Chester County PA Archives Biography of Dr. Thomas Ruston KENNEDY, 1881

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History of Chester Co, Futhey and Cope, 1881, Chapt 3:

DR. THOMAS RUSTON KENNEDY, born in Chester County in 1763, was son of Dr. Samuel 
Kennedy, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and studied medicine under 
Dr. Morgan, of Philadelphia. In a letter of Governor Mifflin, Nov. 17, 1794, to 
Maj. Denny, who had charge of troops "to relieve the garrison at Le Beuf" (near 
Lake Erie), he writes: "I have appointed Dr. Thomas Ruston Kennedy, a young man 
of excellent character, surgeon of your Battalion. You will be pleased to 
receive him, and consider him as my friend." Dr. Kennedy was subsequently 
surgeon to the troops under charge of Andrew Ellicott, who constructed a fort at 
Presque Isle, and passed his life in successive public posts of honor and 
responsibility, and one of whose daughters subsequently became the wife of Dr. 
Kennedy. On the organization of Crawford County, in 1800, Dr. Kennedy was by 
Governor McKean appointed prothonotary and clerk of the courts, held by him 
until 1809. He was a man of great energy, and "affected more the early progress 
of Western Pennsylvania than any other man." He died at Meadville, March 24, 
1813.