where he resided with another daughter. He passed away in 1902, and the mother of our subject departed this life in 1887.
Adelbert Lee Kennedy came to Iowa with his parents and after receiving his education in the district schools continued upon the home farm until twenty years of age, when he began life upon his own account. At the age of twenty-seven years, having married, he established his home upon eighty acres of land which he purchased in Collins township. and to which he has added as his resources permitted until he now owns a beautiful farm of one hundred and sixty acres which yields a handsome revenue. He was for a number of years prominently identified with the breeding of thoroughbred Aberdeen Angus cattle, but during recent years has devoted his attention to cattle feeding, in which he has been highly successful
On the 21st of September, 1881, Mr. Kennedy was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Dawes, of Decatur county, Iowa, a daughter of John and Mary (Van Dorn) Dawes, the former of whom was born at Thomaston, Lincoln county, Maine, and the latter at Vans Valley, Delaware county, Ohio. Mr. Dawes in his early manhood removed to Delaware county and after his marriage was engaged in the mercantile business at Alexandria, Licking county, Ohio, for twenty years. Subsequently he took up his residence on the old Van Dorn homestead at Vans Valley, where he was engaged in farming for twenty years. He passed away in 1876, and in 1877 Mrs. Dawes came with her children to Decatur county, Iowa, but later removed to Bonhomme county, South Dakota, where she died in 1896. Mrs. Kennedy's grandfather, William Dawes, was one of three brothers who came to America from England, James locating in Pennsylvania, Edward in Virginia and William at Thomaston, Maine. The last named became United States revenue collector for the port of Thomaston and was known as one of the leading citizens of the place.
Unto Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy six children have been born, five of whom are now living: Mary L., now the wife of F. M. Hanson, state secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association at Des Moines, Iowa ; Magdalene, the wife of R. F. Balthis, a member of the United States government forest service? now located at Alamogordo, New Mexico; Maud O., the wife of L O. Schaub, head of the department of agronomy of the State Agricultural College at Raleigh, North Carolina; Laura D., who is now attending the conservatory of music of the Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois; and Bert L., a farmer of Collins township. Mr. Hanson and Mr. Balthis are both graduates of the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, and Professor Schaub is a graduate of a college in Tennessee.
Mr. Kennedy gives his adherence to the republican party and has served for a number of years in various township offices. He is a true friend of education and was for fifteen years a member of the school board, being treasurer of the board for twelve years. Mrs. Kennedy is also greatly