My Genealogy Hound

JOSEPH KENNEDY, farmer and gardener, post office Duquesne, was born Sept. 9, 1830, in Indiana county, Pa., a son of David and Catharine (Snyder) Kennedy, of German descent. They reared four children: John (deceased), Mrs. Elizabeth Carson, Joseph and David. The last named served in the 103d P. V., under Gen. McClellan, and died in the service. The father was for many years superintendent of a coal mine at Hanging Rock, Ohio, and died at Portsmouth, same state, aged over seventy years. The subject of this memoir married, in Pittsburgh, Priscilla, a daughter of Joseph Burchfield, and they have eleven children: Joseph B., David W., Annie M., Catharine J., William H., Charles A., Lillie P., John C., Fannie B., Frankie E. and Anirles W., of whom two have died. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy are members of the M. E. Church, of which he is trustee and steward, and superintendent of the Sunday-school. He is a republican. Mr. Kennedy has a farm of forty-seven acres, having sold twenty-nine acres to the new steel mill, thus being the first to encourage the starting of that enterprise and the consequent founding of Duquesne.