Old Photograph John S Kennedy Memorial Kelvingrove Park Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of the John S Kennedy Memorial in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, Scotland. This statue of a Tigress bringing a peacock to her cubs was presented by John S. Kennedy of New York, USA, to his native city in 1867. There is a copy in Central Park, New York. John Stewart Kennedy, born January 4, 1830, died October 30, 1909, was an American capitalist and philanthropist. He was a member of the Jekyll Island Club, also known as The millionaires Club, on Jekyll Island, Georgia along with J.P. Morgan and William Rockefeller among others. He was born near Glasgow, received a scant education in school, studied in his spare moments as a clerk, and at 20 was sent to America by an iron firm in London, England, in whose branch house in Glasgow he worked for four years. He was a manufacturers representative for tubing used in locomotives. Then he went again to New York and entered business with Morris K. Jesup. From this partnership he retired in 1867 and from active business in 1883, although he was still called upon after that date to aid in the reorganization of various financial concerns, notably in 1888, when he acted with J. S. Harris as receiver of the New Jersey Central Railroad. He died of whooping cough in 1909.



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