I came across this while looking for something else and thought I would pass it along: Olin A. Kennedy, engaged in the real estate, loan and insurance business in Ogden, was born in McDonough county, Illinois, on the 11th of September, 1861. His father was the Rev. Benjamin B. Kennedy, a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and a representative of one of the families of New Jersey of Scotch-Irish lineage. The family was founded in America when that country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain, and in the maternal line Olin A. Kennedy comes from ancestors who participated in the Revolutionary war. His father was a minister of the Methodist church, one of the circuit riders of the early days, and devoted the greater part of his life to preaching the gospel. He came to Ogden in 1890 and continued a resident of this city to the time of his death, which occurred on the 5th of June, 1892, when he was sixty-eight years of age. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rose Patience French, was a native of Virginia. Her father was Isaac French, who served in the war of 1812, and her grandfather, William French, fought for the independence of the colonies in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Kennedy passed away in Ogden, March 31, 1915, at the notable old age of ninety years. By her marriage she had become the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom three are now living: Olin A. of this review; Clarence K., who resides at Puente, California; and Leota S., the wife of E. H. Hutsinpillar, a resident of Ogden. Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical. Volume III. Source Information: Ancestry.com, comp. Utah Since Statehood, Volumes 1-4. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Noble Warrum, ed. Utah Since Statehood, 4 volumes. Chicago, IL; Salt Lake City, UT: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919.