Martin P. Kennard Explained

Martin Parry Kennard (July 24, 1818November 13, 1903) was a Boston businessman (by occupation a silversmith[1] and jeweler[2]), abolitionist, and U.S. federal government employee.

Biography

Kennard was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.[3] He started his career as a jeweler with the Boston firm Jones, Low & Ball, and later was a principal of Bigelow Bros. & Kennard. This company was later reorganized as Bigelow, Kennard & Co., with the other name partners at that time being Alanson Bigelow and William H. Kennard.[4] [5] The company sold "high-quality domestic and imported silver, glass, and clocks."[6] A business under this name persisted until 1971; Harvard University holds some of the firm's records in their library special collections.[7]

In 1854, Kennard moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, and along with figures like Ellis Gray Loring and William I. Bowditch, was among the activists of the Boston Vigilance Committee, which was devoted to protecting fugitive slaves.[8] Kennard is the primary source on the visit of Mikhail Bakunin to the United States in 1861.[9] Kennard later became a customs house collector in Boston. From 1868 ("and never thereafter took an active interest in business")[10] until the 1890s, he held Treasury Department appointments in Boston.[11] [12]

He was a member of the Boston Art Club, the Boston Union Club, the Boston Commercial Club, the Mercantile Library Association (committee on lectures),[13] the Merchants Club, and the Tuesday Club.[14] Kennard was described a "Republican of the most pronounced stripe," and as a "staunch Unitarian" who was a member of the First Unitarian Church of Brookline. Kennard was survived by his wife Caroline Kennard, a naturalist and women's rights activist, and four children.[15] Their son Frederic Hedge Kennard was a landscape architect and naturalist involved in birding and in the preservation of the American bison; Frederic's daughter, Dr. Margaret Kennard, was a notable 20th-century neuropsychologist.[16] His son Edward Parry Kennard also worked as a silversmith.[17] [18] The Martin Parry Kennard house now houses Brookline Music School.[19]

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  1. Web site: Martin Parry Kennard . 2024-01-14 . www.americansilversmiths.org . 2023-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230328150352/http://www.americansilversmiths.org/makers/silversmiths/92743.htm . live .
  2. News: 1907-10-25 . Obituary for Caroline A. Kennard . 2024-01-14 . The Boston Globe . 10 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114194224/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-obituary-for-caroline-a/38391933/ . live .
  3. News: 1903-11-13 . Martin P. Kennard - Death of a Formerly Well Known Boston Merchant . 2024-01-14 . Biddeford-Saco Journal . 1 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114194545/https://www.newspapers.com/article/biddeford-saco-journal-martin-p-kennard/138731740/ . live .
  4. News: 1903-11-14 . Article clipped from The Boston Globe . 2024-01-14 . The Boston Globe . 2.
  5. Book: The Jewelers' Circular . 1919 . Jewelers' Circular Company . 301 . en.
  6. Web site: Bigelow Kennard & Co History ~ Antique Clocks Guy Reference Library . 2024-01-14 . www.clockguy.com . 2023-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326114349/https://clockguy.com/SiteRelated/SiteReferencePages/BigelowKennardHistory.html . live .
  7. Web site: COLLECTION Identifier: Mss:773 1830–1925 Bigelow, Kennard & Co. records . hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114202012/https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/11/resources/652 . live .
  8. Web site: History of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts / by John Gould Curtis; a memorial to Edward W. Baker; prepared under the direction of the Brookline historical ... . 2024-01-14 . HathiTrust . 261–263 (Vigilance) . en . 2027/uiug.30112049406942?urlappend=%3Bseq=357.
  9. Cutler . Robert M. . August 1988 . An Unpublished Letter of M.A. Bakunin to R.Solger . International Review of Social History . en . 33 . 2 . 212–217 . 10.1017/S0020859000008749 . 0020-8590 . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116165221/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/an-unpublished-letter-of-ma-bakunin-to-rsolger/0505397935B9831A0FC93DAAA41E2800 . live .
  10. Book: General Theological Library . Annual Report of the Directors of the General Theological Library . 1899 . The Society . 48 . en . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116165316/https://books.google.com/books?id=fo0XAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Martin+P.+Kennard%22&pg=RA5-PA48#v=onepage&q=%22Martin%20P.%20Kennard%22&f=false . live .
  11. Web site: Brookline Historical Society: People . 2024-01-14 . brooklinehistoricalsociety.org . 2021-10-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211028123614/https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/archives/slideShowPeople.asp?ID=Winsor01 . live .
  12. News: 1903-11-13 . Martin P. Kennard Dead . 2024-01-14 . The Journal . 2 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114194225/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-journal-martin-p-kennard-dead/138731625/ . live .
  13. Book: Emerson, Ralph Waldo . The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson . 1939 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-07516-9 . 105 . en . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116165218/https://books.google.com/books?id=-OQ6nz3uhP8C&dq=%22Martin+P.+Kennard%22&pg=PA105#v=onepage&q=%22Martin%20P.%20Kennard%22&f=false . live .
  14. News: 1903-11-14 . M. P. Kennard Dead at 85 . 2024-01-14 . Boston Post . 4 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114195359/https://www.newspapers.com/article/boston-post-m-p-kennard-dead-at-85/138732372/ . live .
  15. Bent . Arthur Cleveland . 1937 . In Memoriam: Frederic Hedge Kennard 1865-1937 . The Auk . 54 . 3 . 341–348 . 10.2307/4078088 . 4078088 . 0004-8038 . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114200637/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4078088 . live .
  16. Dennis . Maureen . September 2010 . Margaret Kennard (1899–1975): Not a 'Principle' of brain plasticity but a founding mother of developmental neuropsychology . Cortex . en . 46 . 8 . 1043–1059 . 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.10.008 . 2907425 . 20079891.
  17. Web site: Edward Parry Kennard . 2024-01-14 . www.americansilversmiths.org . 2022-11-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129140651/http://americansilversmiths.org/makers/silversmiths/156027.htm . live .
  18. Book: Rainwater, Dorothy T. . Encyclopedia of American Silver Manufacturers . 1998 . Schiffer Pub. . 978-0-7643-0602-0 . 177 . en . 2024-01-14 . 2024-01-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240116165218/https://books.google.com/books?id=6_oJAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Martin+Parry+Kennard%22 . live .
  19. Web site: Brookline Historical Society: Photo Tour . 2024-01-14 . brooklinehistoricalsociety.org . 2024-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240114202311/https://brooklinehistoricalsociety.org/archives/slideShowStreets.asp?ID=Walnut-67 . live .

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