Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Kendall, Samuel 1827 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

SAMUEL KENDALL.

Samuel Kendall is one of the old-time residents of Ottumwa, where he has made
his home for sixty years. He arrived here when the city was a little village and
gave little promise of becoming one of the chief commercial and industrial
centers of Iowa. For a considerable period he was identified with its building
operations, but for the past twenty years has lived retired, enjoying well
earned rest in the evening of life, for he has now reached the eighty-seventh
milestone on life's journey. He was born in Northamptonshire, England, March 7,
1827, and is a son of John and Hannah Kendall, who spent their entire lives in
the mother country, where John Kendall engaged in business as a bricklayer and
mason. In the family were eight daughters and two sons, but Samuel and his
sister, Mrs. Charlotte Wilford, of Lorain county, Ohio, are the only ones now
living.

Samuel Kendall spent the first twenty-three years of his life in the land of his
nativity and in 1850 came to the new world with three other Englishmen. Making
his way to Lorain county, Ohio, he was there employed for four years, working in
the quarries. He had learned the trade of stonecutter and mason under the
direction of his father before leaving his native country. In 1854 he arrived in
Ottumwa, where he has since made his home, covering a period of six decades.
Here he worked at his trade and did contract work, continuing in that field of
activity throughout the entire period of his active business life. He has been
connected with the construction of some of the most important buildings of the
city, but during the past twenty years he has lived retired—a rest to which his
well directed activity in former years justly entitles him.

In 1858 Mr. Kendall was united in marriage to Miss Nancy Harper, who was born in
Ontario, Canada, July 14, 1837. When she was eighteen years of age she was
brought to the United States by her parents, George and Elizabeth (Robinson)
Harper, who were natives of Ireland. In that country they were reared but were
married in Canada, and both died in Ottumwa. Her father was a farmer bv
occupation and thus provided for the support of his family, which included seven
daughters and one son. To Mr. and Mrs. Kendall were born ten children, of whom
two died in infancy, the others being: Anna, now the deceased wife of Frank
McIntyre; Fred, who died at the age of thirty-seven years; Louis, of Council
Bluffs; George, who died at the age of twenty-seven years; Mary, the wife of
John Cotton of Ottumwa; Laura, the wife of B. P. Brown of Ottumwa; Samuel F.,
who is living in Galesburg, Illinois; and John Clark, a resident of Chicago.

Mr. Kendall is a Master Mason and has always been loyal to the teachings of the
craft, exemplifying in his life the beneficent spirit of the organization, which
is based upon mutual helpfulness and brotherly kindness. He is today one of the
venerable citizens of Ottumwa, and few have for a longer period been witnesses
of its growth and upbuilding or taken a keener delight in what has been
accomplished along the lines of progress and improvement.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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