The Kenmar Hotel

The Kenmar Hotel in 1908. A brick town on the main line drew a steady stream of visitors, salesmen, investors, and railroad men, and they all needed a bed and a hot meal. A hotel like the Kenmar was a sign Mount Union had arrived. Did anyone in your family work at one of the old hotels in town? Photo: Historic Mount Union archive

From the record

Passages about this subject, quoted from county histories now in the public domain. Each one names the book and the position in the text so it can be checked. Spelling is as printed.

Among other things, she described the spurious girl as a << big black ugly Dutch lump, and not to be compared to the beautiful Jenny Grey.'* Her historical developments so much interested one of the Jury at LewistowD^ an old settler hunself, that he , forgetting the res348 JUHIATA COUHTt. traints of a jnryman , sent for the old lady to come to hi^ room at the hotel, and enter more at large into ^ the days of auld lang syne." The old man was a little deaf, nud the old lady's voice could be heard throughout the house. One of the counsel, whose side of the case wore rather a discouraging aspect, overheard the old lady; and the next morning exposed the poor juryman, amidst a roar of laughter from the court and the bar. The case of course had to be ordered for trial before another jury. The following is the deposition of Gteorge Woods, written by him or at his dictation, at Bedford, in 1789, but never sworn to. It was not without great resistance on the part of counsel, that the facts were introduced as testimony. The cas'j was finally decided in 1833 or '34, against the identity of the adopted child, and the property vested accordingly.I. Daniel Rupp, History and Topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata and Clinton Counties (Lancaster, 1847) · character 726,893 of the scanned text

His greatest loeakness was a fondness Jot strong drinks ; the temptation of which he could not easily resist ^ and toould sometimes drink to excess. This unfortunate propensity is supposed to be the cause of his cruel and untimely death.--^ Heckewelder^s Historical account of the Indians. J^u7nerous fabricated accounts having appeared in the Lon-' don and other prints y of the tate unhappy riotous proceedings in this townj we have taken much pains to collect the following authentic particulars : Riots in Birmingham. In consequence of an advertisement on Thursday the 14th of July, upwards of 90 gentlemen met at the hotel to commemorate the French revolution. It is previously to be observed, that six copies of a seditious handbill had been left early in the week by some person unknown, for discovering the author, printer, or publisher of which a reward of one hundred guineas was offered by the magistrates, and which have been very generally copied, causing no small sermentation in the ininds^ of the people. In consequence on Thursday afternoon, a considerable number of persons gathered round the-hotel, hissing at the gentlemen as they assenribled ; and after their departure (which happened two hours after) every window in the front was completely demolished, notwithstanding the personal appearance and interference of the magistrates. The mob next attacked the new meeting house, (Dr.I. Daniel Rupp, History and Topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata and Clinton Counties (Lancaster, 1847) · character 1,098,313 of the scanned text

Checked 2026-08-23 · Historic Mount Union collection

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