Moorhead Cowell Kennedy and Margaret Odbert Coyle

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Husband Moorhead Cowell Kennedy ¹

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           Born: 10 Mar 1862 2
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         Father: Thomas B. Kennedy (1827-1905) 3 4 5
         Mother: Arianna S. Riddle (1836-      ) 3 4

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       Marriage: 25 Jun 1891 2

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Wife Margaret Odbert Coyle ²

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           Born: 14 Sep 1862 2
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         Father: James Huston Coyle (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Susan McCurdy (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 M Thomas B. Kennedy ²

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           Born: 13 Sep 1892 2
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2 M James Coyle Kennedy ²

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           Born: 30 Nov 1893 2
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3 F Margaret Riddle Kennedy ²

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           Born: 21 Jul 1896 2
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4 M Moorhead Cowell Kennedy, Jr. ²

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           Born: 18 Jan 1901 2
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General Notes: Husband - Moorhead Cowell Kennedy

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He was educated at the Chambersburg Academy, and was graduated from the Scientific Department of Andover (Massachusetts) Academy, in 1880. He then entered the John C. Green School of Science of Princeton University, from which he was graduated in 1884, with the degree of Civil Engineer. While at school and college he took an active part in athletic sports, and in his senior year at Princeton gained a position on the University football team. This love for sport and outdoor life led him, upon graduation from college, to the plains of Wyoming, where he purchased a ranch and engaged in the cattle business in those stirring times between 1884 and 1887. From there he moved to Junction City, Kansas, where he organized and conducted a private bank under the firm name of Kennedy & Kennedy until 1889, when he returned to Chambersburg to resume his chosen profession and entered the service of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, as assistant to the President. While only a boy in years, his inclination in this direction was manifested by his spending a summer's vacation as fireman on one of the old wood burning passenger locomotives named "Col. Lull," then in use on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, while other of his vacations were spent in the fields on Engineering Corps. In his course of studies he was specially attracted to those subjects that were related to railroad matters. In 1892 he was elected to the position of Vice-President of the company, and in 1903, when the vast increase of the business of the road required a reorganization of the official staff, the duties of General Superintendent were added to those that he then filled as Vice-President. He was one of the founders of and became vice-president of the Valley National Bank of Chambersburg. He lived during the summer at his country home, "Ragged Edge," along the upper Conococheague Creek, on the line of the Waynesboro branch of the Cumberland Valley Railroad.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 47.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 48.

3 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 714.

4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 656.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 43.