OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 146 Today's Topics: #1 ADAM W. KENNEDY - BROWN COUNTY [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] #2 LE GRAND GRIBBLE M.D. - BROWN COUN [AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M RE] ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:07:37, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: ADAM W. KENNEDY - BROWN COUNTY BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 436-437 ADAM W. KENNEDY, druggist, Dunkirk, Indiana, was born in Grant County, Indiana, February 28, 1854, a son of Moses and Margaret (Schroff) Kennedy, natives of Brown County, Ohio, where they were married, removing thence to Grant County, Indiana, in its early day, and there the father died May 20, 1882, the mother's death preceding his about two months. A. W. Kennedy was reared in Grant County, receiving his education at Jonesboro. After leaving school he was employed by the railroad company at $35 a month, at which he continued until 1882, when, with a capital of $35, he engaged in the grocery business at Jonesboro. In 1883 he removed to Dunkirk, and formed a partnership in the grocery business, the firm being Kennedy & Macy. In 1884 they disposed of their stock of groceries and embarked in the drug business, which Mr. Kennedy still continues, and in May, 1886, removed to his present location. April 22, 1887, Mr. Macy withdrew from the firm and Mr. Kennedy has since conducted t he business alone. His stock consists of drugs, paints, oils, wall paper, stationery and druggists' sundries, valued at $3,000, his store room being 18 x 75 feet in dimensions. Thus from the small beginning of $35 Mr. Kennedy has by good management increased his capital and now has a good paying business, and is one of the prosperous citizens of Dunkirk. He was married August 20, 1878, to Jennie Lelfridge, a daughter of John and Maude Lelfridge. They have two children - Otto and Fred. In politics Mr. Kennedy is a Democrat. He served one term as marshal of Jonesboro. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:07:40, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: LE GRAND GRIBBLE M.D. - BROWN COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 195 Volume IV, Page 396 LE GRAND GRIBBLE, M.D. The service of a competent and faithful member of the medical profession Doctor Gribble has given to the community of Pomeroy for over a quarter of a century. His name and character are held in very high esteem over the greater part of Meigs County. He was born on a farm at Ripley, in Brown County, Ohio, March 29, 1875, son of William and Mary (Smith) Gribble, natives of Kentucky, in which they spent most of their lives. His father was a merchant near Frankfort, Kentucky, and died in the early childhood of Doctor Gribble. The Gribble family is of remote French ancestry, while the Smiths came from Virginia. Mrs. Mary Smith Gribble died in 1912. Le Grand Gribble spent his boyhood days at Newport, Kentucky, and in Cincinnati, attending graded school in the latter city, and also attended public school while living with his uncle, Dr. Frank Wall, at Urbana, Indiana. He earned his first money selling Doctor Talmadges book of sermons in Hamilton County, Ohio. After that he followed various occupations, and for a time was shipping clerk in a wholesale house at Cincinnati and also worked in a dry goods store. This work enabled him to accumulate a small capital, with which he continued his education as best as he could, and having decided to study medicine, he entered the medical school of the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, where he was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1896. Since then he has pursued post-graduate work to a total of about three years. Doctor Gribble did his first practice in Cincinnati, but, losing his health, lived outdoors for three years. At that time he was a man of rather frail health, but has si nce developed into a fine specimen of physical manhood. For twenty-seven years he has had his home and office at Pomeroy. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations, is a Knight Templar Mason and is very fond of outdoor sports, particularly hunting big game in Canada. He makes yearly excursions to the wilds. His wife has much skill in the handling of fire arms, and she shares in his enthusiasm for the outdoors. She is a Presbyterian, and Doctor Gribble's family are Methodists. Doctor Gribble married, in 1907, Miss Ursula Hauch, daughter of August Hauch, of Pomeroy. The Hauch family has lived in this section of Ohio for a great many years. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #146 *******************************************