Isaac R. Kennard was born on the 8^th day of November, 1842 in Clay Township, Carroll County, Ind. Eighteen years of his life were passed in Clinton County, Ind., where his parents, Tobias A. and Eliza (Roll) Kennard, had permanently located in 1848, and where, in 1862 his father died. Four years later in 1866, his widowed mother with her family returned again to Clay Township, Carroll County.

His grandfather, Thomas Kennard, was commissioned a Colonel of State militia in Butler County, Ohio, and subsequently removing to Indiana, was sent to the State Legislature as a Representative from Clinton County, and at a still later date, represented Clinton and Carroll Counties in that body as a joint Senator.

The subject of this sketch, in addition to the somewhat limited advantages of country schooling, has attended several select schools, and holds a diploma from the Star City Commercial College in La Fayette, Ind. He has recompensed the world, however, for these educational advantages by laboring as a successful teacher for almost ten consecutive years from 1867 to 1878. In the intervals, and up to the date of his election as a county official, his time has been employed in farming considered by him to be his real occupation.

In 1874, he was chosen to the office of Trustee of Clay Township serving with such fidelity and satisfaction, as to bring about his re-election to the same official trust two years later. In 1880, as the candidate of the Democratic party, he was elected to the position of Treasurer of Carroll County.

Mr. Kennard enlisted as a private soldier in the late war, on the 1^st of September, 1864. He was a member of Company G, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteers, and participated in at least two important battles Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 1864, and Nashville, December 15 and 16, 1864, at Hood’s siege.

On the 29^th day of December, 1874, he was joined in marriage to Lillie Alexander, daughter of Capt. Alexander of Butler County, Ohio, the result of the union being one child Alice.

He recently joined the Delphi Lodge of Odd Fellows. As we have intimated before Mr. Kennard is in politics a Democrat, yet he is not a politician. Possessing a quiet dignity, he at the same time attracts all who have relations with him by a gentlemanly deportment. Those who know him best bespeak in highest terms his character as a man in private and public, and, being in the prime of life, his years of usefulness may be said to have only fairly began.

County Coordinator: Suzy Sprague suzyq.wa@worldnet.att.net