Greene County PA Archives Biographies.....Kendall, John C. April 26, 1840 - ????
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Source: Biographical History of Greene County, Nelson, Rishforth, and Co, Chicago, 1888
Author: Samuel P. Bates

      John C Kendall, furniture dealer, Jefferson, Penna, 
was born in Smithfield, Fayette County, Penna, April 26, 
1840.  His parents were Samuel Kendall and Pauline Custead 
Kendall, who were of German and English origin.  His father 
was a Baptist minister; he died in 1872.   His family 
consisted of twelve children, eleven of whom-nine sons and 
two daughters-attained the age of maturity.  John is the 
oldest son, and was reared in Fayette county until ten years 
of age, when he came with his parents to Greene county.  He 
went to school in Fayette county and at Waynesburg College; 
afterward returning to Fayette county where he learned the 
wagonmaker's trade, and followed it as a business for nine 
years.  He taught school fifteen years, five years of that 
time in Illinois. 
  
      In 1861 he married Catherine Grimm, daughter of John 
and Elizabeth Grimm, and by this marriage is the father of 
two children: Eva Kendall and John Kendall.  The latter is a 
graduate of the Commercial College of Springfield, Illinois. 
Mrs Kendall died in 1866.   
  
      In 1876 he was next united in marriage with Hannah B 
Ross, daughter of John Ross and Maria Loughman Ross.  At the 
time of her marriage, Mrs Kendall was the widow of the late 
Thomas Johns, and the mother of one child, Albert Leslie.   
  
      Mr and Mrs Kendall have two children: Paul Kendall and 
Samuel Kendall.  Mr Kendall takes quite an active interest 
in educational matters, and is a member of the board of 
trustees of Monongahela College.  They are both members of 
the Baptist church, in which Mr Kendall is a deacon, and has 
served as teacher and superintendent of the Sabbath School.

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