Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Kinsey, Isaac May 19, 1821 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 17, 2006, 11:53 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Washington Township p. 745 & 746 Isaac Kinsey, the eldest son and fourth of nine children of Oliver and Sarah (Griffith) Kinsey, was born in Chester County, Pa., May 19, 1821. His father was a native of Little Brittain, Pa., and his mother of Gunpowder, Baltimore Co., Md. In 1823 his father, who was a blacksmith by trade, removed with his family to a farm near Baltimore, where he also worked at his trade. Five years later he moved into the city and engaged largely in the manufacture of edged tools, and it was in Baltimore that Isaac Kinsey first attended school, but when he was eleven years old his father returned to the farm which was near the present site of Franklin. About this time his mother died. In the fall of 1835 his father moved to Wayne County, Ind., and here he grew to manhood and finished his education in the schools of Richmond. From the time he reached his majority till 1846 he was principally engaged in the manufacture of brick. In the latter year he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged with his brother Thomas in the produce business. In 1849 his brother went to California, actuated by the gold excitement, leaving Mr. Kinsey to carry on the business alone, which he did successfully till his brother's return in 1852. Having accumulated a neat fortune, he, in the spring of 1852, bought the farm now owned by Mr. Kinsey. It contains 500 acres of the best land in Walnut Level, Wayne County, and the scientific principles upon which it is cultivated are too well known to require comment. Mr. Kinsey is an experienced horticulturist, growing some of the finest fruit in the county. He was at one time a heavy stockholder in the now famous Hoosier Drill Works. Sept. 25, 1847, Mr. Kinsey was married to Mary P. Jones. They have no children. In politics he is a strong Republican. In religious faith a member of the Society of Friends. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/kinsey155gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb