Marion County, KY - Bios:  Fennessy, David
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David FENNESSY 4911, Marion Co. 

Surname: Fennessy, Ryan

NOTE: I have no connection and no further information.

Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887, Marion County.

REV. DAVID FENNESSY, R.R., president of St Mary's College and one of the leading educators
of Kentucky, was born November 1, 1841, in Clonmel, Ireland, a son of David and Catherine
(Ryan) Fennessy, who emigrated and settled in Ontario, Canada, in 1842. David Fennessy was
a clerk in a flouring-mill in Ireland, and after his settlement in Canada became a farmer. 
He had ten children born to him. He died In Guelph, Canada, in March 1876, at the ripe old 
age of eighty-three years, after which his wife came to St. Mary's, Marion County, Ky., 
where she died July 16, 1878, at seventy-nine years of age. David Fennessy Sr., was a son 
of John Fennessy, a blacksmith in Ireland. Catherine (Ryan) Fennessy was a daughter of 
William Ryan, of Ireland. Rev. David Fennessy was reared on a farm until ten years of age; 
from 1851 to 1857 lived in the town of Guelph, where he received his early education. 
In September 1850, entered St. Michael's College, Clover Hill, Toronto, Canada, from which 
he graduated in June, 1861; he then commenced theological studies at Grand Seminary, Montreal, 
and Assumption College, near that city, after which he attended St. Jerome's College, Ontario; 
here he entered the congregation of the Resurrection and was ordained priest April 25, 1867. 
He remained in the latter college as a teacher till [sic] in July, 1869, when he went to Rome 
and studied for two years. In August, 1871, he was sent to St. Mary's College, Marion County, 
as vice-president. In December, 1873, at the resignation of Father Elena, D.D., as president, 
Rev. David Fennessy became president of the college.