OBIT: James Pinckney KINARD Jr., 1994, of interest in Somerset County, PA
  
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  KINARD
  
  James Pinckney Kinard Jr., 92, a Pittsburgh resident since his
  retirement as president of Glen Raven Mills Inc. of New York in 1966,
  died early March 26, 1994, of heart failure at West Penn Hospital. 
  Graduated with a degree in textile engineering from Clemson
  University in 1922.  Captained long-distance track team, when the
  most promising runner among the underclassmen was Strom Thurmond, the
  Republican senator from South Carolina.  Born Dec. 6, 1901 in Rock
  Hill, S.C., where his father, Dr. James Pinckney Kinard, served as
  the president of Winthrop College.  His mother, Lee Wicker Kinard,
  was a teacher of English at Winthrop.  He began in the textile
  business in 1924, selling cotton for Bunter Manufacturing and
  Commission Co. in New York.  Having received military training at
  Clemson, Mr. Kinard joined the National Guard unit, Squadron of the
  101st Calvary, in the 1920s before going on active duty in the Army
  Quartermaster Corps during World War II.  Lt. Col. Kinard was awarded
  the Legion of Merit.  After World War II, he founded Kinard and
  Company, a textile brokerage concern in New York which sold the
  output of several mills owned by Marshall Field and Co.  He later
  joined Glen Raven Mills Inc. of New York as a marketing executive and
  served as its president until his retirement in 1966.  In 1970 he
  served as consultant for the International Executive Service Corps in
  Colombia, S.A.  Later he and his wife, Agnes Dodds Kinard; founded The
  Mountain Real Estate Company in Confluence, Pa.  In Pittsburgh, Mr.
  Kinard was a trustee of East Liberty Presbyterian Church.  Mr. Kinard
  was a member of the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, an informal
  luncheon club called The Idlers, the Lions Club of Confluence, the
  Confluence Volunteer Fire Department, and the University Club, the
  Merchants Club, the Weavers Club and Squadron A Club, all in New
  York.  Was founding board member of the [      ] (Mrs. John Peacock)
  of [   ] Pond, Maine, and Lee Wehlitz (Mrs. Albert Wehlitz) of
  Wilmette, Ill.; three stepchildren: Allan Dodds Frank of New York;
  Michael R. Frank and Marilyn M. Frank, both of Chicago; six
  grandchildren and his sister, Neil K. Wiseman of Chapel Hill, N.C. 
  Remembrances may be sent to Greater Pittsburgh Guild for the Blind or
  the Carnegie Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
  
  Daily American, March 29, 1994
  
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