Kennedy, J. M.

KENNEDY, TROTH

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Date: 12/4/2008 at 11:20:17

KENNEDY, J. M.; firm of Kennedy & Kelsey, dealers in hardware, furniture and coffins, Walnut street; res. Howard street, Colfax; born in Washington Co., Penn. in 1838; came to Jasper Co. in 1867. Married Miss Anna M. TROTH in October 1877; she was born in Highland Co., OHio in 1853. Republican in politics. Has held the office of Town Treasurer; has been a member of the Board of DIrectors. Members of the Presbyterian Church. Enlisted in teh 1st Penn. Cav. in 1861; participated in the battles of Wilderness, was all through the battle of Gettysburg, and all the principal battles of the Eastern army; was mustered out at Philadelphia in September 1864. ~ "Washington Township Biographies," The History of Jasper County, Iowa, (Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878)