From GREATER WHEELING AND VICINITY
By Charles A. Winegerter, 1912; pages 677-678.
     
Contributed by Linda Fluharty. 

     PATRICK KENNEDY, whose death occurred at his home in Park View, July 10, 
1910, was identified with the business interests of Wheeling for half a 
century, and in many different circles was known and esteemed for his 
benevolence, his shrewd business sense, his religious fervor and his genial 
personality. A member of the Catholic church, he was most devoted to his 
religion, and had served on all the boards of Catholic institutions in 
Wheeling. In his death the church lost a valuable and sincere worker, and his 
loss is particularly felt in his own parish, that of St. Vincent de Paul, as 
there was no branch of its work with which he had not been connected, and he 
was a member of its board of trustees at the time of his death. 
     Patrick Kennedy was born at Clane, near Dublin, Ireland, on the 20th of 
October, 1834, and was a son of Hugh Kennedy and Catherine (Innes) Kennedy. 
Both parents spent their lives in their native country, training was spent as 
interne in Dr. Haskins Hospital at Wheeling. For the past ten years he has 
been engaged in practice at Edgewood and vicinity, and has a large and 
increasing patronage and work.
     Fraternally he is affiliated with Wheeling Lodge No.5 of Masons, with 
the Knights of Pythias and the order of Elks, and is a member of professional 
and other societies. He and his wife belong to the Episcopal church. Dr. 
Cracraft married, April 28, 1910, Miss Stella Russell Hubbard, a daughter of 
Chester R. Hubbard, of Wheeling. They have one child, William A., born May 
21, 1911.