Kenneth McKenzie
Kenneth McKenzie
Source: Illustrated Album of Biography of Pope and Stevens Counties Minnesota (1888)
KENNETH MCKENZIE, one of the oldest and most influential citizens of Ben Wade Township resides on sections 13 and 21. He was born in Southern Shire, Scotland, November l5, 1836, and is a son of Duncan and Arabella (McKenzie) McKenzie. He lived at home on the farm until he was twenty-one years of age, when he bought a farm and worked on it until 1868, immigrating to the United States. He came direct to Pope County, Minnesota, and took a homestead on sections 13 and 24, Ben Wade Township, where he has since lived. Mr. McKenzie has a farm of 290 acres, and is a respected and prosperous farmer. He has held numerous offices in the township. He is an exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church, having been a deacon in that organization for a number of years. In political matters our subject is a prohibitionist.
The subject of this sketch was married March 11, 1863 to Miss Agness Scott, a daughter of William and Agnes Scott, and their union has been blessed with the following children: William, Agnes, Duncan, John, Henrietta, Jane, Arabella, Elizabeth, Jesse, Kenneth and Ethel all of whom are living.
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