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George Kennan

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George Kennan

Birth
Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, USA
Death
10 May 1924 (aged 79)
Medina, Orleans County, New York, USA
Burial
Medina, Orleans County, New York, USA GPS-Latitude: 43.2338786, Longitude: -78.3937916
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Son of John and Mary Ann (Morse) Keenan.
Occupation: Author, Lecturer.
Education: Educated in grammar and high schools; (Litt. D., [Doctor of Letters], Williams College, Mass, 1910 and University of Rochester, 1916.
Married Emeline Rathbone Weld of Medina, NY, Sept. 25, 1879.
Became telegraph operator, late manager of Western Union office, Cinncinnati, 1863-1864. Went to northeast Siberia as explorer and Telegraphic engineer, 1865; superintendent construction middle division Russo-American Telegraph line, 1866-1868; explored Eastern Caucasus, 1870-1871; night manager Associated Press, Washington, 1877-1885; went to Cuba on the steamship State of Texas with the American National Red Cross Society and as a special commissioner for the Outlook; went to Martinique for the Outlook to study volcano, Mt. Pele, May 1902; went to Japan, March 1904 to report Russo-Japanese War for the Outlook; on staff McClure's Magazine, 1907; the Outlook 1909; vice president Medina Tribune Publishing Corp since 1923.
Member American Geological Society, National Geographic Society, National Institute Arts and Letters, Gold war medal (Japan), 1906, Order of the Sacred treasure (Japan), 1908.
Author: Tent Life in Siberia (1870), Siberia and the Exile System (2 volumes, 1892), Campaigning in Cuba (1899), Folk Tales of Napoleon (1902), The Tragedy of Pele (1902), A Russian Comedy of Errors (1915), The Chicago and Alton Case (1916), Misrepresentation in Railroad Affairs (1916), E.H. Harriman, Far Eastern Plans (1917), The Salton Sea (1917), E.H. Harriman A Biography (2 volumes, 1922)
Son of John and Mary Ann (Morse) Keenan.
Occupation: Author, Lecturer.
Education: Educated in grammar and high schools; (Litt. D., [Doctor of Letters], Williams College, Mass, 1910 and University of Rochester, 1916.
Married Emeline Rathbone Weld of Medina, NY, Sept. 25, 1879.
Became telegraph operator, late manager of Western Union office, Cinncinnati, 1863-1864. Went to northeast Siberia as explorer and Telegraphic engineer, 1865; superintendent construction middle division Russo-American Telegraph line, 1866-1868; explored Eastern Caucasus, 1870-1871; night manager Associated Press, Washington, 1877-1885; went to Cuba on the steamship State of Texas with the American National Red Cross Society and as a special commissioner for the Outlook; went to Martinique for the Outlook to study volcano, Mt. Pele, May 1902; went to Japan, March 1904 to report Russo-Japanese War for the Outlook; on staff McClure's Magazine, 1907; the Outlook 1909; vice president Medina Tribune Publishing Corp since 1923.
Member American Geological Society, National Geographic Society, National Institute Arts and Letters, Gold war medal (Japan), 1906, Order of the Sacred treasure (Japan), 1908.
Author: Tent Life in Siberia (1870), Siberia and the Exile System (2 volumes, 1892), Campaigning in Cuba (1899), Folk Tales of Napoleon (1902), The Tragedy of Pele (1902), A Russian Comedy of Errors (1915), The Chicago and Alton Case (1916), Misrepresentation in Railroad Affairs (1916), E.H. Harriman, Far Eastern Plans (1917), The Salton Sea (1917), E.H. Harriman A Biography (2 volumes, 1922)

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