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Lawyer; Kennerk and Somers
On the record
Kennerk was born on the family homestead in Marion Township; his father Timothy — said by Griswold to have been the first white child born in Pleasant Township — had crossed the plains with a Fort Wayne ox-team company in 1863 and returned from the Montana placer mines in 1865 with $6,500 in gold dust. Harry attended Tri-State Normal School at Angola, Valparaiso and DePauw, graduated from the Indiana Law School at Indianapolis in 1900, and that September formed his Fort Wayne partnership with Herbert L. Somers, practicing as Kennerk and Somers with a specialty in commercial law. He married Nora Wickens on 11 September 1904.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch, read first-hand; the father's "first white child" and gold-dust details are Griswold's claims, printed as his. No second source reached for this profile.