Kirkmans established a widely known soap company in Brooklyn and Buffalo, NY in 1837 which sold bars of Kirkman Borax Soap and boxes of Kirkman Pure White Flakes, both used for washing laundry and dishes. Kirkman & Son was bought by Colgate-Palmolive in 1929 but Kirkman soap products were available in New York and New England until the mid-1950s |