Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed., 
1887, Gallatin Co.

JAMES W. KENNEDY was born in Gallatin County, Ky., December 13, 1840,
and is a son of William and Catherine (Campbell) Kennedy.  William 
Kennedy was born in Boone County April 10, 1816; he followed farming all
his life.  His wife, Catherine Campbell, was born in Boone County, near 
Burlington, April 12, 1818.  They were married about 1838, and had six 
children--three daughters and three sons--viz: Mary H., James W., John 
G., Edward, Sallie and Lucy.  Only three of whom are now living: John 
G., James W. and Sallie.  William Kennedy was killed by the cars on the 
Short Line Railroad, near Verona, in Boone County, in 1870.  His wife 
died about 1850, and in 1853 he married Margaret Brown, daughter of 
Robert Brown, of Gallatin County, Ky.  James W. Kennedy was brought up 
on the farm, and received a common-school education.  He has all his 
life done some farming, but since about 1864 has been engaged in the 
mercantile business.  He moved to Normansville in 1867, and has also 
dealt largely in tobacco for the past fifteen years.  On march 31, 
1863, he married Lizzie Dorman, a daughter of Peter and Lucy (Kemper) 
Dorman, of Gallatin County.  To this union have been born four 
children--three daughters and one son: Dorman, Katie, Lucy and Sallie 
B. Dorman died in infancy.  James W. Kennedy owns about eighty acres 
of land in Boone County; he is a member of the Baptist Church.  
Politically he is a Democrat.

Kennedy Campbell Brown Dorman Kemper
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Boone-KY

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