Murdock Kennedy

KENNEDY, MURDOCH, merchant; b. 25 March 1873 in Breadalbane, son of Samuel Kennedy and Christy MacKinnon; m. 4 December 1894 Margaret Davison Biggar, and they had five children, Maude, Ray, Hazel Erma, and Ivan; Presbyterian; d. 1950. Kennedy, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election on 19 December 1906 for 1st Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1908, 1912, 1915, 1919, and 1923. Kennedy was appointed Provincial Secretary-Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture in the Mathieson* Administration. In 1913 he resigned his Cabinet position because he disagreed with government's support for the use of automobiles on public roads. Kennedy was a general merchant in the Breadalbane area. His brother James Kennedy* was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly. The two men served concurrently in the Assembly from 1908 to 1915. Murdoch Kennedy died in 1950. Margaret Kennedy, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Biggar, was born 28 March 1873. She died in 1936.