Calcasieu County Louisiana Archives Photo Person.....Kennedy, Lucien William 1890 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gloria Bello Gbello3@suddenlink.net November 4, 2007, 5:33 pm Source: Personal Files Name: Lucien William Kennedy Date Of Photograph: 1890 Photo can be seen at: http://usgwarchives.net/la/calcasieu/photos/kennedy638gph.jpg Image file size: 20.3 Kb Lucien William Kennedy arrived in Lake Charles in 1888 from Kansas as the chief engineer in the construction of the Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Railway between Lake Charles and Alexandria. He died in 1892, the year that the railway was dedicated. He was born in 1846 and died in 1892. He married Inez Isidore Higgins in 1972. She was a teacher in Lake Charles and died in 1925. His son, Lucien William, Jr. was the conductor on the railroad for 56 years and lived in Lake Charles, LA all his life. His children were Charles Louis (C.L.) Kennedy, Sr., Inez Kennedy Couvillion, and Lucien William Kennedy. Charles (C.L.)'s son was Charles Louis Kennedy, Jr. 1938-2003, who was an architect in Lake Charles. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/calcasieu/photos/kennedy638gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/lafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb