BIO: John M. KINNEY, Clearfield County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Banja & Sally Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/ NOTE: Use this web address to access other bios: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/clearfield/1picts/swoope/swoope.htm _____________________________________________________________ From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr., Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 800 & 801. _____________________________________________________________ JOHN M. KINNEY,* who has been manager of the Eureka Stores, at Houtzdale, Pa., since 1907, has been identified with this business enterprise for many years. He was born at Houtzdale, June 24, 1880, and is a son of Bernard and Effie (Williams) Kinney. Bernard Kinney was born in Huntingdon County, Pa., came to Houtzdale with his father, Charles Kinney, and has spent the greater part of his life in this borough. His father conducted one of the first hotels in this place, subsequently losing his property by fire. He married Effie Williams, who was a daughter of Jessie Williams, a well known lumberman of Clearfield County, who died at Beaver Falls, in 1910. To Bernard Kinney and wife six children were born, namely: John M., Edward, who has charge of the clothing department in the Eureka Stores; Charles, who is in a business house in Philadelphia; Mary, who resides at home; Margaret, who assists in the above named business; and Rosalie, who is a student at Greensburg, Pa. For the past eighteen years, Bernard Kinney has been chief of police at Houtzdale, where he is numbered with the valued and substantial citizens. John M. Kinney was educated at Houtzdale and he has had all his business experience in this borough. The Eureka Stores were established here some twenty years since and Mr. Kinney was connected with the business for eleven years preceding his appointment as manager, and, in fact, may be said to have grown up in it. Mr. Kinney, with the other members of his family, belongs to the Catholic church.