 Landis was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by a special vote shortly after he died in 1944.Kenesaw Mountain Landis was born in Millville, Ohio, the sixth child and fourth son of Abraham Hoch Landis, a physician, and Mary Kumler Landis, on November 20, 1866.The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States.