Alameda County CA Archives Obituaries.....Kinyon, Edmund G. March 26, 1951
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Colfax Record (Colfax, CA) Fri Mar 30, 1951 pg 4

GRASS VALLEY EDITOR DIED IN OAKLAND
   Edmund G. Kinyon, 87, newspaperman and California
history authority died Monday at Kings Daughters
Home, Oakland. Editor and columnist of the Grass
Valley and Nevada City Union since 1911, he had been
hospitalized since October 1 because of a hip
fracture. He entered the Oakland home last week.
   A native of Wabasha County, Minnesota, he had
engaged i newspaper work since 1888 in Kansas, Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas and California.
   Kinyon was an Associated Press correspondent at
El Paso at the time of the Madero-Villa revolution,
and wrote the first news of that event. He was one of
the oldest AP member newspaper correspondents in 
California in point of service.
   For the past 15 years he had engaged in California
historical research and writing with emphasis on the
Donner Emigrant Trail and the famed mines of the 
northern Sierra.
   He was the author of a book of historical sketches,
"The Northern Mines".
   He is survived by a son, Edmund Kinyon, San Francisco,
and a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Coffee, Lafayette. Private
funeral services were held, with burial in Grass Valley.



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