An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 418-419

	COL. J. KENNEDY STOUT, Spokane, Washington, is well and favorably known in
legal, journalistic, social and military life, and right becomingly are the many
honors, which have been accorded him, accepted and borne.
	Colonel Stout was born at Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1849, son
of A.M. and Ellen C. (Gildersleeve) Stout. His father was born in eastern
Pennsylvania, graduated at Yale College with the class of 1842, and was a lawyer
by profession. His mother is a native of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The Colonel
inherits his literary tastes from his paternal ancestors.
	His career has been a varied and interesting one from the time of his birth
up to the present. From the first he was carefully and thoroughly educated. At
Mr. Everest's, Hamden, Connecticut, he took an excellent preparatory course, and
afterward passed through Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he
graduated in 1870. He then began the study of law, but as journalism seemed to
present greater attractions he drifted into that profession. For two years he
filled the city editor's chair of the Eastern Pennsylvania Daily Express, and
was connected with the New York Tribune three years. His early training for the
bar, however, led him to finally adopt that profession for his life work, and,
as he had previously been admitted to the New Jersey bar, he removed to
Elizabeth, in that State, and resumed practice in 1878. Finding the Eastern
ranks overcrowded, he came to Washington in 1880, and to Spokane in 1881, since
which time he has steadily practiced here. He has been associated with Judge
Nash and later with T.C. Griffitts, and besides being a member of the bar of
this State has also been admitted to that of Idaho. Colonel Stout was first City
Attorney of Spokane, serving in that capacity from 1882 to 1884. He was
appointed First Lieutenant of Company G, National Guard of Washington; then
Major of the staff of Governor Semple, and held a like commission on the staff
of Governor Moore. His commission of Colonel was authorized by Governor Ferry,
and he is also Chief Signal Officer. The old liking for journalism still clings
to him, and as dramatic critic of the Spokesman -- a position he filled during
the three years' existence of that paper, and now as the dramatic critic of the
"Spokane Review" he has a host of admiring readers.
	He was brought up an Episcopalian, and his political views are in accord
with Democratic principles. He is a Master Mason, a leader in society, and fond
of art and literature.
	He was married in October, 1892, to Miss Ida T. Homan, then living in
Brooklyn, New York, though a native of New Orleans, and descended on the
maternal side from the family of the great German poet, Schiller. The somewhat
romantic incidents of the marriage received considerable journalistic notice at
the time.
	Such men not only make our professional circles a pride to our city, but are
also the means of giving an added zest and interest to our social life. One
cannot but express the wish that Spokane had many more such men.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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