Husband Edward Barry Kenly 1
AKA: Edward B. Kenley 2
Born: 5 Mar 1845 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Father: Richard Barry Kenly (1821-1886) 3
Mother: Lucinda C. Turney (1819-1895) 4 5 6
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Wife Eleanor L. Crock 7
AKA: Ella Crock 8
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Father: Emanuel Crock (1830-1889) 7 9
Mother: Mary Thomas ( - ) 7
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1 M Edward B. Kenly 7
Born: 25 Jan 1901 7
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2 M William C. W. Kenly 7
Born: 19 Feb 1902 7
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General Notes: Husband - Edward Barry Kenly
He was born near Harvey’s Five Points, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was reared at the county seat, attended the public schools in the winter and select schools in the summer. Early in 1861 he graduated from Iron City College, and was taking a special course in civil engineering at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, when the Civil war broke out, he being then sixteen years of age. He left his books and enlisted in the Federal Guards of Allegheny City under Captain J. C. Hull, which company was mustered into the United States service, July 4, 1861, as Company “A,” Sixty-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Colonel Samuel Black. Before embarking for Fortress Monroe, in March, 1862, Mr. Kenly was detailed as clerk at headquarters of General Silas Casey, who commanded the Second Division of the Fourth Army Corps during the Peninsular Campaign, famous for its malaria, muddy marches and hard fought battles, and was retained in the same position by Major-General John J. Peck, who succeeded General Casey in command of the division after the Battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, and was with General Peck during all of his services in Virginia and North Carolina. In April, 1864, after the battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, General Peck was transferred to the Department, of New York city, and Mr. Kenly was directed to report to E. M. Stanton, secretary of war. Upon his arrival in Washington, D. C., he was assigned to duty as a clerk in room No. 54, war department, containing all the reports, returns and papers belonging or relating to the volunteers from the states of Ohio and Michigan, where he served until July 27, 1864, when he was honorably discharged on account of the expiration of his three years’ term of enlistment. Adjutant-General Thomas offered him a civil appointment, but he refused it in order to return home and continue his studies at school. Several weeks after his return, whilst on a visit to the surviving members of his old company in Allegheny City, Captain J. W. Kirker, provost marshal of the Twenty-third congressional district of Pennsylvania, with headquarters in that city, prevailed upon him to accept a clerkship in his office, where he remained until it was discontinued several months after the war had ended. Mr. Kenly then went into the oil business in Western Virginia, continuing for about one year, after which he entered Dartmouth College, but on account of sickness and the severity of climate in New Hampshire he returned home before graduating. The two following years he read law with his uncle, Hon. Jacob Turney, but the profession of law not suiting him, he assisted his father in the lumber business. In politics he was an active Democrat until President Cleveland’s second term, when on account of well known differences he joined in the rush and stampede of thousands of tariff protection and Union soldier Democrats to the Republican party. He is a member of the U. V. L., G. A. R., and K. and L. of H.