OBIT: John Christian KENDALL, 1932, native of Somerset County, PA

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JOHN CHRISTIAN KENDALL

Retired Pedagog Pneumonia Victim
Death of John C. Kendall Who Had a Notable Career as an Educator

  John Christian Kendall, aged 80 years, 8 months and 19 days, died Monday 
morning, May 23rd, at 8:30 o'clock, in the Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md., 
from pneumonia following a surgical operation for another ailment.
  He was the eldest son of the late John Christian Kendall and Elizabeth Miller 
Kendall, having been born in Greenville Township, September 4th, 1851, and being 
the first child in a family of nine.
  Mr. Kendall received his elementary education in the Pocahontas public school 
and later was graduated from the State Normal School at California, Pa.  He took 
special courses at Mt. Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and at Valparaiso College 
in Indiana.  School teaching occupied most of his younger years.  He taught 
several terms in Greenville and Elk Lick Townships, and for 24 years taught in 
the Homestead schools and was the first supervising principal of the schools of 
that city.
  He was a thorough and painstaking teacher who imparted his own enthusiasm for 
learning to his pupils.  He was the type of pedagog that ennobled the teaching 
profession in the days when thoroughly trained teachers were the exception 
rather than the rule.  His pupils invariably had the greatest respect for him, 
and many a backward and unambitious boy was inspired by him to apply himself 
diligently to the pursuit of useful knowledge.
  After noteworthy service in the field of teaching, he retired from that 
profession about 25 years ago to engage in business in association with his 
brothers as the Kendall Lumber Company at Crellin, Md.  He also served a term in 
the Maryland House of Delegates from Garrett County, Md.  For a number of years 
and up to the time of his death he was postmaster at Crellin - but had his home 
in Oakland, Md.
  He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Homestead Blue Lodge 
for more than 50 years.
  Mr. Kendall was a man who loved to travel.  He had been in every state in the 
Union and traveled to California in the days when a trip to the Pacific Coast 
was considered an extraordinary adventure.  He traveled in Cuba and Honolulu 
before the English language was spoken there.  In his early years he travelled 
extensively in Canada.  He was highly intellectual and up to the time of his 
death was keenly alert and ready to delve into any new idea or subject.  He was 
not a man who lived entirely in the past, but advanced with the years in which 
he lived.
  Mr. Kendall was also an enthusiastic Sunday school worker.  Few people are 
better versed in the reading and understanding of the Bible than the late Mr. 
Kendall.   He conducted a Sunday school class in Crellin, Md., for many years.
  In his young manhood he was united in marriage with Emma Carnes of Homestead.  
Some years after her death, he married Miss Martha Clever, a former school 
teacher.  To this union one daughter, Mary Elizabeth, was born, but who, with 
her mother, is now deceased.
  Mr. Kendall is survived by his third wife, Mrs. Kathryn Mason Kendall, 
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Allen Mason of Friendsville, Md., and four children, a 
son, John Allen Kendall, and three daughters, Theresa, Lucille and Martha 
Kendall, all living at the Kendall home in Oakland, Md.  He is survived also by 
one brother, Hon. Samuel A. Kendall, of Meyersdale, member of Congress, and four 
sisters, Mrs. Joseph E. Baker and Mrs. John H. Rembold of Greenville Township; 
Mrs. John W. Baker, of Crellin, Md., and Miss Mattie Kendall of Homestead.  
Three brothers preceded him in death, Jacob L. Kendall, Judge U. S. Grant 
Kendall and David P. Kendall.
  Funeral services were conducted on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the 
home of his brother, Hon. S. A. Kendall, in Meyersdale, where the body had lain 
in state since Tuesday afternoon.  Rev. Chas. Shilke, pastor of the Oakland 
Lutheran Church, assisted by Rev. H. K. Hilner, pastor of the Meyersdale 
Lutheran Church, conducted the services.  Rev. Shilke paid a warm tribute to Mr. 
Kendall as an educator and citizen of sterling worth.
  The body was taken to Homestead, Thursday morning for interment there.  It lay 
in state in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Homestead for several hours, 
where hundreds of Mr. Kendall's former students viewed the remains and shed 
sympathetic tears.  He was formerly a member of the First M.E. Church of 
Homestead and in this former church home of his a funeral service was conducted 
at 1 o'clock this (Thursday) afternoon.
  Interment was made at 2 o'clock in the Homestead Union Cemetery, beside the 
body of his first wife, Emma Carnes Kendall. The Masonic Lodge of Homestead had 
entire charge of the funeral services there.  High ranking Masons acted as 
pallbearers.
  Undertaker R. Reich & Son of Meyersdale had charge of the funeral 
arrangements.  The floral tributes were numerous and very beautiful.

Meyersdale Republican, May 26, 1932