James H. Kellogg, of Kellogg and Baker,
wholesale grocers, is a native of New York State, and
was born in Cayuga County in 1826. His parents,
Nathaniel and Sarah (Stoell) Kellogg, were natives of
Massachusetts. Young Kellogg enjoyed only a limited
attendance in the public schools of the neighborhood.
His father being a physician, he learned and pursued
the drug business for several years. He then went to
New York, and was nine years employed as salesman of
dry goods and boots and shoes. After several business
changes, Mr. K. came to Jackson in 1867, and engaged
in the manufacture and jobbing of boots and shoes, in
the firm of Bumpus, Woodsum & Co. Four years after
he disposed of his interest there, and associated with
Birdsall, Baker & Co., in the grocery trade. The
firm has undergone two changes since, Gov. John J.
Bagley being at one time a member. The entire
ownership passed into the hands of Kellogg & Baker
in 1875. The business is strictly confined to
wholesale, and extends chiefly over Southern Michigan
and Northern Indiana. They employ two traveling
salesmen. Mr. K. married Miss Maria L. Sleeper, of
Mount Morris, Livingston Co., N. Y. Their family
consists of 2 sons - Arthur L., 21 years of age, and
Ralph H., nine years old.
Dr. Edward Kennedy, 113 Cooper St, was born
in Dundas, Ontario, Upper Canada, Aug. 5, 1827. He
went to Toronto, and attended what was known as
Rolph's Medical College, and remained two years. In
1856 he came to Detroit, Mich., where he remained a
short time. In 1857 moved to Grand Rapids, and
continued there until December of the same year;
thence to Jackson, where he has remained since. He
married Miss Bridget Garvín, daughter of John Garvín,
who was born May 8, 1827. Of their 8 children 7 are
living.
Frederick A. Kennedy, Superintendent of the
paupers and poor farm of Jackson County, was born in
Brighton, England, Feb. 18, 1811; is the son of
Frederick and Margaret (Thipper) Kennedy. His father
crossed the Atlantic, and locating in New York City,
sent for his family, and Mrs. Kennedy and their
children came over in 1818, consuming 12 weeks in the
voyage. After residing in the city a year and a half
they removed to Susquehanna County, Pa., and 18 months
after to Seneca County, N. Y., where they remained
until 1831; then came to Michigan and settled in
Lenawee county. In 1837 Mr. Kennedy came to Jackson
County, and bought and located on a piece of
Government land, being the second settler in the south
half of Hanover Twp. In March 1830, he was married in
Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., to Caroline Hewett, a native of
Pennsylvania. They settled on the land Mr. K. had
purchased in Hanover, which they improved and occupied
until the fall of 1871, then moved to the city to
educate their children, of whom they have had 13, 9
living. The second eldest of their 6 sons, Capt.
Jackson Benton Kennedy, of the 1st Michigan Volunteer
Infantry, was killed in the battle of Fredericksburg.
Frederick, another son, was also in the army and navy,
and was brevetted 1st Lieutenant. Mr. Kennedy's father
was elected Representative to the Legislature from
Lenawee County, in 1850; came to Jackson in the fall
of 1857, where he died in 1872. Mr. Kennedy took the
census of Jackson County in 1845, under the official
title of County Marshal; was elected to the
Legislature from Jackson County, the same year, for
the session of 1846. The assembly then convened at
Detroit; and at that session the railroad laws of
Michigan were revised. Mr. K. served eight years as
Justice of the Peace in Hanover Twp. He is serving his
sixth year in his present position, having been
elected in 1875 and again in 1878. He is a member of
the Masonic lodge and chapter.
Frederick A. Kennedy, grocer, 117 North
Jackson St, is sole proprietor of the grocery house in
which he started as clerk in the spring of 1865.
Messrs. Hobart & Boulton were then the owners;
their successors were Ford, Delamater & Co., whom
Mr. K. bought out in the fall of 1873, and now does a
general retail business of $20,000 a year. Mr. Kennedy
was born in Norristown, Montgomery Co., Pa., and is 31
years of age. His parents Isaac and Isabel Kennedy,
came to Michigan and settled in Jackson in 1865, but
returned to their native State five years later. Mr.
