(7 May 1864-1 Oct. 1933), policeman and hotelkeeper. (Joe Kennedy) Born in GC. Kennedy went to Ashland, Wisc., in 1887, and lived in Ashland for more than forty years. Ashland had Glengarry connections through the GC involvement in Wisconsin lumbering. Kennedy was on the Ashland police force, being eventually chief of police. Afterwards he operated the American House Hotel in Ashland, retiring from the hotel business the year before he died. He was married in Alexandria, in 1886, to Janet O’Brien (1863-1941), who was born in Alexandria. He died at their daughter’s home in Spooner, Wisc. Roman Catholic. On his death, an Ashland newspaper editorial observed that “Joe Kennedy’s passing takes from us another of the pioneer figures of the days when Ashland was a rough-and-ready lumber town… Those of us who are younger live in a different Ashland from the one Joe Kennedy knew– certainly a less colorful scene. The lumbering days are gone, with the feverish hectic urge to cut the pine that motivated the hundreds who came and went from here, and which gave Ashland all the dramatic setting of a mining boom.” (seven children, three surviving him)

Obits. Kennedy and wife, Glengarry News 22 Dec. 1933 & 28 Feb. 1941 repr. Fraser Obits. 96-97, 93-94, with editorial and Mrs Kennedy’s baptismal record