Grant County, KY - Bios:  Kendall, H. M.

Posted by Sandi Gorin on Tue, 07 Sep 1999

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H. M. KENDALL 3568, Grant Co. 



Surname: Kendall, Gouge, Hawkens, Collins



Souvenir Edition, The Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, Ky, May 30, 1901, 

reprinted September 19, 1981 by the Grant County KY Historical Society.



H. M. KENDALL. No family has been more prominent in the history of Grant County than the 

Kendall family, and H. M. Kendall, the subject of this sketch, is the most prominent male 

member of that family now living, and the only one living in Grant County. He is a son of 

Alfred Kendall and Marietta (Gouge) Kendall. His mother was a sister to Uncle Jeff Gouge, 

and his father was a son of Louis Kendall, an old pioneer and large landowner of Grant County 

in a very early day. Hade was born in Grant County at the old Kendall homestead, just north 

of Williamstown, in 1853. His father was a very prominent citizen, and at his death one of 

the richest in the county. He owned 3,000 acres land just north and east of Williamstown, 

had many slaves in the old slave days, had money to loan and all kinds of personal property, 

and entertained at the old homeplace in regal style. When he died at the age of sixty-five 

he left an estate worth fully $135,000, to be divided among his six children. The old gentleman 

began life as a stage driver, married, and bought a farm, and by industry and economy paid for 

it and then bought more, until his landed estate was a royal domain. Three times he served his 

people in the Legislature of Kentucky as their representative, with credit to himself and his 

constituents. He was a Democrat, and every member of the Kendall family from that day until 

this have been Democrats. Alfred Kendall raised six children, only four of whom are now living. 

Mrs. Eliza Hawkens is the oldest, and lives with her husband in Bourbon County; Louis N. is 

farming in the same county; James G. died some years ago; Mrs. Pheobe Collins wife of R. A. 

Collins; Alf. W. now dead and Hade M., who is the youngest and the only boy now living in the 

county. Hade was educated at the common schools, but all of the other children attended college. 

He has never married, and now lives on his fine farm of 181 acres, on the waters of Grassy Creek, 

in peace and quiet, with the good will and best wishes of all who know him.