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Mr. Kennedy was always loath to assume any office, but consented occasionally to the use of his name. He was vice-presi- dent and treasurer of the Scots Chari- table Society a number of years. He was director of the Highland Street Railway Company, a member of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., and several charitable societies.
DONALD KENNEDY
Mr. Kennedy was something besides a manufacturer and dispenser of medicines. His taste for the beautiful in nature and art was acute. He wrote some very enter- taining letters from abroad to the " Rox- bury Home Journal."
Though educated a Presbyterian, he was possessed of the broadest liberality in his religious views, and in practice he ever maintained a generous attitude toward all
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denominations. Like many Highlanders, he believed he had at times the gift of the " Seer." This induced him to take an interest in the investigation of modern Spiritualism. His desire was to "prove all things, and hold fast that which is good."
In the death of Donald Kennedy, which occurred in Washington, D. C., March 15, 1889, at the age of seventy-seven years, after a very brief illness, the city of Boston lost a citizen valued, respected and beloved. Generous to a fault, his charities partook of no ostentatious coloring. No really destitute man ever applied to him for help in vain. His heart was always warm to the unfortunate and deserving poor, and the widow and fatherless had in him at all times a sympathizing friend.
KENRICK, JOHN, only son of John and Rebecca (Sparrow) Kenrick, was born in Orleans, Barnstable county, August 9, 1819.
He is a lineal descendant of Edward Kenrick, who came from Yorkshire, Eng., about 1644, and settled in the southerly portion of Orleans (then Harwich), and Richard Sparrow and his wife Pandora, who came from Kent county, Eng., about 1633, settled first at Plymouth, about 1650, removed, and settled in that portion of Orleans then known as Eastham.
His education was obtained in the public schools of his native town, attending only the winter terms after the age of twelve, and working on his father's Cape Cod farm the balance of the year, with two short terms in the Orleans Academy.
At the age of nineteen he commenced teaching a district school in winter - farm- ing in summer. In 1840 he opened a country store at his home, which he sold in 1850 and re-purchased in 1867. He has continued working his farm for amuse- ment, and trading to obtain funds to carry on the farm.
His fellow-townsmen have for more than forty years called him to positions of trust in the municipal affairs of the town- as selectman and assessor for fourteen years, school committeeman for twenty-five years, and superintendent of schools for eight years, up to 1888. He was an earnest advocate for the town's accepting the be- quest for the establishment of the Snow Free Library, and was chairman of the board of trustees to 1888.
In 1850 Mr. Kenrick was appointed a trial justice by Governor Briggs. From his distaste for the duties, he has repeat- edly declined being considered a candidate under the more recent law.
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In 1852 he was elected representative to the Legislature, and, although a known and pronounced Whig, he had the rare compliment of receiving every vote polled. He was returned in 1853. In 1855-'56 he was a member of the executive council of Governor Gardner.
Mr. Kenrick was a member and chair- man of the commission on the protection of Provincetown Harbor, under a resolve
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of the Legislature of 1857, and the sugges- tions in his report were substantially carried out by the general government.
He has been an active member, and one of the executive committee of the Barn- stable County Agricultural Society from its creation, and its delegate to the state board of agriculture for a term of years.
By pen and influence, Mr. Kenrick has taken an advanced position as to the imper- ative necessity for the protection of the forests of the country, and was instru- mental in bringing to the attention of the Legislature the necessity for more strin- gent enactments for the protection of for- ests against fire. Principally through his efforts the law of 1882 was enacted. He has been a trustee of the Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank since 1876.
Mr. Kenrick was united in marriage with Thankful, daughter of Joshua and Sally
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(Freeman) Crosby, at Orleans, July 30, 1843. Their children are : Sophia, Emma, Clara, Rebecca, Eva, Alice T., and John Kenrick, Jr. Joshua Crosby, the father of Mrs. Kenrick, was on the "Constitution " in the action with the "Guerrière," and with Perry in his victory on Lake Erie.
The residence of Mr. Kenrick is in the southern portion of Orleans, on the pater- nal farm which came to him by direct descent, acquired by his ancestors prior to 1670, of which he has in his possession the title deeds from the Indians.
KENT, DANIEL, son of D. Waldo and Harriet N. (Grosvenor) Kent, was born in Leicester, Worcester county, January 2, 1853, where he now resides, the old homestead being a part of the tract bought by Ebenezer Kent, of Hingham, in 1743.
