Biography of Joseph D. Kenestrick, M.D., pages 995 / 996.  History of De 
Kalb County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Joseph D. Kenestrick, M.D., is a native of Crawford County, Ohio, born Jan. 
31, 1853.  He is a son of John Kenestrick, of Troy Township, who came to De 
Kalb County with his family in the spring of 1864.  He was educated at the 
Butler High School and Fort Wayne University.  He began the study of 
medicine under Drs. W.H. Myers and H.C. Clark, of the Fort Wayne Medical 
College, and graduated from that institution in 1878. He practiced one year 
in the St. Joseph Hospital, Fort Wayne, and in 1880 went to Cincinnati and 
received the Ad eundem degree from the Ohio Medical College.  He then 
located at Angola, Steuben County, and practiced three years with Dr. Hugh 
D. Wood, and in the spring of 1884 removed to Butler where he is building up 
a lucrative practice.  He is a member of the American Medical Association, 
the Northeastern Indiana Medical Society and the Indiana State Medical 
Society.  He is a hard student of his profession and has a promising 
future.  He has a great fondness for the natural sciences and classic 
literature.  A man of strong religious convictions, he has often been 
heard to remark that “a reasonable faith in the eternal order of the 
universe and a fond hope in the immortality of the soul is the best creed 
known to man.”  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge and 
chapter.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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