world, was made possible. Death Kennard died of uremia at the age of 74 in his home at 4 Portland Place which he had built around 1891. He was survived by his wife and six children, John B., Samuel M. Jr., R.S., Mrs. Luther Ely Smith, Mrs. J.H. Brookmire, and Mrs. HB. Wallace. Legacy Bequests An active member of St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church, upon his death Kennard left gifts to the St. Louis Provident Association, St. Louis Widows' Home, Home of the Friendless, Methodist Orphans' Home, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Jewish Charitable and Educational Union, Kingdom House, and Barnes Hospital. He also left money to Jewish Associated Charities, the first bequest it had ever received from a non-Jew, according to the St. Louis Jewish Voice newspaper. Elementary school A new city school campus at 5032 Potomac Street was named in his honor and dedicated on the evening of January 22, 1930, before an audience of some six hundred people. It replaced an older portable structure at Kingshighway and Arsenal Street, also named for him. The new school had 18 classrooms and a kindergarten. A portrait of Kennard, painted by local artist Albert Meyer, was given to the school by his six children and unveiled by one of his grandchildren on April 17, 1931. It was said that the family had "generously given handsome volumes and sets to the school library." The campus in 1990 became a "high-performing magnet school for gifted children. In 2015, having discovered that Kennard had been a Confederate officer, parent Joanna Abrams began to lobby to have the school renamed. She was joined in her suggestion by parent Warren Rosenblum and others. In 2015 the school was 58.5% white, 30.5% black, 9.2% Asian and 1.7% Hispanic. References 1842 births 1916 deaths Businesspeople from Lexington, Kentucky Confederate States Army officers 19th-century American businesspeople