Kennedy, J. R.

KENNEDY, WILCOX

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/15/2013 at 08:03:37

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

KENNEDY, J.R. - Grinnell Twp - pg 907-8. Dentist, Grinnell. Was born in Ohio April 23, 1829, and was there raised. Attended the Oberlin College, graduating therefrom in August, 1853, and also graduated from the theological department of the same college in 1857. He preached for about fifteen years, and then commenced the practice of dentistry, which he had studied in Oberlin. His life since that time has been devoted to his profession. In the spring of 1871 he came to Poweshiek county, locating in this city, and is now doing the largest business in his line in the county. During the late war he was an aid in the Christian Commission in different places in the South. His marriage was in Oberlin, June 17, 1857, to Miss Deborah Wilcox, also a graduate of Oberlin College. They have four children.