Kendall family
Biographical notes:
John Kendall was born on July 21, 1810, the son of Thomas Kendall and Olive Crane. On July 24, 1832, he married Deborah Avery. He worked as a thermometer maker, and they lived in New Lebanon, New York (1832-1836, 1847-1892); Galesburg, Illinois (1836-1844); and Cleveland, Ohio (1844-1847). They had four children: Mary Curtis (b. 1834), Ellen C. (b. 1837), Sarah W. (b. 1842), and Henry M. John Kendall died on May 19, 1892. Ellen C. Kendall attended in the Ingham Collegiate Institute in Le Roy, New York, in the mid-1850s, and later became a painting teacher. Sarah W. Kendall attended the Wadawanuck Young Ladies' Institute in Stonington, Connecticut. She married Henry L. Brown in September 1870, and they had at least five children: Margaret, Harvey, Walter, Howard, and Avery. Henry and Sarah Brown later lived in Paterson, New Jersey, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Charles H. Brown, a relative of the Kendall family, was born in New York around 1861. After attending the Greylock Institute in South Williamstown, Massachusetts, in the mid-1870s, he moved to Dunkirk, New York, where he worked as a machinist.
From the guide to the Kendall-Brown family collection, 1854-1902, 1854-1859, 1874-1890, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
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- New Lebanon (N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Pittsfield (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Stonington (Conn.) (as recorded)
