Kennedy, Samuel, M.D., a Presbyterian minis- ter, was born in Scotland in 1720, and educated in the University of Edinburgh. On coming to America he was received by the I'resbytery of New Brunswick, and Ucensed by them in 1750. The following year he was ordained, and installed over the congregations of Bask- ing Ridge, New Jersey, where he was jirincipal of a clas- sical school which acquired considerable celebrity. In 1700 he rendered his name conspicuous in behalf of an Episcopal clergyman by his connection with the ludi- crous proclamation, ^^ Eiyhteen Presb. Minis, for a yroatr He ■was not only a minister and a teacher, but a physi- cian, and practiced medicine with no small reputation in his own congregation. He died August 31, 1787. — Sprague, Annals, iii, 175.
Kennedy, 'William Megee, an early Methodist minister, was born iu 1783, in that ])art of North Caro- lina which was ceded to Tennessee in 1790. He lived some years in South Carolina, and afterwards settled m Bullock County, Ga. In 1803 he was Ijrought into the Church under the ministry of Hope Hull; joined the South Carolina Conference in 1805, and filled its most important appointments for more than thirty years, half of the time as presiding elder. In 1839 he was struck with apoplexy, and was cousequenfly retunied as super- annuate, but he still continued to labor untU his death in 1840. He was lamented as one of the noblest men of Southern ^Methodism. Kennedj' had a pc<'nliarly well-balanced mind. His counsel was prudent and sa- gacious; he formed his opinions deliberately, and such was his discretion that, in the various responsible rela- tions he sustained to the Church, it is quesfionalile whether a single instance of rashness could be justly charged upon him. His piety unaffected, his intercourse with the people affectionate, his preaching faitlifid, car- nest, and successful, he was a very popular prcaclier. He was successivelv at Charleston (iu 1809, 1810, 1820, 1821, 1834, and 183'5), Camden (1818), AVilmington, N. C. (1819), Augusta, Ga. (1826-27), Columbia, S. C. (1828-
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Keunedy,Williani Sloane, a Presliyterian min- ister (N. S.),%vas liorii in 3Iii:--cy, ra.,Jiine ".. \>^ii\ grad- uated at Western Keserve College in 184G ; was licensed by the Cleveland Presbytery in 1848, and soon after in- stalled pastor of the Congregational Church in Bucks- ville. Ohio. Here he labored earnestly for four years. In 185-2 he accepted a call to Sandusky, Ohio, where he ministered with great success until his removal to Cin- cinnati in 1859. His work there seemed to promise well, his congregations increased, and his influence was strong; but in the spring of 1860 his health began to fail, and for foiu-teen months he struggled against disease, preach- ing even the Sabbath before his death. He died July 30, 1861. He was a thorough scholar, a profound theo- logian, and an instructive and impressive preacher. He wrote Mesmtnic Prophecies: — a History of the Plan of Union: — Life of Christ; and Sacred Analofjies. — Wil- son, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1862.
Keimerly, Philip, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Augusta Co., Va., Oct. 18, 1769 ; converted in 1786; entered the Baltimore Conference in 1804; and ill 1806, on account of ulcerated throat, located and set- tled in Logan Co., Ky. In June, 1821, he re-entered the itinerancy in the Kentucky Conference, but died on the 5th of the ensuing October. " But his work Avas done, his temporalities well adjusted, his slaves emanci- pated, and his sun went down without a cloud." During his long location his labors were "very extensive and useful." " He was a good preacher, full of faith and of the spirit of Christ." — Minutes of Conferences, i, 399.
Kennet, Basil, an English divine of note, younger brother of the following, was born Oct. 21, 1674, at Post- ling, in Kent ; entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1690 ; took the master's degree in 1696, and the year following entered the ministry. In 1706 he was, by the interest of his brother, appointed chaj lain to the English factory at Leghorn, where he no sooner arrived than ho met with great opposition from the papists, and was in danger of the Inquisition. This establishment of a Church of England chaplain was a new thing; and the Italians were so jealous of the Northern heresy that, to give as little offence as possible, he perlbrmed the duties of his office with the utmost privacy and caution. But, notwithstanding this, great offence was taken at it, and complaints were immediately sent to Florence and Kome, when both the pope and the court of Inquisition declared their resolution to expel heresy and the public teacher of it from the confines of the holy sec, and se- cret orders were given to apprehend and hurrj^ him away to Pisa, and thence to some other religious prison, to bury him alive, or otherwise dispose of him in the severest manner. Upon notice of this design, Dr. New- ton, the English envoy at Florence, interposed his of- fices at that court, where he could obtain no other an- swer but that " lie might send for the English preacher, and keep him in his own family as his domestic chap- lain ; otherwise, if he presumed to continue at Leghorn, he must take the consequences of it, for, in those matters of religion, the court of Inquisition was superior to all civil powers." When the earl of Sunderland, then sec- retarj^ of stale, was informed of this state of affairs, he sent a menacing letter by her majesty's eoniniand. and the chaplain was permitted to continue to officiate in safety ( Life of Jiishop Kennet, p. 53 sq.). In 1713 Ken- net's failing health obliged him to quit Leghorn, and he returned to Oxford, to be elected only the year follow- ing iiresident of his college. He died, however, shortly after, eillier towards the close of 1714 or the opening of 1715. He wrote in the theological department an A'.rpo- fition of the Apostles'' Creed: — IJnriiphriise on the Psalms, in verse (1706, 8vo) ; and published shortly before his death a volume of Sei'mons on several Occasions (Lond. 1715, 8vo). He also furnished English translations of, 1. I'uffendorf 'd Iaiio of Nature and Nations : — 2. Pla-