Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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CHARLES S. KENNEDY, M.D.

Many of the most successful physicians of the present generation, prepared for their profession and maintained themselves in college from their own personal earnings, the money which they had previously made in business. Charles S. KENNEDY, M. D., a prosperous and successful physician of Logan, Iowa, before he took up the study of medicine, was a successful registered pharmacist. The practice of medicine is peculiar in that the impulses that are likely to bring commercial success are inherently unselfish. The physician loses himself in his work to a greater extent, perhaps, than any other professional man. If material wealth come naturally � very well, if not, the physician is still satisfied with a mission that is larger and better than making a personal fortune. There is no physician in Harrison county who is more thoroughly unselfish and more conscientiously devoted to the science of medicine, than Charles S. KENNEDY, M. D., of Logan.

Charles S. KENNEDY, M. D., was born on December 23, 1868, in Jefferson township, Harrison county, Iowa. He is the son of David W. and Nellie J. (NEWMAN) KENNEDY, the former of whom was born April 11, 1838, in Athens county, Ohio, and the latter of whom was born August 10, 1841, in New York state.

David W. KENNEDY was the son of Charles KENNEDY, a native of Ireland, born April, 1790, and who came to America in 1821, locating at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was employed in the manufacture of hair trunks. He moved to Athens county, Ohio, in 1837, and here he remained until 1854, when he came to Crawford county, Iowa. In 1868 he came to Harrison county, where he remained the balance of his life. His wife was Elizabeth Armstrong, daughter of William and Jennie Armstrong.

David W. KENNEDY was first located on eighty acres of land in Jefferson township, Harrison county, Iowa. He was married on January 1, 1868, to Nellie J. NEWMAN, and died on May 27, 1900. Nellie J. NEWMAN was the daughter of Stephen F. and Lovina (KLOCK) NEWMAN, both natives of New York state.

To David W. and Nellie J. (NEWMAN) KENNEDY eight children were born. Dr. Charles S. was the eldest child; George M. was born on August 9, 1870; Merritt E., born December 15, 1871, died February 2, 1900; David E., May 13, 1874, and died on September 2, 1874; Lewis M., February 17, 1876, and died January 22, 1882; Minnie L., November 22, 1878; Mark B., August 31, 1881, and Nellie May, February 28, 1886. During all his life, David W. KENNEDY, the father of these children, was a farmer.

Charles S. KENNEDY, M. D., was educated in the common schools of Harrison county and in the high school at Logan. After leaving the Logan high school, he took a commercial course at Omaha, graduating on July 16, 1890. Following his graduation at Omaha, he took up the drug business and became a registered pharmacist on March 3, 1896. He then entered the John A. Creighton Medical College at Omaha, and was graduated with the class of 1902. Subsequently, he located at Logan and has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine since that time.

Doctor KENNEDY was married on September 12, 1900, to Esther, the daughter of Ingvert and Kate (SORENSEN) HANSEN, natives of Denmark, who located in Crawford county, Iowa, in an early day. Doctor and Mrs. KENNEDY have no children, but they have adopted a daughter, named Louise Grace.

Charles S. KENNEDY has been secretary of the Harrison County Medical Society for a number of years. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, is a Knight Templar, at Council Bluffs, and a member of the Shrine of Abu Bekr, at Sioux City. He is also a member of Ivanhoe Commandery, at Council Bluffs, and a member of the Royal Arch Masons, at Missouri Valley. Likewise, Doctor KENNEDY is a member of the order of the Eastern Star. He has filled all the chairs in the local and state grand chapter, and at present, is worthy grand patron of the grand lodge of Iowa.

Doctor KENNEDY considers himself a Progressive-Republican, but believes the man and the issue should be paramount to party affiliation. He is an adherent to the fortunes of Senator Cummings. He is a member of the Reorganized Latter-Day Saints church. Doctor KENNEDY is the efficient editor of the medical chapter of this volume, and in this work has performed valuable service to the people of Harrison county.

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