California Biographies
Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
 
Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
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Source:
History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California
With Biographical Sketches
History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry
Illustrated, Complete In One Volume
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914


THOMAS KENNEDY.� A resident of Mendocino county for almost a 
third of a century, having come hither in 1882, Thomas Kennedy was born 
near Montreal, Canada, in 1862. He was reared on the farm and attended the 
public schools. 

Desiring to try his fortune in the west; he came to Nevada in 1880, and 
followed teaming until 1882, when he came to Mendocino county, locating 
first at Westport. Here he purchased an outfit and engaged in teaming on 
his own account, hauling lumber for twelve years in this vicinity. Then he 
removed to Bear Harbor, northern ]Mendocino county, where he was engaged 
in hauling ties and tanbark for about ten years. 

Next we find Mr. Kennedy at Hardy Creek, where he was proprietor of 
the Hardy Creek hotel for three years. On January 1, 1914, he came to 
Wendling and opened the Wendling hotel, which he is conducting in first- 
class shape and meeting with success. In connection with the hotel he con- 
ducts a livery and feed stable. 

The marriage of Mr. Kennedy occurred in Eureka, Cal., where he was 
united with Miss Virginia Ainsworth, a native of Shawano county, Wis., and 
they have two children, Edna E. and Berwin Margaret. Politically he 
espouses the cause of the Democratic party. Mr. Kennedy is well known and 
highly respected on the Mendocino coast, where he has hosts of friends.