History of the City of Buffalo, Its Men and Institutions, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens, published in 1908 by the Buffalo Evening News
HUGH KENNEDY Hugh Kennedy, the subject of this sketch, is familiar to many of our readers as among the first of the ironmasters to recognize the geographical advantages of Buffalo for the establishment of industries devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel. Belonging to a family of "iron men," it is but natural that he should find his place in the group of prominent furnace men of the present generation. Thomas Walker Kennedv, his father, who died June 4th, 1896, was a furnace man, and in his day was probably the greatest mechanical engineer and furnace builder in this country. He introduced many improvements in the construction and operation of blast furnaces, and was said to be the first to produce one hundred tons of pig iron from a single furnace in twenty-four hours. His mother, Margaret Kennedy, nee Truesdale, died in August of the past year at the old homestead, Lowellville, Ohio, enjoying the esteem and respect of the entire community and the devotion of her children and grandchildren. Hugh Kennedy's early experience was with his brother, Julian Kennedy, as assistant at the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, Braddock, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he was appointed superintendent and afterward general manager of Isabella Furnaces, Etna, Pennsylvania, where he remained until they were taken over by The American Steel Hoop Company in 1899, when he was elected to be manager of its furnace department and a director of the company. At present he is general manager and a director of The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, whose furnaces are acknowledged to be models of construction in adaptability and concentration. He is president of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary corporation, and vice president and director of The Seneca Iron and Steel Company, that is now constructing its new plant at Blasdell, New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. Kennedy has served on boards of many institutions, and his recent election to the office of president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Buffalo and as a member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Historical Society would indicate that his activities are not whollv concentrated in industrial channels. It will, no doubt, be interesting to many of his friends to learn that he is privileged to attach the title of LL. D. to his signature, that degree having been conferred on him by Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas. He is the third of seven brothers, the history of six of whom in connection with blast furnaces in this country is probably without a parallel. In the order named they are Julian, the eminent engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; James, an attorney and member of Congress, now serving his second term as Representative from the late President McKinley's district in Ohio; Hugh, our present subject; Walter, now a mechanical engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John H., general manager of Punxsutawney Furnaces, Pennsylvania; Samuel A., general manager Iroquois Furnaces, Chicago, Illinois; and Thomas W., Junior, president and general manager of Adrian Furnaces, Dubois, Pennsylvania. A man of engaging personality and highest integrity, he has risen to the top of his profession. While not assuming to be an expert, he is an enthusiast at golf, and finds diversion in its pleasures at the Country Club on every favorable opportunity. His favorite recreation is to be in the company of his family, where he and Mrs. Kennedy find greatest enjoyment in directing the destinies of nine interesting children - four sons and five daughters.
HUGH KENNEDY Hugh Kennedy, the subject of this sketch, is familiar to many of our readers as among the first of the ironmasters to recognize the geographical advantages of Buffalo for the establishment of industries devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel. Belonging to a family of "iron men," it is but natural that he should find his place in the group of prominent furnace men of the present generation. Thomas Walker Kennedv, his father, who died June 4th, 1896, was a furnace man, and in his day was probably the greatest mechanical engineer and furnace builder in this country. He introduced many improvements in the construction and operation of blast furnaces, and was said to be the first to produce one hundred tons of pig iron from a single furnace in twenty-four hours. His mother, Margaret Kennedy, nee Truesdale, died in August of the past year at the old homestead, Lowellville, Ohio, enjoying the esteem and respect of the entire community and the devotion of her children and grandchildren. Hugh Kennedy's early experience was with his brother, Julian Kennedy, as assistant at the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, Braddock, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he was appointed superintendent and afterward general manager of Isabella Furnaces, Etna, Pennsylvania, where he remained until they were taken over by The American Steel Hoop Company in 1899, when he was elected to be manager of its furnace department and a director of the company. At present he is general manager and a director of The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, whose furnaces are acknowledged to be models of construction in adaptability and concentration. He is president of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary corporation, and vice president and director of The Seneca Iron and Steel Company, that is now constructing its new plant at Blasdell, New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. Kennedy has served on boards of many institutions, and his recent election to the office of president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Buffalo and as a member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Historical Society would indicate that his activities are not whollv concentrated in industrial channels. It will, no doubt, be interesting to many of his friends to learn that he is privileged to attach the title of LL. D. to his signature, that degree having been conferred on him by Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas. He is the third of seven brothers, the history of six of whom in connection with blast furnaces in this country is probably without a parallel. In the order named they are Julian, the eminent engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; James, an attorney and member of Congress, now serving his second term as Representative from the late President McKinley's district in Ohio; Hugh, our present subject; Walter, now a mechanical engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John H., general manager of Punxsutawney Furnaces, Pennsylvania; Samuel A., general manager Iroquois Furnaces, Chicago, Illinois; and Thomas W., Junior, president and general manager of Adrian Furnaces, Dubois, Pennsylvania. A man of engaging personality and highest integrity, he has risen to the top of his profession. While not assuming to be an expert, he is an enthusiast at golf, and finds diversion in its pleasures at the Country Club on every favorable opportunity. His favorite recreation is to be in the company of his family, where he and Mrs. Kennedy find greatest enjoyment in directing the destinies of nine interesting children - four sons and five daughters.
