BIOGRAPHY: George A. KINKEAD, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 132-3
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GEORGE A. KINKEAD, a general insurance agent of Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, and a 
son of Harrison and Pamelia (Stewart) Kinkead, was born August 1, 1837, in 
Ebensburg. 
     His grandfather, George Kinkead, was a lock-keeper on the old Pennsylvania 
canal, who lived originally in Centre county, but died near Blairsville, Indiana 
county. 
     The father of our subject was born in Milesburg, Centre county, 
Pennsylvania, October 30, 1814, and died in October, 1892. He received a limited 
education in that county, and learned the trade of a saddler and harness maker, 
following it in Ebensburg from the time he came there in 1835 to within twenty 
years of his death. He was a strong Democrat, and had served as a justice of the 
peace at least forty years prior to his death -- a sure proof of the confidence 
of the people in his integrity, probity and good judgment. He was also a ruling 
elder in the Presbyterian church, in the affairs of which he was very active, 
having been one of the organizers of the Presbyterian church in Ebensburg. 
     His family consisted of five boys and six girls: George A.; James N. 
(deceased); Maria L.; Pamelia Jane, wife of A. V. Jones, of Renova, 
Pennsylvania; Susan H.; David H., who lives in Johnstown, and has charge of the 
Phoenix Brewing company; Anna Olivia, wife of Fergus C. Lloyd, a merchant of 
Ebensburg. The remainder died in infancy. The mother of our subject died March 
11, 1854. She was a daughter of Alexander Stewart, a native of Scotland, and an 
early settler of Indiana county. 
     March 11, 1862, George A. Kinkead married Deborah Evans, a daughter of 
David Evans, of Cambria county, and has three sons: S. Stewart, who occupied the 
position of clerk of the Gautier Steel company, of Johnstown, twelve years and 
is now deputy register and recorder of Cambria county; George D., who has been a 
clerk in the Gautier department of the C. I. Co. for five years; Oscar A., who 
is his father's assistant in business. 
     The subject of our sketch was educated in the common schools of Ebensburg, 
and took his first position in the store of A. A. Barker & Sons, where he 
remained for seventeen years. In 1877 he embarked in the insurance business, 
representing the following insurance companies: The Insurance company of North 
America, the Fire Association of Philadelphia, the Orient of Hartford, the North 
British, the Mercantile, the Travelers' Life and Accident company of Hartford, 
besides seven other fire insurance companies. 
     Mr. Kinkead is a conspicuous republican. He has served as county auditor, 
and has held local offices in his borough, being at present president of the 
council. He is a member of Summit Lodge, No. 312, F. and A. M., having been its 
secretary for twenty-five years. 
     During the Civil War he served in the Emergency department. Like his 
father, he is a ruling elder and valued member of the Presbyterian church. Like 
his father's, too, Mr. Kinkead's personal character has in it nothing that is 
unbecoming a good citizen and worthy man. In the discharge of his public duties 
he is zealous and indefatigable. In his private life he is sincere and 
unostentatious.