FOLDER 7: RLH: KENNEDYS-MOVERS AND SHAKERS:

CAST OF CHARACTERS TO EARLY RIB LAKE HISTORY

 

Data is from the Rib Lake Herald unless otherwise noted.

By: R.P. Rusch and Cindy A. Sommer

Cross References:  The authors have scanned thousands of photos and documents of Rib Lake history.  Each item is indexed and assigned a number. Such items are referenced here by their identification number, e.g. #10999.  These images may be accessed at www.riblakehistory.com, at folder #8 - Photo & Document Collection.

 

“K is for Kennedys – my there is a stack of ‘em,

Yet in other places there is a lack of ‘em,

Now is our chance to get a good whack at ‘em.”

--From the 1910 Twentieth Century Club “Primer,” #13563--

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Kennedys - Movers & Shakers

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I.          JOHN J. KENNEDY “J.J.” 12/24/1845 – 4/12/1928

• Founder of Rib Lake.
• Born 12/24/1845, at Monroe’s Mills, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada[1].
• Immigrated to U.S. in 1860.  By Oct. 30, 1876, is married and living in Spencer, WI.
• Died April 12, 1928, at his home in Portland, Oregon. 
• Married Flora M. McLennan, a.k.a Mary Flora, a/k/a Mary Flora McLennan, 10/28/1847 – 1/31/1910.
• 11/7/1880, Star News:  “J.J. Kennedy and brothers will lumber on Yellow River in this [Taylor] county the coming winter.”
• 4/23/1881, Star News: “The Kennedy brothers, who have been putting in logs on the north fork of the Yellow River [in Taylor County], left a crew of men to take advantage of the flood.”
• 6/1881:  In the History of Rib Lake by Guy Wallace, #11889B, Wallace explains that in the summer of 1881 J.J. Kennedy had a chance meeting with George Curtis of the Curtis & Carpenter Lumber Firm of Wausau; J.J. explained his intention to open up a lumber mill east of Prentice:

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[1] See Document #12629: Obituary of John J. Kennedy 4-12-1928, for a variety of details.  A copy of the obituary is printed in full at the end of this article. 

 

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