Julian Kennedy

Kennedy was born in Poland in 1852, the eldest of the seven sons of Thomas Walker Kennedy and Margaret (Trusdale) Kennedy. His father was a prominent constructive engineer, inventor, designer and builder of blast furnaces.

After the Poland Seminary, he attended the Sheffield Scientific School, where he obtained his Bachelor of Philosophy in 1875. Later in 1900 he further obtained his MSc degree, and in 1909 his PhD from the Stevens Institute of Technology.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Kennedy started his career Morse Bridge of Henry G. Morse and his brother Charles James Morse. Kennedy was superintendent for the company from 1879 to 1883.[http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=truss/6mile/ 6 Mile Creek Road Bridge; West Haven Bridge], at historicbridges.org. Accessed 09-05-2017. Afterwards he moved to the Carnegie Brothers and Company at Homestead, later Carnegie Brothers and Company, where he was General superintendent from 1885 to 1888.

For another two years he was chief engineer at Latrobe Steel Works in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, before settling as independent consulting engineer in 1890 in Pittsburgh. He consulted many of the major steel plants in the United States and Europe. As a steel consultant, Kennedy helped launch the Russian steel industry with the construction of the Nikopul' Providence Steel Mill in 1896. In 1907, Kennedy built the first Indian steel mill for Tata industries, which at the time, became the largest steel mill in the world, earning him the nickname, "Father of Asian Steel." As such, Kennedy was a major figure in the growth and success of steel in four of the World's top ten producers: India, USA, Russia, and Ukraine. {{citation needed|date=May 2017}}

In 1904, Kennedy served as the president of the Pennsylvania women's suffrage group, the Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA).{{Cite journal|last=Leach|first=Roberta J.|date=July 1984|title=Jennie Bradley Roessing and the Fight for Woman Suffrage in Pennsylvania|url=https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/3898/3715|journal=Western Pennsylvania History|volume=67|issue=3|pages=192|via=Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania}}

Kennedy married Jennie E. Breneman in 1878 and the couple had several children who were popular in social circles in Pittsburgh.{{Cite book|last=Jordan|first=John W.|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpe07jord/page/n34/mode/2up|title=Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated|publisher=Lewis Historical Publishing Co.|year=1916|location=New York|pages=2254–2256}} Jennie Kennedy was a clubwoman and a prominent suffragist in the Pittsburgh area.{{Cite web|last1=Orban|first1=Michael|last2=Everly|first2=Patricia|date=1996|title=Recreating a Suffragette Parade|url=https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/1996/novdec/rsrh2.htm|access-date=2021-03-22|website=Carnegie Museums}} Their daughters, Lucy Kennedy Miller and Eliza Kennedy Smith, also both became prominent 20th-century American suffragists"[https://pasenate.com/womenshistory/ Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to be Silenced]," in "Women's History Month." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Senate, retrieved online July 9, 2021."[https://pghsuffrage100.com/history/profile/lucy-kennedy-miller/ Lucy Kennedy Miller]," in "PGHSuffrage100." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Suffrage Centennial Committee, Office of the Mayor, 2020."[https://www.senatorschwank.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/WomensSuffrage.pdf Lucy Kennedy Miller]," in "100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, 1920-2020." Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Office of State Senator Judith L. Schwank, 2020."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2875748/lucy-kennedy-miller-1919/ Lucy Kennedy Miller Fund]." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Daily Post, December 12, 1919, p. 5.Pitz, Marylynne. "[https://www.pressreader.com/usa/pittsburgh-post-gazette/20200913/282415581701353 A roll call of Western Pa. suffrage trailblazers]." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 13, 2020."[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2875813/lucy-kennedy-miller-1919/ Mrs. Miller Makes Speech]." Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh Daily Post, June 25, 1919, p. 18.

Julian Kennedy died from a heart attack at his home in Pittsburgh on May 28, 1932. He was buried at Homewood Cemetery.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/pittsburgh-post-gazette-pg-obit-on-julia/57587114/ |title=Julian Kennedy Dies, Victim of Heart Attack |newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |page=3 |date=1932-05-30 |access-date=2023-06-21 |via=Newspapers.com}}

• Julian Kennedy, "[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066308226;view=2up;seq=16 Some modifications in Blast Furnace Construction]." Proceedings of the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania XXIII, Engineers Society, 1908. p. 3-15

;Publications about Julian Kennedy

• Templeton Smith. Engineer Pittsburgh: The Story of Julian Kennedy, Engineer : His Helpmate Jane Eliza Brenneman and His Kennedy and Truesdale Ancestors in America. 1996.

;Patents, a selectionFor a more complete listing of about 90 patents, see [https://www.google.ch/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:%22Julian+Kennedy%22&gws_rd=ssl here].

• [http://www.google.com.na/patents/US244997 Patent US244997 - Hot Blast Stove], 1881.
• [http://www.google.ch/patents/US593476 Patent US593476 - Furnace-valve for hot-blast stoves], 1896
• [https://www.google.ch/patents/US581165 Patent US581165 - Mechanism for operating shears], 1897
• [https://patents.google.com/patent/US760873 Patent US760873 - Hot-blast valve], 1904.
• [https://patents.google.com/patent/US1178522 Patent US1178522 - Charging-bell for blast-furnaces], 1916

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