Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Kinney, George 1840 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE KINNEY. This native of Canada, who was born in 1840, on the 15th of
April, has made his home upon a farm on section 21, Watertown Township, Tuscola
County. He is the son of Amos L. Kinney, who was born in Massachusetts, and
lived there until he reached his majority. He attended college in Massachusetts
and after his removal to Canada became a farmer and was foreman for a land
company for twenty-five years. He was married in Port Huron, Mich., to Matilda
Waddell, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and to them were born five sons and
three daughters. They came to Michigan in 1855 and here resided for four years,
he dying in 1859. He located one hundred and sixty acres of land and was a
prominent man in the township find the only one who had ever filled the office
of Township Clerk in that township up to the time of his death. He was a
Presbyterian in his religious faith and his wife was a member of the Methodist
Church. She survived him until November, 1890.

  Our subject was fifteen years of age when he came to Michigan and he has since
coming here resided in Watertown Township, remaining at home until he reached
the age of twenty-eight years. He enlisted March 4, 1864, under the Union flag
and was discharged September 9, 1865, and was a participant in the battle of
Nashville.

  The marriage of Mr. Kinney with Lucinda Duncan took place November 9, 1869.
This lady is a native of Canada and at the age of fifteen came to America with
her parents, James and Jane (Walker Duncan. Eight children have been born to
her, namely: Amos L., James IL, Hattie E., Alice A., George W. and Georgia M.
(twins), Ida M, and George. The twins both died when about six months old. From
his father's estate forty acres of land came to Mr. Kinney and he has added to
it until he now has two hundred and ninety acres, all in Watertown Township. He
is a general farmer and has done much to improve the condition of his farm, as
he cleared many acres of it and has placed there excellent buildings. The son
Amos is in a commercial college in Detroit, having graduated from the Millington
High School in 1890. James expects to graduate from that school in 1892, and
Hattie E. is also a student there, while Alice A. and Ida M. are at home.

  Mr. Kinney is a Master Mason and belongs to Lodge No. 163 at Vassar. His
religious views and those of his wife bring them into connection with the
Methodist Church and he is a stanch Republican in politics. For eight years he
has been chairman of the Township Republican Committee and for twenty years he
has been Justice of the Peace. He has been Township Clerk five years and
Treasurer two years and is one of the Superintendents of the County Fair. He is
a man of broad intelligence and a great reader.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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