Son of John Albert Kennicott and Mary Ransom Kennicott. A collector, he cataloged
for the Smithsonian Institution. He surveyed for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was
a founder of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Northwestern University natural history museum. He collected specimens from the forests of northwestern Canada. He lived in the Smithsonian Castle during the Civil War. He was the scientist on the expedition to find a route for a telegraph line between North America and Russia.
(L Winslow)
Exhumed 2001, Kennicott Cemetery to the Smithsonian for research . His family signed over his body for exhibit in 2016.
Cenotaph here
for the Smithsonian Institution. He surveyed for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was
a founder of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Northwestern University natural history museum. He collected specimens from the forests of northwestern Canada. He lived in the Smithsonian Castle during the Civil War. He was the scientist on the expedition to find a route for a telegraph line between North America and Russia.
(L Winslow)
Exhumed 2001, Kennicott Cemetery to the Smithsonian for research . His family signed over his body for exhibit in 2016.
Cenotaph here
Son of John Albert Kennicott and Mary Ransom Kennicott. A collector, he cataloged
for the Smithsonian Institution. He surveyed for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was
a founder of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Northwestern University natural history museum. He collected specimens from the forests of northwestern Canada. He lived in the Smithsonian Castle during the Civil War. He was the scientist on the expedition to find a route for a telegraph line between North America and Russia.
(L Winslow)
Exhumed 2001, Kennicott Cemetery to the Smithsonian for research . His family signed over his body for exhibit in 2016.
Cenotaph here
for the Smithsonian Institution. He surveyed for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was
a founder of the Chicago Academy of Sciences and the Northwestern University natural history museum. He collected specimens from the forests of northwestern Canada. He lived in the Smithsonian Castle during the Civil War. He was the scientist on the expedition to find a route for a telegraph line between North America and Russia.
(L Winslow)
Exhumed 2001, Kennicott Cemetery to the Smithsonian for research . His family signed over his body for exhibit in 2016.
Cenotaph here
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(Objects of Wonder) March 10, 2017.
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