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GEORGE A. KENNEDY, lumber dealer, Sardinia, manufacturer and dealer in lumber, is a son of Hugh W. and Caroline Kennedy. He was born June 9, 1851. He was reared and brought up on a farm. When eighteen years old, he engaged as clerk for his brother, A. A. Kennedy, then a merchant in Sardinia. He clerked in his store three years; then removed to Augusta, Ky., where he was in mercantile business till 1874, when he returned to Sardinia and engaged in the hardware and furniture trade till 1876, since which time he has been in the lumber trade. He was married, in November, 1875, to Miss Anna Manker, daughter of W. W. Manker, of Adams County. Mrs. Kennedy was born in Brown County, June 9, 1853. They have two children — Edith Estella, born February 3, 1879, and an infant son, born May 11, 1882. Mr. Kennedy has been successful in his lumber pursuits. He owns a farm of 148 acres of land in Washington Township, besides fifty-seven acres in Jefferson Township and seventy-five acres of timbered land. He owns a one-half interest in a saw mill, besides town property. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In politics, he is a Republican, and ranks as one of the active young business men of Sardinia.