Edward G. Kennedy Biography

	This biography appears on pages 895-896 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	EDWARD G. KENNEDY is a representative and highly esteemed citizen 
of Sioux Falls, and is incumbent of the responsible office of United 
States marshal for the district of South Dakota, in which capacity he 
has rendered most able service. His is the distinction of being a 
veteran of the great war of the Rebellion, in which he made an 
honorable record as a loyal and valiant son of the republic, while in 
the "piping times of peace" he has shown the same integrity of purpose 
and devotion to the right as he manifested when following the stars and 
stripes on the sanguinary battlefields of the south.  

	Mr. Kennedy is a native of the Keystone state of the Union having 
been born in Hollidaysburg Blair county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of 
December 1844, a son of Samuel and Rebecca (Haves) Kennedy, both of 
whom were born and reared in that state, where they passed their entire 
lives, the father having been a school teacher by vocation during the 
major portion of his active career. He passed to his reward in 1884 and 
his cherished and devoted wife was summoned into eternal rest in 1898. 
They became the parents of five children, of whom three are living at 
the present time. Both were members of the Presbyterian church, and in 
politics Samuel Kennedy was a supporter of the principles of the 
Republican party from the time of its organization until his death.  

	The subject of this review secured his early education in the 
common schools of the various localities in Pennsylvania in which his 
parents resided during his youthful days, and he supplemented this 
discipline by a course of study in Eldersridge Academy, in Indiana 
county, that state. After leaving school, at the age of seventeen 
years, he gave distinctive evidence of his intrinsic patriotism by 
tendering his services in defense of the Union then in jeopardy through 
armed rebellion. In August. 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company 
C, One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which 
he continued to serve until the close of the war, receiving his 
honorable discharge, in the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in July, 
1865. He was an active participant in the battle of Antietam and in all 
the engagements in which the First Brigade of the Second Division, 
Sixth Army Corps, took part, his regiment having been attached to this 
brigade during the greater part of its term. At the close of the war he 
secured a clerical position in Pittsburg and was thus employed in that 
city and Allegheny until 1889, when he determined to cast in his lot 
with the new territory of Dakota. He first located in Potter county, 
where he engaged in the cattle business, in partnership with his 
brother, F. H. Kennedy, later removing to Walworth county. where he 
continued in the same line of enterprise until 1898, when he located in 
Eureka McPherson county, where he established himself in the grain and 
agricultural implement business, and continued operations in the line 
until 1902 when he closed out his interests in order to devote his 
undivided attention to his official duties. In President McKinley 
appointed Mr. Kennedy to the office of United States marshal for the 
district of South Dakota, and he has served in this capacity 
continuously since, being on the 12th day of January, 1902, re-
appointed to the office, by President Roosevelt. He is a man of 
resourcefulness and mature judgment and has given a most creditable and 
satisfactory administration of his official duties, while he is 
recognized as one of the stalwart and uncompromising representatives of 
the Republican party in the state, having been an active worker in its 
cause and having been identified with the party from the time of 
attaining his legal majority and the concomitant right of franchise.  

	On the 15th of December, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. 
Kennedy to Miss Mary B. Brundage, of Bismarck, North Dakota, and they 
became the parents of two children, Ruth and Donald B. Mrs. Kennedy 
died on the 5th of April, 1900.