EDGAR FRANK KENNEDY

Sacramento County

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EDGAR FRANK KENNEDY

EDGAR FRANK KENNEDY.--A successful business man at Franklin, who is a native son, is Edgar Frank Kennedy, born near Florin, Sacramento County, August 19, 1884. His father, Frank Kennedy, was also born near Florin. The grandfather, William Kennedy, a native of the state of Maine, crossed the plains in the early fifties to California and located two miles north of Elk Grove. However, it was not long until he removed to Oregon; and then he went to southern California and afterwards spent some time in various portions of the state, but he spent his last days in Florin. Frank Kennedy has been a farmer and fruit-grower, and he now resides on his home ranch near Elk Grove, whither he moved in 1886. Mr. Kenney’s mother was Estella Firth, before her marriage a native of Pennsylvania. A woman of culture and refinement, she still presides over the old home, being the mother of five children; Leona was the wife of Ed Kloss, but passed away at thirty-four years of age; Edgar is the subject of our interesting review; Mrs. Hazel King lives near Hood; Mrs. Edna Lenore and Elmer are both residing in Sacramento.

Edgar F. Kennedy spent his youth on the farm and attended school in the Jackson district. After his school days were over he followed orcharding, which was his principal pursuit until 1910, when he began working for Ed Kloss, and under his direction he learned butchering and stock-buying, becoming particularly adept at butchering. In 1918 he bought out the old Ed Kloss butcher shop in Franklin, which in time he rebuilt and remodeled and opened a new market, in which undertaking he has met with great success. The place is well equipped with a Blairco ice machine and refrigeration plant, with a capacity of five tons, and the whole plant will have a refrigeration capacity of fifteen beeves. In his business he employs two Dodge auto trucks, the routes covering a large territory, including an area ten by twenty miles. This method is of great convenience and accommodation to the country customers, the meat being sold at the same price as at the shop. Mr. Kennedy is at the helm every day and by his energy, close application, and enthusiasm is making a decided success of the business.

Mr. Kennedy was married in Sacramento to Miss Josephine Stewart, a native of Amador County, California, a daughter of a pioneer family, and they make their home in their comfortable residence just south of Franklin. Fraternally, Mr. Kennedy is a member of Elk Grove Parlor No. 41, N. S. G. W. He is liberal and enterprising, has great faith in the future greatness of the Sacramento Valley, and in his progressive way can always be counted upon to give of his time and means as far as he is able towards its upbuilding and development

Transcribed by Priscilla Delventhal.

Source: Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical Sketches, Pages 846-849. Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.