Person:Amos Kendall (3)

Graduated from Dartmouth College in 1811 with the highest honors of his class. Entered the law office of Hon. William M. Richardson, at that time, postmaster of the town. In 1814 he left Groton and becamse a private tutor to Henry Clay's children in Kentucky. He was editor of the Argus newspaper of Frankfort, KY, then auditor of the U.S. Treasury, then Postmaster-General under Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. He built a large home east of Washington, D.C., known as Kendall Green and spent the later years of his life in works of charity and deeds of beneficence (founder of Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Washington, trustee of Columbian College, etc.) He d. at his home 12 Nov 1869.

A full "auto-biography" of several hundred pages edited by his son-in-law William Stickney may be read at books.google.com. Additional reading may be found at:

• Source:Davis, William T. Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, p. 181.
• Source:Hurd, D. Hamilton. History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men, p. 763
• Source:Green, Samuel A. Groton Historical Series, p. 268
• For more information, see the Wikipedia article Amos Kendall.
• A more modern biography, Amos Kendall and the Rise of American Democracy, by Donald B Cole (preview mode).

1. ↑ Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1913)
   p. 49.

   KENDALL, Amos, s. Dea. Zebedee and Molly, [born] Aug. 16, 1789.

2. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis. Early Generations of the Kendall Family of Massachusetts: Especially in the Line of Lieutenant Samuel Kendall, Gentleman, 1682-1764, of Woburn, Lancaster and Athol. (Lancaster, MA, 1939)
   p. 243.

   Amos Kendall, s/o Deacon Zebedee Kendall and Molly Dakin, b. Dunstable 16 Aug 1787, bp. Hollis, NH, 1 Nov 1787, d. Washington, DC, 12 Nov 1869, m. (1) 1 Oct 1818 Mary B. Woolfolk, m. (2) 1826 Jane Kyle.