"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 289

DR. JOHN KENNEDY is a native of Lamb's Bottom, this county, and was born
September 30, 1833.  his father was a native of Kentucky, and of Irish descent;  
his mother was also of Kentucky, and of German descent.  Both have been residents
of this county since 1830.  After receiving home instruction, Dr. Kennedy attended
Belleville Academy, and also the Edinburg Grammar School, of which he became
an assistant teacher in 1855.  About this time, he began the study of medicine under
Dr. Clark, of Edinburg.  Soon afterward, he returned to the home farm to recover
his impaired health, after which he taught school in Sangamon County, Ill., and spent
his leisure time in studying medicine, and in 1858 became a student of Dr. Osgood,
of Gosport.  During the winter of that year, he attended lectures at the Cincinnati
Medical Institute, and afterward commenced practice near his old home, where he
obtained a reputation for being one of the ablest practitioners in his neighborhood,
and he is now at Gosport, which is his residence.  April, 1862, he married Angeline,
daughter of Richard Laughlin, of Owen County, with an issue of eight children.  In
1874, Dr. Kennedy was elected to the State Legislature, where he served two years
most faithfully.  He is a Republican, a member of the Christian Church, and active
as a Sunday school worker.

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