Michael Kennedy
Irish
Michael Kennedy was a child in an Irish family that escape the Great Hunger by immigrating to America. - AsNotedIn
Michael Kennedy was a child in an Irish family that escape the Great Hunger by immigrating to America. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1840/00/00 | Michael Kennedy is born in County Mayo, Province of Connaught, Ireland to David and Mary Kearney Kennedy. | Born | County Mayo | ||||
| 1847/00/00 | As the potato blight becomes more pronounced and the fishing fails, many Irish families immigrate to America. The Kennedy family moves to Farmington. | Life | |||||
| 1858/00/00 | After receiving a relatively good education as the oldest boy in the family, Michael Kennedy works for the railroad repairing damage done to the railroad bridges and the rails destroyed by the Rebels during the Civil War. | Work | |||||
| 1873/00/00 | Kennedy family buys a farm on Whetstone Run near Mannington, West Virginia. | Life | Mannington | West Virginia | |||
| 1873/01/19 | Mary Agnes Erwin weds Michael Kennedy. Michael quits the railroad and begins farming the land on Whetstone Run. Their log home is located a short distance from the Erwin home place. | Groom | |||||
| 1896/00/00 | After oil and gas are discovered on their farm, the family buys 92 acres on Belle Run located on the edge of Fairmont. Michael buys the old Governor Fleming farm from the Gaston Coal Co. | Home | Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center | Fairmont, WV | |||
| 1917/00/00 | The Kennedy family sells part of their farm to Fairmont State University, Fairmont State will become known as Cow College. In the late 1940s, the Kennedy cows still graze on the site of the future technology wing of the Fine Arts Building. | Seller | Fairmont Normal School Administration Building | Fairmont, WV | |||
| 1918/01/28 | Michael Kennedy dies January 28, 1918. In his will, dated January 13, 1900, he made his wife, Mary A Kennedy his Executrix and left everything to her. | Died | Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center | Fairmont, WV |
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