KENNEDY, Duncan P.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, p 163

Duncan P. KENNEDY, agent for W. & J. Flemming of McGregor [Clayton County], 
Iowa, [a resident of] Alma [Buffalo County, Wisconsin], was born 26 March 
1845 in Quebec, Canada. Previous to his coming to the United States, he was 
engaged in the lumber business on the St. Lawrence River. He came to Alma in 
1871. He was for some time foreman for the Mississippi Logging Company. In 
the fall of 1880 he became agent for his present employers. [The Upper 
Mississippi Logging Company, of which Lorenzo SCHRICKER was President from 
1871 to 1874, was created in 1871 by Mr. SCHRICKER, Frederick WEYERHAEUSER, 
and the proprietors of other saw mills on the Black, Wisconsin, Chippewa, and 
St. Croix Rivers. In Buffalo County, this association built the great 
logging works at the Beef Slough, which before the construction of dams 
designed to aid navigation in main channels, was a useful tributary of the 
Chippewa River employed for booming and sorting logs in preparation for 
sending them down the Mississippi. After the dams were built, lower water 
levels at the Beef Slough contributed to the shifting of logging operations 
to the Minnesota side of the Mississippi.]

Duncan P. KENNEDY married [Miss?] Mary COLBURN, a native of New York. They 
have one child, Duncan H. [The 1880 census of Alma, Buffalo County, 
Wisconsin, enumerated the household of Duncan P. KENNEDY: Duncan P., 
thirty-three years of age, a clerk, born in Canada, about 1847 by his census 
age, to parents whose countries of birth are not given; his wife, Mary, age 
twenty-eight, born not in New York, as stated in the biography, but in 
Wisconsin, about 1852 by her census age, to parents both born in Canada; and 
son, Duncan H., age five months, born in Wisconsin. Submitter did not seek 
the birth record of Mary KENNEDY, formerly COLBURN, to determine whether the 
1881 biography or the 1880 census is correct about her place of birth. 
Bracketed material added by submitter (who is not researching these surnames) 
to support and clarify information given in the biography and to raise 
questions.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly