Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Kenney, George W. February 20, 1854

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   GEORGE W. KENNEY. One well-trained and qualified by years of experience as
well as specially adapted by natural ability for any of the branches of
mercantile business is George W. Kenney, an energetic and competent business man
and successful merchant of New Alexandria, He is a son of Thomas A. and Nancy J.
(McClaren) Kenney, and was born near New Alexandria, Westmoreland county, Pa.,
February 20, 1854. He is of Irish descent. His grandfather, George Kenney, was
born in Ireland and came to this country when a boy and settled near
Holidaysburg this State, and early in life came to Westmoreland county, where he
settled near Blairsville. He married, and to them were born three children:
Mary, wife of John Guthrie, and now dead; Margaret, married to David Hughes, a
native of Derry township and now resident of Indiana county, Pa.; and Thomas A.
Thomas A. Kenney was born near Blairsville, this county. His principal business
in life has been farming. For many years he was a member of the mercantile firm
of Keck, Kenney & Co. of Penn station and Livermore, but never took any active
part in the same, having entrusted his interest in that company to the hands of
his son George W. He is a member of the firm of T. A. Kenney & Son of New
Alexandria. He married Nancy McClaren on February 8, 1853. To their union have
been born eight children: George W., Sarah M. who married Prof. George H. Hugus,
county superintendent of public schools, and died in 1888; John G., a farmer of
Unity township; Lloyd K. of Greensburg, and a printer by trade; W. Rugh, a
printer of New Alexandria; Laura B., who died December 25, 1887; Clark M.; and
Genevra, who died in infancy.

   George W. Kenney was reared on the home farm. He received his education in
the common and academic schools and took the full commercial course of Oberlin
Business college, Ohio. He entered into active life for himself as a clerk in
the store of L. B. Highberger at Penn station, His services were next engaged by
Keck, Kenney & Co. of Penn station and Livermore. After the dissolution of this
firm he went to Pittsburg and acted for several years as a traveling salesman
for R. C. Orr & Co., wholesale grocers of that city. In 1883 he entered into his
present mercantile partnership with his father at New Alexandria under the firm
name of T. A. Kenney & Son. This firm has pleasant and commodious quarters and
carries a full and complete stock of staple dry goods and fancy groceries,
hardware and everything else which is to be found in a general mercantile store.
They have enjoyed a lucrative and substantial patronage ever since beginning
business at New Alexandria.

   George W. Kenney is an aggressive democrat who believes in no half-way
political measures, and who has always been an active worker for the success of
democratic principles. He served during Cleveland’s administration as assistant
postmaster of New Alexandria under his father who was postmaster during that
period of time. He is also interested deeply in educational matters, has served
two terms as school director, and at the recent election “tied” with two other
candidates for that office. He is a member of the Presbyterian church at New
Alexandria, a reliable, thorough-going business man, and his close attention to
the wants of his customers has made his store one of the most popular in his
section of the county.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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