Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Kenyon, Samuel P. September 1, 1846 - June 14, 1884
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Kenyon, Samuel P. (deceased), was born in Ira, Cayuga county, September 1, 
1846, a son of H. B. and Betsey (Brown) Kenyon. Rev. H. B. Kenyon was a 
Baptist minister, and lived and died in Ira, Cayuga county. He raised a family 
of eleven children. Samuel P. received a district school education and began 
life as a clerk. He ran a store at Oriskany Falls, and traveled for Comstock 
Brothers, of Utica for two years. For one year he was with Fonda &, Bagley, of 
Albany. In 1873 he came to Warren, where he engaged at farming until his 
death, June 14, 1884. He was an active Mason, and was serving as justice on 
his second term at his death. He was an active Republican.  In 1861 he 
enlisted in the Eighty-seventh Ohio Regiment and served four months. In 1863 
he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-fourth N. Y. Cavalry, as first sergeant, was 
wounded in the leg before Petersburg, and carried the ball to his grave. He 
was sent to Harwood Hospital, Washington, D. C. For a time after his recovery 
he acted as clerk in the quartermaster's department He received a medal of 
honor voted by Congress, for bravery displayed on the field of battle, and was
discharged with the regiment at the close of the war. He married January 2, 
1873, Rebecca Marshall, born in Warren, where she resides, September 9, 1852, 
a daughter of Daniel and Lucy (Green) Marshall. Mr. Marshall was born April 
11, 1784, in Connecticut, and died February 22, 1862. He came to Warren prior 
to the war of 1812, and followed farming all his life. He had three children: 
Jeremiah, who died in childhood ; Webster, who was killed at twenty while 
coasting, and Rebecca. Mr. Marshall was a member of the Masonic fraternity. 
Subject and wife had four children: Darwin B., Florence, Marshall and Floyd. 
Mrs. Kenyon owns the homestead. She received her education in the district 
school and Richfield select school.


Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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