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144 History University of Illinois stroyer,—having warned him on his death bed, against accepting public office. " H e was survived by five children, James B., living at Yonkers, N. Y.; Caroline M., who married Lucius K. Wilmerding of New York; Olivia M., who married the late W. Bayard Cutting of the same city; John Archibald, lawyer, of that city; and Annie M., wife of C. Wickliffe Yulee, also of that city. " H e was a devoted father,—sacrificing his comfort, ease, means and even life for the best interests of his children, who also were devoted to him,whose company and companionship they ever enjoyed, and who were only too pleased when they could persuade him to leave his home in the city and visit them in their country places,—which however, they seldom succeeded in doing/' 2 1 DR. JOHN A. KENNICOTT Dr. John A. Kennicott was associated with J. B. Turner through the most trying years of the campaign that ended in the establishment of the land grant system of industrial universities. He died in 1863, when but a little over sixty years of age. He had lived to see the federal government make, what to him appeared a munificent grant to agricultural and mechanical education and to know that Illinois accepted her share; but to see the institution itself with young men thronging its halls was denied him. Kennicott was a good fighter; unafraid, direct, impulsive, often tactless, with a native simplicity which no experience in the duplicity and double-dealing that he saw practiced in political life, was ever able to cloud. When he fought he fought with pleasure, but he was always a generous foe. During his residence in New Orleans he was once challenged to a duel. He accepted heartily, chose pistols as the weapons with enthusiasm, and looked forward to the affair with such interest that his opponent made an apology. Kennicott had scant opportunities for education in early youth but he instinctively gave a close attention to flowers and "From biographical sketch by James B. Murray,
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