Dallas County IA Archives Biographies.....Kinnick, William Butler 1849 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

WILLIAM BUTLER KINNICK, who figures as one of the wealthy and influential
farmers and stock men of Adel township, Dallas county, Iowa, is the proprietor
of as fine a stock farm as there is in this part of the State. The following
facts in regard to his life have been gleaned for publication.

   William B. Kinnick first saw the light of day in Johnson county, Indiana,
March 20, 1849, and is the youngest of the fourteen children in his father's
family. Of this number, three sons and five daughters are still living. The
family was represented in the Civil war by three of the sons, two brothers and a
half brother of our subject. William Kinnick, the father, was a native of North
Carolina and a pioneer of Indiana, he having removed to Indiana before there was
any town where the prosperous city of Indianapolis, the capital of the State,
now stands. In 1854 he came out to Iowa, locating in Adel township, Dallas
county. Here he bought a tract of wild land, which he improved to some extent
and sold, and afterward purchased 400 acres in the same township. On this latter
place he passed the residue of his life, and died at the age of seventy-two
years, in 1862, and his wife survived him several years, dying at the home of
our subject, in 1891. The Kinnicks are noted for longevity. It is recorded of
the grandfather of William Kinnick that at the age of ninety-six years he made
the journey on horseback from Ohio to Maryland, to visit his old home!

   We return now to William B. Kinnick, with whose name we began this sketch. He
was reared as the average farmer boy, going to school in winter and working on
the farm in summer. By industry and careful economy,- which principles, by the
way, have formed the foundation of his success,-he saved considerable money and
inherited forty acres of land from his father's estate, and had this nice little
start when he married. After his marriage he continued farming 160 acres of the
home farm, and became the owner of the same by buying out three other heirs. Now
he owns nearly 1,400 acres of choice land, is extensively engaged in the stock
business, in connection with his farming operations, and is one of the largest
shippers of stock in this part of the West.

   Mr. Kinnick was married March 3, 1875, to Miss Mary J. Stump, a native of
Indiana, and they have had seven children, four of whom are living: Mary B.,
Frank B., Ruth and Nile C.

    Mr. Kinnick is a Republican, voting first for General Grant when he ran for
a second term, but takes no part in politics other than exercising the right of
franchise. He attends strictly to his own business, is known as a man of
sterling integrity and one whose word is ever regarded as good as his bond, and
as such he is worthy of the high regard in which he is held by his fellow
citizens. His family attend the Methodist Episcopal Church.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896

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