Kenefick Ave is a street in South Buffalo running between South Park Avenue and Abbott Road. The street was named after Judge Daniel J. Kenefick. Judge Kenefick is the author of the Buffalo City Charter, which was written in 1927.
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Judge Kenefick was born in the Old First Ward in 1863. He attended Buffalo City Schools, graduated from Central High School in 1881 and studied law in the Buffalo office of Congressman Richard Crowley. He served as assistant district attorney and district attorney of Erie County and also was Justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He served as director of the Buffalo Niagara Electric Company. The Judge lived at 841 Delaware Avenue, at the corner of Barker Avenue. 841 Delaware Avenue is the current location of the Himalayan Institute, but I am not 100% sure that this is the same building which the Judge lived in.
Judge Kenefick grew up in the Old First Ward. He married Maysie Germain of the Germain Family of Buffalo. He grew up alongside developer John F. Burke. Mr. Burke grew up to become a developer and developed the part of South Buffalo where Kenefick Avenue is located. Mr. Burke honored his boyhood friend by naming Kenefick Avenue after him.
Sources:
- Biography of Daniel Kenefick. Our Country and It’s People: A Descriptive Work on Erie County, New York. Edited By: Trumen C. White. The Boston History Company, Published 1989.
- “Kenefick Avenue Among Few City Streets Honoring Living Citizen”. Courier Express, October 9, 1938, sec 5 p 2.
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