BIOGRAPHY: David Kinert
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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Hon. DAVID KINERT is a native of Perry County Pennsylvania, and was 
born Dec. 4, 1817. 
 
(The name is spelled differently by different branches of the family  some 
Kynett, as the Secretary of the M. E. Church Extension of Philadelphia, 
others Kinard, as in Pennsylvania.) 
 
His grandfather and grandmother were from Germany, and came to 
America soon after the conclusion of the Revolution, and settled in 
Adams County, Pennsylvania, and engaged in agriculture. They had a 
family, of whom was Jacob Kinert, the father of the subject of this 
sketch. He resided in Pennsylvania till 1834, and then moved his family 
to New Carlisle, Ohio, where he died and is buried. 
 
He married Mary Beals, of Pennsylvania, and had a family of four boys 
and four girls. The mother died in Dubuque County, Iowa, about 1870. 
 
Mr. Kinert moved with his father to Ohio, where he remained eight years, 
and then with his mother, brother and two sisters, moved to Randolph 
County, Indiana, and engaged in the milling, wool carding and mercantile 
business for about ten years. Thence he moved to Iowa, and finally 
settled in Anamosa in 1853, and engaged in the mercantile business, 
having brought a stock of goods from his old residence in Indiana. 
 
In 1855 he was elected to represent Jones and Jackson County in the 
Lower House in the State Legislature. The legislation was characterized 
by the passage of what was called the "Maine Law," or the "Prohibitory 
Liquor Law," and it was a stormy time. The law was finally passed, and 
has never been repealed. 
 
An extra session was called in 1856, to accept the land grants made by 
Congress to the railroads of Iowa. The Legislature filled the Supreme 
Court Bench, for the first time in Iowa, with Republican judges, and what 
was better, they were temperance men. The members of the legislature 
at that time were chiefly young men, but the laws they enacted have met 
the approbation of the people. In 1856 Mr. Kinert was elected to fill the 
unexpired term of the Clerk of the District Court, and held the office for 
six years. Since that time Mr. Kinert has been engaged in the furniture 
business and house furnishing goods and carpets.  
 
He married, in Indiana, Addie C. Cunningham, formerly of Adams 
County, Pennsylvania, and his children are Alonzo, Carrie and Frank.