Sullivan-Columbia-Wyoming County PA Archives Biographies.....KENNEDY, Thomas E. 1871 - living in 1899
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  THOMAS E. KENNEDY, one of the prominent and genial hotel-keepers of Laporte,
  Pa., who is the owner and proprietor of the well-known Commercial Hotel and who
  is one of the popular and highly esteemed citizens of that community, was born
  June 13, 1871, and is a son of Jeremiah and Bridget (Luby) Kennedy, and grandson
  of Edward Kennedy.
  
    Our subject's father is of Irish extraction, and was born and reared in
  Turbal, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was founder of the prominent and
  prosperous family in this country. While a young man he departed from his native
  land and sailed for the United States, locating in Schoharie County, N. Y.,
  where he engaged in the tanning business. He was foreman of tanneries at the
  following places: Camden, Forrest Port, Moose River, Port Leyden, N. Y.;
  Ledgedale, Pa.; Cadosia Valley, N. Y.; Thorndale, Pa.; and Laporte, Pa. He
  pursued his vocation in the latter place until 1889, when he purchased of Dr.
  Fleshet the building used by him for a drug-store and dwelling. This Mr. Kennedy
  enlarged and remodeled into a hotel which he conducted until September, 1894.
  This hotel is now managed by our subject. He was joined in the bonds of wedlock
  with Bridget Luby, a native of St. Charles, County Roscommon, Ireland, her
  father having come to the United States when she was a young girl, locating at
  Staten Island, N. Y. To this happy marriage the following family of children was
  born: Edward, a tanner residing at Buffalo, N. Y., was wedded to Maria Brown,
  who bore him a family of five children,—Raymond Ambrose, Robert, John, and
  Doratha; James, deceased, married Kate McKenzie, lived in Chicago, and they had
  the following children,—Francis T., deceased, James, Leo, and Clara; Mary, the
  wife of Dr. E. S. C. Foster, and two children have been born to them, Jeremiah
  and Walter; William A., a well-to-do tanner of Sullivan County, whose sketch
  appears elsewhere in this biographical record; Jerry, a tanner of Titusville,
  Pa., who married Lizzie Scanlon, and they have reared two children, Regenia and
  James Francis; Maggie, who was united in marriage with George Nortz and the
  following children were reared by them,—Eulena May Raphael, Adah Philamenia
  Gabriel, Raymond Severinus Alloysius, Mary Frances. Vincent William, Emmitte
  George, Norbert Anselm, Hillary Hyacinth, and Winnifred Margaret; John P., who
  is a barber and is the father of two children,—J. Howard and E. James; Thomas
  E., the subject of this personal history; Annie, who remains at home; and Kate,
  the wife of John E. Gallagher of Muncy Valley, and the mother of five
  children,—James, Thomas, Maggie, Agnes, and John Anthony.
  
    Thomas E. Kennedy acquired a liberal education in the public schools of
  Laporte, Pa., and he started out in life as a clerk for James McFarlane of that
  town; his services were of such an order that he remained with Mr. McFarlane for
  nearly seven years, and only left his employ at the request of his father who
  wished him to assist in conducting the hotel. However, he did not remain in his
  father's hotel long, as he was offered a much better position as head-clerk and
  overseer of the company store at Jamison City, Pa., and remained in that
  capacity a period of five years. At the time the company was purchased by the
  Union Tanning Company our subject became bookkeeper and remained with his new
  employers fifteen months. He then returned to Laporte, where he remained a short
  time and then accepted a position with Trexler & Turrell, lumber dealers of
  Ricketts, Wyoming County, as manager of the company store; he remained in their
  employ until 1897 when he returned to Laporte and succeeded Mr. T. W. Beahen in
  the hotel formerly conducted by his father. The Commercial Hotel is very
  pleasantly situated, is first-class in every particular, contains fifteen large
  and elegantly furnished rooms, and our subject has established quite a
  reputation as a host.
  
    Mr. Kennedy chose for his companion in life Martha Coleman, a daughter of
  William Coleman of Benton, Pa., and they are the happy parents of four children,
  namely: Charles, deceased; Alice; Samuel A.; and Pauline Elizabeth. Politically
  our subject is a firm supporter of the principles of the Democratic party and
  has held several minor offices; religiously he and his family are prominent
  members of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
  
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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