Biographical Sketch of Daniel C. Kennedy, Greene County, Missouri

>From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western
Historical Company, 1883.

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Mr. Kennedy was born in Queens County, Ireland, February 14, 1841, and
is the third child of Michael and Elizabeth (Condron) Kennedy.  His
parents emigrated to America in 1843, and in 1848 his father went back
to Ireland to assist his countrymen in their struggle for independence.
The agitation being suppressed by the government, he returned to Amer-
ica, and settled permanently with his family in St. Louis, where he 
died in 1863, in the sixtieth year of his age.  Daniel C. received a
common school education in the city of St. Louis, and at the age of
fourteen entered the printing office of Keith & Woods, and imbibed a
taste for work of that nature, which ultimately led to his being one 
of the leading journalists of the Southwest.  He worked in different
offices and read law in his leisure moments.  At the beginning of the
late war he espoused the cause of the South, and joined the St. Louis
militia, and was captured by Captain Lyon at Camp Jackson.  When ex-
changed young Kennedy went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he joined an
artillery company, which was ordered to reinforce Gen. Price at Spring-
field, Missouri.  His company was with Price when he retreated to the
Boston Mountains, Arkansas.  After the battle of Pea Ridge it was 
ordered to reinforce Johnston at Shiloh.  At the fall of Vicksburg, 
upon the 4th of July, 1863, he was taken prisoner.  Again being exch-
anged he re-entered active service and was again captured at Hernando,
Mississippi, paroled and sent to St. Louis.  In 1865 he came to Spring-
field and entered the Missouri Patriot office, but in a few months took
charge of the Southwest Union Press.  That office being destroyed by
fire in 1867, he, in partnership with Captain O. S. Fahnestock, estab-
lished the Springfield Leader.  He is now editor of the Leader, one of
the leading Democratic papers in the State.  Mr. Kennedy was married 
November 20, 1866, to Miss Lula, daughter of Hon. Marcus Boyd. 

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