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Show SECRET SOCiETY NEWS. Gossip of All Kinds Prom the Various Lodge Booms William B. Kennedy. ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OP H0H0E. St, Louis and the Supreme Lodge-Present Lodge-Present Condition of the Bed Men Other Societies. WILLIAM . KENNEDY, tho preseut supreme secretary sec-retary of the endowment rank 'Knights of Pythias, was born in Hamilton, counly, )., educated at Farmer's college, near Cincinnati, anil was for many years engaged in the commission business in that city. He joined Cincinnati lodge No. 2, K. of P., at Its second meeting, wax a charter member of the grand lodge and its first grand vice chancellor, and one of the first representatives to the supreme lodge. He represented his Jurisdiction at the sessions of 1871), 171, 1U72, 1878 and 1890. At the session of 1872 he was elected supreme su-preme guide (now supreme master at arms;, and served in 1873 and 1874, says The Boston Bos-ton Globe. In 1878 Bro. Kennedy was a member of the special committee com-mittee to prepare and promulgate the uniform rank. In 1888 be was elected G. K. R. S. of Ohio.and served In that capacity six years. Upon the death of Judge It. E. Cowan, in July, 1887, he was appointed to tcm-porarily tcm-porarily take I'lmrfH nf the fiflipfl of supremo keeper WILLI AM B. KENNEDY, of records and seal and supreme secretary of the endowment rank, aud discharged the manifold duties of these most responsible responsi-ble ofllces with signal ability and success. Upon the appointment of It. L. C. White as S. IC. of it. S. his high qualifications, bis intrepid zeal for the order and his energetic ener-getic way of doing what was needed to be donecaused him to becontiuued as supreme secretary for the unexpired term, and at the supreme lodge session in Cincinnati ho was unanimously elected supreme secretary sec-retary of the endowment rank. That the selection was a fittiug one is evidenced by the success attending his labors in that department. de-partment. The rank never hod a more popular, faithful and efficient ofilcer. Bro. Kennedy has also been a prominent Odd Fellow, being a P. G. P. and P. (J. It. in that order. He represented Ohio six years in the sovereign grand lodge of that organization, organ-ization, lie is a niau of irreproachable character and a knight worthy the respect and confidence of every member of the order. He has of late years given almost his entire attention to the advancement of Pythian knighthood. |