Barnes KENNEDY

Born

12 April 1808 , Norway, New York, USA

Died

12 January 1890 , Clarendon, Michigan, USA

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John KENNEDY

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Anna BARNES

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married Prudence Barker in 1837 in Sullivan, New York
married Maria Mendell 6 July 1859 in Calhoun County, Michigan

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Birth — 1808
12 April 1808
Norway, New York, USA

1809 - James Madison becomes President of the United States

The War of 1812 was a conflict between the United States and Great Britain, lasting from 1812 to 1815. It was primarily fueled by issues such as trade restrictions due to Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American sailors into the British Navy, and British support of Native American tribes against American expansion. The war ended with the Treaty of Ghent, restoring pre-war boundaries but resolving few of the initial disputes.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 - James Monroe becomes President of the United States

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1825 - John Quincy Adams becomes President of the United States

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1826 - Former U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die on the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence.

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1829 - Andrew Jackson becomes President of the United States

1830 - The Indian Removal Act marks the beginning of the forced relocation of five tribes of native Americans, known as Trail of Tears

1837 - Martin Van Buren becomes President of the United States

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

From the 1840s through the 1880s, thousands trekked westward, carrying only a few belonging and supplies for the journey, and settling on the western frontier, forever changing the American West.

1841 - William Henry Harrison becomes President of the United States

1841 - John Tyler becomes President of the United States

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1845 - James Knox Polk becomes President of the United States

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 - Zachary Taylor becomes President of the United States

1850 - Millard Fillmore becomes President of the United States

1853 - Franklin Pierce becomes President of the United States

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - James Buchanan becomes President of the United States

1857 - March 6 – Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Blacks are not citizens and slaves can not sue for freedom, driving the country further towards the American Civil War.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1861 - February 8 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America are formed, comprising the first six break-away states.

1861 - Abraham Lincoln becomes President of the United States

1863 - January 1 - President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves.

1863 - October 3 – President Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving day to be celebrated the final Thursday in November in the United States

1863 - November 19 – American Civil War: U. S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

April 14, 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln was mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth at in Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next day. Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1870 Clarendon, Calhoun, Michigan

Name: Barnes Kennedy
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1870
Event Place: Michigan, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 62
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Birth Year (Estimated): 1807-1808
BirthPlace: New York
Page Number: 25
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
Barnes Kennedy M 62 New York
Maria Kennedy F 47 Ohio
Louisa Mendell F 19 Michigan
Carrie Kennedy F 8 Michigan
Household ID: 208 , Line Number: 1 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: M593 , GS Film Number: 000552165 , Digital Folder Number: 004271414 , Image Number: 00418

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1870 Census Ancestry (U.S.)
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1870 - June 26 - Christmas becomes a Federal holiday in the United States. It was still illegal in some states.

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes becomes President of the United States

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton.

1881 - March 4 - James A. Garfield becomes President of the United States

1881 - July 2 - James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., at 9:30 am on Saturday, July 2, 1881. He died in Elberon, New Jersey, two months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president. Charles J. Guiteau was convicted of Garfield's murder and executed by hanging one year after the shooting. Chester Arthur becomes President of the United States.

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - Grover Cleveland becomes President of the United States

1886 - October 28 - Statue of Liberty is Unveiled

Biography

'Homer and Its Pioneers and Its Business Men of To-day'
By William Alfred Lane 1888

---Barnes Kennedy was born in Norway, Herkimer county, New York, April 8, 1808.
---When six years of age, with his father's family he removed to Madison County, the same state.
---There he remained until the spring of 1832, when he set out for Michigan, arriving in Marshall in April of the same year, where he wetn to work at carpentering on the George Kitchum grist mill, which was being erected.
Barnes was one of the thirteen volunteers ordered to Prairie Ronde at the time Black Hawk threatened to invade Michigan , and is the only one of the thirteen now living.
---Later the same year Mr Kennedy came to what is now Clarendon Twp and located 160 acres of land on section 2 of that township.
---This purchase he sold the year following, to Anthony Doolittle, receiving for the same $400, doubling his money.
---In the fall of 1837 he went back to New York, where he was united in marriage to Miss

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1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1889 - Benjamin Harrison becomes President of the United States

Death

Name: Barnes Kennedy
Gender: Male
Death Date: 12 Jan 1890
Death Place: Clarenden, Calhoun, Michigan
Age: 82
Birth Date: 1808
BirthPlace: N.Y.
Occupation: Farmer
Race: White
Marital Status: Married
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B51822-6 , System Origin: Michigan-EASy , GS Film Number: 1009292 , Reference ID: v 2 p 130

Michigan, Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995

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