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JULIAN KENNEDY, chief engineer Latrobe Steel-works, Latrobe, was born near Youngstown, Ohio, March 15, 1852. His father, T. W. Kennedy, was a millwright and mechanic, but better known as a builder of blast-furnaces in Ohio. Julian was educated at Yale College, where he graduated in the class of 1875, and while taking a post-graduate course filled the chair of physics. After identifying himself for a short time with the Briar Hill Iron company, he was superintendent one year of the Morse Bridge-works, and in 1879 came to Braddock, where he was superintendent of the blast-furnaces in the Edgar Thomson Steel-works, remaining in charge of the construction and operating of this department for a period of four years. During that time he invented the fluid cinder car and improved hot-blast stoves, etc. From 1883 until January, 1886, he had charge of the Lucy furnaces, and when they became united with the Homestead Steel-works he became general superintendent of both. In 1886 he built the new platemill, and the following year the armor-plate or universal mill, in the construction of which he put many of his inventions and plans, among others an automatic device for charging ingots and tabling them, and large hydraulic shears, which can handle a fifty-ton ingot. At present Mr. Kennedy is interested in the Latrobe plant, which makes a specialty of locomotive and car-wheel tires.