Kennedy commenced at a salary of $2 per week, and his
present capital and trade are entirely the result of
his own efforts. He married Miss Isabel Warren, of
Tekonsha, Michigan.
George W. Kennedy, insurance and loan agent,
was born in Susquehanna County, Pa., Feb 22, 1820. His
father, Frederick A. Kennedy, was a native of
Brighton, England, born in 1785; and at the age of 24
years married Margaret Tipper, of London, in St.
Paul's church of that city; came to America m 1817,
located in New York city, and the next year sent for
his family. In 1821 they removed to Seneca County, N.
Y., where they lived 10 years. The last year, Mr.
Kennedy built a boat, and in 1830 carried on it the
first load of goods shipped between Buffalo and New
York. In the spring of 1831 they came to Michigan
Territory, and settled in Lenawee County. There Mr.
Kennedy served as Justice of the Peace under the
Territorial Governor. George obtained a good English
education in the common school and by private study;
began teaching at the age of 18, and taught school
seven winters, farming in summer. In April 1849, he
married Ann E. Russell, of Monroe County, Mich., and
came to Jackson County, and settled in Hanover Twp.,
remaining there on a farm until 1864. During the time,
he was Justice four years; Town Clerk a number of
years and in 1864 was elected Supervisor. After
locating in Jackson, Mr. Kennedy bought a farm three
miles north, farmed it eight years, and then exchanged
it for city property. In 1866 he engaged in the
agricultural implement trade; in 1870 sold out and
began the insurance business. He now represents six
prominent fire and one life and accident company. Mr.
K. and wife have a son and a daughter, the former in
his office, the latter the wife of W. M. Dodge, of
Jackson. Mr. Kennedy was Alderman in 1855 and '56; has
been Treasurer of the County Agricultural Society a
number of years; has been Treasurer of the Horse
Breeders' Association since 1870; is a member of the
Masonic order, lodge and chapter.
Edwin L. Kimball, physician and surgeon,
Jackson, Mich., was born in Biddeford, Maine, on the
5th of September 1851. When eight years of age his
parents, John and Priscilla, moved to Concord, N. H.,
where he received a practical education and commenced
the reading of medicine, with Dr. Sad Morrill, of
Concord, where he remained but a short time. In the
fall of 1872 came to Michigan and attended three
courses of lectures at Michigan University and
graduated in 1875. In 1876 was appointed as Physician
at the State's prison and has held that position
since. He married Miss Amy Garrison Brown, daughter of
Dr. W. Symington Brown, of Stoneham, Mass. Her father
was of Scotch descent and a liberal and charter, and
was thrown into prison for his views and forced to
leave the country. He was Surgeon of the first
regiment of colored troops that left Massachusetts. He
was an abolitionist, and always took a lively interest
in the cause. Mrs. Edwin Kimball is a practicing
physician and a graduate at the medical department of
Wooster, Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. George F. Kimball, of Kimball &
Black, dentists, West Main St, was born in Tioga
County, N. Y., and is 27 years old. His parents moved
to Michigan and settled in Brooklyn, Jackson Co., when
George was six years of age. There 12 years of his
life were passed on a farm. His father died and the
family removed to Ypsilanti. Dr. was engaged at a
variety of occupations during a number of years;
commenced the study of dentistry in the fall of 1877
in the dental department of the Michigan State
University; at the close of the first year, entered
the office of Dr. J. A. Wating, Prof, of Mechanical
Dentistry in the University; studied a year, then
returned to the University, graduating in the spring
of 1880. He traveled through the northern lake country
that summer, and settled in Jackson in October 1880;
formed the present partnership in December following.
Dr. Kimball has all the dental work of the State's
prison, and has already secured a good practice in the
city.
Charles A. Knapp, of Knapp & Sutton,
proprietors of the City Omnibus, Hack and Transfer
Co., Hibbard House Block, engaged in his present
business 15 years ago; first as Goodyear & Knapp,
in partnership with John Goodyear, who was succeeded
by H. G. Sutton seven years ago. The company has nine
hacks, two omnibuses, a transfer wagon and 27 head of
horses. They employ 10 men. Mr. Knapp was born in
Somerset, Michigan, and is thirty-three years of age.