Passing through the public schools, Mr. Kent entered Leicester Academy, where he fitted for Amherst College, enter- ing in 1871, and graduating in 1875.
He then studied law in the Boston Uni- versity law school and the office of Charles W. Turner. He was admitted to practice in 1880. His study of law had been for the acquisition of legal knowledge rather than for its practice as a profession, and after spending a year in Philadelphia, he returned to Leicester in 1882, and associ- ated himself with his brother in the woolen business, manufacturing satinets.
Having only a small capital, they began in a very modest way, utilizing for their factory-building an old saw-mill built by their father. In 1883 they determined to build a suitable building, and the push and energy displayed are best evidenced by the fact that from the shutting down of the machinery in the old mill to the start- ing up of the same in the new building, built upon the site of the old, but sixteen days had intervened. This building was a wooden structure, three stories high, forty feet by eighty. It was not until the fall of 1884 that they increased their machinery. In December, 1886, they pur- chased the large brick factory at James- ville, three miles from Worcester on the Boston & Albany R. R.
The factory in Leicester is run under the name of the Lakeside Manufacturing Company, the one at Jamesville under the firm name of P. G. Kent & Company. At Lakeside they have built up a pretty factory village. From one of the smallest concerns manufacturing satinets in the United States, they have risen to be the largest.
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Mr. Kent has always been too closely confined to business to mingle much in politics. He has been a member of the school board three years, selectman, chair- man of the Republican town committee. In 1887 he established an annual prize of one hundred dollars at Amherst for the best senior essay on English or American literature.
KIMBALL, JOHN FRANCIS, son of John and Hannah (King) Kimball, was born in Tewksbury, Middlesex county, September 23, 1824.
He received his early education in the common schools of Lowell, Lowell high school, and the academies of New Ipswich, N. H., and Centralville, Lowell.
Soon after the death of his father, which occurred in August, 1838, he found employ- ment as book-keeper in a grocery store in Lowell, where he remained but a few months. His next place was with a dealer in mill supplies, who soon went out of busi- ness, having first secured for his young clerk a position with Baxter & Bennett, then the leading merchant tailors of Lowell. He remained with them about four years, when he was appointed clerk in the Lowell post-office. Here he remained nine years. He rose to chief clerk, and resigned upon his election as city treasurer. He was then twenty-seven years old, and held the office by annual re-elections for five years. No- vember 1, 1855, he assumed the duties of cashier of the Appleton National Bank, which position he held until elected its president, in 1876.
Mr. Kimball was married in Wilton, N. H., August 27, 1846, to Clara, daughter of Isaac and Betsey (Foster) Blanchard. They have no children.
He was treasurer and collector of Lowell for five years (1851 to '55 inclusive), three years member of the common council - president of the council two years - treas- urer of the associated charities of Lowell since 1881, director and vice-president of the People's Club the past ten years, three years superintendent of the Unitarian Sunday-school, several years member and chairman of 'the standing committee of the Unitarian church, and two years presi- dent of the North Middlesex Conference of Unitarian and other liberal Christian churches; also for two years member of the board of directors of the American Unitarian Association. He has served as a trustee of the Lowell Five Cents Savings Bank since its organization. He was also trustee of the City Institution for Savings until the law was passed precluding a per-
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son from being trustee for two savings banks at the same time,
He was for ten years director of the Lowell & Lawrence R. R., also Salem & Lowell R. R. five years, until both these roads were. absorbed by the Boston & Lowell R. R. He is treasurer of the Mon- son R. R. (Maine); also treasurer of the Ministry at Large in Lowell. He has been a director of the Traders' & Mechanics' Insurance Company of Lowell for six years.
Mr. Kimball's life has been a busy one, but since his connection with the bank, several prolonged vacations have resulted in extensive travel in this country and Europe.
KIMBALL, WILLIAM WASHINGTON, son of William M. and Abigail (Jones) Kim- ball, was born September 30, 1835, in Massena, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
He was educated in the public schools of that county, and was graduated from the state normal school at Albany, N. Y., in 1856.
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He was engaged in teaching in the public schools at Whitesborough, Oneida county, N. Y., from 1856 to 1858. He then was employed in the house of John P. Squire & Co., Boston, and became a member of that firm in September, 1860.
