History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 754.
[Nicholas County]  [Carlisle City and Precinct]

WILLIAM J. KENNEDY, farmer and tobacco dealer; Carlisle; was born Feb.
12, 1843, to Alfred J. and Sally Ann (Hillock) Kennedy (see hist.).  Our
subject received his education in the common schools of Nicholas County,
and commenced his career in life at merchandising at Headquarters, where
he remained sixteen years, and during the last half of that period dealt
largely in tobacco.  In 1882 he bought 200 acres of land of A. W. Blair,
and turned his attention to farming in connection with his tobacco
business.  He was married in Nicholas County, Nov. 21, 1865, to Miss
Eliza J. Smith who was born April 10, 1845.  They have six children,
viz: Esle H., James S., Claudia, William E., Harvey M. and Warren R.
Mrs. Kennedy was a daughter of Samuel and Annie (Cook) Smith (see hist.
of Granville C. Smith).  Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Masonic Order at
Headquarters and Chapter at Carlisle.  He is a thorough business man,
and highly esteemed by the community, and is always first in any public
enterprise.  He is a good neighbor, a kind husband and an indulgent
father.  In addition to his other enterprises, he deals extensively in
stock of all kinds.  In his political ideas he is a Democrat.

Kennedy Hillock Smith Cook Blair
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