James Kennedy (b. 1819)

KENNEDY, DWYER, SNELL

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 9/21/2002 at 20:48:57

Kennedy, James, farmer, Section 2 (Fairfield township); PO Brush Creek; owns 360 acres, valued at $8,500; born in Ireland in 1819; came to America in 1847; settled in Vermont, where he married Catherine Dwyer May 24, 1848; their children are John J., born Sept. 16, 1849 and Margaret Ann, born Nov. 21, 1850, and now married to C. B. Snell; a Democrat and Catholic.

Page 609, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"