Kennedy, Nathan B
physician, poet, was born Dec. 24, 1837, in Sumpter county, Ala. In 1860 he graduated from the medical department of Tulane university, and the following year entered the confederate army as assistant surgeon, serving in that capacity until the close of the war. For thirty-four years he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession, but has now retired and lives in Hillsboro, Texas. He has contributed extensively to the periodical press, and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
KENNEDY, ROBERT PATTERSON, soldier, lawyer, lieutenant-governor, congressman, was born Jan. 23, 1840, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He served in the civil war and attained the rank of brevet brigadiergeneral. He was appointed collector of internal revenue in Ohio in 1878, and continued in that office till the consolidation of the Ohio districts in 1883. He was elected lieutenant-governor in 1885; was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.