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110 HISTOEY OF DENTAL SUEGEEY

DK. -WILLIAM H. KENNICOTT.
Dr. William II. Kcmiieott wa.s born in Western New York, in 1806.
He removed to New Orleans and Natchez, in 1822, and came to Chicago
in 1831:, and must have gathered his dental knowledge while he lived in the
southern cities.
Kennicott became a man of eonsideral)le importance in earl}' Chicago.

DE. WILLIAM H. KENNICOTT.

In the Spring of 1848, when the water supply of the young city was largely
mixed with shoals of little fishes, he was made one of a committee of
three to suggest a better plan of getting water from the Lake, which re-
sulted in pipes of wood being laid a distance out into the Lake, and three
feet under ground, in the City, the water being taken from a depth of
twenty feet in the Lake, a perpendicular pipe being so placed as to take the
water from ten feet above the bottom. He remained in practice until
October, 1863, when he died of apoplexy at his country home near Chicago.