• General Notes

  REFN: 1094
  Taken from History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania with Biographical
  Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Chapter LXXV,
  Salisbury Township <1<(1 By John C. Linvill.), Biographical Sketches:
  "Winfield Scott Kenndy was born in Salisbury Twp., Lancaster Co.,
  Pa, Sept. 13, 1815.  He spent his childhood at the home on the farm. 
  When twelve years of age he entered the Moscow Academy, Chester County,
  then under the charge of the Revs. James and Francis Latta.  In 1830 he
  entered Jefferson College, where he remained during the junior year, at
  the end of which time he was obliged to leave on account of failing
  eyesight.  In 1831 and 1832 he was clerk in the hardware store of Logan &
  Kennedy, the next three years worked for his father on the farm, and in
  1836 commenced farming for himself.  He married, May 4, 1837, Mary M.
  daughter of Matthias & Rebecca Slaymaker, who was born in Williamstown,
  April, 1816.  From 1836 to 1849 he lived in the house below the "Rising
  Sun Hotel", now owned by Samuel Kauffman.  During the latter of these
  years he dealt largely in cattle, making frequent trips to Kentucky and
  Ohio, and sometimes returning East with droves of a thousand head and
  upward.  From 18551 to 1856 he engaged in merchandising at Bellevue (now
  part of the Gap) in company with his brother Sylvester.  In 1857 he went
  to Pittsburgh, where he became interested with his brother, Robert, in
  carrying on the Pearl Flouring Mill, at the time one of the largest in
  the country, with capacity of from seven hundred to  one thousand barrels
  per day.  This partnership continued until 1870, when the mill was
  burned.  During most of the time he made his headquarters in Cincinnati
  in the purchase of wheat.  His wife died in 1843.  He married again, Dec.
  5, 1866, Esther J., daughter of James and Rebecca
  Dickinson who was born in Salisbury Twp., Sept. 22, 1821."

Details of Winfield Scott's family with Mary Melvina Slaymaker