Lawrence Albert Kenneda Biography


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				LAWRENCE ALBERT KENNEDA.  

	Lawrence Albert Kenneda, telegraph operator at Ardmore, Fall 
River county, was born at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the 11th of January, 
1888, a son of Alverse and May (topper) Kenneda, born respectively at 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 14th of November, 1860, and at St. 
Catharines, Ontario, in March, 1868. The father accompanied his parents 
on their removal from Milwaukee to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where the 
grandfather engaged in the hotel business, and in farming near 
Onalaska. Alverse Kenneda grew to maturity at La Crosse and later spent 
several years in Canada, being passenger conductor on the Canadian 
Pacific Railroad. He shell returned to La Crosse and subsequently 
engaged in farming near Onalaska for fourteen years. He is now living 
retired in La Crosse and his wife also survives.  

	Lawrence A. Kenneda is the oldest in a family of eight children 
and is indebted for his general education to the public schools of La 
Crosse and Onalaska, Wisconsin. He further prepared for business life 
by attending the Wisconsin Business University at La Crosse, from which 
he was graduated in 1906. When but sixteen years of age he began to 
provide for his own support, entering the employ of a farmer who lived 
six miles from their farm. At the end of four months he entered school 
at La Crosse and gave his time to study for ten months He then became 
connected with the firm of Spicer & Buschman, acting in the capacity of 
bookkeeper for several months. Upon leaving that concern he entered the 
employ of the W. W. Cayill Company of La Crosse as bookkeeper and 
remained with them for about eighteen months. At the end of that time 
he located at Ardmore, South Dakota, and entered a homestead about a 
mile and a half from town. He was for a time an employee of the 
Bezanson Land Company, but in March, 1910, became agent's helper for 
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and was hater made relief 
agent on the Alliance and Deadwood division. He is now working as 
operator at Ardmore on the third trick and is also bookkeeper for the 
Hill City Lumber Company.  

	On the 23d of July, 1913, Mr. Kenneda was united in marriage to 
Miss Lucinda Montgomery, who was born at Claysville. Pennsylvania, on 
the 20th of September, 1887. Her father, James B. Montgomery, has been 
a lifelong resident of Pennsylvania and is now a retired farmer. He is 
also connected with an oil company and is director of a bank and is 
quite well known in his community. He has served as constable, justice 
of the peace and notary public and still takes an active interest in 
public affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneda have a daughter, Madge Roselle, 
who was born on the 17th of July, 1914.  

	Mr. Kenneda was a member of the First Baptist church of La 
Crosse, Wisconsin and is now a member of the Congregational church of 
Ardmore, and his life is guided by the principles of Christianity. 
Fraternally he is a member of the Masonic order, belonging to the blue 
lodge at Edgemont and the chapter and commandery at Hot Springs, and is 
a member of Naja Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Deadwood. His wife is a 
member of the Eastern Star chapter at Hot Springs. He is energetic and 
determined in carrying out his plans, and his resolution and industry 
are dominant factors in the success which he has gained.