George W.
Kennedy
George W. Kennedy, whose name has been
so long identified with the Star Mills, was born in Shelby county, Indiana,
February 5, 1830, five miles southwest of Shelbyville. He is a son
of Robert Kennedy, who was born in Virginia, in 1782, served as a
soldier in the War of 1812, and died in 1833. He married Margaret
Fleming, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had ten children, four sons
and six daughters. Mr. has devoted practically his whole life to the
milling business, and has long enjoyed the reputation of being a skillful and
reliable workman. He has always been a man of quiet disposition and
unobtrusive manners, paying close attention to his business, but fulfilling all
the obligations of a good father, husband and citizen. November 15, 1855,
Mr. Kennedy married Mary J., daughter of James
M. and Mary Barwick, the former from Maryland and the
latter from Pennsylvania. To Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy five children have been
born, of whom four are living. Georgia married J. W.
Thompson, an attorney of Indianapolis, and has four children; James
B. married Mary Edna Payne of Shelbyville; Maggie
married Charles M. Fillmore, a Christian minister, of
Indianapolis, and has three children; Fred W. married Ida
Mauzy, of Rushville. For many years Mr. Kennedy and his son, James
B., have been prominent members of the Independent Order of Off Fellows, and
the family are affiliated with the First Methodist Episcopal church. The
Kennedy Miller Company is one of the old and reliable institutions of
Shelbyville, and has long ranked as one of its important industries, those in
charge of enjoying the entire confidence of the business world.
From Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana, by Edward H. Chadwick, B.A., assisted by well known local talent, B.F. Bowen & Co, Publishers: Indianapolis, IN,
1909.
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