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	GUY WILLIAM KENNICOTT, M.D.:  Dr. Guy William 
Kennicott, proprietor of the Chehalis General Hospital and one of 
the leading physicians and surgeons of that city, was born on the 
29th of January, 1859, in Chicago, Illinois, and is a son of Dr. 
William H. and Caroline (Chapman) Kennicott.  His grandparents 
came to this country from England and were of English and Scotch 
descent.  It was as early as 1831 that the doctor's father became a 
resident of Chicago, where he began the practice of medicine two 
years later.  He was the owner of nine hundred and sixty acres of 
land situated fifteen miles from the courthouse in Chicago and now 
within the limits of that rapidly developing city.  He became well 
known throughout that locality and died there in 1862.  His widow 
long survived him and was making her home with her oldest son in 
California at the time of her death in 1912.
	Dr. Kennicott of this review completed his literary education 
at Northwestern University of Evanston, Illinois, and later entered 
Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated with the 
degree of M. D. in 1885.  For ten years he engaged in practice in 
Chicago but in the meantime visited the Sound country in 1893 and 
finally located in Chehalis in 1895.  At that time the city contained a 
population of only about one thousand and the district round about 
was wild and unimproved.  Very few roads had been laid out and 
few bridges built and in his early practice here the doctor rode 
horseback, carrying his medicines and instruments in old-fashioned 
saddlebags.  No matter what kind the weather he never failed to 
answer a call and was often forced to make his horse swim the 
streams in the time of high water.  He was called upon to minister to 
the sick throughout a wide territory and in this way he gained a very 
large acquaintance.  The nature of his practice being largely surgical, 
Dr. Kennicott saw the need of a hospital at Chehalis and in 1900 
erected what is now known as the Chehalis General Hospital, which 
is well equipped and can accommodate about fifteen patients.  It is in 
charge of graduate nurses of experience and it admits cases of all 
kinds, being well patronized by people on the Pacific coast.  At 
different times Dr. Kennicott has taken post graduate work in the 
east but recently his time as been so fully occupied that he has been 
unable to take a vacation or spend any time away from his work in 
Chehalis.
	In 1892 the doctor was married in Union City, Washington, 
to Miss Harriet Foster Black, a daughter of William Black, who was 
a native of West Hebron, New York.  The doctor and his wife have 
two children: Frances, who is now a senior at Reed College, 
Portland, Oregon; and Robert William, who is twelve years of age 
and is attending the public schools of Chehalis.
	The family attend the Presbyterian church, of which Dr. 
Kennicott is now senior elder.  He is also a member of the Knights 
of Pythias fraternity, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
Citizens Club of Chehalis.  Along the line of his profession he is 
connected with the county, state and American Medical 
Associations, and in politics he is an ardent republican.  He was 
induced to locate in Chehalis on account of his health, which had 
been broken down by his practice in Chicago, but here he soon 
recovered and has never had occasion to regret his removal to the 
Sound country. Today he is a man of prominence in his community 
and stands high in the esteem of his professional brethren as well as 
in that of the general public.

Kennicott  Chapman  Black
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