His father, Morris Knapp, is the pioneer liveryman of
Jackson, and still in the business. Mr. Knapp has
always been either in livery or his present business.
He is a joint owner in some valuable mining property
in Colorado.
Samuel O. Knapp was born in Royalton, Vt., in
1816; is the sixth of a family of 12 children of
Nathan and Nancy Knapp, nee Grinnell. At the age of 10
years he was apprenticed to Gov. Charles Paine to
learn woolen manufacturing. Two years later he was put
in charge of the carding department, and was made
superintendent of both carding and spinning when 18
years old. Eighteen years of close confinement in the
factory injured Mr. Knapp's health, and through the
advice of Mr. Paine he took charge of a hotel in
Northfield for a year and a half; came to Jackson,
Mich., to set up and start some machinery just
purchased for woolen manufacture in the Michigan
State's Prison. M r. K. superintended the factory
about a year and a half in 1845 and 1846, and then
went on a prospecting tour up into the Lake Superior
copper mining region. Mr. K. was accompanied by
several others. He spent the season exploring, and
among the discoveries made was a boulder of pure
native copper weighing 3,000 pounds, which they
managed to convey by means of a rude sled and a
pine-log canoe to navigable waters some 22 miles, then
shipped it to New York that same season. Mr. Knapp was
employed by a party of New York merchants to
superintend a gang of men, and open a new mine for
them, and after spending the winter in the East, he
fitted out for the work in Detroit, and in the spring
of 1847 returned to the mines with 20 men, which was
increased until in four years the miners and their
families numbered 300. During those four years Mr.
Knapp made many important discoveries of antique
stone-mining implements and open mines involving great
labor of the pre-historic miners. Their rude
stone-mining tools were found in such quantities that
they were used to wall up a large spring whose water
supplied their modern successors. Mr. K's operations
proved very successful, large quantities of ore were
taken out; a smelting works was erected on the Detroit
river to reduce it, and was operated the last two
years of his connection with the business. Mr. K. sold
his interest in the developed mines, and returned to
Jackson in 1851, and has resided here since. After
settling down in Jackson he devoted considerable
attention to nursery business and fruit growing for
some years, and has since operated quite heavily in
real estate. The present beautiful summer resort, Bay
View, on the borders of Little Traverse bay, owes its
origin and attractions chiefly to Mr. K's judgment in
selecting the site and his energy and taste in
developing it. He married Sarah L. Balch, in Vermont,
at the age of 22 years. They have both been members of
the M. E. Church from childhood.
Robert D. Knowles, attorney at law, fifth
child of William and Olive (Davis) Knowles, was born
May 6, 1834, in Niagara County, N. Y., where his
father bought and settled on a part of the " Holland
purchase" in 1816, being a pioneer in that locality.
Robert was brought up there, and educated in Wilson
Collegiate Institute, graduating in 1856; taught
school several terms, spent two years in his brother's
printing office; then receiving a farm as a present,
he settled upon it and engaged in farming; sold it in
1863, came to Grass Lake, formed a partnership with
Michael and Lemuel Dwelle, and entered the hardware
business, succeeding Bridgeman & Bronson. Mr. K.
was elected County Clerk in the fall of 1866, took
charge of the office Jan. 1, 1867, was re-elected
twice, and resigned the office in November 1871. In
1873 he entered the County Clerk's office as deputy
and held it two years and a half, reading law
meantime. Mr. Knowles was admitted to practice in
1874, and has been active in the profession since; was
Alderman from the 3d ward for two years, and several
years Secretary of the Jackson County Agricultural
Society. He married Julia A. Foster, in Wilson, N. Y.,
in 1858. They have had a family of 5 sons, 3 living.
Frank, mailing clerk in the post office, and Louis and
Eddie, in school. Mr. Knowles' mother resides in Grand
Rapids, aged over 80 years.
