Florence Kennedy (1877 - 1949)

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Florence's Family

Smethurst James Kennedy

Stanlake Kennedy

Florence Kennedy

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Smethurst James Kennedy

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Stanlake Kennedy

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Mary H (Flewallen) Kennedy

Peter Lawford

Peter Lawford

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Jean Ann (Kennedy) Smith

Eugene Joseph Mccarthy

Robert Francis Kennedy

Stephen Edward Smith

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In 1877, in the year that Florence Kennedy was born, on March 2nd, the U.S. presidential election of 1876 was ended with the selection of Rutherford B. Hayes as the winner. Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote in November 1876 but 20 votes in the electoral college were in dispute. An informal agreement was made in which Hayes agreed to remove federal troops from South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana, ending Reconstruction in the South. So, on March 4th, Rutherford B. Hayes became the 19th President of the United States.

In 1885, when she was only 8 years old, Germany's Karl Benz built the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, which had an internal combustion engine. It is considered to be the world's first automobile. The Benz cost $150 - just under $4,000 in today's money.

In 1904, by the time she was 27 years old, the Russo-Japanese war began. The Russian Empire and the Japanese Empire began fighting over the territories of Manchuria and Korea. Russia wanted a warm water port on the Pacific Ocean while Japan feared growing encroachment from Russia into Asia. So the Japan fleet launched a surprise attack on the Russian Navy and a one year war began. President Roosevelt of the United States brokered peace between the two nations. It was the first time in the modern era that an Asian power showed its dominance over a European power.

In 1910, she was 33 years old when Angel Island, which is in San Francisco Bay, became the immigration center for Asians entering U.S. It was often referred to as "The Ellis Island of the West". Due to restrictive laws against Chinese immigration, many immigrants spent years on the island.

In 1949, in the year of Florence Kennedy's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.