BIO: KENESON, J. W. (formerly of New York)

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Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, p. 267. 
Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf Publishing
Company

J. W. KENESON, CROWLEY.--J. W. Keneson, a native of the State of New York, was
born in 1848. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother of New York,
of Scotch descent.  The former is deceased, and the latter is at present a
resident of Kansas, being about sixty years of age.  His father was a sailor
for about sixteen years of his life. In his latter days he gave his attention
to farming.  He served three years during the Civil War in the command of Col.
Meyer and later under Colonel Walker, in the Sixteenth Kansas Regiment, in
which the subject of this sketch, J. W. Keneson, was also a soldier.  He
enlisted in 1863 and served until the war closed.  J. W. Keneson has been
engaged in planting since his location at this place.  His plantation consists
of three hundred and fifty acres of land, one hundred and twenty of which he
cultivates in rice principally.  In this industry he has been successful.  Mr.
Keneson was married in 1876 and is the father of seven children, four sons and
three daughters.