Lacrosse-Milwaukee-Waukesha County WI Archives Biographies.....Kennedy, Enoch July 30, 1804 - 
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ENOCH KENNEDY, farmer, Section 30; P. O. Midway; was born in Tompkins Co., N. 
Y., July 30, 1804. Learned the trade of a blacksmith at the age of 18; came to 
Wisconsin in 1840, and engaged in farming and blacksmithing in Greenfield, 
Milwaukee Co., Wis.; then came to La Crosse, and kept the hotel known as the 
Washington House; they still own the property, and also 500 acres of land, 
with fine improvements. His wife, Matilda Larcon, was born in Vermont, married 
in New York, and died in 1850; left eight children - James R., in the army, 
from Kansas; John, now in Michigan; Eliza A., now Mrs. Horn, in Waukesha Co.; 
Eunice, now Mrs. McPherson, in California; Lucinda, now Mrs. Shede, in 
California; Ezra, enlisted in Co. H, 17th W. V. I., in 1861, was discharged in 
1865, and when he came home he was engaged as conductor on the S. M. R. R., 
and killed at Grand Meadow, in an accident; Charity, now Mrs. Bacon, in 
Nebraska; Caroline, now Mrs. Hollistor, in Michigan. His second wife was 
Catharine Ferris, born in Germany, Jan. 7, 1824; came to America in 1846; 
married to Mr. Sebastine in 1847, who was born in Prussia in 1820, and died in 
1850, leaving three children - Elizabeth, now deceased; Angeline, now Mrs. 
Ash, in La Crosse; Peter, drowned at Mound Prairie, Minn., while building a 
bridge on the S. M. R. R., July 14, 1876. Mrs. Sebastine was married to Mr. 
Kennedy in Milwaukee, in 1852, and they now have five children - Mary, Oliver, 
Katie, Alvinus and Emeline.

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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 814 - 815.

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