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ADDISON A. KENNEDY, third son and fifth child of Hugh W. and Minerva E. Kennedy, was born July 10, 1840. He enlisted as a soldier August 3, 1861, in the regimental band of the Twenty-seventh Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served one year in the Army of the Mississippi, and fought at New Madrid, Island No. 10, Fort Pillow and advance on Corinth. He re-enlisted August 5, 1863, as a member of Company C, Second Ohio Heavy Artillery. He was appointed and served as Corporal, Duty Sergeant, Commissary Sergeant, Quartermaster Sergeant, Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant. He participated in the following engagements: Sweet Water, Loudon, Athens, Strawberry Plains, Knoxville and Clinch Mountain. He was honorably discharged in September, 1865. During the year 1863, while he was at home, he was Colonel of the Third Regiment Brown County Militia. At the close of the war, he was offered a Second Lieutenancy in the Regular Service of the United States, but he declined it. In 1866, he engaged in general merchandising in Sardinia and followed it successfully till March, 1877. He then took charge of the Woodward House, and ran it till December, 1881, when he removed to Washington Court House, and opened the Gardner Hotel, of which he is still proprietor. December 6, 1866, he was married to Miss Anna Hamilton, daughter of Norville and Nancy Hamilton. Mrs. Kennedy was born in Adams County, April 20, 1845. Two children were added to this union — Ira A. and Guy H. Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy associate with the Presbyterian Church. Politically, he is a Republican. He is identified with the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R.