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an unusual degree a deeply religious nature, sweetness of disposition 
and a boundless sympathy for every one she met. She had clearness 
of vision, great discernment, judgment, and capacity for management. 
To these qualities were added a genius for hospitality. Every visitor 
at the Kennedy home was welcomed by her with such genuine cor- 
diality and interest as instantly won his confidence and friendship. 
To know Mrs. Kennedy was to love her and with this congenial help- 
mate Dr. Kennedy spent a long and happy life. She died in 1910 and 
with her death the light went out of her husband's life. 
In 1879, Dr. Kennedy purchased of Judge John Oakes Shaw the 
large estate in Milton, Massachusetts, known as “The Pines" and 
here-he built a fine commodious house which gradually displaced the 
old family home in Roxbury and is now the residence of his eldest 
son Dr. Harris Kennedy. Situated on the high land at the foot of 
big Blue Hill, the house commands a noble view of the Neponset 
valley. Near by are the extensive woods and glades of the Blue Hills 
range which include every kind of natural feature favorable to the 
development of a rare and varied flora and it was in this beautiful 
home surrounded with every opportunity for indulging his taste for 
botany that Dr. Kennedy spent most of his time when he was not 
travelling. 
He visited Europe in 1872, 1880, 1886, 1887 and in the spring of 
1894 he went to Egypt, the Holy Land, Constantinople and Athens. 
In May, 1900, we find him at Virginia Beach with Charles E. Faxon 
to observe a total eclipse of the sun. In 1903 he spent the summer 
with his family in Devonshire, Scotland, and by the English Lakes. 
In 1905 he was in Europe for the last time. 
His journeys in the eastern part of this country from Canada to 
Florida were frequent, and when, about 1896, the New England 
Botanical Club took up the study of the botany of New England, he 
was one of its most indefatigable explorers. Sometimes alone, but 
more often in the company of enthusiastic collectors like Edwin 
Faxon, Walter Deane, Charles E. Faxon, Joseph R. Churchill, Jesse 
M. Greenman, and many others including the writer, repeated trips 
were made to Mt. Washington, Mt. Mansfield, and Smuggler’s Notch, 
Willoughby Notch, the Otter Creek valley in Vermont, Western 
Massachusetts and other localities. Most of these regions are now 
well known botanically and Dr. Kennedy contributed not a little to 
our knowledge of them through his extensive collections. 
