ALFRED KINNEY
Arizona, the Youngest State, pg 588

Alfred Kinney is the present representative of his district 
in the Arizona Senate. He is, moreover, numbered among the 
prominent citizens of Globe because of the high place he 
has attained in public affairs and by reason of the extent 
and importance of his business interests. He was born in 
Ohio in 1856 and is a son of Aaron and Sarah J. Kinney, 
the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania. 
In 1865 they removed to Iowa and there the father took up 
government land and followed farming until his death. His 
wife has also passed away and both are buried in Emerson, 
Iowa.

Of a family of seven children, Alfred Kinney is the second 
in order to birth.  He was reared in Iowa and after 
acquiring a public school education there went, at the age 
of sixteen to Denver Colorado, where he secured employment 
in a railroad shop.  At the end of three months he went to 
the Divide, where for two years he worked in a sawmill, 
going finally to Trinidad where he formed a partnership in 
the construction of a planing mill and in its operation he 
was interested for four years. Upon the expiration of that 
period he left Colorado and came to the southwest locating 
in the mountains of New Mexico, thirty miles northwest of 
Las Vegas.  There he continued his connection with saw 
milling, and developed a profitable business along that 
line, securing the contract to supply a great number of 
bridge timbers and ties.

When he came to Globe in 1881 Mr. Kinney took charge of an 
old sawmill ten miles north of the city, which he repaired 
and operated for some time. While working in a planing mill 
he met with an accident which caused the loss of his right 
hand and he was obliged to discontinue his former line of 
work.

A few years later he formed a partnership with Mr. Bailey 
and established an ice plant in Globe, in which he was 
interested until 1908 when he sold out and retired from 
active life.  He now owns many fine residences in Globe, 
which are leased to tenants and is the proprietor of what 
is known as Kinney Park, which he improved himself.  All 
his business interests are proving profitable.

Mr. Kinney was married in 1881 to Miss Clara Weisig, who 
also has extensive interests in Globe and in the surrounding 
country, owning various mines throughout Gila County, one of 
which, known as the Sultana, she recently sold for ninety 
thousand dollars.

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