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In 1873 he retired from active business and passed three years in recreation and travel. In 1876 he founded the house of W. W. Kimball & Co., provisions and steamer supplies, Boston, which still con- tinues to do a large and prosperous busi- ness. In January, 1879, he was elected president of the Fourth National Bank of Boston, which position he still holds.
Mr. Kimball was married in West Cam- bridge (now Arlington), November 18, 1860, to Nancie Boynton, daughter of Gad and Sarah (Kimball) Orvis. Of this union were three children, of whom but one is living : George W. Kimball.
Mr. Kimball still retains his membership in the Park Street church of Boston, although his residence is in Arlington.
KING, GEORGE, was born in Roches- ter, Plymouth county, July 5, 1822, and was educated in the public schools of the Commonwealth, with the exception of a four years' academic course. During this time and the year subsequent, he taught school in his own and adjoining towns. During a three years' course of the study of medicine he attended lectures at the medical college in Pittsfield, also two full courses of lectures at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, New York City, from which he graduated in 1847.
Dr. King practiced medicine and surgery in the town of Middleborough from 1847 to '57, then removed to his present place of residence, Franklin, where he has since practiced, with the exception of nearly three years in which he held a surgeon's commission in the army.
Dr. King was married October 13, 1852, in Middleborough, to Lucy A, daughter of William S. Eddy, Of this union are two children, now living : Jennie M. and Frances E. King.
Dr. King is a member of the Republican town committee, and of the Franklin Im- provement Society, and has been twelve years member of the school committee, having at different times held the position of chairman. In the army he was assist- ant-surgeon, 16th regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and afterward surgeon of the 29th regiment. He has been a director of the Benjamin Franklin Savings Bank in Franklin, and is a director of the Franklin Library Association. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, also the Norfolk county and Thurber Medical Society.
Dr. King is interested in every progres- sive movement, and is a prominent temper- ance man, being a member of the Massa-
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chusetts Total Abstinence Society, and was a member of the Temperance Alliance while it existed.
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While serving in the army of the Poto- mac he was captured, and while at Peters- burgh, Va., acted as hospital-surgeon, hav- ing care of the Union prisoners there. He was thence transferred to Libby Prison, from which he was exchanged, and re- ceived an honorable discharge from the army, May 15, 1865.
KING, JAMES PUTNAM, son of Samuel and Hannah (Goodell) King, was born in that part of Danvers which is now Peabody, Essex county, November 8, 1817.
He attended the district school until seventeen years of age, then worked on his father's farm until the age of twenty- two, when he commenced his career as a farmer on his own account, by working on shares a most excellent farm in the neigh- borhood. By his great physical powers, temperate habits, industry and prudence, he became one of the most successful farmers in the county, and his life has answered emphatically in the affirmative that question so often asked by agricultural writers and speakers, " Does farming pay ?" For twenty-five years he contributed his own vegetable products to the Salem market.
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Mr. King early took an interest in the Abolition cause, was a Whig in politics, and has been a strong Republican since the formation of that party. He was a member of the lower branch of the Legis- lature in 1854 ; has been overseer of the poor for thirty-four consecutive years, and a trustee or vice-president of the Essex Agricultural Society for more than twenty years.
Mr. King is a forcible and effective speaker, and his long practical experience enables him to add much interest to the discussions at farmers' institutes, and being a strictly temperate man in principle and practice, he renders efficient aid to the temperance cause.
His judgment of farm property is valued so highly that his services are in frequent demand as an appraiser.
On April 2, 1840, he married Wealthy M., daughter of James and Sally (Coombs) Ferrin, of Madison, N. H., by whom he had two sons : James A. and Samuel W. Mrs. King died August 7, 1878. He was again united in marriage, at Peabody, on December 2, 1880, to Mrs. Elizabeth A. Bancroft, a sister of his first wife.
KINGMAN, HOSEA, son of Philip D. and Betsey (Washburn) Kingman, was born in Bridgewater, Plymouth county, April II, 1843.
After his early training in the public schools, he attended Bridgewater Academy, also Appleton Academy, Ipswich, N. H. He then entered Dartmouth College, but when the war of the rebellion broke out, he enlisted in company K, 3d regiment, Massachusetts volunteers, and was mus- tered into service, September 22, 1862. After serving one year, he returned to col- lege, made up his junior work during his senior year, and was graduated with his class in 1864.
