Kenniston, Jonathan L. (1817-1884)

Name:

Kenniston, Jonathan L. (1817-1884)

Title:

Selectman, 5th Ward, City of Manchester, 1858
Stockholder, Amokeag Mutual Insurance Company, 1858

Other Names:

Kenniston, Jonathan Lovell

Born:

10/10/1817

Birthplace:

Alexandria, NH

Died:

07/28/1884

Death Location:

Manchester, NH

Residence:

Alexandria, NH
Manchester, NH 1835-1884

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Watchmaker
Jeweler
Silversmith 1844-60

Father:

Kenniston, Benjamin

Mother:

Taylor, Azubah (1792-1854)

Relations:

Barton Munsey, Manchester, NH, silversmith turned homeopathic physician) sold stock to Jonathan Kenniston, 1844
George S. Carnes (1811-1848), silversmith, worked for J. L. Kenniston, 1844
Lathrop Billings (1802-187?), watchmaker, worked for J. L. Kenniston, 1848, 1851.
Supervisor of watch repair work at Dunlap & Parker, 1853
Watchmaker and jeweler, moves to the jewelry store of Fogg & Harvey, 1857.

Spouse:

Hannah B. Ladd (1817-1885)

Children:

Louis B., born 1848; died 1855

Notes:

Named for maternal great-grandfather, Jonathan Lovell (1743-1817) of West Boylston, MA

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, NJ: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 111-112.

Dorothea E. Spear, "American Watch Papers," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, 61(October 1951), 339-340.

Dorothea E. Spear, American Watch Papers, With a Descriptive List of the Collection in the American Antiquarian Society. (Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1952), 45-46.

1844. Emery's Manchester, Amoskeag & Piscataquog Directory and Annual Advertiser... (Manchester, New Hampshire: J. P. Emery, 1844), 34.

A Business Directory of the City of Manchester. Published by C. A. Brown, April, 1848. (Manchester, New Hampshire: J. O. Adams, 1848), 14.

"J. L. Kenniston," Advertisement, Northern Advocate, Manchester, NH, March 14, 1848, 3.

"56 Enlarged" Advertisement, Manchester Daily Mirror, Manchester, NH, October 15, 1851, 1.

"Dunlap & Parker" Advertisement, Manchester Weekly Union, Manchester, NH, December 21, 1853, 3.

"Fogg & Harvey," Manchester Daily Mirror, Manchester, NH, March 12, 1857, 2.

Death Notice, Manchester Mirror, Manchester, NH, July 28, 1884.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

Valley Cemetery, Manchester, NH