"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, Adams and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical Publishing Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 842. ROBERT C. KENNEDY is one of the promising young business men of Ritzville, where he occupies the responsible position of cashier of the First National Bank. He was born in Iowa, on March 4, 1877, and is the son of William K. Kennedy, a sketch of whose life we give on another page of this history. When he was lad of nine years, the Kennedy family moved to the vicinity of Ritzville, and here he has lived ever since. He was educated in the graded schools of his home town, at the Olympia high school, and passed through one semester in Whitman college, Walla Walla. In 1898 Robert C. Kennedy entered the Adams County Bank as bookkeeper, and when that bank was converted to the First National he was elected to his present position. he is also a stockholder in the institution. In fraternity circles, Mr. Kennedy is a member of Prairie Queen lodge, K. of P. Politically, he is a stanch, though not an active, member of the Republican party, for which party he was a delegate to its last county convention. Mr. Kennedy is a young man of the highest social and moral standing, is an apt and honorable business man, and his future prospects in the world of affairs and business are of the brightest. Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net