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SURNAMES: GILES, CONWAY

Numbered among the rising young men of Santa Clara County, whose good business judgment and energy are contributing largely to its substantial growth, is Mark E. Kennedy, teller of the Campbell branch of the , Garden City Bank & Trust Company. He was born in Santa Clara County in 1899 and is the son of Robert W. Kennedy, who is now a retired farmer living in Campbell, a native of Missouri who crossed the plains when he was but eight years old with his parents, a good old pioneer family, who faced the hardships of an overland journey and the even greater hardships connected with settling in a new region. Robert W. Kennedy chose for his helpmate, Miss Ella Giles, a native of Shasta County, Cal., and spent an active life as one of the large ranchers of this county, and now is enjoying, in the afternoon of life, those comforts which have been justly earned by arduous effort and close application to his business affairs.

Mark E. Kennedy attended the public schools of Santa Clara County and after graduating from the grade school and high school he attended Stanford University. During the late war he enlisted in the hospital corps of the U. S. Navy, served at Goat Island, then at San Diego, Cal., and after the armistice was stationed at Ft. Lyon, where he was honorably discharged October 13, 1919, spending eighteen months in all. Upon returning to Campbell, he entered the real estate business, and had an up-to date office where he dealt in both farm and city property, also giving considerable of his time to insurance. In January, 1921, he sold his real estate interests and June 15, 1921, entered upon his present position with the Garden City Bank & Trust Company at Campbell. Mr. Kennedy was married in Campbell, November 17, 1921, when he was united with Miss Mary Jane Conway, of Missouri, a graduate of Carrollton high schooL He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Campbell, and was made a Mason in Charity Lodge No. 362, F. & A. M., at Campbell.

From Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara County,California,  published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1157

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