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Evender Chalane Kennedy

(1842-1893)
Kansas & Indiana


Evender Kennedy, the son of Andrew Kennedy, was born in Muncie, Indiana on February 14, 1842. Kennedy served in the Union Army during the Civil War and was a member of the Indiana state house of representatives in 1875. He also served in the Kansas state legislature. He died in Indianapolis on August 25, 1893. [Source: Lawrence Kestenbaum's The Political Graveyard]

Poetry

Evender Chalane Kennedy, Osseo, the Spectre Chieftain: A Poem (Leavenworth, Kansas: E.C. Kennedy, 1867)

____________________, Centennial Splendor: A Poem (St. Louis: globe-Democrat Job Printing Company, 1876)