KENDALL, GEO.

KENDALL, JOHNSON

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 08:49:06

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

GEO. KENDALL, plumber, gas and steam fitter, and dealer in guns, revolvers and sporting goods, 519 Second street ; was born in England Oct. 1, 1850; came to America when only 5 years of age, coming to Davenport, Iowa, the same year, and lived there five years ; he learned his trade in Rock Island, and came to Clinton in April, 1874, and engaged in his present business, and is building up a good trade, doing the largest part of the plumbing and gas-fitting that is done here. He was married in Rock Island Aug. 1,1874, to Miss Florence H. Johnson, a native of England; they have two children-Pearl and Alice, and have lost one daughter.