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William Kenney unknown - unknown
Bourbon County KyArchives Biography

Author: History of Kentucky, five volumes, edited by Judge Charles Kerr, New York & Chicago, 1922, Vol. IV

WILLIAM KENNEY, M.D. A physician and surgeon of the highest standing, engaged 
in practice at Paris for over twenty years, Doctor Kenney is a member of one of 
the noted families of the state and is a grandson of Dr. William Kenney, of 
Bourbon County. His father was the late Charles Alexander Kenney, a native of 
Millersburg, Kentucky, an extensive farmer who made a specialty of breeding and 
raising game chickens, and was probably the largest breeder of this kind in the 
United States if not in the world. His extensive farm and breeding grounds were 
at Kenney Station, five miles west of Paris, on the Lexington Pike. He eveloped 
several breeds of game birds that were well known favorites in sporting ircles, 
including the "Red Quills, the "Dark Horses" and "Race Horses," under which 
classifications many of the most successful fighters were produced. He had the 
larger part of a 212 acre farm devoted to the raising of game chickens, and 
received prices for his game cocks all the way from $10 to $150 apiece. He was 
also a sheep breeder and a man deeply interested in sports, being a noted trap shooter and live bird shooter. He won a championship at one time in live bird shooting. Charles A. Kenney died in 1905. He married Pauline Pullen, daughter of B.F. Pullen, of Paris, where at one time he was mayor and a merchant. She died twenty five years before her husband. There were two sons. The older, Frank P. was at one time assistant secretary of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association, later was secretary of the Montana Racing Association at Butte and Anaconda, was secretary of the Douglas Park Driving Association of Chicago, also a member of the Trauter-Kenney Horse Sales Company, dealers in trotting horses, and for the past ten years has been associated with the Chicago Horse Sales Company at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago. Dr. William Kenney, the other son, was liberally educated, attending the noted preparatory school of W.L. Yerkes and graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville in 1898, at the age of twenty. He has ever since been actively engaged in practice, and his success and standing in the profession is indicated by the fact that he is now president of the Bourbon County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Kentucky State Medical Association. Doctor Kenney, so far as his professional duties permit, is interested in outdoor sports and activities, being a member of a Gun Club, and has some general farming interests. He married Miss Maud Shackelford, of Mercer County, Kentucky. They have three children; Charles A., a student of medicine in the Kentucky State University; Frances, a member of the senior class of the Paris High School; and Billy Dudley, born in 1908, a freshman in high school. Doctor and Mrs. Kenney also have an adopted daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1913. 


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