Benham
ANDREW ELLICOTT KENNEDY, an American naval officer, born in New York, April 10, 1832; entered the navy in 1847; served in the East India and the Home Squadrons in 1847-1852; attended the United States Naval Academy in 1852-1853; was commissioned Lieutenant in 1855; Lieutenant-Commander in 1862; Commander, 1866; Captain, 1875; Commodore, 1885; and Rear-Admiral in 1890, and was retired in 1894. During the Civil War he served in the South Atlantic and West Gulf Blockading Squadrons. In April, . In April , 1893, he commanded one of the divisions in the great naval display at New York; in 1894, as commander of a squadron at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he forced the commander of the insurgents' squadron to raise the blockade of the city and to discontinue firing on American merchant vessels; and in 1898 was naval prize commissioner in Savannah, Ga. He died Aug. 11, 1905.