Denver-Eagle County CO Archives Biographies.....Kennedy, Erlo E. 1880 - 
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Author: Wilbur Fiske Stone (1918)

ERLO E. KENNEDY, M. D.

    While one of the younger representatives of the medical profession in
Denver, the career of Dr. Erlo E. Kennedy, judged in the light of past
achievements, is one which may well be watched with interest. He has won
favorable criticism among colleagues and contemporaries and the most thorough
training has qualified him for the responsible duties that devolve upon him in
active practice. Dr. Kennedy is a native of West Virginia, his birth having
occurred at Lost Creek in Harrison county, on the 20th of February, 1880. His
father, Lloyd R. Kennedy, was born on the old homestead farm in West Virginia,
which was also the birthplace of his father, William Kennedy, while James
Kennedy, the great-grandfather of Dr. Kennedy, was a native of Ireland and of
Scotch-Irish descent. He became the founder of the family in the new world and
served his adopted country as a soldier in the War of 1812. Lloyd R. Kennedy has
devoted his entire life to the occupation of farming and is still living upon
the old homestead in West Virginia. He married Clara Woofter, also a native of
that state, and they became the parents of three children who are yet living,
the brother and sister of Dr. Kennedy being Charles E. and Myrtle. The former is
yet occupying the old home place and the latter is the wife of Charles Fetty, a
farmer of Lost Creek, West Virginia.

    In the acquirement of his education Dr. Kennedy attended the public schools
of Lost Creek and afterward spent three years as a student in Salem College of
Salem, West Virginia, thus acquiring broad literary knowledge to serve as the
foundation upon which to rear the superstructure of professional learning. He
took up the study of medicine in the Baltimore Medical College, which he entered
in September, 1901, and there completed a four years' course by graduation with
the class of 1905, at which time his M. D. degree was conferred upon him. He
then located for the practice of medicine in Berlin, West Virginia, where he
remained for two years, but the opportunities of the growing west attracted him
and in August, 1907, he removed to Colorado, opening an office at Basalt, where
he continued until April, 1917. He then came to Denver to accept the position of
secretary and executive officer of the state board of health and is now acting
in that capacity, his pronounced ability and skill well qualifying him for the
responsibilities that devolve upon him in this connection.

    In 1902 Dr. Kennedy was united in marriage to Miss Daisy C. Trimble, of
Barbour county, West Virginia, and they have one son, Charles H., born in
Baltimore, Maryland, November 10, 1904, now a pupil in the Manual Training high
school. Dr. Kennedy belongs to the Delta Mu, a medical fraternity, also to the
Odd Fellows lodge at Gaston, West Virginia, and in politics he is a stalwart
democrat. He belongs to the Colorado State Medical Society and he is recognized
as a young, energetic member of the medical profession-a man with fine
personality and excellent equipment whose career has already won him notable
distinction and whose future promises most brightly.


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HISTORY OF COLORADO

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THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1918



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