Biographical Sketch of George R. Kenamore, Dent County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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George R. Kenamore, Deputy United States Collector of Internal Revenue
of the First District, Fifth Division of Missouri, was born in Maury
county, Tenn., in 1846 being a son of Grant Allen and Emily Fances
(London) Kenamore, and grandson of William and Polly (Johnson) Kena-
more.  William Kenamore was a native of North Carolina, born in 1792,
and at an early age immigrated to Middle Tenn.  He was a soldier in the
War of 1812, with Gen. Jackson, and died in 1862, near Springfield, Mo.
having become a citizen of that place in 1854.  His wife, Polly Johnson
was born in 1784 and died in 1870.  Her father, Abner Johnson, was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was wounded at Guilford Court
House.  He was born in 1759, in North Carolina, and died in 1850. Grant
A. Kenamore was born in Maury County, Tenn., February 14, 1824; was 
reared and married in his native county, where he remained until 1854,
and then immigrated to Greene county, Mo.  About 1856, he became a 
resident of Salem, Dent Co., Mo., and located one half mile from the 
county seat, but the following year moved into the town.  At the comm-
encement of the war his sympathies were with the Southern people, but
for the Union, and when the dismemberment came he remained true to the
old flag, casting his destinies with the North.  In April, 1863, he
enlisted in Company G, Ninth Regiment Missouri State Militia, and later
in 1864, raised a company in Dent county, and in September of that year
was elected captain of Company D, Forty-eighth Missouri Infantry Vol-
unteers, commanded by Col. Wells H. Blodgett.  This regiment was on
active field duty until February, 1865, at which time it was ordered to
Chicago, Ill., and here Mr. Kenamore remained until the expiration of 
his term.  He then returned to Salem, and in May, 1865, was appointed
by Gov. Thomas C. Fletcher captain of a Dent county company of State
Militia for home protection.  He stood by his people faithfully and
well.  Capt. Kenamore was a man who had the entire confidence of the
people, and he rendered effective service for them when a trusty and
worthy man was needed.  After the war he engaged in merchandising for
several years in Salem, being a partner with W. R. Love a few years. He
also traded in stock, speculated in real estate, and did a quite exten-
sive business in various lines of commercial activity.  He was success-
ful in all his business transactions; was county surveyor of Dent Co.,
for about six years, and was probate judge when the war began.  He died
July 7, 1885.  His wife, Emily F., was a native of Maury county, Tenn.,
and died in 1874.  After her death Capt. Kenamore married Mrs. Lizzie
Durham, nee McSpadden, who yet survives.  Capt. Kenamore was the father 
of two children: William B., who died in November, 1884, at the age of
thirty-six, and George R., who was educated in the common schools, and
at the early age of sixteen enlisted in Company D, Forty-eighth Miss-
ouri Infantry, and was in service six months.  After the war he engaged 
in merchandising, and has been occupied in this the greater part of the
time since.  In November, 1887, he was made Deputy United States 
Internal Revenue Collector, by Freeman Barnum.  December 23, 1873, he
married Mrs. Emma Henthorn, nee Craiger, a native of Indiana, born in
1850, and the daughter of James P. Craiger, of Carlisle, Indiana.  They
have two children: Rufus Clare and Charles.  Mr. Kenamore is a life 
long Democrat in his political views, casting his first presidential
vote for Seymour in 1868; was county treasurer of Shannon county, Mo.,
for four years, and has frequently been a delegate to the various 
conventions.  He is a Master Mason and a member of the A.O.U.W.  His 
wife is a member of the Christian Church.

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