History of the City of Buffalo, Its Men and Institutions, Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens, published in 1908 by the Buffalo Evening News
HUGH KENNEDY Hugh Kennedy, the subject of this sketch, is familiar to many of our readers as among the first of the ironmasters to recognize the geographical advantages of Buffalo for the establishment of industries devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel. Belonging to a family of "iron men," it is but natural that he should find his place in the group of prominent furnace men of the present generation. Thomas Walker Kennedv, his father, who died June 4th, 1896, was a furnace man, and in his day was probably the greatest mechanical engineer and furnace builder in this country. He introduced many improvements in the construction and operation of blast furnaces, and was said to be the first to produce one hundred tons of pig iron from a single furnace in twenty-four hours. His mother, Margaret Kennedy, nee Truesdale, died in August of the past year at the old homestead, Lowellville, Ohio, enjoying the esteem and respect of the entire community and the devotion of her children and grandchildren. Hugh Kennedy's early experience was with his brother, Julian Kennedy, as assistant at the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, Braddock, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he was appointed superintendent and afterward general manager of Isabella Furnaces, Etna, Pennsylvania, where he remained until they were taken over by The American Steel Hoop Company in 1899, when he was elected to be manager of its furnace department and a director of the company. At present he is general manager and a director of The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, whose furnaces are acknowledged to be models of construction in adaptability and concentration. He is president of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary corporation, and vice president and director of The Seneca Iron and Steel Company, that is now constructing its new plant at Blasdell, New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. Kennedy has served on boards of many institutions, and his recent election to the office of president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Buffalo and as a member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Historical Society would indicate that his activities are not whollv concentrated in industrial channels. It will, no doubt, be interesting to many of his friends to learn that he is privileged to attach the title of LL. D. to his signature, that degree having been conferred on him by Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas. He is the third of seven brothers, the history of six of whom in connection with blast furnaces in this country is probably without a parallel. In the order named they are Julian, the eminent engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; James, an attorney and member of Congress, now serving his second term as Representative from the late President McKinley's district in Ohio; Hugh, our present subject; Walter, now a mechanical engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John H., general manager of Punxsutawney Furnaces, Pennsylvania; Samuel A., general manager Iroquois Furnaces, Chicago, Illinois; and Thomas W., Junior, president and general manager of Adrian Furnaces, Dubois, Pennsylvania. A man of engaging personality and highest integrity, he has risen to the top of his profession. While not assuming to be an expert, he is an enthusiast at golf, and finds diversion in its pleasures at the Country Club on every favorable opportunity. His favorite recreation is to be in the company of his family, where he and Mrs. Kennedy find greatest enjoyment in directing the destinies of nine interesting children - four sons and five daughters.
HUGH KENNEDY Hugh Kennedy, the subject of this sketch, is familiar to many of our readers as among the first of the ironmasters to recognize the geographical advantages of Buffalo for the establishment of industries devoted to the manufacture of iron and steel. Belonging to a family of "iron men," it is but natural that he should find his place in the group of prominent furnace men of the present generation. Thomas Walker Kennedv, his father, who died June 4th, 1896, was a furnace man, and in his day was probably the greatest mechanical engineer and furnace builder in this country. He introduced many improvements in the construction and operation of blast furnaces, and was said to be the first to produce one hundred tons of pig iron from a single furnace in twenty-four hours. His mother, Margaret Kennedy, nee Truesdale, died in August of the past year at the old homestead, Lowellville, Ohio, enjoying the esteem and respect of the entire community and the devotion of her children and grandchildren. Hugh Kennedy's early experience was with his brother, Julian Kennedy, as assistant at the furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company, Braddock, Pennsylvania. In 1881 he was appointed superintendent and afterward general manager of Isabella Furnaces, Etna, Pennsylvania, where he remained until they were taken over by The American Steel Hoop Company in 1899, when he was elected to be manager of its furnace department and a director of the company. At present he is general manager and a director of The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, whose furnaces are acknowledged to be models of construction in adaptability and concentration. He is president of the Cascade Coal and Coke Company, a subsidiary corporation, and vice president and director of The Seneca Iron and Steel Company, that is now constructing its new plant at Blasdell, New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Mr. Kennedy has served on boards of many institutions, and his recent election to the office of president of the Young Men's Christian Association of Buffalo and as a member of the board of managers of the Buffalo Historical Society would indicate that his activities are not whollv concentrated in industrial channels. It will, no doubt, be interesting to many of his friends to learn that he is privileged to attach the title of LL. D. to his signature, that degree having been conferred on him by Cooper College, Sterling, Kansas. He is the third of seven brothers, the history of six of whom in connection with blast furnaces in this country is probably without a parallel. In the order named they are Julian, the eminent engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; James, an attorney and member of Congress, now serving his second term as Representative from the late President McKinley's district in Ohio; Hugh, our present subject; Walter, now a mechanical engineer of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; John H., general manager of Punxsutawney Furnaces, Pennsylvania; Samuel A., general manager Iroquois Furnaces, Chicago, Illinois; and Thomas W., Junior, president and general manager of Adrian Furnaces, Dubois, Pennsylvania. A man of engaging personality and highest integrity, he has risen to the top of his profession. While not assuming to be an expert, he is an enthusiast at golf, and finds diversion in its pleasures at the Country Club on every favorable opportunity. His favorite recreation is to be in the company of his family, where he and Mrs. Kennedy find greatest enjoyment in directing the destinies of nine interesting children - four sons and five daughters.
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