He studied law with William Latham, with whom, after his admission to the bar, he went into partnership, under the firm name of Latham & Kingman. When Mr. Latham retired (1871) Mr. Kingman re- taincd the business, and is now in practice. January, 1887, he began his term as dis- trict attorney.
Mr. Kingman was married in Carver, June 23, 1866, to Carrie, daughter of Heze- kiah and Deborah (Freeman) Cole. Of this union is one child : Agnes C. King- man.
Mr. Kingman is a trustee of Plymouth County Pilgrim Historical Society, also trustee of Bridgewater Academy. He re- ceived the appointment of special justice of
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the Ist district court of Plymouth county, November 12, 1878. He was elected com- missioner of insolvency in 1884, and every year since, until this was prohibited by his holding his present position of district at- torney.
Mr. Kingman is a prominent member of the order of Free Masonry.
In September, 1862, he accompanied his regiment to Newbern, N. C. December, 1862, he was detailed on signal service, and went to Port Royal, S. C., thence to Folly Island, Charleston Harbor, and on June 22, 1863, was mustered out of the service.
KINGSBURY, ALBERT DEXTER, son of John Wright and Elizabeth Ann (Upham) Kingsbury, was born in Brookline, Norfolk county, November 8, 1842.
He attended the public schools of New- ton ; prepared for college at Fisk's Acad- emy, Newton. July, 1862, he enlisted in company K, 32d Massachusetts volun- teers, for three years. After the battle of Gettysburg, July, 1863, he was detailed on staff duty at headquarters, 5th army corps, and served till the close of the war, 1865. He was elected the first commander of Galen Orr Post No. 181, G. A. R., and re- elected to a second term.
He studied medicine at the Georgetown Medical College, D. C., and was graduated M. D., March, 1869. In May, 1869, he was appointed house physician of Howard University Hospital, D. C., which office he filled in connection with his private prac- tice till the fall of 1870, when he was sum- moned home by the death of his father. January, 1871, he established himself in practice in Needham, where he has re- mained up to the present time.
Dr. Kingsbury was married in Boston, June 2, 1875, to Julia Emma, daughter of Edmond B. and Charlotte (Folsom) Fow- ler. Of this union are two children : Char- lotte Hatch and Alberta Beatrice Kings- bury.
Dr. Kingsbury was one of the trustees of the Appleton Temporary Home, and its visiting physician and surgeon; has been the superintendent of the Sabbath-school ; chairman of the parish committee of the Congregational society ; one of the state medical examiners ; chairman of the town board of health for three years, declining a re-election on the board. He is a mem- ber of the Massachusetts Medical Society, having been elected a counselor of the society for three successive years.
He was appointed by the state board of health, correspondent for the board for the
towns of Needham and Dover. Dr. Kings- bury has never become engrossed in poli- tics, but has confined himself to his large and growing practice.
He is a staunch temperance man. He belongs to the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, and is interested in several co- operative orders. He is a public-spirited citizen, always supporting and frequently leading in movements tending to the im- provement of the town. He was chairman of the committee of citizens appointed by the town to erect a new railroad station in connection with the New York & New
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England Railroad Company. He has him- self built one of the largest blocks of Need- ham, and is active in the development of its material prosperity.
KINGSLEY, CHESTER WARD, son of Moses and Mary Kingsley, was born in Brighton, Suffolk county, June 9, 1824.
In the common schools of his native place were passed the first few years of his school life. Left fatherless at the early age of four years, Mr. Kingsley when only ten years old was thrown upon his own resources, and spent five years in the wilds of Michigan. He then returned to Brighton, and finished his school life in the common and high schools of that town, afterwards learning the carpenter's trade. This not
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being wholly to his taste, and seeking to better his condition, he accepted the posi- tion of messenger in the old Bank of Brighton, in which position he remained two years. He was subsequently teller in the same bank three years.
In 1851 he became cashier of the Cam- bridge Market Bank, remaining five years. In 1856 he went into the wholesale provis- ion business in Boston, and retired from that in 1865. Since that time he has been treasurer of an anthracite coal mining company, and during the time was for eight years president of the National Bank of Brighton, which was the successor to the old bank where he began business life.
