[1][2][3] He was educated in Lexington schools and moved to St. Louis at the age of 15 with his father, who established a carpet business.

[1][2] When the war broke out, Kennard joined the Confederate Army and became a member of the Landis' Missouri Battery, attached to Cockrell's Brigade.

He was exchanged and became a lieutenant in Henry Guibor's Battery, of which he commanded a section during the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, on October 30, 1864.

[1] Kennard was a grand treasurer of the Missouri Masonic Order and the first president of the Mercantile Club and the St. Louis Business Men's League.

[7] 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.

[8] 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.