Casper Kennedy Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1234-1235 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CASPER KENNEDY, editor and proprietor of the Sisseton Standard. 
also postmaster of Sisseton, was born in Aylmer, Ontario, December 5, 
1863, and is one of six children, four sons and two daughters, whose 
parents, James and Phoebe Kennedy, were also natives of Canada. He was 
reared in the town of Aylmer, received a high-school education there and 
in 1882 came to, Watertown, South Dakota, and accepted a position on the 
Courier-News, published by Doane Robinson, remaining with that paper 
until 1892. When the reservation was opened that year he became a 
citizen of Sisseton and began the publication of the Standard, which is 
recognized as one of the best and most influential local newspapers in 
South Dakota, and which under his able management has contributed 
greatly to the building up of the town. Mr. Kennedy is a politician of 
much more than local repute, and through the medium of his paper has 
done much to promote the success of the Republican party in Roberts 
county and throughout the northeastern part of the state. In recognition 
of valuable services rendered his party, he was appointed postmaster by 
President McKinley in 1898, and has since discharged the duties of the 
position to the satisfaction of all concerned, proving a capable, 
accommodating and most obliging public official. Mr. Kennedy is deeply 
interested in the welfare of the community in which he resides and is 
untiring in his efforts to advance the interests and prosperity of his 
fellow citizens of Sisseton and Roberts county. He served several years 
on the local board of education, during which time the schools of 
Sisseton were brought to a high standard of efficiency, and he has also 
given his influence and encouragement to all enterprises making for the 
public good along social, intellectual and moral lines, as well as in 
material affairs. Fraternally he is an active worker in the Masonic 
order, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen of America and 
Knights of Pythias, and religiously is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church of Sisseton and deeply interested in all of the 
congregation's activities.