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Kennaday, Paul (1873-1929)

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Jane Addams et al. to William Howard Taft, December 30, 1911

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, December 27, 1911

Edward Thomas Devine to Members of the Committee on Industrial Relations, May 23, 1912

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Birth Date

1873-09-25

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1929-05-04

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Paul Kennaday worked as a lawyer but later quit his practice to become a social worker and aid with the settlement movement. He was active in the campaign against tuberculosis, serving as chairman and secretary of the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis. Kennaday was also on the Board of Directors of the NAACP and a member of the New York Association for Labor Legislation.

Kennaday died in 1929.

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Health Labor Law Settlement Movement Social Welfare Social Work

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Lichon, Sara Catherine

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Public domain

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"PAUL KENNADAY DIES AT AGE OF 56; Pioneer Worker in Campaign Against Tuberculosis Ill Only a Week," The New York Times, 1929.

Charity Organization Society of the City of New York Annual Report, 1903, p. 4.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Statement from the NAACP on the death of Paul Kennaday, ca. 1929. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.

New York (State). Factory Investigating Commission Report, 1913, p. 1308.

New York, New York, Death Index, 1862-1948

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

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“Kennaday, Paul (1873-1929),” Jane Addams Digital Edition, accessed September 7, 2024, https://mail.digital.janeaddams.ramapo.edu/items/show/3721.