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KENNEDY, ROMULUS. Was born in Seneca County, New York, December 22, 1818. In 1829 his parents moved to Michigan
and located in Detroit, where his father followed the business of contractor and builder until 1836, when he moved
to Canada and engaged in the distilling and brewing business. Young Kennedy remained in Detroit, attending school,
and living with Stephen T. Mason, the Governor of the Territory. About 1837 he began the business of carpentering,
and worked in Buffalo and Detroit till 1840, when he went to New Orleans, where he followed trading on the Mississippi
River for about one year. He then engaged in clerking in a store in New Orleans until November, 1848, when he went
to Memphis and opened a boat store. In February, 1850, he started for California, crossing the plains in a company
of which Dr. Benjamin Bryand, now of Santa Clara, was captain. They arrived at Sacramento in August of that year,
and spent about four months in the mines, when he went to Sacramento and began carpentering. At the end of four
months he went to Vacaville, Solano County, and built the first house ever erected in the place, for Mason Wilson.
He remained there until 1852, when he returned to Sacramento and worked at his trade till April, 1855, when he
met with an accident which made him a cripple for life. He was disabled by this accident so that he was confined
to his bed most of the time till 1858. He then went to Vacaville and took charge of the Wilson House, where he
remained. till 1864. He then came to Lake County and located at Lakeport, where he still resides, and is engaged
at his trade. Since his residence here he has held the office of Justice of the Peace, by election and appointment,
for about eight years. He was married, September 6, 1880, to Miss Bell Hurlbut, a native of New York.
From:
History of Napa and Lake Counties, California
Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers
San Francisco, California 1881
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