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Mr. Kingsley was married in Boston, by Dr. G. W. Blagden, May, 1846, to Mary Janc, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah Todd, of Brighton. Of this union were seven children, four of whom are living : Ella Jane (Mrs. M. Clinton Bacon), Addie May (Mrs. D. Frank Ellis), Luceba Dorr (Mrs. Parker F. Soule), and C. Willard Kingsley.
Mr. Kingsley has been alderman of Cambridge, member of the school board, has been a prominent member of the water board since 1865, and president of the same for many years past. He was a mem- ber of the House of Representatives 1882,
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'83, and '84, and senator from the 3d Mid- dlesex district 1888 and '89. He is one of the trustees of Colby University, Newton Theological Institution, the Worcester Academy, and Massachusetts Baptist State Convention, and president of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society. He has been one of the exccutive committee of the American Baptist Missionary Union, and president of the Boston Baptist So- cial Union and is a member of the Cam- bridge and Massachusetts clubs.
He is a life-long Prohibitionist and Re- publican.
KINSLEY, EDWARD WILKINSON, son of Rhodolphus and Lucinda (Howard) Kinsley, was born in Nashua, Hillsborough county, N. H., May 24, 1829.
He attended the public schools in Spring- field, where his parents had moved when he was some two years of age. While a boy he entered the clothing store of Palmer & Clark of that city, where, by his industry, tact, and adaptation to the business, he was transferred to a more important posi- tion in their branch store at Norwich, Conn. In 1848 he came to Boston and was em- ployed as salesman in the house of Blake, Patterson & Co., importers of woolens. After becoming an expert in this business he was made a partner in a firm in the same line.
During the civil war he was entrusted by his friend, Governor Andrew, who appreci- ated his enthusiasm and had confidence in his ability, with many a delicate and im- portant mission to the government at Washington, and with errands of encour- agement to the men at the front and the wounded in the hospitals.
Mr. Kinsley never sought public office, and never accepted a position by election or appointment until he was appointed by Governor Washburn, in 1873, a state director of the New York & New Eng- land Railroad Company ; in 1878 he was appointed by Governor Rice a member of the board of railroad commissioners, in which capacity he has earnestly and suc- cessfully advocated improvements in rail- road construction and equipment, designed to secure the safety and accommodation of the traveling public. Mr. Kinsley is probably as well, if not better, known among the railroad managers, not only of Massachusetts, but of some of the most important roads of the country, than many who have large pecuniary interests therein.
Mr. Kinsley was married April 16, 1856, to Calista Adelaide, daughter of Jarvis and Sarah (Spaulding) Billings, of Canton.
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They have two daughters : Adelaide Pea- body (Mrs. Alfred W. Carr) and Mary Louise Kinsley.
KITTREDGE, CHARLES JAMES, son of Abel and Eunice (Chamberlain) Kitt- redge, was born on the Ist of April, 1818, at Hinsdale, Berkshire county.
In the schools of his native place he re- ceived his early education, and for six months attended the Lenox Academy; then for eighteen months he was a student at the Westfield Academy, and for six months at Castleton Seminary, Vt.
In 1842 he opened a country retail store, in Hinsdale, where he remained for ten years, when he sold out the store and began the manufacture of woolen goods, which has since been his principal occu- pation.
On the 17th of June, 1845, at Riga, N. Y., Mr. Kittredge was married to Frances M., daughter of James and Lydia (Baldwin) Birchard. Their children are : James B., Charles F. (deceased), Ellen J., Clara B., Henry P., Lydia S. (deceased), and Mary J. Kittredge (deceased).
Mr. Kittredge has been for thirty years deacon and treasurer of the Congrega- tional church, and was delegate to the Con- gregational council at Detroit in 1877.
He has held the offices of town clerk, selectman, justice of the peace and trial justice, and has been upon the school committee.
For three years he was county commis- sioner for Berkshire county. He was a representative to the General Court in 1868, and a member of the Senate in 1869-'70. He was state director of the Boston & Albany R. R. in 1870-'71, and president of the Plunkett Woolen Com- pany, of Hinsdale, from 1862 to '78. He still resides in his native town, where he has made for himself an honored name, and become well known as an enthusiastic participant in philanthropic, social, and political movements.
KNIGHT, HORATIO GATES, the son of Sylvester and Rachel L. Knight, was born in Easthampton, Hampshire county, March 24, 1818.
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