KENDALL, A. W.

KENDALL, BOWMAN, KEHN, NEWMAN, THOMPSON, HODGES, KEHN, ECHARD, LOCKARD, DONLEY, KELLEY

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Date: 1/18/2003 at 23:45:52

Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

A. W. KENDALL.

Among the citizens of Bloomfield township who devote their time and energies to
agricultural pursuits and are meeting with well deserved success in their labors is A. W. Kendall, who was born in Maquoketa, Iowa, on the 3d of May, 1857. His father, Richard Kendall, was a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was married in Maquoketa, to Miss Mary Francis Bowman, a native of Virginia. As a contractor and builder he was engaged in business in Maquoketa for six years, and then removed four miles east of that place, where he opened a stone quarry and conducted it until his death, which occurred May 22, 1890. In his political views he was a Democrat and in religious faith and Episcopalian. His wife died on the 8th of October, 1896, and was laid to rest by his side in the Maquoketa cemetery. They were the parents of five children, of whom our subject is the oldest. The others are as follows: Addie is the wife of J. H. Kehn, a farmer of Bloomfield township, Clinton county. Sarah is the wife of S. A. Newman, of Page county, Iowa. William married Laura Thompson, and is a carpenter and contractor of Chicago. He is also a professional musician. Mary is the wife of Richard Hodges, of Jackson county, Iowa.
A.W. Kendall received his education in the district schools of his native
township, which he attended until twenty-one years of age, and worked with his father in the stone quarry until his marriage, which was celebrated in Bloomfield township, this county, January 24, 1882, Miss Anna Kehn becoming his wife. She was born in that township, July 3, 1861, and is the daughter of Adam and Mary (Echard) Kehn, the former a native of Germany, the latter of Ohio, where they were married. The father, who was a carpenter by trade, brought his family to Clinton county, Iowa, in 1853, and purchased a farm of forty acres in Bloomfield township, to which he added until he had three hundred and twenty acres. Since 1882 he has lived a retired life in Delmar, enjoying the fruits of former labor. In politics he is a Republican. His wife died December 19, 1894, and her remains were interred in the Union church cemetery. In the family were eight children, namely: Peter, who died at the age of fourteen years; Mary Ellen, who died at the age of four; Elizabeth, wife of William Lockard, of Delmar; Jacob H., who married Addie E. Kendall, a sister of our subject, and resides on a farm in Bloomfield township; Anna, wife of our subject; Emma, wife of William Donley, of Delmar; George, who married Loretta Kelley, and lives in Greene county, Iowa; and Minnie, who died at the age of thirty-two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Kendall have ten children: Howard W., born November 21, 1882; Ernest H., May 30, 1884; Hattie V., November 25, 1885; Blanch M., January 24 1888; Ethel F., March 6, 1890; Richard R., September 5, 1892; Hazel L., November 15, 1893; Floyd C., January 1, 1896; Sylvia, M., February 22, 1898; and Albert D., January 29, 1900.

Mr. and Mrs. Kendall began their domestic life on the Kehn homestead. His first purchase of land consisted of eighty acres, to which he has added from time to time as his financial resources have permitted, until he now has two hundred and forty acres on section ten, Bloomfield township, which is improved with good buildings and under a high state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of raising thoroughbred Chested White hogs, and also Hereford cattle and Norman horses, and is regarded as one of the most progressive and up-to-date farmers of his community. That his fellow citizens place in him the utmost confidence is manifest by his being called upon to administer several estates. He attends the Methodist church, and exercises his right of franchise in support of the Democratic party and its principles. He has always faithfully discharged any duty devolving upon him.