BIO: Samuel S. Kennedy, Wyoming Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, PA & NY

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Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. History of the Wyoming 
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904, page 204.
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  KENNEDY, SAMUEL S., was born in Mount Holly, near Carlisle, 
Northumberland County, Pa., on November 20, 1823, and died at his home 
in Waverly, Pa., on May 2, 1898.
  At fifteen years of age, when attending a camp meeting, he sought 
Christ as a Saviour.  In his young manhood he learned the shoemaker's 
trade.  In 1845 he went to Carlisle and entered the preparatory school 
of Dickinson College.  While here he organized a Sunday school at 
Carlisle Iron Works, which he superintended three years.  At the same 
time he served the Church as class leader.  After spending some time in 
Carlisle teaching and attending school he went to Harrisburg and took a 
position as salesman in a shoe store.  In 1850 he became agent for the 
American Tract Society, and canvassed Columbia, Marietta, Harrisburg, 
and other towns.
  In 1851 he went to Wyoming Seminary, where he taught some classes, at 
the same time pursuing his studies preparatory to the ministry.  He 
joined Wyoming Conference in 1853, and was stationed at Providence, as 
junior preacher; 1854, Northmoreland; 1855, Kingston.
  While serving the latter charge he was afflicted with clergyman's 
sore throat, and was obliged to relinquish the work of the pastorate.  
From 1856 to 1885 he was a very successful agent of the Pennsylvania 
Bible Society, and from 1886 until death an agent of the Luzerne and 
Lackawanna Bible Societies.
  In 1858 he married Miss Caroline Miller, of Waverly, Pa., daughter of 
Rev. Benjamin Miller, who survived him until February, 1902, when she 
passed to her reward.  Husband and wife are buried in Waverly, Pa.