WILLIAM KENNEDY

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Newton Co., IN Biography


   WILLIAM KENNEDY, dealer in hardware and implements, Morocco, Indiana 
began his business October, 1874, in connection with John Smart, under 
the firm name of Smart & Kennedy.  In 1877, he bought the interest of 
Mr. Smart, since which he has been sole proprietor.  Besides having a 
large and well selected stock of hardware, he is agent for the Plano 
Harvester and Mower, and the Buford and Wier Plows.  Mr. Kennedy was 
born in Montgomery County, Indiana February 11, 1841, and is a son of 
David and Susan (Gooding) Kennedy, natives of Virginia.  William 
received his early education in the schools of Newton County, remaining 
with his parents until twenty-one, when, with two brothers, he bought 
a farm of eighty acres, to which they afterward added forty more.  In 
1869, he came to Beaver Township and purchased a farm of 220 acres, 
which he still owns, and upon with he resided before coming to Morocco.  
He was married, October 1, 1865, to Mary A. Smart, a native of Newton 
County, and daughter of John and Lucinda Smart, both natives of Ohio.  
They have two children--Stella and Gertie.  Mr. Kennedy served in the 
late war, enlisting in April, 1861, in Company H, Fifteenth Indiana 
Volunteer Infantry, and serving until discharged March 12, 1863.  He 
participated in all the marches and battles of the regiment; was at 
Greenbrier, Virginia, Pittsburg Landing and Stone River, where he was 
severely wounded in the hand, on account of which he was discharged.  
Politically, he is a Greenbacker, is a prominent man, and one of the 
early settlers of the county.

Beaver Township, Newton County.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper and Newton Counties, 1883.  

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