Sonoma-El Dorado-Sierra County CA Archives Biographies.....Kennedy, A. E. 1827 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Kennedy, A. E. Born in Scotland, February 21, 1827; moved to Canada in April
1842; thence to the State of Wisconsin in the Fall of 1846, and on January 2,
1849, started across the plains for California. Made this trip in eight months
and three days; arrived in California on the 5th of September. Mined a short
time near Hangtown (now Placerville) El Dorado county; thence to Sierra county,
and mined near Downieville till July, 1859; then went to Virginia City, and
followed the same occupation until April, 1860, when he went back to Scotland,
the place of his birth After an absence of one year he returned to Virginia
City, being at the time interested in several of the mines on the Comstock, On
September 22, 1862, he married Miss Maggie Drummond, of Boston, Massachusetts.
He remained in Virginia City, actively engaged in mining, until October, 1868,
when he returned to California, to take charge of mines in Calaveras county,
where he resided until May, 1878, and on the 5th of the following July settled
on his present estate, about one mile south of Windsor. His children are: Annie
E., born December 15, 1864, in Virginia City; Maggie E., July 30. 1866, in
Virginia City; Charles H., October 6, 1868, in Virginia City; Eva O., September
10,1870, in California; Alexander E., September 22, 1872, in California; Mabel,
December 24, 1875, in California; John W. M. November 28, 1878, in California.

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Russian River Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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