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KENNEDY, Andrew, representative, was born in Dayton, Oliio, July 24, 1810. His father removed to the wilderness of Indiana near where Lafayette now stands. Tiring of farm life Andrew went to Connersville, Ind., where he became a blacksmith, which trade he followed until he was nineteen, when an accident pre- vented further manual labor, and he first learned to read and write. He soon acquired a fair edu- cation through private study and the aid of a Mr. Parker, who gave him the use of his library. He was admitted to the bar and removed to Muncie, where he practised law. In 1836 he was elected to the state senate to fill a vacancy and he was re-elected for a full term. He was an elector on the Democratic ticket in 1840 ; a representative from Indiana in the 27th, 28th and 29th congresses, 1841-47, and a candidate for the U.S. senate in December, 1847. John Quincy Adams called him "the greatest natural orator in America." He died in Muncie, Ind., Dec. 31, 1847.

KENNEDY, Anthony, senator, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 21, 1811. He removed with his parents to Charlestown, Va., in 1821 ; was a student at Jefferson academy, and was admitted to the bar. He engaged in the manufacture of cotton at New Orleans, La., and in planting in Virginia. He was a representative in the Vir- ginia legislature, 1839-43, and a Whig candidate for presidential elector and for representative in the 39th congress in 1848. He returned to Balti- more, Md., in 1850, and was elected a representa- tive in the state legislature in 1856. He was elected to the U.S. senate, serving, 1857-63, and was a delegate to the Maryland state constitu- tional convention of 1867. He died in Annapo- lis, Md., July 31, 1892.

KENNEDY, Crammond, lawyer and author, was born at North Berwick, Scotland, Dec. 29, 1842 ; son of Alexander and Mary (Blair) Ken- nedy. He was educated in his native place and at Edinburgh and came to America with his mother, after his father's death, settling in New York city in 1856. He attended night school and delivered religious addresses, 1857-60, to large audiences, and was widely known as " the boy preacher." He studied at Madison university, New York, 1861-63 ; was chaplain of the 79th New York regiment (Highlanders), 1863-64, and was brevetted major for services in East Ten- nessee and in the Wilderness. He lectured in England and Scotland on the civil war, 1864- 65 ; was connected with the Freedmen's Com- mission in the south, and was secretary of the New York branch of that society, 1865-67. He became owner and editor of the Church Union in 1869, and merged it in the Christian Union in connection with Henry Ward Beecher the same year, becoming its managing editor in

1870. He was graduated LL.B. from Columbia in 1878, and practised law in New York city, 1878-86, and in Washington, D.C., from 1886, representing Messrs. Coudert Bros., of New York. He is the author of : James Stanley, a prize Sunday-school story (1859) ; Corn in the Blade, verse (1860) ; Close Communion or Open Com- munion (1869) ; The Liberty of the Press, a prize essay (1873) ; Some Phases of the Haivaiian Question (1893), and various contributions to the press, mostly on questions of international law.

KENNEDY, James Ferguson, educator, was born at Greenwich, N.J., Sept. 27, 1824 ; son of Dr. Stewart and Ann (Ferguson) Kennedy. grandson of William and Sarah (Stewart) Ken- nedy and of James and Agnes (Darrah) Fer- guson ; and greats-grandson of Robert Kennedy, who came from the north of Ireland with his brother William early in the eighteenth century and settled in Bucks county. Pa. James F. Kennedy was graduated at Lafayette in 1839, studied medicine, which he abandoned for the ministry, and was graduated at Princeton The- ological seminary in 1847. He was ordained by the presbytery of Luzerne, Dec. 12, 1848 ; was pastor at Berwick, Pa., 1848-50 ; principal of Chambersburg academy, 1851-55 ; and pastor at Dickinson, Pa., 1855-59. He became entirely blind in 1856, and was teacher of languages at Chambersburg academy, 1859-67, at a private school, 1867-70 ; professor of ancient languages in Wilson college, 1870-76, and vice-president of the college, 1873-76. He gained recognition as a theologian and oriental scholar. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lafayette college in 1872. He is the author of Commentaries on Habakknk and Zejihaniah, nnd translated a bibli- cal geography from the German for the Sunday- school union (1847). In 1901 he resided in Cham- bersburg, Pa.

KENNEDY, John Pendleton, cabinet officer, was born in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 25, 1795. He was graduated from Baltimore college (Univer- sity of Maryland) in 1812, served in the army during the war of 1812 and participated in the actions at Bladensburg and North Point. He was admitted to the bar in 1816, and was a delegate to the state legislature, 1821-23. He wrote a review of Churchill C. Cambreleng's "Commerce and Navigation " (1830), which was widely circulated. In 1831 he was sent as a delegate from Maryland to the national convention of the friends of man- ufacturing industry, and drafted an address set- ting forth the protectionist view of the situation. He was a representative in the 25th, 27th and 28th congresses, 1837-39 and 1841-45, was chairman of the committee on commerce, and was a presiden- tial elector in 1840. He was a member and speaker of the Maryland house of delegates in